July 19, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening when people share experiences and observations. The comment box below invites readers to write.

Note 1:  I often dash words in phrases in order to express and preserve an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth despite possible error. In other words, a person expresses his “belief,” knowing he or she could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.
  
Note 2: It is important to note "civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for the people more than for the city.


A personal paraphrase of the preamble by & for Phil Beaver:  Willing people in our state routinely, voluntarily collaborate for comprehensive safety and security: continuity (for self, children, grandchildren & beyond), integrity (both fidelity and wholeness),  justice (freedom-from oppression), defense (prevent or constrain harm), prosperity (acquire the liberty-to pursue choices), privacy (responsibly discover & pursue personal goals), lawfulness (obey the law and reform injustices); and to preserve and cultivate the rule of law for the USA’s service to the people in their states.
Composing their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they are willing or dissident toward the preamble.  

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_dc19f0fc-6672-11e7-90c3-e30f44b80115.html)

To Chris McLindon:

The nanny state has been around long enough to have generated decades of commentary, but its consequences are becoming evident in public life more than ever.

James Comey honestly witnessed on TV that he relied on Attorney General Lynch and Bill and Hillary Clinton for integrity, even though he was surprised by words imposed on the FBI director. But then under Donald Trump, Comey perceived lies and made personal records to be leaked to a professor. It seems Comey had never encountered integrity before. I don’t know the-objective-truth.

Now, here comes an editorial writer for The Advocate who converts alluvial deposits during 7000 years into “the centuries.” I guess “over the centuries” obfuscates 100 years of coastal lessening and colors the erroneous jettisoning of alluvial Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico as nature taking away rather than an erroneous levy project by the core of engineers. If the hometown newspaper publishes propaganda in poetry where’s a citizen to read the facts? Discussions with the Netherlands have gone on for decades if not centuries. Did LSU or/and Southern get slighted?

History aside, it seems the writer’s purpose is to promote BRAF’s capital affiliate and high salaries, John Bel Edwards and Mitch Landrieu. The liberal democrats have grown so accustomed to their ways they don’t realize their tack is obvious to an aware public. Yet they press on with a business plan they understand.

History shows that no enterprise can be counted on to control nature. And thank goodness for short term heat during a deep freeze: I do not know how to handle extreme cold. Better to worry about child abuse or deaths by medical-care accident than global warming. The prudent individual may opt to take charge of his or her personal future.

In the case of Louisiana flooding, make certain home and access roads are perhaps a foot above 1000 year flood expectations. If necessary for access, move, and if access is OK, consider elevating the home to get that foot above. Otherwise, move. If that requires a new career, acquire the new career.

Subjecting self to government-provision seems like standing on a three-legged chair with neck in a secure rope.

Beyond moving to higher ground, I do not recommend extreme expenditures for “coastal salvation.”

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Zephaniah 1:2, 18, CJB).

“I will completely sweep away everything off the face of the land,” says Adonai. Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them. On the day of Adonai’s fury, the whole land will be destroyed in the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, a horrible end, of all those living in the land.”

Dean says “Money will not save us from the wrath of the Lord. Only faith in Him and love for Him will save us.”

OK, so the Lord reforms from this mean talk in the New Testament. But the New Testament proposes hate for discipleship, e.g., Luke 14:26. People persuade themselves to justify hate, but I want no part of it and prefer my opinion when it comes to my life and afterdeath. Others follow their opinions or Dean’s or without objection.

However, I fail to understand why The Advocate operates a business plan with such advice and neither opposition nor balancing concerns.

Letters.

Revise the constitution  (Bollinger). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_53ba7d0a-6bca-11e7-b927-031369b4015a.html)

I agree with Bonin. Bollinger’s declaration of detailed dissidence is too erroneous to address.

  

Yet Bollinger only flails at the problem, blaming politicians for what the people have not done.

  

The people have, for too many generations, neglected the opportunity that is stated in the preamble to the constitution. There is no obvious need to amend the constitution in order for willing people to collaborate for comprehensive safety and security as specified in the preamble. What’s needed is for people to admit to themselves that, just as they must work for the liberty to pursue personal interests they must collaborate for freedom from oppression. As far as I know, this is the only country that offers, borrowing words from Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 vision, governance of, by, and for a willing people. It makes no sense to propose mimicking some other nation. This representative republic admits that there will always be dissidents, who may be constrained, but only people who are willing to collaborate for civic justice can establish and maintain civic justice.

  

Only a willing people can establish freedom from oppression with liberty to responsibly pursue personal preferences rather than someone else’s ideal. For example, I discover and nourish appetites and you pay the bill for both the discovery and satisfactions. That’s how many politicians live.

  

Hidden progress in Louisiana schools (White). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_4aac4e76-6bcc-11e7-b506-7386927d3c5e.html)

White has the upper hand. John White keeps the data so hidden the public can’t tell what’s really going on.

However, at 48th among states in the USA, which is perhaps 22nd in the world in education quality, we're perhaps running 1100th in the world.

  

Katrina flood caused by the USA, July 17 (Hightower). (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_ac9c8bbc-6b0b-11e7-a4b8-fb1e0859f2b2.html)

To Chuck McMichael: You're right. And with deposition of fertilizer runoff from the north, soil here might be doubly rich.

The pollution of the Gulf of Mexico with fertilizer runoff makes the unintended damage by the USA doubly astounding.

See washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/21/scientists-predict-a-gulf-of-mexico-dead-zone-the-size-of-new-jersey-this-summer/?utm_term=.b0943a083991 .

Perhaps Louisiana should have been developed with control levies and elevated roads and structures.

Accounting for restoration of the Gulf of Mexico, compromise on that concept might be economical even today.

    

Columns. (The fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)

  

The cruelty of emotional decisions (Walter Williams). townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2017/07/12/minimum-wage-cruelty-n2352796

Emotions and media polls are not wise guides for civic governance.

San Francisco yielded to the emotional mob and made minimum wage $13/hour in 2016, $14 in 2017, and $15 in 2018. “In the winter of 2016-17, 64 restaurants around the Bay Area have closed.” See pjmedia.com/trending/2017/05/22/san-franciscos-higher-minimum-wage-costing-hundreds-of-jobs/.  

Panel in search of a problem (Clarence Page). chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-trump-voter-fraud--perspec-0712-20170711-story.html

I expected opinion about the Russian probe. In his attempt to talk voter fraud, Page contradicted himself several times.

Wins against ISIS (David Ignatius). stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/david-ignatius-key-to-u-s-success-against-isis-has/article_40261992-dd96-58db-b2c0-f65273a93cef.html

I nominate Ignatius for the reformed writer of the year. After a spate of columns that denigrated President Trump, Ignatius seems to have turned to informing the reader. I appreciate it very much.

I especially appreciate the cogent statement, “Credit for this innovative campaign goes to the U.S. military, which became increasingly confident after a slow start; to President Obama, who sent thousands of U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria despite public wariness; and to President Trump, who delegated decisions to the military in ways that accelerated the campaign.”

Writers may look to this Ignatius for an idea of writing for a free and responsible press.

See also washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-these-brave-americans-in-syria/2017/07/03/00d74ffc-600b-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html?utm_term=.6015310eed3f by Ignatius.

However, I thought Ignatius’s columns this year through journalnow.com/opinion/columnists/david-ignatius-is-war-between-a-rising-china-and-a/article_79cc139e-5cea-11e7-bb98-47857a09f969.html were strangely against President Trump. Perhaps something changed.

Phil Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.