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.
The Advocate
could take interest in educating the public. Why does The Advocate support
conflict for dominant political party? As human beings, each person has the
opportunity to collaborate for civic peace during their own lifetime. Only the
people can deliver civic justice.
The political
enterprise of knowing the demographics of a location is an artifact of
uninformed, block voting. In block voting, instead of exercising personal
psychological human power to stay informed, to know the civic options, and to make
the choice that best empowers personal objectives, the person votes according
to someone else’s agenda.
It’s like
choosing enslavement to a political party rather than exercising the power that
only a human being has: the power to choose where to spend personal energy.
It took me
seventy-four years to acquire the ability to express that what I want is
fidelity to the-objective-truth. I do not think fidelity is doubtful. I do not
think fidelity is a hard sell. I’m still trying to understand how the promise
of the civic agreement that is expressed in the preamble to the constitution
for the USA has been suppressed, even regressed in the 229 years since the
people established it.
I’m pretty sure
the answer is that the people have been distracted from the reality that
justice comes from the collection of just citizens rather than from God or government.
However, I am not ready to share the story.
One conviction
I have, though, is that the preamble and the-objective-truth impose on a free
press the responsibility to chronicle the USA’s progress toward civic justice.
The Advocate, more than any other media outlet has first opportunity to journal
the people’s (the nation’s) march toward civic peace.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Psalms 24:1-2 CJB)
“The earth is Adonai’s, with all that is in
it, the world and those who live there; for he set its foundations on the seas and
established it on the rivers.”
Dean says “The Lord is the creator and sustainer of the
universe. We should worship Him and Him alone.”
Each human being is in charge of the power and energy in his
or her body, mind, and person. Why would a person adopt the concerns and
constraints another person specifies? I accept neither Dean’s “should” nor
David’s earth-perceived creationism.
Illustrations of liberal-democrat
writing
Failures during
James Comey’s FBI directorship (theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/26/russia-hacking-fbi-fancy-bear-officials-email)
“Charles Sowell, who worked
as a senior administrator in the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence and was targeted by Fancy Bear two years ago, said there was no
reason the FBI couldn’t do the same work the AP had done.”
This AP paragraph was buried
at the end, and “two years ago,” takes us to Nov. 27, 2015, and James Comey.
In fellow-citizen Donald
Trump’s claims that the press is a civic citizen’s enemy, I side with Trump
rather than the Associated Press and its subscriber, The Advocate, Baton Rouge.
Vacancies Reform
Act expired on November 16, 2017 (muckrack.com/bernard-condon)
This article does not mention that the act under which the
Consumer Financial Protection Agency would defy President Trump expired ten
days before the suit was filed.
The Atlantic has the same offense against the people: theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/11/cfpb-cordray-trump/546734/.
I searched the web to try to learn if an expired act has
expired, but found nothing beyond govexec.com/management/2017/11/time-running-out-acting-officials-authority-under-vacancies-act/142368/
I imagine a future with the arbitrary Together Baton Rouge
(TBR) suing the MetroCouncil and the Mayor for not meeting TBR demands, but hope they dissolve before then. I
oppose non-profits and political philanthropists. Only a civic people may offer
justice.
Letters
Sexual assault (DeCastro) (Nov 27)
“Some
[perpetrators] are trusted faith leaders, beloved family members, admired
professors or a cute guy you met on Tinder.”
Marci Hamilton’s
work convinced me that 30% of Americans have been involved in sexual abuse,
either as perpetrator, victim, or both. See for example, her article on abuse
in churches: http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=wmborj
.
Magnet schools (Mann) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_3883eb2a-c98f-11e7-8b05-3b79ada6d6c5.html)
EBR has
28 programs, with three blue ribbon designations and two were among pioneering national
certifications. The district is one of 32 nationwide receiving $millions in
federal grants.
In fact,
nearly $15 million; theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_48fe978a-a3b4-11e7-ae1d-4370e840e438.html
.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Financial wisdom (Michelle Singletary)
(washingtonpost.com/business/get-there/we-need-a-watchdog-at-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/2017/11/16/6a69178e-cb09-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.8201e7aadf44)
Americans cannot trust the FBI to constrain the liberal
democrats, so what makes anyone think a new bureaucracy can be trusted? What is
being confronted is the Obama administrative state, with regulatory agencies totally
separate from the constitution for the USA, complete with their own their own
judicial systems.
Wikipedia: “The CFPB's creation
was authorized by the Dodd–Frank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, whose passage in
2010 was a legislative response to the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the
subsequent Great Recession. The CFPB was established
as an independent
agency, but this status is being reviewed by the U.S. Court of
Appeals.”
Writers like Singletary seem part of the problem.
Persons may consider that
they are fortunate to be human, because human beings, while born unable to
crawl or walk, may over the course of three decades learning the facts, the
understanding, and the intent to live a full life have the physical and
psychological power to live at the edge of technological and ethical morality
so as to develop fidelity leading to personal perfection during their brief
time within humankind’s less efficient yet ineluctable march toward civic
justice.
Persons who recognize this
human power derived from personal energy do not enslave themselves to the
administrative state, no matter how seriously writers like Singletary and other
liberal-democrats overlook the-objective-truth.
Fake economist? (Robert Samuelson)
sunjournal.com/trade-policies-have-become-complicated/
Readability in the column was alright until “. . . the dollar’s status as the major
global currency . . . drives the dollar’s value higher, making U.S. exports
more expensive and U.S. imports cheaper. Given the nature of the resulting
trade deficits — and as is obvious from the economy’s present state — the
United States can achieve “full employment” and run trade deficits
simultaneously.”
It seems to me a 35% tax rate on US business, a burden born by US
inhabitants, is the principle cause of a highly priced dollar. A 20% US tax
rate will help both US inhabitants and the world, by making US products and
services more readily available and in demand.
I don’t doubt Samuelson’s skills,
but do doubt his motives. I could be wrong and hope to learn.
The national whiner (Jules Witcover)
nvdaily.com/opinion/2017/11/jules-witcover-biden-leaves-door-open-for-run-at-president/
In this column, Witcover made his bid for “whiner of the decade.”
It was obvious to people who want to drain the swamp that the greatest democratic
threat was Biden. It was obvious that neither Clinton nor Sanders offered hope
for an achievable better future.
Viewed as a past fellow-citizen did, Biden did not abide the fourth
pillar of requirements for a nation that might survive: “The prevalence of that
pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States, which
will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those
mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and, in some
instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the
community.”
Understandably, time to heal
unfathomable human wounds prevailed.
Rick Nolan (David Shribman)
post-gazette.com/opinion/david-shribman/2017/11/19/David-M-Shribman-Rick-Nolan-goes-back-to-Washington/stories/201712310244
No wonder a letter to a Congressman
goes nowhere. The citizen can only write to a house where no one is at home.
Spread the message and encourage
people to read the preamble, write their personal paraphrase for 2018 living,
then start promoting the widespread practice of the agreement stated therein.
In only a couple months, at least 2/3 of the people may be collaborating for
mutually comprehensive safety and security, or civic peace.
Other forums
The Wall
Street Journal, “Terrorism Takes no Hoiday,” November 25-26, 2017, page A12.
Writers routinely kill
personal integrity by automatically harping on Trump tweets. Jihadists in Egypt
relate to USA safety in two ways: They
can fly to America if their intentions are not suggested by their records, and
if they are known terrorists, they can fly to Central America, cross into
Mexico, travel to the Northern border, and cross into the USA.
President Trump forgivingly
labels media-written lies about fellow-citizen Trump’s tweets “fake news”.
Thank goodness fellow-citizen Trump first opines that the office of President
does not constrain his freedom to express personal opinion and second demonstrates
that he will not submit to media attempts to restrict his freedoms.
Peggy
Noonan, “The Sexual-Harassment Racket is Over,” The Wall Street Journal, November
25-26, 2017, page A12.
Three points: 1) harassment is common in entertainment roles
such as media and movies (why omit music and plays?), 2) the four decades 1977
brought weirdness to the scene that had not been written about in the Kinsey
reports seven decades ago, and 3) a clergyman bemoaned the Church’s failures to
teach the seriousness of human sexuality.
I’ll start thinking harassment could be over when women stop
wearing stiletto heels and acting so as to compete with each other for the
attention of men.
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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