I have been jack of all trades.

Just drop me a line and I will tell you all about it.

I fail to comprehend the love affair with guns. Does one have no empathy for the person at the receiving end of the violence.

Have we in America lost our marbles? Have we become insane? Are all the violent video games finally getting to us? Is the violence on TV getting to us and we have just become too numb to all human compassion for out fellow human beings?

What is happening to our country. It feels like the ultra extreme zealots have taken it over.

Are we now no different than the tribal lords in Eritria, Ethiopia, Somalia and Afghanistan?

This can not be right and we have to let the politicians know that guns always lead to violence and tragedy.

Let us examine ourselves and our emotions again and decide whether we are going to live in the past when life and challenges were different or are we going to move forward to the future and start competing with the world at large.

Let us get off the gun adiction. Time to rehab and be free from need for a gun.

if he is not hurting anyone. Those who got hurt because they approached the situation in a hawkish manner. 

Whatever happened to the 'softly softly does it' approach?

No one seems to care that, sometimes those in authorities need to play for patience and let the situation calm down. Waving a gun at a deranged man is only going to aggravate the situation, create a hostile environment and then the bystanders get emotionally involved as well. That is not what we would want from our peace keepers. Patience and care of the citizens of any city is a virtue. And put that gun away, it is not a toy!

What if none of us did anything different. We would all walk the same, talk the same, look the same and bore the hell out of everyone! Worst of all we would live like those back in the stoneage.

It is when we try out something differnt, be independent thinkers and make a choice that is right for us that we as a society move forward.

We had made the banks, car manufacturers, stock brokers and others too big to fail, and remember what happened then. Of course we do.

By the same logic, we should not let any social network become too powerful and too big to fail. Just think who is to blame if that happens and the information is abused.

The way I see it, each one of us has the obligation to make choices wisely that suit our needs, but we should not let that blind us in to behaving that jeopardises our economic future or hold us hostage like the way the big investment banks did in 2007 and 2008!

Step out and breathe the air. Step out and try something different and see our country grow by leaps and bounds. Open minded and free.

imo

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US Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke said in a letter to Icelandic Fishing Minister Jon Bjarnason. Some researchers believe that whales and dolphins have intelligence even above that of the ape and elephant. That would be within the lower range of human intelligence. To hunt them to extinction is a violation of universal law. Karma happens to you whether you believe it or not.