February 15, 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.

The Advocate:

Our Views. I agree with The Advocate’s opinion. Also:

“Sen. Yvonne Dorsey Colomb said Brown has apologized for his actions and has sought treatment, therefore is deserving of forgiveness.”

Consider appreciation rather than forgiveness. Does Colomb appreciate Brown’s behavior? Which behavior: infidelity to his girlfriend or brutality to his wife? My question seems alien.

Elected officials demand “respect.” Sovereign citizens are to have a feeling of great approval and liking. Can a person tender respect when there is no appreciation for the actions or lifestyle? IMO, respect is not possible when there is no appreciation.

Forgiveness is for personal healing by the offended party, but public offense extends beyond privacy. Public-integrity comes from a civic people and just statutory law and enforcement. The Louisiana Legislature represents the people of Louisiana.

To Pascanal Petreoff:  She is, after all, a member of the Louisiana Black Caucus, by definition a racially motivated group.

 

I would like the Louisiana Legislature to hold an open discussion. On September 17, 1787, did "We the People of the United States" include free blacks and slaves? If so, may citizens in 2017 decide to collaborate for the preamble's goals?

Today’s thought. Physics, beyond a study, is energy, mass and space-time, from which the universe started emerging 13.8 billion years ago. The earth started emerging as cosmic gas 4.6 billion years ago. 

 

The imagination that an intelligent being controls physics has not been disproved. Labeling the imagined intelligence “God” is harmless. I doubt the intelligence bargains with humans.

Beyond being aware of the creation conjecture, there is little a person can accomplish by thinking about it. Every creation-construct I have studied is flawed, IMO. Yet intellectual constructs respecting what is not known are often required as the first step in discovery of the-objective-truth, a necessary human endeavor. Perhaps new ways of human-perception must be invented before a construct that leads to discovery can be imagined.

Licensing (Sibilla). Thank you , Sibilla and Burns. I sent requests for reform to my state representatives.

 

Unions against children (White). Mr. White, I appreciate your continual reminders. Gov. Edwards is an enemy of the children. I doubt Edwards knows the meaning of “posterity” in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Shamefully, many liberal democrats don’t even care about posterity.

Home elevation column. Absent reliable government, many homeowners take it upon themselves to elevate their homes, buy home sites on high ground, and avoid building on sand. I am grateful for every neighbor who exercises civic morality---common sense, as MWW calls it.

E. J. Dione column. I’ll bet on a civic people, thank you.
 
With so much attention to the chaos imposed on the world by the major religions that squabble over Bible interpretation the era of public collaboration for broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security has arrived. We are at the nadir of civic morality and the ascent has begun. Turmoil within the three religions informs humankind that relief is possible.
 
Abraham Lincoln perceived the ascent in 1861: “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?” I think he spoke of a civic people using statutory law to limit harm.

Lanny Keller column. To each his own. 

 

Keller takes the easy tack of slighting Trump, an accomplished politician but amateur president who none-the less Tweets the people.

 

Keller has more information about Edwards, an amateur governor. While Trump addressed the people, Edwards perhaps advanced a Vatican-Edwards-partnership. For Catholic Charities? 

 

Meanwhile, Edwards' second, slow $2 billion request for aid in an $8.7 billion disaster waited for Mardi Gras in DC. What a failure to the governor’s No. 1 people: the people in the state of Louisiana.

Charles Krauthammer column.  Regrettably, IMO Krauthammer expressed the-objective-truth.

However, I would add that Trump underestimated the extent of liberal-democrat activists in positions of federal power, especially airport management. Fundamentally, the people who would carry out Trump’s orders were his domestic enemies. That condition still exists. It is a very strong force I call Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO) and its prince is Barack Obama. Readers who are not familiar with AMO may get reasonable understanding from D. L. Adams at newenglishreview.org/DL_Adams/Saul_Alinsky_and_the_Rise_of_Amorality_in_American_Politics/ .

Non consistent story (Page 1B). The first version I read involved a taxi driver. See dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4211808/Louisiana-judge-allegedly-calls-black-customer-N-word.html . “a two hour wait for her group . . . decided to stand at the bar.” We’re talking very close quarters. Neither diners nor waiters enjoyed that use of the passage-only space. 

 

And there’s rude behavior twice toward the taxi driver: “she told the Rogue Collection: 'He was sitting and I was standing that entire time. He stepped away to the restroom so I sat in the seat. When he got back I asked if he wanted to have his seat back and he said 'No. I'm about to go any way.' But before I leave I do need my jacket.” See longroom.com/discussion/319742/white-louisiana-judge-is-banned-from-a-local-restaurant-after-he-called-a-black-customer-the-n-word .

I just want my hometown to cure itself of AMO hatred. It starts with awareness of AMO.

Expel Brown (Page 1A, Feb 14). To Todd Lewis: Right or wrong, my personal challenge about voting for Trump came with the filmed incident about sexual intimacy with women who get to meet celebrities. 

 

Wanting to stay with the candidate who seemed to be able to defeat all comers, perhaps even "lying Hillary," I had to battle it out with a conscience that would never vote for Vitter.

 

I said, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” You always knew Trump was a playboy. Besides, his old comment was about loose women who make their bodies available just because a man is a celebrity. You’re taking a risk, but voting for Hillary is a definite approval of “At this point what difference does [responsibility] make?” Also, notice that he is able to rebuke the media’s lies with more humorous lies.

 

If you haven’t seen Trump at his humble, humorous best, check my favorite:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnRVAzFa6Og . Great delivery, IMO.

Today, we know he can say “Ya fiayad,” to even the closest of allies who lie to him and his. I think Michael Flynn could have been great, but not when he lied. Trump may be a better president than I hope for: he certainly was amazing as a 2016 presidential politician.

Other dialogues:

libertylawsite.org/2017/02/14/when-faction-and-solidarity-intersect/#comment-1520478

I appreciate Professor Rogers’ post and views.

 

The world seems dysfunctional 232 years after James Madison’s perhaps boldest and most erroneous judgment: “Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign.” Therein was Madison’s pretension “for pre-eminence and power.”

Michael Polanyi, in Personal Knowledge, 1958, spends 404 pages admonishing the-objective-truth and one paragraph deifying theism. Both Madison and Polanyi draw attention to a false premise: For “the public good,” human reason is more important than what a civic people may discover.

 

Humans may hope for salvation from death, and a civic people may achieve broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security, hereafter Security. For public-integrity, Security is more important than theism.

Public-integrity allows each human to achieve a meaningful life. The human person is the most powerful being on earth. He or she is so psychologically powerful that neither another person nor a society may morally constrain his or her quest for unique perfection.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Divinity School Address, 1838, unlocked Jesus’s message to each human: You may perfect your unique person. Humanity’s perfection ineluctably marches, but society, civilization, and tradition strive to limit each person, oppressing his or her brief opportunity for private perfection.

 

The “zeal for different opinions,” has no standing in a person’s quest for perfection. In other words, only the person may make the choices that construct his or her perfection.

In a civic society, those with fidelity to Security may be protected from dissidents by civically-just statutory-law and law enforcement. Within Security, every (real-no-harm) personal association and art flourishes on the support of believers and adherents.

 

Heretofore, the human quest for Security has been oppressed by both the hope to overcome death and the will to sacrifice life for dominant opinion. The idea of collaborating for Security so that each person may pursue private-liberty-with-civic-morality may emerge as the public good.

 
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.