Shrine of the Times - Mt. Rushmore
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 6:15AM A show on MSNBC was debating whether or not Barack Obama should be on Mount Rushmore is like a bunch of fat kids debating whether or not to eat cake - Just dispense with the formalities and start carving already.
It was announced today that some people are pushing to add Obama's head up onto the Keystone National Park, SD monument at Mt. Rushmore.
Imagine and picture the exploded head of Barak Obama included along with Ferdinand Marcos, and the Great Sphinx of Giza. (The other two are missing noses, ears and teeth.) After Obama gets done fighting in his last term in office, he just might look like them too.
Reality check: There is not enough room on Mt. Rushmore for another sculpted head. Besides, only dead Presidents appear on currency and monuments.
Ego & Effigies - The Test of Time
The stone head Ferdinand Marcos constructed of steel rebar and concrete was built on the side of Mt. Pugo, a mountain in La Union Province north of Manilla, Philippines to honor his Mt. Rushmore-like ego. It crumbled from neglect, graffiti and vandalism since his 1986 ouster.
Before
After - 25 years later
Ferdinand Marcos, a lawyer, a member of the Philippine House of Representatives (1949-59) and the Philippine Senate (1959-65), Ferdinand Marcos became the president of the Philippines in 1966, a post he held until 1986, when his people rose up against his bloody, corrupt, twenty year dictatorial rule and he fled. Marcos, his family and his associates had embezzled billions of dollars from the Philippine economy through various corrupt practices: cronyism, nepotism, pay-offs, bribes, embezzlement, complicit politicians, imprisonment, murder and executions.
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