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, perhaps to share with people who may follow the blog.
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 despite possible error. In other words, the writer expresses his “belief,” knowing he could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.
The Advocate: See online at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge
Our Views. The Advocate seem outrageous in its
attack on Sen. Jonathan Perry, R-Kaplan.
Perry stated with humility an
observation, “I don’t think we’ve talked 30 seconds about any of the victims of
these crimes.” Note the “I don’t think.”
I
doubt Perry had in mind the general application of his comment, but it would
not surprise me if he included the people. The principal victims are the civic
people, civic meaning people who publicly connect and transact or behave such
that both parties experience civic justice. They are victims, because the
purpose of government is to provide a civic people freedom from oppression by
dissidents---people who for reasons they may or may not understand prevent
civic justice. The ultimate breech is murder. Much of government fails to
provide broadly-defined-civic-safety-&-security, hereafter civic-security.
Worst
of the dissidents are legislators and non-profit organizations that know and
understand but for their reasons construct attempts to circumvent or defeat
statutory law. Included are the media personnel who oppose statutory law.
Included
among the dissidents are criminals, evils, and other aliens to freedom from
personal harm. They must be constrained if a civic people are going to share
freedom from oppression. With freedom from oppression, people who either
collaborate for or cooperate with civic morality may earn the liberty to pursue
the happiness they perceive rather than the happiness specified by some
institution. For example, the person who aspires to fly to the moon may earn
the wherewithal to enjoy the experience with civic-security.
In all that
The Advocate has published about Gov. Edwards push to reduce prison population
the focus seems to be budget reduction by less incarceration “like other states
do.” I have not seen one word about more efficiency through DNA evidence,
beyond my comments. I have pushed for offsetting prison costs with facilities
for mental patients. Perry is not the first to mention victims.
Then there
is the contingency of public defenders who think Gov. Edwards’ plans favor the
worst direct-dissidents against civic morality: Criminals and evils. Listen to
the Sheriffs, the DA’s, the police, the AG, and others who fight for freedom
from oppression.
Lastly, my
state senator, Dan Claitor, is no pushover. He has wonderful wit I could never
touch. He might oppose The Advocate’s hyperbole about him in “Our Views.”
To Charles
Mayeux: I appreciate your
qualification and witness to what I view as barbaric, institutional child-abuse
in the USA.
First, Louisiana needs
a civil procreation license. Only people who have the means and intent to
include children in their monogamous bond need apply; conception of children
requires fidelity to the child and any grandchildren for life. (Like other
abuses, e.g., texting-and-driving, conception without license cannot be stopped,
but that is no excuse for not having the legislation to protect children.) “Marriage”
never has sufficiently protected children; consider divorce rates.
Second, K-12 education
needs to be reformed so as to coach a child in the transition from feral baby
to civic young adult both prepared and intent on living a full life.
This legislative body
and administration is not prepared to collaborate for these reforms, but the
information is available and may be developed fast by professionals such as you
who are willing.
Today’s thought. Government’s job is to offer freedom from
oppression so that peaceful people may earn the liberty to pursue the happiness
they want rather than suffer the imposition of an ideology or government.
Mark
Ballard column. No fault to the writer, but this is too much about personalities
rather than responsible execution of elected offices.
Jeff
Sadow column (no gas tax increase). I like your idea and many details seem doable, but I cannot be
satisfied with “boost transportation.”
Personally, I could care less about I-10
and I-12 being frequently parking lots, because my needs are met by Perkins
Road and Essen to Hennessey, except to visit friends beyond on a convenient
schedule.
However, I doubt “boost” is adequate for our
neighbors who work. Let’s approve a 17 cent gas tax increase and use the money
efficiently for roads and bridges.
James Gill column. Thank you for the review of federal
judges kicked off the bench:
John Pickering in 1903 for intoxication, Tom
Porteous in 2009 as a crook, Mark Delahay in 1873 by quitting before trial for
drunkenness, Harry Claiborne in 1987 for IRS trouble, in all 15 impeached with
4 acquitted and 3 quitting before trial, so I guess 8 convicted. You seem to
make a good case for Patricia Minaldi to go.
With all due kindliness,
I found “WKS is usually secondary to alcohol
abuse.” However, “severe” in the diagnosis calls for
kindness toward the people rather than the judge. Retire her rather than hire
her.
Guest column on “science” (April 21). To GM King: That was not impressive: you
ignored that paragraph five addresses reduced federal funding, which brings
Trump into the article but somehow not into your mind. Maybe you are so
attentive to your perception of my comments you lose the ability to comprehend
what we each may read.
I recommend you forget
me. I work for voluntary public-integrity and seek willing collaborators among
the people. I think you are a dissident yet am ready to converse.
Also, I disagree with
your view of science. It is merely a study and if the student is focused on
what he or she perceived rather than evidence, he or she may construct experiments
to prove the perception and interpret the misguided results to construct new
theories on opinion for a career or lifetime. People who come back to the work
long after they are gone prove the perception was a mirage.
Your gullibility might
be softened a little by a study of phlogiston. The best shield against pride is
humility.
Gullibility is one of the biggest threats to successful
people. Some honestly err. Some become gullible to their personal greatness and
are proud until reality confronts them with the-objective-truth. Even then,
they construct paths to defend their wisdom and increase their
vulnerability/liability rather than face the-objective-truth. Some lie.
E. J. Dionne column. “Our government”: who claims to be of Dionne’s
“our?” Not me.
Trump protects the
public’s right to a transparent government by 1) twitting what he thinks when
he want to, 2) speaking to the public each week at whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/17/president-trumps-weekly-address
, 3) assigning Sean Spicer the duty to rebuke the media as needed, and 4)
posing alternate lies to bemuse the media and others. Dionne just does not like
the medicine he and the rest of the liberal democrats deserve for trying to
destroy this representative republic. (The representatives are constrained by
statutory law.)
“Did Trump express
concern about democracy?” Why should he? The USA is a representative republic
on purpose.
Dionne, how in the
world could what Hillary Clinton would do enter your mind? I can’t even imaging
asking how the GOP would react the Jesus.
Dionne, you try the
rally call, “the country’s citizens can prevail,” without admitting that the
citizens are divided: civic people who either collaborate or cooperate to use
the preamble to the constitution for the USA to establish and maintain civic
justice on the one hand and dissidents on the other. Under the dissidents,
Hillary Clinton would be president. You, Dionne, oppose the civic people. A
civic people want Trump to succeed no matter what failures come our way.
Michael Barone column. Thank
you for the info on 3 presidents from June, July, and August, 1946.
Both
Clinton and Bush were career politicians (GW by family). Only Trump is
without political past or party. How you can bring Ross Perot into the picture
is way over my head. It’s like trying to say Buckley was great after Vidal
exposed Buckley’s nature.
Innocence project (Page 1B). Non-profits
benefit from no constitutional constraints. If the judge doubts the DA’s
office, let the judge send an aid to look for the evidence.
Earth Day (Page 1B). Too few “scientists” regard themselves
students of the-objective-truth.
Gov. Edwards vs John White (Page 1B). I was in doubt about White when he pushed Common Core.
However, I think he has grown in his job. Edwards seems to care more about
adult satisfactions, especially administrators and unions, than helping
children. I hope BESE keeps White.
Suddenly changing rules to achieve political
power opposes civic morality.
Divorce (Page 1A).
The USA is brutal in its tendency to favor psychologically immature adults at the
expense of children.
A mature man’s commitment to fidelity
to a woman represents his authenticity as a man. Same for a woman, except she already
has collaborative association and bonding for life with her viable ova. An
authentic man who decides to bond with her includes any conception their bond
may produce for life. That means bonding with grandchildren and beyond. Divorce
should be out of the question unless the family agrees about the requirement.
The first goal of Family Services in
the case of the state taking charge of a child is to discover the cause of
public notice, make corrections, and return the child to his or her family . .
. permanently or for life. The goal is one year. It makes no sense to reduce
the time for spouses to make corrections to six months. I wonder if a trained
court-appointed-family-advocate (CAFA) should be involved in divorce filings.
Lastly, LSU law professor Randy Trahan
referred to statistics on divorce rate vs waiting period as “social science
data.” The records of divorce vs waiting period is objective data, and the
statistics on a set of data is objective. Thus, it is numerical evidence. Subjective
influence may be interjected in reporting the statistics, but listeners may notice
and object.
That objectivity lessens or is absent
in social science studies, which examine civic relationships. Social science
studies are conducted by interviews or experiments with people regarding
attitudes, practices, concerns, and such. Social scientists begin with a
subjective idea, design a subjective set of questions or experiments, selectively
recruit participants, extract subjective responses from the participants, subjectively
analyze the results, and selectively report. Social science is a subjective
field of study.
Statistically, shorter waiting period
puts money in the pockets of divorce lawyers and judges. The sooner this case’s
children are victimized the sooner the lawyers and judges may have another
opportunity to help two chronological-adults abuse children. The legislature
may act for the children rather than the lawyers and judges.
Science support (Page 3A). Michael Mann would advance his cause
by claiming, “I am a climate student,” rather than “I am a climate scientist.” “Researcher
would be OK, too.
Trump rally in Harrisburg PA (Page 16A). Hilariously, it prevents him from attending the White House
Correspondents’ Associations dinner in Washington.
It reminds me of
La. Gov. John Bel Edwards scheduling a perhaps partnership meeting at the
Vatican during President Trump’s inauguration as president of the USA.
Exxon waiver for Russian drilling
denied (Page 17A).
Seems like Treasury-Secretary-Steven-Mnuchin integrity.
Predecessors advise Spicer (Page 19A). That’s funny. They could not qualify to work for President
Trump, let alone advise Spicer. It seems to me when the medial lie, Trump tries
to create alternative lies for their bemusement. The people who voted for Trump
and hope his justifies their votes like the lying media working on lies, while
a better future keeps coming. Anytime they catch on, the media can send
themselves to integrity schools. The first principle: Honesty is insufficient.
Other forums
quora.com/If-you-had-to-live-your-life-by-one-moral-rule-what-would-it-be
Use humility to prevent
gullibility.
I graduated high school in 1961 and entered college with the
intent to become a chemical engineer. My affluent classmates who wanted
engineering went to Ga Tech. I had a little money from being a newspaper
deliverer and later stuffer—-people who worked Saturday nights to stuff the big
Sunday sections together. My mom and dad helped me pay for the first year at
the U. of TN, and then I qualified as a Co-Op student and got a wonderful job
at DuPont’s nylon research lab in Chattanooga, TN. I was intimidated by the
classwork, yet graduated with honors.
Much of my direct exposure to civic justice debates came
through music, discussions over either beer or tea, original songs &
guitar, and poetry sessions at tea-shops near campus. I bought albums I learned
to love. I was disappointed with “Another important change in music during the
early 1960s was the American
folk music revival which introduced Joan Baez, Pete Seeger,
The
Kingston Trio, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Odetta, and
many other Singer-songwriters to the public,” at 1960s - Wikipedia
. I remember most of those, but was also impressed with Nina Simone, Peter Paul
& Mary, and Phil Ochs. We called it protest music. We respected the issues
but had not intention to sacrifice our lives for causes other people promoted.
The singers wrote about all aspects, as represented by Ochs’ youtube.com/results?search_query=phil+ochs+i+ain%27t+marching+anymore
.
He was objecting to war, but we objected to protest for the
sake of protest. In his lyrics, Ochs’ segues from national war to civil-rights
marches. He even suggests that protest movements are a form of slavery in youtube.com/watch?v=BhSRLHBYO8k
.
I think Ochs, Simone, and Dylan are my favorites.
One other point. I think the songs of the sixties addressed
a fundamental fidelity to the-objective-truth: a human being is a human being
regardless of physical characteristics. The only taint in integrity was that
most writers focused on black-skin rather than all people. Perhaps Ochs is
reflecting Robert Frost’s complaint that a liberal doesn’t agree with his/her
opinion in youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw
.
But perhaps my favorite Ochs writing is in youtube.com/watch?v=yB-BBVQLnxI
.
Thank you so much for taking me back to the 1960s, which taught
me to think and read then write rather than march. I feel nostalgic and happy.
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.
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