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I can’t believe all these dicks are so butthurt over a name change that the people of Alaska wanted.
Get the fuck over it.
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I’m furious that a mountain that everyone already calls Denali is no longer officially named after a President from my State that died 100 years ago and no one remembers!
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“There are a number of avenues, all of which can be pursued,”- they can put it in the constitutional amendment that overturns Obamacare, outlaws Social Security & Medicare and gets us out of the United Nations etc etc…
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Cant wait to see the press conference with all the furious McKinley family members…
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“The question is whether the president even has the authority to do this.”
If that’s the question, it’s already been answered. He does.
Dumbass.
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Is that the process where Alaskans disagree with naming it Mount McKinley and government says, “Screw you”?
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For most of us , another non issues to Kvetch about for the “outraged reps” in Ohio…why don’t you go do something constructive for your constituents and leave the hand wringing to the infinitesimal amount of people affected by this …I promise no people or animals were harmed in making this change.
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Hah! Now that’s funny. I am also amazed at all the Ohio Pubs crying in their beer over this seemingly minor issue. Yet since it came from our half-black President we should have expected it.
Odd too the initial reports noted that Alaska’s Republicans were pissed for DECADES at their Ohio brethren for blocking the name change and were happy with Obama’s action. Now, all we hear are… crickets. Boehner and his Ohio race-hustlers must have e-mailed all those Alaskan Pubs and told them to be silent. Can’t give any credit to Obama now, can we? Even when they agree with Denali. Amazing! +
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Must be difficult when someone in power–and of a different race, to boot–swoops in and arbitrarily changes a name you consider sacred and have been using for generations.
I’m crying a trail of tears for Rep. Turner.
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When his plane touches ground in Alaska and he holds the first photo op/press avail with the local political establishment… they will be all smiles. My bet is that Obama will crack a joke, and there will be laughter all around. And it WILL be a joke about Ohio.
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Ooooooooooh, FURIOSITY.
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He’s a bit late to this party.
He wasn’t furious for Morning Joe. He must have been too hungover to work up all that fury before 5PM.
Alaska only has one House member for Boner to bitch at. lol
Why should a mountain, in existence for billions of years before the U.S. was a country, be named after a president – any president? I can understand an airport terminal, a canal, a school, a federal building etc. created during a president’s administration, but a mountain? Weird…
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Here’s how grown-ups deal with name changes, unlike the kiddie-nursery that the Regressive Right has evolved back into!
Read the last paragraph to find out how grown-ups deal with such a earth-shattering event!
Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy to Cape Canaveral:
Name changes
A post office in the area was built and listed in the US Post Office application as Artesia and retained this name from 1893–1954;[24] and then went into service for Port Canaveral from 1954-1962; and lastly the City of Cape Canaveral from 1962 to 1963 when a larger post office was built.
From 1963 to 1973, the area had a different name when US President Lyndon Johnson by executive order renamed the area “Cape Kennedy” after President John F. Kennedy, who had set the goal of landing on the moon. After Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, suggested to President Johnson that renaming the Cape Canaveral facility would be an appropriate memorial. Johnson recommended the renaming of the entire cape, announced in a televised address six days after the assassination. Accordingly, Cape Canaveral was officially renamed Cape Kennedy.[23]
Although the name change was approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names of the Interior Department in December 1963,[25] it was not popular in Florida, especially in the bordering city of Cape Canaveral. In 1973, the Florida Legislature passed a law[26] restoring the former 400-year-old name, and the Board went along. The name restoration to Cape Canaveral became official on October 9, 1973.[27] The Kennedy family issued a letter stating they “understood the decision”. NASA’s Kennedy Space Center retains the “Kennedy” name
You can understand this reaction. After all, McKinley was one of our most eminent presidents. I’d say he’s in the top 44 or 45.
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Republicans love him because he transformed the United States into a global racist, imperialist, colonial power. After Bush’s successful judicial coup, his advisors told the media that they would model his administration after McKinley’s. People were confused by that at first, but it made sense by the end of the first term.
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A more fitting memorial to President Mc Kinley would be to rename the Ohio Western Reserve VA Cemetery after him. After all, Mc Kinley was the last President who served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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When I lived in Rep. Turner’s district, I heard rumors that he was a pedophile. Not exactly relevant to this story, and I don’t have any hard evidence, but I feel it is important to get the rumor out there. Most stories about Republicans with deviant sexual proclivities (real deviance or perceived deviance like homosexuality) are probably true, after all.
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