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].”

   

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

  

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.

Other forums 

libertylawsite.org/2016/12/12/looking-at-trump-from-outside-the-bubble/

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.

 · Reply · 19 hrs

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.