November 29, 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 (Nov 29)

Landrieu rejected “. . . because of a national political wave”?

The 2014 elections results were 52% GOP 48% DNC, compared to Cassidy’s 56% to 44% drubbing of Landrieu. I hope any hopes of Landrieu Street get replaced by Loser Lane.

Civic citizens may foil political party plans by staying informed and voting personal preference rather than playing the erroneous party game.

Just as neither God nor government act for the people, the parties express their messages according to what their polls say the people want to hear. In other words, they consider the audience and craft one message for three audience segments: party loyalists, moderates who might become party members, and opponents. The message would retain loyalists, attract moderates, and bemuse opponents. Thus, the crafty party pitchers present a confused message that is based on poll-produced opinion about the audience’s hopes.

Party politics is comical. The people may create a better future by most persons 1) acquiring civic information they need, 2) deciding how civic issues would be decided so as to advance personal hopes, and 3) effect personal benefits by voting according to personal preference. Beginning 2018, the age of block voting may be retired by a civic people of the United States. It’s up to each citizen to effect the collective change.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Exodus 14:13 CJB)

“Moshe answered the people, "Stop being so fearful! Remain steady, and you will see how ADONAI is going to save you. He will do it today - today you have seen the Egyptians, but you will never see them again!”

Dean says, “God will take care of His own. Have faith in God.”

    

I understand Dean’s argument:  If things are not going well, you are not God’s own. I don’t buy it and am amazed that The Advocate keeps publishing Dean’s propaganda for religious enterprise.

I trust more Alvin Plantinga’s $1.4 million idea that, in my paraphrase, God is not powerful enough to overrule God’s desire that humans should have free will; templetonprize.org/currentwinner.html.

Letters

Public plea for congressional favor (Will and Johnson for CF Industries) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_8ddb5cb6-d466-11e7-80e1-ef206d361a09.html)

“. . . help capital-intensive manufacturers like CF continue to do their part to boost the U.S. economy” got my attention.

I find this a weak argument that favors investors over consumers in an otherwise free marketplace. Will and Johnson would have served themselves better by keeping their Congressional lobbying private.

I want CF Industries doing what they can to lessen Agricultural-fertilizer-pollution of the Gulf of Mexico. Research alternative products, applications methods, and retention in the soil, for example.

To Paul Spillman: "donor class" and "Demicans"

 

nytimes.com/1998/07/19/opinion/in-america-the-donor-class.html

 

americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/trump_and_the_rise_of_the_donor_class.html

  

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

  

LSU backlash coming? (Lanny Keller) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/lanny_keller/article_3dbe31de-d45e-11e7-a768-77d02bdbd333.html)

I appreciate Mr. K’s far-reaching review of LSU’s arbitrary treatment of precious historical facts.

Ever since I attended F. King Alexander’s presidential symposium “Moment or Movement?” I have felt that he, if not LSU itself, is begging ruin. It seems it wants to make itself the Harvard of the south in social “sciences,” polls to manage public opinion, and racialism correctness.

I hope there is an achievable, better future, with a civic people effecting public peace. It can start with most citizens taking the time to write a personal paraphrase of the preamble to the constitution for the USA with the purpose of presenting for collaboration with others the civic agreement they personally would like to trust and commit to for 2018 and beyond.

In my paraphrase “posterity” means children, grandchildren and beyond.

To Matthew Richard: With all the attention to abuse of women I'm surprised the Congressional Black Caucus has not stepped forward to decry MLK Jr's history and moved to eliminate street names and monuments. Even Mitch Landrieu might discover the woe of his arbitrary action.

  

Liberal-thinker in chief (Michael Gerson) desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/11/27/michael-gerson-reminder-americas-capacity-moral-renewal/899266001/

Gerson informs us that a liberal-democrat writer cannot make up his mind, so he or she just tries to cover all options, ending with a pile of untruths.

In the first place, there is no such thing as moral renewal, unless you hark back to the brief period from June 21, 1788, when the USA was established by 2/3 of the people’s representatives in nine states and March 4, 1789 when the first Congress, with members from only ten states began re-establishing the erroneous British common law and Protestantism, with legislators held as divinely appointed.

Gerson is offensive in: “It is a sign of hope that moral and ethical standards can assert themselves largely unaided by political, entertainment and media leaders — except when they serve as cautionary tales of egregious behavior.” It just makes no sense.

And: “Politicians, including President Obama, were left catching up to the new social consensus.” The LGBTQ movement serves Obama’s collectivism under Alisnky-Marxist organizing (AM) such as OFA of both DC and Chicago and IAF of Chicago.

And: “judgmental old men,” is bitter ageism. Socrates was an old man when democracy falsely accused him.

Gerson’s confusion is clearest at “But people, at some deep level, know that rules and norms are needed.” It should be obvious by now that the human being is too psychologically powerful to submit to rules and norms. Each person, to the best of their ability tries, during their lifetime to live at the edge of fidelity to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. In other words, actual reality does not conform to rules and norms.

When it comes to sex, women compete with each other in the abuse of their viable ova. The way things are, women are the origins of life when their viable ovum is fertilized. The authentic woman is attentive to her responsibility to her live ova, takes care of her body and mind, and is selective in her collaborative associations that could expose her ova to liability. She makes certain that any risk to her viable ovum is taken with an authentic man.

Gerson cannot recognize abuse when it is staring him in the source of news. Some women, for their reasons, exposed themselves (and perhaps their ova) to males who were not authentic men.

Gerson is writing himself into irrelevancy.

 

President Trump is getting the job done despite the McCain-Corker-Flake like swamps (Cal Thomas) (townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2017/11/23/can-trumphaters-be-thankful-for-him-n2413061)

“Here's what Atlantic magazine said in its August 2 issue: ‘With the Trump administration's chaos sucking up all the attention, it's been able to move forward on a range of its priorities, which tend to be more focused on regulatory matters anyway. It is remaking the justice system, rewriting environmental rules, overhauling public-lands administration, and green lighting major infrastructure projects. It is appointing figures who will guarantee the triumph of its ideological vision for decades to come.’"

President Trump does not “put taxpayers first.” He puts Americans first for the first time since June 21, 1788, when the religion-politics partnership started restoring common law and Protestantism.

 

The EU mess (Michael Barone) (washingtonexaminer.com/michael-barone-angela-merkel-and-davos-rebuked-in-germany/article/2641555)

I appreciate Barone’s review of the lying media in Europe, too.

“The avowed goal of the EU, “an ever closer union,” has come unglued.”

“Second, climate change and energy. Germany now imports American coal, has higher emissions, and hugely high electric rates.”

“Third, immigration. Europe . . . suffers from increasing Muslim terrorism. Murder and sexual assaults, though covered up by government and press, have been dismayingly frequent.”

I was fikna buy some European stock fund but don’t think I will.

Other forums 

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As my first book about colonial America, I was delighted. I have the perception that loyal British colonists, starting in about 1720 realized they were being enslaved by Great Britain. They began to request relief, and by 1765 realized if they won their freedom they would also be responsible for liberating the African slaves. They had discovered the freedom to use their lifetimes to pursue the happiness each personally perceived instead of the happiness someone else would impose on them. It was a unique freedom from oppression so as to pursue personal liberty. Civic citizens of the USA may restore that American dream.

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.