Playing Catch up With the News

10:31am...Its really quiet for a Saturday morning. I almost thought it was Sunday! Feeling much better today than yesterday morning after getting much needed sleep. I haven't debated news items in a really long time so I should play catch up. But first...I'm really hungry so I better eat breakfast. Ha ha. Will revisit in about 30 minutes.

12:10pm...ok i'm back. After eating breakfast I got slightly distracted by something else. Anyway, the big news story of the week locally was the shooting on Rogers Avenue. I always wonder why suspects run especially when they know that shooting a cop is like putting the bullet right to your own head! Why run?!? Of course all three were caught and will more than likely face murder and attempted murder charges. I feel for the family of the officer clinging to life at Kings County Hospital. He is more than likely going to die. Very tragic. So where there's death we must speak of life. In a completely separate story, Senator Alfonse D'Amato and his wife are having a baby. Why is this news? Well..because D'Amato is 70 and his wife is 41! He has 14 grandchildren. All I can say is wow! On some level it's great that a child is on the way. On the other hand, part of me is like...he's too old to be impregnating anyone! While his child will be financially supported, he probably won't be around once that child reaches 25. Obviously I have mixed emotions about these major age difference relationships and children produced from them.

On a national level, terror reigns as government officials continue to say we are in danger without trying to create mass hysteria. I have always known that it's not a matter of if we get attacked again in New York but rather a matter of when. A lot of people don't remember the attempted plot attack on Atlantic Avenue's train hub years ago. That station is the "Times Square" of Brooklyn. Every time I go through there I think of that terror plot. I can only hope and pray that when the attack finally occurs, I and everyone I know and care about are safely someplace else. I just got my new movie from Netflix so I think I will watch that today (Borat) and then go for a walk to the park and read my book. Maybe more later.