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House approves renaming Mark McGwire Highway (And just how many home runs did Mark Twain hit?)
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| 3/02/10
Posted on 03/02/2010 8:02:56 PM PST by Libloather
House approves renaming McGwire Highway
By Newsdesk KRCG
Tuesday, March 02, 2010 at 6:06 p.m.
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. -- Missouri lawmakers are a step closer to taking away Mark McGwire's Highway.
The stretch of Interstate 70 in St. Louis was named for the Cardinals' slugger in 1999, in one year McGwire hit 70 home runs.
But McGwire has now admitted he used steroids, and the state senate voted unanimously yesterday to rename the section of interstate the Mark Twain Highway.
The measure now goes to the house.
(Excerpt) Read more at connectmidmissouri.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: highway; house; mcgwire; missouri
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House approves renaming McGwire Highway
The measure now goes to the house.
Yeah, I don't get it either.
To: Libloather
Steroid use tainted......
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:04:52 PM PST
by
cranked
To: Libloather
Mark McGwire's stats are bogus and tainted with steroids and Mark Twain is a Missouri icon. I support the action of the Mizzou House.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:05:56 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: Libloather
I wonder if they still have Pete Rose Way in Cincinnati.
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:06:19 PM PST
by
fkabuckeyesrule
(Climate-gate is here so can Darwin-gate be far behind?)
To: Libloather
Just rename it ‘Roid Rage Road.
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:09:06 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: Libloather
Just put an asterisk on all the signs.
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:11:02 PM PST
by
lacrew
(Barack Obama is always the least experienced most condescending guy in the room. (Rush))
To: fkabuckeyesrule
I wonder if they still have Pete Rose Way in Cincinnati.
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:11:25 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Tea totaler, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
To: Libloather
Headline has it wrong--it was the state senate which has voted.
Is it wise to rename the road before testing Mark Twain's bones for his steroid use? They know where he is buried (Elmira, NY).
To: Libloather
“Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffers, not the state.”
—Mark Twain
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:13:52 PM PST
by
Brandonmark
(News Coverage)
To: fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:14:35 PM PST
by
TXBlair
("Jim is dead...I'll wager they found no wounds in his back!" Mama Bowie upon learning of Jim's death)
To: Libloather
Mark Twain was heard to quip, “the news of my irrelevance appears to have been highly exaggerated!”
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:15:12 PM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: Libloather; marktwain
Isn't it proper to ping a Freeper when he is mentioned in a thread?
***
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom,
we need only observe it in election times.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:18:10 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
To: ConorMacNessa
Mark Twain is a Missouri icon. I support the action of the Mizzou House.This is the VERY FIRST Mark Twain highway? What were they waiting for?
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:19:07 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Tea totaler, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran; marktwain
Isn't it proper to ping a Freeper when he is mentioned in a thread?Sure! Oh, and just how many home runs did marktwain hit?
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:24:29 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Tea totaler, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
To: ConorMacNessa
But Mark Twain used alcohol! and smoked cigars!
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:32:35 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(Invicto)
To: Verginius Rufus
” . . . Mark Twain’s bones for his steroid use? They know where he is buried (Elmira, NY).”
But supposing the reports of his death were greatly exaggerated?
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posted on
03/02/2010 8:41:09 PM PST
by
righttackle44
(Is Obama an Irish, Italian or Japanese name?)
To: righttackle44
True...hadn't thought of that.
I've seen his grave marker in a cemetery in Elmira, but for all I know it could be a cenotaph.
To: fieldmarshaldj
"Just rename it ‘Roid Rage Road."
Isn't there already one of those, named for George Brett?
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:02:02 PM PST
by
Hunton Peck
(Election: The process of hiring an employee you hope will steal less from you than the others do.)
To: Libloather
I have a 1996 Rand McNally Road Atlas which has a stretch of I-70 northwest of St. Louis labeled "Mark Twain"--it isn't clear from the map (insert map of St. Louis and vicinity) how long the part named for Mark Twain is.
There is a Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri (at least 9 separate tracts).
To: Libloather
The should rename it "Honest Politician Highway" just for maximum hypocrisy value.
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:08:02 PM PST
by
americanophile
(Congratulations Team USA! You made us proud!)
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