A Prayer...

 

Two Los Angeles sheriff's deputies were "fighting for their lives" on Saturday night after being shot multiple times in an ambush-style attack. The suspect was still at-large late Saturday.

One male officer and one female officer were injured in the shooting, which took place at about 7 p.m. local time.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the deputies were sitting in their patrol car at the time of the attack and both were shot multiple times.

The department shared surveillance video of the shooting on Twitter just hours after it happened. In the video, a person in black shorts and a black jacket walks up to the passenger side of the patrol vehicle and opens fire multiple times into the window without warning. The suspect then runs away.

المستهزىء

 

 لقمه يا بسه ومعها سلامه خير من بيت ملان ذباءح مع خصام 

   المستهزىء بالفقير يعير خالقه

Rememberance...

 

Stock...

 

• The stock market hit new highs last week, and the history of market cycles suggests that the current bull market trend could continue for some time to come.
• In terms of the business cycle, the US economy is out of recession and into an early cycle recovery.
• In addition, the market continues to display characteristics of a secular bull market. Secular bull markets are prolonged super-cycles in which the market produces above average returns.
• Factors supporting the secular thesis include de-equitization (the number of public stocks is declining), a highly accommodative monetary policy, and a weaker dollar.

Devine...

 

The pleasures of a well-cooked meal or loving sexual intercourse are "divine" and have unjustly fallen victim to "overzealousness" on the part of the Church in the past, Pope Francis says in a book of interviews published.

"Pleasure arrives directly from God, it is neither Catholic, nor Christian, nor anything else, it is simply divine."

"The Church has condemned inhuman, brutish, vulgar pleasure, but has on the other hand always accepted human, simple, moral pleasure," he added.

Francis - said that there was no place for an "overzealous morality" that denies pleasure, something  existed in the Church in the past but insisted is "a wrong interpretation of the Christian message".

"The pleasure of eating is there to keep you healthy by eating, just like sexual pleasure is there to make love more beautiful and guarantee the perpetuation of the species," the pope said.

Opposing views "have caused enormous harm, which can still be felt strongly today in some cases," he added.
"The pleasure of eating and sexual pleasure come from God."

Francis, the spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics around the world, singled out a 1987 Danish film called "Babette's Feast" as reflecting his message on pleasure.

Blame...

 

ON MSNBC's Al Sharpton said Tuesday that defunding the New York City Police Department is an idea "a latte liberal" may advocate, but not by those "Blacker and poorer" who have seen shootings and homicides surge in New York over the summer.

Sharpton's comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" come as the NYPD reported a 166 percent increase in shootings in August compared to the same month last year.

Overall in 2020, New York has seen an 87 percent increase in shooting incidents across the city, with more than 1,000 reported compared to 541 at the same time in 2019.

Sharpton added. "But to take all policing off is something a latte liberal may go for as they sit around the Hamptons discussing this as an academic problem. But people living on the ground need proper policing."

Murders are also considerably up in 2020, with a 47 percent increase reported in August compared to the same month last year.

Comment: DeFunding the police came from demonstrators and looters and those who went to destroy property. Not those of the Hampton.  MSNBC should have corrected the record right there and then.  Just a thought. 

Quality..

 

More than 150 powerful business leaders in New York City joined together to warn Mayor Bill de Blasio that he needed to take more decisive action to address crime and other quality-of-life issues that they said were jeopardizing the city’s economic recovery.

Chief executives of companies like Goldman Sachs, Vornado Realty Trust and JetBlue sent a letter to the mayor portraying a bleak assessment of life in New York City during the pandemic, and suggesting a vote of no confidence in the mayor’s ability to correct it.

The letter asserted that there was “widespread anxiety over public safety, cleanliness and other quality of life issues that are contributing to deteriorating conditions in commercial districts and neighborhoods across the five boroughs.”

And if the mayor did not address those issues, the business leaders warned that people who have left the city would be slow to return because of legitimate concerns over “security and the livability of our communities.”

The City budget is 92 Billion dollars and the quality of life is designed for poverty, MAke your own opinion. Just a thought.

OR...

 

Riots...

 

Warning...

 

The role of the Media in shaping the information became convoluted. The news became a thing of the past. It is a team of fast talkers, well paid speakers who are told what to say and to make it good. NBC, CNN and others consider themselves journalists, fair and balanced. Fair to who? Balanced by what standard?   Just a thought.