Thoughts

Have you ever looked up and seen a flock of hundreds if not thousands of birds? With the billions of birds around, why don’t we see yards and roads littered with bird carcasses?

The answer is actually quite simple; predators. Nature continues to go on just as it always has by survival-of-the-fittest.

I’m sure you’ve seen the occasional road-kill and circling or hovering about were crows or vultures just waiting to get at it. Small animals get snatched-up so fast by others that even if you walk through the woods, you probably wouldn’t see anything lying around except for something larger like a deer which would take longer to be consumed.

If other animals weren’t bad enough, there are always beetles, maggots, etc. that can work incredibly fast to consume anything lying around.

Also, birds are not likely to just drop out of the sky. Just like any living creature, if it’s ill (or some can sense when they’re dying) they’ll “go home” or somewhere else to rest. Often, predators can even sense when another animal is ill or weak and attacks even before it dies naturally.

So, I guess we should be kind of grateful that nature cleans-up after itself.

The only ones they’re hurting with gun control are the honest good citizens that would like to have some protection in their home or perhaps the occasional sport hunter. Besides, do they really think they’ll stop some “twisted” person from getting a gun if they really want to?

Now, I’m not talking about automatic weapons. They’re unnecessary. But, simple hand guns and rifles in themselves are not a threat to our society.

I heard about a guy who was told “Guns kill people!”. Well, he had a gun and decided to place it (fully loaded) on his front porch of his busy small town neighborhood. Low and behold, people drove by, people walked by, kids played in the neighborhood and more. That gun never got up once and did anything! Now, either people are wrong when they say guns kill people or he has one really lazy stupid gun.

Way more lives (in this country) are lost as a result of people driving automobiles. Now, there’s something that could use more control. I’ll guarantee you that if every driver was made to take a thorough professional driving course before they were allowed to drive and then retested every 5 years, we would lose more than half the drivers on the road today. Is that ever going to happen? No. So, if they’re willing to look the other way when it comes to all the deaths caused by automobiles, why the big push for gun control?

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The “Home” phone!

It used to be that you called the “House” when you wanted to talk to someone.

You never knew who might pick-up the phone and you would end up saying “Hi!” to.

I remember as a kid I would call my friend’s “House” and more often than not, someone else picked up the phone. It could be a sister, brother or maybe the Mom or Dad. Heck, it might even be Grandma! Many times the conversation went beyond just “Hi!” and you actually got to know a little about the other people in the “House”.

With today’s cell phones, we’re missing out some valuable communication. If I call someone, what are chances someone else will “pick-up” the phone and answer it?

So, here’s what I suggest. Unless you’re expecting an urgent call, if there are other people in your home, leave your cell phone out on the kitchen table while you’re in the house and tell the other people at home that if they hear it “ringing” (or whatever does), to go ahead and answer it. Sure, there’s a chance that no one will hear or answer it. But, is that so bad? There’s always voicemail.

Let’s stop being so isolated and start talking to more people. Would it be so bad to make another friend?