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If your post office address is Boynton Beach, you had
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Republicans are Out to Destroy Democracy
Listen to what the lying and hypocritical Republicans are saying. Watch how they are cozying up to the convicted, soon-to-be-sentenced, felon they will name as their 2024 presidential candidate, out of fear of losing the votes of his mentally-drugged MAGA followers. Look how they mock the rule of law upon which this nation was founded, and misuse House committees to harass those with whom they disagree, like Attorney General Garland, New York D.A. Bragg, and even the retired Dr. Fauci.
Trump's campaign thus far, headlining retribution and revenge, with few constructive ideas to replace the democratic principles that it opposes, should serve to strengthen the unity and resolve of those who work to re-elect President Biden.
Look at the way they are delaying litigation in Georgia, Florida, and the District of Columbia, attempting to stall bringing Trump to justice, and using the Supreme Court as a weapon against the American people. Democracy is in danger. America's eyes must be kept open to the video evidence of their attempted insurrection on January 6, 2021.
American voters must recognize that our representative democracy is in great danger right now and work to preserve it! Using disagreement with President Biden on issues such as Israel, Ukraine, and revising immigration rules at our Southern border, as excuses to lessen the fervor which should move Ameican voters to preserve democracy by supporting Joe Biden's re-election can only give comfort and strength to the convicted felon who the Republicans will nominate. Democracy is in danger. Republicans are out to destroy it!
(If you want a flyer to mount on cardboard and display in the rear window of your car ... as pictured above ... just ask me by email (jacklippman18@gmail.com) and I will get it to you. Unlike the national Democratic Party, which apparently does not consider Florida to be a 'battleground' state, I do! Belileve me when I say that Florida's voters can vote Rick Scott out of the Senate, Constitutionally protect abortion rights, and deliver thirty electoral votes to Joe Biden. All it will take is a lot of hard work between now and November 5.)
JL
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Resolving the War in Gaza Requires a Two-State Solution
A solution to the war in Gaza seems difficult to reach because those on all sides of the issues insist on treating the symptoms, rather than their cause, that being the question of a future Palestinian state.
No real and permanent solution will be reachable until (1) Hamas, or its remnants or similarly dedicated groups, permanently abandon their announced objective of eradicating the State of Israel from the map and replacing it with a Palestinian state, and (2) Israel accepts the approximate borders suggested by the 1947 United Nations partition plan, abandoning any ambition to permanently include most of the territory the Arabs lost to Israel in their unsuccessful wars since 1947, and which now contains many Israeli residents.
Without resolving these two contradictory positions, any solution to the war in Gaza will remain fragile and have little permanence. I believe both sides involved in negotiations are aware of this and as a result, are not eager to reach any solution. They might even prefer the war to continue on some level. Israel sees this as giving them more time to fully destroy Hamas' military capabilities and Hamas sees it as an opportunity to further label the Israelis as murderers of civilians, among whom their militants are intentionally embedded.
I suspect, however, that there are many individual Palestinians and many individual Israelis who feel otherwise and give achieving peace a higher priority. But such Palestinians fear the consequences of speaking out and such Israels are hampered by a right-wing government that might not represent the majority of its population.
A true diplomatic solution demands that both sides not just 'give a little,' but actually 'give a lot,' drastically changing their present positions, both of which end up being unworkable one-state solutions.
JL
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If You Live 'West of Boynton,' You Must Read This
To My Neighbors: The City of Boynton Beach, under its present or earlier names, has a history of financial problems. Back in the 1930s, to enable it to remain solvent, it gave up most of its beachfront to what became the incorporated communities of Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes, keeping just enough for a beachfront park.
Many of the communities developed over the past fifty years and generally referred to as being in Boynton Beach, and having a Boynton Beach Post Office address, are actually located west of the City of Boynton Beach's western border, which is about a quarter of a mile west of Congress Avenue, and are not part of that city, but considered to be unincorporated parts of Palm Beach County. Notice where the signs, like the one pictured above, are presently placed on Woolbright Road and Boynton Beach Boulevard. That marks the present Boynton Beach western city border.
Financial problems continue to haunt the City of Boynton Beach, almost a century after it sacrificed most of its oceanfront, and it now is attempting to annex the many non-incorporated areas to its west from which it presently profits by providing water and sewer services. The City's future right to annex these areas was part of the water and sewer utility agreements made with these communities' developers to provide these services. The City of Boynton Beach seems to consider that these residential communities now are bound by the annexation agreements agreed to by their developers. But this is what lawyers are for, and certainly, the communities involved and the Coalition of Boynton West Residential Associations (COBWRA) are in the course of retaining them.
That 'Coalition' (COBWRA) is now circulating a petition protesting this annexation attempt directed to all of the local and county political entities involved. I urge you to get your copy of the petition to sign and submit by copying and pasting this on your browser line, https://cobwra.org/boynton-beach-annexation-petition/ , or by CLICKING HERE
A summary of the facts about the annexation attempt is provided in COBWRA’s recent press release and can be found by copying and pasting this on your browser line, https://cobwra.org/?fluentcrm=1&route=email_preview&fc_newsletter=fc717dbe640ede5a20320ed7558ff286 , or by CLICKING HERE.
Most Individual residential associations should be providing this information to their members, and certainly, the annexation attempt has been written about in both the Sun-Sentinel and the Palm Beach Post, to which, unfortunately, not enough local residents bother to subscribe. We will continue to report on it in Jackspotpourri, some of whose recipients live in communities involved in the annexation attempt.
JL
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Housekeeping on Jackspotpourri
Strange “Hits’! The large number of those accessing Jackspotpouri from Singapore has suddenly ceased. In their place, however, there have appeared large numbers of ‘hits’ on each posting in the hundreds, and as was the case with those from Singapore, but this time from Hong Kong! I suspect that the Chinese are playing around with internet transmissions, possibly to try to identify who is reading them.
Email Alerts: If you are NOT receiving emails from me alerting you each time there is a new posting on Jackspotpourri, just send me your email address and we’ll see that you do. And if you are forwarding a posting to someone, you might suggest that they do the same, so they will be similarly alerted. You can pass those email addresses to me by email at jacklippman18@gmail.com.
Forwarding Postings: Please forward this posting to anyone you think might benefit from reading it. Friends, relatives, enemies, etc.
If you want to send someone the blog, you can just tell them to check it out by visiting https://jackspotpourri.blogspot.com or you can provide a link to that address in your email to them.
There’s another, perhaps easier, method of forwarding it though! Google Blogspot, the platform on which Jackspotpourri is prepared, makes that possible. If you click on the tiny envelope with the arrow at the bottom of every posting, you will have the opportunity to list up to ten email addresses to which that blog posting will be forwarded, along with a brief comment from you. Each will receive a link to click on that will directly connect them to the blog.
Either way will work, sending them the link to https://jackspotpourri.blogspot.com, or clicking on the envelope at the bottom of this posting.
Again, I urge you to forward this posting to anyone you think might benefit from reading it, particularly if they are a registered voter. This is an election year. Spread the word.
JL
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