January 25, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-indisputable-facts-of-reality have not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by learning other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites sharing facts, opinion, or concern. (I read, write, and listen to establish my opinion as I pursue the-objective-truth.)
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: I am glad to know about this state-hoard of millions: “We’re glad that part of the added security will be funded by money generated by the Ernest J. Morial Convention Center, which has accumulated millions of dollars for a planned expansion that was sidelined after Hurricane Katrina.”

We learned also from NOLA, “The costs of the plan are being shared, officials said, with $16 million provided "from various city sources" and $23 million funded by the state-owned Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. “ See nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/01/new_orleans_public_safety_anno.html . Any superbowl hoard could be tapped for the DA and NOPD.
 
How much hoard does the state have in those funds? I want to see that money used to avoid new state taxes yet keep k-12 education and more whole.
 

Also, the N.O. DA is being suppressed by the mayor. The people could march on the mayor’s office for relief from bad administration reaching all the way to Gov. John Bel Edwards.

 

Today’s Thought. Today, Dean puts forth ruinous advice.
 

With ministers in the South in 1850 preaching Bible interpretation that condones slavery, the white-church-CSA-partnership bravely fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861. The white-church-god did not correct the CSA error. In April, 1865, the CSA surrendered, after deaths proportional to today’s American population of perhaps 8 million Americans.

 

The writer John, in 6:40 opines several mysteries: “For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day." What is eternal life and is it desirable? What is “the last day” and should life be sacrificed for it.
 
Whatever may come in the afterdeath, it is imperative to live in civic justice.
 
George W. Bush relied on his god to invade Iraq in 2003 with faulty justification. Are we to ignore the-indisputable-facts-of-reality? Dean may: I won’t.

  

BB Pipeline (Scott). Than you, Mr. Scott, for your work and sharing data.

 

The Bucket Brigade imagined all sorts of calamities and then worked to impose their mysterious concerns on the people.

 

Reports from the Department of Natural Resources’ Pipeline Division informs us that of 15.7 billion barrels produced, 0.000085 billion was spilled, and 74% of the spilled barrels were recovered.
 
The safety and operating saving of not transporting by truck makes it imperative for LDEQ to approve the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Public safety&security is first and economic viability is essential.

 

Energy (Welch). Than you, Mr. Welch.

 

“President Obama . . . legal or not . . . [placed] the United States at a competitive disadvantage.”

“. . . global energy demand . . . increase 50% by 2040, and fossil fuels will meet about 80 percent of that demand.”

 

Why voluntarily drop out of global-financial-viability?

 

Walter Williams column. I prefer consistent words and phrases. 

 

“Adolescents” is preferred to “snowflakes,” and the college student is an unnecessary constraint on adolescence. Liberal democrats, egocentrics, socialists, communist, and other dissidents to We the [Civic] People of the United States are everywhere—in every office and among all factions. Adolescents claim to be the majority, and they are the majority whiners. The may never discover individual-independence.
 

Some college administrators are psychological adolescents, and their actions on their campuses need not be listed. The actions of adolescent-adults marching on January 21, 2017 informed us of their psychological immaturity. (See H. A. Overstreet, The Mature Mind, 1949 to help motivate comprehension.)

 

Incidentally, did you read the WSJ opinion-page entry about a person on the way to an inaugural ball being egged from apartment windows? Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO) are guilty of endangering adolescents---the egg-throwers risked identification and arrest. 

 

I read about Mahatma Gandhi’s 1930 Salt March for a just cause. Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to mimic Gandhi but muddled the issues by focusing on his four children’s character and a check cashing metaphor (I thought in 1963). King was opposed by black power, and eventually character lost out to skin-color and retribution became the goal of the Congressional Black Caucus and others. Black church, Saul Alinsky’s radical demands for retribution, Latin-America’s liberation theology, and black power combined to create a new form of protest that excites grown adults to throw eggs at a passerby. 

 

Beware invitations to sacrifice your well-being for AMO causes or for any organization to benefit someone's irresponsible cause.

 

Adam Crepelle guest column.  Thank you. I had no knowledge of civil forfeiture, I suppose a politically-correct-term for civil theft.

 

I do not appreciate George Will's attention to Jeff Sessions and find it a distraction to your otherwise excellent help for a civic people. As AG, Sessions would not legislate, and there is no perfect candidate for any office.

 

Nevertheless, I appreciate your attention to an injustice, and I will ask my state representatives to create a bill that reforms LA law.
 

Incidentally, I work hard to find words that indisputably express ideas. One of my concerns is the word “civic.” I do not wish to be civilized when I opine the civilization is barbaric. In the same way, I do not want subjugation to the laws of that civilization, or their civil laws. I prefer the USA, because it guarantees statutory law and allows me to honorably work to correct injustices.

Lanny Keller column.  I like your label “Nagger-in-Chief,” and my candidate will be like that without the down-home hyperbole—metaphors for jumping off a cliff, for example.

Moreover: “It is district attorneys who shoulder most of the burden for prosecuting state law.” For the sake of a civic people, public-integrity, and civic-morality, I really appreciate your sentence and would add the AG.

I think the budgets of Hillar Moore, Leon Cannizzaro, and Attorney General Jeff Landry should be increased.

Michael Gerson column.  Gerson belittles himself not to recognize that “[Trump] demonstrates no respect for norms of presidential magnanimity and self-restraint,” has corollaries that preclude belittling Trump as expressing Peronist promises.

In all the world’s past leaders there was no Trump mold, so he is not filling anything. In the society of conservative law professors, there is no test of Trump’s proprietary-right to speak. The conservative law professors must earn the qualifications to speak to Trump. And writers may as usual print any opinion they want, but reporters must, at last, discover, comprehend, and report the-objective-truth. The propriety of honesty is no longer sufficient: there must be integrity.

Pipelines (Page 1A). I am impressed with Michael Brune’s threat. It’s be interesting to see if he brings in Barack Obama as Alinsky consultant.

Edwards vs Children (Page 1A). Gov. John Bel Edwards mimics Barack Obama by proposing sacrifice by children so as to satisfy adult appetites. I will vote against any tax increase that is presented for my consideration until I see spending reform. Also, better economics are coming for the USA, and I urge Edwards to stay home and make certain Louisiana children are number one in these parts.

School superintendent (Page 1A). Louisiana must move away from subjecting children to race, religion, and politics. Stop “training the workers we need,” and start coaching children to take charge of their acquisition of understand and intent to live a full life. This is not rhetoric: I have a plan and it is available online in many forms. But people can talk to me, too.

Key Academy (Page 3A). Congratulations on a good decision. 

 

Here’s a case for charter schools. Recent news shows that charter schools spend so much on administration that the children suffer, and therefore charters are not sustainable in competition with public schools. I’ll bet someone has suggested combining the concepts by creating in public schools a special administrative body for dyslexic students. Thus, the two special schools in Louisiana could benefit from one administration, reducing costs while providing the service. I urge moving to such a system quickly. By all means, there is no need for charter schools whose reason for being is to teach religion.

Dogged (Page 3A). There is no insecurity. Trump can work and chew chewing-gum at the same time. The work is conducting the nation’s business. The chewing is humorously rebuking the hatred of the media and the mendacity of the Democrats and other dissidents to civic morality.
 
Rep. John Lewis and other blacks need to get together with 1966-march-icon James Meredith and iteratively collaborate on how to stop neglecting the duty and responsibility that every red-blooded citizen may want. Freedom from oppression grants the liberty to participate in individual-independence-with-civic-morality. Perhaps they could start by admitting to themselves that “all men are created equal” is tacitly stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. The preamble is intended for all but the dissidents to the civic-morality stated in its contract.

 

Trump’s alternative facts (Page 3A). The Associated Press just cannot read through their political correctness. 

 

Everybody knows that each news business has a plan, and they flourish or perish accordingly. Each of them has a business paradigm and shapes the news to fit a competitive position. In all issues, the-indisputable-facts-exist, and it is up to workers to discover, comprehend, and report the-objective-truth. Most business plans call for short-cuts, and thereby is the dilemma of working for survival. Few media have the integrity to report only the-objective-truth, and some have the plan to appeal to the most gullible audience. So, the quality of media has a very wide range.

 

Regardless, possession of the-objective-truth is unlikely, and each media outlet has its alternative facts. They are welcome to call these lies and label each other and Trump as “liars”. Obviously, the media’s proprietary correctness does not impress Trump, and did not impress Trump voters.

Since I do not know the-objective-truth, I work hard to establish my opinion. I live by it, share it with the public, and am looking for viewpoints or facts about the-objective-truth that require me to change. However, without evidence or viewpoint I can adopt, no one’s alternative facts can compete with mine for me. (That holds for Trump.)

 

If someone approaches me with skepticism or a snowman, I object somehow, and with no response, I change the subject to sports or the weather. For example, if someone says, “I think 2+2 works nicely as 5,” I respond, “Two apples and two oranges is four fruit, and that’s as far as I’ll go with this talk.” If someone says, “Obama’s inaugurations were attended by more people than Trump’s,” I say, “It seems so. Obama was the first black president. Also, he was a community organizer. So, the cases are not comparable. Why did you think it was pertinent to our governance to bring that up?”

 

As I wait for Trump’s response to the media’s impertinences, I perceive that Trump is going to teach me another lesson and another and another . . . .

Barton Swain column (WSJ, Jan. 24, Page A15).  I paraphrase.

A few years ago, Trump decided that the press is neither the people nor has integrity and therefore can be lied to.

The press opines that it presents reality to the people, even though the reality varies among the competitors. Rebuked by Trump, a few among the press admit to themselves that they must do the work to discover, comprehend, and report the-objective-truth with wholeness and understanding.

Thank you, Mr. Trump. (He bemused the press before he was elected by a civic people.)

If you liked this, it seems worth the effort to find and read Mr. Swain’s column. The above is my attempt to paraphrase his last paragraph, which he might understand: I don’t.

Phil Beaver does not “know”. Phil trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. Phil Beaver is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, an education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.