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Lawmakers Renegotiating After Senate
Fails to Pass Short-Term Spending Bill
by Amber Athey and Kerry Picket
{dailycaller.com} ~ Congressional lawmakers are still working on a short-term spending agreement after the Senate failed to pass $5 billion in border wall funding Friday... Tennessee Republican Sen. rino-Bob Corker told reporters on Capitol Hill on Friday before the vote that senators reached an “agreement” on how to proceed on a House-passed funding bill. The House’s bill grants $5.7 billion in border wall funding as President Donald Trump has threatened to veto any bill that does not adequately fund the wall. “You’ll see shortly. It’s going to happen in the next 30 minutes … what the agreement is getting ready to be,” rino-Corker told reporters after leaving a meeting in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office. “It’s an agreement that — look, I haven’t voted yet, right? So, it’s an agreement as to how, if we were to get on the bill — what next will happen.” The deal to proceed was apparently reached between McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer after scumbag/clown-Schumer met with Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner... https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/21/lawmakers-deal-as-shutdown-looms/.
Partial government shutdown triggered
as funding lapses amid border wall dispute
by Alex Pappas
{foxnews.com} ~ Funding for a slew of federal agencies lapsed at midnight after Congress and the White House failed to pass a spending package... amid a bruising fight over border wall funding. The missed deadline means nine of 15 Cabinet-level departments and dozens of agencies will close just as the Christmas break begins. But it does not mean the whole federal government is affected: Only about a quarter of the government is actually shutting down. The Senate planned to reconvene at noon Saturday to continue talks. Congress had been facing a Friday deadline to fund a portion of the government or risk the partial shutdown. But even though negotiations continue, lawmakers left the Capitol on Friday without a deal to fund the government by midnight’s deadline. Over the last few weeks, Republicans and Democrats had been at a standstill over the president’s demands for $5 billion to fund the border wall. "This is our only chance that we'll ever have, in our opinion, because of the world and the way it breaks out, to get great border security," President Trump said earlier Friday. Democrats will take control of the House on Jan. 3, and they oppose major funding for wall construction... And this what we are getting, God help us.FBI Refuses To Comply With House Declassification Review of Witness Transcripts – Defers To dirty cop-Robert Mueller
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An Eternal Message of Hope From Apollo 8by Mark Alexander: It was December 24, 1968, 50 years ago this upcoming Christmas Eve, that astronauts on the first manned space mission to circle the Moon transmitted a message that provided hope and encouragement for hundreds of millions of people back on planet Earth. It had been a tumultuous year in America and around the world, and their message provided a great sense of unity and peace — a message that’s applicable today and for all eternity.
Apollo 8’s crew, Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders had launched their historic and dangerous flight on December 21. It took them 68 hours to travel 240,000 miles to the Moon, but their reward was spectacular. They became the first humans to orbit another celestial body, to see the bleak far side of the Moon, and to witness a stunning “Earthrise,” photographs of which provided the first human look back at our own planet.
On that Christmas Eve, people around the globe watched the grainy televised images recording Apollo 8’s view of the Moon’s surface below them. On their ninth lunar orbit, Borman began their television transmission with an introduction of the crew. Each gave their perspective on the Moon’s surface, with Borman describing it as “a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing.”
Then, unexpectedly, the astronauts began reading the Creation account from Genesis.
William Anders: “We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light.” And there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness.’“
James Lovell: "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.’ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.”
Frank Borman: “And God said, ‘Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.’ And it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas. And God saw that it was good.”
Commander Borman finished the broadcast, saying, “And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth.”
It was 2.5 hours later that the crew began a critical burn from the far side of the Moon, out of contact with mission control. This burn had to be carried out with absolute precision in order to put the astronauts back on a track to leave the Moon’s gravitational force and begin their return to “the good Earth” on Christmas Day. That burn went exactly as planned, and upon reacquiring contact with Mission Control, Jim Lovell’s first words were, in his humorous style: “Please be informed: There is a Santa Claus.”
Merry Christmas and “God bless all…on the good Earth”!
~The Patriot Post
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