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Your Weapons - The November Elections
The November mid-term elections are almost upon us! Make sure, RIGHT NOW, that you are properly registered to vote, and that you can do so by mail, postage-free. I just did so myself.
The rules for doing so (at least in Florida) have changed. You must vote … and urge your friends, neighbors, and relatives, wherever they may be, to do the same.
In Palm Beach County, your Supervisor of Elections’ office can be reached by clicking here or copying and pasting https://www.votepalmbeach.gov/#gsc.tab=0 on your device's browser line. It’s a simple website where you can get the necessary things done! Their phone number is (561) 656-6200. In other locales, just contact your Board of Elections.
JL
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The Congresswoman-in-Waiting
As of this moment, the House Speaker still has not enabled the swearing in of Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva to take place. She has access to what would be her office, but she is still not sworn in.
Congress is on a long vacation, made possible by the party that controls the presidency and Congress. The President likes it that way, knowing her presence will reopen still hidden parts of the Epstein story. The longer the government remains shut down and unfinanced, the more it makes his administrative actions likely. Be alert for them. Many are unconstitutional.
The shut-down is over continued financial support of health care programs included in Obamacare, programs that many millions of Americans below Medicare age depend upon. Democrats want them to remain. Republicans want to eviscerate them. It is that simple. Where do you stand?
If 'they' get away with that, I don't doubt that Medicare itself is next on their list. The author of the reactionary Program 2025, (the one the President lied about saying he wasn't familiar with), Russell Vought, is now Director of the government's Management and Budget.
JL
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‘
No Kings’ Demonstration on Saturday
Check out Simon Rosenberg’s ‘Hopium Chronicles’ to see what you missed if you weren’t at one of the demonstrations participated in by almost seven million of real Americans on Saturday in big cities and small towns. Just click here or copy and paste https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/hopium+chronicles+no+kings/WhctKLbmqJHVKlrwfTBPvBnPXVRjgKBnTTDHxcSTFKxnmDHZSbRFZHnqqtGKWtRTHmPkNDV on your device’s browser line to see the demonstrations.
And if that is a problem for you, similar pictures of the inspirational nationwide demonstrations are available from many internet sources. Just look for them.
And speaking of the ‘No Kings’ demonstration, please check out history Professor Heather Cox Richardson’s ‘Letters from an American’ dated October 20 which includes this:
“In January 1776, newly arrived immigrant Thomas Paine published Common Sense, explaining to his new countrymen why they should declare independence from the King of England. He called for a new government based not in heritage or tradition, but in the law. “In America the law is king,” Paine wrote. “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
That posting also shows that past loyalty to our wannabe King is no guarantee of avoiding his wrath. Too many of his supporters, in addition to his former National Security Advisor, the now-indicted John Bolton, are learning that the hard way. Don’t skip this! Click here or copy and paste https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ on your browser line.
JL
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What King Donald Thinks of the ‘No Kings’ Demonstrators
Although the President did not claim responsibility for it, his ‘Truth Social’ website did pass on this brief bit of disgusting and juvenile Artificial Intelligence chicanery that well represents the President’s demented opinion of those who demonstrated for true American values on Saturday. You can see it by copying and pasting https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115398251623299921 on your device’s browser line or by clicking here. Many such dishonest AI concoctions appear on that site.
JL
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A Change of Pace - Football Advice
As we approach the season for firing coaches in both the college and professional forms of football, here is some un-asked-for advice from me.
How to score touchdowns: A team needs no more than one or two fair-to-middling running backs and a half-way decent quarterback to score touchdowns when they have a well-stocked, powerful, dominating, and protective offensive line. Given that, even mediocre passers and running backs can run up the score. Without that, even more skilled ones will get nowhere.
How to stop the other team from scoring touchdowns: A team must have a speedy, strong, and flexible secondary line of defense, consisting of tall and powerful linebackers and cornerbacks to keep the opposition from making large gains via passing or running the ball and also have the ability to come up with occasional interceptions as well. This is more important than a defensive line which may or may not prevent smaller gains, even if the opposition reaches a team’s ‘red zone,’ where a defensive line and a strong secondary become indistinguishable from one another.
Accomplishing these two things (strong offensive line and strong secondary defenders) require astute use of free agency in pro football and the transfer portal in college football and directing all recruiting activities to first filling these two needs.
JL
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Housekeeping on Jackspotpourri
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More on the Sources of Information on Jackspotpourri: The sources of information used by Jackspotpourri include a delivered daily ‘paper’ newspaper (now becoming the South Florida Sun Sentinel) 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. Most are from vendors which I may have used years ago. 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 ‘Promotion’ 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 (or other search engines) 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). On occasion I might use such search results, but when I do, I will say that I am doing so. Generally, however, I try not to use such summaries in preparing Jackspotpourri. After such ‘AI’ search results, there follows the other results of my search. Unlike the anonymous AI-generated summaries, the sources of these results are clearly indicated, giving them a greater credibility than the AI summary. I feel that It comes down to who YOU want to be in the driver’s seat in seeking information: yourself or something else (Artificial Intelligence), the structure of which somewhere along the way had to have been created by others, with whose identity I am neither familiar nor comfortable. At least when I read a column by Timothy Snyder, for example, I know from where it comes, and to some extent, what to expect.
Caution should be exercised in using Artificial Intelligence.
JL
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