Happy Birthday, America!
Weather
A peek out the window shows gray boring do nothing clouds and 82 unimaginative degrees. Total bummer.
For those keeping score at home
The National debt is currently $34.2 trillion.
Social Security expected insolvency, 2037.
Useless Fourth of July of information to share with your clergy
Since 1785, Bristol … Rhode Island has been hosting Fourth of July celebrations. It is the oldest annual Fourth of July celebration in the country.
Americans spare no expense when it comes to celebrating the Fourth of July, collectively spending over $9 billion on food alone.
Independence Day became a federal holiday in 1870.
The ‘skinny’
Don’t cross the streams, Bristol.
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