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A romantic evening for a couple of hummingbirds seeking shelter. 🌹

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The UPS driver always leaves packages behind the planter by my door.

Not on the doorstep where they'd be visible.

Behind the planter. Where only someone who lives here would think to look.

Yesterday I saw him arranging it just so, making sure it was completely hidden.

"Porch pirates," he explained with a shrug.

Some people are quietly taking care of everyone.

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How to Fight the New GOP Scheme To Kill Social Security & Medicare

All though I started before Thom Hartmann He has a much better way of putting across the economic and social facts of the last 50 years. I deal more in actual negotiations. for knowledge is a very powerful weapon. What is not know is often a more powerful negotiations tool than what is brought forward. I try to do the same thing using Proff Richard Wolff. He is a world renown economist. His teachings are the very basis of my economic education I was taught at U of M when OHSA was created by Each of the two u of m professors and former Fed. Chairman and fellow Allen Greenspan. Greenspan chose to sit next to me during class and also after class at Blazo's where I, for reasons I truly do not know why, was invited to attend. Other heads of departments at UofM became regulars also at these late night and early morning twice weekly sessions. They lasted two years. I received a very rare UofM certificate, no degree even though I had two years excepted UofM credits from Schoolcraft Community college. I think my Accounting teacher at Schoolcraft must have had something to do with me being invited for these sessions of some of the best education anyone ever in any college could possibly get. that accounting teacher, also a attorney was Henry Ford's 2nd personal account and attorney. I was by far the worst student in that 4 semester accounting class. It was the very next to last class of the third semester before I was ever asked to answer a single question in class. Stanley that accounting teacher knew my family history better than I did. None of this was at the time known to me. My last name is Polish and very distinctive. Stanly on that day he actually asked me, the dumbest student, I am sure to ever get to 4 semesters of accounting in the history of education; knew my Aunt. My aunt was Henry Fords personal secretary and a close friend and associate of Stanly. From that night on Stanly and I walked to gather to the parking lot. By the end of the 4th semester by association only, Stanly was asking me questions in class as any other student, not the class dunce. I worked very hard to pass that accounting class. I even put a lock on the basement door from the inside to keep my three kids from bothering me trying to study what was very difficult for me to become proficient at accounting. This was very crushing to me some couple of years later when President Reagan destroyed the accounting and tax system that had made this country for economic King of world history.

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