March 8, 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, perhaps 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. To Irvin West, but revised for FB: “. . . honor the court’s ruling . . . look to our fellow citizens as partners, not adversaries.” Is self-contradiction a form of mendacity?

I hope readers perceive that  court-opinion to impose of civil order is abject failure. Threat of a police state is possible, but the people have needed and wanted civic justice rather than civil justice from this nation’s beginning, 228 years ago.

I have trouble discerning “fellow citizens” beyond family and close friends. Therefore, I work to motivate people to utilize the most promising civic sentence ever written yet mostly neglected for 230 years: the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

In conversation, I get a mixture of enthusiastic misunderstandings like “yeah: we, the people” and some blank stares; and online, lots of trash talk and personal ridicule. A typical response by a tolerant black person in direct conversation is, “My people never thought the preamble was for us.” Attempts to assert that the preamble is for all are met with stonewalling, a form of civil tolerance but failure in civic morality: Another viewpoint can change my opinion.

Alone, I cannot iteratively-collaborate to discover the civic resolution of the existence of Civil War memories and monuments, but I am certain a civic people is more promising than the opinion of a judicial court.
 
I "look to our fellow citizens as partners," including The Advocate’s editors, but who is willing to consider citizenship under the civic agreement stated in the preamble?

 

Today’s thought. Isaiah 5:20. Humankind discovered so much in the 2800 years since Isaiah ben Amoz. In appreciation, we may now admit that ignoring the-objective-truth begs woe. The-objective-truth does not respond to opinion; humankind can only discover it.

 

For example, only 76 years ago, Albert Einstein informed us that people don’t lie so that that they may communicate rather than to fulfill some divine command. See Einstein’s essay, “The Laws of Science and The Laws of Ethics,” shared online at samharris.org/blog/item/my-friend-einstein .

Letters:

 

Court Watch NOLA (Lapeyre and Levine). A worthy volunteer service---seems similar to CASA.

Jesus (Sprague). Sprague might enlighten himself and other clergy by reading how insignificant---merely ceremonial---his part of a town meeting is.

Quoting Greece v Galloway (2014), “The principal audience for these invocations is not the public, but the lawmakers themselves.”

The court is plain in its tolerance of the objecting citizen: “Should nonbelievers choose to exit the room during a prayer they find distasteful, their absence will not stand out as disrespectful or even noteworthy.”

Some citizens collaborate for civic morality, but the court holds that an objecting citizen “is really quite niggling.” “That the prayer in Greece is delivered during the opening ceremonial portion of the town’s meeting, not the policymaking portion, also suggests that its purpose and effect are to acknowledge religious leaders and their institutions, not to exclude or coerce nonbelievers.”

 

To Eddie Ecker: Clergy speak their opinion as though they are speaking for Jesus:  “Jesus hates hypocrisy.” Find me the clergyman whose practices attest to that claim. I think clergyman obfuscate a man’s message to everyone, including me: You, Phil Beaver, have the opportunity to perfect your person. See emersoncentral.com/divaddr.htm to discover who that man was.

Rich Lowry column. Lowry thinks more highly of the GOP than is justified. 

  

President Trump defeated all possible GOP candidates for president, and the GOP now is doing whatever they can to curry favor. To put it my way, the GOP, who claimed they rejected candidate Trump now wants to take advantage of my vote! 

 

I want President Trump to serve the people, and gave him three years to figure out how to do that. So far, he is exceeding my expectations huugllllee.

 

Can you believe a person exists who would overlook the propriety of past presidents, some of whom would only blame the predecessor for current problems? Wonderfully, we have a president who immediately on perceiving that the past president wire-tapped him says so! Profiles in courage and integrity are being played out (according to my hopeful vote).

 

Lowry seems with the GOP. The DNC can gain President Trump’s favor by going to work for the people. The people can go to work for the people by voluntarily comprehending, adopting, and publicly promoting the civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

Michael Gerson column. Gerson is unable to discern that President Trump listens to his cabinet officers about their assigned areas. Trump is an administrator (according to my hopeful vote).

But I think Gerson wishes darkly in “The Trump budget outline is underdeveloped, compared with those of other presidencies; it leaves the trajectory of deficits unchanged; it imposes cruel and indiscriminate cuts in discretionary spending; it is cowardly, especially on the main drivers of future debt; it is injurious to elected Republicans who will risk the wrath of the Trump base in order to make rational budget choices; it is an indication of governing unseriousness and a preference for positioning over leadership.”

Abraham Lincoln did not choose a general for war until three years into the war.

 

Barack Obama kept Alinsky-Marxist organizer (AMO) practices hidden, as best he could, for nine years, then released AMO as Organizing for Action (OFA). Here’s an interesting link to IAF, which I dubbed AMO to lessen the obfuscation: http://www.industrialareasfoundation.org/affiliate-members#LA to Together Baton Rouge. Are they now linked with OFA?

 

I think Gerson serves his own purpose when he tries to ignore President Trump’s progress.
 

Michael Barone column.  This is serious interest.

First, what Trump has done in homeland security: 1) more offenses can trigger deportation, 2) catch-and-release ended, 3) lone adolescents are returned. The consequence is that being here illegally is not desirable to the individual. 

 

Humanely, “dreamers” are protected. But Barone, I think immorally, does not admit to Trump's noble motives---goes for the political. The DNC may practice nobility by helping Trump, too.

Discouraging immigration to fill lowest jobs would be long-needed reform for the USA. It is one of the practices that keep the poor poor. Putting Americans, who are not working, to work is good for the Americans who are not working, as well as the people. 

 

Also, it is important for workers to convert wages into assets by saving & investing.

Monuments (Page 1B). I hope there’s a change to civic morality rather than civil order before the removal occurs.
 
Iterative-collaboration among a civic people rather than a mayor's order would be better for New Orleans, whether monuments move or not.
 
And, the experience would help establish that a civic people in the United States is possible.

Edwards (Page 1A). Edwards failed when he counted on a DNC victory.

Education freeze (Page 1A). More than “state aid for public schools,” this is about help for the children in order to keep satisfying adults. Shame on the state’s top school board. Who is going to yell for the children while the adults get paid?

Science standards (Page 1A). After adults impose on children the right to say, “God is responsible for evolution,” what other door to imposition have adults opened? Flat earth? Young earth? Dinosaurs tolerating people? 

Today’s child is a person who can deconstruct all adult speculations and fabrications using the Internet. 

Adults are never born with their children’s powers to learn the-objective-truth. (Gibran)

 

Adults who impose mendacity on children are nourishing future, personal rejection. Woe that is begged comes. 

 

I forgave my mom and dad decades ago, but that does not remove the time I lost climbing in-then-out of my cave of indoctrination (East-Tennessee-Baptist). To visualize the problem, see faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm .

I encourage the State of Louisiana to stay away from the future wrath of today’s children: Purge religious-inculcation from civic education.

4 killed on casino trip (Page 1A). Casino trips seem sleazy.

CIA (Page 2A). How can a civic people take career officials seriously?

Korea (Page 2A). IMO, the best defense is soft-spoken, strong offense.

Backlash (Page 6A). I don’t believe writers for the Associated Press.

Flex muscles (Page 8A). There is nothing as ludicrous as the people elected for legislation and administration submitting their responsibility for civic justice to the opinions of a court.

 

They swore to uphold a couple constitutions to the best of their ability. Some---many---choose to weasel out of the obligation by adding “so help me God,” whatever that means to whomever.

The people need to change the constitution for the USA so as to eliminate prevention of oath-requirements and add the option, “so help me courts.”

Democrats push (Page 9A). Seems like the Russia probe may backfire.

I cannot for the life of me speculate as to how anyone could influence my vote and don’t doubt Louisiana counted it. And I witnessed the Electoral College members casting their votes.

 

Wikileaks informed us the DNC was not as protective of their communications as the RNC was. 

 

However, I can easily construct ways an Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO) could wire-tap Trump Tower.

 

What if Hillary went to jail for a different reason? Is Barack exempt?

Carson (Page 13A). I always thought Carson is weird, but could still relate to his ideas. I think he’s just saying an American citizen celebrates civic morality no matter how he or she is so fortunate as to be here during his or her lifetime.

 

However, I do not trust Associated Press writers at all.

Jewish centers (Page 13A). It is civically immoral that we have not caught to perpetrators.

Accepting obesity (Page 13A). Charge commensurate economic responsibility for health care and obesity might become a concern again.

 

I do not like my exercise stations and walking every day and find it a nuisance to my hopes and desires, but I don’t miss, because I know I am a heart patient with something that seems like arthritis if I let it creep around and am getting old. I have obligations to fulfill so must stay alive! A most serious obligation is having fun living.

Other dialogues:

 

People who allow themselves to become recruits for Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO), for example, Organizing for Action (OFA), need to pay attention to the growing interest in civic justice. 

For example, the reaction to “assailants mobbed the speaker, and one of our faculty members was seriously injured.” See Middlebury’s . . . at freeinquiryblog.wordpress.com/ .

 

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.