Ohio needs to invade Alaska...
And yet most people are in complete denial about this. Denial. Denali. Coincidence?
And yet most people are in complete denial about this. Denial. Denali. Coincidence?
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Obama administration to rename Mt. McKinley as "Denali"
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They could just ride their butter sculptures to Alaska, but I fear they would deep-fry and eat them long before they even got to the Canadian border.
Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) is peeved, of course.
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 34m34 minutes ago
I'm disappointed with the Administration's decision to change the name of Mt. McKinley in Alaska (1/5)
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 33m33 minutes ago
Pres McKinley was a proud Ohioan, and the mountain was named after him, as a way to remember his rich legacy after his assassination (2/5)
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 33m33 minutes ago
The naming of the mountain has been a topic of discussion in Congress for many years (3/5)
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 33m33 minutes ago
This decision by the Administration is yet another example of the President going around Congress (4/5)
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 32m
I urge Admin 2 work w/ me 2 find alternative ways 2 preserve McKinley's legacy somewhere else in the natl park that once bore his name (5/5)
If Ohio loves McKinley so much, name something in your own damn state after him.
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 34m34 minutes ago
I'm disappointed with the Administration's decision to change the name of Mt. McKinley in Alaska (1/5)
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 33m33 minutes ago
Pres McKinley was a proud Ohioan, and the mountain was named after him, as a way to remember his rich legacy after his assassination (2/5)
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 33m33 minutes ago
The naming of the mountain has been a topic of discussion in Congress for many years (3/5)
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 33m33 minutes ago
This decision by the Administration is yet another example of the President going around Congress (4/5)
Rob Portman ‏@senrobportman 32m
I urge Admin 2 work w/ me 2 find alternative ways 2 preserve McKinley's legacy somewhere else in the natl park that once bore his name (5/5)
If Ohio loves McKinley so much, name something in your own damn state after him.
Lord Morairty007
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Really the right call in all accounts. The name should be given back to the tribe who live there.
BigWeather
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If they want to do something, just rename the town he was born in. Niles, OH is not even it's original name. The OG name was much better, Heaton's Furnace.
Hey, it helps not knowing history when you want to say bullshit.
Man, what a downgrade.
DrForester
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You know it was a Republican Senator who's been pushing this change for a while, right?
Does that change his comment at all? No.
shoplifter
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As an Ohioan, fuck Rob Portman. Christ, Jim Jordan is like four years or so older than me and from the same county. I hate him too, and I couldn't stand him when he was in high school either.
IdreamofHIME
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Exactly, after all McKinley said with his dying breath that the mountain should be renamed to Denali, so Obama is only honoring his dying wish.
DragonSworne
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Hopefully Obama banishes Ohio from the union. It will be a glory day if it comes to past.
Do you know how many cities, rivers, lakes, mountains, and fields this would apply to?
I'd handle nativization case-by-case.
Just rename Campbell Hill McKinley Hill and be done with it.
NullPointer
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Of course he gives it a furriner name.
The Albatross
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Your friend is not smart
It's a little different because it's been called Denali for hundreds if not thousands of years. McKinley is a relatively new name.
Hellwarden
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We have to ask ourselves, where will his fascist in chief stop boys and girls?
What if he takes something named after other important presidents, and renames it something just to make the aboriginals happy?
Like Benjamin Harrison!
We must have named something after him somewhere. Probably.
What if he takes something named after other important presidents, and renames it something just to make the aboriginals happy?
Like Benjamin Harrison!
We must have named something after him somewhere. Probably.
Tallshortman
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People in one state getting upset over the name of a mountain in another state is just silly and dumb. Ohio can name something of theirs after him.
Don't see the problem at all. We really shouldn't name native lands after dudes that had no involvement with them, and I'm also generally against naming anything after presidents, period. A little bit too Dear Leader for me, and there's already plenty of other Dear Leader shit we've done with George Washington
Also, officially it was pretty much just Ohio lawmakers making it "officially" Mt McKinley. The locals all call it Denali. It's even commercially called Denali by things that reference it. The State of Alaska wants to call it Denali. They were being forced to officially mark it as Mt McKinley solely due to some rednecks in Ohio.
lastplayed
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Why not keep both names?
A lot of NZ's landmarks have Maori/English names, like Aoraki/Mount Cook. You can call it which ever you like, both are official.
A lot of NZ's landmarks have Maori/English names, like Aoraki/Mount Cook. You can call it which ever you like, both are official.
ScottSullivan
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Ohio be jelly because they ain't got not badass mountains
Lord Morairty007
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A lot. But come on the only link the Mountain with McKinley. Is that a gold prospector named a mountain of a political figure. This should have been decades ago.
SchrodingerC
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You'regoddamnright.gif
I'm going to miss his 'I don't give a fuck' attitude towards congress.
NihonTiger90
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As an Ohioan, fuck yeah, this is awesome news. McKinley never deserved the mountain name and Denali is what it should be.
Imagine what it took to climb that, especially in those days. Most people would probably need to take oxygen tanks with them (and likely do) at those staggering elevations.
That view from the summit, amazing, McKinley would be proud.
In fact, forget the mountain!
The Artisan
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lol
GhostWriter24
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Mt. Denali sounds way cooler than Mt. McKinley.
Also, I have and likely will not ever step foot in Alaska, so my opinion means fuckall =D
Also, I have and likely will not ever step foot in Alaska, so my opinion means fuckall =D
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
YES. Fuck you, Ohio!
Just shows you the amount of BS these guys spew...
It was named by a gold seller as a campaign ad before McKinerator was even president. It's an ugly reminder of white colonialist mentality. The Mt McKinley name was inappropriate then, and is inappropriate now. Inside the USA is pretty much just Ohio that cares. And they shouldn't be telling Alaska what to name their mountains.
civilstrife
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Honestly curious what Sarah Palin's response will be.
DrForester
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Honestly, until Today, I assumed Mt. McKinley was named after the first European to see and/or climb it. I figured it was a different McKinley than our President.
Wait.... Why did they create a whole article about a hill on Wikipedia and not show the actual hill? I mean... We have Mount Royal here in Montréal, it's only half the height of that hill and it stills appears way bigger than anything on that Wikipedia page...
eBay Huckster
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seems like there used to be a better image on there years ago right up until some "HURF DURF IS THIS REALLY FAIR USE" dispute happened
I don't know about other cities in Australia but the Adelaide City Council has a policy of dual-naming parks as part of their reconciliation efforts. The main square in the centre of town is officially "Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga" to the point where there next stop voiceover on the trams refers to it as such.
The only example of <Aboriginal name>/<English name> I can think of off the top of my head is Uluru. I'd like to see more.
Crimson-Death
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Thanks King Obama!
I wish He would rule us all for a thousand years.
I wish He would rule us all for a thousand years.
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