Right above it is a dead apricot tree that we keep around so the birds have a rope line where they can queue up to be allowed a drink. We sit out there in the late afternoon and count them as they roost. We set a new record yesterday with 12 in the tree, but weren't quick enough to take a photo of it. The best I got was a 9. Enjoy.
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At some point in time, politics, whose only output is policy, becomes overwhelmed by other aspects of reality. The government in Venezuela can pass all the spending bills it wants, but there's no money. The power of the government has dissolved along with the currency. Venezuelan politics are irrelevant save how it controls gangs of thugs on the street.
This is kind of where I'm at with the rioting and race-mania of the Left. Winning the election becomes less and less important when laws are disregarded, the debt is at unprecedented levels and the population is heavily armed.
Think about this: What is the point of Congress if Federal courts can be firebombed without consequence? Congress passes laws. Laws are enforced by courts. Federal laws are enforced by Federal courts. Whoops! The Federal courthouse was attacked yesterday and the workforce is too frightened to come to work.
What is the point of local laws if there are no cops? The city council can declare what it wants, but if the cops don't or can't enforce it, who cares?
If a legislator passes a law and no cops or courts are there to enforce it, does it make a sound?
Has the County Health Office named your drinking establishment as a source for a community outbreak yet? Although, I guess you are within the rules right now in terms of being outdoors, but I don’t see any masks, and it doesn’t look like they are properly socially distancing.
ReplyDeleteWe have a couple of hummingbirds this year. The CP got a hb feeder. As we aren't into photography, and have no artillery piece like you; so no photographs of them.
ReplyDeleteThe progs just don't care to enforce crime they don't care about. You know murder (not committed by a cop), rape, etc. But call someone the wrong gender, whoa, will they be all over that.
==Anarcho-tyranny is a related concept [to that of the 'managerial state '], where the managerial state is argued to be more interested in controlling citizens so that they do not oppose the managerial class (tyranny) rather than controlling real criminals (causing anarchy). Laws are argued to be enforced only selectively, depending on what is perceived to be beneficial for the ruling elite. One example is that illegal immigration is in practice often tolerated.==
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