What An Honor?

by Bryan

8 comments

1 Shirt { 12.08.16 at 10:09 am }

You place him in very damning company

The Raw Story posted an interesting article about the decline of American power: John” Galtung predicts that decline could come even quicker under a Trump administration” Google “Fascism 2020” to find the article… It will frighten you.

2 Kryten42 { 12.08.16 at 10:11 am }

I stopped reading Time when I was in my early 20’s. They got it wrong more often than they got it right. I’m amazed they are still in business frankly. At least, I would be without the knowledge that most humans are easily deluded fools. *shrug*

Though, some of the Time-Life books series had some value. Mom got me the Photography series (12 volumes from memory) when I took an interest in photography as a teen. I saved for almost 2 years to buy a 2nd hand 35mm camera with extras (lenses, filters, tripod). 🙂 Good memories! 😀

Also, some of their music recordings were quite good (vinyl sets & then CD’s).

But the magazine itself… garbage.

3 Bryan { 12.08.16 at 5:13 pm }

Time, Inc made the selections, Shirt, I just showed the kind of people who got honored.

Time is still around because of media mergers and is now part of Time-Warner-AOL-Turner Broadcasting conglomerate. The weekly news/opinion magazine became irrelevant years ago.

Time-Life media was easy to start, but a damn PITA to get it to stop.

4 Shirt { 12.09.16 at 3:21 pm }

yeah but….. Truman, Roosevelt. Marshall, Ike were also chosen by time Hmmm, If I continue this line of thought I’ll probably make myself ill.

5 Bryan { 12.09.16 at 4:42 pm }

Roosevelt made three times, but he was a last minute replacement for Walt Disney’s Dumbo because of Pearl Harbor in 1942 . Again – what an honor…

6 Kryten42 { 12.10.16 at 3:22 am }

Well, this article is… timely! Ahem! 😉 😀

From Time:
Women’s March on Washington Won’t Be Happening at the Lincoln Memorial

So, it seems Trump can create a bad historic precedent before he even get’s into the WH! Wonder what he’ll do after he’s in?

7 Badtux { 12.10.16 at 11:46 am }

Actually, Kryten, at this point in the process nobody *ever* has permits to be in Washington except the Presidential Inauguration Committee. That was true in 2012, that was true in 2008, that was true in 2004, that was true in 2000, that was true in 1996… hell, true as long as they’ve been issuing permits, as far as I know. Once the Committee submits its plans to the NPS and city, they then start issuing permits for the venues that the Committee isn’t using. But that doesn’t usually happen until the first week of January.

That said, the Lincoln Memorial is under construction right now. It has a leaky roof that is being repaired, exterior cleaning and weathersealing, and the interior is going to be completely renovated after the exterior work is done. There’s even foundation work underway, the Memorial sits on pilings driven down to bedrock through silt dredged from the Potomac and has an extensive basement. It’s unclear whether *anybody* is going to get permits to stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for the next few years, the work started in April of this year and is projected to be finished in 2020.

8 Bryan { 12.10.16 at 8:29 pm }

DC actually sits on a swamp that was drined a couple of hundred years ago. Given sea level rise it really is a waste of money to repair structure located there. It makes more sense to find a new site. Not only will attempts to ‘drain the swamp’, the situation is going to get a lot worse.