Republican Health Care Bill Appears Headed for Defeat

It looks as if the Republican health care repeal act will come to a crashing end.  John Mc Cain, a key senator in this political tug of war, just announce that he in good conscience cannot vote for this bill, despite being best friends with co author Lindsey Graham.  John Mc Cain’s vote will insure the defeat of this dreadful repeal bill we’ve discussed before.  This is because Maine senator Susan Collins will vote no for sure.  And Alaska senator Lisa Marcauski is leaning “No” because of all of the activists outside her door.   Mc Cain won’t vote for any bill that hasn’t had a “mark up session” where amendments are offered, or has not been “scored” yet by the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO.   21 million people will immediately lose their health insurance if this bill passes.  Even in republican areas the voters are likely to blame Trump for this loss of their health care.  Apparently according to Chris Matthews, ten republican governors including Chris Christie and John Kasich have urged defeat of this health care repeal bill.  Meanwhile Ron Paul criticizes this bill calling it 'Obamacare light'.  President Trump is thin skinned about it and attacks Mc Cain.  It has been said that Trump may hate negative commentary of reporters.   But even more Trump disdains reporters with factual material against the president.  This Mark Zuckerburg stuff has really gotten under Trump’s skin talking more about “fake news”.   Once again Trump denies any Russian involvement in the 2016 campaign despite mounting evidence that the Russians were involved, as this latest Facebook episode reveals.  Zuckerburg intends to turn the mountains of documents over to congress.  Of course we’re all awaiting Muller’s report.  Muller is increasingly sweeping in gathering evidence and let’s hope it’s leading to something. 

Now Kim Jung Un is threatening to detonate a hydrogen bomb out in the middle of the Pacific.  This would cause untold ;radiation polliferation.  It’s just the latest step-up in the increasingly strident war of words between North Korea’s leader and President Trump.  I think it’s safe to say that Kim Jung Un is a mad man.  Maybe it will be necessary to obliterate North Korea after all.  People involved with the South Korea Olympics have security concerns.  Of course some wonder whether all of this bad news is the herald of some new era of a “Last Judgement”.  People are saying that today, Saturday September 23, 2017 is not the end but the beginning or opening of a new era or “Judgement period” by the Almighty.  It’s hard to think of a worse month of bad news than this month of September.  It would seem that somewhere, somehow, somebody is going to miscalculate and push the rhetoric a little too far and there will be some incident that happens that will lead us into war.  It would be interesting to read the newspaper headlines a year from now to see whatever happened with all these events.  

The Revelation 12 Sign is an apocalyptic belief heralding that the time of Jacob's Trouble—also known as the Tribulation Period—may begin on September 23, 2017, a date that coincides with the Autumnal equinox and the end of the Catholic September Ember Days. This theory, which has been promoted by a number of people and news organizations, proposes that a literal fulfillment of the prophecy made in the Book of Revelation 12:1-2^[1] will occur on this date over Jerusalem. Others maintain caution while nevertheless marveling at the coincidence.  This passage of scripture in the New Testament metaphorically describes "a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth." (NIV). Many people worldwide believe that an astronomical alignment involving the constellations Virgo and Leo, the sun, moon, and planets Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter occurring in September 2017 will fulfill this prophecy word-for-word.    This passage is taken right from the Wikkipedia, and ot occurs today. 

But now, here is another point of view.  Old doomsday predictions never die. They just get recycled.  Just six years after radio preacher Harold Camping promised the apocalypse, and five years after the end of the Mayan calendar was supposed to extinguish life on Earth as we know it, new doomsday predictions have arrived. This time, they come via YouTube and a man named David Meade, who claims that the first spiritual sign of the apocalypse will arrive tomorrow (Sept. 23).  Meade's theories meld biblical prophecy with astronomy. He claims that on Sept. 23, there will be a rare alignment of the sun in the constellation Virgo — with the moon just to the east — with nine stars and three planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars) clustering around the constellation's head, like a crown. This is supposed to be the sign foretold in the beginning of Revelation 12, which reads, in the New International Version of the Bible: "A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth." [Doomsdays: Top 9 Real Ways the World Could End]