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Pay attention Zumi, I'm backing Trump.
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Pay attention Zumi, I'm backing Trump.
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If you want people to pay attention to you, that's a crap admission.
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Step away from Obama's ass when you speak. I can't hear you.
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Your deafness is pretty hilarious since you have no problem talking to and responding to me all the time in a thread purposefully themed for Obama.
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I would normally say to people to clean out the wax when there's a hearing problem, but since you got Dumbo-sized ears with Daredevil's sonar powers, maybe try plugging up your torment in those holes with some quick-drying cement!
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Selective deafness! Goes well with his verbal diarrhea.
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President Obama Presents Medal Of Honor To Navy SEAL Hero
Updated February 29, 20162:28 PM ET
For his part in an operation that rescued an American civilian who was being held hostage in Afghanistan, U.S. Navy SEAL Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers was presented with the Medal of Honor at the White House on Monday.
You can watch the event via White House video.
President Obama called the ceremony "a rare opportunity" for Americans to get a glimpse of the country's special operators — Byers is a member of the elite SEAL Team Six. He also noted that today's gathering might be one of the largest gatherings of special operators ever at the White House.
The president noted that several of Byers' peers and family were present for the presentation — and he noted that Byers' mother, Peggy, had one question about the event honoring her son at the White House today: "Do you think I can come?"
"Yes, Mom," Obama said as some in the room laughed. "You're allowed to come when your son gets the Medal of Honor."
The president also summarized some of Byers' career, noting that he had been on 11 overseas deployments and nine combat tours.
The events that led to today began in December of 2012, when gunmen captured Dr. Dilip Joseph — and told him, Obama recounts, "The Americans are not coming for you."
"Well, they were wrong," the president said.
The operation that saved Joseph was a fast-moving one; after his return to the U.S., he described the process to NPR, saying, "As soon as the SEALs recognized where my voice was coming from, one of them just came and laid on top of me."
That man was Byers, who killed two guards after entering the room where Joseph was held. He also disabled a third guard while protecting Joseph, allowing the rest of his team to enter the room safely. Just before he entered the room, a fellow SEAL, Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas D. Checque, 28, had been shot and killed by the same men guarding Joseph.
Before presenting Byers with the award, Obama recited the SEALs ethos, which refers to "a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation's call."
"Senior Chief Edward Byers Jr. is such a man," Obama said. "Chief Petty Officer Nicolas Checque was that man."
"People may not always see them, we may not always hear of their success, but they are there in the thick of the fight, in the dark of night, achieving their mission," Obama later added, before delivering the commendation for Byers.
Byers is the sixth Navy SEAL to receive the Medal of Honor; he's the 11th living service member to be awarded the commendation for their actions in Afghanistan.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/29/468559789/president-obama-to-present-medal-of-honor-to-navy-hero?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
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President Obama Presents Medal Of Honor To Navy SEAL Hero
Updated February 29, 20162:28 PM ET
For his part in an operation that rescued an American civilian who was being held hostage in Afghanistan, U.S. Navy SEAL Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers was presented with the Medal of Honor at the White House on Monday.
You can watch the event via White House video.
President Obama called the ceremony "a rare opportunity" for Americans to get a glimpse of the country's special operators — Byers is a member of the elite SEAL Team Six. He also noted that today's gathering might be one of the largest gatherings of special operators ever at the White House.
The president noted that several of Byers' peers and family were present for the presentation — and he noted that Byers' mother, Peggy, had one question about the event honoring her son at the White House today: "Do you think I can come?"
"Yes, Mom," Obama said as some in the room laughed. "You're allowed to come when your son gets the Medal of Honor."
The president also summarized some of Byers' career, noting that he had been on 11 overseas deployments and nine combat tours.
The events that led to today began in December of 2012, when gunmen captured Dr. Dilip Joseph — and told him, Obama recounts, "The Americans are not coming for you."
"Well, they were wrong," the president said.
The operation that saved Joseph was a fast-moving one; after his return to the U.S., he described the process to NPR, saying, "As soon as the SEALs recognized where my voice was coming from, one of them just came and laid on top of me."
That man was Byers, who killed two guards after entering the room where Joseph was held. He also disabled a third guard while protecting Joseph, allowing the rest of his team to enter the room safely. Just before he entered the room, a fellow SEAL, Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas D. Checque, 28, had been shot and killed by the same men guarding Joseph.
Before presenting Byers with the award, Obama recited the SEALs ethos, which refers to "a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation's call."
"Senior Chief Edward Byers Jr. is such a man," Obama said. "Chief Petty Officer Nicolas Checque was that man."
"People may not always see them, we may not always hear of their success, but they are there in the thick of the fight, in the dark of night, achieving their mission," Obama later added, before delivering the commendation for Byers.
Byers is the sixth Navy SEAL to receive the Medal of Honor; he's the 11th living service member to be awarded the commendation for their actions in Afghanistan.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/29/468559789/president-obama-to-present-medal-of-honor-to-navy-hero?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
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Nancy Reagan at the WH June 2, 2009 as President Obama signed bill establishing Ronald Reagan Bicentennial Commission.
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Michelle Obama reached out to Nancy Reagan for advice on living in White House and they met for lunch in June 2009.
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Nancy Reagan at the WH June 2, 2009 as President Obama signed bill establishing Ronald Reagan Bicentennial Commission.
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Michelle Obama reached out to Nancy Reagan for advice on living in White House and they met for lunch in June 2009.
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Obama Pays Tribute to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the ‘Peanuts’ Gang
A new volume of “The Complete Peanuts” features a foreword by a fan, President Obama.
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
MARCH 6, 2016
“Like millions of Americans, I grew up with ‘Peanuts.’ But I never outgrew it.”
So begins the foreword written by President Obama for the 25th volume of “The Complete Peanuts,” the latest in a series of hardcover books reprinting every daily and Sunday strip of the iconic series that appeared from 1950 to 2000. The volume, which is scheduled for release in May, covers Jan. 1, 1999, through Feb. 13, 2000, when the final “Peanuts” strip was published the day after the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.
“For decades, ‘Peanuts’ was our own daily security blanket,” President Obama writes in his introduction. “That’s what makes ‘Peanuts’ an American treasure.”
No one would agree with that assessment more than Gary Groth, the president and co-founder of Fantagraphics Books, which has been publishing “The Complete Peanuts” since 2004. Mr. Groth wanted to make sure this volume was special, beginning with the introduction — and who was going to write it.
“Obama was inevitably at the top of the list,” he said. “Let’s just reach for the stars. All he can do is say no.”
Jake Tapper of CNN, who wrote the foreword to Vol. 22, put Mr. Groth in contact with the White House and the request eventually found its way to the president.
“It was a great day when we got the word that he agreed do it,” Mr. Groth said.
The idea for the collected editions came to Mr. Groth in 1997, when he interviewed Mr. Schulz for The Comics Journal, a trade magazine. “Previously ‘Peanuts’ had been collected only in sporadic volumes: thematically or randomly,” Mr. Groth said. “Maybe someone should publish a uniform series,” he recalled suggesting to Mr. Schulz. “And that someone could be me,” he added.
Mr. Schulz resisted at first, but eventually gave his consent. Still, the project did not really take shape until after his death, from colon cancer. Mr. Groth credits the cartoonist’s widow, Jeannie Schulz, for cutting through the red tape involved with securing the publication rights to make the series possible.
Still, a series of hardcover reprints was not a safe bet. Previous collected editions of Prince Valiant, Pogo, Popeye and others “were almost always a hard sell,” Mr. Groth said. “There was no market for newspaper strip reprints. You were really targeting the hard-core comics and cartoon aficionados.”
But “The Complete Peanuts” found an audience. Fantagraphics has produced two volumes a year, each selling around 15,000 to 20,000 copies, Mr. Groth said, followed by another 20,000 for a boxed set every holiday season combining the year’s releases.
While the 25th volume wraps up the daily newspaper strips, it also includes a look back. It reprints “Li’l Folks,” the weekly comic from Mr. Schulz published from 1947 to 1950, which was a forerunner to “Peanuts.” The final “Complete Peanuts” volume, due in October, will provide something different: a collection of stories and drawings that appeared outside the comic strip.
“It is a real treasure trove of little-seen and never before reprinted work — all drawn by the hand of Charles Schulz,” Mr. Groth said.
In 2005 “The Complete Peanuts” won two Eisner Awards, the comic book industry’s equivalent of an Oscar, for best archival collection (which it won again in 2007) and for best publication design — no doubt thanks to the evocative covers by the artist known as Seth, each featuring a gray-toned close-up of one of the “Peanuts” gang as drawn by Mr. Schulz. The series also paved the way for other lavish and comprehensive reprint editions including “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes,” by Bill Watterson, and “The Complete Far Side,” by Gary Larson.
But the biggest impact of “The Complete Peanuts” was on Fantagraphics.
“We’re an independent publisher: We have no backers, no investors. We have only the books we publish and our wits to fall back on,” Mr. Groth said. “We found ourselves in periodic financial crises. We published the ‘Peanuts’ right in the nick of time. It changed the fortunes of the company by allowing the company to continue to exist.”
President Obama joins an eclectic group of “Complete Peanuts” foreword writers, including Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Franzen, Diana Krall, John Waters, Billie Jean King, Alec Baldwin and Patton Oswalt. “Whoopi Goldberg was terrific,” Mr. Groth said. “Some celebrities — especially the ones who turned us down — not so much.”
Mr. Groth’s experience with President Obama was very satisfying, he said: “It’s great to tell the president, ‘We need it by this date. Don’t be late.’ ”
Correction: March 6, 2016
An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of the creator of “Calvin and Hobbes.” He is Bill Watterson, not Waterson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/business/media/obama-pays-tribute-to-charlie-brown-snoopy-and-the-peanuts-gang.html?smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Obama Pays Tribute to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the ‘Peanuts’ Gang
A new volume of “The Complete Peanuts” features a foreword by a fan, President Obama.
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
MARCH 6, 2016
“Like millions of Americans, I grew up with ‘Peanuts.’ But I never outgrew it.”
So begins the foreword written by President Obama for the 25th volume of “The Complete Peanuts,” the latest in a series of hardcover books reprinting every daily and Sunday strip of the iconic series that appeared from 1950 to 2000. The volume, which is scheduled for release in May, covers Jan. 1, 1999, through Feb. 13, 2000, when the final “Peanuts” strip was published the day after the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.
“For decades, ‘Peanuts’ was our own daily security blanket,” President Obama writes in his introduction. “That’s what makes ‘Peanuts’ an American treasure.”
No one would agree with that assessment more than Gary Groth, the president and co-founder of Fantagraphics Books, which has been publishing “The Complete Peanuts” since 2004. Mr. Groth wanted to make sure this volume was special, beginning with the introduction — and who was going to write it.
“Obama was inevitably at the top of the list,” he said. “Let’s just reach for the stars. All he can do is say no.”
Jake Tapper of CNN, who wrote the foreword to Vol. 22, put Mr. Groth in contact with the White House and the request eventually found its way to the president.
“It was a great day when we got the word that he agreed do it,” Mr. Groth said.
The idea for the collected editions came to Mr. Groth in 1997, when he interviewed Mr. Schulz for The Comics Journal, a trade magazine. “Previously ‘Peanuts’ had been collected only in sporadic volumes: thematically or randomly,” Mr. Groth said. “Maybe someone should publish a uniform series,” he recalled suggesting to Mr. Schulz. “And that someone could be me,” he added.
Mr. Schulz resisted at first, but eventually gave his consent. Still, the project did not really take shape until after his death, from colon cancer. Mr. Groth credits the cartoonist’s widow, Jeannie Schulz, for cutting through the red tape involved with securing the publication rights to make the series possible.
Still, a series of hardcover reprints was not a safe bet. Previous collected editions of Prince Valiant, Pogo, Popeye and others “were almost always a hard sell,” Mr. Groth said. “There was no market for newspaper strip reprints. You were really targeting the hard-core comics and cartoon aficionados.”
But “The Complete Peanuts” found an audience. Fantagraphics has produced two volumes a year, each selling around 15,000 to 20,000 copies, Mr. Groth said, followed by another 20,000 for a boxed set every holiday season combining the year’s releases.
While the 25th volume wraps up the daily newspaper strips, it also includes a look back. It reprints “Li’l Folks,” the weekly comic from Mr. Schulz published from 1947 to 1950, which was a forerunner to “Peanuts.” The final “Complete Peanuts” volume, due in October, will provide something different: a collection of stories and drawings that appeared outside the comic strip.
“It is a real treasure trove of little-seen and never before reprinted work — all drawn by the hand of Charles Schulz,” Mr. Groth said.
In 2005 “The Complete Peanuts” won two Eisner Awards, the comic book industry’s equivalent of an Oscar, for best archival collection (which it won again in 2007) and for best publication design — no doubt thanks to the evocative covers by the artist known as Seth, each featuring a gray-toned close-up of one of the “Peanuts” gang as drawn by Mr. Schulz. The series also paved the way for other lavish and comprehensive reprint editions including “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes,” by Bill Watterson, and “The Complete Far Side,” by Gary Larson.
But the biggest impact of “The Complete Peanuts” was on Fantagraphics.
“We’re an independent publisher: We have no backers, no investors. We have only the books we publish and our wits to fall back on,” Mr. Groth said. “We found ourselves in periodic financial crises. We published the ‘Peanuts’ right in the nick of time. It changed the fortunes of the company by allowing the company to continue to exist.”
President Obama joins an eclectic group of “Complete Peanuts” foreword writers, including Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Franzen, Diana Krall, John Waters, Billie Jean King, Alec Baldwin and Patton Oswalt. “Whoopi Goldberg was terrific,” Mr. Groth said. “Some celebrities — especially the ones who turned us down — not so much.”
Mr. Groth’s experience with President Obama was very satisfying, he said: “It’s great to tell the president, ‘We need it by this date. Don’t be late.’ ”
Correction: March 6, 2016
An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of the creator of “Calvin and Hobbes.” He is Bill Watterson, not Waterson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/business/media/obama-pays-tribute-to-charlie-brown-snoopy-and-the-peanuts-gang.html?smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&smtyp=cur&_r=0
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President Obama orders flags flown at half-staff in honor of Nancy Reagan
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/love-story-ronald-nancy-reagan/story?id=37458398
President Obama orders flags flown at half-staff in honor of Nancy Reagan
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/love-story-ronald-nancy-reagan/story?id=37458398
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Still waiting for someone to explain what Obama did to win the Nobel Prize. Anyone?
Remember, leaving lip marks on the ass of dictators like the kings of Cuba, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Isis, etc. don't count. His deal with the insurance companies and drug manufactures doesn't count either. Selling arms and protection to South American Drug Lords and punishing cities like New York and Chicago, etc. and being a racists doesn't qualify either.
He was chosen by the far left who like their old counter points in the cigar smoked filled rooms would pick puppets to do their bidding (only now it is pot smoked filled rooms) as a candidate because he never did anything, was brought up in anti-American, pro dictatorship political environment and was a corrupt Chicago gangster. They run his administration. Why else would there be so many corrupt and incompetent people running all his departments? Clinton being one of the top corrupt officials. He has always either hid under his bed or stuck his head in a sand trap at a gold course whenever there was trouble. He, Clinton and Kerry are responsible for every drop of innocent blood, homeless refugee and woman and child sold into slavery in the last seven years. But to hear him Bush is still president.
But I am sure the Clinton, Sanders, Trump little slave puppets here can come up with some reason for him being awarded that other than the truth, the people who did it were a bunch of jack asses.
Remember, leaving lip marks on the ass of dictators like the kings of Cuba, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Isis, etc. don't count. His deal with the insurance companies and drug manufactures doesn't count either. Selling arms and protection to South American Drug Lords and punishing cities like New York and Chicago, etc. and being a racists doesn't qualify either.
He was chosen by the far left who like their old counter points in the cigar smoked filled rooms would pick puppets to do their bidding (only now it is pot smoked filled rooms) as a candidate because he never did anything, was brought up in anti-American, pro dictatorship political environment and was a corrupt Chicago gangster. They run his administration. Why else would there be so many corrupt and incompetent people running all his departments? Clinton being one of the top corrupt officials. He has always either hid under his bed or stuck his head in a sand trap at a gold course whenever there was trouble. He, Clinton and Kerry are responsible for every drop of innocent blood, homeless refugee and woman and child sold into slavery in the last seven years. But to hear him Bush is still president.
But I am sure the Clinton, Sanders, Trump little slave puppets here can come up with some reason for him being awarded that other than the truth, the people who did it were a bunch of jack asses.
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President Barack Obama and ballerina Misty Copeland sat down with TIME reporter Maya Rhodan on Feb. 29 for a conversation about race, gender and success in the White House Cabinet room.
Here is a full transcript of the conversation:
http://time.com/4254551/president-obama-misty-copeland-transcript/
President Barack Obama and ballerina Misty Copeland sat down with TIME reporter Maya Rhodan on Feb. 29 for a conversation about race, gender and success in the White House Cabinet room.
Here is a full transcript of the conversation:
http://time.com/4254551/president-obama-misty-copeland-transcript/
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The Obama Doctrine
The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
The Obama Doctrine
The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
Thanks to Obama, more American's are on Entitlements. Thanks to Obama more American's feel entitled to Entitlements. Thanks to Obama, 'blacks' feel that they were the only ones that were slaves. Thanks to Obama, we have too many ignorant folks running around America and when they don't get what they want they burn the city down.
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Why Obama Nominated Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/16/us/politics/garland-supreme-court-nomination.html?ref=liveblog&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Why Obama Nominated Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/16/us/politics/garland-supreme-court-nomination.html?ref=liveblog&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
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More bad news for the RWCJ....President Obama's approval rating reaches a 36-month high
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we all are happy, as the great cuckold obama regime is coming to an end.
now, may he serve time in a prison
now, may he serve time in a prison
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As usual, NeverEndingMoron Jen is living in a fantasy world of his own creation.
In this world everyone has forgotten that he's a welfare queen who cried about "The Obama" raising the rates on his socialist federally subsidized flood insurance.
Get off the government teat and move your trailer inland to higher ground. My taxes shouldn't have to support your choice to live in a flood prone area.
In this world everyone has forgotten that he's a welfare queen who cried about "The Obama" raising the rates on his socialist federally subsidized flood insurance.
Get off the government teat and move your trailer inland to higher ground. My taxes shouldn't have to support your choice to live in a flood prone area.
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Obama’s National Monuments Have Been An Economic Boon For Local Economies
BY MARY ELLEN KUSTIN APR 6, 2016 10:54 AM
The national monuments that President Obama has created or expanded are generating more than $156 million in local economic activity annually, according to a study published Wednesday.
The report, which was conducted by Colorado-based BBC Research and Consulting on behalf of an organization representing small businesses, looked at the economic activity of out-of-town visitors traveling at least 60 miles to their destinations. It found that the impact to the local workforce of such non-local visitor spending is equivalent to supporting 1,820 jobs.
“Too often, we only view land as valuable when it is being developed, mined, drilled or logged,” U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) said in a statement. “But, as this report shows, we can protect the most magnificent areas of our nation while also providing real opportunities for local economies.”
The analysis focused on 10 of the 22 monuments that President Obama has designated since taking office. These 10 include only monuments that protect natural or cultural resources — such as the San Gabriel Mountains in California or Basin and Range in Nevada, and don’t include monuments protecting historic resources.
The estimated economic benefits are likely to grow in the coming years because newly designated historical monuments are in the process of expanding visitor hours, and national monuments created to protect natural and cultural resources tend to grow in popularity after designation. And Obama’s monuments are already popular: between 2011 and 2015, according to the report, these monuments saw about 3.9 million visitors each year.
President Obama is the sixteenth president (including eight Republicans and seven other Democrats) to use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate national monuments. His designations have preserved more acres of land and ocean from development than any of his predecessors. Wednesday’s report highlights how the presidential use of the Antiquities Act is not only a catalyst for conserving public lands, but also an economic driver.
“Protecting our nation’s natural assets is a smart move that boosts tourism dollars in these often rural areas, providing increased economic opportunities for entrepreneurs and their communities,” Rhett Buttle, president and managing director for Small Business Majority, said in a statement.
The sums reported Wednesday represent only a fraction of the economic boost communities near conserved public lands — including monuments, parks, and national forests — enjoy. Currently, the federal government does not track the comprehensive contributions of the outdoor industry to the U.S. economy, despite requests from the industry to do so. The Outdoor Industry Association estimates that overall outdoor recreation in the U.S. generates upwards of $646 billion in consumer spending annually and 6.1 million jobs.
Mary Ellen Kustin is the director of policy for the Public Lands Project at the Center for American Progress. You can follow her on Twitter at @mekustin.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/06/3767045/obama-public-lands-good-for-economy/
Obama’s National Monuments Have Been An Economic Boon For Local Economies
BY MARY ELLEN KUSTIN APR 6, 2016 10:54 AM
The national monuments that President Obama has created or expanded are generating more than $156 million in local economic activity annually, according to a study published Wednesday.
The report, which was conducted by Colorado-based BBC Research and Consulting on behalf of an organization representing small businesses, looked at the economic activity of out-of-town visitors traveling at least 60 miles to their destinations. It found that the impact to the local workforce of such non-local visitor spending is equivalent to supporting 1,820 jobs.
“Too often, we only view land as valuable when it is being developed, mined, drilled or logged,” U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) said in a statement. “But, as this report shows, we can protect the most magnificent areas of our nation while also providing real opportunities for local economies.”
The analysis focused on 10 of the 22 monuments that President Obama has designated since taking office. These 10 include only monuments that protect natural or cultural resources — such as the San Gabriel Mountains in California or Basin and Range in Nevada, and don’t include monuments protecting historic resources.
The estimated economic benefits are likely to grow in the coming years because newly designated historical monuments are in the process of expanding visitor hours, and national monuments created to protect natural and cultural resources tend to grow in popularity after designation. And Obama’s monuments are already popular: between 2011 and 2015, according to the report, these monuments saw about 3.9 million visitors each year.
President Obama is the sixteenth president (including eight Republicans and seven other Democrats) to use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate national monuments. His designations have preserved more acres of land and ocean from development than any of his predecessors. Wednesday’s report highlights how the presidential use of the Antiquities Act is not only a catalyst for conserving public lands, but also an economic driver.
“Protecting our nation’s natural assets is a smart move that boosts tourism dollars in these often rural areas, providing increased economic opportunities for entrepreneurs and their communities,” Rhett Buttle, president and managing director for Small Business Majority, said in a statement.
The sums reported Wednesday represent only a fraction of the economic boost communities near conserved public lands — including monuments, parks, and national forests — enjoy. Currently, the federal government does not track the comprehensive contributions of the outdoor industry to the U.S. economy, despite requests from the industry to do so. The Outdoor Industry Association estimates that overall outdoor recreation in the U.S. generates upwards of $646 billion in consumer spending annually and 6.1 million jobs.
Mary Ellen Kustin is the director of policy for the Public Lands Project at the Center for American Progress. You can follow her on Twitter at @mekustin.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/06/3767045/obama-public-lands-good-for-economy/
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Obama didn’t hold back at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Here were some of his best jokes.
Updated by Jeff Stein on April 30, 2016, 11:30 p.m. ET
President Barack Obama appeared at his final White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night, riffing on Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Republican leadership, the media, and, of course, Donald Trump.
It was one of Obama's edgiest performances at the Washington-insider event attended by journalists, celebrities, politicians and advertisers.
Here are 11 of the best gags from Obama's speech.
1. Donald Trump. "There's one area where Trump's experience could be invaluable ... closing down Guantanamo," Obama said. ""Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground."
2. Bernie Sanders. "I'm disappointed you're distancing yourself from me," Obama said, looking to Sanders, who was in the audience. "That's just not something you do to your comrade."
3. Hillary Clinton. Obama said Clinton's slogan hadn't caught fire comparing it to Sanders' catchy, "Feel the Bern." Obama turned to a big screen that showed the following image:
https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/H2EIneXFADxgv-YrC5wbEVGcXtk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6412015/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-30%20at%2010.22.20%20PM.png
4. Republican leadership. "GOP Chairman Reince Priebus is here — I'm glad you feel like you have earned a night off. Congratulations on your success: the nomination process is going great."
5. The Republican race. Obama said the choices for the dinner were steak and fish. "Instead a whole bunch of you wrote in Paul Ryan. You may not like steak or fish, but that's your choice."
6. Obama on growing older in office. "Hillary once asked if I would be ready for a 3 a.m. phone call ... now I'm awake anyway because I gotta go to the bathroom."
7. The media's enabling of Trump. "I hope you are all satisfied — the guy wanted to give his hotel business a boost and now we're praying Cleveland makes it through July."
8. Hillary's private-speech buck-raking on Wall Street. "If this material goes well, I'll use it at Goldman Sachs next year. Earn me some serious Tubman's."
9. CNN's Jake Tapper. Obama spoke about top members of his administration leaving the White House. "Even reporters have left me," Obama said. "Jape Tapper left journalism to join CNN."
10. Bernie and young people. "A lot of folks have been surprised by the Bernie phenomenon," Obama said. "One young person said to me recently that she was tired of politicians standing in the way of their dreams ... as if we were going to let Malia go to Burning Man this year."
11. Chilling with John Boehner. In a pre-recorded video played during the speech, Obama watched "Toy Story" with former House Speaker John Boehner in his post-presidential career. Boehner tempted Obama with a cigarette and joked about the "grand bargain" Boehner got on a new car — a reference to a failed debt deal proposal from 2011.
The segment began with Obama in the Oval Office, legs up on the Resolute Desk, watching Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd speculate about Obama's time after office. Todd called Obama the "Commander in Couch."
"Fuck you Chuck Todd," Obama responded.
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/30/11547858/barack-obama-dinner-speech-jokes
Obama didn’t hold back at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Here were some of his best jokes.
Updated by Jeff Stein on April 30, 2016, 11:30 p.m. ET
President Barack Obama appeared at his final White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night, riffing on Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Republican leadership, the media, and, of course, Donald Trump.
It was one of Obama's edgiest performances at the Washington-insider event attended by journalists, celebrities, politicians and advertisers.
Here are 11 of the best gags from Obama's speech.
1. Donald Trump. "There's one area where Trump's experience could be invaluable ... closing down Guantanamo," Obama said. ""Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground."
2. Bernie Sanders. "I'm disappointed you're distancing yourself from me," Obama said, looking to Sanders, who was in the audience. "That's just not something you do to your comrade."
3. Hillary Clinton. Obama said Clinton's slogan hadn't caught fire comparing it to Sanders' catchy, "Feel the Bern." Obama turned to a big screen that showed the following image:
https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/H2EIneXFADxgv-YrC5wbEVGcXtk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6412015/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-30%20at%2010.22.20%20PM.png
4. Republican leadership. "GOP Chairman Reince Priebus is here — I'm glad you feel like you have earned a night off. Congratulations on your success: the nomination process is going great."
5. The Republican race. Obama said the choices for the dinner were steak and fish. "Instead a whole bunch of you wrote in Paul Ryan. You may not like steak or fish, but that's your choice."
6. Obama on growing older in office. "Hillary once asked if I would be ready for a 3 a.m. phone call ... now I'm awake anyway because I gotta go to the bathroom."
7. The media's enabling of Trump. "I hope you are all satisfied — the guy wanted to give his hotel business a boost and now we're praying Cleveland makes it through July."
8. Hillary's private-speech buck-raking on Wall Street. "If this material goes well, I'll use it at Goldman Sachs next year. Earn me some serious Tubman's."
9. CNN's Jake Tapper. Obama spoke about top members of his administration leaving the White House. "Even reporters have left me," Obama said. "Jape Tapper left journalism to join CNN."
10. Bernie and young people. "A lot of folks have been surprised by the Bernie phenomenon," Obama said. "One young person said to me recently that she was tired of politicians standing in the way of their dreams ... as if we were going to let Malia go to Burning Man this year."
11. Chilling with John Boehner. In a pre-recorded video played during the speech, Obama watched "Toy Story" with former House Speaker John Boehner in his post-presidential career. Boehner tempted Obama with a cigarette and joked about the "grand bargain" Boehner got on a new car — a reference to a failed debt deal proposal from 2011.
The segment began with Obama in the Oval Office, legs up on the Resolute Desk, watching Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd speculate about Obama's time after office. Todd called Obama the "Commander in Couch."
"Fuck you Chuck Todd," Obama responded.
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/30/11547858/barack-obama-dinner-speech-jokes
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