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Marriage Counsellor SoughtI understand that lovely couple, Donald and Elon, are breaking up. Read all about it anywhere you choose. Any news source that avoids reporting on it is not to be trusted nor respected. But here is what noted economist Robert Reich had to say about it:
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| Robert Bernard Reich is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator who worked in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, was President Clinton's Secretary of Labor for his first term and was also a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. |
‘That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists—and that they both individually wield such massive power—is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.’
Anything that indicts our political system, as the public's concern over this break-up seems be doing, is good reason to carefully examine that system; I have frequently pointed out its ‘Achilles Heel’ which nurtured the excesses of these two gentlemen, and goes back to the writing of our Constitution. Check the Archive off to the right to search for the blog's articles on that 'Achilles Heel.'
JL
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Violent Antisemitism
Sunday’s Molotov cocktail assault in Boulder followed the killing in May of two young Israeli embassy aides in Washington, D.C., and the April firebombing of the governor’s mansion in Harrisburg, Pa., where Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were celebrating Passover.
These events cannot be viewed separately. Together, they represent a resurgence of what violent antisemitism looks like.
They may start off as a reaction to Israel’s massive and understandable military response to Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7, 2023 attack on it, grow into a hatred of Zionism and the State of Israel’s very existence, and ultimately evolve into such acts of violent domestic antisemitism.
A lot has been written about this and its effect on the Jewish community throughout the nation. A fine example is from USA Today. Check it out by CLICKING HERE or copying and pasting https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/04/antisemitic-attacks-jewish-community-safety-security/83989144007/
on your browser line.
JL
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Check Out Professor Richardson
And while you’re clicking away, don’t miss what Heather Cox Richardson had to say in her postings dated June 2, 3, and 4. Just CLICK HERE or copy and paste https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com on your browser line and click ‘Enter.’
Of course this is unneccesary if you already are among those receiving her ‘Letters from an American’ directly; its basic version is free and I recommend it.
(Incidentally, Professor Richardson’s entitling her daily postings ‘Letters from an American’ is a take-off on ‘Letters from an American Farmer,’ a famous book written by Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and published in London in 1782 serving to acquaint the English with the new nation.)
I was about to incorporate some of her views in this posting of Jackspotpourri but it quickly became evident that they deserved to be included in full so I recommend your checking them out via the link shown above. Professor Richardson incorporates many sources in her daily digest which often merges today’s politics with yesterday’s and tomorrow’s history. Her June 5 posting on the eve of the anniversary of ‘D-Day’ is a fine example.
JL
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A Story from the Thirties
During the 1930’s, before the days of the internet and TV, opponents of the New Deal enjoyed passing around this apocryphal story:
‘Each day a businessman would stop at the newsstand in the lobby of the building where he worked. He would pay for a paper, just a nickel or less in those days, glance at its front page, and throw it in a nearby trash can. Finally, one day the man running the newsstand turned to him and asked why he was repeatedly doing that, day after day. The businessman replied that he was looking for an obituary. ‘Oh, they’re way back in the paper and you’re missing them,’ responded the newspaper seller. The businessman’s answer was a quick one: ‘When this son of a bitch dies, it’ll be all over page one!’
Yes, ‘apocryphal’ in the 1930s and perhaps subsequently as well.
JL
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A Mean Photograph
I had occasion to visit a local Veterans Administration facility today in regard to my hearing aids, which I get through the VA. While waiting, I noticed the photo of President Trump on the waiting room wall, where the current President's picture is always displayed. It is a dreadful image, in which Trump seems to be sneering or even about to snarl 'Don't worry, I'm coming after you,' at those seated in the waiting room. His eyes seem hard and cruel in the photo. Here is a copy of the photo. I hope most veterans sitting in that room, and rooms like it throughout the country, take note of this. The camera reveals a lot.
JL
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Housekeeping on Jackspotpourri
Your comments on this ‘blog’ would be appreciated. My Email address is jacklippman18@gmail.com.
I would be interested in hearing from anyone in any of the following categories who support President Trump and those in Congress who vote to bring his ideas to fruition, and who would like their views included on Jackspotpourri:
• Senior Citizens
• Others on Medicare or Medicaid
• Veterans
• Persons of Color
• Latinos
• College Students
• Those Considered to be part of an LGBTQ community.
• Members of Particular Religious Faiths.
I would appreciate those responding including their primary sources of news (Newspapers, TV Channels, Internet sites, etc.).
Sources of Information on Jackspotpourri: The sources of information used by Jackspotpourri include a delivered daily ‘paper’ newspaper (currently the Palm Beach Post, a Gannett publication) and what appears in my daily email.
Be aware that when I open that email, I take these steps:
1. I quickly scan the sources of the dozen or two emails I still get each day at my old email address to see from where they are being sent. Without reading 99% of them, I usually immediately delete them.
2. I then go to the email arriving at jacklippman18@gmail.com. Gmail enables ‘Promotion’ emails to be so designated and separated out. I believe their criteria are whether or not they end up asking for donations or if they are no more than advertisements. I ignore most of these emails without reading them, deleting them. A very few, perhaps one or two a day, get moved over to the two or three dozen other emails which I will actually open.
3. Then I read my email.
Besides email, my other source of information is the Google search engine where I can look up any subject I want.
Lately, these search results have been headed by a very generalized summary clearly labeled as being developed by AI (Artificial Intelligence). I do not use such summaries in preparing Jackspotpourri.
Following such ‘AI’ search results, there follows the results of my initially having accessed Google (or any other search engine) for information. Contrary to the AI-generated summaries, the sources of these results are clearly indicated.
I feel that It comes down to who YOU want to be in the driver’s seat in seeking information, yourself or something else (AI), the structure of which somewhere along the way had to have been created by others, with whose identity I am neither familiar nor comfortable.
(In doing searches on Google, I have found that these AI summaries can sometimes … but not always … be avoided by saying so in your search. For example, instead of searching for ‘FDR’s New Deal,’ I might search for ‘FDR’s New Deal – No AI.’ This is a work in progress.)
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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.
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.
JL
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