February 2, 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_bdaca4ce-06b4-11e8-83f1-d30641841cc8.html)

I guess The Advocate honestly wields its freedom of the press, expecting no readers to respond to privations.

The record speaks:  The Edwards administration treats its constitutionally mandated responsibility for the budget as a political tool and focus for abuse. See theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_cab67cf4-ffa1-11e7-9e24-d71b15eed25a.html and the quotation, "I can't justify or defend any of the cuts in this budget," said Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, Edwards' chief budget architect.” Dardenne speaks of the budget he proposed.

As a civic citizen, I’m for firing both Dardenne and Edwards for such a cavalier attitude regarding a constitutional requirement.

Whether it’s a public abuse of La. Senator Sharon Hewitt (usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana/articles/2018-01-21/edwards-to-unveil-worst-case-scenario-louisiana-budget : “can’t understand it for you”) or proposing the Louisiana budget, there seems no civic morality in Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration. Edwards is responsible to the people of Louisiana, both civic citizens and dissidents.

And the irresponsible press, The Advocate, proposes that the Louisiana Legislature sincerely do the work the administration insincerely passed over---the work Edwards sincerely neglected.

I commend the Legislature to treat the administration with a cold shoulder; let the administrative neglect take its course; force Edwards to balance the budget with no new taxes.

Also, I hope a free and responsible press emerges in the Great State of Louisiana.
  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Psalms 39:4 CJB), The Advocate, February 2, 2018, 7B.

"Make me grasp, ADONAI, what my end must be, what it means that my days are numbered; let me know what a transient creature I am.”

Dean, says, “Life is short. Are you ready for eternity?”

Of course I am. I stopped following David’s instructions to God: Make me understand. I accept the obvious. I face an afterdeath, and it is probably as the literature teaches: “the dust returns to earth, as it was, and the spirit returns to God, who gave it!” Ecclesiastes 12:7 CJB.  (The last part seems doubtable.)

I doubt my person’s motivation and inspiration existed before my mom produced viable ova and my dad fertilized the one mom gestated and delivered as my infant. I expect my person will be terminated when my body and mind stop functioning.

My intentions and behavior work for civic justice in my life. But I cannot instruct God about my afterdeath, as David seemed to try, at least as Dean perceives David’s statement.

It seems to me The Advocate ought to be able to reason that neither David nor Dean is knowledgeable enough to advise God about an individual’s afterdeath, and therefore stop publishing such nonsense.

Let God be God without mysterious advice by David, Dean, and The Advocate.

Letters

Advertising the erroneous LFF (Colson) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_e5bd6c04-0525-11e8-965b-f34fad0d30e3.html)

I like both Winn's comments and Frady's comment and want to add to them.

Spare a civic people the arrogance of Christians purporting to speak for God: “Gene believes God is interested in all areas of life, including how we punish and rehabilitate.” It is plain that God leaves civic justice to the people.

And Colson could not get further from the American republic than the promotion, “everyone speaking out who values faith, fairness, restoration, and second chances.” America’s goal is statutory justice.

God is for salvation of souls. Justice is for salvation of lives. A civic people need to keep Christianity out of the civic forum by establishing, at last, separation of church from state.

Senator Cassidy, by encouraging the imposition of Christianity on statutory justice chooses to be a dissident against justice rather than a civic citizen. He makes himself part of what I call the Christian gestapo, insisting on the lower case “g.” Cassidy can make himself aware of Scalia’s statement about justice and salvation.

So far, I am disappointed in President Trump's will to further Chapter XI Machiavellianism in America, a practice that started in April - May, 1789, when the elected Congress erroneously gave itself the English tradition---the appearance of divinity---by hiring American factional-Protestant ministers. Our generation can end 229 years of religious injustice; we may accomplish it.

To do so, a civic people have to defeat both AMO and the Christian gestapo.

Free enterprise (Nutter) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_ffbd7094-0774-11e8-83c8-af300c17b4a0.html)

Moore and Frady make sense, but Nutter not so much.

I don’t understand the need for legislation.

Insurers may notify banks that they are opening for flood insurance coverage and lenders can refer homeowners to the free-enterprise option.

Is legislation necessary for free-enterprise?

Columns

Impure thoughts or errors? (Rich Lowry) (bakersfield.com/opinion/rich-lowry-donald-trump-s-impure-thoughts/article_07b71c1e-078e-11e8-a102-5324ee459442.html)

Lowry continues to write like a writer rather than a thinker or journalist. What’s this “impure thoughts” phrase supposed to convey? Error? Cunning? Obfuscation? Reticence? Caution?

Lowry’s nanny-state arrogance shines through, though, “It is certainly true that Trump has not, if he ever will, made the transition from thinking like the owner of a family business to thinking like a president entrusted with the care of our institutions.”

I have encountered lots of “truth” modifiers, but this is the first time I’ve noticed “certainly true.” When evaluating President Trump’s successes and failures, the best I can do represent myself is assert, “I do not know. Let’s see what happens.” Even that thought seems something I learned from Trump.

Partial list of Trump conservative enemies (Byron York) (jewishworldreview.com/0118/york012418.php3)

“The most extreme NeverTrumpers, like The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, simply rail against everything the president does.

At the Weekly Standard, for example . . . founder and editor-at-large, Bill Kristol, remains committed to Trump's defeat.

Max Boot, of the Council on Foreign Relations, worries that Republicans might maintain control of the House in November's elections, which would lower the chances of impeachment to nearly zero. So Boot, a lifelong Republican, is pulling for Democrats.

 

At The New York Times, conservative columnist Bret Stephens, author of the recent piece, "Why I'm Still a NeverTrumper," argues that reflexive NeverTrumpism actually harms the effort to resist the president. NeverTrump conservative columnist Ross Douthat -- all of the Times' conservative columnists are NeverTrumpers, which assures the paper a diversity of anti-Trump opinion -- recently debated NeverTrumper David Frum of The Atlantic on whether Trump's presidency has so far been a tragedy or a farce.”

Other forums

Review & Outlook, “The House Memo, the FBI and FISA,” Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2018, page A14.

Even the Wall Street Journal arrogantly defies the US Constitution’s promise of a republican form of government: “Our democracy can take the transparency, and after the 2016 fiasco it deserves it.”

Like many other media, popularly exercising irresponsible freedom of the press, the WSJ begs woe. Democracy not only promises but delivers chaos.

A civic people will do all they can to preserve the American republic---the rule of statutory justice---despite the WSJ and other irresponsible media.

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.