March 9, 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:

Today’s thought. Galatians 5:22-23. Paul wrote many bad ideas, and this list is among the worst, because of its omission of humility. I count Paul listed nine human traits.

The Church lists seven virtues to counter seven errors. Humility counters pride. I think humility counters gullibility. Gullibility is the worst of the human errors, so to stay at seven, something has to go.

Forced to give up an element of the extant-Church-list, I think I’d drop anger. A person expresses anger only through gullibility, which may be constrained with humility. A civic people adequately caution the angry person.

Letters:

 

Prison cost savings (Konrad). Perhaps some of the savings could be used to pay for mental health services.

 

I encourage any Metro Council members who have thought to look to the state to fund the facility needed for EBRP; perhaps include neighboring parishes. (See page 1A, today.)

District Attorney (Connick). Connick makes civic sense. Criminals err; police efficiently arrest perpetrators; investigators master the facts; DA’s enforce the law rather than bargain; judges apply sentencing directives; legislators author statutory law; the civic people vote for justice.

I especially liked Connick’s humor for the-objective-truth.

(Seems like Harry Jr. fell close to the tree.)

Cardio public attention (Cole). To JT McQuitty: We can turn it into what you expected.

 

I appreciate Dr. Cole’s service-concern but recommend a complimentary service I call “civic practitioner.” Prevention is better than cure and is well-sought by a civic culture.

I have CVD: suffering and cost are appalling, but I could have used early civic coaching. As a college student, I was watching TV, stood up from a couch and fainted. After I revived without injury, one of my best friends ever, Dad, said, “Phil, you are too sedentary.” I erroneously thought, “Good grief, Dad, I’m a college student!”

In my last CVD appointment, I said, “If you are through with the exam, I would like to make a life plan for the coming 48 good years.” I explained that I use flexibility and strength exercises plus walks that barely cause angina three to seven times a week, control food, drink and medicine intakes, see a civic practitioner when I feel too depressed, and know symptoms that call for emergency attention. I don’t want another procedure but can recover better now than say a decade from now. My cardiologist said, “I approve your four point plan for procedure avoidance.”

I think I am a fairly bright person, but coaching to take Dad’s nature-and-reading-informed-advice, adding the practices mentioned above would have prevented perhaps four procedures, none of which I want to repeat (but will if I must so as to experience future 48 good years).

 

So what do I recommend? Encourage colleges develop the profession civic practitioner, a professional who is well qualified to advise a human being. It seems the human being has the psychological power to perfect his or her person, but acquiring the necessary wisdom in a lifetime could be enhanced with qualified coaching, perhaps from the civic practitioner.

 
The journey toward discovery of the person made possible by the body and mind need not require so much misery and loss.

Cal Thomas column. Ho hum hopeful.

Charles Krauthammer column. His usual goodness.

 

State AGs stopped 1) forced Medicaid expansion, 2) fed control of electricity generation and distribution, 3) fed control of the nation’s natural ditches, and 4) legalizing 4 million illegals.

 

“Congress has allowed itself to become an increasingly subordinate branch.” As a consequence the administrative branch created tsars (numbering in the forties under both G. W. Bush and Obama) and regulatory organizations with their own judicial systems. 

 

Even the Supreme Court of the United States cannot contain some administrative-state-judicial-opinion. I am disappointed Krauthammer did not inform me that Congress’s abdication of their constitutional obligations created “the administrative state.” A civic people should reverse Congress’s abdication in order to restore the republic that is the USA.

 

It is wonderful that Krauthammer asserts that the USA is still on its first republic rather than morphed into a democracy. Liberal democrats, please take note: The USA is and always was a republic. I will do my part to preserve this constitutional republic.

 

BTW: I just discovered I may be promoting or trying to improve either civic republicanism (1870) or civic humanism (1955).

Dana Milbank column. I don’t think Milbank intends to instill belief in Trump, but his negative writing compliments my vote for president: I voted what I think.

There is no truth according to Trump, and Milbank and others may try to discover the-objective-truth.

 

I don’t know but think both Bill and Hillary Clinton are socialist-Marxists the likes of which it is difficult to believe. Their un-Americanism is exceeded only by their audacity.

 

I don’t know but think the explanation for President Obama’s unbelievable damage to the USA is Alinsky-Marxist organizing (AMO), whose only aim is conflict. Interested readers can observe the collection of dots from Al Capone to Saul Alinsky to both Barack and Hillary in D. L. Adams’s 2010 article, online at newenglishreview.org/DL_Adams/Saul_Alinsky_and_the_Rise_of_Amorality_in_American_Politics/ . Conflict is like woe: When conflict is your goal, conflict happens.

 

I don’t know but think the AMO agents who were loyal to President Obama helped fabricate the Russian saga, in order to rob me of my vote for a civic people. From the very beginning the missing evidence is this: There is no way anyone, let alone a foreign nation, could change my vote without subsequent discovery that they had tampered with Louisiana’s election system. Before casting my vote, I decide how to deal with the flood of lies generously poured on me.

 

I don’t know but think most media writers are my enemies. They work to establish a dominant opinion rather than the-objective-truth.

 

Humankind ineluctably marches toward civic integrity. So far, there’s been about 7 trillion man-years of accumulated discovery and lies. The human being emerges from the womb with the psychological power to perfect his or her unique person within a full lifetime. He or she is gullible to humankind’s conflicts but corrected by accepting the-objective-truth. The accumulation of wise choices represent the progress with regressions due to bad choices. The moment a person realizes he or she can perfect his or her person, progress accelerates. I believe these ideas and have not doubt in Donald Trump’s status, whatever it is.

 

One thing I believe: President Donald Trump responds with instant wit but is a novice in a world of proprietary liars. The media know how to play a lie. But the moment Trump perceives he should claim wrong doing, he makes the claim. I choose to take his opinion until the other party proves Trump wrong. I have not perceived that happened yet. His opinions are more viable than his opposition’s opinions and I am waiting for the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered.

James Gill column. To Michael Rhoads: I am glad to see Gill writing phrases such as “the Marxist and socialist groups like Black Lives Matter,” as accepted civic fact. When I started writing about Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO) I felt timid, like no one would take my concern seriously.

 

And to read that the SPLC is “in violation of U. S. law,” is delightful. I suspect the SCLC, too since reading about inciteful speech in October, 2015, perhaps in preparation for summer 2016. State Rep. Regina Barrow, D-Baton Rouge, was there when Dr. Charles Steele Jr., president and CEO of the SCLC, “fired up” the crowd on the state-capitol steps, “I ain’t scared of no scaredy negroes! I’m ready to die for a cause!” Recall theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/faith/article_0267ba79-4a92-552a-aaeb-ecc5df56348a.html .

 

Thank goodness there are people like John Guandolo, DA Phillip Terrell, the National Sheriffs’ Association’s Greg Champagne and the Center for Security Policy who are willing to resist AMO agents and supporters like Gill in order to protect the public. After all, a civic people in this state elected first responders to ignore the likes of Gill. Let Gill rage on in defense of jihad.

 

For the tip of an iceberg of civic information about spotting jihadists, see forbes.com/sites/abigailesman/2010/11/01/spot-the-terrorist-many-jihadists-in-america-are-white-born-in-the-u-s/#76aa192828a5 . Is it possible Gill reads selectively? I do.

Colleges realign (Page 1B). The states’ universities should follow suit.

 

Rally GOP (Page 1A). Try pushing a rope.

Mental health tax (Page 1A). Move the mental health provision to the state using the savings in lower incarceration rates and future prisons. There should be reciprocal savings, according to our law-enforcement officials.

Stripper age (Page 6A). The female body completes the wisdom-building parts of the brain at age 23. Giving the person a few years for error, other experiences, and observations to build wisdom, perhaps free-expression is possible at age 28 or so. See http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/teenage-brains/dobbs-text . A civic culture discovers the-objective-truth and collaborates to benefit.

 Other dialogues:

libertylawsite.org/2017/03/08/race-real-estate-and-retirement/#comment-1526120

The disparity is $144,200/$11,200 or 12.9 times more white wealth.

 

One problem is that white elites preach the mendacity “choosing to pursue four basic values of faith, family, community and work is the surest path to happiness.” This false promise is preached throughout the world by, for example, Arthur C. Brooks. See nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/a-formula-for-happiness.html .

 

What’s missing from Brooks’ message is save&invest. The poor need to live on small enough percentage of present income and future so that by retirement age, they have accumulated sufficient wealth. This need is so vital to the nation that two changes should be considered. First, re-vamp American free-enterprise such that the most menial service or product that is marketable is rewarded with the cost of living including save&invest for reasonable retirement. Second, the save&invest portion of the wages should be held in an employer-managed federal account until needed for alternate investment, such as a home, emergency or retirement. Perhaps Social Security would not be affected by this program.

 

While home ownership is desirable, in the inner cities, another option is rent and accumulating corporate assets, such as index-stock-funds.

 

As the disparity widens, the market for elite property declines, and this is only a minor concern the elite may consider.

 

With wise changes in American free-enterprise, GDP could increase to unheard of highs—rising GDP helps everyone.

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.