August 26, 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)

As a resident of the Great State of Louisiana, I commend my hometown newspaper, The Advocate, to stop belittling the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. You are not helping the citizens!

As candidate Trump, he flew here and proffered cash to help flood victims of 2016. As president-elect, he flew here to support John Kennedy for Senator. He stands ready to help the 2016 flood victims if Gov. John Bel Edwards ever gets his requests for funds in presentable order for a very competitive Congress:  Other states have emergency needs, too, and their governors know the facts. Texas’ current losses do not bode well for Louisiana’s weak governor.

Build the wall and we’ll see how fair actual trade has been. When one says “buy American” the first interest is jobs for Americans, protected at their borders. How many truck-loads of illegals must be caught to help The Advocate realize many more get through? With marijuana, legal except to minors, how will The Advocate react to Mexican imports sold to children? And how much of the sanctuary movements’ burden on American citizens trickles up from philanthropists to The Advocate?

WWII fairness? Most NATO nations are not responding to President Trump’s demand that they meet their 2017 obligations. Why is The Advocate ignorant of such facts? See money.cnn.com/2016/07/08/news/nato-summit-spending-countries/index.html . See how short Canada is.

When The Advocate writes against the USA as winners, who are they writing for? Who is the “we” in The Advocate’s statements?

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 150:6, CJB)

“Let everything that has breath praise Adonai! Halleluyah!”

Dean says “We were created to praise our Creator and our Lord.”

David and Dean blaspheme however they choose.

Letters

New Orleand rain drains (Rosenthal) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8e3a012c-89ab-11e7-b0ac-c7c2de707ecf.html)

This seems like the blind criticizing the blind.

 
If your home can flood, elevate it or move. You cannot count on government and non-profits and philanthropists.

Statues (Marksbury)

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

You’d think a university professor would trace the history back to the most egregious oppressor: the Church, for dealing in Africa’s commodity: black slaves..

The physics and psychology of slavery have always been plain: Slavery is evil when I am the slave.

Emperor Constantine ordered the Catholic Church to canonize a Bible so he could control the pagans. The scholars made the fatal mistake of including books or passages in books that condone slavery. Thomas Aquinas's defense of slavery as punishment for sin was erroneous if not evil.

There's no excuse: Dum diversas, 1452, assigned Portugal "authority" to enslave people and "discover" for God lands in the east. Romanus Pontifex1455 assigned Portugal a perpetual monopoly in trade with Africa in the enslavement of natives.

Eximiae Devotionis, 1493 assigned Spain the same privilege, including a monopoly on African slave-trade in the west.

King Henry VII patented John Cabot for "the doctrine of discovery," excluding competition with Portugal's claims or Spain's claims on behalf of Christianity.

Luther, 1517, failed to correct the slavery-evil in interpreting the Bible.

The USA fails to convict theism of its evil respecting slavery.

I want relief. There's no need for the Vatican to apologize or to pay retribution to the USA. There is every necessity for the people to recognize the evil and stop it.

Does Mitch Landrieu’s dilemma start at trashed-out Lee Circle and end with torn down St.Louis Cathedral?

  

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

  

Afghanistan (David Ignatius) (washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-afghanistan-strategy-isnt-to-win-its-to-avoid-losing/2017/08/22/0fc3b5e6-877a-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?utm_term=.23ebf22361cd)

A void left there does not seem advisable.

  

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.