Rapid Response

George A. Sprecace M.D., J.D., F.A.C.P. and Allergy Associates of New London, P.C.
www.asthma.drsprecace.com

RAPID RESPONSE (Archives)...Daily Commentary on News of the Day

This is a new section. It will offer fresh, quick reactions by myself to news and events of the day, day by day, in this rapid-fire world of ours. Of course, as in military campaigns, a rapid response in one direction may occasionally have to be followed by a "strategic withdrawal" in another direction. Charge that to "the fog of war", and to the necessary flexibility any mental or military campaign must maintain to be effective. But the mission will always be the same: common sense, based upon facts and "real politick", supported by a visceral sense of Justice and a commitment to be pro-active. That's all I promise.
GS

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MONDAY through FRIDAY, September 26 through 30, 2022

IF YOU DON'T MIND LEARNING A LOT...WHILE BECOMING ASHAMED IF A DEMOCRAT...
find and review the Sunday, September 25, 2022 monologue of LEVIN on his show: LIFE, LIBERTY AND LEVIN.

There he describes in great factual detail how, for over 100 years between the 1860's and the mid-1960's, the Democrats were the Racists and the KKK and the Cancelers of Black life and culture. And then they went about destroying public education. "Hypocrite" is too benign a word. "Malignant" is more appropriate.

GS

THURSDAY through SUNDAY, September 22 through 25, 2022

HERE IS ANOTHER APPROACH TO THIS "RAPID RESPONSE" SECTION: "IN MY OPINION",
yet another effort to be more concise.

The Jewish Faith, my older brothers in Judeo-Christianity. But recent NYTimes articles describing how Hasidic Jews educate their children is alarming.
V. Putin: dangerous. The Western World as well as China's neighbors should be prepared.
Our younger generations are becoming a nation of "victims". GROW UP! There's still time.
This is not the first time that warnings about a pandemic were derided and ignored. Check out Europe during the Black Plague.
Republicans vs. Democrats. Sounds like old news, right? Not if you realize that both of these entities have Changed. Consider that when you Vote.
"Meanwhile, back at the ranch in Connecticut, Nothing has changed: still solidly Democratic and still solidly in the fourtieth percentile of all desired State characteristics.
Members of Congress and of the Senate continue to get rich by ignoring the "Blue Sky Laws" enacted in the 1930's to outlaw "insider trading".
A nation with no effective Borders is not a nation - and will soon fracture.
Public Education - poor for decades, and becoming poorer with self-serving union control, with "Cancel Culture" and with the cancellation of Parents.
Those females (not women or ladies) who insist on killing their babies in utero are now attacking "Motherhood". What a benighted gang.

More informed opinions to come periodically..

GS

TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, September 20 and 21, 2022

"...THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP ME GOD".

GS

Must See: Ted Cruz Bashes Biden And In BOLD Move, Calls Him This...

MONDAY, September 19, 2022

RR#1

I HAVE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT PUTIN OF LATE...WORRIED THAT THIS BRITTLE DESPOT WOULD BREAK AND DO SOMETHING THAT WOULD START WORLD WAR lll.
Something like using chemical or nuclear weapons.

However unpalatable a resignation under pressure would be to him, it would at least be a "political action" consistent with his fiction that Russia under him is a "democracy".
It could even enable him to return to power at some time, bowing to "the will of the people".
We will see soon enough if this brave action bears the desired result...or rather if Russian undertakers suddenly have a lot more business.

GS

Putin RESIGNATION Bombshell - A Shocking Turn!

RR#2

THIS IS WHAT THE INTRODUCTION OF POLITICS AND LIES DOES TO THE SEARCH FOR FACTS, SCIENTIFIC OR OTHERWISE: DRIP. DRIP. DRIP.

But as with "Pis and Pus", the Truth Must Come Out.
My expectation of the Truth?

that "Gain Of Function" research was performed and underwritten by American scientists together with China long after it was prohibited in America in 2015; and that it produced the virulent Covid 19 Pandemic. And that China suppressed its (likely) accidental lab leak release for a critical time within which its knowledge could have avoided the Pandemic.
that, as consequential to the health of the American nation as the pandemic has been, the *Biden Presidency was stolen through a variety of illegal actions, both governmental and private.

HAVE PATIENCE: THE TRUTH WILL OUT".

GS

Covid-19: World's top medical journal finally says virus COULD have come from lab leak

SUNDAY, September 18, 2022

ONCE MORE...WITH FEELING:

Here I emphasize the recent book by Betsy DeVos entitled: "HOSTAGES NO MORE: The Fight for Education Freedom And The Future Of The American Child."

The most pitiful victims of this "public education system" have been its most staunch Minority supporters through the Democratic Party and their wholly owned subsidiary - The Teachers Unions.
AND THEY STILL DON'T WAKE UP.
Thomas Sowell recently observed: "THERE HAS NOW BEEN CREATED A WORLD IN WHICH THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS IS A GRIEVANCE, RATHER THAN AN EXAMPLE".

"STUPIDO. STUPIDO. STUPIDO".

GS

THURSDAY through SATURDAY, September 15 through 17, 2022

RR#1

AS PROMISED IN MY INTRODUCTION TO THIS "RAPID RESPONSE" SECTION WHICH I BEGAN OFFERING IN MARCH, 2003,

I have continued to provide timely, informed opinions supported by the relevant facts - as well as an occasional Jeremiad.
With these I have tried to answer the perennial question: "What's It All About, Alfie?"

What I have not been able to do, as a busy practising physician, is to provide a hearty meal instead of a snack, with or without heartburn for some readers.
But the following article is just such a hearty meal - an excellent comprehensive diagnosis of what ails the American people, especially those in delayed maturation:
See: "The Counterculture Queen", by Daniel Henninger (in WSJ September 15, 2022, Opinion, pA17).

GOD BLESS THE QUEEN !

And God Help This Nation at this dangerous cross-roads.

GS

RR#2

"QUIET QUITTING" IS A MISNOMER.

"Personal Life Evaluation" offers a better idea of what we all should be doing periodically - and especially when we find ourselves unhappy.
The Covid Pandemic and its disruptions have made this easier and more urgent.
But the attitudes and hamhandedness of stupid employers (evidently a majority) who don't seek a "Win / Win Situation" with their workers made it inevitable.

And yes, this tendency has now involved physicians - a majority of whom are now employees rather than self-employed. WAKE UP, SUITS.

GS

Are Docs Quiet Quitting, Too?

MONDAY through WEDNESDAY, September 12 through 14, 2022

RR#1

ALTHOUGH "JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED",
that's the only Justice that may be available these days.

And in a case like this one - we'll gladly take it.

GS

It Was A Blatant Racist SMEAR - $36 Million Settlement Reached!

RR#2

PARDON MY EQUIVOCATION, BUT..
.
THROW THE BUMS OUT !

GS

Don't Call Them Pedophiles...“Minor Attracted Persons” Is The New Term

SUNDAY, September 11, 2022

RR#1

THIS IS NOT ONLY STUPID. IT IS OUTRAGEOUS - AND SHOULD BE HELD TO BE ILLEGAL IN ANY ORGANIZATION THAT RECEIVES ANY FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.

GS

Prominent Ivy League Universities Rank Last For Free Speech

RR#2

NEVER FORGET ! AND NEVER FORGIVE THOSE WHO WOULD DO IT AGAIN...GIVEN THE CHANCE.

GS

Remembering 9/11: Survivor Tells His Story From the 81st Floor

RR#3

INTERESTING.

GS

'Triple-dip' La Niña is on the way. Here's what it means for weather in the US.

RR#4

ALRIGHT...I'LL SAY IT: *PRESIDENT BIDEN IS FINALLY DOING A GOOD THING BY SUPPORTING AN ESTABLISHED DEMOCRACY.
That's what America should be doing: not "nation-building" but rather established democracy supporting. Of course, that's also what we should do in Taiwan.

GS

Ukraine Pushes Russia Into Retreat in Counteroffensive

RR#5

What Happened on 9/11

RR#6

"NOW HEAR THIS".

And for God's Sake...remember this at November's election.

GS

This Crushed Biden's Legacy and Afghanistan's Chances at Success

RR#7

READERS OF THESE "RAPID RESPONSE" OFFERINGS WILL NOTICE THAT I NEARLY ALWAYS SUPPORT MY OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS WITH REFERENCE TO SOURCES.

With today's offering I suggest two excellent books:

"DEMOCRACY: Stories From The Long Road To Freedom", by Condoleezza Rice (2017). This describes, from the personal experiences of a central participant, why America should always support established Democracies, but not " democratic nation-building"., in my opinion.

"BREAKING HISTORY: A White House Memoir", by Jared Kushner (2022). This describes, as both a family member and as the closest of confidants, how Donald Trump interrupted his life as a business man, sought and won the U.S. Presidency, and by his actions and leadership became one of the most consequential American patriots in our history, in my opinion.
And he is not over yet, in my opinion.

GS

THURSDAY through SATURDAY, September 8 through 10, 2022

RR#1

WONDERFUL !

And we're supposed to attribute most or all of this to the Pandemic and its disruptions?

NO WAY !

This is yet another result of the mindless, godless and hedonistic attitudes that describe and motivate our last two generations.
And They Vote.
This is yet another Call to the Greatest Generation and to the rest of us to "come to the aid of our country".

"CAN YOU HERE ME NOW?"

GS

Generation Lazy: Gallup Finds ‘Quiet Quitters’ Are This Much Of The US Workforce

RR#2

"YOU WANT THE TRUTH? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH".

But here is the Truth, by a Truth-Teller who - for those actions - has all manner of malign pygmys snapping at his heels.
Throughout his terms as Mayor of New York City, especially during and after his leadership of the nation in the 9/11 trauma, and more recently in representation and defense of President Donald Trump from all manner of unfair and unfounded attack, Rudolph Giuliani demonstrated what a Political Leader - and a Mensch - should be and do.
And for all that he is now the target of all manner of "Cancel Culture" attack.

As a good Catholic, I have constantly to be reminding myself: "Vengeance Is Mine. I Shall Repay". (Romans ll).

GS

Giuliani to Newsmax: US 'in More Danger' Than Before 9/11

TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, September 6 and 7, 2022

TOO MANY MEMBERS OF THE MOST RECENT TWO GENERATIONS POPULATE THE OTHER PANDEMIC; ;STUPIDITY.

The more recent and growing movements about sexes, sexual orientation, transgender inclinations and the efforts to bombard progressively younger children with this
gross Child Abuse is producing much more than STD. It is producing confusion, anxiety and a substantial increase in mental illness and drug abuse in children and teenagers.
And even worse than Stupidity is the cooption of supposed "professionals" like teachers even physicians - WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER.

And now we have the specter of Parents - who should always be the First line of defense for their children - being relegated to the Last line of Defense..
See the recent book by Betsy DeVos entitled: "Hostages No More" (Center Street - Hachette Book Group, New York, 2022).
See also how Hitler, in one of his early actions at consolidation of power, developed the massive Hitler Youth movement.
That's The Way It's Done.

GS

Textbook Makes SHOCKING Claim About Gender...

MONDAY, September 5, 2022

RR#1

AND WHY DO WE NOT READ ABOUT THIS IN THE "MAINSTREAM MEDIA"?
Because the "mainstream media" are no longer about unbiased Journalism, about "all the news that's fit to print".
They are an arm of Politics in its worst form, both domestic and foreign.
And in that self-assumed role they should no longer receive the protections of the First Amendment.
This is of a piece with the tools of all tyrannical governments, past and present.

ON THIS LABOR DAY, 2022, AS WE SING "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL",
WAKE UP, AMERICA !

GS

Iran Nuclear Deal About Protecting Obama's Legacy Claim These Generals

RR#2

THIS IS THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE...GOD HELP US.

And I will have some more to share about the Biology, the Psychology...and the Politics of "TRANSGENDER" - WHEN THERE ARE MORE FACTS TO SHARE.

GS

See For Yourself: Why Is Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling Under Attack By Liberals

RR#3

TIME FOR ANOTHER POT POURRI OF IMPORTANT TOPICS, IN MY OPINION.

1) THE PRECARIOUS STATE OF SOME ESTABLISHED DEMOCRACIES:
Where some previous American Presidents have been faulted for "nation building", *Biden is at risk for nation protecting.in this case concerning Ukraine and Taiwan. Although seemingly robust in America's response to the threatening great powers, he may be signaling appeasement. Fortunately, we are now witnessing a role reversal from recent decades when the U.S. led the other democratic nations in times of crisis. It is now the NATO nations and Japan, South Korea and some of the Southeast Asia democracies that demonstrate a more steadfast opposition to tyranny. This is temporarily fortunate. But it is "necessary but not sufficient" in the long run.
WAKE UP, JOE.

See: "Russian Threat Is Real For G-7, NATO", Guest Editorial from Minneapolis Star Tribune posted in The Day, July 5, 2022.
2) What do you get when you send a Case to the Jury after only the Prosecution has presented its "evidence" without opportunity for the Defense to present any rebuttal or evidence or witnesses or cross-examination? You get a loud objection from that Jury. See The Day Editorial dated August 3, 2022 entitled "Recapping Jan. 6 Hearings" and followed by the largest number of "Comments" that I recall seeing. Why not try being fair rather than partisan sometime?

3) "Who Woudda Thunk It?" The United States Supreme Court has already had a great deal to say about Parental Authority under the Constitution. See "Parental Authority
Gets A Boost From Dobbs" (by Michael Toth, in WSJ July 28, 2022, Opinion, pA17. Despite a Law School education, this is news to me. And it is particularly relevant in
the current conflicts between Woke Leftist teachers and politicians and citizens vs. just plain Parents. One front in that battle involves how to deal with "transgender" students. There is a great deal more than meets the eye and the ear regarding that subject, as I have alluded to in past RR's. See "Did New Haven Schools' Transgender Policy Changes Have Any Effect?" (by Dannhouser, in ctmirror.org, August 2, 2022). What is needed here is more research, more frank and patient discussion among All the parties (of course including the parents), and less vitriol. This is important.

GS

RR#4

THESE ARE THE PERMANENT GOVERNMENT:
those who are elected and who are never made to leave...and those unelected of the Administrative arm of Government - who essentially can't be made to leave.
A living and breathing Cancer in the American Body Politic.
Think of that when you vote in a few weeks and in 2024.
AND FOR GOD'S SAKE...VOTE !

GS

Tulsi Gabbard Reveals The Greatest Threat To America — Spoiler Alert: It's Not Trump Voters

SUNDAY, September 4, 2022

RR#1

SHADES OF JOSEF STALIN: "HOW MANY DIVISIONS DOES THE POPE HAVE?"

GS

Pope Francis Declares World War Three

RR#2

CHILD ABUSE - AND ALSO FROM ELEMENTS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION: SHAMEFUL...
and not consistent with even the watered - down version of the Oath of Hippocrates.

GS

Children’s Hospital Partners With School Districts To Promote Gender Theory

RR#3

YOU AND I MIGHT NOT SELECT DONALD TRUMP AS A PERSONAL FRIEND -
given his penchant for turning on erstwhile supporters for perceived slights (or worse)...
but the man clearly demonstrated and implemented the Right Policies, both domestic and international, for a Great Nation in turmoil and even in possible transition.
And he did it in one Presidential Term despite false attacks from all sides.

Donald Trump and his 70 + million supporters - and even the Democrats - know that only with him at the helm of the Republican Party can Republicans take back control of the Federal Government and most State Governments in 2022 and in 2024.
The only ones who don't know that are Feckless and RINO Republicans who are trying to distance themselves from That Fact. STUPIDO. STUPIDO. STUPIDO.

These Republicans who, thanks to the Idiotic and Dangerous Policies of *Biden and the Leftists, should be a shu-in at least in this November elections, could well turn this lemonade into a Lemon...both in 2022 and in 2024. That would be a national Disaster...politically and even worse.

WAKE UP, YOU DUMMIES !

GS

In Pa. visit, Trump attacks Biden for ‘vicious, hateful and divisive’ address

Trump: MAGA Hopes, Dreams Raided Like Home; ‘Enemy of the State’

SATURDAY, September 3, 2022

RR#1

TIME FOR ANOTHER EDITION OF "POT POURRI",
as always stimulated and supported by actual news-worthy news items.

OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS GONE FROM BAD TO UNBELIEVEABLE...

thanks to the teachers' unions and lobbies and to the cynical Democrats and cynical Black "leaders" who support them.
See: "Why I Quit Teaching At Oberlin" and "Randy Weingarten Flunks The Pandemic", both in the September 2, 2022 edition of WSJ.

THE SUPER-RICH AND HOW THEY USE THEIR MONEY ARE TOO OFTEN HUMOROUS AND SAD TO WATCH. INSECURITY IN ACTION.

See almost any WSJ section entitled "Mansion", like "From A Humble Start To 'Disneyland', in the September 2, 2022 editon of WSJ. This, instead of the Great Good that they could do with all that money. And did you ever see a hearse towing a U-Haul?

THE CONFUSED AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY OF *JOE BIDEN IS REALLY DANGEROUS TO ALL OF AMERICANS AND TO THE WORLD.

The Afghanistan tragedy, the open borders, the studied ambiguity regarding Taiwan, the duplicity with our greatest adversary - China, the Stupidity regarding Iran...and even regarding Israel, etc, etc, etc. And then there is Vladimir Putin. Some years ago, a well-traveled Polish friend offered a clear insight into the "Russian Soul". "The Russians only look like Westerners. They are really Orientals, valuing the Community over the Individual". Now comes Putin himself. As reported in a recent article by Peter Baker:- reporting about a meeting between Putin and then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2011:
"Don't be under any illusion", he told the future president. "We only look like you...Russians and Americans resemble each physically. But inside we have very different values."
("What is Vladimir Putin?"...in NYTimes Book Review, August 28, 2022).
And then there was an age when we were shown how foreign policy could be done well.
See. "A Homeric Age Of Statesmanship", by Robert D. Kaplan (in WSJ Opinion, August 27-28, 2022, pA15).

AND THEN THERE IS, IN MY OPINION, THE FAILURE OF THE PROFESSION OF PSYCHIATRY.

Granted, psychiatrists could do little to thwart the irresponsible action of Senator Ted Kennedy when in the late 1960's he championed the Closure of Mental Institutions without providing for alternative out-patient treatment; and granted that the nation was inundated with veterans from Viet Nam who had learned too well the world of illicit drugs during their tours of duty in that benighted war; and granted that the generations of the 1970's and thereafter also learned too well about these agents.
So Psychiatry and psychiatrists became inundated with homeless walking wounded who demonstrated all kinds of psychiatric disorders.
Yes, they had and have all sorts of psychotropic medications to try in multiples. The result: the "Twenty Minute Hour" consultation for mental patients who actually need hours upon hours of professional interpersonal interactions and relationships as the only effective treatment for what ails them. What they also get is periodic changes in the diagnostic categories used to describe what ails them. Sorry, but NO CIGAR ! This is like the abandonment of Military Medicine Triage when suddenly presented with fifty wounded soldiers: five of whom needing an emergency tracheotomy, and one of whom who has a bad abdominal wound - and taking the "abdominal wound in for a four hour operation while the others die. YOU MUST DO BETTER. What you are doing isn't cutting it.
See: "10 Psychiatric Drugs While In High School. And She Was Far From Alone", by Matt Richtel, (in NYTimes August 28, 2022, p1).

ENOUGH...for now.

GS

RR#2

ELON MUSK.
Here is not only a successful man, but also a serious man - and a wise man.

Persian Proverb:
"He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not - is a fool. Shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not - is a student. Teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows - is asleep. Waken him.
He who knows and knows that he knows - is wise. Follow him".

GS

Elon Musk - “We Will Die With a Whimper In Adult Diapers”

THURSDAY and FRIDAY, September 1 and 2, 2022

READ AND RE-READ THIS STATEMENT, LARGELY AUTHORED BY *JOE BIDEN.

Then look up the event that took place on January 30, 1933. It was the day that Adolph Hitler was elected Leader of Germany by the Reichtag.
(It is also the day of my birth; but those two events don't quite balance each other out).

This asterisk president has declared War on the vast majority of Americans, even on many Woke individuals who have yet to WAKE UP.

IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT, EVEN INCLUDING THE CIVIL WAR, THAT ALL CITIZENS VOTE IN THE 2022 AND 2024 NATIONAL ELECTIONS!

GS

Joe Biden Declares War on American Patriots

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