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.
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.
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.
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.
