February 25, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has 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.
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. This editorial expresses pretension and foretells government indecision and waste like the Comite diversion canal but at somewhere between 17 and 250 times the fiscal severity.  

Apparently The Advocate does not consider its own reporting, as in theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/article_dd01d172-e352-11e6-b35c-b32e15d016fb.html . Also, consider “Purpera . . . [reported] since 2000 only one of 27 components . . . has been finished after $117 million of spending. The issue is so serious, he said, that state lawmakers and others ‘may wish to determine if the Comite Project is still a viable project for the state or if it should be revised to fit into a larger flood protection strategy for the region.’" according to the review.” See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/article_8984b97e-e177-11e6-a039-9bc33d1d2ee1.html . What if 27 times $0.117 B is $3.16 billion for a completed canal?
 
The Advocate misconstrued their point: “Louisiana can spend every dime available for coastal restoration tomorrow and we would still be billions short. Ultimately, greater and long-term federal commitment to America’s wetlands crisis is vital,” to assert that Gov. John Bel Edwards’ promises are welcome and must be maintained. The only promise I perceive from Edwards, for example for flood victims, is government-fabricated disaster. Do I need to change my candid opinion? Tell me. I don’t know the-objective-truth.
 
If my future depended on the Louisiana coastline directly, I’d be seeking new livelihood and place of residence. With a national debt of $20 billion and Louisiana budgeting $30 billion when it should be $18 billion, I do not trust anyone’s political promises. I want fiduciary reform.

Today’s thought. Psalms 51:5. “Behold, I was shaped in Iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” If this was David, he practiced infidelity in marriage, fulfilling his self-image. Perhaps he was blaming his mom for his misbehavior.
 

But this is 2017, and people need not think they were born in error (sin). For example, I know without a doubt my mom and dad, on their paths to realizing her and his unique potentials, conceived me in love and commitment to my care; nothing can dissuade me from that experience. I do not suggest judgment or comparison, but merely personal experience that influences my opinion in opposition to both David and Dean (clergy) opinions.

 
Also, I am strengthened by the Jesus of my contemplation. Helped by Ralph Waldo Emerson, I am committed to the message, “Phil, low as you may be, you have the human, psychological power to perfect your person.” Emerson plainly reveals his source in “Divinity School Address,” 1838. See emersoncentral.com/divaddr.htm .

 
The promise, “Be perfect,” IMO, does not express profectionism as in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfectionism_(psychology) . IMO, the human condition is one of discovering and making best use of the-objective-truth. The-objective-truth can only be discovered, but the interrelated discoveries may be used to rationalize favorable expressions of the unknowns. Thus, we understand the earth is like a globe, but despite favorable odds, we do not know if there is extraterrestrial psychological life. However, IMO, the best lived life expresses accumulated decisions and choices that, no matter how many human errors, always return to a path of fidelity to all of this list: the-objective-truth, self, family, extended families, the people, the nation, the world, and the universe, both respectively and collectively.

 
I think there are many individuals who reach death having perfected their unique person. By accepting that the thought “Be perfect” is a statement of possibility, more people would reach their personal perfection.

 
I oppose Dean’s opinion: humankind is God’s creation and “only God can fix it.”

  

Benefiting churches (Doody). I oppose repealing the Johnson amendment, because it is just one more costly debate when the real problem is the religion clauses in the First Amendment. Those clauses ruin America’s promises for an achievable better future.

 

First, I don’t understand an attorney not pointing to IRS code and its provision of equity for registered, civic-minded groups. “Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.” The proposal to exempt churches from this restriction does not seem like equity to me, and I oppose the bid. I am agent for a non-profit education corporation, but I want freedom to express whatever I choose and therefore have no applied for tax exemption.

 

I also doubt the repeal is a Trump idea. (A citizen can trust personal opinion far better than media reports and other people’s opinons.) Both the GOP-right and factional-Christianities are vying for Trump’s favor. But Trump favors the people, which requires Security. The Democrats are too irresponsible to realize that Trump is for a Democrat if he or she is for the people: it takes integrity to confront Trump’s integrity, IMO. The liberal-democrats merely work for eternal conflict. They may be kept out of the picture now that the people are informed about Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO) like Obama’s newly announced Organizing for Action (OFA). Chicago gave us Al Capone, AMO, and now OFA. Read the connections at nationalreview.com/article/294454/still-alinsky-playbook-john-fund .

 

Like a typical AMO priest, Doody employed Alinsky Rule 7, Tactic 3, “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.” Doody confronted Christian fundamentalists with Muslim fundamentalists. In typical liberal-democrat fashion, Doody uses people's hopes to attack other people's hopes, creating chaos. A civic people appreciate every person who contributes to Security, regardless of race or creed.

 

However, Capone, Alinsky, Obama, and perhaps Doody are not the point. The point is, the US constitution may defend and protect a person’s right and duty to think rather than the institution called religion. A person’s inspiration and motivation may be better informed by the-objective-truth than by dominant opinion. IMO, every moment spent mastering a doctrine when a person could be discovering the well known indisputable-facts-of-reality is a private travesty. Imagine a culture wherein there was public-integrity whereby each no-real-harm person’s private motivations and inspiration was unquestioned and every association of believers flourished. 

 

The USA can have a civic culture by amending the First Amendment to promote personal integrity rather than institutional opinion. Perhaps just delete the religion clauses to express support for the civic agreement in the preamble.

Obamacare (Hale, Feb 23). To GM King and Matthew White:

For example, a liberal democrat has not the psychological capacity to consider, much less comprehend, my frequent sermon topic: Let's iteratively-collaborate for private-liberty-with-civic-morality.

STEM (Nixon). I agree and find it an egregious offense toward Louisiana’s people that Gov. John Bel Edwards works for tyranny against the children in order to satisfy some adults in public education. I wonder if Edwards understands that the sun won’t really come up tomorrow.

To JT McQuitty: I still remember my great 5th grade math teacher, Nina House (peace). And my great English teacher, Barbara Buckley.
 
They taught me self reliance more than anything else.

 

To Thomas Winn: When I was a boy, we learned civics that was biased toward individual-independence-and-civic-morality as best understood in 1950s. One of the most important sentences (try three guesses) I was asked to memorize is the preamble to the constitution for the USA. For about five decades I perceived most of us practiced the preambles civic agreement, and then I realized that "freedom of religion" meant freedom of theism, in particular factional-Christianity, especially Protestantism, with a little appreciation for the Jews but plans to convert them. Non-believers were to be avoided like the plague. On recognizing where I was, I climbed out of the cave: faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm .

 

I have no idea when social sciences came on the scene, but I understand its topics include economics, political science, human geography, demography, and sociology (Google dictionary). It seems civics is out of the curriculum.

 

Rich Lowry column. They keep telling me to be explicit, but all I see from the press is expression of private confusion. Here, Lowry, with an otherwise enlightening column about President Trump’s justifiable reference to Sweden, refers to Trump as a blunderbuss president. Did Lowery mean “a blundering person” or “regarded as lacking in subtlety and precision”? Either way, Lowry’s analysis informs Lowry’s careless word jumbles. No hope for journalism there.

 

Maybe Lowry is so liberal he wants to maintain association with “a snotty and hyperventilating press.” Liberals can’t decide and liberal democrats want eternal conflict (consider Al Capone, Saul Alinsky, and Barack Obama; barbaric, sinister, and slick). The USA cannot stand a fourth in this series, so we’d better put Alinskly-Marxist organization (AMO) into the past.

Robert Samuelson column.  Everybody knows government shell games are complications that allow legislators, lobbyists, and their friends to skim wealth from the GDP. A civic people will write to their congressman and senators to shut down any notion of carbon taxing.

 

The sponsor of the tax, whose name and sponsoring group I’d like to see defunded, says “It is inherently difficult to convince people to endure costs now for benefits that accrue to others 30 years hence.” 

A civic people is more concerned with the $20 trillion in debt being spent by the federal government now for its benefit. The government’s debt is to be paid by my children and your grandchildren. Write to your congressman and senator about curtailing all talk of spending money to control the earth’s atmosphere, other then to discourage the population explosion.

 

Michael Barone column.  The GOP is clinging to Trump-the-winner rather than sticking to Trump-their-champion, having almost twenty weak offerings crushed by a very talented person. Don’t forget, the other day at CPAC only 40% expressed support for candidate Trump. 

 

If the Democratic Party, including its media boosters, had an ounce of integrity in appreciation for the-objective-truth, they’d be doing everything in their power to curry Trump’s favor. The group of elected and appointed officials that recognizes that Trump earnestly wants to do everything he can for We the Civic People of the United States---the people who practice the principles stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA---that group will discover they’re on Trump’s side and begin to speak the-objective-truth and Trump will tentatively talk with them instead of quickly rebuking lies with whatever comes to mind. Next, Trump may begin to offer trust, and eventually such Democrats may share with Trump public-integrity, leaving the weak John-McCain-types behind.

Edmonson resign (Page 1B). I think Edmonson gone would be good for the state. If not Edmonson, LeBlanc or Edwards.

 

Holden opinion(Page 1B). Holden takes a position that is neutral to DA Hillar Moore, Jr.’s opinion. Moore says he’d like Broome’s choice to be like Dabadie. I hope Broome chooses Dabadie on merit.

 

Regardless of anything else, my family no longer considers Sammy’s our neighborhood bar and eatery. When Superior Grill opens we’ll have a new location for an old favorite anyway.

TOPS (Page 1A). I hope the committee takes a serious look at a program that gives Louisiana children incentives to take charge of their transition over two decades time from shy-or-eager-first-grader to civic-adult with understanding and intent to live a full life. Google “Phil Beaver + Child incentives brief”. This $1 billion/year program may lift all boats and is only 3% of Gov. Edwards’ plan. It could be phased in as TOPS is incorporated or transitioned.

Parents who plan a family or have young children may take interest in the proposal and help make it happen without imposing on parents with college-aged adolescents and adults.

Man pleads (Page 1A). I hope we hear no more about this travesty, unless the victim wants to speak to us in the future.

I am not proud of my hometown newspaper for exercising its access to unneeded public records. I know civic people can choose not to listen, but also, media with civic business plans can choose not to publish.

Homeland Security (Page 3A). The very idea of expressing opposition to observations in Europe having any impact on expectations here is unbelievable. The only conclusion I can draw is that the people in federal departments hope the President will be impeached because they have superior opinions. We are suffering the impact of eight years of Alinsky-Marxist organization in the oval office. It will be hard to purge AMO and OFA, but purge them we must.

GOP revamp (Page 3A). This looks like an interim step. I’m looking for efficiency. That means more coverage at less cost to the people.

Media and anonymous sources (Page 7A). They are at the heart of pseudo-news. The very famous “deep throat,” a well-controlled secret disclosure, evolved into a media that is out of control en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate) .

Russia reports (Page 7A). The FBI and the administration are not enemies.

NAACP (Page 7A). Human sexuality is neither for children nor for adolescents: it is for adults. Since the human being does not complete the construction of the wisdom parts of the brain before age 25, the civic adult might emerge at around age 30.

Intimate sexual petting is for human-bonding by committed couples or partners, and bonding should lead to fidelity. Bonding to procreate should not happen without mutual fidelity. Adult groups take a civically immoral position when they involve themselves in the privacy of transitioning from feral newborn to civic adult. Shame on the NAACP.

  

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.