Obama Drags Family On Vacation To Middle Of Nowhere
Dominic Gwinn - June 19, 2016 - 10:50am
This Father’s Day, Barack Obama is continuing his string of excellent vacations by pulling a Chevy Chase maneuver. He’s packed up the wife and kids in the Air Force One Family Truckster and is headed out across America for a really boring tour of some pretty national parks ...
The National Park Service dates to pre-Civil War era hippies like George Catlin and Henry David Thoreau who were concerned about preserving nature from the reckless expanse of industrialism. After a few tree hugging legislators in California sought to protect Yosemite Valley, “Honest” Abe Lincoln signed legislation that gave control of the land in Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove to the state of California. This act of big government, in essence, created the first national parkland, “upon the express conditions that the premises shall be held for public use, resort and recreation,” and helped pave the way for ammosexual patriots like the Bundy family to complain about the perils of government overreach.
As time went on, the nature of the park service began to expand. Garrisons were established along the Northern Pacific frontier by the U.S. Army in an effort to deter poachers, creating the precursors to Park Rangers. Yellowstone became the first National Park after Ulysses Grant signed the Yellowstone Park Act in 1872. The natural preservation movement continued to grow until the bullmoose loudmouth commonly known as “Teddy” Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act in 1906, giving the president the power to designate huge tracts of land and buildings as historic parks or conservation areas. These areas would be given the fancy title of “National Monuments” so future tourists could pee in bushes without a government mandate on their genitals ...
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