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Liberal Group Starts Petition to Rename Ronald Reagan National Airport
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Posted on 09/06/2015 5:26:51 PM PDT by kcvl

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To: Impala64ssa

Yeah, the Triborough Bridge and the East River Drive.

But then, New Yorkers still call Avenue of the Americas Sixth Avenue.


41 posted on 09/06/2015 10:07:27 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

On the DC Beltway, there is the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. We should rename it.


42 posted on 09/06/2015 10:11:22 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yep. JFK Airport should be Idlewild; Thurgood Marshall back to BWI.

Or we could just rename every monument, airport, federal building in the US after Robt Byrd.


43 posted on 09/06/2015 10:15:46 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: ClearCase_guy

Don’t tell them.......


44 posted on 09/06/2015 10:17:50 PM PDT by Osage Orange ( How do you get holy water? You boil the hell out of it.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Let’s change all the Martin Luther King street names back to their original names while we’re at it.


45 posted on 09/07/2015 2:43:04 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: kcvl
How about changing it to:

Ronald "The Gipper" Reagan National Airport

46 posted on 09/07/2015 3:41:58 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

>> Liberals want to name a major airport after a slave owner? <<

Not only that. They obviously approve of naming our capital city after him, plus an entire state. Those names MUST be changed, the sooner the better.

(And while we’re at it, we gotta hurry and change all the names of cities, counties, streets and schools that contain the words Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Davis and Lee. Time’s a-wastin!)


47 posted on 09/07/2015 6:53:07 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

>> no one there calls it Reagan National—always Washington National or just National <<

Actually, long before DCA was renamed for Pres. Reagan, everybody I knew just called it “National Airport” — liberals and conservatives alike. Not a nefarious leftwing plot. So not to worry.

And BTW, I first came to the area in 1966. I can’t remember over those 49 years that anybody other than radio and TV announcers would regularly go to the trouble of using the full six-syllable name “Washington National” when one word would do. Just a matter of convenience.


48 posted on 09/07/2015 7:01:59 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Sgt_Schultze

>> Thurgood Marshall airport near Baltimore until recently, was known only as Baltimore Washington International <<

And 99% of the locals still call it just “BWI” without further ado.


49 posted on 09/07/2015 7:04:25 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

>> I thought Cape Kennedy WAS changed back to Cape Canaveral <<

Correct. Welcome to FR!


50 posted on 09/07/2015 7:05:24 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: JediJones

>> That mountain was McKinley’s only claim to fame <<

Incorrect. There’s a McKinley Street just a few blocks from my home. It’s a very nice neighborhood.

(Not, however, that anybody who lives on the street knows or cares whom it was named for!)


51 posted on 09/07/2015 7:09:49 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Tennessee Conservative
Let’s change all the Martin Luther King street names back to their original names while we’re at it.
Arsenio Hall once said that if you find yourself at the corner of Malcolm X and MLK...RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!! Actually it is sad that one of Dr King's legacies is to have streets named after him in "distressed" areas.
52 posted on 09/07/2015 7:11:38 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: kcvl

Whites cowed by sticks and stones were hapless and hopeless to stop the constant assault against them.


53 posted on 09/07/2015 7:17:31 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Hawthorn

“Actually, long before DCA was renamed for Pres. Reagan, everybody I knew just called it “National Airport” — liberals and conservatives alike. Not a nefarious leftwing plot. So not to worry.”

Oh, I know that it was called National long before it was renamed, and that much of the resistance to calling it Reagan is just typical resistance to renaming things (like the RFK/Triboro bridge in NYC). But I did hear numerous times, from DC natives, that the resistance was at least boosted by dislike for Reagan.


54 posted on 09/07/2015 7:21:42 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

>> I did hear numerous times, from DC natives, that the resistance was at least boosted by dislike for Reagan <<

Sure. I expect them to say things like that. But then, since when should we give great credibility to leftists? If they didn’t have the airport “issue” to complain about, they’d just find some other convenient way to bash Reagan and other conservatives.


55 posted on 09/07/2015 7:42:35 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: kcvl

These idiots don’t have any concept how much it costs to rename things. Signage, letterheads, logos, publicity, and all the way down to employee ID cards cost $$$$$$$$. But, hey, if the liberals want to foot the bill then go for it.


56 posted on 09/07/2015 10:33:43 AM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Impala64ssa

True. In most inner cities the streets named after King are the most dangerous. I don’t think he would be proud.


57 posted on 09/07/2015 12:57:28 PM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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