QPORIT

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE is believed to have been born on this day in 1564. He is known to have died on this day in 1616. 

(There's an actual record of his death. There's no record of his birth, but there is a record of his baptism, from which the date of his birth is assumed.)

He lived through a tumultuous period, writing some of the greatest plays and poetry ever written in English, (and probably just... ever written).  

Some (just a few!) of his most revered plays are:

Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Romeo & Juliet (tragedies); a series of historical plays leading up to the reign of Queen Elizabeth; A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest (fantasies), and Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night (comedies).

This summer, the Public Theater will be presenting Twelfth Night free in NYC's Central Park Delacorte Theater (just renovated!).

THE PUBLIC THEATER: TWELFTH NIGHT - FREE IN CENTRAL PARK, NYC

https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2425/fsitp/twelfth-night/

Another great venue (also great workshops!) for Shakespeare in New York is 

THE RED BULL THEATER

https://www.redbulltheater.com/

Here's a list from Google (AI) and other sources, of some of the many venues around the US and the world that produce Shakespeare's plays:

• Shakespeare's Globe (London, UK): This is a modern reconstruction of the original Globe, built in 1599, near the site of the original theater. It's an open-air theatre in the round, similar to the original and still hosts performances and tours. 
• Allen Elizabethan Theatre (Ashland, OR): This theater, part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, offers a replica of an Elizabethan-era theater. 
• The Old Globe (San Diego, CA): The Old Globe is a well-known theater company and venue that performs Shakespearean plays and offers educational programs, says Wikipedia. 
• Curtain Theatre (Austin, TX): This theater company focuses on classical plays, including Shakespeare, according to Wikipedia. 
• Globe of the Great Southwest (Odessa, TX): A dedicated Shakespearean theater in Odessa, TX. 
• Adams Shakespearean Theatre (Cedar City, UT): This theater is part of the Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, UT. 
• Busch Gardens Williamsburg (Williamsburg, VA): This theme park features a Globe Theatre replica for Shakespearean performances. 
• The Rose Playhouse (Twin Lake, MI): Part of the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, The Rose Playhouse hosts Shakespearean plays and other theatrical productions. 
• Pop-Up Globe (Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY): A traveling pop-up Globe structure that performs Shakespearean plays. 

The American Shakespeare Center in VA. (They also produce the Blackfriars' Shakespeare Conference every few years.) https://americanshakespearecenter.com/

Here is one of his sonnets. (notice that the imagery is interpretive of the deeper meanings of the poem). 

SONNET 65 "SINCE BRASS..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4FRae1XRkI/

A performance of sonnet 65 with visual commentary.

Labels: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, SONNET 65, Sonnet as drama, The Tempest, William Shakespeare

# posted by QPORIT @ 4:29 PM 0 comments

Open AI has released several new products and reports in the last few days.

NEWS 

https://openai.com/news/

OPEN AI o3 & OPEN AI o4-mini ("Thinking!") -- 2025-04-16

https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/

THE o3 & o4-mini SYSTEM CARD (EXPLANATION) -- 2025-04-16

https://openai.com/index/o3-o4-mini-system-card/

THE SYSTEM CARD -- 2025-04-16

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/2221c875-02dc-4789-800b-e7758f3722c1/o3-and-o4-mini-system-card.pdf

OPEN AI NON-PROFIT INSIGHT COMMISSION ADVISORS   (with audio) -- 2025-04-15

https://openai.com/index/nonprofit-commission-advisors/

UPDATED PREPAREDNESS FRAMEWORK -- 2025-04-15

https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/

FULL DOCUMENT

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/18a02b5d-6b67-4cec-ab64-68cdfbddebcd/preparedness-framework-v2.pdf

INTRODUCING GPT 4.1 IN THE API (with audio) -- 2025-04-14 

https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/

OPEN AI PIONEERS PROGRAM  -- 2025-04-09

https://openai.com/index/openai-pioneers-program/

NEW INSIGHT COMMISSION  -- 2025-04-02

https://openai.com/index/nonprofit-commission-guidance/

Labels: AI, AI Pioneers, API, GPT, GPT-4.1, Insight Commission, O3 O4-MINI, Open AI

# posted by QPORIT @ 9:40 PM 0 comments

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey has, over the last 24 and more hours, delivered the longest speech in the history of the US Senate, elegantly and passionately calling attention to the great promise and reality of the US in history, and the dangers the US faces in the actions of the current Trump administration.

Attention drawing events are the most important tools of Democratic resistance to the GOP's attempts to concentrate power in the Executive Branch of government, and with that power to cut vital services, to eliminate equality and diversity in both the government and private sectors, to alter the priorities of the Department of Justice, and to dramatically alter the system of taxation from an income tax (which can and should be progressive) to a tariff based "external" tax, which is basically regressive. (Tariffs are paid by importers, who pass along the cost to consumers, resulting in inflation, with the greatest burden falling on the poorest consumers.)

SENATOR CORY BOOKER'S OFFICE

https://www.booker.senate.gov/

Labels: Cory Booker, Democrats, Senate, Senator, speech

# posted by QPORIT @ 10:47 PM 0 comments

A civil airplane and a military helicopter crashed over the Potomac. It was the first major commercial airlines in the US in 25 years.

John Donne

Labels: helicopter, John Donne, Plane crash

# posted by QPORIT @ 5:40 PM 0 comments

MS Copilot has started appearing and BLOCKING whenever a new Word Document is started/opened.

It took several trial prompts using copilot to solve this. Here's the right prompt and an apparently correct answer:

HOW CAN I STOP COPILOT FROM BLOCKING ME FROM WRITING WHEN I OPEN A NEW DOCUMENT

COPILOT:

I understand how frustrating that can be! To stop Copilot from blocking you when you open a new document in Word, you can disable the feature. Here's how:

Open Word and go to the File menu.

Select Options.

In the Word Options dialog box, go to the Copilot section.

Uncheck the box that says Enable Copilot.

Click OK to save your changes.

This should disable Copilot and allow you to write without interruptions. If you're using a different Office app, the steps might be slightly different, but the general approach is the same.

Labels: AI, Copilot, Microsoft, MS Word

# posted by QPORIT @ 1:39 AM 0 comments

Congress, last year, voted a bipartisan bill to ban TIKTOK (controlled by the Chinese company ByteDance) from the US, as of Sunday, 1/19/2024, unless it was divested from Chinese ownership. The ban was challenged and went to SCOTUS. 

Unlike the partisan delay the GOP majority of the court imposed on the immunity case to assist T, the court, ruling extremely quickly, upheld the ban on TIKTOK in a unanimous decision.

This is a major decision on the conflict between free speech vs National Security (as a threat from potentially adversarial countries that own and control an application used by gazillions of Americans).

Here is the decision:

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

Nos. 24–656 and 24–657 

TIKTOK INC., ET AL., PETITIONERS 24–656

 v. 

MERRICK B. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL

BRIAN FIREBAUGH, ET AL., PETITIONERS 24–657

 v. 

MERRICK B. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL

ON APPLICATIONS FOR INJUNCTION PENDING REVIEW 

TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT

[January 17, 2025]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf

Labels: BAN, DOJ, MERRICK B. GARLAND, SCOTUS, TIKTOC

# posted by QPORIT @ 9:53 PM 0 comments

The Department of Justice (aka, the Department of Justice Delayed) has released the report of the Special Counsel Jack Smith.

It is a year too late, and a volume short.  (Release of Volume 2 on the Classified Documents has been delayed by Judge Cannon.)

The final conclusion of the report (p 137) is that "... the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial." 

HERE IS THE LINK:

https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf

FINAL REPORT ON THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS 

VOLUME ONE: 

THE ELECTION CASE REPORT ON 

EFFORTS TO INTERFERE WITH THE LAWFUL TRANSFER OF POWER

FOLLOWING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OR

THE CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE 

HELD ON JANUARY 6, 2021 

Special Counsel Jack Smith 

Submitted Pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c) 

Washington, D.C. 

January 7, 2025 

Labels: 2021, Department of Justice, Jack Smith, Jan 6, justice delayed, Trump

# posted by QPORIT @ 5:25 AM 0 comments

In ancient times, if you had a problem with your computer or an application, the answer might be in the documentation. At that time, it was said that the cost and space requirements of the computer were dwarfed by the cost and space requirements of the documentation. If you could not find the answer in your wall sized bookshelves of documentation, a professional expert was needed, or the problem was just declared unsolvable.

Somewhat later, say mid 1990's, the idea of online help from someone sharing your computer screen on the young web appeared. (I helped invent one of  the first systems like that at IBM.)

Later, if you had a problem, Google started making it possible to google it.  If someone had encountered that earlier, you might find some kind of solution on the web. Still later, you might find an explanation posted on YouTube on the web.  It was still hit-or-miss, and depended on what was already written down or had been explained on some video that search could find.

Now, OPEN AI GPT o1 will listen to your problem, and coach you through the answer. If you have a problem, it will give you more detail.  The help can be amazing.  

One example: In a multi-page sign-on/registration for an application, I was stuck. The NEXT button would not light up. I asked o1 for help.  It explained how one of the terms on the page could not be seen unless the page was full screen, and that a button was looking for something quite different from what it seemed to me to be asking for. To make me feel better(?) o1 even pointed out that other people had the same problem!

The instructions from o1 were considerably more complete, easier to follow, and more correct, than the instructions from the application's own site!

I've had similar success getting HELP!!! using o1 a number of other times!

Labels: A history of HELP!, GPT o1, IBM, Open AI

# posted by QPORIT @ 3:37 AM 0 comments

The application formerly known as Twitter, now X, has new Terms of Service (TOS) going into effect November 15, 2024.

The TOS now states explicitly it can use content on the system to train its AIs:

You agree that this license includes the right for us to (i) provide, promote, and improve the Services, including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type; 

Other terms include a limitation on the number of posts that can be accessed quickly (inhibits searching the system to analyze it) and a provision that requires litigation to proceed through a favorable judge.

X TOS 2024-11-15

https://x.com/en/tos

(Note: Since this URL does not contain a version number or a date, if the TOS changes, the page may change and there may be no record of the earlier TOS, except possibly on the Internet Archive.)

There has recently been an exodus of users from X.  Instructions to download your archive of posts, and then delete them from X, can be obtained from ChatGPT 4o with a simple query/prompt. (It may take a while for X to prepare your Archive and download it to you.)

Labels: AI, Terms of Service, TOS, Twiiter, X

# posted by QPORIT @ 12:57 AM 0 comments

ON EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE CENTRAL ISSUES

 KAMALA IS IN A MORE FAVORABLE POSITION

 THAN eXP (eXPotus)!

#1 DEMOCRACY

Kamala intends to honor her oath to “support and defend the constitution of the United States” as she has done in all her previous positions – as prosecutor, Senator, and Vice President of the United States.

eXP IS A CONVICTED FELON, who SAYS, PUBLICLY, he intends to be a dictator on Day 1.

eXP violated his oath to “support and defend the constitution of the United States” on Jan 6, 2021.

Project 2025 is a description of HIS PLANS for the government to be taken over by a dictatorial regime, to be used to convert the government into an organization to work for the interests of the eXP and rich businessmen, at the expense of all other Americans.

SCOTUS has given POTUS immunity – essentially no check on POTUS’ powers. When eXP was POTUS, people who were his senior staff constantly held him back from attempts on using dictatorial powers – his attempt to ignore the Constitution and laws, for example, to use the army to attack US citizens, and to impound voting machines.

He became an insurrectionist when he tried to overthrow the elected government of the US on Jan 6, 2021 with a violent mob, to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election. 

With the new POTUS immunity ruling, eXP would be unhindered in his self-dealing.

We cannot choose to lose our LIBERTY.

Patriots say,  "Give me liberty or give me death!"  eXP plans to take that away.

KAMALA HARRIS IS FAVORED ON THE ISSUE OF DEMOCRACY!

#2 CHARACTER

eXP is a proven liar, a convicted felon, guilty of committing election law violations and fraudulently concealing the payoffs. He was found guilty of massive civil fraud. His “charity” was found guilty of fraud. A jury found him guilty of sexual abuse. Numerous accusations have not been resolved, for example, that his relationships with Epstein permitted him to commit acts of pedophilia, He has bragged of walking through the dressing room while the young female contestants of his teen “beauty pageant” were dressing. He bragged that he could just grab women. He publicly mocked people with disabilities. He provoked violence – for example when he told the audience, including  armed white nationalists, on Jan 6, 2021 to “fight like hell”. He had three wives. He cheated on them.

Note: If you have a strong stomach and you do not believe how vulgar eXP is, then watch this clip: https://x.com/ananavarro/status/1852687230063476779

He said he believes in winning. He does not say he believes in making the lives of every American better.

Kamala has no character issues.

We cannot elect a man of such terrible moral character to the most important office in the world, Our Presidency!

KAMALA HARRIS IS FAVORED ON THE ISSUE OF CHARACTER!

#3 NATIONAL SECURITY

eXP has given credence to Putin over domestic intelligence. He has said he has a great relationship with Putin. He has "love letters" from Kim Jong Un.

During his administration, Russia was given free rein to act in the Middle East. eXP scrapped the nuclear treaty with Iran, ending the agreed deterrence, allowing them to come within a very short time of being able to deploy nuclear weapons. He allowed North Korea to  make great strides in developing their nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. He negotiated a disastrous end to the war in Afghanistan, not admitting the Afghan government into the process, letting the Taliban loose, so they were in control of the country, and releasing the current leader of the Taliban from jail, and not even not communicating during the transition with the Biden administration.

eXP has favored autocratic leaders over our allies.  Here is one example:

"Our allies are worse than our so-called enemies:

https://x.com/i/status/1852471847822262695/

He denounced NATO, the prime military alliance keeping peace in Western Europe. He tried to corrupt the Ukrainian government by blackmailing them to try to get "dirt" on the Biden family. (He was impeached for this, but not convicted in the Senate by the GOP.)

He waffled on China. Sometimes trying to blame them for the COVID crisis. Sometimes praising XI. He increased tariffs on some products, raising American prices, and causing problems for American farmers, which led him to create a payout to American farmers.

On one occasion he revealed sensitive classified data to Russia. He had secret conversations with the Russians, destroying any transcripts, possibly* contrary to American laws. (*Note: The immunity decision by GOP SCOTUS Justices may have "de-illegaled" acts like these.)

He absconded with extremely highly classified documents when he exited the White House, and left them in unsecured semi-public locations at Mar-a-Lago. He did not return them when they were subpoenaed. He was indicted for these actions. He revealed some classified document information to one or more people without appropriate security clearances.

He took actions in the Middle East that were provocative, increasing the tension with Iran, possibly stoking the "fires" that let to the Oct 7 pogrom in Israel. He was very supportive of MBS in Saudi Arabia, dismissing the murder of American Journalist Khashogghi. Very shortly after eXP left the White House, Saudi Arabia invested at least $2B in a fund managed by Jared Kushner, eXP's daugher Ivanka's husband.

During his administration it is estimated the eXP made millions of dollars in rentals and fees from foreign dignitaries staying at his properties, in possible violation of the emoluments clause in the Constitution.

The Biden-Harris administration has repaired relations with our allies in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world. They are supporting Israel's defense, while trying to provide humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians. They have taken a strong lead in trying to repatriate the hostages, and develop a long-term peace. They developed an alliance that helped Israel defend against Iranian missile attacks.

They have taken a strong stand, and developed a strong alliance to defend Ukraine, with sending any American soldiers into battle. 

The strong defense by the Biden-Harris administration of Democracy and the Rule of Law, has preserved the role of the USA as leader of the free world, and the Dollar$ as the center of world finance.

KAMALA HARRIS IS FAVORED ON THE ISSUE OF NATIONAL SECURITY!

...More issues to come!

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ISSUES

 #1 DEMOCRACY, #2 CHARACTER, #3 NATIONAL SECURITY

https://qporit.blogspot.com/2024/11/presidential-election-issues.html/

#4 THE ECONOMY, #5 IMMIGRATION, #6 WOMEN'S HEALTH

https://qporit.blogspot.com/2024/11/presidential-election-issues-4-economy.html/

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WHY AND HOW THE DEMOCRATS 

CAN WIN 

A LANDSLIDE VICTORY

UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT

https://qporit.blogspot.com/2024/08/2024-landslide-why-how.html/

***

Labels: Democracy, Harris, issues, Kamala, President, Presidential election, Vance, Walz

# posted by QPORIT @ 2:45 AM 0 comments

The denial by SCOTUS of the right to an abortion, and the resulting ferocious and terrible attack on women and their health by GOP controlled legislatures, governors and exP (the ex POTUS, aka T), is more than a political issue. It is a fundamental misuse of government power that exP is responsible for, and Kamala is pledged to correct.

THE ECONOMY and IMMIGRATION are political issues. Although exP may think that THE ECONOMY & IMMIGRATION are the GOP’s strongest issues, in fact, both the historical record, and their future plans give the advantage to Harris as our future President.

#4 THE ECONOMY

exP's actions as President, before Biden-Harris took office, are the cause of the inflation spike. Then, after inauguration, the Biden Harris administration fixed the problem (without a recession)!!! Inflation is now at normal levels, stock prices - and the related retirement savings - are at a record high, and the economy is the strongest in the world.

 exP’s plans to impose heavy tariffs on many, many imports (tariffs are beautiful , he says); and, to drill, drill, drill (oil); and, to deport immigrants, will be a repeat of the mistakes he made when he was in office, and will raise prices again. 

Kamala’s plan for her Presidency consists of diverse measures to keep household expenses low, while raising wages.

Specifically, inflation was caused by exP’s actions during his term, including

a) Conspiring with Saudi Arabia to raise oil prices (in a video, he brags about doing this);

b) Putting tariffs on inexpensive products from China and other countries, making them more expensive;

c) Mishandling the COVID crisis, leading to a breakdown in the supply chain;

d) Mishandling immigration, preventing immigrants from contributing to the country (immigrant labor is an essential part of the American economic system);

e) Giving a tax break to billionaire$, raising the debt;

f) Repatriating billion$ of dollars from overseas, allowing a large supply of money to enter the US, which was then dispersed to rich investors; (an increase in the money supply is a direct cause of inflation).

These inflationary pressures did not raise prices during exP’s administration because his mishandling of COVID prevented people from pursuing normal economic behavior, and caused massive unemployment. When you are in isolation, or afraid to travel, or sick, or caring for sick loved ones, or out of work, you do not spend money. COVID drastically reduced demand for many things, and kept prices artificially low.  

Once the Biden-Harris COVID team successfully began to vaccinate the population, and the level of COVID infections rapidly declined, people began again to spend the money they could not spend doing exP’s term, and then prices rose.

Biden-Harris then fixed the supply-chain, provided financial relief to people who needed money, jump-started employment with the Chips Act and infrastructure bill (something exP had talked about constantly without ever doing), and used executive power to reduce certain costs, such as some medicines, and other costs caused by corporate greed, (such as excessively raising prices - price gouging). 

During her administration Kamala is pledged to execute a variety of consumer-cost-reducing strategies, improving household purchasing power.

#5 IMMIGRATION

During exP's term, the conditions in several Central American and South American countries were driving people seeking a better life to try to re-settle in America. Unfortunately, in 2016, the immigration system was not prepared to handle the number of potential immigrants. While exP recognized the problem, he failed catastrophically to execute a solution. exP simply does not know how to run an organization for the benefit of anyone but himself. exP did not fix the immigration process. His attempt to build a wall to keep immigrants out and have México pay for it, failed completely. Only a few miles of wall were built, and they were useless against the number of immigrants. Of course, Mexico paid nothing. exP even diverted some money funded and needed for other purposes, to his wall project.

His treatment of immigrants was inhumane and un-American, forcibly separating parents and children and providing unacceptable living conditions for some migrants. exP’s failure to provide a path to citizenship for earlier legal immigrants was a source of great pain for the immigrant community, and his restrictions on the ability of immigrants to work helped cause inflation by contributing to the collapse of the supply chain.  

The Biden-Harris administration helped some of the South American and Central American countries to improve the living conditions in those countries, they worked with Mexico to control the flow of immigrants through Mexico to the US, and brought the number of immigration crossings down to a low level.

The Biden-Harris administration worked with Conservative Republicans to draft legislation that would improve every aspect of the immigration process. However, exP said, explicitly, that fixing the immigration process with this bill would prevent him from campaigning on the immigration issue and the GOP, although they co-wrote the bill, should defeat it.  They did. 

In this flagrant example of hypocrisy, and lack of serious interest in improving the lives of Americans, exP told the GOP to defeat the bill because he did not want to fix the problem, he wanted to campaign on the claim that it was broken. exP talks in vague language about how the USA is broken, but he does not want to improve it. With Project 2025, in fact, he has a plan to make conditions in the US better for big companies and wealthy donors, and worse for everyone else. 

His future plan for immigration, he has bragged, would include a “bloody” mass roundup of immigrants, incarceration, and mass deportations. This would be inhumane, anti-American, would ruin the USA’s reputation throughout the world, and seriously damage the economy.

#6 WOMEN'S HEALTH

SCOTUS’ decision on “abortion,” which has been celebrated by exP and GOP led legislatures, is being used, not just to prevent abortions, but even more ominously to deny healthcare to women, leading already to absolutely unnecessary deaths, and to provide a pretext for surveillance of the medical and travel records of women. For government officials (not necessarily even lawyers or judges) to take responsibility for a woman’s medical treatment away from doctors, would seem to be medical malpractice and a violation of the equal protection clause of the constitution.

GOP state legislatures have been using "abortion law" to deny women full medical services. It is a disgrace & unconstitutional: Amendment 14.1 - "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Kamala will work to restore Roe v Wade, and to provide responsible medical treatment for women, and prevent surveillance of women, either as a new court ruling, or as national legislation.

THE BOTTOM  LINES

exP has conducted an old man's rambling, often incoherent, downbeat campaign -- complaining that the USA is a failing country, threatening his political opponents, insulting cities and ethnic groups, lying and celebrating Nazi code-words, delusionally calling his Madison Square Garden Nazi tribute rally, and the Jan 6 violent riot and insurrection a "love fest".

The USA can not afford exP.

Kamala has executed a brilliant campaign. She will bring in a bi-partisan, new-generation group of experts, committed to improving the lives of Americans, as her Cabinet and staff.

We need Kamala. 

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ISSUES

 #1 DEMOCRACY, #2 CHARACTER, #3 NATIONAL SECURITY

https://qporit.blogspot.com/2024/11/presidential-election-issues.html/

#4 THE ECONOMY, #5 IMMIGRATION, #6 WOMEN'S HEALTH

https://qporit.blogspot.com/2024/11/presidential-election-issues-4-economy.html/

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WHY AND HOW THE DEMOCRATS 

CAN WIN 

A LANDSLIDE VICTORY

UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT

https://qporit.blogspot.com/2024/08/2024-landslide-why-how.html/

***

ON EVERY SINGLE ISSUE KAMALA HAS A BETTER HISTORY, AND A BETTER PLAN, A PLAN WHICH WILL IMPROVES THE LIVES OF ALL AMERICANS.

Labels: Democracy, Harris, immigration, issues, Kamala, President, Presidential election, the economy, Vance, Walz, women's health

# posted by QPORIT @ 2:37 AM 0 comments

If you are Jewish and plan to vote for T -- who has been quoting Hitler recently, held a restaging of the Famous Nazi MSG rally today, and talks about his Reich -- because you think he will protect Israel and support Jewish interests, make sure you know that T did not mean what it seems to mean when he told a Christian Faith event  -- We will ban child sexual molestation*. It won’t happen, And then we can “proudly say Merry Christmas” again.

*Is he referring to the Jewish rite of circumcision? How is banning this related to saying Merry Christmas, proudly? Does this mean what it seems to mean?

This clip was shown on Late Night with Colbert about  a week ago. Let’s hope it is not real, and if real does not mean what it seems to mean. But unless you can be sure, DO NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP or anyone running for election that supports him. 

T is a fascist: he said he would be a dictator on day one, and he does not deny that.

By the way, if you support T because you think he will be good for Palestinians, remember that T is strongly prejudiced against Muslims, and, while the Biden-Harris administration has been a brake slowing Netanyahu down, and has facilitated efforts to bring supplies to Gaza and negotiate a peace treaty, T advocates the opposite, and has been goading Netanyahu to take strong actions.

Labels: anti-semitism, circumcision, fascism, Merry Christmas, MSG Rally, Nazi, Palestinians, Trump

# posted by QPORIT @ 3:26 AM 0 comments

Two articles in The Sunday NYT Magazine OCT 27, 2024: 

According to the historian Robert Paxton, Trump IS a fascist. Really. It's not just name calling.

Also "If Hindenberg hadn't been talked into choosing Hitler", they might have had "an ordinary conservative & not a fascist." (Note the comparison to tech moguls pushing Trump & Vance in the following article.)

“THE MAGA MOGULS” describes how & why the “PayPal Mafia” (Musk, Thiel, Sacks & others) came to support Trump, push Vance, and how hard Musk is working to elect Trump. 

Also from the article:

"Trump's team had decided to do things very differently in 2024 ... using its campaign volunteers not to try to persuade voters, but to lay down a foundation for future 'legal' challenges." (quotes & highlights mine)

NOTE to Harris’ campaign leaders: In addition to thwarting Trump's "legal" attack on a free and fair election, you need to understand Musk’s ground game. The state GOP parties may be broke or not interested (see above), but (according to the article) Musk is trying to build his own ground game and has the $$$ to do it (tho' he is new at it, and so far, not too good).

Labels: fascism, ground game, Hitler, Musk. Robert Paxton. NYT, Thiel, Trump, Vance

# posted by QPORIT @ 4:33 AM 0 comments

Harvey Edwards, the distinguished photographer and visual artist, passed away today after a short but aggressive illness.

First coming to attention with the posters ,“Leg Warmers” and “Ballet Slippers”, Harvey’s pictures became a staple decoration and inspiration for young ballerinas and other ballet lovers. 

His book, “The Art of Dance” is a collection of photographs of dancers in rehearsal and performance.

He branched out to cover many other subjects, including still lifes, nudes, and a book of photographs on the Fairfax neighborhood in California.

Harvey was also passionately opposed to the character and Presidency of Donald Trump, which he expressed in art work, and commentaries on his blog.

He leaves behind his wife, Eleanor Roffman Edwards, a son Garet, and two daughters, Lauren and Brooke.

MORE ABOUT HARVEY EDWARDS

THE ART OF DANCE

 https://www.amazon.com/Art-Dance-Harvey-Edwards/dp/0821217348

FAIRFAX

https://www.amazon.com/Fairfax-Harvey-Edwards/dp/B0007AKNBO/

HARVEY EDWARDS’ BLOG

https://harveyedwards.blogspot.com/

BIO NOTES

https://www.qart.com/harvey-edwards-biographies/4528/

SOME POSTS

https://www.huffpost.com/author/harvey-edwards

LINKEDIN

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harvey-edwards-262666/

John Donne

Labels: Ballet Slippers, Fairfax, Harvey Edwards, Leg Warmers, The Art of Dance

# posted by QPORIT @ 6:00 PM 0 comments