October 20, 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:  We the willing people of nine of the thirteen United States commit to and trust in the purpose and goals stated herein --- integrity, justice, collaboration, defense, prosperity, liberty, and perpetuity --- and to cultivate limited services by the USA, beginning on June 21, 1788.

Composing their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they are willing or dissident toward its agreement.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_e29f32d0-b432-11e7-a7a7-eb5dd5f36bfd.html)

I appreciate constructive thoughts about NAFTA negotiations. But what business plan motivates The Advocate to chastise President Trump?

Are most readers liberal democrats? Is Gov. John Bel Edwards a liberal democrat? I think most readers are responsibly-live-and-let-live conservatives, which in a civic culture might be referred to as liberal conservatives.

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 14:1-3 CJB)

“For the leader. By David: Fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They deal corruptly, their deeds are vile, not one does what is right. From heaven ADONAI observes humankind to see if anyone has understanding, if anyone seeks God. But all turn aside, all alike are corrupt; no one does what is right, not a single one.”

Dean says “Don’t be foolish. Look around you. God created and sustains the universe. This is no accident.”

David starts with a mysterious entity, then posits that no one seeks to understand it. Everyone is corrupt. Then Dean claims that God made it that way. I doubt David, Dean, and the Bible. I trust and am committed to the-obejctive-truth.

  

Letters

Opioid roles (Leake) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_451bb33a-b44b-11e7-ae0a-0330655acda9.html)

Is Leake urging readers to not let media attention to Congress’s guilt bemuse civic citizens about drug companies, doctors and pharmacists?

Charter school funding (Wise)

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_c5393bbe-b298-11e7-b6cc-3345b763a138.html)

Charter school students suffer the added cost of their school board and any hierarchical administrative costs.

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

  

Family (Froma Harrop) (creators.com/read/froma-harrop/10/17/trumps-long-history-of-holding-health-care-hostage)

I’m grateful to my family. Mom and Dad were great providers. Dad told us three siblings, “When you break your plate, it is final.” I don’t think any of us misunderstood.

I took responsibility for acquiring enough knowledge, comprehension, understanding and intent to embark on a journey of complete adulthood. (Yet Mom and Dad stood behind me until they died.)

When someone offered a job, I took it. When I was offered benefits in lieu of salary, I took the benefits. When I was offered participation in SSI and long term health insurance as a condition for employment, I kept my job. When an insurance company said, I’ll give you some perks to give up your insurance, I said "No."

I appreciate what I earned, and don’t anticipate anyone kicking me off of it.

I’m a responsible-liberal conservative and think Harrop is a nanny-state victim.

  

Still needed (John Pierre) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_3208b0ec-b444-11e7-aea7-3bd711623b11.html

“Still needed” implies a future with racial segregation not needed. True? If so, how will civic citizens know and therefore end segregation?

  

Silly word for spiral (George Will) washingtonpost.com/opinions/sinister-figures-lurk-around-our-careless-president/2017/10/13/09c9448c-af6e-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.fdc2f4a8542d

Adam Smith (d. 1790) instructed western thought that a person must have propriety if he or she is to influence thought. Only an economist could advise the people about free trade.

When criticizing President Trump, civic citizens must consider the criteria for propriety. If he is to fulfill a civic people’s need and request, he must drain the swamp. To do so, must he acquire the propriety of liars? Must he learn the art of substituting democracy for statutory republicanism, as George W. Bush seems to do? Must he advocate European-style open borders and suffer similar remorse? Must he tolerate a lying press?

Perhaps President Trump introduces a propriety of integrity. People with integrity may, with President Trump, influence a civic people. And President Trump’s special talent is to return the character he perceives in the other party: deceit begets deceit; lies beget lies; “moron” begs embarrassment and opportunity to restart; honesty begs honesty; integrity begs integrity; discovery begets discovery.

Good grief, Will! D of I? Thirteen British colonies discovered they were being enslaved by England and declared independence from England. After being defeated by a majority French-Continental military at Yorktown, England agreed the thirteen were free and independent states, naming each one of them. Three years later, the free and independent states recognized they could not make it in the world. Nine of the states established the USA on June 21, 1788. Four free and independent states had a decision to make:  Join the USA or remain free. The USA started operation with only ten states. You and Abraham Lincoln are egregious revisionists, but only you have the opportunity to reform.

It seems to me George Will has not the propriety to play the integrity game. Mr. Will seems gullible to his personal wisdom. That practice is often called “hubris” which seems close to pride. Gullibility is the first of the eight deadly sins, even though it is not on the list. Protection comes from humility. One can always look in the mirror and say:  “You don’t know the-objective-truth.”

You ought to---may---apologize to both Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

 

Putin news (ksl.com/?nid=235&sid=46183042&title=russias-putin-trumps-foes-have-blocked-his-agenda)

Putin opinion seems the only non-fake news on Page 11A.

I do not want to hear from Bush, whose leadership prevaricated our way into a $1 trillion war and still counting (tagthebird.com/us/tweet/14248060). I voted for Trump-Pence in the GOP primaries in hopes of ending such misery and loss. Please, sir, retire from public view so as to quell the scorn.

Contrary to “kicking issues” (apnews.com/9aad9871818a400cb426a1aab33a178f), President Trump is purging the administrative state of legislation and thereby restoring the rule of law under the constitution for the USA. Congress does not want its responsibilities, and President Obama gladly took all he could. Congress finds itself on a constitutional hot seat.

Whereas some civic citizens in 2008 felt that the civic liberal democrats would get their chance to lead American republicanism, the liberal democrats of 2016 were aghast with the prospects of liberal conservatives leading a return to the rule of statutory law. The shame of John Kelly facing the violence of liberal democrats is indeed a sad time. The American press exacerbates an attempt to overthrow republicanism (ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_THE_FALLEN_FLOL-?SITE=NCAGW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT). Without violent fake news, Kelly would not need to share his story.

The liberal democrats and the liberal press seek to deny 84% of US counties the 2016 presidential election. They won't succeed. 

Violent rhetoric will not succeed, because the American promise of civic morality is unique in the world. At least, that’s why my two votes went for Trump-Pence and my support is unwavering.

Interference with justice (washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/18/lawyer-files-have-comey-disbarred/)

Hubris begs woe. Sacrificing for the organization begs punishment. Honest infidelity begs justice. The nanny state fosters and nourishes infidelity.

Other forums 

libertylawsite.org/2017/10/19/saving-the-supreme-court-from-factual-embarrasment/

Professor McGinnis addresses three modern “authorities” on relevant fact: adjudicative facts, legislative facts, and empiricism. However, whereas “empiricism” refers to “the practice of relying on observation and experiment especially in the natural sciences” (Merriam-Webster online), McGinnis directs the reader to “the cusp of a golden age of social science empiricism” (hoover.org/research/age-empirical). In all this, there is no appreciation for ordinary fact or common sense.

For example, everyone knows that only an ovum from a female and a spermatozoon from a male may be used to conceive a child. But not everyone agrees the child has the right and dignity to be cared for by the man and woman who enacted the conception. If the couple does not intend care the ovum and spermatozoon may suffer life without love. Stealth to circumvent ordinary fact yields erroneous supreme opinion.

Everyone knows that the social scientist uses selective interviews with selective questionnaires and statistics to support an opinion he or she promotes. The cost to a civic people (civic citizens) is enormous, as described by Oren Cass in “Policy-Based Evidence Making,” National Affairs, No. 32, page 63. Some modern journalism schools teach that public opinion sets public policy and their social science departments determine public opinion.

In 1915, Albert Einstein created the general theory of relativity. In 2015, the theory became law. See livescience.com/49627-quantum-experiment-demonstrates-relativity.html and nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html. In 1941, Einstein asserted that the laws of science and the law against lying come from the same source (samharris.org/blog/item/my-friend-einstein).

Science is a study method—a system whereby the immutable, repeatable evidence may be discovered and used to benefit forever. For example, the earth is like a globe. Also, civic citizens to do not lie. The object of study is the-objective-truth, and humankind is on an unelectable march to discover and conform. This forum has the opportunity to be a leading proponent of a civic culture based on the-objective-truth.

Lest I suffer nonsensical artificial humor, let me say I am reminded of gabe’s instruction that I should not express myself; that I should quietly read and consider the language of the legal scholars. What gabe never accepted is that I am acutely aware of conflict for dominant opinion and seek to establish a neutral umpire to which all actors may report: The umpire I suggest is the-objective-truth.

The-objective-truth informs us that there may always be opinion, jokers, liars and un-civic citizens. Therefore, law and law enforcement seem unwanted facts for the foreseeable future. In utopia, there would be no law and no courts—only civic citizens.

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.