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.

Other forums

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.