David W. Obst's Journal

John Chaney, 63, took this image of a female elephant performing a standing vigil by the carcass of her dead friend The female elephant can be seen holding on to the tusk of the dead male with her trunk She had to scare off surrounding vultures and hyenas to get to the body in a wildlife park in Botswana All those who witnessed the emotional scene during a tour of the wildlife park in Africa were brought to tears This heart-wrenching image has captured the incredibly rare moment a mourning elephant says goodbye to her fallen friend. John Chaney, 63, was on a safari trip in Botswana with his wife Diane when they came across the carcass of a dead elephant surrounded by vultures and hyenas. As their guide called park rangers to come and remove the tusks so they wouldn't fall into the hands of poachers, another elephant charged over to the body. The female elephant scared off the animals surrounding the carcass before tenderly placing her trunk around the tusk of the dead male. Mr Ch...

All the effort he goes through to have other people think he is tough, to the point of making himself look ridiculous.  

Conservatives read from Left to right and Liberals read from left to right.  Although both directions are bad.  One direction leads to and the other leads from.

Due process in the Islamic World. Their future men are being trained.  Two Pixilated areas.  One where his head is now and one where his head used to be. The severed head of a militant is held aloft. The photographer witnessed four public executions on August 31. Is he wearing gloves?

It is getting late but I will post this short post just to see how it will post from my phone. If I had anything important to say I would but I don't so I won't. Tomorrow I should have a lot to say.

12 years after 19 Muslim men attacked America they are still doing this. Where are the Moderate Muslims.    

Chaos on the Border, chaos everywhere; that is their re-election strategy.  If you can’t lock you’re front door your whole house is unsafe.  CHAOS!

Mark Steyn In 2010, the bestselling atheist Richard Dawkins, in the “On Faith” section of the Washington Post , called the pope “a leering old villain in a frock” perfectly suited to “the evil corrupt organization” and “child-raping institution” that is the Catholic Church. Nobody seemed to mind very much. Three years later, in a throwaway Tweet, Professor Dawkins observed that “all the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.” This time round, the old provocateur managed to get a rise out of folks. Almost every London paper ran at least one story on the “controversy.” The Independent ‘s Owen Jones fumed, “How dare you dress your bigotry up as atheism. You are now beyond an embarrassment.” The best-selling author Caitlin Moran sneered, “It’s time someone turned Richard Dawkins off and then on again. Something’s gone weird.” The Daily Telegraph ‘s Tom Chivers beseeched him, “Please be quiet, Richard Dawki...

In their new book, America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century—Why America's Greatest Days Are Yet to Come , 1 James C. Bennett and Michael J. Lotus predict America's future by looking deep into the past. They argue that the unique nuclear-family orientation inherited from the Anglo-Saxon tradition creates a culture that ultimately will reject the model of a centralized welfare state that currently grips our nation. Call me cynical l but I not convinced.  It all depends, of course, on the next two elections or at least the next election, the next one is crucial.  

14-year-old Newark boy killed had 30 bricks of heroin and loaded gun in his bedroom High school student, 15, builds $3.5million IT company in just three years WHY! It begins with the letter ‘L’

The USS Barry, seen here firing a Tomahawk Missile during Operation Odyssey Dawn, has moved into position off the coast of Syria. (U.S. Navy)

WILL 3 X 4 = 11?  Critics Say New Common Core Is Full of Fuzzy Math   READ MORE Obama says; you don’t need to know what 3X4 is, if you ever do, ask the government we’ll tell you, you have more important things to worry about.