SpottedTowhee

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Birder, former Firefighter. Citizen Scientist. Activist since the Civil Rights Era. #Haiku

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

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80 years ago, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hung by the Nazis, just one month before the end of WWII. He was safe in the United States but went back to Germany in 1938 saying, "The people need me." And "To stay silent in the face of evil, is in fact, evil."