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Title: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: RIP Robert H Bork on February 13, 2011, 04:13:20 PM I call on all conservatives/sensible Atlasians/non-hacks to boycott the now-renamed airports in the Washington area. From now on, I shall only fly from Baltimore/Washington Airport for Washington air travel.
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lambsbread on February 13, 2011, 04:14:34 PM I'd like to join you, but in the spirit of economic prosperity, I won't.
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Хahar 🤔 on February 13, 2011, 04:15:32 PM Hooray for CIA-sponsored regime change!
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: minionofmidas on February 13, 2011, 04:20:26 PM This thread shows up on the main board as "Boycott the Renamed ... [last poster]"
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lambsbread on February 13, 2011, 04:22:07 PM This thread shows up on the main board as "Boycott the Renamed ... [last poster]" It does XD Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Associate Justice PiT on February 13, 2011, 04:31:03 PM Alternatively, we could always rename other airports in honor of Barry Goldwater & Charles de Gaulle. :P
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lambsbread on February 13, 2011, 04:40:15 PM Alternatively, we could always rename other airports in honor of Barry Goldwater & :D Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: RIP Robert H Bork on February 13, 2011, 04:41:37 PM Alternatively, we could always rename other airports in honor of Barry Goldwater & Charles de Gaulle. :P NO!! I wouldn't support anything other than restoring the earlier names of the Washington airports. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on February 13, 2011, 04:47:11 PM Hooray for CIA-sponsored regime change! Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: bgwah on February 13, 2011, 04:52:51 PM Alternatively, we could always rename other airports in honor of Barry Goldwater & Charles de Gaulle. :P NO!! I wouldn't support anything other than restoring the earlier names of the Washington airports. You want it to just be Washington National Airport again? Interesting. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lief 🗽 on February 13, 2011, 04:57:03 PM Alternatively, we could always rename other airports in honor of Barry Goldwater & Charles de Gaulle. :P NO!! I wouldn't support anything other than restoring the earlier names of the Washington airports. You want it to just be Washington National Airport again? Interesting. ^^^^ The airport was named after the country's first president until 1998, when Republicans in Congress forced it to change its name against the wishes of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and the people of D.C. and NoVA. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: RIP Robert H Bork on February 13, 2011, 05:13:33 PM I said "earlier", that is, their names immediately before this bill passed, not "original".
The airport was named after the country's first president until 1998, when Republicans in Congress forced it to change its name against the wishes of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and the people of D.C. and NoVA. () Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Insula Dei on February 13, 2011, 05:26:13 PM Who is this Ronald Reagan guy you're talking about? This is Atlasia, we shouldn't name our airports after some fictional character.
Besides, he sounds like a HP anyway. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lambsbread on February 13, 2011, 05:27:16 PM Who is this Ronald Reagan guy you're talking about? This is Atlasia, we shouldn't name our airports after some fictional character. Besides, he sounds like a HP anyway. :P Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: tmthforu94 on February 13, 2011, 05:28:17 PM This is Atlasia, we shouldn't name our airports after some fictional character. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: bgwah on February 13, 2011, 05:41:41 PM Ah, so renaming it after Reagan wasn't a hack move? lol
It never ceases to amaze me how dumb some people are. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lief 🗽 on February 13, 2011, 05:44:36 PM I said "earlier", that is, their names immediately before this bill passed, not "original". The airport was named after the country's first president until 1998, when Republicans in Congress forced it to change its name against the wishes of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and the people of D.C. and NoVA. () You see that little red county at the top there? Arlington County? Yeah, that's where the airport is located. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: RIP Robert H Bork on February 13, 2011, 05:48:04 PM I said "earlier", that is, their names immediately before this bill passed, not "original". The airport was named after the country's first president until 1998, when Republicans in Congress forced it to change its name against the wishes of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and the people of D.C. and NoVA. () You see that little red county at the top there? Arlington County? Yeah, that's where the airport is located. So? Arlington County != NoVA. Reagan won NoVA as a whole, and handily. And even Arlington and Alexandria went to Mondale by only 5 points. So your argument about the 1998 name-change being passed "against the wishes of...NoVA" is dubious at best. Northern Virginians certainly disapprove of the current name more than they did the old one, I'm sure. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: tpfkaw on February 13, 2011, 05:50:10 PM Can we get rid of everything named after Franklin Roosevelt in a Republican area?
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Kaine for Senate '18 on February 13, 2011, 05:52:21 PM Many people in Arlington still refer to it as "National" or "Washington National". Very few call it "Reagan". Just fyi.
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lief 🗽 on February 13, 2011, 05:58:50 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/airport/overview5.htm
Quote Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), who voted to change the airport name, said the action is symbolic. "Most of my constituents won't stop calling it Washington National," he said. Although the battle over the airport name became partisan, the fiercest opposition came from the Washington area. Alexandria and Arlington leaders urged Congress to leave the name alone, as did the Greater Washington Board of Trade and former Virginia governor A. Linwood Holton Jr., who is a Republican. Opponents argued that Congress was intruding on a 50-year lease it had granted to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which runs National and Dulles International Airport and raised millions of dollars for the airports' new terminals. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: RIP Robert H Bork on February 13, 2011, 06:02:08 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/airport/overview5.htm Quote Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), who voted to change the airport name, said the action is symbolic. "Most of my constituents won't stop calling it Washington National," he said. Although the battle over the airport name became partisan, the fiercest opposition came from the Washington area. Alexandria and Arlington leaders urged Congress to leave the name alone, as did the Greater Washington Board of Trade and former Virginia governor A. Linwood Holton Jr., who is a Republican. Opponents argued that Congress was intruding on a 50-year lease it had granted to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which runs National and Dulles International Airport and raised millions of dollars for the airports' new terminals. So? Arlington/Alexandria "leaders" don't speak for the "people of NoVA", which is what your first post had. You're also using a double standard, as you'll use the opinion of "leaders" when it comes to naming the airport for Reagan, but you voted to rename the airport for Walter Mondale when there was no local input at all! Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lief 🗽 on February 13, 2011, 06:33:00 PM Political leaders elected by the people don't speak for the people? Okay dude...
And considering that the local governments of Northern Virginia and DC are not represented in this game at all I don't really know how you expect us to listen to their input. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Yelnoc on February 13, 2011, 07:00:06 PM How about we rename Hartsfield-Jackson the Yelnoc International Airport? Eh, eh?
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lambsbread on February 13, 2011, 07:00:53 PM How about we rename Hartsfield-Jackson the :P O0 Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Yelnoc on February 13, 2011, 07:02:52 PM How about we rename Hartsfield-Jackson the :P O0 You can have an airport in New Joisey. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lambsbread on February 13, 2011, 07:08:18 PM How about we rename Hartsfield-Jackson the :P O0 You can have an airport in New Joisey. I call Newark Int'l! Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: 🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸 on February 13, 2011, 07:54:39 PM Political leaders elected by the people don't speak for the people? Okay dude... And considering that the local governments of Northern Virginia and DC are not represented in this game at all I don't really know how you expect us to listen to their input. um, we do have a Mideast assembly. on the other hand, we have more important things to do than rename airports. such trivialities are best left up to the Feds. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: hawkeye59 on February 13, 2011, 08:52:49 PM How about we rename Hartsfield-Jackson the :P O0 You can have an airport in New Joisey. I call Newark Int'l! Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Ban my account ffs! on February 13, 2011, 11:27:51 PM I'd call MSP... but I like generic names... so Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport it shall remain.
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Fmr. Pres. Duke on February 14, 2011, 02:49:55 AM Why didn't we just change it back to Washington National? Or Nyman national in this case....?
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Antonio the Sixth on February 14, 2011, 08:06:17 AM You make my day. ::)
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Lambsbread on February 14, 2011, 10:49:02 AM You make my day. ::) Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Badger on February 14, 2011, 11:32:42 AM I said "earlier", that is, their names immediately before this bill passed, not "original". The airport was named after the country's first president until 1998, when Republicans in Congress forced it to change its name against the wishes of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and the people of D.C. and NoVA. () You see that little red county at the top there? Arlington County? Yeah, that's where the airport is located. And while we're at it: https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html President Washington > President Reagan x 100. FWIW, I would've preferred the amendment to name them after Nym and Wixted. That said, yes it was a bit of political hackery, in response to original political hackery by renaming the airport to begin with. Our Senate is part of an online political sim entitled to some silliness in government. What was the US Congress's excuse in 1998? Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Antonio the Sixth on February 14, 2011, 02:27:07 PM You make my day. ::) Huh... I was refering to TrueCon. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Fmr. Pres. Duke on February 14, 2011, 02:32:40 PM The new law is equally as silly the old law. Furthermore, it's equally silly for defenders of the bill to cite the partisan nature of the right to justify their own partisanship. We should just name them after Atlasia's founders, hold hands, and be happy.
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Antonio the Sixth on February 14, 2011, 02:34:32 PM The new law is equally as silly the old law. Furthermore, it's equally silly for defenders of the bill to cite the partisan nature of the right to justify their own partisanship. We should just name them after Atlasia's founders, hold hands, and be happy. Partisanship isn't a bad thing when the purpose of the bill is so futile anyways. I don't see what's bad with being partisan there. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: HappyWarrior on February 14, 2011, 02:35:25 PM The new law is equally as silly the old law. Furthermore, it's equally silly for defenders of the bill to cite the partisan nature of the right to justify their own partisanship. We should just name them after Atlasia's founders, hold hands, and be happy. That was the aim of my amendment to the bill but sadly it didn't go through. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: bgwah on February 14, 2011, 02:36:05 PM The new law is equally as silly the old law. Furthermore, it's equally silly for defenders of the bill to cite the partisan nature of the right to justify their own partisanship. We should just name them after Atlasia's founders, hold hands, and be happy. Uh, that's not what we're doing. Were pointing out that OfficePark is being ridiculous to decry our "partisanship" while defending the Reagan name. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on February 14, 2011, 06:50:31 PM The new law is equally as silly the old law. Furthermore, it's equally silly for defenders of the bill to cite the partisan nature of the right to justify their own partisanship. We should just name them after Atlasia's founders, hold hands, and be happy. Uh, that's not what we're doing. Were pointing out that OfficePark is being ridiculous to decry our "partisanship" while defending the Reagan name. Well, when you're right-wing hack, that's ok, appearently... Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: tmthforu94 on February 14, 2011, 08:03:09 PM Has anyone taken into consideration the cost of changing the name for these airports? Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: bgwah on February 14, 2011, 08:10:06 PM Has anyone taken into consideration the cost of changing the name for these airports? If you really care so much, you can look up how much it cost in 1998 to rename it after Reagan, account for inflation, and double it. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: tmthforu94 on February 14, 2011, 08:14:29 PM Has anyone taken into consideration the cost of changing the name for these airports? If you really care so much, you can look up how much it cost in 1998 to rename it after Reagan, account for inflation, and double it. I agree with HappyWarrior on this entire issue - If we're going to rename Atlasian airports, let's at least rename them after Atlasians. It was partisan politics to name this after Reagan 13 years ago, and it's partisan politics that's changing it now. Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: bgwah on February 14, 2011, 08:17:49 PM Has anyone taken into consideration the cost of changing the name for these airports? If you really care so much, you can look up how much it cost in 1998 to rename it after Reagan, account for inflation, and double it. I agree with HappyWarrior on this entire issue - If we're going to rename Atlasian airports, let's at least rename them after Atlasians. It was partisan politics to name this after Reagan 13 years ago, and it's partisan politics that's changing it now. yes, it is hackery, I have never denied that. But it has accomplished exactly what I wanted it to. With ~90 posts in the Senate thread and 40+ here, it has probably become the most discussed bill in this Senate... Maybe it's silly that this is the kind of thing that generates activity, but whatever, it's working. :P Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: RIP Robert H Bork on February 14, 2011, 08:21:32 PM Is it partisan to have airports named after FDR or JFK? No, and the same goes for Reagan. Mondale didn't do anything to merit an airport named after him, on the other hand. We know why the Senate voted to give him the name of an airport, and it's because he's a leftist. That's why I'm claiming that the liberals are engaging in hackery, and I maintain that position.
And even bgwah admitted that he was being a hack! (see above post) Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: bgwah on February 14, 2011, 08:44:11 PM Is it partisan to have airports named after FDR or JFK? No, and the same goes for Reagan. Mondale didn't do anything to merit an airport named after him, on the other hand. We know why the Senate voted to give him the name of an airport, and it's because he's a leftist. That's why I'm claiming that the liberals are engaging in hackery, and I maintain that position. And even bgwah admitted that he was being a hack! (see above post) If airports already named after Presidents were renamed after FDR and JFK, then yeah, I think that would be partisan. Mondale was VP. Interesting that illegally selling weapons to Iran and illegally funding death squads "merits" the 1998 renaming, though. Moderator edit! Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: RIP Robert H Bork on February 14, 2011, 09:36:26 PM Is it partisan to have airports named after FDR or JFK? No, and the same goes for Reagan. Mondale didn't do anything to merit an airport named after him, on the other hand. We know why the Senate voted to give him the name of an airport, and it's because he's a leftist. That's why I'm claiming that the liberals are engaging in hackery, and I maintain that position. And even bgwah admitted that he was being a hack! (see above post) If airports already named after Presidents were renamed after FDR and JFK, then yeah, I think that would be partisan. Mondale was VP. Interesting that illegally selling weapons to Iran and illegally funding death squads "merits" the 1998 renaming, though. But, no offense, you've proven that you are quite intellectually limited, so there's probably no use trying to explain these seemingly easy concepts to you. I'll let you get back to playing with your colored blocks now. What?! You don't know who you're messing with, sir. If I used foul language, I'd give you a piece of my mind! Go troll somewhere else!! Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Fmr. Pres. Duke on February 15, 2011, 12:57:12 AM My point still stands, bgwah. :P
Title: Re: Boycott the Renamed Airports! Post by: Antonio the Sixth on February 15, 2011, 06:06:16 AM And my answer stands too.
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