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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_9f2d481a-8da0-11e7-87aa-afc747d29dca.html)

Just as I receive The Advocate’s letter announcing that next quarter’s draw on my subscription payments will increase 17% to offset their business-plan failure! And no recognition that I called a couple years ago about retirement income not keeping pace with free-loading. They lamely said: yeah, we’re reconsidering our decision to terminate the seniors’ rate. I invite you, The Advocate, to think again.

And there’s the lesson they taught me regarding captions on letters-to-the-editor: It’s freedom of the press rather than freedom of the letter writer! But blogs provide freedom of expression. Perhaps its time for The Advocate to allow letter writers to label their own letters, given a limit on characters used.

The Advocate is so far out the collective-democracy rotten-limb they won’t know what to do when eliminating my subscription comes to the top of my options for managing retirement expenses.

In my morning face, The Advocate bitterly publishes the lying-media-notion that President Donald J. Trump is being tested. The contest is over: Trump is the president. It is "we, the people" that is being tested: After 229 years of neglect, will willing people collaborate to achieve the purpose and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA?

This is not secular Europe with its accord against the American republic! Willing citizens in America operate under a civic accord that is stated in the preamble.

Get it straight: candidate Trump won both the GOP primary and the presidential popular vote in 84% of US counties; pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trending-story-clinton-won-just-57-counties-untrue/. Thereby, voters in America’s republic elected candidate Trump and booted both the Obama past and the Clinton hopes. That’s because the bill-payers live in the counties and the free-loaders live in the cities. When will you, The Advocate, come to understand that liberal-democracy means collectivist-democracy means nanny-state free-loaders means fruitless dreams of ending the American republic? Then stop rebuking me each morning when I sip my coffee?

If you call this a rant, I’d say you got the emotions I had as I cooled my morning coffee on the way to my lips. MWW demanded, “Stop slurping!”

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 1:4-6, CJB)

“Not so the wicked, who are like chaff driven by the wind. For this reason the wicked won't stand up to the judgment, nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous. For ADONAI watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is doomed.”

Dean says “Don’t perish. Turn to the Lord and be saved.”

David and Dean bemuse us with mysteries constructed on imagination.

I glean from David’s musings that it is foolish to deny integrity by being influenced by one error then another. With integrity, the-objective-truth may be discovered and used in fidelity --- never wavering. As far as I can tell, every human is constrained to fidelity and may responsibly conform to the-objective-truth or suffer the consequence of dissidence.

This is a principle that cannot be taught. The human being is too psychologically powerful to accept another human’s heartfelt ideas. Fidelity to the-objective-truth can only be learned by personal experience and observations of loss and misery in people’s lives around us. As reality unfolds, observations from the past serve only as evidence of what to avoid but must yield to the ever changing discovery of the-objective-truth.

Letters

Liberal democrats (Gowland) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_00f0ce00-8d97-11e7-af20-a3f720d2bd97.html)

Liberal democrats do not admit to their mirrors personal egocentricity. “My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant, and we’ve been grateful to know my insurance was guaranteed to cover maternity care and associated hospital stay. Unfortunately, I ended up using my maternal coverage for the care I needed during an early miscarriage.”

Dr.-Senator Cassidy knows that human biology corrects genealogical errors by natural abortion, a term that would be distasteful to women, but not to their ova. Ova, one of the two cells needed to conceive a human cell, need protection from natural abortion --- so called miscarriage. However, fertility entrepreneurs have little regard for fetus-welfare and less concern for ova-welfare. 

In our prime, MWW and I did not fall for religious thoughts about human reproduction. Our personal choices kept us from negotiating “having sex,” despite the delights when both brutal hormone-driven appetites kicked in. We made love for bond-building and trusted human psychology with timing for conception. From the outset, we were prepared for monogamous bonding --- bonding for life --- with or without children.

Technology that would defeat human biology’s triggers for natural abortion challenges the public for responsibility for the life the fetus will face. Certainly, an egocentric parent wants their fetus to live. But what if the fetus would not want that life? What if that life is, in fact not feasible for the fetus, the parents, the community, the nation, and humankind? Who is to constrain technology’s claims to making life possible despite the constraints of human biology? Who is to check arrogant technologies that could care less about consequences?

 I think Dr.-Senator Cassidy is qualified to, with good manners, guide the public to civic morality in this very emotional conundrum. Cassidy envisions the possibility for a better future than the cruelty humans face due to the ACA.

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

  

Using racism (Froma Harrop) creators.com/read/froma-harrop/08/17/democrats-must-sign-on-to-a-more-coherent-immigration-policy

I nominate this column for writer’s integrity failure, 2017. Harrop has no personal constraints: “Democrats must also make no mistake that immigration rules will be followed. And their politicians need not fear accusations of racism . . . . They can thank Trump for giving them space.”

Racialism (Walter Williams) townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2017/08/30/racial-lies-and-racism-n2374122

Williams deserves a second nomination for column of the year. And he's an economist!

He takes a bold step against self-labeled journalism: “The New York Times ran an article [that] says that President Donald Trump's Justice Department's civil rights division is going to investigate and sue universities whose affirmative action admissions policies discriminate against white applicants. This is an out-and-out lie.”

It’s too bad career writers for the press, like George Will, Rich Lowry, and countless others have not the integrity to write for the people in the US who want comprehensive safety and security.

Noteworthy is Williams comment, “Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz . . . goes astray when he argues that investigating discrimination against whites raises a different set of questions. He says, "Generically, whites have not been the subject of historic discrimination." Dershowitz's vision fails to see people as humans, because what human is deserving of racial discrimination?”

More importantly, every American has “been the subject of historic discrimination” as a consequence of the Church canonizing a Bible that condones slavery and the Church inventing the Doctrine of Discovery with monopolies on African slave trade.

 

Novice columnist (George Will) (washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-a-novice-protectionist/2017/08/25/8bf26392-89b4-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?utm_term=.037b5cce3c0a)

After signing a 2016 manifesto opposing the election of Donald Trump it seems Will has gone further out on his limb against the American republic. See originalistsagainsttrump.wordpress.com. We do not think the signers of the preamble to the constitution for the USA intended originalism; the intended willing people to collaborate for mutual, comprehensive safety and security during every decade of their lives. Willing people were expected to amend the articles of the constitution so that they conform to the purpose and goals stated in the preamble as the requirements for civic justice unfold with the march of time.

In today’s column, Will mentions great writers in favor of trade. I am especially impressed with Matt Ridley’s free-wheeling opinions. Ridley opines that traders are self-governing. However, I don’t think he accounts for the wisdom in Raphael Patai’s book, “The Arab Mind.” Perhaps the art is in getting the other side to believe he negotiated a deal. I’d say Israel would attest to such Arab wisdom.

Anyhow, it’s like Will is name dropping and then without any original thought delivers his cute claim: that President “Trump is a novice protectionist.”

I think Will is a novice writer after all these years. And he joins a long list of volunteers for journalism that never discovered public integrity. The First Amendment did writers and the willing people of the US a disservice when it did not specify for the USA a free and responsible press. It is not too late.

News

  

Ten months with her team’s head in the sand (Mayor Broome) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_f548562c-8dbe-11e7-95e3-b33e5f96a45e.html

Much as the-objective-truth does not respond to political power, Civil Service, by design, resists political power. The idea is to attract the best service for the people rather than to please public servants.

Mayor Broome and her dream team fails the people who elected her. After Carl Dabadie Jr.’s choice to retire, Broome’s failure to pursue the best possible candidate does not reflect integrity.

James Baker of the International Association of Chiefs of Police represents a special interest group, not the citizens of Baton Rouge. Fear of the civil service system by Baker’s group only distinguishes them as people unwilling to meet the challenge. State Rep. Ted James’s fears of Civil Service as well as the Serpas’ opinion do not serve the promise of the best possible chief of police for the citizens of Baton Rouge.

When the people look to theism and political power for civic justice, they lose. Willing people collaborate for justice. Willing people’s neglect of the purpose and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA has failed civic justice since the USA was established on June 21, 1788, when nine states ratified the draft constitution. The opportunity for reform is ours.

Just as the person who does not earn his or her living enslaves himself or herself to others, the people who do not collaborate for civic justice during every decade of their lives lose and suffer. In other words, borrowing from Sartre, people are condemned to be either free and responsible or slaves in loss and misery.

I hope I wrote just enough to inspire the readers. I have no hope for the mayor’s team --- church and racialism.

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Sorry. I just now (8/31/17, 7:27 CST) read Sporer's question, "What do you mean with 'better'?" It refers to humankind's tendency to lessen loss and misery. However, not every human has this tendency. Some people defy the-objective-truth.

  

First, we may consider the-objective-truth, most of which I do not know. It is discoverable reality, which humankind works to know and use. The individual who denies the-objective-truth is out of time and out of space with reality. For example in physics, there was a time when seafarers perceived that the earth is like a globe but landlubbers argued the earth is flat. In 2017, flat-earth believers either have obsolete opinions or perceive in dimensions not yet discovered by humankind. While I do not know, I doubt the latter possibility.

 

The-objective-truth is not normally thought to prevail in psychology as it does in physics, but it does. For example, civic people do not lie to each other so that no one is challenged to respond to a lie. This principle comes not from some rule of civilization, but from the human tendency to avoid loss and misery. In other words, we don't lie so that we may preserve civic morality.

 

Liars distinguish themselves as dissidents to civic morality, where "civic" refers to persons who willingly collaborate for mutual comprehensive safety and security during every decade of every person's life. Thereby, each individual may responsibly pursue the private preferences they discover as their life unfolds.

 

For a heartfelt yet social example, if I were hosting a wedding reception, my preference would be to know the local market for chocolates: white, milk, and dark, so as to offer guests excesses of chocolates in proportion to normal tastes.

  

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.

August 30, 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.  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Matthew 2:11, CJB)

“Upon entering the house, they saw the child with his mother Miryam; and they prostrated themselves and worshipped him. Then they opened their bags and presented him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.”

Dean says “We would be wise to give our best to Jesus.”

Dean asserts that what the Jews said was intended for the Jews was mysteriously intended for Dean and those included in Dean’s “We.” But John informs us that Jesus said, “For I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of the One who sent me. And this is the will of the One who sent me: that I should not lose any of all those he has given me but should raise them up on the Last Day.” I would not presume that I am among “those . . . the Last Day,” so I do what conforms to the-objective-truth, which often requires me to admit I do not know what I do not know.

Letters

Taxing loads (Binevenu) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_fab21c66-8cd2-11e7-b617-a75a4361aa06.html)

Considering that a 40 ton 18 wheeler haul gets 6 mi/gal and a typical 1.75 ton passenger car gets 22.5 mi/gal and using Bo’s consumption figures of 2.2 billion gal gasoline and 0.8 billion gal diesel, I estimate diesel tax of 60 cents/gal vs car tax of 10 c/gal for $700 million/year revenue.

I like Bo’s reasoning with my tax numbers for an additional reason: The higher expense on trucking favors moving oil and gas by pipeline, which increases comprehensive safety and security for the people.

Folks who've said $700 million is not enough are correct.

Thanks again, Bo.

Impacting humanity (Washington)

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_64f79d78-8cd1-11e7-8c18-e3f6a438e139.html)

Billy Washington soars in his statement, “educators of Louisiana must rise to the ‘always changing’ occasion in education to fulfill the purpose of impacting humanity.”

He reflects intention to fidelity to obligations, about which Ralph Waldo Emerson’s borrowed words express, “This sentiment . . . makes [the person] illimitable. It corrects the capital mistake of the infant man, who seeks to be great by following the great, and hopes to derive advantages from another. [In independence, he shows] the fountain of all good to be in himself, and that he, equally with every man, is an inlet into the deeps of Reason. When he says, "I ought"; when [appreciation] warms him; when he chooses, warned from [appreciation], the good and great deed; then, deep [wisdom wanders through his person].”

   

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Obsolete slogan (Lanny Keller)

theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/lanny_keller/article_3d2484d4-8c11-11e7-89dc-7b56b049476d.html

Mr. K, will you please let die Rahm Emanuel, former Obama Chief Of Staff’s infamous quip that one should never fail to take advantage of a crisis?

And anytime, I’m reminded of Gov. Edwards’s talents for leaving $2 billion in federal aid to congressmen who are competing with Louisiana’s own, I regurgitate the Edwards’ partnership’s untimely Vatican trip.

And don’t you know that Louisiana voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump both as GOP contender and as presidential contender? Are you sincerely for collective-democracy’s intent to undo the American republic? What are your intentions in promoting Gov. Edwards at the expense of Louisiana’s No. 1, the people?

The American republic is not going away.

Nature? (Eugene Robinson) sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/29/eugene-robinson-pay-heed-to-what-nature-is-telling-us/

Robinson writes nonsense, like “And it will be political decisions that determine how often we witness scenes of devastation such as those in Houston. And it will be political decisions that determine how often we witness scenes of devastation such as those in Houston.” Sense when did physics respond to political power? What executive order could stop Hurricane Harvey?

There’s special nonsense in comparing President Obama, a man intent on using collective democracy to undo the American republic. Robinson and others may understand or not that that trend is over. The USA is not European, never was, and never will be.

On more point: No one denies Hurricane Harvey or any other physical or psychological phenomenon. What everyone denies is that all pseudo scientists like Michael Mann should receive another dime of financial support. Science is a study, and when someone has a theory and sets out to prove it, that is arrogance that humankind cannot afford.

Trump bashing? (Rich Lowry) nationalreview.com/article/450808/donald-trump-media-republicans-hatred-leftist-media-trumps-all-else

Rich seems like a writer who so far out on a limb of his own psychological construct that there is no way back to reality.

I don’t think President Trump bashes anyone or any event. He simply expresses himself and let’s the-objective-truth operate. What appears to me as the humility to say what Trump thinks comes out to Rich as bashing. When the behavior someone addresses is arrogant, the opinion may be perceived as bashing, when in fact it is merely an unwelcome opinion.

The fact that Rich does not catch on is an indication that his common sense is warped. He has not looked into the mirror to discover what his person knows but his ego denies.

News articles

Activists get unintended policy records (wral.com/3-more-charged-in-toppling-north-carolina-confederate-statue/16914228/ and washingtonpost.com/national/man-charged-in-charlottesville-beating-arrested-in-georgia/2017/08/29/6a7d92c8-8cce-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953_story.html?utm_term=.ba178f5a689c)

People who take for granted that collectivist-democracy’s activism pays for recruits may consider the realities for some people who get caught up in the passions of the mob they joined.

In fact, that is the way Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO) work. They use fiery speech and social-media posts to recruit people willing to join the AMO cause at the scene of planned disturbance. They announce an event in a public venue, then from the comfort of a chair watch TV news to see how it goes. I understand Obama’s OFA offices are in Chicago and Washington.

AMO cares nothing about police records with the attached names --- Jude, Karlik, and Wideman for public property damage and Ramos, Bordon and Preston for personal attacks --- but the persons attached to those records will pay for the rest of their lives.

Comprehensive safety and security is vital to a person during every decade of life, and other people’s opinions and causes can be advocated by the advocates, for example, Obama for collective democracy. Collective democracy is not a winner for the individual, and AMO cannot break republicanism, otherwise known as the rule of law.

 

Drennen (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_8f5a8a6e-8c3e-11e7-a414-1bc70633d32a.html)

“Mark Drennen has been named president and chief executive officer of the Capital Area Finance Authority.”

See thecafa.org for more information.
 

An interesting phrase I found there is “Designated communities affected by NAFTA.” That caused me to search and find: investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/north-american-free-trade-agreement.asp .

I am glad CAFA exists. Perhaps it represents a public influence more reliable than BRAF, with its capital-building arm.

  

Rohingya (abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rohingya-buddhists-flee-myanmar-violence-49483606)

Refugees since 1948, Rohingya, under 2 million Muslim Indo-Aryan peoples, may be Earth’s most persecuted ethnic group.

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Whether you are in Austin now or not, our hearts are with you and all the people who are harmed by Hurricane Harvey. Of course, that’s every one of us.

Never before have I filed a post from this blog for thorough study of the references. Thank you.

I especially appreciate this thought: “The diminishing extent of their shared interaction contributes to a lack of empathy on the part of elites toward “ordinary” Americans.” Actually, to them, we’re invisible.

You expressed the reason people like me voted for Donald Trump twice and continue daily support. We voted for GOP candidate Trump, for presidential candidate Trump, and in our daily comments to assert that neither collectivist-democracy nor legislative theism can or will undo the American republic. Of course the more radical reform is on the latter front, and it does not yet seem on President Trump’s radar.

James Madison cautioned against collectivist factions in Federalist 10 but did nothing about it. Incredulously, Bush 43 labeled this the century of democracy. Perhaps he was referring to global voting, which may work for Obama-style Alinsky-Marxists organizations (AMO), Europeans, and others, but cannot win 84% of counties in the USA, as candidate Trump proved.
  

However, I look to this forum for a nobler cause that springs from my quote of you, above. A better future is in America’s grasp through focus on comprehensive safety and security rather than conflict for dominant opinion.

This concept has been developed in library meetings since June 21, 2014 in Baton Rouge, LA. Our next meeting, our 4^th annual Constitution Day celebration, is announced at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/calendar/#/details/4th-Annual-Constitution-Day-Celebration/3911322/2017-09-20T19. Contact information is included or call me at 225-766-7365.

The presentation is an original play. For example, our James Madison player, after stating her 1785 theism respecting “Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society . . .” adds that George Washington’s four pillars, from his June 8, 1783 farewell must be accommodated, in deference to the-objective-truth. See founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163 and loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/peace/circular.html, respectively.

Members of this forum who can attend are invited. Anyone interested is invited to consider a play-role of their choice if there is not already a volunteer.

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S M Ashek Hossain

August 28 at 1:31am

Democracy as we know is definitely not working. There are number of issues where it is failing to hold good its basic principles of equality, liberty and justice. At the same token the capitalism equally responsible to demolish democratic principles. We have to find a way. I am looking for an opportunity for research in this field. If anyone has any information, please let me know.

Phil Beaver You might start by shaping the view of "equality, liberty and justice" to accommodate Sartre's point, "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

 · Reply · August 28 at 10:38am

Pepijn Uitterhoeve weapon merchants have been a plague on humanity forever. The fact that democracy doesnt solve war or the weapon trade doesnt mean its "definitely not working"

you gotta define working. For working social systems, we can use the old Marxist adage "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". The Nordic countries are the closest humanity has to this. 

and has ever had. 

so you take the whole of human history, and the best time for any humans anywhere, at scale, in that timespan, has been in the last half century in the European north. And theyre democratic. 

how do you tackle this problem of comparison? Do you compare democracy to a hypothetical (a utopia) that is better? Because thats easily done, but not very convincing. Do you compare democracy to any other known social configuration? Because if you do that, democracy is going to win all the time, every time, with the weight of historical evidence behind it.

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Phil Beaver I like your Marxist adage, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" but think it is limited. 

It's combination with my shortened Sartre quote, ""Man is condemned to be free [and] responsible for everything he does," might be instructive as to why democracy not only does not but cannot succeed.

Combining the two ideas, the human infant may transition from feral status to informed young adult with the understanding and intent to live a full human life, these days some 90 years. Those who are able to make the transition may be responsibly independent; those who chose dependency are unworthy --- dissidents to humanity; those who have not the ability for independence must be helped.

I think this way of living can be established by educating infants accordingly and by republican governance wherein most citizens in every decade of their lives voluntarily collaborate for comprehensive safety and security so that every person may pursue the private interests they discover and thereby achieve personal happiness rather than the dictates of democracy, monarchy, tyranny, or any other coercion/force.

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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.

August 29, 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.  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Genesis 2:16-17, CJB)

“Adonai, God, gave the person this order: “You may freely eat from every tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You are not to eat from it, because on the day that you eat from it, it will become certain that you will die.”

Dean says “Sin is disobeying God. Adam and Eve disobeyed and we are all still paying the consequences.”

Now that this concern is known, pay Dean for lessons on how to obey. By dedicating life to Dean’s teaching, people can have a good afterdeath. Hmmmmm. I don’t think so.

Letters

Mistreated (Smith) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_35ea35f6-8bf8-11e7-b2f7-2747ef4fb464.html)

Thank you, Rep. Smith, for making me aware of the details of your pretense in the name of “public service.”

5G connections (Mackey) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_516229fe-8911-11e7-8653-13bebe822084.html)

Infomercials usually inform, and there was a lot within the word limit. Seems out of place, though.

I appreciate the prompt and found additional information and links to more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G . I especially like introduction to the jargon “small cells.”

  

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Orangeburg, S. C. (Eugene Robinson) sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/25/eugene-robinson-for-the-nation-to-heal-the-confederate-statues-must-come-down/

This is the first E. Robinson column I liked. I guess the authenticity appeals to me: But.

It reminds me of Frederick Douglass’s July 4, 1852 speech. Douglass, at age 34, had freed himself from slavery 13 years earlier. It would be unlikely for Douglass to have a complete historical view so as to continue his “Fellow-citizens” introduction until the end of the speech. In the first place, no historian or psychologist or anthropologist or college professor was teaching the history.

The complete history shows that the American colonists were victims of the Catholic Church’s Doctrine of Discovery with African slave trade to assist with colonization for the Church’s benefit. The practice was extended in “discovery” competition by Protestant kings after Luther’s 1517 objection to Catholic tyranny.

The colonists won the global status of thirteen free and independents states, all thirteen named in the Treaty of Paris, ratified in 1784. Eight were slave states, and many statesmen wrote about the evil hypocrisy of African slavery when freedom from the oppressor had been won. There’s Thomas Paine’s 1775 letter “African Slavery in America.” See constitution.org/tp/afri.htm. And with Benjamin Franklin, Paine formed the Philadelphia Abolition Society.

Once the statesmen took full responsibility for the-objective-truth (even though they would not have used that phrase), their intent was to end slavery, and Douglass recognized that intention. Also, the nation has continued on that path ever since the USA was established on June 21, 1788, when nine states ratified the draft constitution for the USA. However, many people cannot, within a lifetime, overcome their religious beliefs. Robert E. Lee at age 49 demonstrated this in a letter to his wife erroneously claiming that God would emancipate the slaves in His time, perhaps a thousand years more.

It is difficult to fault Douglass for isolating the Church’s evil as “American Christianity.” It’s easier to fault him for not maintaining “Fellow-citizens,” until the end of his speech, in order to show his intent, as a free man, to collaborate to achieve emancipation. All he did was point fingers.

However, E. Robinson has had the privilege to recognize the historical facts and take a responsible position. His column publishes personal failure. It is an egregious failure, because Robinson asked for the duty to represent a free and responsible press.

   

No us-versus-them (Stephanie Grace) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/stephanie_grace/article_333884b2-8c10-11e7-8a99-a3cfb93abe02.html

Pardon me, but Ms. Grace exposes her personal failure: Every day there’s no excuse for us-versus-them. However, Ms. Grace promotes collective-democracy in hopes of defeating the American republic.

On a lighter note, I like her use of hyphens to convert words into an idea. Some readers like to ridicule me for ideas like the-objective-truth.

    

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.

August 28, 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_65222e7e-82ba-11e7-be8e-8f856be44e45.html)

The Advocate seems always pumping taxation. This time it’s “the fundamentals remain in the classroom, and the vast bulk of funding for local public schools comes from Louisiana taxpayers.”

Taxpayers are not responsible for public schools: local education departments are responsible to the people for public schools. And the people includes taxpayers and tax recipients as well as free-loaders and rent seekers.

In public education, the most notorious rent seekers are teachers and employable welfare recipients. See jstor.org/stable/pdf/30025384.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.

But that study did not include textbook companies and school administrators. For example, why does John White need to be paid some five times a teacher’s salary just because he works 12 months out of 12?

It’s not only taxpayers that suffer this failure in civic justice: It’s all citizens who are subjected to rent seeking, including the rent-seekers.

The Advocate and the press in general exacerbate the civic evil by not making it clear to the people that taxpayers do not want and do not support the civic injustice.

Further, The Advocate audaciously publishes its failure to educate the people by making a weak, political jab at the Trump administration. Where’s the clarity in “As might be expected, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos praised the Louisiana plan because it includes provisions for students in failing schools to choose another option. DeVos is a big advocate of options like that, but we do not see those as fundamental as the accountability provisions are.” I guess The Advocate is lamely whining about vouchers and charter schools.

What the people need to know is that charter schools are top heavy in administrative costs, which adversely competes with quality of education being delivered to the children, all other factors being equal. This information is essential especially in Louisiana, because John White is nationally favored for favoring vouchers and charter schools. That does not mean that Gov. Edwards is right to support rent-seeking teacher unions. They have created the integrity gap that makes schools for profit viable.

It is egregious that The Advocate does not make these competing issues plain to the people, who include taxpayers. The people need to modify the constitution for the USA so as to constrain the press to integrity respecting their obligations to the people.

If this was too much to read, so be it. I spent the time to write it for my purpose: I appreciate the people and their children. Civic justice comes only from willing, informed people, not from the press, theism or government.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Genesis 1:1, CJB)

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Dean says “This says it all. We are in God’s world and we owe everything to Him.”

Long since we have known that about 13.7 billion years ago the universe began to unfold with energy, mass and space-time. At about 4.6 billion years ago the earth formed as hot gases. I won’t go on, but Dean seems obsolete. It’s not possible to pursue his ideas.

Letters

New Orleans art (Pollock) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_95dff516-8916-11e7-9fbb-c7165139fdc6.html)

I found photos of the Amtrak terminal and associated art online. Also, French Market art, including the bronze gift from Paris, France in Latrobe Park --- shamefully out of repair.

Perhaps in my next life interest in New Orleans can be restored. For now, I have been informed that New Orleans regards me as a sucker whose four-party pocket is ripe for the picking with our welfare and lives at risk. I had been gullible for five decades, and I appreciate Mitch Landrieu for informing me.

Meanwhile, if anyone proposes demolishing St. Louis Cathedral or St. Paul’s or any of the other edifices to the Church's slavery-scripture in defense of its erroneous infallibility, I’ll oppose, from my hometown, the movement. I am for comprehensive safety and security with awareness of the past rather than correcting what’s done. Let believes reform the Church while we collaborate for civic morality.

Statues (Marksbury, Aug 25)

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_ab02c398-8915-11e7-a3c6-ff50607a51ec.html)

To Gregory Higgins:  Not a problem with the Church: a problem with Church believers not recognizing and terminating Church policy that tries to impose spiritual comfort and hopes on civic morality --- the civic justice that can be delivered by willing people rather than God or government (A. Lincoln, 1861). In my statement, "civic" refers to people who willingly collaborate for comprehensive safety and security where they live, when they live.

In other words, the Church’s endurance for infinite time is of no value to the living person during their brief candle. In other words, hopes for the mysterious “soul” in the afterdeath count for nothing if a person’s life is ruined. In Sartre’s words, “Man is condemned to be free [and] responsible for everything he does.” The Church cannot negate the responsibility side of Sartre’s equivocation of freedom and responsibility.

  

The civic purpose is mutual, full-life living, or a civic culture wherein each human being may responsibly pursue fidelity to personal happiness. The Church dictates theism, a political ideology, and other psychological and physical impositions that in fact would restrain personal responsibility; in other words, the Church attempts to rob each person, and by extension into the civil realm every human being, of the opportunity to achieve psychological maturity.

  

There are believers who understand the need to limit Church influence and effect personal limitations on the institution. However, they erroneously feel satisfied to allow others to discover the posture of “believe only to the extent of common sense.” George Washington, a theist, took such a posture when he omitted theism from his four pillars for national survival, expressed on June 8, 1783, a few months before the 13 colonies were declared free and independent states, and 5 years before nine states established and authorized the USA (June 21, 1788).

One of the most egregious offenses against (and by) believers and non-believers I know of is the Church condoning slavery, when Frederick Douglass’s idea that in my paraphrase “slavery is OK for everyone but me” has always been known: Unlike men, God knows the-objective-truth --- with God there’s no discover of reality. For arguments about Church infallibility and slavery (vs Douglass’s common sense), see for example, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_slavery#Did_Church_teaching_on_slavery_change.3F .

The Church has freedom to conform to the morality of believers. That is, if believers stop paying money for the Church’s errors, the Church will reform.

If the Church converts to black power and whites are forced to brook slavery, will God’s institutional truth be at last proven? How long will it take for black contributions to the Church to exceed white contributions and effect change in “God’s institution” respecting slavery?

I don’t want to wait to learn answers to these questions. I want Church squabbles isolated from my opportunity for responsible freedom. I want believers to squabble in privacy so as to collaborate for comprehensive safety and security in civic life. I want separation of church and state, including Church and state.

To Gregory Higgins again: Here's Douglass in 1852: "But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented. By an act of the American Congress, not yet two years old, slavery has been nationalized in its most horrible and revolting form. By that act, Mason and Dixon's line has been obliterated; New York has become as Virginia; and the power to hold, hunt, and sell men, women and children, as slaves, remains no longer a mere state institution, but is now an institution of the whole United States. The power is co-extensive with the star-spangled banner, and American Christianity."

The "American Christianity" is based on the Church’s Bible, which condones slavery. The American colonists realized they were being enslaved by England to be the overlords of African slaves Europe had placed here for colonization. They knew that by winning their independence, they would, by civic morality, have to emancipate the slaves. They were victims of the Church's doctrine of discovery with African slave trade.

I perceive that you are writing as a Church apologist rather than a citizen who is willing to collaborate for comprehensive safety and security so that each human may pursue private hopes and responsibility during their lifetimes. Attempting to impose theism into civic morality rather than leaving theism as a private interest is dehumanizing to say the least.

Traffic (Town) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_13579926-8918-11e7-bab3-5b1757b6695a.html)

This is a prime example of the people being responsible for civic justice rather than relying on theism or government to provide. When most of the people rebuke Sartre’s idea, “Man is condemned to be free [and] responsible for everything he does.” Sartre wasn’t around in 1861 when A. Lincoln asserted that ultimate justice comes from willing people (my interpretation).

Statues (Bender) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a516fd60-8914-11e7-9130-531087ca27f2.html)

Bender’s point about misspending is misdirected. It’s no longer a question of parties and votes. The statues issue is about political power. Specifically, black power. Moreover, it’s about collective democracy’s bid to overthrow the republic that is the USA. In other words, it’s about conflict for chaos rather than collaboration for justice; rule of the mob vs the rule of law: demands vs assertions; tyranny vs security. It is neither pretty nor desirable.

Real problems like the abuse of children increase while collective democracy draws harmful attention, as Bender kindly points out.

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

  

High P/E (Robert Samuelson) (washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-stock-market-crazy--or-just-giddy/2017/08/23/949bbd7c-8815-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html?utm_term=.84a4916c25f5)

Samuelson turns Cline’s positivism and turns it into two silly negatives. Nevertheless, 24 vs a 17 norm does invite a typical September to October correction.

Cline’s statistics on unemployment rate, inflation rate, and interest rate on 10-year treasuries says these are not typical times. I hope he is more in tune than Samuelson.

Trump polls? (Dana Milbank) tahlequahdailypress.com/opinion/columns/measuring-and-mismeasuring-the-trump-conundrum/article_7d08b6e2-b3a5-5482-9073-54867e19df22.html

As viewed on television speaking about the wall at the Mexican border, I am motivated by President Trump and could care less about opinions about the opinions generated about opinions for polls.

Other forums 

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“Democracy as we know is definitely . . . failing to hold good its basic principles of equality, liberty and justice. At the same token the capitalism equally responsible to demolish democratic principles. We have to find a way. I am looking for an opportunity for research in this field. If anyone has any information, please let me know.”

You might start by shaping the view of "equality, liberty and justice" to accommodate Sartre's point, "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

    

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.