Mt McKinley to be renamed to Mt Denali... executive order by Obama

[Perianne]

I would be all for him renaming it Mount Perianne! I would love to have a mountain named after me.

[Bilgerat]

Apparently, some fanboy named it McKinley, instead Denali, which it's been named for a millenia before that.

88 years years ago

Yeah, that's about right.

I mean, look at the Boulder (oops, Hoover) dam.

But no worries, I'm certain it'll be changed again

[Bilgerat]

I would be all for him renaming it Mount Perianne! I would love to have a mountain named after me.

Perhaps you might consider Mountain?

The shortened version of that word has other possibilities (lol)

[Perianne]

Perhaps you might consider Mountain?

The shortened version of that word has other possibilities (lol)

D'oh! You are right! lol

[Gunny]

Apparently, Obama is renaming Mt McKinley to Denali before he travels to Alaska.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/us...nali.html?_r=0

NT, I'd be interested to know your opinion...

You got to be shitting me. WHo the fuck does this asshole think he is?

Denali is sanskrit, not Native American. It's Indian -- like from India Indians. It's a noun in its own right that means something --

He needs to be removed from office before he screws up as much crap as he can which is all he's trying to do at this point.

[Bilgerat]

When the Russki's owned the place, they called it Bolshaya Gora.

It was briefly called Densmore's Mountain in the late 1880s and early 1890s The Koyukon Athabaskan

people who inhabit the area around the mountain refer to the peak as Dinale or Denali. ​

Other tribes call it the following

Language	Indigenous Name for Denali
Dena'ina	Dghelay Ka'a
Ahtna	Dghelaay Ce'e
Lower Tanana	Dinadhit
Koyukon	Deenaalee
Upper Kuskokwim	Denaze
Holikachuk	Denadhe
Deg Xinag	Dengadhiy

[Gunny]

When the Russki's owned the place, they called it Bolshaya Gora.

It was briefly called Densmore's Mountain in the late 1880s and early 1890s The Koyukon Athabaskan

people who inhabit the area around the mountain refer to the peak as Dinale or Denali. ​

Other tribes call it the following

Language	Indigenous Name for Denali
Dena'ina	Dghelay Ka'a
Ahtna	Dghelaay Ce'e
Lower Tanana	Dinadhit
Koyukon	Deenaalee
Upper Kuskokwim	Denaze
Holikachuk	Denadhe
Deg Xinag	Dengadhiy

I'm sick of this renaming crap. I'm Southern and I fly a f-ing Confederate battle flag. Changing the Jefferson Jackson dinner's name is stupid. People owned slaves back then. Get over it. Or should we change all the names of the planets in our solar system because the Romans owned Christians as slaves? Oh that's right ... we don't count.

What the f-k possibly could McKinley have done to offend Obama? Get assassinated? Hell, I bet he did that on purpose.

[Bilgerat]

[Gunny]

Yeah. You know Marines fly that 53, right? Sorry dude. National emergency. CYA.

[jimnyc]

Perhaps you might consider Mountain?

The shortened version of that word has other possibilities (lol)

D'oh! You are right! lol

I sat for a minute thinking of how to respond to this. Without getting into further trouble, I will just move along now! I kid, I kid.

[Gunny]

I sat for a minute thinking of how to respond to this. Without getting into further trouble, I will just move along now! I kid, I kid.

You too, huh? I had to do a lot of backspacing.

[NightTrain]

You got to be shitting me. WHo the fuck does this asshole think he is?

Denali is sanskrit, not Native American. It's Indian -- like from India Indians. It's a noun in its own right that means something --

He needs to be removed from office before he screws up as much crap as he can which is all he's trying to do at this point.

No, it's Athabascan, Gunny. Sharon is half Athabascan / half Polish.

It means "The high one" in that language, which is pretty apt.

[jimnyc]

You too, huh? I had to do a lot of backspacing.

Yeah, I typed a few things, and pictured myself getting slapped in the face, and backspaced myself.

Wait till Jeff gets here, let him get slapped.

[Gunny]

No, it's Athabascan, Gunny. Sharon is half Athabascan / half Polish.

It means "The high one" in that language, which is pretty apt.

SOunds like a Louis L'Amour book to me. Or wait, he wrote Sitka. Alistair McCLean wrote Athabasca.

[Olivia]

I lived in Alaska. Alaskans have always called it Denali! Obama is a day late and a dollar short.