FR was down for awhile so I came 3,459,215th with this. :)
Posted on 08/31/2015 11:40:33 AM PDT by Nachum
A group of Ohio Republicans and Democrats have finally found something to agree on: they are vehemently opposed to President Barack Obama’s renaming of the country´s highest peak from Mount McKinley to Denali. The president is expected to make the long-awaited name change official during his trip to Alaska, where he is expected to arrive this afternoon to take part in a climate change summit. Rep. Bob Gibbs, a Republican from Ohio, released a statement saying that for nearly a century, the majestic peak has been a testament to President William McKinley´s ´years of service to our country.’ McKinley, a native of
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Maybe he did it because Sarah Palin told him to?
If the name was established by law, then Obama’s unilateral renaming is unconstitutional.
If the name was established by Presidential direction, then he’s within the boundaries.
But the BS about being outraged over THIS act instead of all of the serious unconstitutional oversteps is infuriating.
Will this guarantee that Ohio votes Republican in 2016?
not likely...
still too many of the dead vote to overcome the living.
As an Ohioan, I still consider it Mount McKinley.
If someone calls it by the other name, I’ll offer the gentle reminder “Don’t you mean Mount McKinley?”.
Per Wikipedia (yeah, I know...):
The Federal government officially adopted the name Mount McKinley in 1917 when Congress passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed into law "An Act to establish the Mount McKinley National Park in the territory of Alaska", which singled out the area in the Mount McKinley region...
Alaska can stop Obama is his tracks.
First of all, “national parks” are an unconstitutional federal land-grab from the states, regardless of how benign or benevolent such act may seem at the time. The only valid federal ownership of state land is described in Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution which says:
“[Congress shall have Power…] to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—”
National parks were not purchased upon consent by state legislatures for the use of “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings”, so national parks are unconstitutional federal acts. The states can make state parks according to the consent of the people and legislature of that state.
Secondly, because national parks constitute unconstitutional federal commandeering of state land, the state may reject and nullify such an act. Unconstitutional federal acts are by definition acts of tyranny - it’s just that some acts of federal tyranny begin with a happy face. Sates have the right and the duty to stand against such acts.
Here, Alaska can stop Obama in his tracks. First, Alaska can declare, on sound constitutional principle, that Denali was not purchased upon consent by the Alaskan state legislature for the use of “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings” and can therefore, take back this land. If Alaska actually paid money to the feds for this land originally (I doubt it) then Alaska can pay back the equivalent or reasonable amount now. Most likely, the feds didn’t pay for Denali in which case Alaska can simply assume control of the land upon notification to the feds (NOT permission from the feds).
Laying that groundwork would make the next step of throwing Obama’s act of renaming Mt. McKinley back in his face an easy one.
FR was down for awhile so I came 3,459,215th with this. :)
Ohio Ping
That mountain was called Denali long before Obama came along.
If the people of Alaska changed the name to Denali, the people of Alaska want THAT name, then should not Ohio find their own mountain? (or build one?)
You’ve nailed it.
Apparently everyone local calls it Denali.
Coincidence?
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Constitutional overreach? So what? What are they gonna do about it? Nothing! That’s what they’re gonna do about it.
N.O.T.H.I.N.G.
They couldn’t find their balls with both hands.
Not the point.
Only if all the rock from Mount McKinley (aka "Denali") can be placed over a suitable location in Ohio. Alaska can keep the park ;)
that’s because they have none
We grow ‘em on trees here in Texas. They prolly still couldn’t find ‘em.
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