"I'll Change Denali Back to Mount McKinley...deal w/ it."
Posted on 09/01/2015 12:05:06 PM PDT by EveningStar
Has Palin commented on this yet? She has always referred to it as “Denali.”
"I'll Change Denali Back to Mount McKinley...deal w/ it."
What the Heck! We already have a mountain named Denali. This president is such an ?????????? I can’t say it.
It never was Denali. The park is Federal land, administered by the Feds and named by Congress. It was Congress that named the whole park Mt. McKinley National Park, and then re-named is Denali National Park a few decades ago. The peak, on Federal land, is legally called by the Feds by the name they gave it—Mt. McKinley.
If the Indians' lawyers and the Governor of Alaska want to call it Freddy or Sasquatch or whatever, they're welcome to. But unless they buy or conquer the land, the peak's name within the park and by Federal law is whatever Congress named it.
The problem with sentimental thinking is that it's lawless and tyrannical at its core.
Kasich is the guv for McKinley’s home state of Ohio.
Maybe to outsiders who never saw it. But to the people that lived there, it was always Denali.
http://www.livescience.com/40595-denali-mount-mckinley.html
A number of efforts had tried to switch the name to Denali. Hudson Stuck, who made the first ascent of the mountain in 1913, wrote a book titled "The Ascent of Denali." In the preface of the book, he called for "the restoration to the greatest mountain in North America of its immemorial native name." Past attempts were blocked by lawmakers from Ohio.
I don’t understand this. From what I’ve seen, in general Alaskans prefer Denali. It should really be up to them, as a sovereign state. It shouldn’t be a federal issue at all.
If Congress votes to change the name so be it, it should not be by the act of one man.
Revoking a law passed by Congress is a dictatorial act. The law may be of small consequence, but it is of very large consequence that a President deliberately revokes a law by his own authority.
It is an impeachable offense, not for the consequences of it, but for the very act of doing it. It is a deliberate crime against our government.
But most significant in what it represents. It is a deliberate defiance of Constitutional Government. It is an naked usurpation of a power he most explicitly does not have.
It is a Dictatorial act. It establishes the Precedent for other Dictatorial acts.
Then if the Federal government was run by Obama drones and they decided that a landmark in your state needed to be renamed “ Valerie Jarrett”, would you be okay with that? Or would you prefer naming rights to be the responsibility of the state in which the landmark resides in?
Be careful what you wish for.
Where does congress get the authority to change name of places, regardless of the opinion of those that live there?
Seems from the local news, this change back to Denali is what Alaskans have been attempting to do since 1975, when the first bill to have the name restored to Denali was suggested.
Apparently the state govt in alaska has been referring to it as Denali for 40 years.
But Trump knows best, I guess.
I don’t think they should name anything after 0bama. Why would you want to be reminded of his treasons.
Agreed.
From decades before that as well. Hudson Stuck, who made the first ascent of the mountain in 1913, wrote a book titled “The Ascent of Denali.” In the preface of the book, he called for “the restoration to the greatest mountain in North America of its immemorial native name.”
I saw that. :)
The same place they get the authority to raise taxes on people regardless of the opinions of those who pay them.
Authenticity: Barry Marshall Davis.
The mulatto queer, again, attempts to re-write American history, by re-naming a Mountain named for a slain president. In the queer mulatto’s eyes, that slain president means nothing becuase he was Caucasian.
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