These two videos below could hardly be more different in content and tone — but they serve a common theme.
This first one contains graphic scenes of an elephant birth. Skip them if you wish, unless you are particularly interested in bulging and dropping amniotic sacs, in which case you’re in for a treat. What happens later, when the baby doesn’t breathe, is worth your watching to see instinct in action to direct the mother’s behavior in a situation she had presumably never before faced.
And this one could hardly be more different — or, at its core — the same. Another pregnancy-related problem creates another (this time non-mortally) threatened child, but this time the response doesn’t come from instinct, but from technology.
(You know, one could build Spiderman-style firing webs into those things. Just saying.)
This is your Weekend Open Thread. Talk about those, or anything else you’d like, within reasonable bounds of decency and decorum. And don’t forget — Monday is the big OCTA meeting on the 405 Toll Lanes! Come root for Alternative 2!
We will have a Dearthwatch following this week, though that will wait until I have time.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
It’s official now – Barack Obama has gone batshit crazy.
Regarding the admitted (by government officials) illegal targeting of conservative groups by the IRS – in May he called that targeting “outrageous” and “something that people are properly concerned about.”
Now he says: “.. you’ve got an office in Cincinnati, in the IRS office that — I think, for bureaucratic reasons, is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether a nonprofit is actually a political organization deserves a tax exempt agency. And they’ve got a list, and suddenly everybody’s outraged.”
And he goes on to throw his liberal MSM enablers under the bus: “And by the way, Chris, I’ll point out that there are some so-called progressives and, you know, perceived to be liberal commentators who during that week were just as outraged at the possibility that these folks, you know, had — had been, you know, at the direction of — the Democratic Party, in some way — discriminated against these folks.”
#losthismind
This is for Robert Lauten
The Case for Repealing Dodd-Frank
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Sorry, Greg, you forgot to make a featured image, and all I could find on this cold afternoon was Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest.
It works for me!
This one is for The Exile