A light-hearted prayer request, with underlying truth.

Thank you God,...
for standing by me so far today.

With your help, I haven't been impatient, grumpy, judgmental or lost my temper.

But......
I'll be getting out of bed soon,
And I'll really be needing your help even more.

Amen.

Someone needs to tell Chris Matthews these rebuttals.

He seems to be stuck on the term "socialist".
He sort of spits out the word "Socialist".

You are here for a reason.

Perhaps just knowing you are here is a sign of hope and support, both for your greater family, and maybe even for people you don't know.
Your participation on DU is a gift to people you don't know.

I'm sorry for your loss of your sister-in-law. Your brother (I'm thinking it's his wife who died) will take comfort in your being there with him at this sad time.
Yes, cancer sucks, and appears to us to be random in many cases.

Secret Security protection comes quite late in the election process. nt

Sec.Clinton has full-time Secret Service protection.

Interrupters of any stripe would get short shrift and would be out of the area before they knew what had happened to them.

They have already defined themselves. The video of the in-your-face

shouting and demands is here and available to anyone (especially media) who thinks it's a good idea to publicize the tactics used to shut down anyone's organized rally.

I detest incivility in the public forum, no matter how important those acting out believe their cause to be.

Thank you, Muriel. That makes sense.

I knew that some cruise ships were too big for the Panama Canal.

(I've been through the Panama Canal once - ca 18 yrs ago. Am now looking at another trip there with my adult kids. I've read that the ship I'm looking at -Princess line- was built with transit of the Canal in mind.)

By "biggest ships" I'm thinking cruise ships.

Is that correct?

I could not vote for the death penalty either. Unfortunately that would

exclude you and me from most jury panels in states who still have the death penalty.

I find that completely unfair, since as a result the jury does not reflect the true opinion of the peers of the accused.

Wasn't that ridiculous? I see no skills in Dr. Carson that would

recommend him as head of the Executive branch of the US government and Commander-in-chief of the military.