http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6411343Oh my.
The large-proboscised primitive, Oscar Wilde:
Cyrano (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-28-09 02:06 PM
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Cape Kennedy, Cape Canaveral and rednecks
Whatever is named after Ted Kennedy, don’t hold your breath for the name to stick.
Jack Kennedy challenged us to get to the moon within ten years and we did it in eight. In 1963, the name Cape Canaveral was changed to Cape Kennedy.
In 1973, the Florida legislature, backed by every redneck in the region, officially dumped Cape Kennedy and changed the name back to Cape Canaveral. Just how much of a miserable prick do you have to be to do something like that?
Do you suppose that when the thugs regain power, they’ll add Dubys’s face to Mr. Rushmore?
Yeah, probably we will, because that'd be a good idea.
Resuscitated Ethics (309 posts) Fri Aug-28-09 02:11 PM
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2. what about Washington National Airport?
MONTHS after the cretin left office, the air traffic controllers firings still fresh, changed to "Reagan national"?
It's still "national" to me.
Cyrano (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-28-09 02:19 PM
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3. Whenever possible, I avoid flying into or out of "National." It's cursed.
After which a flurry of primitive bibble-babble about that airport.
Dennis Donovan (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-28-09 02:32 PM
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4. Well, in all fairness, FDR changed the name of Hoover Dam to Boulder Dam...
...because he and SecInt Harold Ickes (yes, THAT Harold Ickes' father) HATED Hoover with every fibre of their being... After FDR and Ickes were out of government, the name was changed back to Hoover Dam.
Cyrano (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-28-09 02:46 PM
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5. Okay. So when do we get to restore the name Cape Kennedy?
When "Beijing" becomes "Peking" again.
onenote (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-28-09 03:05 PM
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13. never going to happen
Even Jackie acknowledged that it was a mistake to rename not just the Space Center, but the entire Cape, which had been named "Canaveral" for nearly 400 years.
Then more primitive bibble-babble about the Hoover-Roosevelt feud, displaying their usual standard customary ignorance of history.
onenote (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-28-09 02:52 PM
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6. a little history:
Cape Canaveral -- the entire Cape, not just the space center built there -- was named by the Spanish in the 1500s. Had the only thing that was renamed for President Kennedy been the space center, there would have been little or no controversy. But not only the facilty's name was changed, but the place itself was re-named, which did not go over well with a lot of long time residents who felt that a name that had been around for over 300 years shouldn't be changed. So eventually, they pushed to get the name of the place back to Cape Canaveral, while the Space Center continues to be named for JFK. Even Jackie acknowledged that was the right result.
Cyrano (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-28-09 03:02 PM
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12. I personnally believe we should change the name Texas back to tejas and hand it over to the local Indians who were the original owners for countless centuries.
And franksolich personally believes Oscar Wilde should go back to his own homeland, the New York City metropolitan area, leaving Florida and Floridians in peace and quiet.
