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Persuade Gov. Edwards to work with a
congressional delegation that has established civic integrity. Especially, the
Congressional Black Congress needs to either dissolve or respond to James
Meredith’s lament that since 1966: “Duty
and responsibility are an equal part [of citizenship], and that's the part the
black race has failed to pay any attention to." See the social-democracy-media
(SDM) captioned bigstory.ap.org/article/5a306dbff24149cea8a84e2a88bcf97d/civil-rights-marchers-us-still-needs-address-inequality
.
Can Edwards and Richmond possibly put Louisiana citizens first on their
agenda? So far, the answer is clearly, No.
Evangeline scandal (Jeff Sadow column). The propriety
with which Sadow writes is a scandal of its own. Why not step out of civil morality
and use the language of civic morality? Civic morality seeks justice.
SDM
(Johnson column). One of the most promising ideas I read in my youth is that
the noblest people choose journalism. The idea was written by someone who
strings egocentric words together.
But here’s a quote from candid thinker Mark Twain:
I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.
- "License of the Press," speech, 31 March 1873
George
Will column. IMO, Will favors cuteness over integrity. Quoting
tvguide.com/news/donald-trump-presidential-campaign-timeline/
“1987-1988: Trump
considers a run for president, while simultaneously juggling large debts
stemming from his purchase of the Taj Mahal casino.” Maybe being cute is important when you’re in the media business.
Mark
Ballard column. Some towns should shut down due to both local
irresponsibility and long-term unviability.
Dabadie
(Page 1A). We have worked in EBRP library meetings since 2014, starting with a
proposal for widespread public use of the preamble to the constitution for the
USA, to resolve the motivations for St. George City. With iterative
collaboration by more than fifty people, the proposal evolved to:
public-integrity as private-liberty-with-civic-morality.
I assert that most people don’t want public-integrity: they don’t want to talk about it. Groups are too accustomed to vying for dominant opinion. In classical-liberal literature since the Magna Carta, the people are expected to tolerate Blackstone and resist Marx, never caring about Security. Even the 2017 widespread dysfunction does not cure the apathy. Tolerating Together Baton Rouge seems easier.
Security requires voluntarily, personally collaborating for broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security, meanwhile keeping personal pursuits such as fine arts, religion, sports preference, ethnic ties, etc. private. In a civic culture, there is no problem with one church assuming God is white and another claiming God is black. Same for the other colors. The book, God is Red, is an excellent read. In a civic culture, every real-no-harm religion flourishes at the pleasure of believers. Skin-color, whether of God or of people, is not a civic issue.
I claim opposition to the religion-government-partnership (long-standing Chapter XI Machiavellianism), which turns believers off my topic: public-integrity. Nevertheless, a good person like Broome might comprehend and use civic ideas, so I tried. I picked the member of her committee of five I had met and asked to meet one month before the inauguration. With no response, I wrote to two among the forty. My idea was to collaborate with a key person rather than approach Broome with unheard ideas in a first meeting. When that did not work, I wrote to her, hoping to not experience the usual brush-off by politicians and officials.
Learning that both the recent police records as well as Edmonson and Moore approve Dabadie, I think Broome would honor the people who voted for her by quickly avoiding further defiance of the city and state and also reform her race-n’-church policy. If somebody has to go, let it be Broome and perhaps John Bel Edwards. Louisiana seems better off with Edmonson, Moore, and Dabadie.
BTW: Equally wrongful is using taxpayer funds for Dialogues on Race indoctrination in unwarranted guilt rather than, for example, Character Counts leadership. See ://charactercounts.org/building-a-city-of-character-in.../ .
I assert that most people don’t want public-integrity: they don’t want to talk about it. Groups are too accustomed to vying for dominant opinion. In classical-liberal literature since the Magna Carta, the people are expected to tolerate Blackstone and resist Marx, never caring about Security. Even the 2017 widespread dysfunction does not cure the apathy. Tolerating Together Baton Rouge seems easier.
Security requires voluntarily, personally collaborating for broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security, meanwhile keeping personal pursuits such as fine arts, religion, sports preference, ethnic ties, etc. private. In a civic culture, there is no problem with one church assuming God is white and another claiming God is black. Same for the other colors. The book, God is Red, is an excellent read. In a civic culture, every real-no-harm religion flourishes at the pleasure of believers. Skin-color, whether of God or of people, is not a civic issue.
I claim opposition to the religion-government-partnership (long-standing Chapter XI Machiavellianism), which turns believers off my topic: public-integrity. Nevertheless, a good person like Broome might comprehend and use civic ideas, so I tried. I picked the member of her committee of five I had met and asked to meet one month before the inauguration. With no response, I wrote to two among the forty. My idea was to collaborate with a key person rather than approach Broome with unheard ideas in a first meeting. When that did not work, I wrote to her, hoping to not experience the usual brush-off by politicians and officials.
Learning that both the recent police records as well as Edmonson and Moore approve Dabadie, I think Broome would honor the people who voted for her by quickly avoiding further defiance of the city and state and also reform her race-n’-church policy. If somebody has to go, let it be Broome and perhaps John Bel Edwards. Louisiana seems better off with Edmonson, Moore, and Dabadie.
BTW: Equally wrongful is using taxpayer funds for Dialogues on Race indoctrination in unwarranted guilt rather than, for example, Character Counts leadership. See ://charactercounts.org/building-a-city-of-character-in.../ .
Landrieu’s
crime town (Page 1A). I'm just glad that I could and did vote for Landry. (Like
the rest of the Chapter XI Machiavellians, though, I want him to stop the
religion-government-partnership he seems to ply. Religion at home may be good
for the believer, but religion in the elected office begs woe. Usually, the woe
falls on the people---believers and non-believers.)
My family has spent many nights in
New Orleans. And days in Metairie for Mardi Gras parades---never on Bourbon on
fat Tuesday, because of safety concerns for the children.
But no more: Mitch Landrieu and “his
people” made their town too dangerous. MWW just won’t go there.
Extraterrestrials
(Page 9A). Saying “Hello,” is a good idea now,
because once talking starts, each party may decode communications, and
they will appreciate that your first thought was, “Hello.”
Often, if conversation with another citizen gets beyond the weather, sports or family, which I like because other experiences and observations teach me, the other party might say, “Oh. You are an atheist.” No matter how I express that I don’t practice theism, their label for me sticks for them. This area is reported to be 85% Christian, and many persons send me to Coventry, yet, I feel comfortable. Ronny Daigre (at rest) used to say, “Phil, when you go home, does a smile greet you? That’s all you need.”
Subjugation
of vulnerable people (Page 11A). I think that subjecting prisoners---at Angola
and elsewhere---to indoctrination by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
and other religious organizations is as bad as Courage Worldwide’s conflicts
with personal well-being.
Richmond
(Page 2B). The Congressional Black Caucus admits its
public insignificance when, respecting Jeff Sessions, CBC threatens Senator
John Kennedy and others with “. . . hold all those who vote to confirm accountable.”
DA Moore (Page 2B). Don’t miss a
representative man on radio at 4:00 PM Monday on 107.3 FM.
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