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Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69
Hoosier Gazette ^ | Nov. 19, 2004 | Austin Wayne

Posted on 11/19/2004 5:53:55 AM PST by End Times Sentinel

Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69

            By August Wayne, THG News

John Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of an Interstate 69 extension to a more moral sounding number.

There are plans to extend the interstate from Indianapolis through southwestern Indiana all the way through Texas into Mexico in the coming years.  While most believe this highway will be good for the state’s economy, religious conservatives believe “I-69” sounds too risqué and want to change the interstate’s number.

Hostettler, a proponent of the interstate extension, agrees.  “Every time I have been out in the public with an ‘I-69’ button on my lapel, teenagers point and snicker at it.  I have had many ask me if they can have my button.  I believe it is time to change the name of the highway.  It is the moral thing to do.”

As a matter of fact, naming the highway’s extension I-69 is a violation of the Interstate Highway System’s rules for numbering roads.  Interstates numbers are to increase from west to east.  If the extension through southern Indiana is named I-69, then 69 will be west of I-65, a direct violation.

“Naming the road I-63 not only follows numbering guidelines, it doesn’t have the sexual undertones that I-69 has,” says Hostettler, “It is a win-win situation.”

The change will more than likely be introduced in committee when Congress convenes after the first of the year.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: bogus; cockandbullstory; hoax; hogwash; hokum; hooey; hostettler; i69; malarkey; parody; puton; spoof; whopper
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To: Owl_Eagle
If he thinks that is bad, wait until he travels this road:


41 posted on 11/19/2004 6:44:23 AM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Knute
ROFLMAO


42 posted on 11/19/2004 6:49:31 AM PST by redcountyrepublican (One of the 70% of Religious Freak Hick Hoosier's that voted for Bush)
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To: Mike Fieschko
I think there are a few Freepers who don't know this is a joke.

I thought most were smarter than that. But I know I've fallen for a few hoaxes myself in the past.
43 posted on 11/19/2004 6:53:00 AM PST by 68skylark
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To: Owl_Eagle
They are renaming the freeway near the Clinton Library "I-68" (he "owed her one").

-Eric

44 posted on 11/19/2004 7:33:36 AM PST by E Rocc (Four More Years - Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue)
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To: Owl_Eagle
Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69

Yes, in order to change the name of Highway 69, I think its very important to mount a campaign!

45 posted on 11/19/2004 8:41:45 AM PST by HenryLeeII ("How do you ask a goose to be the last goose to die for a shameless political stunt?" -Tony in Ohio)
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To: Owl_Eagle
Interstates numbers are to increase from west to east. If the extension through southern Indiana is named I-69, then 69 will be west of I-65, a direct violation.

Not in every case. I-85 is west of I-75 from Atlanta south to Montgomery, Ala. I 59 is east of I 65 from Birmingham to Chattanooga.

The Blue states do it as well. I 89 is east of I 91 for its run through New Hampshire.

46 posted on 11/19/2004 8:42:06 AM PST by PAR35
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To: HenryLeeII

They should change it to I-77. You get 8 more...


47 posted on 11/19/2004 8:43:45 AM PST by null and void (Evolution is not about the origin of life on earth. It's about the origin of *species* of life!)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Does anyone know where I can get a button?


48 posted on 11/19/2004 8:45:14 AM PST by null and void (Evolution is not about the origin of life on earth. It's about the origin of *species* of life!)
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To: null and void

Actually, there is an I-77 running from Cleveland, through Charlotte, to at least Columbia SC.

As for I-69, it starts off as an east-west highway in Michigan, then goes north-south as it goes around Lansing. Where it crosses/merges with I-96. I kid you not.

MD, former Lansing resident


49 posted on 11/19/2004 8:31:34 PM PST by MikeD (Out in the barnyard, the cook is chopping lumber...)
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To: Owl_Eagle

I want the letters and numbers OICU812 removed from language...and there are too many lakes named Devil's Lake in the US...What is that? Some kind of Freemason/satanic cult thing!?!


50 posted on 11/22/2004 12:03:54 AM PST by Once-Ler (God Blessed America Again!)
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To: KoRn
Ok, go ahead and change it to Route 666 lol.

You had to give them ideas...


51 posted on 11/22/2004 2:23:50 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: DM1

The renamed Beaver College


52 posted on 11/22/2004 2:26:44 PM PST by xp38
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To: Owl_Eagle
LOL! See this accompanying story:

Web site's phony stories create headaches


53 posted on 11/22/2004 2:26:49 PM PST by shezza (Set beber to "decode" for incoming secret message.)
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To: Owl_Eagle
I like Hostettler, but this is ridiculous, and it isn't unprecidented. I-71 in Ohio(Columbus) goes East of I-75(Toledo).

I-69 travels Southwest as well and would still be East of I-65 in 90% of the Indiana. It also goes East in Michigan from Lansing to Port Huron even though most odd number highways go North South and not East West.

54 posted on 11/22/2004 2:34:43 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("...don't you fill me up with your rules, cause everybody knows that smoking ain't allowed in (bars))
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To: TheBigB
Damn. That fooled me.

That said Exit 69 on I-75 in Michigan is Big Beaver Rd. Not a joke.

I-69 and I-96 intersect as well.

55 posted on 11/22/2004 2:37:53 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("...don't you fill me up with your rules, cause everybody knows that smoking ain't allowed in (bars))
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To: Owl_Eagle

Web site's phony stories create headaches
modbee ^ | 11-22-04
Posted on 11/22/2004 1:51:00 PM PST by LouAvul
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286186/posts


56 posted on 11/23/2004 11:01:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: Dan from Michigan
And, let's not forget...
"Look honey, we'll finally get there at the same time."

57 posted on 11/23/2004 11:04:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: Dan from Michigan

I live near a highway that used to Route 69 but they had to change it to 235. It cost too much to keep replacing the signs. They also renamed my road 239 because a church was built on it. I still use the address.. Helltown Rd.


58 posted on 11/23/2004 11:15:16 AM PST by griswold3
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To: SunkenCiv
LOL.

I live right by Hell, MI.

59 posted on 11/23/2004 3:07:25 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("...don't you fill me up with your rules, cause everybody knows that smoking ain't allowed in (bars))
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To: Constitution Day

" ::eye roll::"

You beat me to it :P

How moronic to worry about a number.... Those that might object would do so only if they knew what it means, and I doubt that they have a clue.


60 posted on 11/23/2004 3:13:21 PM PST by AlexW
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