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Highway name change irritates Kentucky folk
Washington Times ^
| Thursday, August 7, 2003
Posted on 08/07/2003 4:36:48 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:05:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — In the eastern Kentucky mountains that Daniel Boone helped carve out for settlement two centuries ago, his name and reputation remain larger than life.
Festivals honor the rugged, buckskin-clad frontiersman. Businesses, towns, even a national forest are named after him. But to the chagrin of some, Boone's name is being stripped from the area's main highway in favor of Rep. Harold "Hal" Rogers'.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: danielboone; halrogers; purge
To: JohnHuang2
Kentucky BUMP!
I agree. Leave the name alone.
Great Quote Of The Day, Arthur.
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posted on
08/07/2003 5:00:04 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Tommy Dasshole isn't "saddened." He's just... sad.)
To: JohnHuang2
I think this renaming is abominable. Along with secularizing this nation, is there going to be a move to diminish our national identity by erasing our historical American 'heroes'?
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posted on
08/07/2003 5:02:11 AM PDT
by
Dudoight
To: Dudoight
My sentiments exactly.
To: JohnHuang2
Daniel Boone, "dead white male" = Evil
Politician who brings home the pork = What the People want.
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posted on
08/07/2003 5:14:28 AM PDT
by
Guillermo
(Proud Infidel)
To: JohnHuang2
It also cost massive amounts of money to change all the road maps and atlas's they sell at stores.
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posted on
08/07/2003 5:35:00 AM PDT
by
Chewbacca
(Stay out of debt. Pay cash. When you run out of cash, stop buying things.)
To: JohnHuang2
Is Rogers a Democrat?
If so, why don't they just rename the road the "Jackass Highway", after the Democratic party.
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posted on
08/07/2003 5:36:38 AM PDT
by
Chewbacca
(Stay out of debt. Pay cash. When you run out of cash, stop buying things.)
To: JohnHuang2
He should say "I'm honored to even be mentioned in the same breath with Daniel Boone, but I respectfully decline."
How many politicians, GOP or Democrat, would do such a thing? But if he did, the respect he would gain would far exceed the silly highway name change. He has to think he deserves to have his name replace Boone's name or he wouldn't allow it. If I were his opponent, I would already be planning my campaign around it. If enough Kentuckians would become outraged, he would change his mind in a hurry. Unless, he's retiring from Congress, that is. If that is the case, I doubt if he cares what the voters think. Sounds like something Robert KKK Byrd would do.
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posted on
08/07/2003 5:42:02 AM PDT
by
razorbak
To: Chewbacca
Is Rogers a Democrat? Nope; he's a big-spending Republican.
To: JohnHuang2
Name some side street after Rogers. Probably America's greatest frontiersman is a not so well known guy by the name of Simon Kenton. Circa 1775. This is when Pittsburgh was a frontier town. The way people marked their territory was to hatchet a mark on 4 trees and everything in that area was the markers. At one time, Simon Kenton owned all of Kentucky, Tennessee, and more. He also saved Daniel Boone's life.
http://frontierfolk.org/kenton.htm
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posted on
08/10/2003 10:31:09 PM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(Now that I've learned to make my own decisions, I now need to make the right ones.)
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