You must have heard of the tourists and their guides that were terribly burned while they trekked an active volcano.  There’s no way you can read any of the eyewitness accounts of this tragedy without an emotional reaction. Those poor people thought they were in store for a wonderful experience they’d always remember fondly.  But they shouldn’t have gone, and the guides or tour operators shouldn’t have let them go.  At least eight were killed.  Many more were grievously burned, and are no doubt experiencing physical pain that is unimaginable.  Please pray for them.

We’ve had a senseless murder spree in New Jersey, and it’s those reprehensible Black Hebrews who, in their mindless hatred for Jewish people went into a deli with long guns blazing.  I have no idea what they believe, and what does it matter.  But we all saw how nasty their behavior was toward a bunch of innocent high school kids who were on a D. C. field trip.  Remember Chief-Spit-in-your- Face?  These Black Hebrews were stalking back and forth calling those high school kids every evil epithet. The video of them rushing the New Jersey deli with long rifles is shocking.  It was apparently an anti-Jewish act that resulted in the deaths of innocent people, only one of which looked to be an orthodox Jew.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won an historic majority in the British Parliament, clearing the way for a British exit out of the EU.  Finally!  It’s only been three years since a majority of citizens voted to get out, and there has been a fervent effort to overturn that referendum, undo it or hold another vote ever since.  Some of those smug socialist, Marxist elites have been given their walking papers in this election.  Hopefully, it will be the last we ever have to hear from the likes of Jeremy Corbyn and his cohorts.  Brexit is now seen as a sure thing and is scheduled to be secured on January 31.  If you remember, the British voted to get out of the European Union, against the will of liberal politicians and the mainstream media BEFORE Americans turned out to elect President Donald Trump, and it wasn’t even close in the Electoral College.  That brave move by the British population may well have inspired people here on the mainland to overthrow the entrenched Deep State in the United States.  But that’s a job that hasn’t yet been accomplished.

The impeachment charade this week has proceeded at breakneck speed.  They (the opposition politicians and the mainstream media) knew the Inspector General’s report was finally going to be released publicly and needed the impeachment nonsense to keep the narrative of the mainstream media on track. They also knew that Barr and Durham are well along in collecting the evidence of their attempted coup. They knew that this period in time at the end of the year would be very damaging to everything they’ve said for three years, so they couldn’t wait another minute to commence their sham impeachment.  You hear all these accusations thrown into speeches, accusing the President of every evil intent, but they have no evidence, no facts, nothing.  They hate his guts, and they hate ours too.  They’ve got to tie him in knots so he can’t accomplish his goal of returning the U. S. to solid footing both economically and in foreign policy.  Every great accomplishment is ignored or turned into some kind of mal-intent, and they gnash their teeth at President Trump day and night.  It is absolutely clear as day that they made up “crimes,” and intentionally altered evidence to try this impeachment sham.   They’ve stayed on offense because their actions have been “inexplicable” even to Inspector General Horowitz who did his best to provide them a fig leaf in his report.  It’s not going to fly, as he had to admit in his testimony before the Senate.

When asked why the rush to jam through impeachment, Mrs. Pelosi said, “Rush?  We’ve been at this for at least two years.”  That’s the most coherent and truthful statement to come out of her mouth lately.

They thought that the last president had already shamed us into abandoning our beliefs and disabling our firearms.  They can’t believe the crowds Trump draws for rallies.  They can’t believe that he is ahead in nearly every poll, despite their best efforts to weight them (fraudulently) against him.  They better hope that hanging his name with the insult of impeachment will damage him sufficiently that the low IQ set will go against him on the basis of his being impeached.  Not likely, but we’ll see.

If you watched any protracted segment of the impeachment hearings, you know that those out to take down President Trump got eviscerated on Live TV.  But they didn’t seem to notice or understand what fools they were making of themselves.  They’re going to besmirch the name of Donald Trump with the impeachment insult because they have a majority in one house of Congress that allows them that hollow victory.  Let’s hope they’re proud of themselves.  It won’t last long.  Whether by trial in the Senate or by Attorney General Barr or Mr. Durham, they’re going to suffer embarrassment at the very least, and with any luck, dozens of their heroes will do hard time.  Here’s hoping and praying.

Maybe you’ve noticed.  The United States has turned around economically and once again gained its superpower status around the world since we have a President who invokes the power and mercy of Almighty God.  I don’t think that’s accidental.  How about you?

Mark

PS:  A new edition of 21^st Century WATCH is in the printing and mailing process, and we hope you will receive it without delay. Dr. James Ricks is scheduled to deliver the sermon here in Tyler this Sabbath, and we have some other visitors that we don’t get to see very often as our annual Board meeting is set for this weekend.  Thanks to all of you in this country and elsewhere in the world.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump continued to turn attention to the media in the aftermath of the spate of suspected mail bombs sent to CNN and some of his prominent critics, this time complaining that the cable news network was casting blame on him.

“Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, ‘it’s just not Presidential,’” he tweeted.

His CNN bashing is not unusual, nor is it all that surprising when it was sent: 3:14 a.m.

But Trump’s response to the discovery of the 10 suspicious packages, including those intended for former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has been in large part another way to air his grievances about the way he and his administration have been covered. On Thursday at the White House, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders complained that 90% of coverage of the president is negative, while calling it “ridiculous” to suggest that Trump’s rhetoric was in some way responsible for the mailing of the threatening packages.

Trump and his media allies have pointed to the overheated rhetoric of those on the left, including the hounding of members of the administration as they eat at D.C. restaurants.

As events were unfolding on Wednesday, including the evacuation of CNN’s headquarters in New York, CNN President Jeff Zucker said that “there is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media.”

Ohio Governor John Kasich, a Republican who has been a Trump critic, said that the president has a special responsibility with his command of the bully pulpit.

“He’s not capable of being a unifier,” Kasich told CNN. “In fact, I’ve become convinced he doesn’t know how to accept personal responsibility and always finds somebody else to blame.”

He cited Trump’s overheated rhetoric at rallies.

Kasich said, “When you get into a place and the crowd gets revved up, there’s always somebody on the edge that might do something very stupid. And we … now have a heightened sense of threats and panic and ‘The caravan is coming and they are going to be in your home,’ and all of this stuff, and you rev people up, and what happens? Someone out there who is unstable does something crazy. That is what I think we are seeing here.”

Source: https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/trump-slams-cnn-mail-bombs-1202998275/

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