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I’ve seen the TV ads Florida’s troglodyte Senator Rick
Scott is running against Debbie Muscarsel-Powell, pointing out her earlier
campaigns for public office, some successful, some not, but all of which were aimed at serving the people,
at the same time that Scott’s former hospital company (he was its CEO) was
being convicted of Medicare fraud, fleecing the people
and the government.
The TV ad ends showing a fictitious license plate for
Debbie with one word on it: ‘Socialist,’ as
if anything starting with the first six letters of
that word, s-o-c-i-a-l, were automatically evil. I suppose that
coincides with Scott’s idea of putting Social
Security (and Medicare) up for renewal every five years. Any senior who
votes for Scott should have their head examined.
Looks like Scott’s ad agency is so taken in by MAGA malarky
that they think it resonates with everyone.
They are wrong. It's up to Florida voters to prove that!
The time to replace Rick Scott with Debbie Muscarsel-Powell
has arrived. His candidacy should be
buried along with that of Trump as Florida goes blue at last in November.
JL
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To Be or Not to Be
In his September 24 posting, with the Shakespearian quote
as its heading, Yale professor Timothy Snyder wrote, in referring to ending
Ukraine’s war with Russia, that ‘one cannot simply choose to negotiate with a
power that openly seeks to bring about the end of your nation and state,’ it
being a question of choosing between ‘being’ or ‘not being’ an independent
nation.
He points out that negotiations will only be possible when
Russia abandons its idea of ending Ukraine’s nationhood, and Snyder goes on to
point out the necessity of American support in accomplishing that.
The same logic can be applied to Israel’s reluctance to
commit to full negotiations with parties that are sworn to end its
nationhood. Israel is doing a dance,
using military and less conspicuous means, with or without America’s support,
to convince their antagonists and their Iranian puppeteers, to abandon that
position. Only then can real,
meaningful, negotiations take place.
JL
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The Success of President Biden’s Economic Plans
When President Biden recently spoke to a group of
economists, he based the extraordinary economic successes of the past three and
a half years upon the American
Rescue Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Science and CHIPS Act. He
told the audience: “American business, our economic
dynamism can’t succeed…without a stability and security that makes us the envy
of the world.”
These pieces of legislation, passed without Republican help, are what
make this possible. They are the direct
results of Democratic victories in the 2020 election.
This blows into smithereens the traditional Republican
theory of an economy where the profits of businesses and the wealthy ‘trickle
down’ to working families and fails to directly address the economic wellbeing
of most of the nation’s working population. Just remember that voting for Republicans in any election,
national or local, is like sleeping outdoors in a bed of poison ivy and is to
be avoided.
JL
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Gasoline Prices
Those who criticize President Biden (transferring their
opinion to Kamala Harris' campaign) often cite high gas prices as an example of
inflation.
No longer so!
Gasoline prices bounce around depending on the available supply and vary
daily and are far lower than they were a year ago. On Monday I filled my tank at a ‘no-name-brand’ station with
regular gas at $2.97 per gallon! Name
brands were about a dime more a gallon, but within a day, even ‘regular’ at the
‘no-name’ station was up about twenty cents.
But that is not the fictitious $4 a gallon price right-wingers claim
exists. That’s just misinformation.
JL
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Drafting Players in the Schoolyard
Years ago, before playing a game of ‘touch’ football in the
schoolyard, I recall the kids present ‘choosing up sides.’ As a result, the better athletes were not
always on the same teams. (Usually, the
two best athletes were ‘captains’ of the two teams doing the choosing.)
That’s similar to what the ‘transfer’ portal has done to college athletics, particularly football and basketball. It is almost like what in major league baseball is called ‘free agency.’ It may sound trite, but it's a new ball game on college gridirons and basketball courts.
The teams of lesser institutions that used to engage in money-making
games against big time schools that were looking for what amounted to early
season scrimmages, now actually have a chance of defeating them, (Example:
Northern Illinois’ recent victory over Notre Dame) and even more often,
providing at least very creditable competition, based on transfer students.
If an athlete feels he (or she) is talented enough to ‘make it’ at a higher level of competition, or available compensation through use of their name, image, or likeness (N.I.L.) seems greater at another school, they can opt to transfer to that school by following the procedures of the ‘transfer portal.’
In the minds of many college
athletes is the maximization of their chances of being selected by a
professional team, where the really big money begins to flow, and the ‘transfer
portal’ is there for them to seek greater exposure that might lead there.
Sometimes a coach in need of greater athletic talent than
his school’s enrollment or recruiting has provided will search those coming
through that ‘portal’ to see if there are players there who meet his school’s
needs.
But is this good for the sport or the schools involved?
JL
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JL
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