And so the renaming of everyting to Reagan begins
 

Announced yesterday:



Chicago Sun-Times - 6/15

Reagan Gets a Highway

Former Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan now share the distinction of having Illinois highways named in their honor, after a vote by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority on Monday. Motorists who drive from Naperville to downtown Chicago taking Interstate 88 to Interstate 290 will be passing from the newly renamed Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway to the Eisenhower Expressway. The renamed segment of the East-West Tollway runs from the Eisenhower west to Rock Falls, where it becomes an Illinois Department of Transportation road.

Reagan was from Illinois, so this isn't so outlandish. The idea of replacing the picture Roosevelt on the dime with Reagan is another matter.

This sounds like that episode of simpsons where they are in the republican hq and talking about renaming everything to include Reagan. For example Frankenstein became Frankenreagan. I dont care if they rename everything. Aslong as they do the same for the democratic presidents.

They should also name things after presidential candidates who gave an A+ for effort. Like the Eugene Debs cul de sac!!

I heard something about someone wanted to rename the Pentagon after him. Would they call it the Reagan Pentagon? Maybe the Reagagon? Seriously though, I think that's a little much.

man i hope they do it just so i can use the word "reagagon".

The Geraldine Ferrara International Airport?

The Dukakis Monument?

The Mondale State Building?

No such list is complete without mention of Adlai Stevenson.

On the subject of the Reagonan, that's friggin' stupid.

Adlai Stevenson was an interesting character, part of a now extinct species: the American intellectual politician. You don't hear quotes like these from Presidential candidates anymore:

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."

"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."

"The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions."

That last one explains the timbre of things in this forum.

It's the Reagagon and it's a friggin' joke.

Except that in Chicago there is the Stevenson Expressway and in suburban Lincolnshire, there is Adlai Stevenson High School. So he isn't really as ridiculous as the idea of a Dukakis middle school.

This reminds me of the game Colonization, where depending on how well you did when you retired, you could have different things named for you in the nation you founded. Everything from bridges and cities, to biting insects and parasitic bacteria.

Here's a few...

The William Jennings Bryan Memorial Overpass.

The Aaron Burr Antique Guns Museam

The George Wallace Society for the Protection of Civil Rights

Why stop here I ask you!!!!!!!!!!

Reagan's so great! Let's name heaps of shit after him!

'The Ronald Reagan Underfunded AIDS Clinic'

but not just in America:

'This Mass Grave is Dedicated to Ronald Reagan, thanks for funding those Contras.'

'So's this one, good one funding Manco Blanco!'

'This Cave Complex comes to Afghani War Criminals Courtesy of Ronald Reagan'

'The Reagan Pinochet Monument'

Right:

"This Al Qaeda training facility made possible in part by Reagan arming the Afghans against the Soviets"

21 Nun Salute (to be placed in Costa Rica)

Every president gets a few things named after them -- very few, for some. I think Nixon got a short freeway somewhere in Southern California, and that's about it except for his own library. Kennedy got the most, because he was seen as a martyr to the free world or some damn thing, whether that was true or not. There are Kennedy high schools, middle schools, and even the odd colleges here and there.

A lot of more obscure politicians get things named after them, too. Pat Brown, the California governor that Reagan defeated back in the '60s, got a state government office building named after him; I used to live near it. And basically, a lot of government public works projects tend to be named after the politician who brought home the pork barrel money to make it happen.

As to the push by Reagan's admirers to name everything after him, I don't really understand it. But I do know that names aren't forever, and a lot of things that were named "Kennedy" 20 and 30 years ago now have some other name. People forget, no matter how hard you yell to make them remember. Or rather, today's hero must inevitably recede into the past and become just another gray paragraph in the history books for all but a few true believers. Who thinks much about Roosevelt any more, the other unarguably "revolutionary" president of the 20th century?

AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome. There is NO way there should be an apostrophe. That is the worst offense of apostrophe misuse I have ever seen. Please fix it at once, please.

You mean the syndrome doesn't belong to a guy named AID?

Yepper those Sandinistas were some peace loving, law abiding people. With the FSLN and their bloody overthrow of Somoza.
Get real we did the whole region a favor.

How so?

Not that I'm claiming that the communists were nice people, but how did they benefit? They suffered then, they suffer now. Didn't you ever wonder why communism was so popular?

ROFL :lol: