Welcome to another beautiful morning! All is quiet outside my sunporch this morning, --- finally. Somebody had a car alarm going off for like twenty minutes while ago. It couldn't have been more than two houses down the street and it was a piercing "warbler" sound. I'm glad I was awake or it would have really been irritating. It was obnoxious enough as it is. Back many years ago when they started putting those things in cars they were unusual enough to get your attention and make people maybe check out hat was happening. But now, --- they go off and no one pays attention to them except to be annoyed. Maybe there is a benefit of having them if they scare a thief when they go off but --- who knows.

It is another hot air quality alert day. The weather people say that tomorrow it could get better and by Monday we should getting actual fall weather with cooler temperatures. It is that transition time of the year when people switch from sweaters to swimsuits and back to sweaters and we never know what to expect.

I've been watching the national news and of course that news is divided into two categories. You either have stories about a police officer shooting and killing a black man and the rioting because of that or you have stories concerning the upcoming presidential debates and election. We are in a period of society where everybody seems to have a cell phone going all the time filming anything that could possibly make the police look bad and the news media jumps on it and does everything they can to sensationalize the incident in order to keep rating up. There is no such thing as just reporting the news any longer in an unbiased manner. Yes, some of our police officers are making some stupid and lethal mistakes. Some of our police are not paying attention and relying on their training. And in some cases yes, people have been killed when maybe another course of action could have prevailed and that makes people angry. That anger turns into destructive riots and targeting and ambushing of police officers --- which in turn put the police on edge causing them to do stupid lethal mistakes. It is a cycle that has to be stopped some how. And worse yet --- it is all being used by at least one presidential candidate as fodder to gather votes. How pathetic is that?

As for our presidential race --- we have no good choice. One candidate is just an evil vicious person who will do anything and say anything to get elected. Her only real goal is to be the first woman president of the United States. The other candidate is a loud mouth "bar-bully" who is treating the prospect of running this country like it was a TV reality show. When I say "God, help us;" I truly mean God --- please help us.

I didn't mean to get all ranting on you this morning. Just had to get it off of my chest. I care so very much for this country and I'm seeing this nation being led away from the principles of Christiaity and it scares me. So, I'll turn to God once again this morning and pray for guidance for our leaders and for our nation. And --- while I'm at it --- I'll say a prayer for you and pray you have a most wonderful day. God Bless you.