September 30, 2024 - Non-Registered Voters, Tim Snyder on the G.O.P. Ticket, Granola, Baseball, Football, and a Word from Jefferson

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Believe It or Not, There are Many Out There Who are Not Registered to Vote

If you are not a registered voter, Monday, October 7, is the last day that you can register (at least in Palm Beach County).  Remind your friends!  Tell them to contact the Supervisor of Elections at https://www.votepalmbeach.gov/Voters/Register-to-Vote.  It can be done online!

JL

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Yale University’s Timothy Snyder Speaks Out on Trump’s ‘Hitlerian Month’

More than one critic has pointed out the similarity between the actions and words of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and those of the two candidates heading the 2024 Republican presidential ticket, Donald Trump and JD Vance.  Their supporters have defended the two of them and attacked those bringing up that the Republican candidates often take such seemingly ‘Hitlerian’ positions.  

While not formally Nazis, Trump and Vance seem to
 think in the same direction as Germany's dictator did.

Snyder points out that indeed, Trump and Vance are echoing Nazi ideas, especially antisemitism, and using the tactic of turning the tables by condemning one’s critics for criticizing them. Of late, Trump has been suggesting that Jews might be blamed should he lose in November, and Vance has found another minority, Haitians, to scapegoat.

Take the time to visit  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/WhctKLbMwJvtVHwSqpGHmPzqNrtxCppMTqjDBWNgXbSVzcdCnwnBqRFsLkbwgsGlNSDqTZg  to read the article or read it by CLICKING HERE.  It is not a ‘happy’ read, but it is an essential one.

JL

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The Words of Thomas Jefferson Still Resonate

Many politicians fail to recognize that a public office is a public trust. 

Thomas Jefferson wrote that ‘When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property, and justly liable to the inspection and vigilance of public opinion; and the more sensibly he is made to feel his dependence, the less danger will there be of his abuse of power, that rock on which good governments, and the people’s rights, have been so often wrecked.’

New York City’s Mayor should take note of this.  Once in office, elected officeholders must recognize that their current and past actions will be under a spotlight and monitored.  This ought to prevent the possibility of their abusing their power.  But it doesn’t!

Many, most recently including former Congressman George Santos, former New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, and even the forty-fifth president of the United States to varying degrees have stumbled on ‘that rock’ which Jefferson mentions and suffer the consequences.

Democracy is weakened when those who fail to recognize this are elected to office by a gullible and easily fooled electorate. 

JL

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Granola Label Questioned

It amazed me to see a label on a 17 oz. package of Nature Valley Granola declaring that it contained ‘50% More Granola than our 11 oz. package.’ Of course it does.  Why?  it’s a larger package!  

Only an idiot need be told that if you increase a package size by 50%, it will be able to contain 50% more of whatever its content is.  I suppose General Mills, whose product this is, believes that its granola consumers lack the arithmetic skills of an elementary school student. Maybe it’s something they put in the granola.

JL

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Sports Section

Baseball - Several months ago, I predicted that the Miami Marlins would lose 107 games this year.   Surprisingly, they finished the season with only 100 losses while winning 62 games, better than two other major league teams, the Chicago White Sox and the Colorado Rockies! 

Now we can concentrate on the baseball playoffs where the Detroit Tigers, the Houston Astros, the Kansas City Royals, and the Baltimore Orioles battle to see who challenges the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Guardians for the American League’s World Series slot. 

After today we’ll know for sure if it will be the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves who join the Milwaukee Brewers and the San Diego Padres in the National League playoffs.  They play a doubleheader today and if one of them sweeps it, eliminating the other, the door still might be open for the Arizona Diamondbacks to see who challenges the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers to represent the National League in the World Series, where I predict the Yankees will defeat the Phillies in seven games.

Football - As for NFL football, the local Miami Dolphins as well as the New England Patriots, the New York Jets, and the New York Giants for which some local fans, originally from up north, still root, are going nowhere this season.  If you want to follow a team, consider the Baltimore Ravens whose stellar quarterback, Lamar Jackson, is a product of Boynton Beach High School.

JL

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Again, I urge you to forward this posting to anyone you think might benefit from reading it, particularly if they are a registered voter. There are just about just five weeks remaining until Election Day. Spread the word. 

 

JL 

 

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