January 11, 2018
Plans revised for ‘Obama Presidential Center’: taller, uglier and a little bit less white
A faint odor of desperation accompanies the latest revised plans for the monument to the greatness of Barrack Hussein Obama planned for Chicago. You see, the City of Chicago and its mayor, Rahm Emanuel, have to approve the plans and the appropriation of park land designed by Frederick Law Olmstead – America’s greatest landscape architect – to memorialize America’s First Black President (unless you count Bill Clinton). The effort to combine grandiosity with the appearance of community responsiveness is a tough challenge for anyone, it must be conceded.
The failure of the citizenry to unite in praise and awe – there has been a firestorm of criticism -- has led Obama Foundation officials to go and hire as their lawyer Langdon Neal, a man described in 2016 by the Chicago Sun-Times as the “Chicago machine’s $99 million man,” “one of the city’s most politically connected lawyers,” who “has made a fortune helping City Hall and other governments condemn land for schools, police stations, McCormick Place, O’Hare Airport expansion.” A few years ago, the Chicago Reader wrote:
It's not literally true that Langdon Neal and his law firm are involved in every major political deal in Chicago. But sometimes it seems that way.
Just the kind of guy to overcome the community organizations (savor the irony!) who have objected to the grandiose monument that would steal park land andthreaten a critical bird habitat. Oh, and by the way, in addition to being a fixer for land developers, Langdon Neal is Chairman of the Cook County Board of Elections.
Following publication of an open letter by over a hundred faculty of the University of Chicago, which neighbors the monument, the Obama Foundation submitted revised plans to the City of Chicago, and believe it or not, the changes make the cenotaph-like tower building even uglier. Here is the revised version, which features a tower 57-feet taller than the original plan. Instead of the sheer white concrete façade, straight out of the brutalism school of architecture that was briefly popular decades ago, a little texture has been added, and the wide hips of the original have been narrowed. The nearly all-white nature of the building is broken up by texture and color, too.
Here is the very white original:
A “presidential library” may be good enough for every other president since Harry Truman, but the monument to Barack Obama planned for his adopted home town of Chicago won’t serve as a depository for his presidential records and be subject to the demands of the National Archives. The Obama Foundation, which will be fundraising hundreds of millions of dollars for the monument from sources yet to be identified, and which oddly enough for a tax exempt nonprofit uses the same logo as the Obama campaign, calls the project’s goal “a world-class cultural attraction on the South Side” that will feature such world-class amenities as a test kitchen and basketball courts.
One feature of the project which has received relatively little attention is the inclusion of a “world-class” (that same expression again!) golf course bearing the name and some vague affiliation with Tiger Woods. Golf Digest noted three weeks ago:
This time last year Tiger Woods announced he had signed on to an ambitious new project endorsed by President Obama and embraced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel on the South Side of Chicago, one that called for a world-class public golf facility to sit adjacent to the Obama Presidential Center. But 12 months following the unveiling, the Chicago Tribune reports that the endeavor has failed to make much progress.According to Mike Keiser, whose resume boasts visionary properties like Bandon Dunes and Sand Valley, bureaucracy is to blame.
The community organizers are less impressed. The group Jackson Park Birdingwrites:
Jackson Park, on the South Side of Chicago, is an important stopping point for migratory birds. Its size (over 500 acres), habitat and location along the western shore of Lake Michigan make it possible to view over 250 species of birds through the seasons.
But the existing habitat faces an uncertain future. The Obama Presidential Center will soon be built on the western edge of the Park, there are plans to remove large numbers of trees from the Park to upgrade its golf course, merge it with the nearby South Shore Golf Course, and to expand the driving range west of Bobolink Meadow. The importance of Jackson Park’s habitat must be taken into account as these projects are planned, especially given global threats to migratory bird population
Hey, you can’t make a monument omelet without breaking a few bird eggs.
THE
OBAMA COUP: IT STARTED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/did-barack-obama-start-charlottesville.html
THE
OBAMA COUP: IT STARTED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
"We
know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C.
home to
plan and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his
legislative
agenda.
None of these people care about the American people, or the fact that
Trump won
the election because millions of people voted for him."
Patricia
McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/did-barack-obama-start-charlottesville.html
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor
goes deeply into Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein
Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into
power." Karin
McQuillan
CHICAGO: THE FACE OF A NATION IN SHAMBLES
CHICAGO’S BLACK GANG LAND…. Is what happens when
bankster Rahm Emanuel and his corrupt Obama party turned the city under!
ILLINOIS FALLS TO LA RAZA MAYHEM…. Apparently Illinois
did not benefit from 8 years of Barack Obama’s sabotage of Homeland security to
build his LA RAZA base of Mexicans
“Illinois is
a state full of illegal aliens. One in seven Illinoisans are immigrants, with 450,000 official illegals. One point two
million jobs are taken by illegals in Illinois. This is one of the
most heavily invaded states in the Union.” --- Timothy Birdnow
THE MANY CRIMINAL
LIVES OF BARACK OBAMA AND HILLARY CLINTON
The thuggishness of
Barack was clear early on. There was his land deal, wherein he enriched
himself with Tony Rezko in Chicago. All his political wins came by
nefariously taking out his political opponents rather than beating them fairly
in the arena of ideas. Everyone should have known.
Inspector general finds 100% error rate for Obama's ICE screening illegal immigrants for ties to terrorism
Once again, an Inspector General has come to the rescue identifying incompetence (the charitable interpretation) in the federal bureaucracy. Elizabeth Harrington of The Free Beacon reports on the stunning level of error in the screening of illegal immigrants released from custody by ICE agents toward the end of Obama’s presidency:
The office of inspector general found that between 2013 and 2015, ICE was not screening illegal immigrants who had been released for terrorist ties. Every single case of a suspected terrorist reviewed by the inspector general included errors, where ICE officials were not in compliance with security standards."ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) faces challenges in implementing the Known or Suspected Terrorist Encounter Protocol (KSTEP) screening process, which is used to identify aliens who may be known or suspected terrorists," the inspector general said. "Although ERO uses KSTEP to screen all aliens who are in ICE custody, ERO policy does not require continued screening of the approximately 2.37 million aliens when released and under ICE supervision."
The problem, even by ICE's own admission, is systemic:
ICE blamed these deficiencies on "limited program oversight and weak management controls."
And the problem continues:
ICE warned that the problem is continuing into the Trump administration, noting [that] the agency has identified "at least 19 more cases since January 2016 when field personnel did not transmit the required incident reports to ICE headquarters."The inspector general identified at least nine field offices and smaller offices that as recently as July 2017 did not "have the infrastructure necessary to communicate derogatory information about known or suspected terrorists.""The lack of real-time information sharing capabilities jeopardizes ICE's ability to make decisions on known or suspected terrorists," the inspector general said.
Alas, ICE, part of the Department of Homeland Security, does not have a confirmed new director, and operates under the leadership of a temporary acting director, installed by President Trump shortly after taking office. The acting head, Thomas Homan, "an ICE agent famous for his deportation record," may have the ability to correct the systemic deficiencies, for all I know. If so, he ought to be confirmed by the Senate quickly. If not, a reformist head ought to be named and confirmed rapidly, to plug this obvious serious hole in the nation's protective shield. But we all know that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats do not want to see President Trump succeed, so the rate of Senate confirmations is at a snail's pace.
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