China and Russia appear to be the only powers on the planet that pose any credible military threat to the US. The southern border presents a lower priority threat.

Totally disagree!  The hot war threat from China and Russia is dormant. They aren’t actively invading us. And their nuclear capabilities, along with ours, make them a theoretical future threat more than an immediate actual one because of mutual assured destruction. Yes it could happen but odds that it will on any one day are very low.

The invasion on the southern border on the other hand is currently active, it’s already happening and there are known terrorists and criminals among them entering the country that have no such restraints as MAD.  The likelihood that they are planning a set of multiple 9/11s is very high.

  "Military aged" is a meaningless scare phrase.   That cadre has been entering the US for work since the Mexican Revolution.

Not by the millions. Not even close!  And historically they’ve all been Mexicans. Hard working Catholics for the most part. Now they are from all over the world including radical Muslims and Chinese on an unknown mission. Erosion of our culture including our form of government can very easily happen from within with this massive invasion.  This is a much bigger immediate threat than missiles from Russia or China.

I am for immigration. We need young men. But we must vet them and they must come legally.

It's a disgrace.  Where's the media outrage and public outrage?

The media suppresses any reporting of outrage.  And public outrage is physically discouraged.  It's out there... all bottled up and ready to explode.

CR, after CR, after CR.  It will never stop. The control of the purse has been wrested away from the House and is currently in control of the Senate. Everything requires more spending and more Federal employees thus more spending.

  Unconstitutional, but like everything else, they don't care.   If it's not apparent now, the government including our elected "representatives" hate us.    The largest government in the world, and much of it unconstitutional working against the good of the citizens.

 The FISA vote shows how much they hate us.  CR's are never going away as it makes it too easy for the congress and senate to rob the treasury in broad daylight.

  Just imagine if we cut out discretionary spending and only allotted money that was needed (defense, etc).   No more earmarks.  Also, real spending cuts.   Get rid of unnecessary agencies such as Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, EPA, TSA, etc.

  The economy would boom.

 We desperately need an Article V convention of states.

  Our country doesn't have a revenue problem, we have an out of control spending problem

Our spending isn't really out of control.  It is under the control of the politicians we have collectively elected.

Republicans would have a good chance of winning in November, but they are bound and determined to abort that opportunity.  Pun intended.

And how will that happen?  Can't build coal fired plants, no one wants to build nuclear plants due the amount of time involved, not to mention the cost.  Where will the generation come from?

It’s a scary thing for sure to have that “I’m going down” feeling. Getting up from being seated or lying down is a big time for that instability. I feel it sometimes just from fear. My falls have not been from instability but rather stupidity.

I’d never heard of the shoulder reversal until recently, and what an amazing thing it is. My neighbor had it and is now recovered. She had a machine that cools the surgery site uniformly and without having to run back and forth with ice.

I’m glad you can be supportive of your wife, Eppy. My good report yesterday certainly was helped to come about by my husband’s willingness to do things so I could heal and not struggle.

Gosh Becky, you’ve been through the wringer!  Glad there were people there to help you and no, not a coincidence.  Hope the sense of smell improves.

It was 91% where I am, and I wanted to see it, but I had a doctor appointment at 12:45, just after it began, and it was cloudy and raining anyway, so I resigned myself to missing it.

The doctor was done with me around the maximum at 1:45 and a few minutes later I walked outside. My car was only about 20 steps away, just a few seconds of walking from building to car.  It had stopped raining but the sky was still full of clouds and I looked up: Just then a large grey cloud moved to reveal what looked like a crescent new moon.  I stared right at it and as the mist further cleared I realized it wasn’t the moon but the crescent of sun behind the dark disc of the moon, also discernible, still through enough mist that it wasn’t bright enough to hurt my eyes but very clear and plain, and all surrounded by heavy grey clouds.  I looked at it about two seconds before another cloud covered it back up and it was gone. A few more steps to my car, we drove off and it started raining again.

It was one of the most beautiful sights I’ve ever seen.  No safety glasses, no pinholes in boxes, just perfect timing and no eye damage.  I will never forget it.  You can’t convince me that wasn’t a gift from God.  It’s like He pulled the curtain back just for me, and just for two seconds so as not to let me damage my eyes, just as I happened to look up in the short distance between the building and the car. 

Furthermore as we left the building (my husband was with me) we were delayed several seconds by an old lady with a walker who was in front of us and excruciatingly slow.  But we were patient and did not try to push past her.  If we had, the timing would have been off and I would have missed it.  My husband missed it anyway, he was busy unlocking the car and by the time I yelled at him about it, it was gone.

Maybe that was a lesson from God not to be impatient with slow old people.