GET ME REWRITE: This is not what people do when working for a competent, rational boss

Reported in Let’s Not Upset the President: The White House Tells the Navy to Hide the U.S.S. McCain.  (The New York Times, 5/30/2019)


Original 5/30/2019 post, "Our president with the emotional development of a 6 year old crosses his fingers behind his back", starts here.

Reported in Let’s Not Upset the President: The White House Tells the Navy to Hide the U.S.S. McCain.  (The New York Times, 5/30/2019)

Related posts:
2019
The continuing Niagara of lies from a president with the emotional development of a 6 year old.  (1/11/2019)

2018
Get me rewrite. Donald Trump, the president with the emotional development of a 6 year old, will most assuredly cast blame elsewhere.  (121/5/2018)
"Two maniacs" rain on the parade of president with the emotional development of a 6 year old.  (11/3/2018)
President with the emotional development of a 6 year old loves to shred his own documents.  (6/11/2018)
The Mouth That Roars: President with emotional development of a 6 year old never takes responsibility for his inaction.  (1/30/2018)
 
2017
President with emotional development of a 6 year old visits Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.  (12/9/2017)
Yet another inane quote from the president with the emotional development of a 6 year old. (2/18/2017)
President with emotional development of 6 year old attends National Prayer Breakfast, settles scores.  (2/2/2017)

May-December 2016
Donald Trump: Stuck in the middle of 1952.  (8/23/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 6 year old promotes gun nonsense.  (8/9/2016)
Dear Donald Trump, I was wrong; you don't have the emotional development of a 12 year old. My apologies. (6/23/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old cruising on inheritance.  (6/20/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old tweets more nonsense.  (5/14/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old resorts to name-calling when zinged.  (5/11/2016)

January-April 2016
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old has a very important, major engagement.  (3/16/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old still makes case for his beautiful, powerful, large penis.  (3/6/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old brags he's the only one who can beat Clinton.  (3/3/2016)
Presidential candidate with the emotional development of a 12 year old disavows.  (3/1/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old wings it.  (2/29/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old weighs in on Rubio and last night's debate.  (2/26/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old tells us how he really feels.  (2/23/2016)
Yes, Donny, get angry, cuz we want a brave man, a cave man.  (2/22/2016)
Thin-skinned Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old fires volley at Pope.  (2/18/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old should go ahead and put it in the want ads.  (1/29/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old plans to skip debate.  (1/27/2016)
Presidential candidate with emotional development of 12 year old reacts to SOTU.  (1/13/2016)

Population loss in rural Oklahoma: Cotton County

Population loss as in major -- 50% or more.  

Source:  Wikipedia (Cotton County, Walters)

Walters is the county seat of Cotton County.

Population loss by degrees:  80-89%, 70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:

• 15.8% - Cotton County
• 24.8% - Oklahoma
• 30.9% - U.S.

Percentage of population 65 and older:

• 19.1% - Cotton County
• 15.3% - Oklahoma
• 15.6% - U.S.

The last time Cotton County voted for a Democratic candidate for president was in 1996, when Bill Clinton won a 2nd term. In 1964, LBJ beat Barry Goldwater by 32.8 percentage points, and third-party candidate George Wallace received 29.1% of the vote in 1968.

Walters Public Library

Photo credit:  Library Technology

Related reading:

New Deal Architecture Faces Bulldozer.  (The New York Times, 2/8/2009)

In Cotton County, Okla., a ruined gymnasium has only holes where windows used to be. Across the country, schools, auditoriums and community centers of the era are headed for the wrecking ball. 

“It’s ironic to be tearing them down just when America is going through tough times again,” said the biographer Robert A. Caro, who wrote about the W.P.A. in “The Power Broker,” his book about the builder Robert Moses. “We should be preserving them and honoring them. They serve as monuments to the fact that it is possible to combine infrastructure with beauty.” 

Other Oklahoma population loss posts:

Western third

Cimarron County/Boise City.  (5/27/2019)

Beaver County/Beaver.  (5/27/2019)

Harper County/Buffalo. (5/28/2019)

Ellis County/Arnett.  (5/28/2019)

Roger Mills/Cheyenne.  (5/28/2019)

Greer County/Mangum.  (5/29/2019)

Harmon County/Hollis.  (5/29/2019)

Tillman County/Frederick.  (5/29/2019)
Kiowa County/Hobart.  (5/30/2019)
Washita County/New Cordell.  (5/30/2019)
Dewey County/Taloga.  (5/30/2019)
Alfalfa County/Cherokee.  (5/31/2019)
Major County/Fairview.  (5/31/2019)
Blaine County/Watonga.  (5/31/2019)

Other population loss series:

Detroit metro.

Iowa.

Kansas.

Nebraska.

Ohio.

Pennsylvania.

UPDATE. Middleton Center Phase 2 May construction progress site visit

Photo and video by Retiring Guy

4/20/2019 update starts here.

Just west of the Middleton Public Library on Hubbard Avenue

Photos by Retiring Guy

Hubbard and Parmenter

 On Elmwood Avenue

2/15/2019 update starts here.

Photo by Retiring Guy

12/8/2018 update starts here.

Photos by Retiring Guy

10/22/2018 update starts here.

2 Wisconsin & Southern railroad track shots.  (Note the signage, which, of course, is clearly visible from the Beltline.)

Photos by Retiring Guy

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The Middleton post office in the foreground

8/6/2018 update, "Middleton Center Phase 2 construction is reaching its full height", starts here.

Photos by Retiring Guy

And Longtable adds outdoor seating, protected from the elements when the restaurant is closed.

Building C's layout contains more studio apartments.

7/16/2018 update, "Construction reaches 4th floor", starts here.

Photos by Retiring Guy

6/26/2018 update, "Construction puts post office in the shadows", starts here.

Photos by Retiring Guy

From what I've heard, there are more available apartment listings than what is shown here.


6/4/2018 update, "Early June progress report", starts here.

Photos by Retiring Guy

4/28/2018 update starts here.

Approaching the site from the east, across railroad tracks from library parking lot

All photos by Retiring Guy

Standing between Middleton Center phase 1 and Old Middleton Centre (unseen to left)

Construction of second story of Middleton Center phase 2 begins

Like phase 1, phase 2 consists of 2 buildings.  Mostly apartments, as T. Wall doesn't seem to be attracting much in the way of retail, restaurant, and office tenants.

Panorama from Elmwood and Aurora

In the foreground:  Site of Middleton Downtown Plaza

4/19/2018 update, "Springtime in Wisconsin", starts here.

Looking west from Hubbard Avenue between the library and city hall

From the intersection of Hubbard and Parmenter

From the intersection of Elmwood and Aurora

From the railroad tracks between Parmenter and Terrace

Photos and video by Retiring Guy

Standing on the corner of Elmwood and Aurora



3/25/2018 update, "Two views from the Elmwood Street side of things", starts here.

Photos by Retiring Guy

3/12/2018 update starts here.

View from southeast corner of construction site.  (Completed but not yet fully occupied phase 1 at right.)

Close-up.

View from southwest corner of construction site

2/28/2018 update, "Construction begins on first-floor walls, floors, and support posts", starts here.

Photos by Retiring Guy

2/1/2018 update, "Construction work on foundation walls continues", starts here.

Photos by Retiring Guy

11/18/2017 update starts here.

Photo by Retiring Guy

11/15/2017 update starts here.

Panorama view

Regular frame

10/26/2017 update, excavation video, starts here.



9/23/2017 update, "Still in the site preparation phase", starts here.

9/5/2017 update, "Still awaiting foundation work".

Photo by Retiring Guy

Middleton Plan Commission minutes, 7/25/2017

Middleton Plan Commission minutes, 8/22/2017

8/21/2017 update, "Demolition complete", starts here.

Source:  City of Middleton (Phase 2 outlined in red)

On the 8/22 Public Works agenda.

8/1/2017 update, "Demolition started without me" starts here.

One of the buildings was razed while I was on vacation last week.  And work on the 2nd one is underway.

Photo and video by Retiring Guy

6/26/2017 update starts here.

According to what Terrence Wall said during an open house at Phase 1 last Saturday.

Here are 2 views of the Phase 2 Old Middleton Center as seen from the window of a 2nd-floor apartment in building B of Phase 1. (See red arrow in Overall Development Statistics graphic below.)

Photos by Retiring Guy

As shown below, phase 1 is buildings A and B.

Phase 2 is buildings C and D.

Source:  City of Middleton

Original 5/16/2017 post, "Middleton Center Phase 2 drawing board revisions", starts here.

Photo by Retiring Guy

The base of the orange arrow is approximately where I was standing to take the above photo.  (Phase 1 construction is taking place on the other side of the building on the right.)

Source:  City of Middleton (arrow added)

Source:  City of Middleton