-darttown Tell ya what, I’ve looked forward to something on this scale from
Obama for some time. I was sure he was capable of this. It has
feeling, understanding of local native culture and subtlety of a kind
that really pisses off folk like McConnell. Like shiv in the ribs. I
applaud the President!! Booyah!!
He makes me proud every day. I have believed in him since day one and he has never disappointed me - never - because I always believed he believed he was making hard choices at the time he made them. Trying to do his job in the face of unbelievable adversity. I give him As
McKinley did a great thing. He took Teddy as a VP to try to get liberal votes. Then we he got assassinated, TR became President, a big turning point for America.
So the one great thing McKinley did was something he did not want to happen. Maybe name a toxic pond after him.
What’s incredible about that place is the 18,000 ft base to peak “rise”. That really makes it stand out more than perhaps any other mountain.
Well, consider also that the Speaker of the House is from Ohio, and Ohio’s Republican governor is running for president. I doubt that Sherrod Brown lost any sleep about it, but I’m sure Porter will wax indignant.
And oh my, the indignation of the Fox & Friends crowd on Monday over this show of disrespect for the martyred reluctant liberator of Cuba.
The best is that it is subtle, and objectively appropriate.
Sure, some McKinley fans may have a gripe, but the outrage will only be because Obama has his fingerprints on it. Period.
Every potential mention of Obama in a history book is too much for them to bear… They should fear not, for there b.s. outrage will be noted just as the treament Jackie Robinson received is noted. The kicker is that Obama has shown the same grace and this too will warrant a mention.
I hafta say for full disclosure that Orangeman represents Butler Co, Ohio and he grew up in Hamilton, OH. (Butler Co) My childhood home (a farm) is 5 miles (roughly) outside that town. I know his family and likely we (he and I) went to high school at the same time (I’m 6 months older than he) and likely shared classes tho he wasn’t in my circle of friends. There was a bar in town his family had where he worked. I believe another branch of the family ran a hardware store if memory serves.
Having said that, I would not vote for the guy if I still lived in the area. Happily, I left near 48 years ago and settled in Tucson.
Since most Alaskans prefer Denali to the Cheechako name, Caribou Barbie gets to weigh Alaskan vs. teabag enragé credibility. No prizes for guessing who she’ll cater to.
Interesting list. I’d forgotten about the UCLA Med Center, which I would certainly count as major, visible public institution. I was thinking purely of public buildings, streets and places, and not so much private org’s things like the state GOP building, the YAFfers’ clubhouses (note that they also own the Reagans’ old Santa Barbara ranch), his old Hyatt hotel suite, the sidewalk star, etc. I still think that given his historical stature (or whatever you want to call it) it seems like a small list for his “elected from” state.
In June a Reagan statue was installed in the “basement rotunda” of the state capitol:
(In light of last week’s events it’s interesting to note that one of the major donors was…wait for it…Univision co-founder Jerry Perenchio!)
As for Cesar Chavez, casually perusing Google maps I count six elementary schools in the immediate Bay Area alone (SF, SJ, East Palo Alto, Richmond,Fremont, Hayward); slightly farther afield I see a high school in Stockton, plus more elem/middle schools in Sacto, Davis, Santa Rosa, Modest, Merced, Salinas, Watsonville, and on and on. So re-stating my purely hypothetical bet to be more specific, I still think I would bet that Chavez would beat Reagan in number of public places (let’s say schools, parks, streets, and state/local government buildings) named for him.
Yes. Very visible from Anchorage (unlike Russia). Many Alaska mountains northwest of Juneau rise 13,000 to 18,000 plus feet directly out of the Gulf of Alaska. Mt. St. Elias is one of them. On the Alaska Yukon border, it rises above Yakutat on the coast to nearly 19,000 feet. Anyone flying from Seattle to Anchorage on a clear cloudless day (a rarity) has quite the view of these peaks and glaciers.
