January 31, 2018

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom 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 to us by the USA. I am willing to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet may settle on and would always preserve the original text.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_e31df22a-0205-11e8-bd9c-cf0c75799bc1.html)

“The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project is a big bet that the natural replenishment of the coastline by the river can be mimicked by man. The expedited timeline for its permits, and eventually its construction, is good news.”

That apolitical conclusion after all the Democrat-biased buildup convinced me an opinion that has been plain for at least a couple years, but I could not articulate before now: The Advocate is too political for the good of the people of Louisiana.

Whether Gov. John Bel Edwards reforms in time to save his job, resigns, or is defeated at the polls by whomever, what’s important is for Louisiana to efficiently deal with its status as 51^st in a field of 50 in a country that ranks perhaps 25^th.

It seems to me The Advocate may exercise a little responsible humility rather than free hubris beginning any moment the people working there perceive the benefits to The Advocate’s own viability.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Proverbs 10:7-9 CJB), The Advocate, January 31, 2018, 5B.

“The memory of the righteous will be for a blessing, but the reputation of the wicked will rot. Wise-hearted people take orders, but a babbling fool will have trouble. He who walks purely walks securely, but he who walks in crooked ways will be found out.”

Dean, about V. 9, says, “Integrity will pay great dividends.”

Dean promotes mystery. I think the way of integrity is fidelity to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. I do not know what I do not know. For example, I think it is OK that Phil Beaver does not believe anyone else’s Jesus, including Ralph Waldo Emerson’s version and Friedrich Nietzsche’s version among others. 

Letters

Racing to catch the caboose (Stets) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_afbf63ea-05e9-11e8-aad0-3701c467469a.html)

I want to reduce the truck and train traffic that now moves oil. Expedite the pipeline.

Inspiration (Baum) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_28a9ab02-05eb-11e8-b53b-0bc9142fc355.html)

Dr. Baum reminds me of the perception I get from most of my doctors: They feel privileged to serve. I recently received a call on a Saturday night about a test result, and a specialist appointment was made the following Monday and called in to me. I am grateful to my particular doctors as individuals. In other words, I am not grateful to the AMA.

Baum’s letter is a treasure of appreciation for investment for wealth, which every person should learn. That is, in order to pursue personal happiness rather than the dictates of someone else, an individual may include in their goals for earning a living sufficient investment to gain the wealth for responsible freedom. In other words, work to save, too---an old concept, as Baum points out.

The other delight is Baum’s citation of Leonardo da Vinci’s art. Some people don’t realize it, but Leonardo was one of the smartest people in history, rated No. 2 in IQ behind Goethe at financesonline.com/13-most-intelligent-people-in-the-history-of-the-world/. Rated 4th most influential, after Jesus, Einstein, and Newton, respectively; ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-influential-people-of-all-time.

I did not like That Advocate used Baum’s letter to advertise a writer’s book. The Advocate consistently imposes license of the press---beyond freedom of the press.

Columns

There’s no administrative excellence—only the people’s money (Lanny Keller) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/lanny_keller/article_97333700-05d7-11e8-9251-675d5b201c1b.html)

Even though this is an opinion column, it seems like the report of a director’s review for the press without much thought by the press. Of course that may be because Mr. K is merely on board for taking from me to give to Gov. Edwards for his personal redistribution preferences.

But there’s another side to LSU excellence or none: Administration. Instead of taking $600,000 from Pennington, some social science courses at some of the campuses could be terminated.

For example, the course on dialogues on racism is more controversial than studies on obesity. I took dialogues in 2002, and found it to be an indoctrination designed to persuade me that I have always been racist and did not know it. No one will believe me when I say it isn’t so, and I know firsthand.

Another target is any class that teaches that public policy is determined by public opinion and public opinion is controlled by the press. Sorry, The Advocate, but it just isn’t so.

Another is any study of CO eating bacteria that thrive in Utah---a reported clue to life on Mars. Gosh! How did life on earth begin? Don’t we know a lot about that already?

These are only some of the many LSU endeavors that could be cut in order to focus on helping people rather than confounding civic morality.

America first (George Will) (sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/01/28/george-f-will-when-protectionism-is-rampant-no-bad-deed-goes-unrewarded/)

“As Henry George said, with protectionism a nation does to itself in peacetime what an enemy tries to do to it in war.” See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George.

Some ideas ring true, like this one. However, I am willing to give Trump the benefit of my doubt, preferring Trump successes to Will willfulness.

My apology for having campaigned for Dardenne (Dan Fagan) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_fa04713c-05e6-11e8-9ba0-bfc1b181339a.html

Fagan presents evidence that both Edwards and Dardenne claim $600 million in budget cuts that were really unreported expenditure swaps. (I vote for him after him, but won’t do so again.)

When called on the deception, Edwards was aggressive. "’I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you, and I'm not trying to be ugly about it,’ Edwards told Hewitt. Hewitt told the governor he was being insulting.”

I encourage Hewitt to change the language. When Edwards addresses her with such arrogance, I’d like her to say better than, “You just insulted my person and I put you on notice not to let it happen again.” It’s similar to “You abused me, and I’m informing you that you abused me.”

But what I object to most is Fagan prepared to pay more taxes so Dardenne and Edwards have more to spend. I’m writing to my representatives to ask them to make certain that does not happen.

Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

Human psychological power

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom 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 to us by the USA. I am willing to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet may settle on and would always preserve the original text.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_e31df22a-0205-11e8-bd9c-cf0c75799bc1.html)

The Advocate argues with itself for 99% of this opinion, but then concludes with the same old song: The Advocate favors picking the people’s pocket so Gov. Edwards will have more money to spend. I oppose The Advocate and Gov. Edwards.
  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Proverbs 10:7-9 CJB), The Advocate, January 29, 2018, 5B.

“The memory of the righteous will be for a blessing, but the reputation of the wicked will rot. Wise-hearted people take orders, but a babbling fool will have trouble. He who walks purely walks securely, but he who walks in crooked ways will be found out.”

Dean, about V. 7, says, “How will you be remembered?”

As a citizen who collaborated at home and in public for private liberty with civic morality no matter what came. As a chemical engineer whose reactors will not blow up.

Letters

Responding to Edwards’ and The Advocate’s AMO attacks (Waguespack) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_e5bd6c04-0525-11e8-965b-f34fad0d30e3.html)

It is amazing that both The Advocate and Gov. Edwards use AMO tactics to address Waguespack. They have my attention, and I am focused on the good Waguespack offers.

I could understand a debate between Waguespack on his own and Dardenne according to The Advocate, but the fight they have picked? I don’t understand.

Money talks (Wharton) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_28568a08-0519-11e8-acf5-237421469838.html)

It seems to me education expense has become top heavy in administration. However the administration is not doing too well.

In these parts, there’s a big emphasis on social democracy, dialogues on racism, Marxism, government provision of human rights, and such. The American focus on consequences of the ancient, African commodity---Africans---does not compete well on the world stage. Other countries do not study black history. Until we wake up to these bad influences---lessening human, personal authority to collaborate for responsible freedom---we will continue to be 51^st in a field that is perhaps 22^nd in world competitive status.

Ms. Evans said it better: “When there are citizens interested in education for the sake of learning then there is community support.”

Other forums

quora.com/What-is-our-purpose-both-as-an-individual-and-as-a-society

Only the human individual has the physical and psychological power to collaborate for responsible freedom and to constrain, first, by civic example and, second, through statutory justice the persons who do not develop fidelity to the-objective-truth.

This tripartite statement covers the individual and the civic culture with its dissidents. It comes from the preamble to the constitution for the USA, which offers a culture that the citizen may either choose or neglect. By choices made, citizens choose associations—-societies.

  

I want to unpack this loaded response. First “human” denotes that other living species cannot control individual energy or behavior. “Collaborate” implies that in civic connections and transactions neither party cooperates-with or subjugates-to the other; but both parties behave so as to conform to the-objective-truth; in other words, neither party either imposes or tolerates force or coercion. 

“Responsible freedom” is required for personal liberty. “Civic” refers to human connections and transactions that provide both parties comprehensive safety and security; in other words, private liberty with civic morality; in other words, human justice. “Comprehensive” implies secure personal motivation, inspiration, spirituality, goals, dreams, and happiness; in other words, public and private connections conform to the human mandate: First, do no harm. “Statutory justice” refers to written law and law enforcement that is maintained at the leading edge of discovery of justice according to the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion. “Fidelity to” is a comprehensive practice—-fidelity: to the-objective-truth, to self, to immediate family, to extended family and friends, to neighbors, to the people (nation), to the world, and to the universe, both respectively and collectively. “The-objective-truth” can only be discovered; it exists; it does not yield to reason, revelation, assumption, or any other intellectual construct; for example, the earth is like a globe rather than flat; and lying never pays.

    

Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

January 29, 2018

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom 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 to us by the USA. I am willing to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet may settle on and would always preserve the original text.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_d6ccb3a8-fada-11e7-85c9-73c947be7b96.html)

I appreciate both The Advocate’s opinion and the editors’ frank presentation.

“Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport oil and gas compared to roads and rails.” That blunt statement made me realize more than ever before that the pipeline will relieve the I-10 bridge to an extent that surprises Louisiana residents and the nation’s travelers.

Thank you, The Advocate.
  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 37:25-27 CJB), The Advocate, January 29, 2018, 5B.

“I have been young; now I am old; yet not once have I seen the righteous abandoned or his descendants begging for bread.  All day long he is generous and lends, and his descendants are blessed. If you turn from evil and do good, you will live safely forever.”

Dean, about V. 25, says, “God is faithful. He will take care of Him own.”

David wrote ideas but acted badly, for example, killing a husband to take his wife. Dean quotes David to insinuate---tacitly state---that I, a human sufferer, am not of God. Dean is offensive to express such hubris. These are my opinions.

I commend The Advocate to stop publishing harmful religious ideas. By publishing Dean’s blasphemous coercion, The Advocate turns its back on a first principle of human justice: first, do no harm.

Letters

“Checkbook” (Hall) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_a5763302-0213-11e8-b6bc-67f444f5f6dd.html)

I agree. Also, I’d like to point it this online transparency would help all citizens, not just taxpayers. It would help Gov. Edwards, who is also a citizen.

Nominations (Coons) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_f1703652-021a-11e8-8f94-93ec20900abe.html)

I oppose Duncan and Vitter nominations. I think they both fail a civic culture and would need reform to qualify.

To Philip Frady: This is one of the reasons I write all the time that the GOP needs reform. And like the DNC, I would not mind seeing the GOP fade from the scene.

The era of Judeo-Christian dominance ended with the Civil War. The Bible interpretation that slavery was God's will and that abolitionists would intervene in God's millennial plan to redeem black people was erroneous before the Bible was canonized in about 325 AD. Nevertheless, R. E. Lee expressed that interpretation in an 1856 letter to his wife from Texas: leefamilyarchive.org/9-family-papers/339-robert-e-lee-to-mary-anna-randolph-custis-lee-1856-december-27.

   

Mitch Landrieu made an egregious error when he did not reserve the monuments his city had but attach plaques to attest to this wonderful evidence from the Civil War:  The people who trust and commit to the preamble to the constitution for the USA, whether tacitly or explicitly, ineluctably march toward human justice. Read Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address for his thoughts on justice from a civic people.

The Vitters, among other prominent people, express that they could not care less for the preamble: They answer to a higher power. They also ignore Scalia’s advice that that higher power is for the hereafter but human justice is for here and now.

Ineffective writing (Miller) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_05d10dba-0216-11e8-a335-8fa4e0ded451.html)

To Scuddy Leblanc: I trust Waguespack learned from past experiences and observations.

 

Also, I trust my observations that Gov. John Bel Edwards expresses evidence that parents should not send their sons and daughters to West Point. Maybe there's offsetting evidence.

Columns

The Chruch seems eternally immoral (Kathryn Jean Lopez) (uexpress.com/kathryn-jean-lopez/2018/1/19/love-on-the-march)

I think it is egregious that Lopez did not share the text she referred to. Was it biblestudytools.com/cjb/passage/?q=1-john+5:1-6;+john+15:9-17?

Indeed the basilica is designed to hold 10,000 worshippers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_National_Shrine_of_the_Immaculate_Conception.

Young people may observe that worshiping is for the afterdeath, and the Church uses that inspiration to motivate dependency during life. However, before death, the individual has control of his or her energy and may develop the authority and judgement by which to live a full human life.

Complete living is possible with fidelity to the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. Humankind discovered that heterosexual activity leads to pregnancy. Further, of all the species, the human newborn is most dependent for care. Further, the human is so physically and psychologically powerful that it takes at least two to three decades for him or her to acquire the understanding and intent to live a complete human life.

The-objective-truth is plain, once it is discovered; some examples might help. The earth was like a globe from its beginning, some 4.6 billion years ago: it never was flat. It has never been wise to lie. Slavery was always wrong, even before African started the commodity trade of Africans. 

Slavery was wrong when the Church canonized passages that condone it. Slavery was wrong before the Church “authorized” colonization and monopolies on purchasing the African commodity: Africans. Sex between heterosexuals is intended for psychological bonding in preparation for parenting for life, including the lives of grandchildren and beyond: procreation involves monogamy. Homosexual partners cannot procreate in monogamy: They must create an adult contract with a third party.

People who appreciate “wanting something better, insisting on something better, and most importantly . . . extending a hand to anyone who has been hurt by [1700 years’] pain inflicted on women, men and generations,” may consider developing fidelity to the-objective-truth.

Note: my comment was submitted to the above website and was awaiting approval by uexpress.com.

Immoral religious coalition (Joe Morris Doss) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_4c3ab84c-0210-11e8-af79-8f774e2b80b7.html)

Mr. Doss happily expresses dissidence against the civic agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA (ratified by representatives of the people of nine of thirteen free and independent states on June 21, 1788). Somewhere along the line the factional Protestants (99% of free inhabitants in 1790) falsely labeled the preamble a secular agreement: it is a civic agreement that is neutral to religion.

Mr. Doss seems a near isolated dissident, belonging to a 1.2% religious faction. Perhaps that’s why he tries to form a Judeo-Christian-Islamic coalition. However, by compromising, he increases the Christian coalition from 70.6% to 72.5% with Jews and on to 73.4% with Muslims. That still leaves 26.6% including the 22.8% with no religious affiliation. That exceeds the 20.8% Catholics. Thus, citizens with no religious affiliation are the religious majority. See pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/.

The era of Judeo-Christian dominance is over. It is time for people like Doss to consider collaborating with We the People of the United States. According to the agreement that is offered, every willing citizen may collaborate for mutual, comprehensive safety and security so that each individual may pursue the happiness he or she perceives, even while Doss’s Judeo-Christian-Islamic coalition responsibly thrives for the believers sakes under statutory justice. Statutory justice is written law and law enforcement that is discovered in accord with the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion.
 

Thank you for the chance to talk without lies, Mr. Doss. I hope we collaborate for the achievable better future rather than conflict for dominant opinion. I do not know the-objective-truth but seek it.

News

Democrats: opioid entrappers---both suppliers and victims (Tyler Bridges) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_7c667572-02f8-11e8-ba90-53c92cef1f7c.html)

To Scuddy Leblanc: Tyler Bridges wrote and The Advocate published information about the opioid crisis; that’s about as close as I can imagine journalism, and I am grateful for it. The only thing unreported is any missing information. Thank you for the performance of free and responsible reporting, as much as it may be so.

The next reporting I’d like to see is names of Louisiana participants in the escalation of opioid deaths. Which Louisiana doctors did the escalated prescribing and what suppliers handed over the poison?

Most egregious is the mismanagement by the Louisiana Department of Health in Gov. Edwards’ expansion of Medicaid. Any way you cut it, it is wrongful of Gov. Edwards to yield to the people who stood to gain from his misguided “It’s the right thing to do.” The people who died and their families do not feel good about being pawns in Edwards’ ambitions.

Let me take back the broad-brush approval of this report, to point out an opinion. Bridges’ lead statement, “The latest legal standoff has created a delicious irony,” is dead give-away to writer’s pride. As long as such pride prevents journalistic humility, the writer cannot rise to the profession. The Advocate could lend writers help and directions, if the editors were free and responsible rather than merely free.

Fake news works on percentages. What are the chances most readers gave up before we learned that opioid deaths from this regulatory debacle occurred in time for Edwards to know better? “. . . 92.1 opioid prescriptions were dispensed in 2016 in East Baton Rouge Parish for every 100 people, compared with the national average of 66.5 prescriptions per 100 people. The 2015 rate was even higher at 96.1 prescriptions per 100 people.”

I would like collaboration to discover the-objective-truth; “delicious” is a dead giveaway to press irresponsibility.

Transparent budget (Elizabeth Crisp) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_9451929e-0324-11e8-b7a5-c34ca60422a3.html)

This is the first step: online transparency by which civic citizens can discover the theft we have been suffering for decades. But I think Cooper is correct: A civic people will still have to work hard to get the actual data.

Democrats on the run (Tyler Bridges) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_805b4388-fd76-11e7-8c31-c351a9e42445.html)

The Democrats sealed their own fate when they collaborated to create AMO, five decades ago. I’m thinking it’s such an infamous story they will never recover. The Congressional Black Caucus may give up the skin color gig, and OFA may realize that coalition for disturbance is dead. Civic morality is not discovered based on skin color or other ethnic distinction: The American republic steadfastly marches toward statutory justice.

The GOP owns no better civic morality, so the recent fear of a resurgence of Judeo-Christian dominance ought to be taken lightly: be the religious believer you are, but it’s an offense to try to impose religion on civic citizens---they have their own beliefs. I’m sharing experience and observations anyone can discover on their own.

The nadir of competition for dominant opinion may have occurred, and the ascent toward mutual, comprehensive safety and security seems underway. Call me a dreamer, but I think many people are paying attention to the civic agreement that is offered by the preamble to the constitution for the USA. On that agreement, the citizens are divided: civic citizens vs dissidents against collaborating to develop statutory justice.

Spite about a man’s death (Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko) (alvareviewcourier.com/story/2018/01/28/interesting-items/justice-ginsburg-signals-her-intent-to-work-for-years-more/28543.html) 

“When Ginsburg had a second cancer surgery, for pancreatic cancer in 2009, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., inelegantly forecast that she would die within a year. He later apologized. Bunning died last year.”

I doubt anyone but the people of the Associated Press like such spite.

Holocaust remembered Jan 27 (Vanessa Gera and Matthew Lee) (chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-holocaust-remembrance-day-warning-20180127-story.html)

Grateful as I am for the article, I think The Advocate was negligent in not featuring this even in “Our Views.”

He can bring the racist community together (Emma Discher) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_2cd96b0e-0073-11e8-81b9-7bd683c68d9d.html)

I appreciate this introduction to Chief of Police Murphy Paul.

“Perhaps the toughest job will be repairing what many in the black community say has been a sometimes rocky relationship with the BRPD over the years, brought to light by the Sterling shooting and protests. This was a key priority named by Broome when she talked about finding a new chief.” I hope Paul can distance himself from enforcing statutory justice based on skin color.

“. . . the BRPD will need to complete an internal affairs investigation of whether the officers followed policy in their confrontation with Sterling.” Why isn’t this an independent process that waits not?

I do not condone The Advocate giving an activist a voice in civil events. Anybody can disrupt the civil order, but a responsible press does not support AMO chaos.

I appreciate Murphy Paul volunteering for a great opportunity to serve the civic citizens of Baton Rouge by inspiring dissidents to collaborate for human justice. I think most people are civic citizens, but failure to articulate collaboration for mutual, comprehensive safety and security prevents the public integrity that is possible. The agreement that is stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA divides inhabitants: civic citizens versus dissident citizens and aliens.

Baton Rouge can be the first US city to establish private liberty with civic morality so that each person may responsibly pursue the happiness he or she perceives rather than the dictates of someone else.

    

Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

January 28, 2018

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom 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 to us by the USA. I am willing to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet may settle on and would always preserve the original text.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_faf33e34-0087-11e8-9ef6-8352e9851d78.html)

“. . . a good prescription for the other activities of the U.S. government that help give a ladder up for people in this country.” The Advocate shamelessly pushes social democracy: redistribution of personal income---even abusing children’s health care to do so.

Civic citizens of Louisiana would benefit from a barbarity index to help emphasize the abuse of children that is routine here; oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300093.001.0001/acprof-9780195300093-chapter-4.

I support CHIP, because a civic culture takes care of its vulnerable people, and none are more vulnerable than newborns and children. Google “Child incentives brief,” to consider our perhaps $1 billion/yr proposal to motivate children to take charge their personal acquisition of the understanding and intent to live a full human life of some 90 years. It’s because most parents have no clue as to how to prepare children for the future, as always; see katsandogz.com/onchildren.html. That’s the reason a civil culture coaches and encourages rather than teaches children. Know about “Child incentive brief,” and help make it or better happen.

But The Advocate arrogantly springs from supporting innocent children to taking from civic citizens and giving to dissidents---people who could care less about the civic agreement that is offered citizens in the preamble to the constitution for the USA.

The Advocate may reform any time the people who work for it think reform is needed. Regardless, we live in the American republic and have no desire for it to be changed to any form of democracy, socialism, communism, communitarianism, advocacy, or any other chaos.

Our Views, Jan 23 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_d5a7331c-ff9f-11e7-aaf0-f79bb0036f0a.html)

To JT McQuitty: I copied it into the same file with the "possibilities" essay, which I read, but doubt I will read "Lazy", valuable is such a short propaganda for communism may be.

 

I found it interesting that Marx said of his son-in-law's work, "If they're Marxists, I'm not." See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lafargue.

Today’s thought (prb)

“Evolution has taught that only the human individual has the physical and psychological power to collaborate for responsible freedom.”

One person responded, “That’s right. And if everyone behaves for responsible freedom they may enjoy private liberty.”

Another said, “But some disagree, and some dissidents cause harm, so a higher power is required.”

The one answered, “But the collaborators develop statutory justice in order to constrain the dissidents so they may consider responsible freedom for private liberty.”

Columns

I did not realize how bad John Bel Edwards has been (Dan Fagan) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_0be7c756-020d-11e8-a174-ab3d65d2ee34.html)

I thought Edwards’ Medicaid expansion was to attract social democracy and AMO votes but did not suspect he was pandering to evil money makers preying on vulnerable people. I am that naïve but am working to discover the-objective-truth.

Kavanagh and Rich report (George Will) (www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/01/24/george-f-will-some-policy-dentistry-could-combat-truth-decay/)

“. . . campuses have become safe spaces for dime-store Nietzscheans (there are no facts, only interpretations)”

“Truth Decay: An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life.” Down load ebook for free: rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2314.html.

Direct comparison between Florida and Louisiana (Jeff Sadow) theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/jeff_sadow/article_62bbce9c-0208-11e8-a05a-9b6e31b42bf0.html

Thank you for the research. I write against Edwards’s work all the time and have no idea just how bad he is.

News

Democrats: opioid entrappers---both suppliers and victims (Tyler Bridges) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_7c667572-02f8-11e8-ba90-53c92cef1f7c.html)

To Scuddy Leblanc: Tyler Bridges wrote and The Advocate published information about the opioid crisis; that’s about as close as I can imagine journalism, and I am grateful for it. The only thing unreported is any missing information. Thank you for the performance of free and responsible reporting, as much as it may be so.

The next reporting I’d like to see is names of Louisiana participants in the escalation of opioid deaths. Which Louisiana doctors did the escalated prescribing and what suppliers handed over the poison?

Most egregious is the mismanagement by the Louisiana Department of Health in Gov. Edwards’ expansion of Medicaid. Any way you cut it, it is wrongful of Gov. Edwards to yield to the people who stood to gain from his misguided “It’s the right thing to do.” The people who died and their families do not feel good about being pawns in Edwards’ ambitions.

Let me take back the broad-brush approval of this report, to point out an opinion. Bridges’ lead statement, “The latest legal standoff has created a delicious irony,” is dead give-away to writer’s pride. As long as such pride prevents journalistic humility, the writer cannot rise to the profession. The Advocate could lend writers help and directions, if the editors were free and responsible rather than merely free.

Fake news works on percentages. What are the chances most readers gave up before we learned that opioid deaths from this regulatory debacle occurred in time for Edwards to know better? “. . . 92.1 opioid prescriptions were dispensed in 2016 in East Baton Rouge Parish for every 100 people, compared with the national average of 66.5 prescriptions per 100 people. The 2015 rate was even higher at 96.1 prescriptions per 100 people.”

I would like collaboration to discover the-objective-truth; “delicious” is a dead giveaway to press irresponsibility.

Transparent budget (Elizabeth Crisp) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_9451929e-0324-11e8-b7a5-c34ca60422a3.html)

This is the first step: online transparency by which civic citizens can discover the theft we have been suffering for decades. But I think Cooper is correct: A civic people will still have to work hard to get the actual data.

Democrats on the run (Tyler Bridges) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_805b4388-fd76-11e7-8c31-c351a9e42445.html)

The Democrats sealed their own fate when they collaborated to create AMO, five decades ago. I’m thinking it’s such an infamous story they will never recover. The Congressional Black Caucus may give up the skin color gig, and OFA may realize that coalition for disturbance is dead. Civic morality is not discovered based on skin color or other ethnic distinction: The American republic steadfastly marches toward statutory justice.

The GOP owns no better civic morality, so the recent fear of a resurgence of Judeo-Christian dominance ought to be taken lightly: be the religious believer you are, but it’s an offense to try to impose religion on civic citizens---they have their own beliefs. I’m sharing experience and observations anyone can discover on their own.

The nadir of competition for dominant opinion may have occurred, and the ascent toward mutual, comprehensive safety and security seems underway. Call me a dreamer, but I think many people are paying attention to the civic agreement that is offered by the preamble to the constitution for the USA. On that agreement, the citizens are divided: civic citizens vs dissidents against collaborating to develop statutory justice.

Spite about a man’s death (Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko) (alvareviewcourier.com/story/2018/01/28/interesting-items/justice-ginsburg-signals-her-intent-to-work-for-years-more/28543.html)

“When Ginsburg had a second cancer surgery, for pancreatic cancer in 2009, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., inelegantly forecast that she would die within a year. He later apologized. Bunning died last year.”

I doubt anyone but the people of the Associated Press like such spite.

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quora.com/If-Socrates-was-alive-today-would-Quora-block-his-opinions 

I don’t think so. Socrates was a philosopher. He tried to discover the-objective-truth by rational thought. He needed other philosophers with whom to dialogue in order to expand his viewpoints.

For example, in Symposium, a first principle comes from Agathon, and he starts as a reaction to the speakers who came before him. I never thought of it this way before, but just now, I paraphrase Agathon’s message as fidelity rather than love or appreciation: Fidelity’s greatest power is that it can neither impose nor tolerate force. I think that change—-from appreciation to fidelity—-comes from reading today with MWW, Jane Eyre, Chapter 28 and other endeavors together.

To me, sharing is the purpose and service of quora: to provide a free exchange by which participants may expand their perspectives. I post to learn.

   

Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

Neither God nor government can usurp responsible human independence

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom 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 to us by the USA. I am willing to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet may settle on and would always preserve the original text.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_ce795b1c-01fa-11e8-bf0e-070099b2443c.html)

The Advocate freely takes no responsibility when it mimics Gov. Edwards' lame excuse for leadership: "Stabilize state finances, improve elementary and secondary education, invest in colleges and universities, spend money on roads and infrastructure."

  

Only individuals have the authority to control their private energy; to develop behavior for their personal benefit during every decade of one life. A free and responsible press, a master of information and research, may give readers ideas for how to accomplish what seems impossible. For example, for each infant, in the first two decades, develop the skills that empower understanding and intent to live a full, human life. Think I'm wrong? Write a better idea, The Advocate or readers.

I encourage people who work for The Advocate to promote collaboration to discover the-objective-truth rather than conflict for dominant opinion. Also, stop wasting energy on promoting conflicts, such as church, skin-color, or trying to impose social democracy (chaos) in public meetings like EBRP Metro-Council meetings (civic collaboration under civil order).
 

We commend the Louisiana congressional delegation, the Louisiana legislature, the administration, the judiciary, and all public authorities in Louisiana to consider the language of a civic people: It is being generated in EBRP library meetings and in other discussions. But that does not diminish its quality for individual living. Personal living accumulates as public life.

The goal is private liberty with civic morality, in other words, human justice.

Our Views, Jan 23 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_d5a7331c-ff9f-11e7-aaf0-f79bb0036f0a.html)

To JT McQuitty: As a learning exercise, I like to paraphrase for 2018 the message I am reading. My take on Keynes’ 1928 four things for achieving economic bliss: balance population for widespread prosperity, don’t waste energy on conflict, collaborate to discover the-objective-truth, observe that accumulation=production-consumption.

 

I will be using this in my future and appreciate learning from you, as always. In addition, "panarchy" and synonyms give me a heads up on a theory of a civic people. There will always be dissidents, but political bliss is possible with a civic culture. That is, a culture wherein most citizens are collaborating for mutual, comprehensive safety and security.

 

Two other points about the Keynes essay. He is obviously a Christian, yet religion does not enter his four requirements for bliss unless civic imposition of your religion is causing conflict. Second, while I work constantly to preserve and increase my wealth, small as it is: I am not willing to work, be an entrepreneur or otherwise compromise reading, writing, and considering responses. But the best 3 hours/day in my life is the time I spend with MWW, daughters, family, friends, and strangers.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 37:8-9 CJB)

“Stop being angry, put aside rage, and don't be upset - it leads to evil. For evildoers will be cut off, but those hoping in ADONAI will inherit the land.”

Dean says, “Where do you stand?”

I have not inherited the land.

Letters

Press leaks (Bourgoyne) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_cfa6d4a2-01fe-11e8-bc7f-abfc16e537c1.html)

The press created my impression of the FBI. The FBI has been severely wounded by Barack Obama’s AMO direction and the presence of nanny-state adult-adolescents, perhaps like James Comey, who seemingly never beheld integrity. 

The press was wounded when the First Amendment was not ratified “free and responsible press” rather than "freedom of the press." Only a civic people can save the press, by so amending the First Amendment or better.

There are few columnists I do not read. I even read Eugene-Washington-and-Michael-Barone-hallucinations in today’s paper. I usually read Stephie’s caption and may scan the column. However, I do not read the Robert’s caption. I’d rather count the petals on a rose bloom. (MWW’s varieties range from 10 to 50.)

Boycott super bowl (Palmisano) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_d7c75976-006a-11e8-8fcc-bf8b79d41f10.html)

dailysignal.com/2018/01/25/nfl-rejects-veterans-pleasestand-ad-for-super-bowl-lii/

Columns

Writer on the run (Froma Harrop) (spokesman.com/stories/2018/jan/27/froma-harrop-a-shutdown-not-to-remember/)

Harrop is such a fervent resister it is not surprising she wants to forget a social-democracy drubbing.

Yet I hope she is observing a trend:  no more Democrats and no more Republicans, only Americans collaborating to discover and benefit from the-objective-truth. (I realize she could not write that.)

President Trump: a servant of the people (Eugene Washington) (timesunion.com/opinion/article/Eugene-Robinson-Trump-has-no-idea-he-s-being-used-12523530.php)

In his inaugural address President Trump convinced me he wants to give the power back to the people. In his first year, he showed me he is an administrator first and leader second. He submits to the constitution for the USA and asks for help from like-minded people. More importantly, the first sentence, the preamble, is a civic contract, and unlike some presidents, President Trump did not set his personal sovereignty aside under the pretext of “serving the presidency.”

President Trump: a servant of the people (Michael Barone) creators.com/read/michael-barone/01/18/tough-road-ahead-for-trump-in-year-2

Barone had best write to his Democrat legislators and officials urging them to jump ship before it sinks.

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Donald Trump Survey due tonight. (ID 17346073) Failed as blocked, but the message below went through separately.

From evolution humankind learned a first principle: Among all the species, only the human individual has the authority to establish responsible freedom.

The individual may hope for salvation by his or her God and expect a people (nation) to collaborate for mutual, comprehensive safety and security. However, in daily conversation, transactions, and civic influence, only the individual may judge his or her actions so as to collaborate for human justice. In other words, neither God nor government can usurp your opportunity to behave for mutual justice.

The widespread education and commitment to these principles is our hope for the USA in 2018.

A good starting point is the preamble: read, comprehend, paraphrase, restate for personal lifestyle, then decide: Do I commit to this agreement or not?

I, President Donald R. Trump, accept the human authority and judgement to behave in my connections with fellow citizens so as to establish human justice. As follow citizen, I ask you to consider a similar mutual trust and commitment for 2018 and beyond.

libertylawsite.org/2018/01/26/originalism-needs-an-adult-education-program

In my early (and continuing) efforts to introduce this forum to the idea of public use of the agreement that is offered in the preamble in order to establish civic morality based on the-objective-truth, I stated that law professors may ask themselves, “Does my work collaborate with civic citizens?” If “No,” then the professor might want to make changes so as to collaborate with fellow citizens. I suggest engaging the public: They include adults, some of whom are in charge of the American republic.

I see no evidence that the public wants originalism. In fact, I think the public is too psychologically powerful to submit to controversies from the past and the massive volumes of commentary from 230 years of competitive scholarship.

In the competition between Manafort, whose family and home was invaded (it seems, unconstitutionally) by order of Mueller’s heavy-handed zeal, I think the public will side with Manafort. The public thinks a man and family and home are innocent until proven guilty; its seems Mueller abused the Manafort family.

Law professors, lawyers, Senators, and scholars are first citizens, who, on reading the agreement that is offered in the preamble may make a choice: either to trust and commit to the civic agreement or to be a dissident to the preamble’s offer. Abraham Lincoln said that justice comes from a civic people.

Likewise, a person has the authority to spend his or her personal energy to behave for responsible freedom or not. If so, he or she may develop the judgment on which to behave with integrity. Tragically, many people who witness before Congress honestly express never having encountered integrity. Perhaps James Comey is another tragic example.

When a civic citizen is collaborating to discover and benefit from the-objective-truth, he or she may discover injustice in the law and collaborate for justice. If so, originalism has little value beyond the text to be amended. To put it another way, the-objective-truth does not respond to originalism. Rather originalism gets corrected by the-objective-truth.

The-objective-truth about slavery existed long before slavery was first practiced. Was any originalism ever pertinent to slavery? It seems not.

   

Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.