I know, I know: I’m supposed to be outraged that Barack Obama is unilaterally changing the name of our tallest mountain from Mt. McKinley back* to Denali. But I can’t. I well and truly can’t.
Electile dysfunction is no joke.
Moe Lane
*I presume. For all we know the actual name was something like That Big-Ass Mountain Over There. Heck, apparently Alaskans themselves want the new name.
Did McKinley do something noteworthy to deserve to have the highest peak in North America named after him?
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From (shockingly enough) Wikipedia: “In 2015, following the lead of the state of Alaska, the United States government announced the mountain would be renamed from Mount McKinley, for former President William McKinley of Ohio, to its original Athabascan name of Denali. In other words, it’s another way that the current administration is wasting everyone’s time.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali
Unsurprisingly, gone now.
Why didn’t I think to take a screen shot? :d
No, not surprising. I had hoped someoneelse would see it, bu I knew it wouldn’t last long.
Wikipedia keeps a record of its edits.
Yep. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Denali&oldid=678675092 (which lasted less than 2 minutes).
Piss off Wikipedia .. insert it into the GMC Yukon Denali page.
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Mew
I suggest that we encourage the current administration to spend the rest of the time between now and January 2017 doing nothing but renaming mountains.
Short version, yes. He defeated a violent, widespread communist insurgency in the western states.
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It was a very big deal.
And now, all but forgotten. The history of the Wobblies has been thoroughly whitewashed.
… Wobblies .. aren’t they the ones who have been reduced to giant paper-mache heads?
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Mew
McKinley was a Republican, and this is just Obama trolling Republicans, or at least trying to.
Note that a woman is being put on the 10 instead of the 20. Hamilton being an intellectual founder of what would eventually become America’s conservatism.
OTOH, if we could get the government to spend more time on meaningless stuff, they would have less time to mess with us.
BTW, this isn’t original. Clinton unilaterally changed all place names on public lands that his advisors deemed “problematic”, and they painted with an extremely large brush. There was a several year space where it was ridiculously hard to give out receive directions, because the names on maps had no correlation to what things were named, or the history of the area.
Fortunately, Bush and USGS quietly rolled back most of the changes. I can now talk about things like Warbonnet Peak http://www.summitpost.org/warbonnet-from-baron/294857 and actively have it be useful.
…Why do you think I was talking about “electile dysfunction?” 🙂
Because Obama can’t get it up.
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Clinton’s was definitely during his first term. Might have been after the election of ’94, though. Tried to verify, but either my google-fu has gotten weak, or the whole sorry episode has been memory holed.
Obama no longer needs to sustain an election, though .. and rumors to the contrary, he never had any skill at helping others do so.
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Mew
You were implying that in doing this Obama is admitting – and loudly – that he is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
“Look at me! I’m still relevant! I can do things! Like…rename mountains! Yes, I can rename mountains! Pay attention to me!”
Narcissistic tendencies.
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He is going to have a *serious struggle*, once his time at 1600 ends.
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Mew
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p.s. No, I don’t feel particularly bad for *him* .. but you know it’s gonna be tough on the kids.