Posted on 06/18/2016 11:46:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama wants more people to appreciate and visit America’s national parks as the park system nears its 100th birthday. […]
The president plans a speech at Yosemite on Saturday, and he’s expected to highlight the economic benefits of the 400-plus sites managed by the National Park Service.
Obama also is expected to discuss climate change and other threats to the park system, and highlight programs to encourage more people to visit parks. …
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Sure, because we all know no one goes to the national parks for vacation.
Is the Mrs back already from her vacay in Morocco?
Hope he doesn’t walk too close to the hot springs...
Just try going to Zion, Yosemite, or Bryce Canyon in the summer. Parks are mobbed with visitors from all over the world. Tour buses are everywhere. There is no place to park. It’s crazy.
I go to a lot of national and state parks. In an entire day I might not see one black visitor. Hundreds of Asians and whites though.
I’m suddenly a Bears fan!
One of our friends and his wife decided to stop at Yosemite on their trip from Reno to Monterey a few weeks ago. He said it was sooooo crowded that they left as soon as they were able to get turned around. And I guess today the lyin’ king et al are going to disrupt it even further. Not to worry, the bill will be in the mail to us before long. Thanks a lot pal.
Will he proudly say how “Stonewall” in New York City is becoming a national historic site, akin to a national park?? Will he encourage us to visit there too???
Yes because nothing focuses one's attention on something like planning to visit a park for a weekend of relaxation and being told that you will not be allowed to enter it because Braak and Big Snarly will be spending time there and you peons should are unworthy of being in their presence.
The CAIR MAREs (Muuzlems Against Really Everyone) are a different matter, of course.
Yosemite is super busy. If you want reservations they say book them a year out. They don’t need any attention from the Obamas.
We need to inspire people like Jordan Quiller, a 21-year-old African-American who had never seen a mountain until he moved into one of the Rainier-monikered Seattle neighborhoods at the end of last year. He’s never visited a national park, but would like to.
Three national parks lie within a three-hour drive of Seattle. “It takes a little planning,” Mr. Quiller said. “I just haven’t gotten around to it.”
I hope the National Park Service and its partners are listening.
Obviously, now, the "Bully Pulpit" of the Presidency will be engaged and the TOTUS will speak to the under-served, inviting them to join their oppressors in nature!
I see I need to include the /s for the sarcastically impaired.
#nationalparksareracist
Have you ever been to Mt Rushmore? Zero Black Lives.
I hope they run into Yogi and Barney while they are there.
Barney? Boo-boo gets left out thanks to a dinosaur?
Haven’t you heard?
Black consider parks “racist” because all of those trees remind them of the tens of billions of blacks who were lynched from trees.
Ok...I exaggerated the last part a wee bit, but the rest of it was actually used by a lib journalist recently.
AAAnnnd there is the agenda, it's in hussein's every breath.
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***“Stonewall” in New York City***
Why was the Stonewall raided? If it was like the southern bars, it was raided not because of queers, but because the local Chief or Police did not get his “cut” of the take.
Sure, because we all know no one goes to the national parks for vacation.
What’s up with this? Obama thinks nobody will go to national parks unless he sets an example???????
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