See, now I saw a confident guy, kicked back in a smug pose, giving us the eye, somewhat like this stock image:
Hah, I always feel so silly taking pictures of signs, but that's why I do it!
I'm not great on Aussie Owl IDs, but my guesses would be the darker one as a Tasmanian Masked, and the light one as an Australian Masked or a common Barn Owl.
That Barking Owl jumped out right away though.
I really want to see these Australian and NZ owls in person, and I always feel I should post more of them.
Is that not mob justice?
Have we not seen the Russian funding of right wing networks and the seizing of disinformation websites this week?
Not everyone votes or can really give an informed vote.
If Trump wins, do we accept he's now unpunishable for his crimes? If the voting majority supported him, do the rest of us suffer his promised revenge on his critics?
This is why we have a legal system supposedly. We have people who are supposed to enforce laws impartially and in a timely manner. The right to a speedy and fair trial, for both the plaintiffs and defendants. Justice delayed is justice denied.
I don't want a bunch of biased legal know nothings determining justice. That's some warlord stuff.
Laws are also supposed to protect from the tyranny of the majority as well. It's also supposed to protect the powerless from overstepping authority, like a rogue president.
I'm no fan of lawyers, cops, or legislators, but I certainly don't want to live in a place with no law.
Unless you forget an /s, I feel this is a bad take.
Understood. I could have expressed that better.
If there's no sentence, was there a point to a trial?
This whole circus is held up on the fact the Supreme Court is entertaining the idea that any of the things he's charged with (or convicted of) can pass as him doing the job he was elected to do.
If he wins, this sentencing date will never come, and neither will any of the others. His acts will be officially sanctioned, and the only ones being sentenced will be us.
You're correct on all those points.
The take by the legal experts back while the trial was ongoing all said with no priors and it being nonviolent crime that none of them expected him to see prison.
But if we never get him convicted of any crimes, it won't matter very much.
I thought general consensus is he isn't realistically looking at jail time for this?
I don't ever expect him to actually be held accountable, sadly. I just want to see the justice system actually functioning in a way that protects this country as a whole. Trump did a ton of damage personally to this country, but to see the entire court system, the only thing we have to stave off change through less civil means, is a pure joke is the greater tragedy for me.
We could always theorize the laws and voting and our representatives would prevent something like this former presidency from ruining our country, but what have we seen but paper tigers?
Can you hear me, Major Scops?
Here I am, riding in a cat crate...
I was going to ask if this was in the southern hemisphere, but when I hit reply, my app showed your image text and I saw the second was indeed a masked owl.
Can't see enough of the third to know if that is some type of Masked Owl or a Barn Owl.
The first is labeled Burrowing Owl, but it looks like a Barking Owl, based on the vertical barring in the belly and the eyebrow line looks different.
And your images are at least as good as the ones I take. Any image of an owl is a superb image!
Of course. I knew that would be one of the first things everyone noticed, and it's a good opportunity to point out that feature of their anatomy.
Good example of their independent pupil dilation. You can see the eye in the sunbeam is less dilated.
Many comments of the original post took this as a sign of an injury, but this is actually a positive sign that all is likely working as it should. Since owl eyes are so large (the part inside their head is even bigger than how it looks from the outside!) they tend to get injured in an impact.
He is intense!