Amazon Forest

It seems like I've heard forever how we need to save the rain forest.  It absorbs greenhouse gases, releases oxygen and provides a factory of biodiversity which could naturally develop disease resistant plants.

The largest rainforest is in the Amazon basin and it has been under attack for years as local populations want to clear land to raise crops and livestock.

Its easy to understand how these people, many of them poor and hardworking, feel how their own self interests, clearing some land is irrelevant to global issues.

They only want to do what the developed world has already done, replacing the rainforest with "productive" land that provides income and security for their families.

This year with a new President who much like our own ignores the environment, they have started an unprecedented number of fires in the Brazilian rainforest.  It is a potential environmental disaster as land stops absorbing greenhouse gases and is replaced by farms which might even increase them.

Save the rainforest?  It might already be too late.

We certainly had plenty of warning.

White House Parrot

It is amazing how wrong the tweets issued by the Dontard can be, especially since he relies on a show that has little connection to real anything.

Its perfectly acceptable for people to voice opinions on a cable entertainment channel, we are in favor of free speech, but if you simply believe whatever they say, without realizing they are pushing certain agendas, well that's on you.

Amazon and the post office have agreements which are in the best interests of both companies.

Amazon because of its size can insert packages for delivery at the last stage, bypassing the rest of the mail distribution system, so the cost of delivery is much less than the average cost of a regular package.

Of course some commentators will compare the higher number to what Amazon pays and distort the deal, which is clearly helping reduce the post offices losses on its other services.

Naturally, instead of relying on any facts, the Dontard simply repeats bad information.

Similarly he attacks pardons given out in California by the Governor, relying on bad information.

This is just mean spirited as the people involved did obviously break the law, albeit years ago, but despite the fact that they served their time and were now law abiding the prior convictions made them subject to deportation.

The pardons make that less likely and allow them to pursue citizenship.

The Governor of the state gets to make this decision and who cares what the Dontard thinks about it?

He is really just a parrot about a lot of this anyways.