Gun Crazy

Bizarre shooting in Las Vegas.

Crazy incident and violent scene.

Rowdy, dangerous wild-west shoot-out.

Mom fatally wounded by teen.

Tammy Meyers had taken her son

Armed with a pistol to seek out a thug.

Is this a case of what's bound to happen

When gun-wielding people start to feel smug?

A car chase ensued; shots were fired.

A family is grieving; a kid's been detained.

By taking the law into its own hands,

Now does the family see what it’s gained?

Another incident took place in January:

Christina Bond was shot in the head

While adjusting the gun in her bra-holster--

A careless mistake, and now she is dead.

In December 2014 a mom

Was shopping at Walmart with a gun in her purse.

Her two-year-old son took out the gun

And killed his mother. How's that for a curse?

An obvious lesson comes to mind here:

Although many think that weapons are fun

And necessary, that doesn't mean

That everyone ought to be carrying a gun.

By Bob B (2-24-15)

Please Don't Be My Valentine

Please don't be my Valentine

UNLESS your heart's sincere--

Unless you get all tingly

Whenever I come near.

You can't be my Valentine

If dreaming's obsolete--

If without me in your life

You wouldn't be complete.

How can we be Valentines

If we cannot laugh

At all our idiosyncrasies

That speak on our behalf?

There's NO way we'll be Valentines

Unless you find me charming--

Unless you find my silly habits

Pleasantly disarming.

We cannot be Valentines

Unless it means forever--

Unless our solid love is one

That even death can't sever.

No, we won’t be Valentines

Unless my words ring true,

And feelings that you have for me

Are just like mine for you.

But IF we CAN'T be Valentines,

Nothing else then matters--

My WORLD will be an empty shell;

My HEART will be in tatters.

By Bob B (2-14-15)

Deeper Issues?

Our biblical characters had some issues.

Most of them weren't committing crimes,

But they would have needed some treatment

If they'd been living in modern times!

Lot, for example, had a drinking problem.

The man got drunk and slept with his daughter.

Actually with two! Advice to Lot:

Go to A.A. and stick with water.

An inferiority complex

Must have driven the angry Cain.

No matter what he did, he always

Seemed to incur God's disdain.

  

In searching for pairs of all animals on earth,

Noah's compulsion crossed the border

Of what today we would call

An obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

Saul had to be extremely bipolar.

Talk about mood swings! On different occasions

He tried to kill David, who luckily escaped

By the skin of his teeth and with no abrasions.

If someone--like Solomon--had seven hundred wives

And three hundred concubines, we'd tend to say

That he had a number of serious issues,

But we don't want to go there today.

Moses talked to a burning bush,

Samuel and Elijah heard voices that told them

What to do. Now we’d say they

Were schizophrenic if voices controlled them.

Harod was really into himself;

He had to be highly narcissistic.

When Paul was persecuting the Christians,

His behavior was rather sadistic.

Without AA or psychiatrists,

Or drugs like Prozac, Zoloft, thorazine,

Valium, Haldol, Zoloft, Lithium,

Seroquel, Paxil, and clozapine,

Our Biblical characters were on their own

To fend for themselves to carry out their mission,

Without medical insurance and someone

To say, "Get thee to a physician!"

(2-12-15) By Bob B

Findings in the Manot Cave

They say that in the Manot Cave

In the area known as Galilee

Part of a human skull was found,

Which is important for you and me.

The fifty-five-thousand-year-old remains

Put Homo sapiens in Neanderthal land.

We know that despite some interbreeding,

Homo sapiens got the upper hand.

The Neanderthals became extinct.

Why they disappeared is a mystery.

Violence, pathogens, competitive replacement?

Whatever it was, it is ancient history.

The findings help us to know our past,

To see our connectedness and to probe

Into the early migration of mankind

To view how we populated the globe.

Life wasn't easy for humans in the past.

We can tell when we dig up bones.

How did they ever survive back then

Without computers and mobile phones?

(2-11-15) By Bob B

Why, Brian, Why?

What a shame to watch Brian Williams'

Credibility go south!

I wonder if Williams now regrets

Having put his foot in his mouth.

He WAS in a helicopter over Iraq;

That part of his story is true.

But HIS wasn't hit by enemy fire

That endangered him and his crew.

So what's going on here? A lapse of memory?

Seeking importance or fame?

Or could it be ALL about ratings?

We know that's the name of the game.

Misleading the public is a ploy

I never thought Williams would choose.

That is a tact we're more apt to see

On a station such as Fox News.

The wheel of fortune is constantly turning;

You rise to the top for a spell,

And before you know it, suddenly it seems

That everything’s going to hell.

The lesson? Well, making up stories

That boost your ego or delight you

Will ultimately bring about your fall

As your stories come back to bite you.

By Bob B (2-10-15)

One Step Away from Cuckoo

Bobby Jindal of Louisiana

Has eyes on the presidency. Heaven forbid!

He certainly won’t get very far

When more folks see what his supporters did.

Trying to help his campaign they distributed

Literature blaming—I say with a grin—

Hurricane Katrina and deadly tornadoes

NOT on nature, but instead on SIN!

Have people stepped out of a time machine

Directly from times when the ancients explained

Natural occurrences as God’s vengeance

With imaginations that were unrestrained?

Common sense should not be compromised.

Nor should fancies disguised as reality

Block out truth or lead us down

A narrow path of irrationality.

By Bob B (2-9-15)