December 5, 2017

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. 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.
 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 June 21, 1788 preamble:  We the civic citizens 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. Composing their own paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they are willing or dissident toward its principles.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_53e8c26a-cb14-11e7-b458-cf9b4b6540c5.html)

Why doesn’t The Advocate connect the dots?

The writers start with a fact: The USA has more interest in Halloween than in its poor children. Then they generate the customary evidence that skin color is the indicator:  “The lowest score for white children across all states — [525] — is still nearly double the score for black children growing up in Louisiana and other states.”

  

The Advocate, presenting an arrow to spending more money on black children, leaves the solution to the reader. But there are too many questions unanswered. What has transpired since the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Has the Congressional Black Caucus helped or harmed black Americans? Do black Americans have the same freedom as other Americans?

Most egregiously, The Advocate does not examine the starting point: the harm of imposing spirituality onto civic life. Spirituality is an intellectual construct by humankind to address concerns about death, whereas civic morality addresses the human connections needed to lessen misery and loss in life.

Also egregious is The Advocate’s failure to address the fact that children get bad starts through genes and memes, where “memes” is packets of information passed on from generation to generation within a culture. The most egregious meme is the idea that the human being is flawed and therefore born to be subjugated to authority.

Since March, 1789, American regimes have nourished the idea that the religion-political partnership is the authority. That’s Chapter XI Machiavellianism, and it has worked these 228 years. The people must overcome the fear of the responsibility to be free. It is past time to reform, but the mere statement of the need is a first step.

As the people’s voice, The Advocate should have the freedom to express either the need for separation of church and state or for the state to submit to church, which ever principle The Advocate holds. However, expressing no principles doesn’t help.

To JT McQuitty: Good point.

  

I oppose Head Start, because I trust neither the people who get the money nor the parents who take it. Yet I support Halloween, because some family-members like it.

  

Discretionary expenditures are a matter of personal interest---in the section of the wallet labeled “after-tax spending.”

  

JTMcQuitty again: I do not think journalists have trouble.

 

We read the work of media writers. One chronicles humankind's path to civic justice and the other contributes to a business plan. One works for the people and the other preserves a job.
 

Of course some writers are developing journalists.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Matthew 22:36-40 CJB)

“Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?” He told him, ‘You are to love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.’ This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. And a second is similar to it, ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot.”

Dean says, “If we truly love the Lord, we will love others.”

We may appreciate other peaceful people regardless of religious beliefs. I do not follow Dean’s constraints.

    

Letters

Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO) (Petrin and Gill) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_413d4934-d91e-11e7-a231-ebb602f25ddc.html)

I often write that AMO recruits are victims of the organizers. In this case, students are being victimized by 504HealthNet and perhaps Obama’s own OFA, headquartered in Chicago and W.DC.

This letter to the editor may serve as an opportunity to reflect on tending to studies so as to acquire personal quality in needed medical services rather than helping the insurance business and government bureaucracy as hope for the future.

Sooner or later, most AMO recruits look back and think, “How could I have been so gullible?” The defense against gullibility is humility. Humility keeps the student in the classroom and doing the homework rather than wasting life on someone else’s economic cause.

Woman power is nothing new (Holcomb)

(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_6d6f662e-d921-11e7-a693-4fac448ed408.html)

Since most media writers are such liars, it is difficult to accept “news media have become more aware and more sensitive.”

Reflecting on the Cosby case, it seems women’s collectivism has impressed the judicial system. The celebrity industries---entertainment including celebrity politicians---are the chief perpetrators against aggressive women. By aggressive women, I mean those who make themselves available to celebrities, either by taking jobs with them or simply being in the right places at opportune times with attractive attitudes. Innocent women may get caught in the web of aggression.

I don’t mean to condone celebrity opportunism. Rather I wish to suggest that a second shoe may fall:  If there is to be reform from “this age-old problem,” the civic women will do more to constrain aggressive-woman power.

Maybe men will take charge by asserting that aggressive women do not impress them and cannot dissuade them from fidelity to authenticity. The authentic man knows a woman has obligations to perhaps 400 ova and will not threaten her viable ovum even if she will.

The dignity and equality of the viable ovum is at the core of civic sexual-morality, and media writers could be making that point clear.

AP ruins news (Aucoin) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_95967510-d922-11e7-9e43-4ff9e1e0fe2b.html)

I could not agree more.

The Associated Press is egregious for embedding bits of news in their opinion articles! In other words, readers cannot get a glimpse of the facts without wadding through AP writers’ opinions. TNS seems less egregious.

I called Lanny Keller to ask him to arrange for or propose disclaimers by The Advocate. He responded in effect that The Advocate, as a subscriber to “the news service,” is a collaborator in the scheme. Make no mistake: That is my paraphrase of a response I recall and is not a quote of Keller.

  

We subscribers deserve local disclaimers of syndicated lies. One way to do that would be to label the front page, “Opinion on current events: reader beware.”

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

  

Congressional Black Caucus (Walter Williams) creators.com/read/walter-williams/11/17/black-self-sabotage-711d6

Williams’s data points and arguments are amazing. Too bad:  The writer of “Today’s Views” did not seem to take Williams’s column to heart.

And pointing to the NAACP’s bad leadership is commendable. However, I find most egregious the effects of the Congressional Black Caucus. Since a couple years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the CBC has retrogressed the status of black Americans and thereby the mutual, comprehensive safety and security of America.

However, quoting Frederick Douglass, I think there is light in these dark clouds over America. The idea of voluntary, responsible freedom is on the rise.

  

Indigenous claims (Clarence Page) (knoxnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/12/01/should-trump-decide-whether-you-should-offended/903042001/)

I like President Trump’s humor and think he stood up for indigenous peoples. One of my relatives once claimed indigenous ancestry. My DNA does not show it, so I am glad I never mimicked the practice.

Of course Page opposes opposition to Elizabeth Warren’s practices.

Phil Beaver does not “know” the-indisputable-facts, or actual-reality. 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.