April 2, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening to other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites readers to express 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 dashes in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth without addressing possible error, attempting to balance the expression, or apology. The speaker knows he or she is expressing opinion in hopes of collaboratively approaching the-objective-truth.

The Advocate:  See online at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge

 

Our Views Mar 31 confirm Gorsuch. To Elaine O. Coyle:  Thank you.

 

You'd think LDs might give me a break after I cite the NYT.

 
I guess it’s a case of once an advocate for the civic agreement in the preamble to the constitution for the USA always an enemy. After all, 1/3 of 1787 states representatives did not sign the preamble.

 
Maybe the future USA should amend the preamble’s subject to We the Civic People of the United States, so that dissenters could identify themselves. If so, I’d want to change “unity” to “integrity.”

  

Today’s thought.

Letters

Mark Ballard column. “Something is not right,” is the-objective-truth, but as usual, the presentation did not include a key consideration: The woman gender is not equal to the man gender in potential dedication to a career. A few women fit the male gender, but most don’t.

 

Serving a career takes a lifetime until retirement. My profession (retired) is chemical engineering (ChE), which officially dates from unit operations courses in 1887, or 130 years ago. If the span of a generation is 20 years, that’s nearly 7 generations ago. Like all technologies, ChE knowledge evolves exponentially, so the advances of the recent generation dwarf the past. Not only that, ChE draws from at least a dozen other fields of physics (energy, mass and space-time) including math, economics, and regulations as well as human morality.

 

An infant emerges from the womb totally ignorant, and a few in a decade and a half qualify to study ChE. Fewer still complete the intended four to five years of university studies. The top ChE graduates know enough to categorize a given assignment, evaluate the stated problem, identify alternates, choose the most likely candidate, select existing knowledge on which to choose a course of action, and keep track of developments in case the need to change is discovered. Thus, at best the ChE education teaches the student how to think about the assignment and direct a course of consideration of the problem directed toward a feasible solution. After about 25 years training, emerging a contributing ChE involves a career, hopefully 35 years.

 

The economical corporate service is obtained from a person who dedicates 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year, 35 years a life, to the career. Sometimes, the demand is 24/7 for as long as it takes. Some woman can serve such a career, but most do not choose to. IMO, most women are grateful that some men choose to serve a career, because most women want to 1) be a mother and 2) rear her children. In a family, the mom may be the CEO and COO-partner. Perhaps most women and family units are misrepresented by the women who demand equal pay when equitable pay seems civically moral.

Jeff Sadow column. I like your column.

 

I want to write my state representatives and ask them to initiate a bill to incorporate your suggestions. But I did not know how to word it and have other pressing duties. Would you please re-issue this column with a clear statement I can consider, perhaps modify, and use to write to my legislative friends?

 

George Will column.  I’m beginning to think Will sometimes knows he does not know how to make his point but writes anyway. 

 

I obviously have not the propriety to answer Will’s question: “Can anyone name anything . . . denied to them because of a filibuster?” What if I could?

 

Dysfunctional as Congress is, how could a citizen care about Senate rules?

 

School leaders (Page 1B). Teacher unions and others have capitulated to John White the higher argument: educating our children.

 

Anyone who takes the podium to speak for adult satisfactions as Gov. Edwards routinely does, takes the lower argument. Edwards may reform anytime he recognizes the opportunity.

 

Breweries clash (Page 1B). Alcohol clashes with life and state officials are charged with preserving life. Breweries may yield to the-objective-truth: some of their promotions may immorally influence children.

Free speech bill (Page 2B). “Provided it doesn’t ‘substantially disrupt the functioning of the institution.’”

This provision is consistent with the Louisiana Constitution’s provision for responsibility for consequences for free-expression. However, the author should not take it lightly. Be specific about “substantially disrupt.”

Also, the consideration can be expanded beyond the college campus so as to cover the city. Organizations should not have free use of the city and law enforcement to stage expressions such as protests without accepting responsibility for any consequences. Citizens pay for police escorts for funerals. Entertainers buy insurance to cover liability for events at BREC parks. Protesters need not have a free ride.

 

There ought to be a limit as to how freely the media can pursue their business plan at the expense of public-integrity. A civic people need to think through a procedure for constraining the media.

Last but not least, the Louisiana legislature has no authority to require sovereign citizens to yield to their protocols. Rules and time limits are one thing, but demanding respect because a person holds an elected office is uncalled for. If an elected official acts and legislates in ways I do not appreciate, he or she cannot have my respect, no matter how forcefully they demand it.

Named to civil rigths panel (Page 2B). I wonder who made the appointment.

 

I recalled Mocan co-authored “Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles,” Sept 9, 2016, online at   https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2914649 . It made me more uncomfortable with social “sciences,” where the student lists subjective variables, designs subjective questions, and analyses subjective answers. 

 

A civic people must discover the-objective-truth, which does not yield to opinion.

  

“Pastor’s briefing” (Page 2B). Nice transparency from LFF but not as much as the LOPP.

Edwards to DC (Page 2B). Thinking Edwards has dis-served flood victims I’m just glad I will not be in the room when he speaks about it.

 

I hope no one invites him to speak either of his papal visit in the Vatican or the concurrent inauguration in the USA.

Broome delay (Page 1A).

 

"The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership." See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service .

The people chose State Civil Service laws in order to protect the people from candidates who are popular with the electorate yet novice as public servants. When such a person is elected on unconstitutional promises, the viable option is to admit that campaign promises did not conform to the law and cannot be fulfilled.

The Congressional Black Caucus’s way is to change the law. But the law dictates that law cannot be determined on skin-color. For black-power-and-black-liberation-theologists, a black-Jesus will overcome the law. The USA already suffered a Civil War over erroneous Bible interpretation. Maybe the Congressional Black Caucus should disband for public-integrity.

 

To Robert Dred: Do you think she was either unaware of State Civil Service laws or defiant of them? Either way, she is subject to the law, and law enforcement's function is to enforce the law.

 
She created her own Catch-22. If she ran on general ignorance of the law, at this point her best option may be to resign. She has her advisory documents, which also seem ignorant of the law. The-objective-truth surfaces and when it does, it sometimes delivers woe. I don't know the-objective-truth, but Broome may have clues. A platform of racism and church begs woe.

 

To Julius Dooley: Could it be that Andrea Gallo is not a civically responsible writer and The Advocate has no civic morality? Could it be that neither of those two persons cares about the people (includes black people) and long-standing codes, ordinances, state constitutions and the federal constitution? Established civic morality means nothing to Gallo and The Advocate? The only thing they care about is stirring up controversy with no relation to the-objective-truth on which to benefit from the people’s misery?

 

When The Advocate gives Ms Gallo an assignment is it, by force and coercion, interpreted as, “Go stick your finger in this red-ant nest and watch the ants race?”

 
Is there additional instruction, "Find liberal democrats with biased-knowledge and interview them."

To Brenda Wilson Williams: I'd like "public appreciation" rather than "heat." I appreciate Carl Dabadie and want him to happily remain Baton Rouge people's Chief of Police, protected by Civil Service because that's Civil Service's duly authorized function. No regrets: Nothing but smiles. Ms. Broome may participate if she likes public-integrity.

 

To Pascanal Petreoff: PP, did you express a clinched fist? :-)

I once requested Senator David Vitter to stop conducting an unconstitutional ceremony in public buildings. He responded that he could get more votes by continuing and asked for a show of hands. He won the show 71:4. 

He gave me a second chance and I requested a private discussion. He said, "If you think it's unconstitutional, sue me in court." After that, he had gestpo Town Hall managers review questions before he would recognize a citizen. That was my first lesson in political power.

One guy kept showing up and yelling out a question, and the gestapo would come to attention. But that is not my style.

Anyone who wants civic morality must convince 2/3 of the people to collaborate for public-integrity rather than dominant opinion.

 

Again to PP: It's sincerely like speaking to a military veteran when I say, "Thank you for your service." 

 

I’m also grateful to those bosses who appreciated your fidelity to the constitution all those years.

 

A few black citizens do not think the preamble to the constitution for the USA included them. However, it did on September 17, 1787 and does today. The signers in 1787 could not devise a viable way to emancipate the slaves and very deliberatively left it to the future people. 

 

Resolution happened in 1964-1965, but Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO) as used by black-power-and-black-liberation-theology gave us 45 years of regression. Now, we are the people who can establish that the preamble is for everyone who wants to use it.

 

Scalise on health care (Page 1A). A champion is essential, and I am glad to hear Scalise has stepped forward.

 

While some benefit, many Obamacare victims are suffering and every American can gain hope from a civic resolution of this dilemma. It is a question of personal care for private health vs public insurance for careless living. Personal care is at least four times more feasible than medical services in assuring healthy living. It’s a feasibility no brainer, and the more personally the issue can be presented the better.

 

For example, in a room of people, a speaker can say, “By a show of hands, how many people in the room want to pay for my dental care?” Don’t reverse the question. Just leave it there.

Edwards’ plan (Page 4A). If the GOP can produce simplicity, I’d be in favor.

Pentagon expanding authority (Page 3A). The Congress capitulates responsibility, and the administration covers. However, Lolita C. Baldor expressing Associated Press speculations like “next week it could be Yemen,” is liberal democrat mendacity the reader may reject.

Death penalty (Page 3A). DNA is a powerful tool for conviction. When DNA evidence is beyond a doubt, execution may come quickly and certainly---like firing squad or hanging.
 
I adamantly oppose imposition of religious views on victims of crime and do not think religion needs to be expressed in civic debates (even though Greece v Galloway might say I am niggling). 
 
Confronting erroneous Catholic opinion, in the case of a step-father who raped an adolescent then killed her to hide the crime, my commitment to the-objective-truth would reform the law: sperm-DNA conviction would truncate the law to a hanging before sundown. There are other such extreme offenses that may influence the debate. 
 
There’s more than one way to deliver civic justice, and DNA begs reform from financial woe. I’d like to see some hard numbers about expected savings rather than hand waving. However, the hand waving gets my attention, and my quick search, reported below tells me to take more interest in SB 142 by Claitor and HB 101 by Landry than I expected.

 

How would savings compare with the Justice Reinvestment Taskforce’s claim to save $9 million in 2018 or $154 million during next 10 years.

 

Here’s a general study: deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty .

And an Arizona county report: deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/past/16/2017

Here’s hand waving: http://www.ksla.com/story/18610560/cost-of-louisianas-death-penalty

No help: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/CostRptExecSum.pdf

Wrong sponsors:  http://gov.louisiana.gov/news/criminal-justice-reform

  

Phil Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts. 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, education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.