Greetings, friends!
I'm coming to you today to let you in on the "worst kept secret" going around Midland today:
the possibility of Midland College being the future site of the George W. Bush Presidential Museum.
Big news, right? Well, now you tell me... have YOU heard about this? There is a good chance you might have heard the "rumor" of it, but the sad thing is... it really hasn't become much more than that!
What I'm asking is for people to write in to the Midland Reporter Telegram at 201 E. Illinois Ave., Midland, TX. 79701 and tell them that YOU WANT TO KNOW!
According to the Dallas Morning News last week, there are six (6) sites on the short list for the museum: Southern Methodist University, Yale, Texas A & M, University of Texas at Austin, Baylor University and... Midland College. How cool is that? BUT... we have GOT to get people on board!
1) Letters to the Editor: these are effective. Write in!
2) City Council meetings: speak up to the Mayor and other members
3) County Commissioners: very effective and influential Midlanders, we need them on-board!
4) Tell everyone you know! The more people behind this the better
5) Lay politics aside: People in Austin have written in to their editors saying they don't want the museum for political reasons. Hey! That's fine! But, did you know that the William Jefferson Clinton Museum was the catalyst for hundreds of millions of dollars in development and diversification in Arkansas? Sources I have read have speculated the numbers in the billions, but I don't want to DARE hope on that! But who knows?
Now, Midland has been in sore need of a fine arts facility for things such as ballet, symphony orchestra, traveling shows such as musicals, dance presentations, etc. Therefore, I think we should further strengthen our proposal by also building the "Laura Welch Bush Center for the Arts and Education." This could be a secondary facility for the fine arts as well as further education such as school "field trips" on various subjects near and dear to the First Lady. Classrooms, Theaters for documentary films, a vast stage for performances such as musicals, ballet, "Lord of the Dance" that recently came to the Permian Basin and others could have a fine home. Granted this is only my idea, but I think it is a good one and one that both the First Lady and the President both would appreciate and enjoy.
PLEASE... spread the word, get talking, send ideas to the MRT... do anything and everything you can think of to help this along. Midland has NEVER looked a better "gift horse" in the mouth and the thought of passing on this because 'we're not a university and don't have a chance' blah, blah, blah... is just nonsense. We would NOT have been named if there was no chance.
... PLEASE HELP!
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There were two stories in the MRT this sunday. The first talked about what little had been done in Midland with the September deadline for applications approaching. The second talked about who else was in and what they bring to the table.
Get over yourselves Midlanders.
When I think of Laura Bush, I DO NOT think of culture, I think of a painful bout with too many pain killers and excessive alcohol. This woman deserves no buildings with her name on it simply because she's married to a president.
You tool.
HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT SURROGATE! SHE IS THE FIRST LADY!! She deserves so much praise and worship. I constructed an altar for her which I worship daily.
No offense Bill, but you should construct some gallows and hang yourself in front of your children.
Well, I for one would like to take a moment and say that I've replaced my former Buddy Christ with a bobble-head Bush doll. It agrees with me everytime I drive down a bumpy road, it agrees with me on everything...the legalization of all recreational drugs, the agnostic theocracy which ultimately uproot all organized thought. He also agrees that the chick from Robocop 2 must've been a double-C.
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