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Voters Believe Lies and There are Plenty of Liars Out There - The Legitimization of Ignorance
Those who instigated the lawbreakers who tried to overthrow our Constitution on January 6, 2021 are still roaming free because of the legitimatization of ignorance, made possible by the First Amendment as well as the availability of lawyers to delay, appeal and confuse issues.
Voters readily believe lies, confuse protest with insurrection, refuse to follow CDC Covid19 recommendations, cannot distinguish between opinion and fact, and consider choosing authoritarianism as a legitimate exercise of their inherent freedoms. They attack our schools; they fight to deny women the right to choose to have an abortion; they want everyone to be able to carry a sidearm everywhere, to protect their ‘freedoms;.’ they want to restrict voting by those with whom they disagree. And the Constitution gives them the right to do all of this!
Don't kid yourself. It will get a lot worse
for us all before it finally gets better.
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The big problem with Joe
Rogan, whose podcasts were just purchased by Spotify, a giant in the music
streaming field, for hundreds of millions of dollars, is that the freedom he
allows his guests legitimizes ignorance.
Too many of his listeners can’t tell the difference between truth and
fantasy and downright lying which are all mixed together by him. That is not good.
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A Gross Understatement
Also in the news this week was the President’s denying the defeated former president's claim of executive privilege in regard to releasing the White House visitors' logs, President Biden's White House counsel asked the National Archives to hand them over quickly "in light of the urgency" of the committee's work and Congress' "compelling need." THAT IS A GROSS UNDERSTATEMENT, IF EVER THERE WERE ONE!
A new Congress is up for grabs in 33 weeks along with the fate
of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 events. Time is
running short. Remember it took ten years for Remington's partial
responsibility for the Sandy Hook shootings to work its way through litigation.
Anytime lawyers are involved, they can reach into their toolkit for ways to
postpone and delay. The clock is ticking. Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Tick
Tock, Tick Tock, Tick Tock!
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Stop, Look and Listen Department
Here's a letter I’ve
sent to the Palm Beach Post after a series of accidents at train grade
crossings. I doubt that they will print
it.
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| Some Florida Drivers Just Don't Pay Attention |
“It is in the interest
of South Florida’s residents’ safety to follow Brightline’s very clear warnings
at rail crossings. But Brightline seems to have ignored the fact that many
Floridians are notorious for not doing things which are in their interest, as clearly
evidenced by the folks they repeatedly elect to represent them in Tallahassee
and Washington. We also know that it would have been in the public’s interest
if the FEC tracks, to accommodate Brightline, were elevated or depressed in
urban areas, eliminating grade crossings, as are the tracks carrying the
similar Acela trains in the Northeast, but that was far too much to have hoped
for in Florida.”
Incidentally, I am about
to cancel my ‘paper’ subscription to the Palm Beach Post due to delivery
problems. I might just go along with the
‘online’ subscription. It bothers me
that they have transferred their customer service to the Philippines, putting
local Americans out of jobs, augmenting the millions of ‘retail’ jobs which
have gone down the tube, many replaced by internet purchasing. The answer might
be a mandatory maximum twenty or thirty-hour workweek, with benefits of
course. While it is true that
unemployment is down, the available job openings demand skills the unemployed usually
do not have. Even swinging a shovel in a coal mine is being replaced by natural
gas pipelines
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Democrats don't yet get it that the only way they can maintain control of Congress, and to avoid the demise of the Select Committee investigating January 6, is to register massive numbers of women and persons of color, two groups whose interests are specifically targeted by Republicans, putting everything else on the back burner, including intra-party disagreements. That's it. Period.
Check this New York Times piece on this challenge to them. CLICK HERE to read the article or visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/opinion/democrats-biden-voters.html
JL
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A Local Tragedy and Lurking Anti-Semitism
Locally, a seventh grader riding his dirt bike
in Boynton Beach was recently killed when his bike rammed a tree. The boy, who was Black, was being followed by a
police car because he evidently was riding in the middle of the street. Some say the police car was involved in the
crash. No camera evidence is available
and the details are still being investigated by City and other
authorities. But this hasn’t stopped
protests, including those at City Commission meetings. After defending the necessity of the ongoing
investigations, a member of the Commission was the target of a rant by a resident
who addressed him as “buster” and accused him of being “part of the KKK." He
went on to say that “You’re a Jew, you’re racist, you’re all that.” The
Commissioner replied, “Did you just say I’m in the KKK and I’m a Jew?” Things didn’t get much better after that
according to the story in the Palm Beach Post.
I relate this story because after years of supporting efforts to protect and fight for the rights of people of color by Jewish clergy, individuals and groups, many Blacks with short memories are lumping Jews with the rest of the white community, and not as people who have suffered from the same prejudices that Blacks face.
Add to this the supposed resentment of 'Jewish' landlords and shopkeepers which openly anti-Semitic Blacks have been preaching for years, and of Black support for a Palestinian State to replace a supposedly 'apartheit' Israel, and you can get some idea of the dimensions of this problem. This is not only damaging
to the Jewish community, but to the Black community as well. Unfortunately, this also describes the
position of too many Blacks in political office, including the United States
Congress.
JL
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