July 2, 2012
This picture — snapped of a bald eagle, America's favorite bird, who swooped in on fisherman Bruce Huntley's catch and stole away with it before he could reel it in— is probably some sort of metaphor for American ingenuity or opportunism or something. But if we got into all that, we'd really be missing the bigger picture here. And the bigger picture is: "Holy moly. A bald eagle stole this guy's fish."
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Jared Moody commented…
"For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perchd on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him" - Benjamin Franklin
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