March 3, 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. Gasoline tax. “We have failed to attend to the basics,” because the government plays shell-games with revenues. Stop all special-interest spending and focus on the basics. Meanwhile, increase the gasoline tax to improve our roads.

Today’s thought. 2 Corinthians 6:14. Paul expressed many erroneous thoughts for reasons he understood.

People are inextricably connected by living in this space. Most persons intend no harmful transactions yet experience conflict and contradiction. They may judge god or bad behavior but not motives.

Humans cannot define God and therefore can neither judge hearts nor heart’s desiring. Motivation and inspiration are private. Only behavior is public.

Most adults know bad advice when it is expressed, but may, under long-established coercion, try to convince their person to accept what they don’t believe. Believers may be in conflict with themselves. Persons can neither discern nor match the conflicts other parties suffer. In other words, a person cannot mimic what’s in another’s heart in order to avoid conflict.

This dilemma may be dealt with by private-integrity, which, by real-no-harm example, may influence people in this place to collaborate for civic-morality and thereby establish public-integrity. In time, the people may approach the totality We the Civic People of the United States.

 

Progressive steps (Banks). To Scott Byrd: White was replaced for cause, a matter of public-integrity. 

 

Mayor Broome has promised emphasis on church and dialogues on racism. I do not know if that equates to black theology and black power, but do know these movements exist in Baton Rouge. 

 

Banks has not been specific about the progression she speaks of. Baton Rouge needs public-integrity.

 

Carl Dabadie wants to be where he is wanted. I want him because of his accomplishments and good relations with other law enforcement departments. I hope discussions are forming a good relationship with Mayor Broome and if it comes time for her to want him, too, she’ll realize it and keep him. 

 

You might say that’s my earnest plea.

Hitler (Lovato). Based on the writing, I will forever link Lovato’s mind with Hitler’s mind, in opposition, whatever Lovato's past.

 
A brief look at Google maps situates this Germanic name in N.E. Italy near the Slovenia border. Nazi occupation and Italian competition during WW II probably affected people in that part of Italy as a crossroad to Eastern Europe through occupied Hungary.

 
Regardless, it seems barbaric to impose Lovato’s mind on Trump's, and I won’t.

 
Same thang for Obama, perhaps organized for conflict for an eternity: let the people suffer as they may.

Ron Faucheux column. The Democratic Party, intentionally or not has allowed itself to be associated with liberal democracy, or social democracy, or communal order, or communism. The reform from that erroneous leaning is what is required.

There are fiscal and moral conservatives in the Democratic Party, and they may influence the reforms needed to win President Trump’s attention, consideration, iterative-collaboration, and perhaps action to establish public-integrity.

In public-integrity a civic people iteratively-collaborate for broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security, hereafter Security, rather than dominant-public-opinion. Their authority is the-objective-truth rather than power-based-authoritarianism.

Knowing that some persons, for their reasons, oppose Security, a civic culture establishes statutory law and statutory law enforcement and engages in the eternal march toward justice according to the-objective-truth, much of which is undiscovered.

Unfortunately, the Republican Party associates with religion, a private pursuit, as the basis of civic morality. Continuing conservatism's long-standing use of reason rather than disruption for civic debate, their transition to public-integrity based on the-objective-truth may be more achievable. I voted for it and hope for success before the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the USA, June 21, 1788, 21 years from now.

I know that was not Facheaux’s topic, but his thoughts prompted mine.

Froma Harrop column. Now that’s the kind of thinking we need. Harrop covers as panoply of issues touching the citizen population.

Citizens are comprised of a civic people and dissidents, according to the goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. Dissidents may be ignorant, opponent, criminal, evil, or philanthropist. Unless a person perpetrates real-harm against which there is statutory law, their assembly, speech, and appeals to the USA are protected by the First Amendment. So far, real-harm is ascertained by dominant opinion, either by public practice or by Supreme Court majority opinion, and statutory-law-enforcement whether morally right or wrong.

I write and work to establish a civic culture using the preamble and the-objective-truth rather than dominant-opinion to determine public-integrity. Harrop’s assessment of immigration-law-enforcement after some leniency as cruel and racist brings to mind the role of philanthropy in creating an injustice. The philanthropic religions and societies that have helped illegal aliens from all over the world enter the USA through Mexico and the long-standing coyote program begged woe and woe comes not to the philanthropists but to the victims.

People involved are relieved from woe when evil practices end. The Mexican wall and additional patrols to protect it from destruction, tunneling, and boating, will help end 1) Mexicans freely traveling between the countries, 2) the coyote business for funneling illegals from all over the world from southern Mexican borders unto the northern Mexican borders, 3) philanthropist endeavors to turn refugees into illegals, and 4) illicit drug deliveries to the USA. With these changes, law enforcement against USA companies that hire illegals can be made woeful enough not to be broken.  

Harrop wrote a column that intentionally or not asks Democrats to help create a better future in the USA, which will have added benefits to the world.

 

Dana Milbank column. It is amazing how incredibly some people think. 

 

I have not read one word about how Russia could have changed the vote count. So what if Americans talk to Russians? And so what if they are talking about official business and negotiations between the countries? Isn’t that what people with official roles for nations do? The more the left writes about Russia the more the drive themselves toward insignificance. I would fight for their right to do so, whether the medicine comes soon or late.

 

What impresses me is that President Trump fired Michael Flynn for lying to Vice-President Mike Pence. Whatever Flynn’s motives, Flynn proved Flynn could and would lie. That is what I call integrity on the part of the administration. 

 

Milbank’s resistance to the-objective-truth is Milbank’s problem, not mine.

Marcelle (Page 1B). With her uncommon sense Marcelle calls the chief, then a chief deputy then the main line. A common person calls 911. What does it take to accommodate a person like Marcelle?

 

Sessions recuses (Page 1A). That’s good for the USA. Sessions should not be investigating the DNC’s inability to protect its information. The DNC, after all needs more vital reforms.

Richmond (Page 1A). I cannot for the life of me imagine what Conway was thinking.

Is there no constraint in a free-woman’s world?

Must sexuality be part of every event in 2017? It’s true that some men cannot view a woman’s decorum and think “That does not seem ordinary, but I’m not discussing it.” Some men erroneously think sex and speak sex. Some women know this and expose adolescents in men's bodies.

Also, I do not think adversarial cultures---special interest groups---help the quest for a civic culture. The consequences of the last 52 years under black power and black theology have not helped the people progress toward public-integrity. IMO, it is time for a civic people to iteratively-collaborate for private-liberty-with-civic-morality, in other words, public-integrity. In public-integrity, a person is a person rather than a sex or skin-color.

People complain that every event prompts me to promote the possibility of change to civic morality instead of both social morality and civil morality. I imagine a possible better way of living and can't wait to experience it in Baton Rouge.

Mental health (Page 1A). I voted “Yes” before, based on recommendations of first responders in our city. I’ll look to them again. If something better has occurred to them I’ll support first responders rather than politicians.

Temperatures (Page 1A). I enjoy this mild weather and enjoyed the mild temperatures last summer. Warmer Gulf temperatures worry me, but if summer 2017 is mild, I’ll begin to like our weather. Tornado and flood frequencies are a serious concern.

Student killed (Page 1A). I don’t think it gets worse than this.

Middle East (Page 2A). The wars being waged are amazing.

Justice overhaul (Page 3A). Please add to the debate the issue of lawyers, judges, and legislators supporting the civil rights of first responders, investigators, and district attorneys.

Two approvals (Page 3A). Carson and Perry were a long time coming. I don’t understand.

It seems Secretary Hillary Clinton illegally used private email (Page 3A). The Associated Press’s fascination with non-breaking of non-laws is amusing.

Caterpillar (Page 10A). Looks like a risky business plan for years. We’ll see.

 

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.