Posted on 02/06/2015 7:20:16 AM PST by Olog-hai
Lawmakers have failed in past attempts to rename North America’s highest mountain, but a new proposal may have a better chance this year under a Republican Congress, according to an aide to an Alaska lawmaker who is resurrecting the effort.
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have introduced a bill to give Mount McKinley its historical Alaska Native name.
The Alaska Republicans announced a Senate bill Wednesday to formally call the 20,320-foot mountain by its Athabascan name, Denali, KTUU reported. The bill comes after previous efforts by Murkowski failed. …
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OK, let’s change the mountain’s name back to Denali. But why stop there? Let’s drop Reagan’s name from Reagan National Airport, have the Ronald Reagan Freeway revert to its original name, the Simi Valley Freeway, and forget about renaming Frenchman Mountain in Nevada for Ronald Reagan.
Nice strawman but none of those were named in a campaign scheme by the party in power to get another elected.
No one actually pronounces it potahto. It's a line of whimsical gibberish from a Gershwin song. Banahna and tomahto, yes. Potahto, no.
Neither was Mt. McKinley. William McKinley was a Republican. When the mountain was named for him in 1896, the Democrats were in power. The name was made official during the administration of Woodrow Wilson--a Democrat.
Fair enough, make that government official abusing power to get another elected.
Still abuse of power. It should never be accepted regardless of the claimed party.
It’s not an abuse of power. The mountain was named by private citizens.
In America, we say “tomayto,” “potayto” and “ba-nan-a.” In England, they say “tomahto,” “potahto” and “banahna.”
Kudos to the people of Florida, who changed Cape Kennedy back to Cape Canaveral, the name by which it had been known since the sixteenth century.
Reminds me of a mountain in Tadzhikistan that keeps getting its name changed. The highest mountain in the old Soviet Union and one of the highest on earth, it was at first called by some native name. Then the Soviets renamed it Stalin Peak. After Stalin fell out of favor, it was renamed Communism Peak. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Tadzhikistan won its independence, it was again renamed for Ismail Samani, a medieval Tadzhik king.
“In England, they say “tomahto,” “potahto” and “banahna.””
Nobody says potahto. It’s deliberate gibberish for comic effect from a Gershwin song.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/potato
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/tomato
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/banana
No government involvement? Is that your claim?
Yes it is. I have found no evidence to the contrary.
Now the ball is in your court. Can you provide evidence to back up your claim that the naming of the mountain represented an abuse of power to get a candidate elected?
So we can all just make up our own names for the highest peak the nation and the USGS will keep up with the changes? Just private citizens in naming mountains that already had a name by the locals? That is your claim?
No, that's not my claim. Now, how presenting us with some evidence to back up your claim that naming the mountain amounted to an abuse of government power?
Why are so angry over the mountain’s name? Do you hate President McKinley?
No I love Alaska.
McKinley was great. I was born and raised in the area he lived. When I moved to Alaska and understood how the name came about, I was ashamed for his memory.
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