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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor several springs when I was a youngster, a couple of my neighborhood friends and I
would spend an afternoon in May scouting for mourning dove nests in the woods along a small creek at the edge of our small hometown. Doves construct a very rudimentary nest. It is basically just a handful of twigs and is nearly flat. Usually, just two white eggs were deposited in it.
We were careful not to touch or disturb the nest when we spotted one. Over the following three weeks or so, we'd check on them regularly until they hatched and it was just totally "neat" to watch "our" doves fledge and eventually leave the nest.
Then, one spring we noticed "Billy" following us as we checked on the nests. He was a year younger and known to have a hot temper. We avoided him as much as possible, but now he was trailing us, which seemed suspicious.
Sure enough, when we back-tracked and revisited the nests we'd just checked, all were now empty and the developing eggs smashed to the ground and stepped on. We chased him all the way to his house where his mother told us to "git" and to quit pestering her Billy.
A couple of years later, many were mortified when it was discovered that Billy had run an entire litter of beagle puppies through the wringer of his mom's Maytag.
A few years after that, I had to intervene to prevent him from continuing to slap his girlfriend around on a public parking lot.
I am not contending that Billy's family was representative, but they were the only Republicans in our neighborhood and, rightly or wrongly, reinforced my budding conviction that Republicans weren't "nice people". That conviction has never dissipated.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Billy is now a prolific serial killer.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Let's hope he sticks to dead animals instead of live ones. Or people.
was practicing to be a future magat. Yikes and and
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)It's probably just a matter of time.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)has mellowed a little. I hope so.
a kennedy
(29,467 posts)we had a dove platform and wed laugh at the nest shed build.......a couple of crossed sticks. One year she had 5 broods. FIVE Broods!!!! They are one of my favorite birds......love the doves. But I do laugh at their nests....a few twigs.
StocktonNative
(120 posts)I'm sure he flies the Stars and Bars to protest how much we Libtards love America!
tclambert
(11,080 posts)Sure, I know some call the McDonald triad an urban legend. Others argue that these issues are more symptoms of the underlying cause for sociopathy, and may be correlated enough to act as indicators.
The wetting the bed part I don't get. Maybe it comes from poor impulse control? But starting fires and killing small animals do tend to go along with not respecting property or life. Many serial killers started out killing small animals, then moved on to larger animals.
DFW
(54,055 posts)Not all Republicans tend to be that bad, BUT.........
People that bad DO tend to be Republicans.
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)..There was this fellow who lied and exaggerated everything. He made things up, said this and that and that was his reputation....
..On this particular day, November 22, he was screaming..Kennedy was shot, Kennedy was shot..Somehow, even though I thought he was lying...for a moment, I couldn't believe that he would make that up..He was the first person who told me about it.
Mazeltov Cocktail
(569 posts)Only his family were ( wait for it...) Evangelicals... Church of God, Mountain Assembly...if you feel like time traveling, go to one of their services, speaking in tongues and crawling or lying prostrate on the ground vibrating, kept waiting to be handed a snake.
" Billy" took a bunch of qualudes and sucked on an exhaust pipe when he was 17.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)StarryNite
(9,366 posts)for spending so much time building elaborate nests. LOL
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)That's a good possibility! 😃