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Lawmakers revive bid to rename Alaska’s Mount McKinley
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| Feb 5, 2015 6:26 PM EST
Posted on 02/06/2015 7:20:16 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Because Alaska has no poor people or infrastructure that needs repairs so they can waste time and tax dollars on this hooey.
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posted on
02/06/2015 9:01:19 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Olog-hai
When will they go about renaming things named after Democrats?
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posted on
02/06/2015 9:06:24 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Olog-hai
This is stupid, IMO. Or am am I missing something?
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posted on
02/06/2015 9:15:54 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
To: Bigg Red
For decades there have been ongoing attempts to officially rename the mountain to Denali, which means the great one in the Alaska native Athabascan dialect. In 1975, the Alaska Board of Geographic Names officially changed the name of mountain to Denali, but attempts to do the same at the federal level have been generally blocked by the Ohio legislative delegation.
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posted on
02/06/2015 9:17:36 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: thackney
It will always be McKinley to me.
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posted on
02/06/2015 9:22:38 AM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: Olog-hai
My brother climbed to the top of Mt. McKinley in 1977.
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posted on
02/06/2015 9:25:00 AM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: Chuckster
In that case, the state is more liberal than I took it for.
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posted on
02/06/2015 9:25:46 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: lormand
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posted on
02/06/2015 9:45:37 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
To: AFreeBird
Cool!
It would drive the right people crazy to rename it after her!
To: Fiji Hill
I was born and raised in Ohio; my family lives in “The Carnation City”. When I moved to Alaska and learned how and why it was named McKinley, I was ashamed for Ohio.
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posted on
02/06/2015 10:17:21 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Years ago I went into WWII service from Phoenix. I had one semester of engineering studies in college which included a surveying course. We did our outdoor surveying classes on acreage that was owned by the college prof. The acreage was bounded by Squaw Peak. I remember a very beautiful and magnificent land feature. I do not see good reason to rename the area after all these years.
To: FlingWingFlyer
This is probably what is driving Murkowski. This is not a new issue. Alaska has tried for decades to get the name changed. The Alaska Legislature voted in 1975 to change the name of the mountain.
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posted on
02/06/2015 10:54:24 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Busko
Oh yeah!!! The country is going down the tube and they are renaming a mountain.
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posted on
02/06/2015 11:07:45 AM PST
by
Know et al
(Keep on Freepin'!!!)
To: BigIsleGal
No that's denial. LOL
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posted on
02/06/2015 11:15:40 AM PST
by
Know et al
(Keep on Freepin'!!!)
To: thackney
Kudos to Ohio for having the mountain named for one of its greatest sons.
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posted on
02/06/2015 11:25:58 AM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: Fiji Hill
Yeah, real proud of a naming the highest peak in North America to promote a political candidate, not in honor of a president.
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posted on
02/06/2015 11:38:07 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: thackney
Yeah, real proud of a naming the highest peak in North America to promote a political candidate, not in honor of a president. But the name stuck, and McKinley turned out to be one of our better presidents, especially compared to most of his successors. As Leo Durocher put it, "win any way you can."
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posted on
02/06/2015 11:42:31 AM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
To: Fiji Hill
Good point; McKinley was the last great Ohioan, but what about Robert Taft, Sr.?
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posted on
02/06/2015 11:53:26 AM PST
by
Theodore R.
(Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
To: Fiji Hill
The ends justify the means.
There is a religion that pushes that crap. It isn’t Christianity.
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posted on
02/06/2015 12:00:34 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: MeshugeMikey
Ever read The Yiddish Policemen’s Union? Not so meshugena.
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