Forget Sarah Palin’s “mama grizzly” bears, if you live in the Reno, Nevada area you don’t need me to tell you that wild, black bears are on the rampage. Hundreds of instances have been reported to local authorities where these crafty creatures, some weighing up to 6 or 7 hundred pounds are breaking down the door and helping themselves to the refrigerator. Seems that these outgoing omnivores have learned that the kitchen has more calories, and more taste I suspect, than road-kill and berry patches. According to wildlife officials, it takes only 1 successful attempt to crack into your cupboards, just one shot at foraging in your food pantry and the bears never forget it. Not unlike the lines from the movie Splash when the late John Candy offered, “Hey, when I find something that works I stick with it.”
Interestingly, the moment the burglarizing bears learn a better way at securing the food they need to survive, they abandon their innate, natural habits, ingrained since the beginning of their species, for a more efficient way of getting things done. If it ain’t working, it ain’t working, so time to move on, the hell with the status quo…NO doing it just for doing it sake.
How cool would it be if voters could learn that quickly on their feet?
Each election cycle, we jump on a political see-saw, tipping it to either the Democrats or the Republicans, like it really, truly matters. We get all worked up about one party or another, one candidate or another yet in the end we elect a politician. They promise change and all we get is short-changed. They swear an allegiance to our Constitution and as soon as their right hand falls they set out to circumvent it. Soon they are voting more for their pockets than for their people.
New party in power, identical power grabs. Same old, same old.
At least bears are smart enough to adapt, to think on their paws, to change what isn’t working into a system that works for them.
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man i couldn’t agree with you more / I have never voted because i don’t believe in voting for the crook of my choice so where does it leave our confidence in selecting a good leader for office to represent us and not dictate us into ruin? and how do we get our assets out of the bank control and back into the people control/ If my history is right Stalin said we don’t have to conquer the US they will destroy themselves/ It sucks to remember stuff like that in school that they don’t teach today to our kids.