Posted on 02/04/2018 7:39:31 AM PST by SMGFan
GOP lawmakers from Ohio are pressing President Trump to uphold a promise to reverse former President Obama's decision and rename the Alaskan mountain Denali to its old name, Mt. McKinley.
In a letter to Trump, the 11 lawmakers say it was "disrespectful" for Obama to change the name of the mountain, which had been named after William McKinley, a former president from Ohio. The mountain was named after the 25th president in 1896.
"President William McKinley's legacy should not be compromised by a political stunt," the letter signed by Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) and other lawmakers stated.
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Yep, Denali is just fine. There are far more battles out there worth fighting.
Sarah Palin is ok with “Denali”, that’s good enough for me.
I'm at the point where my attitude is "screw the indigs and all other Democrat voters".
It can.
In fact, Denali has quite a few variant names:
https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:0::NO::P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1414314,Denali
Ohioans should mind their own business and leave the mountain’s name to Alaskans.
Ford was a naval officer and actually served on a carrier in a time of war.
What a crock of sh*t. No one knows what it was called 500 years ago, let alone 10,000 years ago.”
Yep, and they are no more native than Americans born there just because they crossed from the west when Alaska was attached to what is now part of Russia. Arriving first does not make anyone a native.
Thanks so much for such vivid thoughts
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