Archive for April 5th, 2010
President Ronald Reagan belongs on the $50 bill
In the 1980s, there was a craziness that swept Cleveland over the reality that a building could be built larger than the Terminal Tower, which had been the tallest building in the city since before most people in town were born. Standard Oil wanted to create the tallest building in the state, as well as hundreds of new jobs, and add a jewel to Cleveland’s skyline, but a cadre of lunatics threw wrenches in the plans, claiming “no building should be taller than the Terminal Tower”.
It was lunacy.
Ultimately, those jokers won out and SoHio was forced to curtail their plans and bring the new skyscraper in a few feet shorter than the Terminal Tower, to appease those who felt “things should stay the way they’ve always been” and that “progress be damned”. A few short years later, though, Key Tower was built, rising high into the air above the Terminal Tower, critics be damned. It’s ridiculous, now, to think of all the angry mobs chanting on Public Square, in yet another instance where the people of Cleveland seemed like residents of Springfield, and not a major metropolis.
“This is the way it’s always been, and this is the way it needs to stay!” is their motto.
President Grant was a fantastic general and a commendable author. By all accounts, he also seemed to be a very nice man. He’s enjoyed a very long stay on the $50 bill and has certainly secured his place in history. He’s got a massive mausoleum in New York. Galina, Illinois is almost a shrine to him. Ohio proudly boasts him as one of its “presidential sons”, despite his having spent as little time in the state as was humanly possible.
But, just as it was foolish for Clevelanders to prevent new skyscrapers from being built that would eclipse the glory of the Terminal Tower in the 80s, it’s ridiculous for this country to never put anyone new on our currency. Throughout our history, the faces on our money have always changed. It’s only recently that we became locked into Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin on our paper tender.
In our opinion, only Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln should be off-limits.
The $10, $20, $50, and $100 should all receive new faces, to reflect the fact that America is always evolving and changing, and that we have not stopped accomplishing great things, and have had no lack of great men and women in this country, since the last time portraits were assigned to our money.
Ronald Reagan should be on the $50, because he defeated the Evil Empire of the Soviets and, more importantly, rescued America from the malaise of the failed Carter presidency.
We’d like to see Teddy Roosevelt on the $10, for general awesomeness, but more than anything for preserving our natural parks and busting up the trusts and monopolies that threatened to strangle this country.
Put Martin Luther King, Jr. on the $20, and may his gentle spirit and tremendous gifts inspire everyone to imagine what a wonderful president he could have been — in light of what a disaster the “first black president” we actually received truly is.
For the $100, let Eleanor Roosevelt take her place as one of the few women ever to grace paper currency in this country, for her tireless efforts as First Lady and her brokering of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, which was almost solely her doing. Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin could join her in the future, many years from now, as other women we’d hope to see on legal tender. She could, thus, continue in currency to be the trailblazer she was in the White House.
Socialist-Democrats will try to block the Reagan honor just because, as partisans, they hate Reagan, and they hate Republicans.
So, tie Reagan’s $50 appearance in with an honor for Dr. King and watch Democrats run in horror at the thought of opposing that. Racial identity politics IS the current Socialist-Democrat Party. Despite Dr. King being a Republican — which few in the black community realize — he’s a much-appropriated emblem the Democrats love trotting out when convenient for them.
Republicans would always be wise to remember that, and couch putting forth any idea they want alongside an honor for King that Democrats would never in a million years be able to oppose. It’s always about race with the DNC, so it’s high time race should be used against them as effectively as they use it against others.
AND, frankly, we admire Dr. King greatly and would love to see him have this honor. He is as worthy of it as Alexander Hamilton, who has had a good run on his note, or Benjamin Franklin, who was also never president, but was honored on our currency for the marvelous ideas he had and the inspiration he gave this republic.
It would also be wonderful to deprive the current president of any future claim to being the “historic first black man on American money”. Let that honor go to someone who truly deserves it, like Dr. King.
Dr. Utopia’s received enough undeserved awards and wondrous prizes. He certainly doesn’t need any more.
Glee Epic Fail at White House Easter Egg Hunt
We love Glee.
More than we could ever tell you.
It’s just pure fun, and the closest any of you out there will probably ever get to sing-a-long showtunes night at Sidetracks on a Monday. And we love Glee’s rendition of “Don’t Stop Believing”, which was a Hillary 2008 campaign song we play here all the time. It brings back such good memories, and we actually like the Glee kids singing better than the original Journey, which is rare for us as we don’t usually like remakes and covers.
That said, we’re embarrassed for the Glee cast, after their performance at the White House for the Easter Egg Hunt.
They did a terrible job. Just awful. There was no ability, apparently, to use Autotune to live-repair the vocals for the cast members who actually aren’t professional singers, such as Cory Monteith, who plays Finn. So, why they chose to perform a number with Cory doing a solo is just beyond us.
When you listen to the performance, you also hear a very creepy, demonic muttering all throughout. We have no idea what that is, but swear there’s a part where we hear “proud of Easter for the first time in my adult life”, so we think it might be Michelle Obama. Can’t be sure, though, so it could be her goblin, Grievance, who might be muttering about what ugly dresses have been picked out for the current First Lady to wear this week.
While we know it’s amateur hour every day in this White House, it’s just sad to see the Obamas ruin Glee the way they’re ruining the whole country. If they can take a marvelous, joy-spreading show and turn it into this train wreck, what are these fools going to do to our healthcare system, which wasn’t even marvelous and joy-spreading to begin with? Just how bad are things going to get…and will that weird, creepy muttering soon be coming out of all of us?
Monday Open Thread: April 5th, 2010
What’s on your mind this Monday?
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We keep telling you about the black youth here in Chicago that come to Boystown to attack gay men, rob them, harass people outside the clubs, and cause near-riots in the gayborhood — the most recent incident being last Thursday, when 15 or more police cars had to break up a gang of 75+ Southsiders who came North on the Red Line to cause trouble in Boystown. Well, the same thing is happening in New York City – and the media is ignoring it there, too.
If black people are committing crimes, the Leftist media refuses to report on it. They pretend it’s not happening. In Chicago, the Tribune and Sun Times will not cover the attacks in Boystown because blacks are committing them…and it’s RAAACIST! to report on bad things black people do.
The same appears true in New York City.
Everyone involved in these attacks should be charged with hate crimes. They’re targeting gay white men in Chicago, and white people in general in New York. If the reverse were true, and it was white gangs heading to the Southside or Harlem to terrorize blacks, there would be nonstop coverage of this, 24/7 all over the news.
Here in Chicago, every year this problem gets worse. No matter how much the media ignores it. This summer, we’re frightened by the thought that it’s gotten so bad, these gangs of Southside thugs are going to finally kill someone in their attacks. And the media will do its level best not to report on that, either.
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