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September 1, 2015 bubbanomics Featured Posts, Just Grazin' 10

Barack Obama has decided, by the executive order, to rename Mt. McKinley, North America’s highest peak, Denali. That is the traditional name of the mountain, but it was changed back in 1917 or so to honor President McKinley.

The Alaska Delegation, including the Republicans, wanted it to go back to Denali. The Ohio delegation was blocking the legislation. President McKinley was from Ohio.

10 Comments

  1. @KailiJoy: First they came for the mountain, but I said nothing because it wasn’t my mountain and they didn’t really come for it and never mind.

  2. @Stonekettle: William McKinley wasn’t this popular with Republicans when he was ALIVE

    Now suddenly, he’s Lincoln and Reagan’s love child

  3. @Apinak: The GOP opposition to renaming Denali seems to be largely based on the fact that the Athabaskan name sounds too ‘foreign’.

    @billmon1: Yeah! Why don’t those damn Athabaskans go back to where they…wait.

    • He didn’t! A Republican gold miner named it after him when he heard about McKinley’s candidacy. He turned a native holy place into a political billboard!!

  6. There are seven other peaks in the Cascade range of WA, OR, & CA that were renamed for white guys. Most still are identified by their native names by the local people. : Rainier = Tahoma, Baker = Komo Kulshan, Crater lake used to be Mazama. I don’t recall the native names of the others but they include: Adams, Jefferson, St. Helens, & Hood, Also in BC (Canada) there is Garibaldi.

    Lots more fun to come now that the ball is rolling. And Sally Jewell is from Washington State. She will probably go for them now.

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