President Trump is
threatening to pull FEMA the emergency agency out of Puerto Rico because “Puerto
Rico was a mess before the hurricane” as if that justifies pulling FEMA out
now. Is the president cold hearted
enough to do something like that? According
to Norman Goldman this is just an empty threat to “distract” us. I take things a little more seriously than
that. President Trump often follows
through with his threats. Once he “finds
his pen” and starts issuing executive orders like Obama there is no telling
what he might order. The big order was
the destruction of Obama Care. Open
enrolement has started for next year and they are keeping it quiet because as
Norm says “They know the more people in the pool the better solvency of the
plan, but if they can keep people out of the pool it will hasten the day when
Obama-care fails. What the President can’t
do through congress he’ll do with his executive pen. He’s “providing millions of Americans with
Obama-care relief”. The President
claims that he wants to provide people with more health care options. Like right to work laws are the “option” to
lower the wage base of all industry. The
President claims he’s offering people “lower (medical) costs and saving them
the nightmare” of Obama-care. It seems
that the state insurance commissioners don’t like orders from the Federal
Government because their own powers to safeguard the citizens is
over-ridden. Norman says this is a place
for “States Rights” and I would have to agree.
These “associations” are going to be allowed in any state and more or
less take over. This is what the
Republican bill wanted to accomplish to begin with. But apparently they have to go through the
courts to accomplish all this and judges might not decide their way.
Dr Ralph or “Rolf” has returned as a character
to “Days of our Lives”. He’s the one who
put a computer chip in Hope’s brain to make her think she was Gina and also
turned Hatti into Marlena. He also saved
John Black from certain death, and I don’t remember that one. Now he’s the one fingered by Clyde Weston for
reviving Will Horton from his necktie murder.
The evidence mounts now to a credible threat that Will is still
alive. Of course we heard that story in
the news about a month ago of some business putting computer chips in people’s
right hand like pet ID chips to keep track of employees. That’s pretty close to taking the mark of The
Beast. Also in today’s DL episode
Adrian, who is really Bonnie Lockhart, approached Victor with what she learned
in that eves-dropped phone call where she heard Victor admit to ordering the
hit on Damos via Zander. Of course
Zander never got to pull off the murder.
He got sidetracked. Now Bonnie
says she wants Victor to divorce Maggie and marry her, which is an act of total
insanity. If I were Victor I’d have a
long talk with Justin about Adrian’s mental stability because even not knowing
her identity, she’s been acting really strange making erratic choices. By the way, I like “Club Clowie” better as a
title for a night club better than “Doug’s Place”. Who wants to name a nightclub after an old
man in his eighties who had a reputation as a singer forty years ago? In terms of regular news there hasn’t been
any today, at least yet. I haven’t had
the news on and maybe that’s a good thing.
We’ve had enough bad news from all directions to last us to the end of
the year with no more. Some good news
would be that Muller has filed a lot of charges against Trump and his many
cohorts and there will be jail terms awaiting them in the near future. Getting rid of Trump would definitely be a
good thing. There is nobody to file
impeachments against Donald Trump but we keep hearing these stories about how
divided the Republican Party is now.
They’re holding out hope for us. I
think if the democrats were a little sneakier they would do all this
personality profiling stuff we talked about in the last blog post. They too would appeal to people’s fears and
hopes in order to get them to vote democratic in all of the ballot choices in
the 2018 election.
As you know a lot of
the time early in the morning I have woken up with anxious thoughts. Fortunately that wasn’t the case this morning. If you’re wondering why that print talking
about the Christian church was in such large font it’s because I tried it in
normal and it came back really tiny. I
wasn’t trying to emphasize it above the rest of the blog post. Of course I was motivated in writing that
paragraph because I think if “the church” as I have experienced it treated me
more fairly I wouldn’t have time for all these doubts. It’s just a thought. People accuse me of trying to pick a
theological argument. If the topic is
theology I might have a question in my mind that needs resolving. And once it was resolved I wouldn’t have to
think about it anymore. But a lot of the
time it wasn’t theology but advice and guidance that I was seeking. And I never got it. If I had gotten sound council maybe I would
have made some decisions in my life better than I did. There seemed to be some “force” guiding the
conversation where others would find council I would find only emptiness and
frustration. As you know my two very
first blog posts back in April of 2006 centered around this Egyptian messiah
connection. For a while I thought Philo
of Alexandria might be involved. But the
Barrabus figure in all four gospels was too valuable a clue to pass up. Also the “clue” tossed out there that “Jesus”
or whoever was alive in Rome up to the late ‘fifties AD was another valuable
clue. Because the stress involving
Christians with Rome involved this Barrabus messiah and not “Yeshua the
Nazarite”. But people don’t talk about
this Egyptian military leader referenced in Acts because “the church” wasn’t
involved in his history. What “The
Church” can’t control they ignore. But
of course I’m reminded of what Ghandi said.
“First they ignore you and then they mock and belittle you, then they
openly persecute you by trying to make life hard for you. Finally they kill you. And then you win”. It’s an irony that may be true and maybe not.
Planet Nine is out
there, and astronomers are determined to find it, according to a new statement
from NASA. In fact, mounting evidence suggests it's hard to imagine our solar
system without the unseen world. The hypothetical planet is believed to
be about 10 times more massive than Earth and located in the dark, outer
reaches of the solar system, approximately 20 times farther from the sun than
Neptune is. While themysterious
world still has yet to be found, astronomers have discovered a number of
strange features of our solar system that are best explained by the presence of
a ninth planet, according to the NASA
statement. "There are now five different lines of observational
evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine," Konstantin Batygin, a
planetary astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in
Pasadena, said in the statement. "If you were to remove this explanation
and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you generate more problems than
you solve. All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come
up with five different theories to explain them." [The
Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]
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