LETTERS

Don’t have the answer

It seems we have another “enlightened one” writing to the paper, a freethinker.

He says that the Bible is a myth, that Bible teachings are a myth. May I ask something? According to what?

According to whom? Who sets the standards of right and wrong? Who decides what truth is and what is a lie? How can there be a myth without truth? How can there with a lie without truth? How can there be wrong without right? Well, who decides?

You can’t even tell me how this world came into being. You don’t know how old the earth is or how it came into existence. You don’t know how you got here or where you are going. You don’t have any answers, but you all want us to think you are the sharpest knives in the drawer. No, I don’t think so.

PHYLLIS FARISH

Bella Vista

Something’s a bit off

Recently I read that the “harsh” winter has caused a shortage of natural gas and that the gas companies want another pound of flesh from us.

Is this the same natural gas that I have been reading about that we have centuries of supply in the ground? The same natural gas that environmental experts have been touting to switch power plants, trucking industries, buses and private autos over to because there is so much available?

If one colder-than-normal winter can cause supplies to be so short that we have to have a 10 percent increase in our bills, something is wrong.

What I suspect is wrong-no, what I know is wrong-is that it is the corporations’ greed using any trumped-up excuse to either raise prices or provide less of their product to the consumer for more money.

I think Center Point Energy makes obscene profits as it is, and for their representative to say that they have to do so many things to make a profit is ridiculous. Every Center Point customer has so many charges on their bill each month that it is nearly impossible to believe, including a substantial fee for transporting the gas.

I believe the gas companies do not “need” this increase, they just want bigger profits. It seems a make-believe shortage is just a good way to plunder the customer a little more.

KEN COPE

Vilonia

Reason behind choice

When I first heard of same-sex marriage, I thought it was about homosexuality. Then I learned of a lady who lived with another lady and lost everything to her girlfriend’s family because they weren’t married when the girlfriend died. The girlfriend was buried like her family wanted, not like she wanted. She could’ve been had she been married.

Hitler wanted to reclaim some of the old countries that used to belong to Germany and Churchill was against it. I used to think maybe Hitler was right since they used to belong to Germany. Now, I realize when a country wants to reclaim an old country, it’s usually for the old country’s money.

In the U.S., the North didn’t want to separate from the South for money reasons.

ALICE ANN LONG

Russellville

It’s for cats’ own safety

Re Ms. Ann Link’s letter taking Richard Conniff to task for his article about outside cats: I think we are missing the point here.

Yes, we humans kill birds, too. Do two wrongs make a right?

Yes, feral spayed and neutered is better than euthanized. Maybe they don’t spread disease wholesale, but it does happen at times. Maybe her cats don’t catch other animals, but lots of others are very good at it.

I believe the most important reason to keep a cat indoors is for its own safety. There are many dangers outdoors, some of which are cars, dogs, other cats, skunks, coyotes, bobcats and other predators, poisonous chemicals, fleas, ticks, worms from eating who knows what and, unfortunately, evil humans.

Our shelters are not filled to capacity with stay-at-home cats, but those who are thought to be able to “fend for themselves.” Many are not spayed or neutered, so are multiplying and adding to the overpopulation problem,and often end up at the shelters as well.

The life span of an outside cat is about two years. House cats can live up to 20 years.

I want my cat to be around for a long time, and I want to be with him at the end of his life, not wondering why he never came home one day.

GAIL KRANZ

Hot Springs Village

Agreement is possible

We can find supporters of birding and wildlife habitat in the most unlikely places.

I have just finished reading Happy, Happy, Happy, a popular book written by Phil Robertson, the bearded patriarch of Duck Dynasty fame.

You might not like every thing Phil has to say, but I think you will be surprised at his common-sense judgment on matters related to the environment.

Though he has probably killed more ducks than anyone on the planet, he strongly supports protecting them by restoring habitat in the U.S.and Canada. On his own considerable land holdings in northwest Louisiana, he has destroyed invasive plants and planted native grasses and millet. He values pristine forests, cardinals and mockingbirds. Chapter 11 of his book, “Redneck Caviar,” is one even our most rabid tree-hugger could promote.

Birders and duck hunters in tandem can do a lot to conserve our Natural State.

Let us not object to their mallard murdering ways too quickly, and congratulate them for all the good they do.

Peace and birds.

JERRY BUTLER

Scott