March 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. 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. Is The Advocate subtle? No. “As far as we can tell, there was little effort among Republicans to craft a bill that might get votes from across the aisle. It’s as if the GOP’s leadership had learned nothing from the partisan health care battles of the previous decade.”

 
Other than defending DNC failures, I can’t imagine what aisle-dream-world The Advocate is writing from. The standard communication by liberal democrats is ridicule and by traditionalists stonewalling. A citizen who complains that ridicule is Alinsky-Marxist-tactic while stonewalling is proprietary-mendacity is deemed niggling.

 
A civic people of the United States---those who trust and commit to the aims and purpose stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA---may become niggling about civic justice. That is, for example, know that healthy behavior is perhaps four times more effective than medical care to maintain personal well-being. Include personal responsibility in the provision of health services. Don’t procreate only to abuse the children.

 
There is evidence that 2/3 of the people are participants in civic justice rather than observers of government dysfunction. For example, 2/3 do not want publicly-funded abortion-for-fun. The 2/3 may establish a civic culture.

 
As long as the civic culture that is promised by the preamble is hidden by the totality “We, the people,” cyclic governance by dominant-political-opinion will prevail. The preamble, a promise of an achievable better future, cannot take effect as long as the people neglect public-integrity.

Today’s thought. Phillippians 4:4. If the writer is confused and unreliable, the reading cannot be anything but mysterious. And I guess that is Paul’s objective, intended or not: create mystery.

To this point in the writing, Paul has used “the Lord” three times. He adds a fourth then switches to “God” in V 7 with “And the peace of God . . . will guide your hearts and minds in Jesus Christ.” Perhaps Paul has rebuked Exodus 20:7, which I am reluctant to do, with no objection to Paul’s choices for Paul.

Since I cannot listen directly to the Lord, rather than rely on Paul or other writers, I work to understand and conform to undeniable consequences of reality:  the-objective-truth that has been discovered and the theory that interconnects the discoveries. For example, we may not lie to each other so that we may communicate.

I also cannot talk to Paul, and do not know from V 7 that he rebuked Exodus 20:7. I am comfortable with Paul’s opinions for Paul, not knowing what they are. However, I will not mimic Paul's opinions.

Recall from yesterday, V 8 has beautiful, stand-alone poetry.

Letters

Single-payer (McGonigle) Personal-care is at least four times more effective than medical services in maintaining well-being. I hope a single-payer system that encourages personal-care and controls false claims may be considered. Louisiana could be a leader.

Sharon Hewitt column. I agree.

Also, this is one more of my list of complaints about my vote for Gov. Edwards. I apologize for my failure:  I was blind to the selfish-privilege of the “neither” vote.

  

Michael Gerson column. “America’s . . . Sunni friends and allies . . . “ Is Sunni-favor in the people’s interest? I doubt it. It seems anti-Israel, which may equate to anti-human. I don’t think religion enhances civic morality. I think Gerson is wrong.

It seems un-American to favor anything but Judeo-Christianity, which despite well-documented failures, seems on a perhaps miss-guided yet correctable quest for civic safety and security.

But I am in the minority that does not want religion favored. I prefer to trust and commit to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered yet enough is discovered and understood to constitute interconnecting theories branching from energy, mass and space-time, from which everything derives, including theism.

In my career in chemical engineering, when a new boss was chosen, most workers paid particular attention to direction and used their experiences and observation to support the new leader. The dissidents were easily identified, and often, they failed the team.

Donald Trump was generous to run for president, defeated every GOP candidate and the 40% of Republicans who opposed him, has assembled a fantastic cabinet, and is performing on par with my expectation:  it would take him three years to adjust to the struggle for majority-opinion that was designed into the federal government. I did not expect liberal-democrats to be so belligerent toward the vote of the people in 84% of the nation’s counties and must add some delay to my expectations.

Liberal-democrats don’t seem to realize that California has about 19.4 million persons per Senator (mppS) while Wyoming has 0.29 mppS or a 66:1 voting disadvantage in that branch of congress, by intent of this republican form of government. That’s just one of the measures to assure a republican government rather than a liberal democracy or any other form of democracy, except in the states, which operate under their constitutions.

IMO, Gerson is a dissident to the aims and purpose stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Thus, he is in a modern 1/3, just as the 1/3 dissident-delegates to the 1787 constitutional convention who did not sign the draft constitution for the USA. Gerson’s continual attacks on the President of the USA impress me that Gerson is a dissident against the vote of the people.

We the Civic People of the United States may, by example, encourage dissidents like Gerson to join and help approach the totality We the People of the United States.

 

Eugene Robinson column.  Bellicose is an opinion. I wonder what Robinson meant.

Robert Samuelson column.  IMO, civic morality is more likely the closer to home problems are considered. Thus, a civic people collaborate with their neighbors to assure broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security in the city, the parish, the state, and the country. At each stage of government the mutual objective is private-liberty-with-civic-morality or public-integrity.

Samuelson seems to be talking about shell games between state and federal budgets with no real benefits.

Protest suit (Page 1B). The wicked object when no one accuses. Why claim “spontaneous” protest? And why claim “peaceful”? The first question a judge might have is, “What is your evidence for spontaneous and what is your evidence for peaceful?

GOP leaders (Page 1A). It’s a contradiction in terms.

President blames (Page 1A). Erica Werner and Alan Fram of the Associated Press cannot be trusted.

Body cameras (Page 1A). I support the police and if they think cameras help, I vote for them. Use the money that was set aside for the LSU to downtown tram, which is outdated by self-driven buses.

London attacker (Page 2A). Age 52 is scary. Mental health seems critical to public safety and perhaps ought to be part of the prison system.

 

White and governor (Page 6A). I think Edwards denounces himself in the struggle to help children rather than adults.

EU near 6-yr high (Page 8A). That’s encouraging for trade.

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.