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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was fed up Friday morning over the Democratic presidential candidates spending too much time at Thursday night’s debate “quibbling” over minor health care policy differences. The “Morning Joe” host said he was “astounded” to see the candidates, for a large portion of the first hour, “pounding each other on technocratic niceties” related to their health care plans, while ignoring the big picture. […] Scarborough concluded by saying that pitching “Medicare-for-All’ to the American people is a “waste of time” because it will never pass in Congress after the election. “Barack Obama basically had to use every...

Amazon-owned Whole Foods will be withdrawing medical benefits for hundreds of its part-time workers starting Jan. 1, 2020, the company said Thursday. In the past, employees needed to work at least 20 hours a week to buy into the health-care plan. Now they will need to work at least 30 hours. Less than 2% of its workforce, or 1,900 employees, will no longer be eligible for medical coverage, under the new policy, the company said.

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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) Daniel 6 Daniel in the Den of Lions 6 [a]It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom, 2 with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss. 3 Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. 4 At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government...

U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to emerge victorious in the 2020 presidential election, according to a CNBC survey of 62 chief financial officers. The CNBC Global CFO Council consists of companies that combine for a valuation north of $5 trillion and more than two-thirds of those surveyed believe Trump will defeat the yet to be named Democratic nominee. Only one-quarter of respondents say ex-Vice President Joe Biden could beat Trump if he is nominated. Economic Health Respondents classified the health of the U.S. economy as "improving" in the second quarter and the latest survey showed an upgrade to "stable."...

Eco-protestors at Heathrow Airport who sought to bring flight chaos to thousands this morning have been prevented from flying drones into the airport's restricted airspace by jamming technology. Meanwhile three protestors, including a former Irish Paralympian banned for a doping violation, have been arrested at the airport following six arrests of Extinction Rebellion leaders yesterday. No flights are believed to have been affected and the protestors posted a humiliating video at 3am showing them trying and failing to get their flying toy airborne.

BALTIMORE, Maryland—At a closed-door Republican annual conference on Sept. 12, President Donald Trump knocked Democrats for embracing “radical socialism” and urged GOP lawmakers “to fight like hell” to win the 2020 election. “With the grim specter of socialism descending on the Democrat Party, it is up to all of us ensure the survival of American liberty,” Trump said at the 2019 House Republican Conference member retreat in Baltimore. “Democrats in Congress have embraced an extreme, destructive, and dangerous agenda, radical socialism, and open borders,” he said, criticizing wide range of proposals by Democrats such as Medicare for All and the...

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we have Woodchopper's Breakdown by Aaron Solomon (1988). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

The universe is looking younger every day, it seems. New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested by two other calculations published this year that trimmed hundreds of millions of years from the age of the cosmos. The huge swings in scientists' estimates — even this new calculation could be off by billions of years — reflect different approaches to the tricky problem of figuring the universe's real age.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel might head to a military operation in the Gaza Strip before elections take place, Channel 13 reported on Friday morning, upon returning from a visit to Russia, saying that such an act "could happen at any moment." This statement came just one day after Netanyahu said that "it looks like there will be no other choice but to embark on a wide-scale campaign in Gaza." The prime minister spoke with Reshet Bet shortly before flying out to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi. Netanyahu additionally spoke about his meeting with Putin in...

“The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out” (Proverbs 13:9).

In the most contentious Democratic debate thus far, a winnowed field of 10 Democratic candidates took the stage in Houston Thursday night and sparred over hot-button issues such as health care and immigration. Notably, this was the first time that frontrunners Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden shared the debate stage. At the end of the night, Joe Biden emerged as the winner and Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders were the surprise losers.

Social Security benefits could get a 1.6% cost-of-living adjustment in 2020, according to one new estimate. The Social Security Administration is expected to officially announce its cost-of-living adjustment in late October...Meanwhile, Medicare Part B premiums are expected to increase to $144.30 per month in 2020 from $135.50 this year, according to estimates from Medicare trustees.

MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski appeared to suggest that President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump, isn't actually his during Friday morning's broadcast of Morning Joe. The conversation started when Brzezinski, her co-host Joe Scarborough and a panel of guests were critiquing former Vice President Joe Biden's performance during Thursday night's third Democratic debate. The two showed a clip during which Biden made a gaffe while going over on his time talking about education. In his response to racial inequality in schools, Biden said a helpful way to educate kids is to "make sure the record player is on at night."...

This dog had its willpower tested to the limit after its owner left a plate of french fries unguarded on a table. The hilarious 30-second video shows a black Labrador staring intently at its owner's dinner as she busies herself in the kitchen in the background. And the pet seems to be resisting the temptation to steal the grub - until the owner walks out of the room. When her back is turned, the sneaky dog creeps forward and takes a single fry off her plate, before making a swift getaway. It's not known where in the world the video...

Joe Scarborough still occasionally describes himself as a "conservative," but at least when it comes to health care it sure sounds like Joe is all-in with the liberals. On today's Morning Joe, a palpably PO-d Scarborough furiously criticized the way the candidates in last night's Democrat debate focused on the details that divided them on health care. Instead, insisted, Scarborough, they should focus on the big picture. An angry Scarborough ranted: JOE SCARBOROUGH: I am astounded, just politically. I am astounded. This is the third Democratic debate where they spent at least the first third of that debate pounding each...

Did We Learn Anything From 9/11? Or are we still sleeping? Wed Sep 11, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 114 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Two things happened in 2001. Islamic terrorists carried out their most successful attack on America with the murder of 2,977 people. And the number of immigrants obtaining permanent residency passed a million for the first time in a decade. Before 2001, a million plus was a streak that might linger for a few years before falling back. These...

The skeletal remains of a man who went missing in the late 1990s were found inside a vehicle visible on Google Earth, according to a report.

HOUSTON — Democratic debate night No. 3: Attacks and counter-attacks. Love for one former president, loathing for the current one. A 76-year-old front-runner essentially got called old, and he turned around and called another rival a "socialist." But will it change the fundamentals of a nominating fight that remains remarkably stable at the top with five months until voting begins? Here's a look at some takeaways and potential answers: The third Democratic debate seemed to end in a 10-way tie. Former Vice President Joe Biden was sure-footed (until the end), at least for him and compared with the previous two...

Former Vice President Joe Biden struggled to answer a question on gun control during the third Democratic debate in Houston, Texas, prompting viral claims that his teeth were falling out.