Prickly City by Scott Stantis for July 29, 2016

That was the Hope & Change thing flying away.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

—Emily Dickinson

Ever driven I-40 in Spring during butterfly migration?

Carmen must have not watched the DNC convention. She could have joined the republicans who spoke for Hillary.

Darwin2016: Very Gradual Change

I will never understand leftists, who seemingly think bureaucrat-dictators make things better. Suppose leftists are incapable of making decisions for themselves. Even in a wealthy country like Venezuela, (in the words of Lady Thatcher) “you eventually run out of other peoples’s money.”

Oh please, if you think your Democratic reps care less about protecting big business and special interest groups than the Republicans do you are not paying attention, both parties are corrupt socialist entities. There may be a few good ones but mostly it’s all about power politics.

fbjsrBecause very few plants with food for them grow that high.

The butterflies are migrants from Mexico and are dying off. Along with the bees we need to survive. Just to lighten up the mood

Riiiight. Predictably failed socialism had nothing to do with it….