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.
To Ray White: The Advocate invites now the shame they attempt to impose in the future on some sheriffs and AG Jeff Landry.
I voted for both
Landry as my preference and for John Bel Edwards in order to defeat GOP folly.
When The Advocate attempts to shame Landry they are attempting to shame me.
It’s personal. And the threats of poorly managed Louisiana Department of
Corrections are personal.
The Advocate, in this “Our Views,” lists the 2017
legislations’ failures---cutting incarceration before criminal-reform services
are in place. The Advocate is well aware of that failure when they publish,
“policy choices have been hashed out . . . in the laboratories of other
states.” The Advocate applies freedom of the press without regard for responsibility.
Claiming First Amendment protection from responsible
expression, The Advocate would use the above mendacities to instill fear of
public opinion and restrict freedom of expression by the public. “We hope that
the officials who have objections . . . will be responsible in their
criticisms.”
In the USA, the civic citizen is sovereign. Using the civic
agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, civic
citizens may collaborate to amend the First Amendment so as to note that
freedom of speech requires responsibility; the Louisiana constitution does that.
Moreover, civic citizens of the USA may, in the First Amendment, require a free
and responsible press. Then, Congress could legislate appropriate law
enforcement respecting free and responsible expression.
To Shannon Chapmn: I agree with your point and Felton Suthon's, too.
The people's
three trustees for law enforcement---first responders, investigators, and
DA's---are squeezed on the bottom by criminals and dissidents and on the top by
an out-of-control judicial system. Some judges are criminal, as we observe in
the news. And the Department of Corrections is awful. And faith in salvation
for the afterdeath---or other mysticisms---have nothing to do with a dissident's
reform to fidelity to the-objective-truth. Those who invite woe may expect it.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Psalms 19:1 CJB)
“For the leader. A psalm of David: The heavens declare the
glory of God, the dome of the sky speaks the work of his hands.”
Dean says “All of creation is shouting that God is. Let’s
join in and praise the Lord.”
David, perhaps in 1015 BS (blueletterbible.org/study/parallel/paral18.cfm),
perceived the universe as “the dome of the sky.” KJV, completed in 1611, called
the dome “firmament.”
I don’t think Dean cares enough to consider the universe. I
don’t follow Dean and don’t think The Advocate should publish Dean’s ideas, at
least without something to balance the mysticism.
Letters
TOPS critical to 12th grader, Oct 30 (Carter) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_1a00a4da-bd97-11e7-ad0e-172df062019e.html)
To GM King: What do you
mean by "strident libertarianism?"
Some hits
I found:
From wikivisually.com/wiki/Satanic_bible: "With a clear-eyed appreciation
of true human nature, a love of ritual and pageantry, and a flair for mockery,
LaVey's Satanic Bible promulgated a gospel of self-indulgence that,
he argued, anyone who dispassionately considered the facts would embrace. The
philosophy it presents has been described as ‘strident libertarianism’
and ‘an obvious distillation of ideas common among members of the United
States counter-culture in the 1960s.’”
Social ills; public schools (White)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_e14476b6-be55-11e7-81a0-c39858696efc.html)
The caption, “Public schools can’t
solve . . . social ills,” caught my imagination. Society’s psychological babel
by errant adults is imposed on children in schools, not just in Baton Rouge,
but worldwide. By recognizing this reality, civic citizens can collaborate to
ceep societies from lessening children’s futures. In other words, help
posterity enjoy an achievable, better future. The primary civic goal is a culture
with mutual, comprehensive safety and security. The adult practice is fidelity
to the-objective-truth.
Philip Frady I appreciate your comment and
observations.
However, my comment pertains to factions of the people. That is, the
inhabitants, who impose babel on what could be a civic culture. Some, not all,
are teachers and education administrators. However, the net consequence of the
babel is a 229 year march to the chaos we observe today.
We can collaborate for mutual, comprhensive safety and security, with
children being coached toward adutlhood in fidelity to the-objective-truth: may
we?
Second post: “The mission of the public school
system is to educate our future citizens to become productive and successful
members of society.” I think the mission should be to coach children for
authentic, human adulthood.
Understandably, White did not pay much attention to the US Department of
Education (1980): “ED's mission is to promote student achievement and
preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and
ensuring equal access.” www2.ed.gov/about/overview/mission/mission.html.
Nor to Louisiana’s BESE: “provide leadership and create policies for
education that expand opportunities for children, empower families and
communities, and advance Louisiana in an increasingly competitive global
market.” bese.louisiana.gov/about-bese/mission-statement.
Nor to the Northwest Ordinance (1787): “Religion, morality, and knowledge,
being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and
the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=8&page=transcript.
White’s mission statement seems favorable, excepting “our future citizens .
. . society”. “Society” may refer to “the community of people living in a
particular [place] and having shared customs, laws, and organizations” (MW).
The institutional mission statements address mankind, families and communities
in global market, and student achievement. All these mission statements represent
the child as a subject rather than a free person---a psychologically powerful
human being.
I propose to reform education to the mission: to coach children in the
transition from uninformed to autonomous with comprehension and understanding
so as to embark into young adulthood able and intent on living a full,
rewarding lifetime.
Columns. (The fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Democratic party’s hypocrisy (Jeff Sadow) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_585b47b4-b9c6-11e7-acfb-03303525fc95.html
To Matthew White: Please respond again, thinking constructively rather expressing verbal violence.
We have been married 48 years; I woo her daily (according to her); and we reared three children.
I neither know the-objective-truth nor claim a successful life even though I perceive success in life but assert that comprehensive fidelity, or civic morality, is the key to personal, human happiness.
I seek not to tell anyone how to live but to share experiences and observations to be ignored or not.
Bait and switch or confused writer? (Cal Thomas)
(greatfallstribune.com/story/opinion/2017/10/31/shocking-but-not-surprising/819713001/)
Thomas starts
with the hypocrisy of Congressional legislation and ends with a call for giant contrition
and reformation by the entertainment industry. Maybe his unintended point is
that Congress is an entertainment industry for elected officials.
My objection is
that freedom of the press produces writers who purport responsibility but
exercise no integrity. A civic people of the United States may amend the First
Amendment to protect free and responsible expression, then require
Congressional legislation that assures constraints on irresponsible media
writers.
Sussess Davis Rhorer still leads (Lanny Keller)
creators.com/read/walter-williams/06/17/were-confederate-generals-traitors
“When Davis Rhorer started the Downtown Development District
in 1987, there were probably meetings at which the commissioners on the board
outnumbered civilians in the audience. No longer.”
“. . . slides and photographs of multimillion-dollar
projects, private sector developments that have brought thousands of residents
to the downtown core and vastly expanded the tax base for the city-parish,
schools and other bodies.”
“. . . investors like the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.”
A non-profit with a wealth-building capital affiliate. Not exactly the expected
civic model.
“. . . led by world-renowned designer Andres Duany for
Plan Baton Rouge, the downtown master plan in 1998 that inspired many and thus
imposed a political cost to those opposing downtown redevelopment.”
“. . . Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome was elected by 52
percent last fall [with 39% turnout], the Metro Council is often sharply
divided — the prospect of criticism is greater.”
“. . . hotel-motel tax increase on the Nov. 18 ballot, for
renovation of the Raising Cane's River Center arena. “
“A more sensible agenda is to work outward from the DDD core,
as the Redevelopment Authority and private entrepreneurs are trying to do.”
Trump upending the GOP again
(E.J. Dionne) (http://host.madison.com/ct/opinion/column/e-j-dionne-jr-republicans-aren-t-ready-to-quit/article_140715b3-e55a-5d4f-82ba-2ae0d8cf6829.html)
pewresearch.org/topics/u-s-political-parties/2017/ leads to:
people-press.org/2017/10/24/political-typology-reveals-deep-fissures-on-the-right-and-left/
An opinion I
heard last week at LSU School of Mass Communications is that people evolve to
fiscal conservatism with age, so some liberals in youth turn conservatives in
mid adulthood.
Dionne did not
discuss this report:
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/23/in-polarized-era-fewer-americans-hold-a-mix-of-conservative-and-liberal-views/
The second
article informs readers that Americans are more polarized than before.
Other forums
John Katzman and Steve Cohen,
“Let’s Agree: Racial Affirmative Action Failed,” wsj.com/articles/lets-agree-racial-affirmative-action-failed-1509058963.
The
writers did not make the claims about SAT results clear, so I did a study to
perhaps understand. The results are tabulated as follows:
From:
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college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
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/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity
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National
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Harvard Admissions by Race/Ethnicity
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Race
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Race
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Asian
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Apparent
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Weighted
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%
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%
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Difference
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Score
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Average
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||||
Black
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12.6
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14.6
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450
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1950
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285
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Asian
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5.1
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22.2
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2400
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2400
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533
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Hisp
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17.1
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11.6
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270
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2130
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247
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Native
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1.0
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2.5
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140
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2260
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57
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White
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64.2
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49.1
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140
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2260
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1110
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Average
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2250
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2231
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The Harvard admissions site also listed their admissions
goals:
Intended field of concentration
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%
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Humanities
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15.5
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Social Sciences
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26.5
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Biological Sciences
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19.2
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Physical Sciences
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6.9
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Engineering
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12.0
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Computer Science
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7.3
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Math
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7.3
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Undecided
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5.4
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It seems clear to me why Harvard graduates tend to be
liberal democrats or people who are politically active against American
republicanism or the rule of statutory law.
LSU seems to want to mimic Harvard, which is a bad thing IMO.
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.
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