So I get my City of Austin Utilities bill in the mail. It contains some filers talking about the city effort encouraging people to garden and build habitats in a manner that encourages wildlife.

Cool! That’s one thing I love about where I live, as there’s lots of wildlife. We get deer, ducks, foxes, armadillos, raccoons, possums, mockingbirds, cardinals, blue jays, Carolina wrens, tufted titmouses, all other manner of birds, rat snakes, toads, various other reptiles, insects, butterflies… I mean, you name it. It’s quite a variety of fauna around here. And I admit, the fact Austin isn’t a concrete jungle is one reason I love it.

So I read more into the city’s program.

Hrm.

It talks about wanting to encourage butterflies, birds, frogs, salamanders and the like. But never is mention made of deer, ducks, foxes, armadillos, raccoons, snakes, and so on. In fact, if you look at the city ordinances and polices, it’s got a good many things on the books specifically to discourage that sort of wildlife.

So the City of Austin doesn’t really want to encourage wildlife, just certain kinds of wildlife. Furthermore, the city wants to discourage the uh… undesirable wildlife.

It’s always amusing (and sad) when all the fuckin’ liberals scream about how its wrong to discriminate, yet they are some of the worst offenders of the very same.