The American eagle needs its right and left wings to fly but its heart is in the middle (more-or-less).

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"The U.S. incarceration rate in the U.S. is the highest in the world, with over 2.4 million people currently behind bars."  - American Friends Service Committee

"According to the U.S. Bureau of Statistics (BJS), 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013 -- about 0.91% of adults (1 in 110) in the U.S. resident population.  Additionally, 4,751,400 adults in 2013 (1 in 51) were on probation or on parole."  - Wikipedia

The American inmate population is disproportionately nonwhite...


Please give to St. Jude's Hospital, Danny Thomas Place/ Memphis, Tennessee  38105/ 800-822-6344

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Please give to the Diabetes, Nutrition and Endocrine Center/ 905 Union Street #11/ Bangor, Maine, 04401/ 207-973-7334

"1 in 8 Americans face hunger."  - U.S. Hunger Relief Charity

"1 in 6 people in America face hunger."
"In 2011, households with children reported a significantly higher food insecurity than households without children: 20.6% vs. 12.2%"  - DoSomething.org

"In 2014, there were 46.7 million people in poverty" in the U.S.  - worldhunger.org/ Hunger Notes

"The 2014 poverty rate for Blacks was 26.2 percent, for Hispanics 23.6 percent, for Asians 12 percent, for non-Hispanic whites 10.1 percent."  "(The poverty rate was at 22.4 percent in 1959, the first year for poverty estimates.)"  - Devavas-Walt 2015/ worldhunger.org/ Hunger Notes

9/24: The U.S. poverty rate was 13.5% in 2015. - U.S. Census Bureau/ census.gov

added 10/23: Please see Carbuncle Moon post 5/14/16; Four banks control...



Please give to Feeding America: 35 East Whacker Drive, Suite 2000/ Chicago, Illinois, 60601/ 800-771-2303

"Fate can be like an alimony check that never comes no matter how much you need the cash."


Please support the National Education Association/ 1201 16th Street NW/ Washington DC, 20036/ 202-833-4000

                                            Yes he was...


Please give to Make-A-Wish Foundation/ 4742 North 24th Street, Suite 400/ Phoenix, Arizona, 85016/ 800-7229497

                         "One woman's objet defectueux is another woman's objet d'art."

                      It began as a disagreement at a book club meeting in Bangor, Maine.

Sometimes you can’t repay people for an act of kindness, sacrifice, loyalty, courage, or charity, but you can try -- 
Sometimes life is in the effort.  (A version of this was posted earlier).          

  

Please give to the Wounded Warrior Project/ P.O. Box 758517/ Topeka, Kansas/ 855-448-3997
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                                                                                                                      c. 2016 O'Kendley

"I keep my husband's ashes in coffee cans in the trunk of the car.  When I'm up at Tahoe and it's icy -- and I'm slippin or stuck on 89 -- I sprinkle some of his ashes under the back tires.  Works good, like road sand -- the big chunks.  Ha ha.  Claus works harder dead than he did alive." 


add: 9/17: Happy Eid al-Adha (September 11 to September 15)  See blog for September 19th, 2015.