March 21, 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. If you like the wok, share with people who may be interested.
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. Grief seems to override hope. Why?

 

We’re experiencing black-power-and-black-church Alinsky-Marxist organizing (AMO), about five decades old now, against white church, added to a 1700-year-old battle over Bible interpretation.

To stop the grief, a civic people may terminate “hope springs eternal” and establish public integrity for living in this place.

“Civic” indicates people who routinely practice mutually appreciative connections or transactions for each other rather for dominant opinion for the city. In other words, a civic culture is for the people and the city serves the people. This is a new view of "civic."

But who will make this happen? A civic people of Baton Rouge may make it happen.

Today’s thought. Isaiah 45:18. I cannot imagine an idea more arrogant than to assert that whatever is responsible for the universe that humankind studies and continually comprehends must conform to the opinion of Isaiah ben Amoz, who lived in the 8th century BCE.

However, Dean has not chosen that arrogance. Dean’s “the God of the Bible” is Jesus.

The question is, does whatever is responsible for the universe we observe care about any person’s arrogance? Let’s hope not, and perhaps I am wrong to doubt both ben Amoz and Dean, merely on my opinion. I don’t know the-objective-truth.

Letters

The arts (Weustemann). To Andy Ringswald: Philanthropy in general is a free activity with free association. Wuestemann’s great letter does not motivate me: I’d rather pay for what I want.

Art is a private practice. Anyone who wants to preserve flat-earth memory is free to think the earth is flat and associate with people who share the thought. Same with young earth.

People who think it is better to feed a person rather than teach them to earn a living are free to do so, but may not impose their wishes on the public. Same with illegal salvation of people from their homeland criminals: Philanthropists should have such dreams but not actually create sanctuary methods to import and establish illegal aliens. It is civically moral to oppose the nation that supports domestic crime.

Same with extraterrestrial life. People can observe the statistics and opine: with billions to one odds, intelligence must be out there. People can associate on the thus established “science” of extraterrestrial life. The association may decide to say “Ahoha,” to extraterrestrials, meaning “I see the divinity in you.” The association my design the message(s) and set up the intergalactic broadcasts. However, don’t propose a tax to fund the project. Private hopes and dreams are not civic business. Same with controlling the earth’s temperature during this interglacial deep freeze: private hopes and dreams may not be imposed on the people.

I love to Cajun and zydeco dance with MWW. I am most happy to pay entrance to the dance and buy my one or two beers and snacks from the house. I sign up for the band’s newsletter and pay for my transportation. I really don’t want non-dancers’ support. I’ll go to a festival and dance free, but it is not necessary. If I don’t feel comfortable with the crowd there, I won’t go back.

I feel civic yet unsocial at Baton Rouge Symphony---not part of the in-crowd and do not want to pay the fee to seem in. I love the performances, especially since MWW does, too. However, I think if the public is paying the bill, there should be more expenditure to 1) educate the public and 2) involve the public. For example, BRSO could occasionally perform music like “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” and other rock greats for JQP. As it is, it seems a form of classification of the people into elites and others.

Thank you for reading my thoughts.

LSU & Law (Woods). Thank you for a great letter.

 

When I thank The Advocate, I wonder if others also appreciate the information for which I am grateful. I share Woods’ appreciation.

 

I also appreciate the Woods’ contributions to LSU and want statutory law to comport to civic morality. When civic injustice, such as LSU’s policy that the Woods contributions can be arbitrarily taken, a civic legislation and a civic administration may expediently make a correction.

 

Michael Woods beautifully illustrates that someone’s expression may be a lie, without the person who expressed the lie being a liar. Woods accomplished civic morality by showing the decades and error-fraught actions that led to the lie.

 

Lastly, there’s the issue of tradition, or “that’s the way LSU does it.” As soon as injustice is identified, the American-civic-culture (stated in the aims and purpose of the constitution for the USA, its preamble, yet no longer represented by the three branches it authorized) requires actual remedy rather than shell games.

Charles Krauthammer column.  President Trump said before he was president that Obamacare is so bad the easiest thing he could do is nothing, and let it collapse of its own errors. 

 

Krauthammer lists some errors: 1) it kills insurance by allowing people to sign up when they discover the need, 2) it counts on young people being coerced to sign up, 3) its advocates create images rather than assessments, and 4) hooking people on hopes is hard to undo.

 

Krauthammer concludes that a GOP option is to do nothing and let Obamacare collapse and then expresses Trump: too conscientious for that.

  

Answers (Page 1A). To Cheryl G. Wilks: Intensely considered prison reform’s task groups need to either publicize their focus on justice for victims or reconvene for that purpose.

Specifically, statutory law and judges should take into account the number of victims and their names and severity of losses in suffering the court’s leniency with each habitual criminal. Victims are persons.

Also, some of the money now proposed for inmates may be spent on multiple offenders who nevertheless seem candidates (have the potential) for reform. Don't waste a penny on intentionally feral adults.

FBI probe (Page 1A). The FBI could not handle investigation of seemingly actual illegal activities by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 

 

The Associated Press (AP), in this case, Eric Tucker and Eileen Sullivan, tries to make the FBI important in investigation of the DNC being so inept as to have their information hacked. The AP may single handedly debunk the FBI, taking advantage of the FBI.

 

Did the Russians pay Comey to engage voters regarding investigations and conclusions about Secretary Clinton’s activities? (That’s only a question which the AP could pursue if it served their purpose.) There must be some explanation for Comey’s uncommon announcements and awkward timing. America’s losing voters need to know and have a right to know. If not, Ms. Clinton would like to know.

Are the Clintons paying Comey now? I don't know anything, but wonder how odd FBI puplic statements can be explained. How can the dots be connected?

Tax proposal (Page 1A) (and gas tax). To Pascanal Petreoff: The statement, “because voters in November rejected,” rebukes the voters’ message: No new taxes until Louisiana controls spending. 

 

Thus, the statement pits Gov. John Bell Edwards vs the people. It seems so.

 

I wrote support of a gasoline tax for $700 million dedicated to specified road upgrades. However, if gas-tax-increase is presented as a package of tax increases, I’ll vote against the package---any package.

 

Meanwhile, I reiterate The Advocate’s March 18 paragraph, Scott Drenkard:  “You can think of [the Edwards tax idea] as a transaction tax. It will stack up, cascade or pyramid throughout the production process. Some people have characterized it as a sales tax on steroids.”

 

If this is known as a gross receipts tax, why interject “corporate tax on sales”? And if the problem is “net operating losses,” why not address that loophole rather than proposing “sales tax on steroids”?

Unbiased (Page 2A). The US Supreme Court is biased. It’s predicated on dominant opinion; in particular, a 5:4 competition between biases.

 

As an illustration of my point, Justice Thomas is known as an originalist with bias toward the Constitution as a fulfilment of the Declaration of Independence and subject to its biases. In opposition, the late Justice Scalia was an originalist in defense of the Constitution when its words are in conflict with an essence from the Declaration.

 

Gorsuch seems not at fault, as he expresses a well-accepted misconception of reality: It is possible to be unbiased in the existing system. This comes about because the system is predicated on dominant opinion, which is often erroneous. For example, James Madison erroneously held that unless a person is a theist, his citizenship does not have propriety. (I don’t think it is necessary to represent Madison with my customary “his or her,” since women could not vote then and perhaps more.)

Judicial navels (Page 2A). While some federal judges engage in omphaloskepsis, President Trump works for Security for all.

Electronics onboard (Page 2A). While some federal judges engage in omphaloskepsis, President Trump works for Security for all.

Bombing kills 23 (Page 2A). Omphaloskepsis precludes some federal judges’ attentions.

  

Trump vineyard workers (Page 2A). Reform the system, and in the meantime observe statutory law. In other words, compete without sacrifice while you lobby to enact statutory reform.

The media cannot be trusted to express first principles of civic morality.

Phil’s. (Page 6A) Competing against yourself is never good, but is seating guests in a different restaurant in the same strip mall adding to revenues or merely expenses?

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.