How about this picture? Entitled "Forest in Mongolia." Which, I assume is a picture of a forest in Mongolia. From Natsuko Kimura, daughter of Nobuko, our 1968 exchange student who I visited 2 1/2 years ago in her home city of Yamagata. Natsuko stayed with me for a few weeks right before that trip; she was doing some study at the Snow Leopard conservancy office.
She's studying local reaction to animal conservation. I think the snow leopard is big in Mongolia. Or something like that.
I'm always looking for landscapes. Somebody posts a picture, especially outside and I always want to know what's in the background. Trees? Green? What?
So now, I know about a forest (presumably birch) in Mongolia. Does it look like around here? Nope, none of those light-stealing cedars like around here.
Where do you think that dirt road goes? Are the leaves already falling in Mongolia?
Thanks Natsuko for the picture.
In regards to Romney's latest comments, one of the shocking things for me was his description of the Chinese factory that Bain purchased with 20,000 employees. Working for hardly anything with pretty squalid living conditions. They were locked in with guards and barbed wire. He claimed it was to keep others out. That other people wanted to come in and take advantage of this opportunity. The implication was that he thought this was a perfectly acceptable way to treat workers.
Reminds me of the conservative talking points and minimum wage. The claim that if minimum wage was increased, it would cut opportunities for those just starting out. That less minimum wage jobs would be available. Let me get this straight, you want to further institutionalize a system where a worker can work long hours and still not have enough to live on? Let alone raise a family. Remember those children? Who's caring for them?
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