Evening yowls, incrediblest Kittens ... wow, the head-spinning days we're living in are just becoming even more tornadic in scope and dimension ... while the Kougar foresaw the basic trends now happening, the scope and dimension certainly escaped her ... so, volcanic activity across the planet is intensifying, and will likely get much worse ... this most certainly reflects the overall volatility of these epic times.QUESTION: When will *insane in the membrane* villain-traitor John McCain be brought down and dragged by his heels through the streets of history/herstory? Mr. Songbird traitor himself dared to call Rand Paul an agent for Putin. McCain's list of crimes are worthy of a James Bond supervillain... in fact, some have thought he is Manchurian candidate for the Chinese communists...whatever, there are books written about his CRIMES...and he stole sacred land from American Indians in Arizona, then sold it off to Chinese mining interests...gee. nice guy, huh?
In the lineup of articles below, the last one is Rand Paul's rebuttal to Mr. Songbird, as he was called by soldiers who knew him during his days at the Hanoi Hilton... yeah, he was NO war hero.
Okay then, the Kougar finds this first article's subject fascinating... is this a real spiritual AWAKENING of some kind? Or, is someone using holographic technology to sway people toward Christianity? Or...???
Michael Snyder | Millions of Muslims all over the world are giving their lives to Jesus Christ, and in many instances this is happening because of dreams, visions and other supernatural encounters.
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THEN, MONSATANO, here's another horrendous war crime against the human race, and against Mother Earth... REVEALED... but hey, gee, when are WE THE PEOPLE going to rally and say NO MORE!!!?
Zero Hedge | Donna Farmer, Monsanto’s lead toxicologist, even admitted in her deposition that she “cannot say that Roundup does not cause cancer”.
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Exclusive — Rand Paul: Let’s ‘Smash’ Paul Ryan’s Obamacare Lite ‘to Smithereens’
15 Mar 2017
Look, I’m a “glass is half full” kind of guy. You have to be. I try to stay positive. I try to keep thinking maybe, maybe someday CONGRESS will remember the vision of our Founding Fathers … and that those we elect will represent us, not the special interests.
But Washington politicians are so far gone that the Constitution is not even an afterthought, and their master seems to be whatever industry funds them.
It doesn’t have to be this way. We just had an election about change, about draining the swamp. President Trump promised to be different, and I believe he sincerely wants to be. But he is being taken for a ride through the swamp right now on “Obamacare Lite.”
For four STRAIGHT elections, REPUBLICANS ran on repealing Obamacare, and now “Republican orthodoxy” — I’m told — is keeping insurance subsidies, mandates, taxes, and insurance company bailouts.
That’s not acceptable to me. And it isn’t keeping our promise.
Though I want to believe the glass is half full, I am tempted, very tempted, to smash a glass half full of Obamacare Lite — smash that glass to smithereens!
When did Republicans begin to believe that insurance companies should be put on the dole? That they should be bailed out when any of their customers become sick?
When did Republicans begin to believe that the federal government should force you to pay a penalty to a private insurance company if you can’t afford insurance?
When did Republicans begin to believe that we should levy a special tax penalty on those who choose to buy really good health insurance?
The current Ryan Plan — “Obamacare Lite” — is not about patients. It isn’t about better health care. It isn’t about lowering costs.
It is, plain and simple, about getting more money to the insurance companies and running more of your life from Washington.
I am a career physician. I spent years training and learning to be a doctor. I did it for patients. I don’t give a flip about guaranteeing the profits of insurance companies. And as a Senator, I shouldn’t, either.
But in Washington, somehow, the whole debate seems to be about getting people insurance instead of getting people health care.
Insurance doesn’t equate to health care. Just ask all the Obamacare recipients with $6,000 deductibles.
I’m sick of the insurance companies putting me on hold and telling me to talk to their representative in a foreign country. Screw that.
I’m sick of the government telling me I have to buy their crappy product, and I’m sick of watching us go into more and more debt to do it.
We need a new way, and Obamacare Lite isn’t it.
I want the consumer (aka patient) to be king. I want to empower the patient to get the health care they want at the price they want.
I want to let every American be able to join a co-op to buy their health care. When that happens, the buying power returns to the patients.
Instead of patients having to kiss the boots of insurance company executives, my plan would have insurance executives come on bended knee to the patient.
The patient would be king.
The patient, as part of a large buying group, would be able to negotiate lower prices and a policy where you can’t be dropped or ripped off if you become sick. The patient would be able to purchase exactly the type of coverage that suited her needs, without government mandates telling her what she must buy.
ObamaCare forced every American to purchase a policy that included Pediatric Dental, whether you had children under eighteen or not. Is that freedom of choice? Why should you have to pay for something you cannot use? Good for the insurance industry, but bad for patients.
As a physician and as a patient, I hate Obamacare. Obamacare jacked up insurance rates and created insurance monopolies.
But the answer is not replacing the government mandate with an insurance mandate, which is exactly what Obamacare Lite does.
I don’t feel any less manipulated by being forced to pay the insurance company a penalty instead of the government.
I want the patient to be king. If you want to disrupt the apple cart, if you want to take away the monopoly power of insurance companies, do one thing — allow every individual in America to join a co-op, to join a buying group, to join an association health plan.
The insurance CEOs hate the idea — which should be enough to tell you it might just empower the patient.
So if you hated Obamacare and don’t care much for Ryan’s Obamacare Lite, maybe you ought to consider telling them all to take a hike and give you the option of joining a co-op. Give you the option of buying across state lines. Give you the option of having a YUGE Health Savings Account so you can spend your money how you want. I challenge the media to compare the price of LASIK surgery, contact lenses, and orthodontics in the last twenty years — prices come down when patients make decisions about what they are buying.
While I am a “glass is half full” kind of guy, I also would love to give the middle finger to the man that profits off of government bailouts and forces his or her monopoly Brand of insurance schemes on an often worried and defenseless public.
Just say no to Obamacare, to Obamacare Lite, and to any scheme to enrich the insurance cartel.
CBO: Full Repeal of Obamacare Insures More Americans than Ryan’s Obamacare-lite Plan
According to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections, a full repeal of Obamacare would insure more Americans than Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare-lite reforms.
The CBO’s analysis on the Republican leadership’s plan to repeal Obamacare predicts it would drop insurance for 14 million people in 2018, while 24 million would lose insurance by 2026. Compared to these figures, the CBO’s research on the 2015 full repeal bill indicated it would insure more Americans than the Ryan plan.
Phillip Klein, managing editor of the Washington Examiner, stated that despite the Ryan plan doling out billions of dollars in tax credits, the plan also retains the Obamacare regulations, which might stall any more progress.
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RAND PAUL: MCCAIN A “STRONG CASE FOR TERM LIMITS”
Kentucky senator against increasing debt for NATO expansion
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) fired back at Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) in response to his stunning accusation that Paul works directly for the Russians.
“I think he makes a very strong case for term limits,” Paul told host Willie Geist on Thursday’s Morning Joe. “I think maybe he’s past his prime.”
“Maybe he’s gotten a little unhinged.”
To talk about NATO sensibly, first there needs to be a rational discussion about the “pros and cons” of expanding it, Paul said.
“We currently have combat troops in about six nations, we have troops actively just stationed in probably a couple dozen others, we have a $20 trillion debt,” he noted. “If we put active troops and got involved in combat where McCain wants us to be, they put an angry McCain on the map. It’s virtually everywhere.”
“His foreign policy is something that would greatly endanger the United States, greatly overextend us.”
McCain delivered his scathing remarks on the Senate floor toward the Kentucky Senator after he flatly objected to McCain’s “treaty” seeking to give NATO membership to Montenegro.
“If there is objection, you are achieving the objectives of Vladimir Putin,” McCain said just before the vote. “You are achieving the objectives of trying to dismember this small country that has already been the subject of an attempted coup.”
“I object,” Paul said before walking out of the chamber.
“He has no justification for his objection to having a small nation be part of NATO that is under assault from the Russians,” McCain added. “So I repeat again, the senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”
Paul later explained his rationale for voting against the protocol, saying it would be “unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.”
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