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McKinley Out, Denali In: Highest Peak in North America Renamed
nbcnews.com ^ | AUgust 30, 2015 | by TIM STELLOH

Posted on 08/30/2015 6:05:36 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

For more than a century, the tallest mountain on the continent was named after the 25th U.S. president, William McKinley.

Now, in honor of Alaska's indigenous Athabascan people, who had always called it "Denali," President Barack Obama is changing it back, the White House said in a release Sunday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alaska; denali; mtmckinley; obama; obie; transformation
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To: DoughtyOne

Better than than naming things after Marxists, like Martin Luther King.


81 posted on 08/30/2015 9:50:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Didn’t approve of that either.

Or Caesar Chavez...


82 posted on 08/30/2015 9:51:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: IronJack

It was Denali before it was named to honor a politician. I don’t like things being named for politicians and I especially don’t like the Feds telling states what to name their geographical features. Ohioans can rename one of their mountains “McKinley”. And Illinois, or maybe Kenya, can name a mountain in honor of Zero, if they so choose.


83 posted on 08/30/2015 10:08:20 PM PDT by Oliver Boliver Butt
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To: MeshugeMikey
This name change fits into Obama’s world view that the US WAS composed and created by “old, dead, white (Enlightened) men” and that the NATIVE American, NATIVE Alaskan, NATIVE African, NATIVE Palestinian PLO tribes and peoples etc., are the TRUE OWNERS of the land and culture.

By calling the mountain after the white assassinated man, President McKinley, the leadership in 1901 USURPED the RIGHTS of the locals!!

God forbid!

Now a JUST RIGHT is correcting and old WRONG.

This is Obama’s world view and therefore fits into the stupid name change.

84 posted on 08/30/2015 10:49:03 PM PDT by Netz
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To: MeshugeMikey; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker

One of my first acts as President would be to change it back. Bet if it was named after a rat President this wouldn’t have happened. I don’t really care what the dem voting “natives” or the dems and RINOs who pander to them call it.

Mount McKinley

Sears Tower

Bombay, India

Bruce Jenner

Now and forever.


85 posted on 08/30/2015 10:53:25 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

We in Alaska call our mountain Denali - the Great One - the name given it by our Native peoples. We live in the hills north of Fairbanks. On a clear day, when the leaves are off the trees, we can clearly see the mountain in the distance from our deck.


86 posted on 08/30/2015 11:42:04 PM PDT by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Does Obozo really have the constitutional authority to just willy-nilly change the name of geographical lamdmarks?
I'm fed up with this fool.
Congress needs to grow a set and put Obie from Nairobi back in his place.
87 posted on 08/31/2015 3:21:07 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Impy

New Amsterdam?


88 posted on 08/31/2015 4:14:01 AM PDT by Taipei
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued

I agree.


89 posted on 08/31/2015 5:02:20 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I hope every sign put up is not there the next day.


90 posted on 08/31/2015 5:04:08 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Taipei

Constantinople!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sl4XCVmoXg


91 posted on 08/31/2015 5:15:12 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Oliver Boliver Butt

Right. And Mexico City was Tehochtitlan before the White Devils came. And whatever the Indians (who were themselves named by the White Devils) called this country, it’s for sure it wasn’t the United States of America.

The feds imposing a name on a geographical landmark is just another example of political overreach. But reverting to the native name is conceding to political correctness.

Call it whatever you like. It has been Mount McKinley all my life, and Mount McKinley it will remain.


92 posted on 08/31/2015 5:17:08 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: MeshugeMikey
It was fine as it was. Some called it Denali, others McKinley. Doesn't Obama have two names too? Obama is just a dick.
93 posted on 08/31/2015 5:29:23 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: MeshugeMikey
I wonder if the idiot-and-chief ever considered how much this knee-jerk change was going to cost the aviation industry? I would assume that all world, sectional, an IFR charts will have to be prematurely revised and re-issued. All ATC software in every tower-controlled airport will have to be updated. All aircraft utilizing GPS navigation (that's most all planes flying) will have to get a software upgrade. Somebody needs to lock this guy up in the nearest golf course where he can't do any more damage.  photo McKinley_zpskfarsa9x.jpg
94 posted on 08/31/2015 7:12:58 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: eastexsteve
CInsequences whuch Obie would likely revel about were he aware of them...but theres little chance of mr selfie stick being aware of anything of that import!!




95 posted on 08/31/2015 7:33:02 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: vetvetdoug

Doesn’t Obama have two names too?

at the very least....not including the names he’s earned as commander in thief


96 posted on 08/31/2015 7:34:06 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: bmwcyle

It could happen,,,,

its happened down the road form here many many times over the years...

“If you’re driving down Highway One north of San Francisco don’t look for the road sign to Bolinas, CA, because this quirky coastal hamlet is the only California municipality without a sign to lead you from the highway to the city limits. There used to be a sign that said “Bolinas, 2 miles”— many of them in fact, but each of the signs put up in the last 20 years has enigmatically disappeared—the longest-standing sign lasting only 36 hours.”

http://intravelmag.com/intravel/in-depth/bolinas-california


97 posted on 08/31/2015 7:37:31 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Amagi

Look for Washington D.C....named for the Old White Guy., George Washington to be renamed before the end of obie’s reign of terror.


98 posted on 08/31/2015 7:41:52 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Impy

ALL OF THE RE-IDENTIFICATON is getting old isnt it!


99 posted on 08/31/2015 7:44:29 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Netz

Look for Obies crew to rename the Nations Capital...CHE..D.C. before he leaves town...


100 posted on 08/31/2015 7:45:41 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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