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   On this day in 1956, President Eisenhower signed an historic bill that brought the United States closer together

29 Jun 2012 12:25 PM   |   14585 clicks   |   Wired
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Pocket Ninja    [TotalFark]  
A public-works project designed to increase interstate commerce that would in turn increase Federal oversight throughout the nation and expand government power at previously unimaginable levels? All inspired by a Fascist state?

Maybe he was being advised by Obama. Or the people who planned for Obama's eventual installation.

29 Jun 2012 11:32 AM
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Relatively Obscure    [TotalFark]  
Pocket Ninja: A public-works project designed to increase interstate commerce that would in turn increase Federal oversight throughout the nation and expand government power at previously unimaginable levels? All inspired by a Fascist state?

Maybe he was being advised by Obama. Or the people who planned for Obama's eventual installation.


<3

29 Jun 2012 11:38 AM
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hillbillypharmacist    [TotalFark]  
Pocket Ninja: Maybe he was being advised by Obama. Or the people who planned for Obama's eventual installation.

You mean the person who calls himself Obama.

The real Barack Obama has been in a shallow grave for over 40 years. Go ask Alger Hiss.

29 Jun 2012 11:38 AM
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miss diminutive     
i.imgur.com

"Let's get bizzay!.........

.....building a network of highways that will fundamentally alter the landscape of the nation!"

29 Jun 2012 11:40 AM
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WTF Indeed     
Dwight "Iron Cross" Eisenhower was a socialist. All that talk of "The cost' of things just showed Ike hated America and wanted it turned into a commie state.

29 Jun 2012 11:42 AM
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FirstNationalBastard    [TotalFark]  
Pocket Ninja: A public-works project designed to increase interstate commerce that would in turn increase Federal oversight throughout the nation and expand government power at previously unimaginable levels? All inspired by a Fascist state?

Maybe he was being advised by Obama. Or the people who planned for Obama's eventual installation.


rsirving.files.wordpress.com

We will be starting construction on a new national highway system designed to allow people travel from coast to coast quickly and efficiently.

www.examiner.com

29 Jun 2012 11:43 AM
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DjangoStonereaver    [TotalFark]  
WTF Indeed: Dwight "Iron Cross" Eisenhower was a socialist. All that talk of "The cost' of things just showed Ike hated America and wanted it turned into a commie state.

The Interstate Highway System needs to be dismantled as it is an unwarranted
intrusion onto the rights of each state to manage their own roads. Preferably
this will be accomplished using child labour.

Ike was a RINO.

29 Jun 2012 11:49 AM
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vpb    [TotalFark]  
Didn't the patriots in the Revolutionary War fight to keep us free from transportation infrastructure?

29 Jun 2012 11:50 AM
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Walker    [TotalFark]  
Hawaii has 3 interstate highways. What other states do they go to?

29 Jun 2012 11:51 AM
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jaylectricity    [TotalFark]  
Why can't I find Interstate 60 on the map?

29 Jun 2012 11:52 AM
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vpb    [TotalFark]  
There is one interstate highway in the USVI. The program is designed to facilitate interstate commerce. How do you think those pineapples get to the ports to be shipped to the continental US?

Do you think interstate highways should only be little strips of pavement right on the border between two states?

29 Jun 2012 11:59 AM
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Mr. Coffee Nerves    [TotalFark]  
Fade up from Black to blurry photo of bald Ike as the background. Foreground video is "ethnic" families driving into the suburbs to loot.
SFX: Ominous music

Narration:
They're coming...for you and your family. And 'Ike' wants to help them do it with YOUR tax dollars.

CUT TO: Photo of Ike superimposed over Berlin. Photoshop Ike shaking hands with Hitler as Stalin looks on smiling

Ike's so-called "Socialist Superhighway" is just like the ones HITLER built.

CUT TO: Ike photoshopped in a dress dancing with a fancy lad

Yes, those roads he drove on while he was hiding in England on D-Day with his "aide" -- a man kept around to take care of Ike's "every need."

CUT TO: Crying Eagle watching the Constitution burn

Can we afford Ike's Socialist Agenda stealing your family's money to make it easier for the poors to come to YOUR town? Clearly, the answer is "NEIN!"

29 Jun 2012 12:00 PM
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miss diminutive     
Mr. Coffee Nerves: Fade up from Black to blurry photo of bald Ike as the background. Foreground video is "ethnic" families driving into the suburbs to loot.
SFX: Ominous music

Narration:
They're coming...for you and your family. And 'Ike' wants to help them do it with YOUR tax dollars.

CUT TO: Photo of Ike superimposed over Berlin. Photoshop Ike shaking hands with Hitler as Stalin looks on smiling

Ike's so-called "Socialist Superhighway" is just like the ones HITLER built.

CUT TO: Ike photoshopped in a dress dancing with a fancy lad

Yes, those roads he drove on while he was hiding in England on D-Day with his "aide" -- a man kept around to take care of Ike's "every need."

CUT TO: Crying Eagle watching the Constitution burn

Can we afford Ike's Socialist Agenda stealing your family's money to make it easier for the poors to come to YOUR town? Clearly, the answer is "NEIN!"


That was beautiful.

29 Jun 2012 12:02 PM
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MaudlinMutantMollusk    [TotalFark]  
Dwight D. Eisenhower

/don't you see, sheeple?
//it was right there in front of you all along!

29 Jun 2012 12:05 PM
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PreMortem    [TotalFark]  
HA! My pops n uncle were busted in Mississippi in the sixties, helped forced to help build I65 while in a chain gang.

29 Jun 2012 12:06 PM
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PreMortem    [TotalFark]  
PreMortem: HA! My pops n uncle were busted in Mississippi Alabama in the sixties, helped forced to help build I65 while in a chain gang.

29 Jun 2012 12:07 PM
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ginandbacon    [TotalFark]  
A

A historic. I can't stand it anymore!

29 Jun 2012 12:10 PM
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FlashHarry    [TotalFark]  
jesus. can you imagine a republican even proposing to spend money on infrastructure today? he'd be drummed out of the party as a communist!

29 Jun 2012 12:11 PM
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sweetmelissa31    [TotalFark]  
Mr. Coffee Nerves: Fade up from Black to blurry photo of bald Ike as the background. Foreground video is "ethnic" families driving into the suburbs to loot.

Robert Moses solved this problem on Long Island by building highway overpasses that were too low for buses to fit through so the poors couldn't be bused in from the city.

29 Jun 2012 12:13 PM
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Sapper_Topo    [TotalFark]  
ginandbacon: A

A historic. I can't stand it anymore!


Purely dependent on regional dialect. Just like "An hypothesis" or "A hypothesis" H words over 3 syllables are treated differently due to certain regions pronunciation of the hard H versus soft H sound.

29 Jun 2012 12:18 PM
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WTF Indeed     
j.wigflip.com

29 Jun 2012 12:19 PM
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medius     
That son of a biatch!

I would have preferred the old mess. As would have hotels and small towns. And the trains.

29 Jun 2012 12:27 PM
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ChrisDe    [TotalFark]  
Or, as I call it, EisenhowerHighwayCare.

29 Jun 2012 12:29 PM
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runcible spork     
Sapper_Topo: ginandbacon: A

A historic. I can't stand it anymore!

Purely dependent on regional dialect. Just like "An hypothesis" or "A hypothesis" H words over 3 syllables are treated differently due to certain regions pronunciation of the hard H versus soft H sound.


I don't know of any US regions (and there but a few British ones) that don't aspirate the 'h' in those words. They aren't "hard" and "soft" sounds, and it has nothing to do with the number of syllables. Hypercorrection!


/ Heisenower

29 Jun 2012 12:31 PM
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Cheesus     
Fun fact: Alaska has 4 (unsigned) interstates.

29 Jun 2012 12:32 PM
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beta_plus     
Remember - the one time cost of the interstate highway system for a public good is exactly the same as an endless entitlement to pay for people who refuse to keep their weight under control.

If you say otherwise, you are a racist.

29 Jun 2012 12:32 PM
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davidphogan     
jaylectricity: Why can't I find Interstate 60 on the map?

Every number doesn't have to be used.

29 Jun 2012 12:33 PM
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ChrisDe    [TotalFark]  
Walker: Hawaii has 3 interstate highways. What other states do they go to?


H1 connects to San Diego via the Aloha-Point Loma tunnel. Awesome weekend drive.

29 Jun 2012 12:34 PM
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dramboxf    [TotalFark]  
sweetmelissa31: Robert Moses solved this problem on Long Island by building highway overpasses that were too low for buses to fit through so the poors couldn't be bused in from the city.

And Westchester. All the limited-access highways (the Hutch, the Taconic, the Sprain, etc.) have that issue.

29 Jun 2012 12:34 PM
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medius     
Interstate highways were also good for dividing poor neighborhoods from rich ones in major cities. The new "wrong side of the tracks."

29 Jun 2012 12:34 PM
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ginandbacon    [TotalFark]  
Sapper_Topo: ginandbacon: A

A historic. I can't stand it anymore!

Purely dependent on regional dialect. Just like "An hypothesis" or "A hypothesis" H words over 3 syllables are treated differently due to certain regions pronunciation of the hard H versus soft H sound.


No, it's really not. Nobody in this country says 'istory. It's just flat out wrong. It's as bad as saying between you and I. I just can't anymore.

29 Jun 2012 12:34 PM
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rooftop235     
...and introduced 'creative financing' to cover the costs. The gov't has been using the creative financing since, and as a result is pretty much broken.

29 Jun 2012 12:35 PM
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lohphat    [TotalFark]  
ZOMFG SOCIALIZMS!1!!!405suxrox

Taking money from others is STEALING.

/amidoinitriteguise?

29 Jun 2012 12:35 PM
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The Third Man     
Walker: Hawaii has 3 interstate highways. What other states do they go to?

Betraying my roadgeekery: Interstates don't have to go from state to state, they just can. Interstates 4 (all in Florida), 12 (all in Louisiana), 17 and 19 (all in Arizona), 27 and 37 (all in Texas), and 86 (all in Idaho) don't cross state boundaries either.

By the way, before 1956 US-shielded routes (like US 1 or Route 66) were known as interstates. The 1956 law changed their name to "US federal routes". Why they didn't just bother to call the new routes by a new name, I don't know.

29 Jun 2012 12:37 PM
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flaminio     
You know who else built a national highway system?

29 Jun 2012 12:37 PM
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DaddyRat     
Eisenhower who?...

29 Jun 2012 12:37 PM
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Giltric    [TotalFark]  
Designed to move troops and military hardware quickly across the continent......commerce was the line they fed the sheeple it also helped give government more power via the commerce clause.

29 Jun 2012 12:37 PM
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TheNewJesus     
Roads? Roads? Republicans don't need roads.

They just bootstrap it from town to town powered by their own hypocritical bullshiat...

29 Jun 2012 12:39 PM
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Odd Bird     
I farkin love having interstates available!

Twenty ATL-NY trips in the last 6 years and I've flown once.
Also ATL-STL
And lots of road trips when I was a kid.

29 Jun 2012 12:39 PM
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TofuTheAlmighty     
FlashHarry: jesus. can you imagine a republican even proposing to spend money on infrastructure today? he'd be drummed out of the party as a communist!

Well, the Birchers really did accuse Eisenhower of being a communist. Then they proceeded on a 40 year quest take over the Republican party.

29 Jun 2012 12:40 PM
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heinrich66     
Can we be done with 'an historic' please? This is not England. We do not drop our Hs.

How about 'an hysterectomy'?
'an hysterical reaction'?
'an hope'?
'an horticultural soiree'?
'an homeless guy'?

Note. When we *do* drop our Hs (an hour ago), we use 'an'.

29 Jun 2012 12:40 PM
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tommyl66     
Maybe we should convince the right wing lunatics that using an interstate highway only helps reinforce the idea that states' rights are being taken away by the federal government. They should only use back roads, which will also hamper big government's attempt to regulate the amount of pollution one person has the right to emit in their day to day life.

/Just want the highways clear for the drive home this weekend

29 Jun 2012 12:40 PM
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Andrew Wiggin     
heinrich66: Can we be done with 'an historic' please? This is not England. We do not drop our Hs.

How about 'an hysterectomy'?
'an hysterical reaction'?
'an hope'?
'an horticultural soiree'?
'an homeless guy'?

Note. When we *do* drop our Hs (an hour ago), we use 'an'.


trolling is a art.

29 Jun 2012 12:41 PM
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Maud Dib    [TotalFark]  
ginandbacon: Sapper_Topo: ginandbacon: A

A historic. I can't stand it anymore!

Purely dependent on regional dialect. Just like "An hypothesis" or "A hypothesis" H words over 3 syllables are treated differently due to certain regions pronunciation of the hard H versus soft H sound.

No, it's really not. Nobody in this country says 'istory. It's just flat out wrong. It's as bad as saying between you and I. I just can't anymore.



Why are you putting so much emphasis on the H?

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29 Jun 2012 12:41 PM
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Churchy LaFemme     
RINO!

29 Jun 2012 12:42 PM
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Aquapope     
But the federal government can't do anything good with our taxes. I was told this by a guy who started his own business with GI Bill money and an SBA loan, so he has to be right.

29 Jun 2012 12:42 PM
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Mock26     
All of you farkers who foam at the mouth in rage when you think of socialism do the rest of us a favor and stay the fark off of our socialist highways!

29 Jun 2012 12:43 PM
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ginandbacon    [TotalFark]  
Maud Dib: ginandbacon: Sapper_Topo: ginandbacon: A

A historic. I can't stand it anymore!

Purely dependent on regional dialect. Just like "An hypothesis" or "A hypothesis" H words over 3 syllables are treated differently due to certain regions pronunciation of the hard H versus soft H sound.

No, it's really not. Nobody in this country says 'istory. It's just flat out wrong. It's as bad as saying between you and I. I just can't anymore.


Why are you putting so much emphasis on the H?

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Because it is a fine and upstanding letter that deserves our respect.

29 Jun 2012 12:43 PM
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Cheesus     
The Third Man: Walker: Hawaii has 3 interstate highways. What other states do they go to?

Betraying my roadgeekery: Interstates don't have to go from state to state, they just can. Interstates 4 (all in Florida), 12 (all in Louisiana), 17 and 19 (all in Arizona), 27 and 37 (all in Texas), and 86 (all in Idaho) don't cross state boundaries either.

By the way, before 1956 US-shielded routes (like US 1 or Route 66) were known as interstates. The 1956 law changed their name to "US federal routes". Why they didn't just bother to call the new routes by a new name, I don't know.


The eastern section 86 also exists in NY and PA. Plus there's that atrocity that is 99 in PA.

29 Jun 2012 12:44 PM
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petec     
I drive the full length of I587 every day, so I'm getting a kick ..

//all 1.4 miles

29 Jun 2012 12:45 PM
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