Posted on 04/07/2013 8:38:59 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Well, it’s official. The University of Chicago (where Big Guy used to lecture on his version of Constitutional Law and where Lady M used to…well, I’m not really sure what she did as Vice President for Community and External Affairs, butt I do know she didn’t need her law license to do it) has decided to demolish the childhood home of Ronald Reagan. To build a parking lot.
What do you say we give it a send off with a little travelling music? 
Big Yellow Taxi: Joni Mitchell
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel,
a boutique
Don't it always seem to go
and a swinging hot spot 
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
(SNIP)
Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now 
Give me spots on my apples
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Those “spots” still look like Karl Marx to me
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
(SNIP)
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Don't it always seem to go
you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Future Children Obama Ad
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
And then, just like that, it all came tumbling down. The end?
I think not.
Michael Reagan: “Pls.For the last time my fathers real boyhood homes in Tampico and Dixon are fine.PLEASE dont buy into the Chicago story.”
https://twitter.com/ReaganWorld/statuses/297115575744880642
As I understand it, Reagan only lived in that home for about 2 years. It really wasn’t a boyhood home. If it was a home that he spend most of his youth in, that might be different.
Michael Reagan: The “Chicago Home didn’t mean squat to my father”
It never works.
Probably the same thing could be said of many other icons that memorialize individuals. But what the memorialized would’ve thought about it isn’t the point - its for us to remember them by.
2. A common characteristic of collapsing civilizations that they deface their past. The Egyptians stripped the marble off the pyramids and the Romans tore down great monuments for building materials. This is just the university's way of contributing to the Detroitification of America.
Destroying something beautiful for a parking lot is nothing new.
About 45 years ago, I believe it was LIFE magazine had an article about a beautiful Victorian mansion in Boston(?).
It was sold to a large company and locals wanted to completely restore it to it’s original beauty as it was something to see! Even the local CARPENTER’S UNION agreed to do the job for free! Others wanted in on the deal to restore it FOR FREE, it was that beautiful!
Company officials decided to destroy it, and put up something they wanted more, a parking lot.
A parking lot?
The administration is slipping. Where’s the mosque?
If there is something unusual, educational, and informative about the house itself -- unusual architecture, contains historical artifacts, it's a "window into the past," etc. -- then, by all means, preserve it. But saving it just because someone (it doesn't matter who) lived there doesn't make sense to me.
University of Chicago is also destroying moral values. It recently allowed opposite sex roommates.
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