Posted on 08/09/2011 2:34:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thousands of Coloradans have signed a petition to honor the late "Rocky Mountain High" singer John Denver by naming a peak after him in the central Rockies close to where he penned the iconic 1970s song.
But the plan has hit a snag -- with the US Board on Geographic Names saying federal policy is to avoid adding names to peaks in federal wilderness areas.
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Because Mt John Denver sounds stupid. :)
Actually, I don’t have a problem with it either, but I’d like to see Mt Denver rather than John Denver. Or even Deutschendorf Peak. I think the two names personalizes it too much.
John Denver was a rabid liberal that campaigned against all things American and Republican. You might like his music, but he as a person was horrible. He even died violating the law as he did not hold a medical certificate for flying the plane he died in. He was a drunk and had his FAA pilots medical revoked. He loved and campaigned for Carter and hated Reagan, and was by today’s standards a liberal worthy of hatred. He was one of those liberals that moved here to Colorado but then wanted everyone else to stay out. We’ve gotten lots of those over the years. They congest the foothills with their homes but then petition anti-growth measures at the county and State level. John was one of those liberals. Drunk, wife-beater, lawbreaker, liberal.
Why name a mountain? Just find some nice willing buxom babe to name her grand tetons after him.
Why don’t they name it Mt. Henry Deutschendorf?
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Henry John Deutchendorf, JUNIOR!
Sr was his dad, “Dutch”. LOL
Apparently it ISN’T a joke, but I think it is silly.
Heck, they named a city after him what more do these people want?
Okay, after the nice platitudes what was wrong with him?
Not saying there isn’t precedence, but I do think it is a bit too far, and I’m a fan.
BTW, I just found my t-shirt from one of his last shows on his last tour.
Of course, if it passes, then there might be a market for all my memorabilia.
Certainly Dolly Parton deserves 2 peaks.
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LOL
There was talk about naming one after his father, who was a very accomplished pilot.
Do you remember he was supposed to be on the Challenger space shuttle? Christa McCaullife was chosen to be the non-astronaut instead.
Wouldn't it be easier to move Denver's fans there than to move the mountain?
Or maybe there already is a "Deutschendorferberg" somewhere in Mitteleuropa."
Alternatively, if the city of Denver really is a mile high, couldn't we just call it "Mount Denver"?
Problem solved.
Denver needs to have a crater named for him.
I thought the Grand Tetons were named after her.
Funny thing, I met a guy who was a driver for celebs for many years here in Colorado Springs. He remarked many were pretty nice like Red Skelton. He also remarked that John Denver was very stuck up and made a remark to the driver that he was not to speak unless spoken to. Unlike the other celebs, J.D. did not tip and really talked down to whoever had to serve him.
> John Denver was a rabid liberal that campaigned against all things American and Republican. ......
My theory on things like this is that we need to wait at least 100 years before naming something after anyone — liberal, conservative, politician, entertainer, whatever. If 100 years from now, Denver is still popular enough to name a mountain after him, so be it.
gag cough spit lol
Why does he need a mountain named after him when he already has a city named after him????
That may have been the case with the driver, but I met him twice through work and he was very polite and friendly.
Paula Abdul, however, was a B**** and a half, as was Kirk Douglas.
“Okay, after the nice platitudes what was wrong with him?
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Probably nothing. I bet he was a fun guy to hang out with. I wouldn’t want to fly with him, or drive with him, or go to one of his political meetings, but get past that and I bet he has a great time.
From Wiki:
“Denver became outspoken in politics in the mid-1970s. In 1976, he campaigned for Jimmy Carter, who became a close friend and ally. Denver was a supporter of the Democratic Party and of a number of charitable causes for the environmental movement, the homeless, the poor, the hungry, and the African AIDS crisis. He founded the charitable Windstar Foundation in 1976, to promote sustainable living. His dismay at the Chernobyl disaster led to precedent-setting concerts in parts of communist Asia and Europe.[8]
During the 1980s, Denver was critical of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Administration, but he remained active in his campaign against hunger, for which Reagan awarded Denver the Presidential World Without Hunger Award in 1985.[8] Denver’s criticism of the conservative politics of the 1980s was expressed in his autobiographical folk-rock ballad “Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For).” Denver was also critical of the Republican-dominated Congress and American Conservatism of the 1990s. He denounced the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a corrupt political machine that could buy off politicians, and in an open letter to the media, he wrote that he opposed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Denver had battled to expand the refuge in the 1980s, and he praised President Bill Clinton for his opposition to the proposed drilling. The letter, which he wrote in the midst of the 1996 presidential election, was one of the last he ever wrote.[8]”
And for this song, he deserves...well, not a mountain. A toilet, perhaps?
“I am the son of a grassland farmer
Western Oklahoma nineteen forty three
I always felt grateful to live in the land of the free
I gave up my father to South Korea
The mind of my brother to Vietnam
Now theres a banker who says I must give up my land
There are four generations of blood in this topsoil
Four generations of love on this farm
Before I give up I would gladly give up my right arm
What are we making weapons for
Why keep on feeding the war machine
We take it right out of the mouths of our babies
Take it away from the hands of the poor
Tell me, what are we making weapons for
I had a son and my son was a soldier
He was so like my father, he was so much like me
To be a good comrade was the best that he dreamed he could be
He gave up his future to revolution
His life to a battle that just cant be won
For this is not living, to live at the point of a gun
I remember the nine hundred days of Leningrad
The sound of the dying, the cut of the cold
I remember the moments I prayed I would never grow old
What are we making weapons for
Why keep on feeding the war machine
We take it right out of the mouths of our babies
Take it away from the hands of the poor
Tell me, what are we making weapons for
For the first time in my life I feel like a prisoner
A slave to the ways of the powers that be
And I fear for my children, as I fear for the for the future I see
Tell me how can it be were still fighting each other
What does it take for a people to learn
If our song is not sung as a chorus, we surely will burn
What are we making weapons for
Why keep on feeding the war machine
We take it right out of the mouths of our babies
Take it away from the hands of the poor
Tell me, what are we making weapons for
Have we forgotten
All the lives that were given
All the vows that were taken
Saying never again
Now for the first time
This could be the last time
If peace is our vision
Let us begin”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRxQ4CNd0Qc
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