Saturday 29th

Not done a lot today - apart from crocheting - so we'll run straight through the news and pics.

This was horrific, and heartbreakingly sad.  The Texas deputy was filling his squad car at a filling station and a gunman just came up from behind and shot him.   There doesn't seem to be a motive, other than the war that seems to be raging at the present time on law enforcement officers.

Six police officers have been shot and killed this month alone.   The police here carry guns all the time, they are not just issued to them if they are going out on a raid, or thought they'd be needed.    I know we don't arm our police because it is feared that the bandits might use their guns against them, and they do seem safer for it, our police aren't shot and killed on the scale that they are here.

And you thought Bubonic Plague was a thing of the past, in the history books!!!   I wonder how it came over here from Europe.



I know you have seen this picture before in a different context.  I am showing it again because someone at a campaign meeting said something about his 'toupee', so he invited her up on the stage to 'pull it off'.   She ran her fingers through it, pushing it all back, showing us that it was all growing out of his head.  I don't know about Hilary Clinton's $600 hairdo, I think he must spend that on his, keeping it growing and coloured.

We've heard about the migrants, mainly Christians, fleeing persecution in Syria and other places in the Middle East, and travelling through Europe, packed so tightly into vehicles they are suffocating.  It is a humanitarian crisis, why isn't the UN doing anything.

This poll from Iowa is pretty representative of all of them - Hilary's popularity is plummeting.  I can't, I just can't, see her being nominated.  Not with the FBI on her case, and everything else.

There has been a lot on television today about hurricane Katrina, looking back and remembering.  I remember it.  I remember I was doing the intercessions on the Sunday following it, and it took me a little while to find the right words of prayer for the victims and all those involved in it.   That's not a problem I'd have here because they  follow a set format every week, so that whatever is happening in the world, or in the US,  isn't taken into account - so that whoever reads them isn't required to write them.  

I don't know why that is because they are supposed to be - even in the Episcopal Church -  'the prayers of the people'.