George
A. Sprecace M.D.,
J.D., F.A.C.P. and Allergy
Associates of New
London,
P.C.
asthma.drsprecace.com
RAPID
RESPONSE...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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Click dates below
for past Rapid Responses
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, June 27 and 28, 2025
RR#1
TODAY I URGE YOU TO READ THE THREE
ARTICLES REGARDING AI OFFERED HERE, ESPECIALLY THE ONE BY BERG AND
ROSENBLATT.
I cannot recall ever referring to
anything as an EXISTENTIAL THREAT...UNTIL NOW..
See: "The Monster
Inside ChatGPT", by Cameron Berg and Judd Rosenblatt (in WSJ June 27,
2025, Opinion, pA15).
See also: "Open AI,
Microsoft Disagree Over How Smart AI Can Get", ,by Berber Jin,(in WSJ
June 27, 2025, Business and Finance, B1).
See also: "It's Known As
'The List', And It's A Secret File Of Geniuses", by Cohen, Jin and
Bobrowsky, (in WSJ June 289-29, 2025, Exchange pB1).
This last article reports that any
one of these AI "geniuses" can command a pay package of $100 Million.
At that rate, do you think that anyone in the private sector will give a
thought to merely an "existential threat"? And this won't be
amenable to a "bunker-buster bomb.
GS
"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Stephen Hawking, 2014
RR#2
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, June 25 and 26, 2025
THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF
PEOPLE:
those who MAKE THINGS HAPPEN;
those who WATCH THINGS HAPPEN; and
those who just go around saying:
"WHA HOPPEN?"
ATTACHED IS A MASTER CLASS IN THE
CAULDRON
CALLED THE MIDDLE EAST.
It is worth your time. It is worth
your future and that of your children.
GS
TUESDAY, June 24, 2025
NOW HEAR THIS:
In order for these RAPID RESPONSE
offerings to remain "Rapid",
I have to minimize reference to the
supporting articles.
Suffice to say that my comments and
opinions are nearly always based
in part on a broad array of
readings, many from the Opinion sections of the WSJ.
So: Try the following on for size...
- Dealing
with Iran and dealing with Fundamentalist Muslims: NEVER TRUST. ALWAYS
VERIFY.
- AI:
The harmful effects have already begun on the younger generations.
- Ken
Burns and the on-going American Revolution. In order for Democracy to
survive, the people must have education and also common sense, neither of
which is in great supply among the latest two generations.
- Meanwhile,
our three great Learned Professions are in steady decline: Medicine; Law:
and Education.
What To Do?
I'm not sure...but we are certainly
going in the wrong direction.
Stay Tuned.
GS
SUNDAY and MONDAY, June 22 and 23, 2025
ARE THERE AMERICANS, IN AND OUT OF
GOVERNMENT, SO DELUDED AS TO CONSIDER THIS FOR A MOMENT?
YES, THERE ARE.
GS
SATURDAY, June 21, 2025
"PATIENTS OF THE WORLD: UNITE!
Then SUE THE BASTARDS...preferably
as Class Action Suits.
There must be attorneys out there
still WILLING TO DO GOOD WHILE DOING WELL.
GS
FRIDAY, June 20, 2025
RR#1
MIKE HUCKABEE: A GOOD MAN.
GS
In
a message to President Trump, Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee just
broke his silence on the brutal war being waged against our greatest
ally in the Middle East.
"Mr. President, God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most
consequential President in a century—maybe ever. The decisions on your
shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else.
You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice
that matters. HIS voice. I am your appointed servant in this land and
am available for you but I do not try to get in your presence often
because I trust your instincts.
No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not
since Truman in 1945. I don’t reach out to persuade you. Only to
encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is
far more important than mine or ANYONE else’s. You sent me to Israel to
be your eyes, ears and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our
embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave.
I will not abandon this post. Our flag will NOT come down! You did not
seek this moment. This moment sought YOU! It is my honor to serve you!"
- Mike Huckabee
RR#2
THE UNITED KINGDOM APPEARS TO BE IN
AN ANXIETY / DEPRESSIVE STATE.
It legalizes abortion throughout
pregnancy.
Now it has legalized assisted
suicide.
Is this the state of its People, or
of its Leadership...or both?
GS
THURSDAY, June 19, 2025
CONGRATULATIONS TO MEGHAN MARKLE.
She continues to be a Real
Person, while many people devoted to or addicted to "social
media" either lost that descriptive or never developed it.
Her Husband should take a lesson
from his wife. You can also be a real person rather than striving to be a
hybrid.
Even your family in England will
appreciate that.
GS
WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2025
"READ IT AND
WEEP". THEN GET ANGRY AND RATTLE MEDICAL CARE CAGES!
As you may recall, the worsening
problem of Health Care insurance coverage and bureaucratic oversight of medical
decisions is what led me to terminate recently my private medical practice
after 62 years in the New London region.
Now comes front line evidence -
actually a cry for help.
Please read this article, especially
the first third. Then contact your legislators. Only the Patient Public - now
totally impatient - can stem the Fall of
Health Care delivery in this
country.
GS
TUESDAY, June 17, 2025
TODAY WE REPORT THE ACUTE
BREAK-OUT OF A CHRONIC MEDICAL ILLNESS:
TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.
Developing quietly from the halls of
Trump Tower in New York City ten years ago,
this condition quickly became acute
and virulent with the election of Trump - 45 to the
Presidency.
This illness demonstrated an early
propensity for attacking those members of the public
who already had shown an inability
to practice critical thinking, a lack of effective schooling,
a poor self-image and a desire to be
taken care of; in a word... Democrats.
It was soon given its name /
diagnosis by a noted psychiatrist: Charles Krauthammer.
Throughout the last decade, this
illness spread and worsened in severity, especially
following the last
election...enhanced by the lies of commission and omission practiced
by the "mainstream media",
formerly known as "Journalists".
This syndrome has lost none of its
virulence. Indeed, it has entered a septic phase
of Violence.
In addition to the time-honored
Treatment of "Tincture of Time", those cases
demonstrating
the worst and most enduring symptoms
must be treated with Isolation...preferably for
months or longer in jail or in
mental institutions.
What this epidemic must Not be
allowed to do is to spread beyond its current confines within
the Pandemic of Stupidity called the
current Democratic Party.
GS
THURSDAY through MONDAY, June 12 through 16, 2025
RR#1
ABOUT AFRICA...
WOW...WHO KNEW?
I Didn't. Now I know
more...and will learn more.
GS
RR#2
SO AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE A MONOPOLY
ON EVIL-DOERS, HYPOCRITES AND THEIR APOLOGISTS.
"Vengeance Is Mine. I Shall
Repay" Sayeth the Lord". (Romans ll).
I can hardly wait.
GS
WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2025
LEAVE THE DOOM AND GLOOM...AND THE ANGUISH...AND THE LYING, CHEATING AND STEALING TO TODAY'S DEMOCRATS.
Here are the Facts regarding the American Economy under President Trump and his team.
GS
The Golden Era for U.S. Workers Has Arrived Ahead of Schedule - Mo' Money, Fewer Problems
By historical standards, it is rare for wages to outpace prices. Not
because it's impossible, but because the usual pattern is
self-defeating: rising wages lead to rising demand, which feeds into
higher prices when supply is constrained by taxes on investment and
burdensome regulation. Inflation then erodes the very gains it seemed
to promise. Sustained real wage growth generally requires something
else—productivity gains, surging investment in production, or a shift
in the structure of demand—to break the loop.
President Donald Trump receives a gold hard hat with his name on
it during a visit to U.S. Steel-Irvin Works in West Mifflin,
Pennsylvania, on May 30, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
At present, that “something else” is here. Over the first five months
of 2025, average hourly earnings have risen 1.5 percent, while headline
consumer prices have climbed just 0.7 percent. On an annualized basis,
wages are rising at 3.7 percent, while inflation is running at 1.7
percent. That puts real wage growth just under two percent—the
strongest sustained improvement in purchasing power in years.
This isn’t a statistical fluke. The May CPI rose just 0.1 percent,
marking the fourth consecutive month of below-expectation inflation.
Core inflation matched that same tame pace. Key categories that had
driven prices higher over the past two years—vehicles, airfare,
apparel—are now moving in reverse. Gasoline fell 2.6 percent in May and
is down 12 percent over the past year. Energy prices as a whole are
down 3.5 percent. Even shelter inflation, while still contributing to
overall CPI, has leveled off at a manageable 0.3 percent monthly gain.
Paychecks Are Getting Stronger, Not Just Bigger
The labor market is adjusting smoothly. Nonfarm payrolls grew by
139,000 in May. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2 percent. Wages
climbed 0.4 percent on the month and are up 3.9 percent over the past
year. Average hourly earnings for nonsupervisory workers reached
$31.18. These are strong gains; and more importantly, they’re no longer
being neutralized at the cash register.
The drop in the labor force participation rate—down 0.2 points to 62.4
percent—has been widely misunderstood. Much of that decline reflects a
retreat in illegal immigrant participation, not a weakening of domestic
labor supply. The employment-population ratio also dipped slightly, but
there’s no indication of widespread labor market slack. On the
contrary, wage growth remains robust, and job gains are still
concentrated in core domestic services like health care, restaurants,
and social assistance.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the U.S. Steel-Irvin
Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, on May 30, 2025. (Daniel
Torok/Official White House Photo via Flickr)
What’s happening now is exactly what economists and central bankers
claim they want but rarely get: inflation retreating while wages rise.
That’s not a mystery—it’s a signal that supply is catching up, not that
demand is collapsing. Productivity growth has improved. Energy prices
have declined. And after years of asset inflation and speculative
detours, investment is finding its way back into the real economy—into
logistics, energy, and domestic production.
It's Time for the Fed to Cut
The Federal Reserve, if it is as “data dependent” as it says, has every
reason to begin adjusting policy. The inflation threat has passed. Wage
growth is steady, not spiraling. The economy is stabilizing, not
faltering. We have been hesitant to join President Trump in his call
for cuts because we thought a revival of inflation would be
economically damaging and not worth risking based on one or two months
of good inflation data. But we're now four months into good inflation
data. A cut now would be an affirmation that monetary policy still
serves the economy, not the other way around.
Real wages are rising. Prices are not. The economy is healing—not in
theory or through tortured revisions, but in real-time and at the
household level. For once, the American worker is gaining ground—and
there’s no law of economics that says it must be brief.
- Breitbart
MONDAY and TUESDAY, June 9 and 10, 2025
"YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH - AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE".
GS
SUNDAY, June 8, 2025
THE TOPIC FOR TODAY IS THE FIRST
AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, ITS RELATION TO "FREE SPEECH" AND
VIOLENCE.
In recent years, we have seen too
many examples public Violence masquerading as "Free Speech" - and
getting away with it.
The most recent example is occurring
now in Los Angeles.
The First Amendment protects
"...the right of the people Peaceably to
assemble..."
The USSC has addressed this matter
on several occasions, prohibiting violence and "true threats" as
protected speech.
Although I have access to several
texts on the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, a Google search is very
helpful.
See: "FIRST AMENDMENT AND
VIOLENCE AND SUPREME COURT".
BOTTOM LINE: The grossly threatening
verbiage and also actions engaged in by mobs in cities through the
country
IS NOT PROTECTED SPEECH, SHOULD BE
SUPPRESSED AND SHOULD BE CHARGED UNDER CRIMINAL LAW.
And the Democratic Party that is
actively promoting these actions should be condemned and should be relegated to
the
national political trash heap for
the next decade or longer.
THIS IS DANGEROUS STUFF!
GS
SATURDAY, June 7, 2025
RR#1
WHY SHOULD I, AS A PHYSICIAN, FEEL
UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT THE CURRENT BREAKUP BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ELON MUSK?
Because Musk is clearly a Patient.
One need only scan the Biography of
Musk, published by Walter Isaacson in 2023, to witness in great detail the
massive vulnerabilities this man has had to deal with all of his life.
And - if this is an
"authorized" biography - even the act of having authorized it would
be a symptom of a very troubled although unique human being.
For me as a Christian and as a
Physician: "PRIMUM NON NOCERE".
GS
RR#2
WHO - AND WHAT - IS RFK Jr.? I don't know.
GS
THURSDAY and FRIDAY, June 5 and 6, 2025
RR#1
AND WHO ARE THESE "DOCS"
WHO WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT A PREGNANT WOMAN EQUALS TWO HUMAN PATIENTS, FROM THE
MOMENT OF CONCEPTION?
ANSWER: THEY ARE NO PHYSICIANS
AT ALL, ONLY PRETENDERS - TO THEIR ETERNAL SHAME.
"PRIMUM NON NOCERE".
GS
RR#2
WEDNESDAY, June 4, 2025
RR#1
THIS INFORMATION SHOULD LEAD TO
CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST THE LEADERS INVOLVED.
And it should belatedly lead to the
Excommunication of Joe Biden and to defrocking of the Catholic Clergy
leadership that
enabled the Scandal of
Biden's retention as a Holy Communion - receiving "Catholic".
GS
RR#2
BEFORE SEEING THIS ARTICLE, I
CONSIDERED THE WSJ JUST DOING WHAT IT DOES RE. TRUMP, THE "BIG BEAUTIFUL
BILL" AND ITS BUSINESS SELF-INTEREST. AND I CONSIDERED ELON MUSK AS
JOINING THAT CLUB AFTER HIS INTERESTS HAD TAKEN A BIG HIT.
But where were the likely balancing
effects of Trump's Tariff negotiations and their effects on GROWTH with trading
partners?
Well, here they are.
So: give the Leadership that
Americans strongly voted for A CHANCE.
GS
WHAT FOLLOWS IS MY SON'S REPLY TO MY RECENT RR ABOUT "TARIFFS AND TAX RELIEF."
Stay tuned. "It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings."
GS
Hi Dad--you know I'll
comment here, because, as a Real Republican, I believe--as it's always been
shown true—that tariffs are taxes on Americans and Real Republicans loathe
unnecessary taxes. I'll skip discussion about tariffs on imports that
Americans can't even make here and say that you--not "other
countries" or "big business"--will pay the steel tariff tax when
you decide to buy a new washing machine, so I hope you remember that.
Yes, it will probably put more steelworkers back to work, but making steel at a
much higher cost in the form of American wages for those workers, and you will
be paying that higher cost.
To me, that's
un-American. We have been the most-prosperous country--in fact the
"greatest" country--in the world since WWII mostly because of
free-market capitalism. These tariffs prevent free-market capitalism in
America, and make all of us pay more for products made here and overseas.
Real Republicans know this.
And as far as reduction
of the $32 Trillion national debt goes, Mike Johnson and Trump say the BBB
reduce it. That has never happened with lower taxes that will somehow
"increase revenue", and the proof of my statement is that the national
debt has increase every year since 1997 when Bill Clinton was president.
It's "voodoo economics", as George H.W. Bush called Reagan's economic
plan during one of their debates, and he was right.
David A. Sprecace, J.D., LL.M.
SUNDAY through TUESDAY, June 1 through 3, 2025
RR#1
PASSED TIME FOR ANOTHER "POT
POURRI", ALTHOUGH THIS ONE "STINKS"...A SIGN OF THE TIMES.
- The
Biden Coverup "News" has been No News to most conscious
Americans. But the WSJ recently announced "Watergate-Style
Hearings For The Biden Coverup". By comparison, Watergate
was shop-lifting.
- A
recent WSJ article announced "Quick Trip Up World's Tallest
Peak", preceded by hypoxia training and the use of Xenon, both of
which expand one's store of red blood cells. Score one for Human
Physiology.
- Now
it can be told: most current Liberal Arts college "Education" is
a scam, or worse. Propaganda at the cost of a FORTUNE.
- As
I have been predicting: AI can become dangerous to the health of humans.
See the recent WSJ article entitled: "AI Is Learning To Escape
Human Control". But don't expect the AI gurus to do
anything about that. PROFIT UBER ALLES.
- Here's
a tutorial that is both timely and pithy: "Tariffs In American
History", by John Steele Gordon (in Imprimis, the offering of
Hillsdale College, May, 2025). Of course, the Wall Street business world
sees only danger. PROFIT UBER ALLES.
- And
I end this offering with a repeat: the recent posted Rapid Response
relegating the LYING DEMOCRATIC PARTY to the trash bin of American
Politics for at least the next decade. REST IN PIECES.
GS
RR#2
NOW WE ALL KNOW THAT THE CHURCH
TELLS US TO "TURN THE OTHER CHEEK".
Of course I would do that...as i
prepare to break his nose.
GS
We all know Hollywood likes to take shots at Catholicism.
But I have to tell you about a recent instance that goes beyond the pale.
This
past weekend, I sent a letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc, expressing
outrage over a recent episode of the Apple TV+ original series, Your
Friends & Neighbors.
The
episode features a man and woman casually breaking into a Catholic
church, opening the tabernacle, removing a ciborium, and then
proceeding to chat while snacking on the Eucharist, even smearing the
wafers with jam.
For Catholics, that’s tantamount to smearing jam directly on the face of Christ.
And
the actor in the scene is Jon Hamm. He was raised Catholic by a devout
mother, so he knew exactly what he was doing. Hamm is also an executive
producer on the show – an Apple original.
My
letter requests the immediate removal of the blasphemous episode from
the Apple TV+ platform and an apology to all Catholics for committing
such a grave offense.
After all, Apple claims that they promote “a culture with a North Star of dignity, respect, and opportunity for everyone.”
We’ll see what Mr. Cook has to say.
Stay tuned,
Josh Mercer
CatholicVote
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