What We Need To Learn from Trump’s Overturning Obama’s Ban on Importing Elephant Carcass Trophies
Shown here: Donald Trump, Jr., in one hand, showing off the tail of a elephant he’d just killed in East Africa, in the other, the knife he’s used in dismembering the corpse.
A Zimbabwean emissary to the climate conference in Bonn commented this morning, that until he learned about Trump’s lifting of the Obama-era ban in importing elephant trophies, he was positive that there was nothing further that the current administration in the U.S. could do to horrify him.
I feel for him. We’d all like to believe that pure evil has a limit, and that just maybe it’s been reached.
Sadly there is no evidence whatsoever that we’re anywhere near that limit, if it exists at all.
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Here’s an 
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From this edition of Green Auto Digest:
The miracle of Pope Francis is his eagerness to jump into political issues and advocate so adamantly for humanitarian causes. Before his ordination, the changes through which the Catholic Church had gone over the past 1600 years could have been measured in angstroms; now they’re measured in parsecs. 
