Utah– Video of Elephant being rode at Davis Co. Fair

A Facebook user shared a video on Utah Animal Rights Coalition (UARC) facebook page showing what appears to be a elephants ‘keeper’ hit the back of the elephant’s legs to keep the animal walking in circles as it gave fairgoers rides. UARC is known for speaking out against the use of wild animals at Utah’s legendary theme park, Lagoon. There’s been a long history of brutality towards the majestic and mighty elephant for performance and transportation. The brutality came to a head this year after Ringling Bros. Circus announced it would phase out elephants.

But that didn’t stop this year’s Davis County Fair from using exotic wild animals for entertainment. I have reached out to Davis CO. via Facebook and am waiting for comment. Davis County Fair also features captive Californian and South African sea lions this year, they call it “sea lion splash.” 

 

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#OITNB Season 6: Top 10 Facts & Heart-breaking Moments

The saddest ending to the most exciting series on Netflix is upon us. Orange Is The New Black (OITNB) season 6 premiered July 27, 2018, and I have binged watched every episode for you! Now if you don’t want to hear my recall of the saddest moments—here’s your warning,

!!SPOILER ALERT!! Now’s your chance to walk away Renee!!

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1. Daya gets turned out and hooked on pills

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I don’t like this ‘Daddy’ character (played by actress Vicci Martinez), but it seems that Jenji Kohan and camp want to target an apparently exploding demographic–“the [LGBTQ] latinas.” (as CO Piscatella would say) Shows like Vida (and now OITNB) specifically cater to the opposite of the vanilla machismo masc culture and…I like it! I just don’t like ‘Daddy.’

It was really hard for me to see Daya go down the rabbit hole of Oxycontin and get used as a mule by ‘Daddy.’ But it probably was even harder for her mother, Aleida (played by Elizabeth Rodriguez) to watch. I mean as you recall Daya just had a baby girl with then-CO Bennet who took off and the baby ended up in the system, then ended up with a rich woman (Pornstaches mother). If only Counselor Healy was there to say “hola” to Diaz in the hall more and give her his theory on lesbians. Daya ends up copping a plea for the death of CO Humphreys. So this is just a downward spiral courtesy of that psycho “Humps.” Now don’t get me wrong I absolutely love the crazy killer sisters played by Henny Russell and Mackenzie Phillips I just hate this gang war follower mentality and I hate this daddy chick.

2. Everyone is gone—well almost everyone

**FYI there are many more girls missing from this season, I just highlighted the more memorable ones.

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Yes, almost everyone. Our favorite cast of “garbage pail kids” are nonexistent in this season. After the riot, it was reported by Lorna (Lorna La Loca) that everyone was moved to different prisons across the country. Our girl Maritza (team Flaritza) is gone. The two meth head hillbilly girls Leane and Ang–gone. The Hawaiian chick, Stephanie Asian lady Chang, track-star-gone-gangster, Janae Watson and Big Boo. Which sucks because I loved the oddball friendship between Boo and Doggett. If you want to find out who else is MIA on this season of OINTB watch the damn season, or check out this article by Digital Spy

3. Everyone snitches

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The first one on the bus gets the best ride and yes, unfortunately, Red’s “girls” are jumping ship like rats. Selling out Red becomes the hottest ticket in town this season and it’s heartbreaking. Red’s “prodigal daughter” Nicky (Played by the beautiful Natasha Lyonne) turns on her supposed “mom” faster than you can say “Jack Robinson.” The show also hints at Frieda snitching on someone. Although it’s not revealed, I think Freida definitely snitched on Taystee, 100%

4. Surprise! The guards at Max are just as bad as the guards at Camp

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Who would’ve thought CO’s at a Maximum Security prison would be “mean”? Duh! The guards at max are awful, and even worse they have a sick game they all gamble on called Fantasy Inmate. The guards bet on things like a sober person relapsing, people fighting, and believe it or not infectious eye diseases. Basically, they make Pronstache look like an upstanding citizen. Our girl CO McCullough who debuted on the fourth season of Orange has serious PTSD issues stemming from the riot (and Afghanistan) and she takes her rage and anxiety out on Maria Ruiz and herself in interesting ways.

5. Caputo and Figg fall in love–Yuck, right? No!

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I love a love story but this one is well–it’s actually beautiful. Natalie Figueroa ends up taking Joe Caputo’s job as warden of the Litch, but he’s over the system. Caputo in cahoots against with lawyers/journalist against MCC and is trying to clear an inmate. Caputo has a suspicion of what happened with the incident and death of CO Piscatella (oh yeah forgot to mention that, CO Piscatella dies at the beginning of this season). But we’re talking about love right now so they go on dates, she eats in front of him, they are basically married in this season. We also find out what made Fig ditch her bulimia and start getting serious about her anorexia. It’s just refreshing to see Caputo take a side for once instead of being all wishy-washy with his moral compass.

6. Luschek really is a piece of sh*t

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Luschek is an awful human being. I know you want to love him for the weird lovable relationship he had with Nicky and Cabrera but in this season his true colors really show. Luschek is all about that twisted game Fantasy Inmate and got extremely upset when draft night came and someone else picked Nicky (my guess he was betting on her “slaying pussy” or relapsing). Luschek gets close to Gloria (lol real close), but finds out of a gang war happening and chooses to look the other way. I ended up replacing my love for Luschek for my love for CO Dixon, he’s actually a big teddy bear!

7. Aleida takes the lead

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“It’s Aleida b**ches!” You know, Daya’s mom? Well, she ends up becoming a huge antagonist this season and I know I’m not alone in saying that I love it! Although she does fall back into her shady business skills, she does become a part of a health company and she’s her semi-decent looking CO boyfriend who ends up being just as bad as the people he locks away at night. Aleida needs her kids back and in order to do that she has to show financial stability and have secure housing. So she has her CO bf smuggle heroin in Litchfield for her. I mean what could go wrong?

8. Someone gets deported

This was really really sad when Chapman and this inmate parted way whilst getting out of prison. I knew something was up, then I saw the giant tour bus that said Customs and Immigration Services and it all made sense. If fans recall in the first episode, FBI Nguyen says, “oh the prosecutor is gonna love this.” I realized what she was talking about. This inmate is a representation of what happens in real life when an undocumented person commits a crime after they serve their sentence they’re deported immediately.

9. Taystee Jefferson gets life for the murder of Piscatella

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Black Cindy and Burset are not interested in getting justice for Pousey Washington. In fact, they are done with the whole “say her name” movement. So much to the point that Black Cindy testifies against Taystee in court. Episode 13 was absolutely heartbreaking but props to the production and editing team for giving us that epic emotional verdict scene. The audio fades out, nothing is heard except Taystee’s heartbeat and a slow zoom starts on Taystee’s face. And boom. Tears. At first, I thought for some backward reason that Taystee was found not guilty, but then the cameras switch over to Caputo and the Black Lives Matter crowd and you can see the disappointment on their faces. OITNB cannot end it like this, they cant! Taystee gets life for a murder she didn’t commit?

However, I think Jenji stays true to realism and I respect her as an artist in doing so. The truth is, juries are very simple and stupid. They want to please the judge, they want that pat on the back for doing what they think is right. Hell, look at Making A Murderer if you want to see how stupid jurors are. And let’s think about the kind of people that are on jury duty. The kind that has no work or worse they are to dumb to get out of jury duty. Juries are usually old, and sometimes ultra-religious.

Hence why juries think they have the right to decide if someone dies or not. If they were truly religious they would never volunteer for jury duty. Another sick truth is people go on death row for crimes they don’t commit, so if you are reading this Jenji please please, like Rosa said, I got enough depressing shit in my life, I don’t need it in my Netflix. Give us a happy ending.

10. Chapman is free! Along with a few others

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Chapman is free! Go little bird back into the real world. Although Chapman is on the fence about how to feel leaving her lover behind, she still has a loving supportive family to go to when she gets out. But others on the release list not so much. Flores was released but referring back to #8 on the list, thanks to “#BuildTheWall she was deported before she even got to say “mi Diablo” this scene was actually sad.

Sophia Burset! She cut a sweet deal with MCC (now Poly Corps.) for $300k and an early release due to all of her pain and suffering. But my guess is if there is a season 7, Sophia either A.) won’t be able to live with herself for not saying what really happened to CO Piscatella or B.) she will be just fine and that’s it for the fire fighter turned credit card scammer.