The order was signed Friday, but the White House asked that it be announced Monday as part of Obama's trip to Alaska to highlight the effects of climate change in the Arctic. The White House said the name change "recognizes the sacred status of Denali to generations of Alaska Natives."
1. Out: Mount McKinley; in: Mount Denali
2. Out: Animas River; in: Obama River pic.twitter.com/BxWZHSke92
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 31, 2015
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To be perfectly clear, it's "Denali" not "Mount Denali." Just like Cher and Madonna and Hillary!
Or if you prefer, the mountain formerly known as McKinley, like Prince.
why am I hungry for squash soup?
Using the latin alphabet to denote a native word?!?
Denali. It's not just a mountain in Alaska. It's a symbol of raaaacism.
Amartel said...
It's a symbol of raaaacism.
Cause it's white!!!
The order was signed Friday, but the White House asked that it be announced Monday as part of Obama's trip to Alaska to highlight the effects of climate change in the Arctic. The White House said the name change "recognizes the sacred status of Denali to generations of Alaska Natives."
It always was, of course, the names interchangeable. Not a big deal to revert to original name. It will be interesting hearing Obama discuss Earth's many ice ages while there talking about climate change, and even more numerous mini ice ages and all of their interglacial periods coming and going, warming and cooling, into and out of oppressively cold periods of overwhelming walls of mile-high packed ice. I cannot wait to hear him rattle off all their names as he recounts them in series given his vast climate-related knowledge, "The ice sheets up again, the land bridge between Asia And America open again and for this brief period of extreme cold humans traveled across from one continent to another until the land bridge closed again." It's always great hearing his scientific and non-ideologic policy positions.
The White House said the name change "recognizes the sacred status..."
I thought "the sacred" was none of government's business?
It means The High One.
Just call it Mount Choom.
Maybe it's a west coast thang but I've always known it alternatively as Denali and/or McKinley, depending on the audience. No big deal. King Cheese of Shit Mountain is always audaciously trolling for controversy where none exists. Apparently, the only people who are really pissed off about this are in Ohio. Of course there's the matter of the constant overstepping of the constitutional bounds but this instance is pretty minor by comparison to other more vile examples of that.
I hope that when Trump is president he'll rename Nob Hill in San Fran, as Shit and Piss Hill.
You know, if cities, counties, and states want to go back to the original names of their streets, avenues, and thoroughfares back to Comanche St., Indian Ave, and whatever the original name was, and replace all the Martin Luther King stuff that replaced the original name, I'm all ok with that.
We should just rename this country to The United States of Aboriginality.
AllenS: Wouldn't the naming have to be coordinated by committees of Natives so they could assess the sacred nature of the streets and assign proper names in line with their spiritual findings? Otherwise you're gonna get small sleepy burgs naming their main street War Eagle Drive or something.
Or as lysdecix Omaba might say "Denali ain't just a virer in Acrifa."
Whatever the original street name was. I was being politically incorrect to make my point.
Boehner is really coming off as an idiot on this. I hate PC and despise what Obama has done to this country via Executive Orders. But, I've spent some time in Alaska. We had good FBI friends who lived there. They would make most folks here look liberal. But, they call it Denali. It's been a long time coming.
Nick, isn't the area called Denali State Park or something similar?
Dad Bones said...
AllenS: Wouldn't the naming have to be coordinated by committees of Natives so they could assess the sacred nature of the streets and assign proper names in line with their spiritual findings? Otherwise you're gonna get small sleepy burgs naming their main street War Eagle Drive or something.
Who cares? Wherever an indian shits, it's considered sacred land at this point.
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