Monday, April 17, 2017

Your Nat'l Park Week is weak

Re. the 1600 Daily 4/17/17:
"President Trump Proclaims April 15 through April 23, 2017, as National Park Week."
I find this absurd since the president denies climate change, something his youngest son can educate him on, probably starting since the 1st grade, but most definitely at this age.  It's also ludicrous because declaring 1 week Park Week doesn't take into account the insight and forethought past presidents had in not only setting aside park land--a mental capacity the current president has proven he does have by allowing, among other things, coal waste to go back into streams--but it also goes against his entire policy structure of denying recognizing that these decisions must be made at the federal level, not the state level.  The federal government must take care of the needs of the country as a whole; waste and pollution from one state travel between many states.  An aerosol can in one locked apartment leaks to the ozone, across states, as surely as one person gets leaves from his neighbor's tree in his yard every year.
Your National Park Week is weak.

Monday, April 3, 2017

Sexist (and worse) President

Re 1600 Daily, 3/30/17:
No matter how many panels or conferences, meetings or forums you attend; no matter the women's issues and causes you pretend to champion, this photo with Rassmussen--and it's absent partner during Merkel's visit--out you as a liar.  You cannot profess to advocate on behalf of women and refuse to shake one's hand while also affording her male counterparts this simple, singular gesture of meeting.  A woman who is your equal in station and your better in leadership, compassion and voice.
Your behavior is an affront and you embarrass us.