Note: I often connect words in a phrase with the dash in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth without addressing possible error or attempting to balance the expression.
Our
Views: Charter schools are an attempt to
use public funding to establish religious teaching on the taxpayers’ bill. It
seems largely a Protestant effort, since Catholic schools have long stood as
funded by believers. The Church has fought for public funding and won some concessions
like busing.
Christianity
is a noble belief as long as it is used to give believers comfort and hope
about elected fears about the afterdeath, that vast time after the body, mind,
and person have stopped functioning. However, Christianity does not collaborate
for civic morality---that public-integrity that collaborates for
broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security, hereafter Security.
Charter schools
with religious boards should not be supported with taxpayer money, because religious
institutions do not collaborate for civic-morality or public-integrity. Additionally,
charter-school boards increase the administrative cost of education. In other
words, those boards are redundant to the state and local school boards. When charter
schools are authorized, the public’s pocket is being picked by a
special-interest group.
Today’s
Thought (Dean). Once again, Dean presents his opinion:
Jesus is failing God’s commission that Jesus not lose one that God gave him.
Actually, it is not a serious problem, because Dean is only refuting John in
6:39: “This is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of
all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.”
DeVos
(Vance). If Louisiana was in the top five in
education and America was in the top five in education, Vance’s passion would
be impressive. He’s be able claim “We’re 25th best.” However, the
numbers may be closer to 48th and 25th or 1200th best.
What can improve the learning rate? I don’t nominate religion.
If not religion, what should public money favor? We
suggest civic-morality, and that requires that most people appreciate Security
for living at this time in this place so that every real-no-harm culture may
flourish. People who have been inculcated with fear about their afterdeath may pursue
comfort and hope against, and the others may live without the imposed, inculcated
burden.
A civic culture offers public-integrity as
private-liberty-with-civic-morality.
Pipeline
(Cobb). Strawman arguments are fallacies. Cobb
goes from home flooding to global warming to a pipeline to relieve trucking
burdens. Oil is required to keep people alive, and a pipeline is safer than
truck transport. Protection from flooding comes with good drainage and elevated
buildings. The last three years of record high temperatures are probably due to
cosmic activity more than human contributions---probably comparable to a squirrel
weighing down an elephant. We need to take prudent measures to preserve
economic viability, and the measures that make sense IMO are: reduce trucking,
improve drainage, prevent building at level in 1000-year flood zones, and
prevent building close to the collapsing continental shelf.
Obamacare
(Alcazar-O’Dowd). An alternative is to take personal care
for private health---that is, don’t: over eat, over drink, be sexually promiscuous,
use illicit drugs, neglect exercise, neglect teeth, sleep poorly, etc. In other
words, choose health rather than appetites.
Cal Thomas column. Ben Carson seems good to
me. I oppose the religion-government-partnership or Chapter XI Machiavellianism
but do not think Carson wants that partnership. It seems to me he advocates
public-integrity in words he would choose. Being a religious person does not
mean trying to impose that religion on others. As Thomas said, “Let’s wait and
see.”
Michael
Gerson column. People
don’t seem to understand that Donald Trump was a politician in need of a
political team. On Friday, he will be the 45th President of the
United States---the world’s foremost administrator. Writers like Gerson don’t
even try to imagine filling Trump’s shoes.
Ron
Faucheaux column. Writers
ignore the fact that people in 3084 of 3144 US counties voted for Trump. That’s
97%. Pollsters were foolish then and were scratching their heads at how it
could be. Faucheaux and other lose track of facts in the wink of an eye.
Lanny
Keller column. Why
may we lose? What do young minds seek beyond
broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security, hereafter Security? Doesn’t a
super-majority in all age ranges want public-integrity as
private-liberty-with-civic-morality?
Is the problem that Baton Rouge offers racism and church? Dialogues on Race and black theology?
Activism and protest-organization? Togetherness and solidarity? Demands without
obligations?
If so, the problem can be changed very rapidly with a super-majority iteratively collaborating to establish individual-independence-with-Security.
If so, the problem can be changed very rapidly with a super-majority iteratively collaborating to establish individual-independence-with-Security.
Louisiana
inauguration tickets (Page 1A). I already objected to
the unconstitutional Edwards-Vatican-partnership but did not perceive possible
logic for a January 13 departure. It explains for believers Edwards’ non-support
for the 45th President of the USA on January 20. Needless to say, I
am not a believer. Edwards joins 50 house Democrats (Page 3A) in begging
political woe rather than collaborating for political morality. Political
morality seems a contradiction in terms only by the will of the people.
Dardenne
rebukes taxpayers (Page 1A). When I robo-called for
Dardenne for governor, I foolishly told citizens that Dardenne nudges
efficiency. Now, he, the person closest to the fiscal facts, turns his back on
taxpayers by saying it’s the GOP’s fault rather than joining the effort for
efficiency by the administration. Never again IMO.
Women’s March (Page 1A). This article
recalls Obama’s Saul Alinsky, Marxist call for organizers (AMO) and activists
in his farewell speech, which I read yesterday. See below.
Yesterday’s
WSJ, Page A17, “Main Street, by William McGurn, reports that Kellyane Conway
will speak at the annual March for Life, a week later. It seems she will oppose
“the Planned Parenthood view: taxpayer-funded . . . abortion without limits.” I
think that’s what MWW refers to as “abortion for fun.” MWW gets sick and tired
of my rationalizations about a fertile woman’s responsibility and duty in
collaborative association with her viable ova. One of the fertile woman’s
obligations is to choose an authentic man for bonding before procreation.
I have had some exchanges with
liberal democracy’s Melissa Flournoy (IMO, an AMO victim) wherein I felt she
reacted to my ideas by walling herself within brick, in other words creating
brick walls.[i] I
met her in 2015. See “Planned Parenthood 2015,” this blog.
I nudge people to comprehend
the-indisputable-facts-of-reality rather than joining AMO mobocracy, where
passion often turns to sacrifice.
200
(Page 1B). It is unfortunate that there was
little enthusiasm for today.
Mayor Broome had promised a
conversation about a civic culture rather than racism and church, but it has
not happened. I prefer individual thought to the mobocracy of racism and church
and Together Baton Rouge and Together Louisiana and Alinsky-Marxist organization
and solidarity and all those other communist movements. I want public-integrity
as private-liberty-with-civic-morality.
“A life-size ‘red stick’ mascot with
blue eyes . . . was nowhere to be found on Tuesday.” Express it candidly. A
blue-eyed mascot is a losing proposition if the goal is a civic culture. It should
quietly change to something more universal. Brown seems a logical choice: aclens.com/Content/Display/323
. We need to learn to discuss these issues candidly and The Advocate may lead
the way or continue with some other business plan. Mobocracy as AMO, generates
pride in writing and 2 million hits instead of 2 hundred thousand.
Barack
Obama farewell speech. Seems like
celebration of Obama’s Saul Alinsky training perhaps in Chicago.
“. . . it was a neighborhood not far from here where I began working with church groups.” “[Chicago] is where I learned that change only happens when ordinary people get involved and they get engaged, and they come together to demand it.” Listen to the introduction to Alinsky at youtube.com/watch?v=PYfLKBlTM94 and as much of it as you like.
“. . . it was a neighborhood not far from here where I began working with church groups.” “[Chicago] is where I learned that change only happens when ordinary people get involved and they get engaged, and they come together to demand it.” Listen to the introduction to Alinsky at youtube.com/watch?v=PYfLKBlTM94 and as much of it as you like.
“The wealthy are paying a fairer
share of taxes even as the stock market shatters records.”
“Race remains a potent and often
divisive force in our society.”
“. . . when minority groups voice
discontent, they're not just engaging in reverse racism or practicing political
correctness. When they wage peaceful protest, they're not demanding special
treatment but the equal treatment that our Founders promised.”
“But politics is a battle of ideas.”
IMO, in a civic culture, politics may be iterative-collaboration. “. . .
science and reason matter . . . reality has a way of catching up with you.”
“. . . the fight against extremism
and intolerance and sectarianism and chauvinism are of a piece with the fight
against authoritarianism and nationalist aggression.” IMO, humans must conform
to the authority of the-indisputable-facts-of-reality rather than opinion,
especially the opinions of mobs.
“. . . insist on the principles of
transparency and ethics in public service.” “. . . , the most important office
in a democracy: Citizen . . . that's what our democracy demands. It needs you .
. . do some organizing.”
“I am asking you to hold fast to
that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves
and abolitionists.”
IMO, Obama has erroneous confidence in
the demands of activists. “Organization” is an Alinsky surrogate for ‘mob.” The
organized protests in the 1960s were successful because the cause was just.
However, ignoring the dignity and equality of a child to remain with the couple
that conceived him or her, an unjust action by the US Supreme Court is
reversible. Also, Greece vs Galloway is reversible.
People who get caught up in
Alinsky-Marxist organized mobocracy may reconsider the value of exercising the
right to think independently before voting. To think and vote enhances your
Security, hopes, and dreams rather than the hopes and dreams of the mob.
The Pledge of Respect (#BRrespect). The intro is: “As a citizen of Baton Rouge, I commit myself to help create a better community by upholding these standards of respect“ The oath we most reject is: “To return disrespect with respect.” Within the revision we suggested yesterday, we might endorse, “To return disrespect with cause for appreciation.” However, if our goal mutual-appreciation is accepted rather than the goal respect, then disrespect is identified as wrong or immoral in a culture of mutual-appreciation.
[i] The
Advocate comments online, September 24, 2016. Ms. Flournoy, I appreciate both
your response to Mr. Bonin’s letter and especially your attention to the
areligious preamble to the constitution for the USA. I advocate that each
citizen understand the 1787 intentions for the preamble, paraphrase it, mimic
it for personal trust and commitment in 2016, then restore thoughts to the
original text for use as a civic person. A civic person behaves with guidance from
the preamble to cultivate civic morality (see below). I advocate a classical
liberalism (which includes responsibility) for 2016.
I disagree with your liberalism of civil “respect” with no
civic “appreciation.” You omit the duty and responsibility James Meredith, now
83, tells us he marched for in 1966. "Not only rights and privileges are
part of citizenship. Duty and responsibility are an equal part, and that's the
part [liberals fail] to pay any attention to." See "Civil rights
marchers [1966]: U. S. still has inequality,," at
bigstory.ap.org/article/5a306dbff24149cea8a84e2a88bcf97d/civil-rights-marchers-us-still-needs-address-inequality
from July 24, 2016. People whose pride motivates them to demand respect without
appreciation could willingly consider humility and responsibility; after
gullibility, pride is perhaps the greatest private error.
But a civic people must have a bedrock against which to
balance “rights and privileges” with “duty and responsibility.” It cannot be
temporal opinion, such as the notion that a husband and father can suddenly
decide his psychology is female. Therefore, he will compete with his spouse in
beauty, motherhood and grandmotherhood; role modelling; and sexual bonding.
Neither the Supreme Court nor economic pressure on North Carolina can impose
such nonsense on human beings. Same thang with bathrooms. Your opinion and
Bonin’s opinion must be mediated by a reliable bedrock.
How can a civic people create civic morality? We propose
using the-indisputable-facts-of-reality. That means setting aside ideologies,
religion, and other private pursuits when iteratively collaborating
undiscovered civic morality. For example, we know that civic people do not lie,
because lies prevent the liar from expressing solutions to civic problems.
However, “we, the people,” have not yet settled that a person’s liberty to
think is impeded by “freedom of religion”; in other words, a human being
requires freedom from both civic religion and civil religion in order to pursue
private integrity. Private integrity seeks
private-liberty-with-civic-morality--in other words, mutually-appreciative-human-connections
or broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security, hereafter Security.
Iterative collaboration works by alternating communications
roles so as to mutually discover civic morality. Mr. Bonin speaks A and you
listen and clarify any misgivings about Mr. Bonin’s words and phrases. From
your experiences and observations, you speak B and Mr. Bonin listens and
clarifies. One of you perceives and speaks C, and you collaborate on C, maybe
discovering D. The process continues until the iterative collaboration has
produced a solution both parties consider civically moral. There’s neither
compromise nor subjugation but collaboration. Fidelity to
the-discovered-indisputable-facts-of-reality and the theory created by the
interconnected laws makes the collaboration efficient. Fidelity comes with
private integrity to the interrelated facts that spring from the
theory-of-discovered-reality. For example, a civic people do not need to
re-hash the purpose of red-traffic-lights.
The father who knew from his body his role, then made vows,
and created a family, intending fidelity to biology, self, wife, children,
grandchildren, great-grandchildren and beyond, may begin to perceive a latent
psychology that he always wanted to be female. However, because of private integrity,
he will seek psychological council from a civic practitioner---a professional
similar to "social worker" but one who helps people consider,
understand, and practice civic morality, keeping private pursuits such as
religion or political ideology private.
Make no mistake: I think I write ideas for an achievable,
better future---one that empowers "we, the people" to asymptotically
approach the ideal totality: “We the People of the United States.” The ideas
are not mine but are the products of iterative collaboration, such as Mr.
Bonin’s continuous sharing and your particular response. People who are willing
to seek a better future will focus on the ideas, not the writer. Otherwise, the
ideas cannot be improved by the reader. In other words, people who build brick
walls on hearing opposing views isolate themselves. People who trashed Bonin hurt
their own psychological well-being.
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