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:
In a city plagued by mayoral black-racism, black theology, and
black-church, St. Patrick’s Day seems an inclusive celebration that's growing bigger each
year. I guess Americans can recognize light within the dark.
Our
Views. I am distracted by Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological
Origins of the American Revolution, 1967 and making notes.
Yet I’m reading Twain’s book at http://literatureproject.com/life-mississippi/index.htm
. So far, no notes seemed needed.
Today’s thought. Ephesians 4:32. IMO, this is one
of Paul’s most egregious offenses against civic morality: Immoral in that it asserts that only
Christians should express human appreciation.
Each
human being has the psychological power to perfect the unique person his or her
body and mind empowers. The people in history who have asserted this first
principle include Jesus, Pelagius, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (RWE). [Reader, please tell
me others.]
I
had read several erroneous books on progress in a virtuous life before discovering
RWE’s assertion: Phil Beaver you can
perfect yourself. Then, I gleaned the practical possibility from H. A.
Overstreet’s book, The Mature Mind, 1949. I perceive I am beyond the beginning but could be wrong: I don't know. Overstreet mainly expressed the human journeys he professionally observed.
Part
of perfection is sufficient humility. If worship and praise are essential to a
person’s expression of humility, that’s it: He or she has the psychological
power to make that determination. If a person does not value worship and praise
as expressions of humility, that’s it: He or she has the psychological power to
make that determination.
Either
way, persons who express humility in living may be appreciated for their civic
morality.
Recall
“civic” describes mutually-appreciated-behavior between connecting/transacting
persons there and then rather than either one party's arbitrary submission to an ideology (social morality
such as Christianity) or to tradition (civil morality), yet upholding the republic
(statutory law). Mutual appreciation requires real-no-harm connections and transactions.
BTW:
Ephesus today is a ruin, whereas one of the other seven cities addressed in
Revelation, Smyrna, is now Izmir, a large Turkish city. See christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2011/june/thursday-is-for-turkey-church-in-ephesus.html
and biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+2
.
Letters:
Coast
threat (Gasperecz). “. . . there is nothing we can do .
. . to protect ourselves from a 3-to-6-foot rise in sea level.”
I beg to differ. Move to higher ground, build higher,
and convert ground floors to non-use. If possible, don't count on government to
solve problems you face.
Spending $50 billion on the coast when researchers are
hinting that even $90 billion is insufficient makes no sense. Also, beware
unintended consequences (ameliorating phrase for acting without a well-grounded
plan). For example, over a century ago levees were built without silt-gates with
downstream land dedicated for coast-protection only. See coastal.la.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MBSD_TO21_Report_Draft_07-28-2014.pdf
and coastal.la.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MBSD_Alt_1_Base_Design_Report_30_July_2014_App_H_Opinion_Probable_Construction_Cost.pdf
page 29 for total $1 billion estimate.
Also, as we saw last summer, local
rain can cause flooding. We can move to higher ground, raise homes, and convert
ground floors to un-used space.
Moreover, we have no idea where
cosmos is taking the earth’s atmosphere, and therefore, we have no sound basis
for trying to control the atmosphere, excepting to reduce population growth.
But this, the only variable we may control we do not control: The people cannot
count on government because the people are government.
This is why I work to establish a
civic people: People who not only earn their living but collaborate for civic
justice, in other words, public-integrity, during a lifetime.
To Scuddy LeBlanc: your
post sent me looking for a neat graph with temperature scale changes that shows
global warming predictions with red dots leading straight up, IMO to scare the
people. The rest of the graph shows “what goes up always comes down.” I didn’t
find it; the URL is in one of my earlier posts.
However,
I happened upon this much more impressive and informative graph: see joannenova.com.au/2010/02/the-big-picture-65-million-years-of-temperature-swings/
. It is a graph of “interglacial temperatures,” meaning the record of temperature
spikes that delineate ice ages. Quoting the author, “Despite recent rumors of
global warming, we are actually in a deep freeze.” I have read this claim
before, but never with evidence that it is true!
Thank
goodness the people voted for Donald Trump, a listener more than a speaker.
(It
is unfortunate that some people neither work for a living nor collaborate for civic
justice---in other words public-integrity---but a person should never give up
on the people.)
Compassion (Angers). Compassion is no
excuse for failing the obligations of an elected office. As a Senator, Cassidy
disappoints and so far has not inspired me to vote for him again.
Drop
dead, Phil (Johnson). To Danny Garrett: I like the idea of a student writing
a letter: I'm a student.
But the letter should reflect the student’s experiences and observations rather than dictate an erroneous adult agenda.
In this case, Johnson might have
expressed what he is doing to live without contributing to his concern (which I
don’t share).
There are better ways for The
Advocate to encourage students to write.
After all, we don’t want to foster
students who offer nothing to appreciate demanding respect from the university
administration while they attack the professors, do we.
Froma
Harrop column. For a change, Harrop seems thinking, IMO.
And she helped me understand the wisdom of the approach being taken on health
care. Take it out of the federal budget, which seems like an impersonal source
of wealth and move to the states, where the people may feel the impact of
self-discipline or its privation.
We already see this fairness in other areas, so
governors and state legislatures need to reform to serving the
people. And the people need to establish civic morality, in
other words public integrity.
Even liberal democrats will need to collaborate for
security so that they may responsibly push the envelope of civic constraints. "Responsibly" means either preventing real harm or paying the price.
Cokie
and Steve Roberts column. Even liberal democrat
writers ought to realize there are threats to civic morality a human does not
make.
First, they present their opinion as “the most basic
obligation of Christianity” as though Christianity somehow represents
the-objective-truth rather than phantasms and mysteries.
Then, they invoke one version of the ultimate personal
phantasm: after the body, mind, and person stop functioning---during the
afterdeath---the soul survives or not or in hell or heaven. They threaten
elected officials, “Their souls . . . could well be at stake.”
After so shaming themselves regarding civic morality,
the Roberts, may realize they need counselling from a civic practitioner who
has in mind the humility not to judge phantasms like “souls” and “scripture.”
Thomas
Sowell column. Thank
you for coming from retirement to comment about Middlebury College’s violence.
I appreciate “current political correctness.” It emphasizes
how temporal it is and how fruitless the struggle for dominant opinion is. For
example, in the 1850s some Baptist preachers advocated slavery as an
institution of God. In 2017, some Baptist preachers affirm slavery but posit
that masters have black skins and slaves white skin. That’s black power and
black liberation theology as imagined right here in Baton Rouge.
Thank you for affirming Walter Williams. Our
hometown newspaper is publishing his column, and I am glad.
Regarding work to establish the civic sentence that is
the preamble to the constitution for the USA as a means of creating public
integrity, last week, someone in Mayor Landrieu’s office recommended I get a
college professor to help me. I replied, “Do you think I have not tried?” I
write plainly hoping some professor will help, but I get the impression none
regard themselves as citizens, too; they are only professionals in their minds.
Your column identifies some professors I should not approach.
Broome
transition reports (Mar 17, Page 1B). Good grief! Our elected mayor
produced an uncivic platform document that proposes imaginary remedies for
mendacious “white privilege.” She has the right to her opinion, but in no way
can she impose 1) dialogues on racism and 2) church on a civic people.
Also,
“African American,” cannot be imposed on Americans who prefer to collaborate
for the aims and purpose stated in the preamble to the constitution for the
USA. Civic persons want freedom from associations that would oppress their
liberty to live with real-no-harm according to their personal preferences.
I study the past but live now in
this place with these neighbors, including the erroneous Ms. Broome. African
kings and the erroneous Catholic Church initiated the Atlantic slave trade to
shores that are now our property and our opportunity to defend and share.
These 560 years later the
consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade can be good for us today and the
future world IF a civic people collaborate to maintain both the constitution
for the State of Louisiana and the constitution for the USA---the obligations
of Ms. Broome’s elected office, whether she accepts the responsibility or not.
The preamble to the constitution for
the USA is intended for everyone who will trust and commit to its aims and purpose:
collaborate for civic-morality, public-integrity. Always, there are dissidents
to civic morality, and statutory law intends to constrain their harms.
In this land, people who beg woe may
anticipate woe: For example, southern leaders who listened to their ministers in 1850-1860, ignoring the physics of slavery---chains, whips, guns, brutality, and rape to slaves with both physical and psychological burdens to maters. Mayor Broome may do herself a favor to fire her failed advisory
council and open dialogue with a civic people.
To Jeanie
Champagne: I agree that the people need
to vote, but a civic people also need a viable candidate and the GOP repeatedly
disappoints.
Thank goodness candidate Trump beat both the GOP also-rans and the media. It will take Trump a few years to overcome the GOP, perhaps by drumming the career-losers out of office.
The Democrats are stupid not to team up with the President of the USA with the GOP in la-la-land as they are.
Also, Broome and others are stupid not to team up with a civic people. A question that occurred to me as I scanned the infamous product of the Broome team: How in the world can an African American person (AAP) establish private-liberty-with-civic-morality? He or she must conform to the AA-gestapo, whether black power and black liberation theology is involved or not.
An AAP has no chance to enjoy American freedom so as to practice liberty and live according to real-no-harm personal preferences.
Power
shift (Page 1B). Quoting the charter, “While he does not set the city's
public policy (that is the job of the Metropolitan Council) the Mayor-President
influences policy through his relationships and his appointees.”
The Advocate’s report of the
unpublished report by Dennis Blunt and Christel Slaughter caused me to imagine
a recall vote regarding Mayor Broome. If anyone starts one with a viable plan
for success, I’ll sign it. But I will not run such an effort: Good grief, I
can’t even get a crowd to trust and commit to the aims and purpose of the
preamble to the constitution for the USA for 2017 living.
Governance on racism and church is
unconstitutional. A recall vote by the people of Baton Rouge would bring
residents together in a way no one could have imagined.
Socialist
tax plan (Page 1A). In this article, right at the end,
The Advocate motivated me to look up “political right.” Google informed me “the
political Right opposes socialism and social democracy.”
The Advocate attaches “right of
center” to Scott Drenkard, then quotes him, “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.”
For me, Edwards's idea is dead on
announcement. Does The Advocate’s opinion classify them and Gov. Edwards for
socialism and social democracy? I think so.
Any way you slice it, spending by
the state falls back on the people in the state, and there are two kinds of
elected officials: Those who want to redistribute the people’s money and those
who want to serve the people. It seems like both The Advocate and Gov. Edwards
want to redistribute the people’s money.
Redistribution equates to un-just
spending. A civic people will fare better by forcing Gov. Edwards to reduce
spending rather than increase taxes.
It is not a question of voting him
out of office now. It’s a question of staying well informed throughout this
critical legislative session, deciding what you want done with your money, and
contacting your state representative and state senator to express your wishes
respecting your money.
Flood
recovery (Page 1A). The people, especially flood
victims, may appreciate Rep. Garrett Graves for his tireless work on their
behalf both during the flooding and for his forthright opposition to Gov.
Edwards’s excuses.
Graves points out that blaming
federal requirements after Edwards’s late applications both does not help and
burdens Louisiana’s representatives in Congress. They face competition from
other states, who confront them with Louisiana’s slow responses to its own
emergencies.
Graves has the propriety not to chastise Edwards for the Vatican-Edwards-partnership meeting in Italy during the week of January 20, 2017, before the second application, for $2 billion and also presidential inauguration day.
Merkel
can’t trust the Associated Press (Page 2A). Ken
Thomas and Jill Colvin report Merkel meeting with “the celebrity real estate
developer and former reality television star” rather than the people’s choice.
I’ll get even with Thomas and Colvin for trying to discount my vote if it takes
me a hundred years.
Perhaps a constitutional amendment that permits jail
time for such terrible reporting by the media would do. Freedom of the press is
true, but responsibility for that freedom is also true, and not now sufficiently
covered.
No
space to handle Mexican corpses (Page 2A). With
a civically moral government, the Mexicans would gladly pay for a wall to
curtail drug trafficking through Mexico to the USA border.
Tillerson
in forefront (Page 2A). I perceive we are in better hands than
we would have been with a career politician’s nominee for Secretary of State. Nevertheless,
I am heartfelt concerned. History and current events show that people without human
humility are crazier than you think.
Penny
closings (Page 6A). If I could share with young people
the idea that you cannot go back to before, I would. Fidelity is critical to
success, but fidelity must look forward.
Trump
ignores the AP again (Page 8A). Julie
Pace and Vivian Salama ask pseudo-questions President Trump treats
appropriately.
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