The First Gun Death in a National Park
It was inevitable. We all knew it would happen as soon as visitors were allowed to carry guns in National Parks. We now have the first resulting fatality. On May 28 the first shooting incident in a...
View ArticleRKBA: Thursday
RKBA is a DKos group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don't think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun. Some of us are extreme in our second...
View ArticleSun is Shining on the Slough in Alaska
The sun is shining brightly on my little hometown in Alaska. Literally. It's a stunning late summer/approaching autumn kind of day.The mother bears are out cavorting around--snagging salmon, chowing...
View Article"There's no easy way to say goodbye to a friend especially...
when they've supported you through your darkest times."Rest in Peace Denali. And thanks to Ben Moon for an amazing video.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
View ArticleDenali's the name.
As a former Alaskan, I get Alaska Dispatch News delivered to my email box daily. Sometimes I even read it. My sojourn in the state was long ago in what seems another lifetime so I often ignore it....
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POTUS, Jewell return Denali to its Rightful Name!
President Obama is heading to Alaska tomorrow for a three day working visit to address climate change and other significant issues.POTUS rocked it today by announcing that he is allowing Interior...
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Ohio Republicans extremely butt-hurt that Alaska's Mt. McKinley is getting...
Denali You might think that the biggest problem most Republicans have with President Obama going to Alaska to talk global warming would be the global warming part. You'd be wrong. The real problem is...
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Mt. McKinley is just the start. Let's re-name Donald Trump
President Obama has announced that after one hundred years being named for a guy who never went there, Mount McKinley will now be known as “Mount Denali.” Predictable tremors are felt in the hearts of...
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How one Ohio Republican kept Alaskans from correcting Denali's name for decades
Denali The invidious pet project of one former Ohio congressman has finally reached an end: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, with the support of President Obama, has directed the United States Board on...
View ArticleThe McKinley River
Ohioans are all out of shape over the renaming (back to its REAL name) of Denali in Alaska. Keep in mind, these are the same idiots who keep electing John Boner (sic). If they are so in love with...
View ArticleMount McKinley
I have a modest proposal for those concerned that the legacy of Mr. William McKinley needs a namesake mountain. I hereby propose that Campbell Hill, highest point in the fair state of Ohio, be renamed...
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Donald Trump panders to butthurt Ohioans, promises to reverse mountain renaming
Donald Trump, of course, has a position on the one issue that has overshadowed President Obama's trip to the the Glacier Summit in Anchorage to talk global warming. And that position is, of course, in...
View ArticleLet's all insult Ohio!
Upon hearing this morning that the renaming of a mountain in Alaska is an insult to Ohio, being a loyal Democrat, I decided I must support and emulate the leader of our party and nation. So,...
View ArticleAre Palin And Trump On A Collision Course Over Denali
Palin is a fan of Denali, the mountain that non-Alaskans used to refer to as Mt. McKinley. She even referred to the mountain as "Denali" in her farewell address after quitting the Governor job,And...
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"Denali" Is the Kenyan Word for "Black Power"
So - This is a new meme in some conservative circles today:Except, of course it's not - there is no such language as "Kenyan", and in Swahili (one of Kenya's official languages), "black power"...
View ArticleA State Senator from Connecticut
Just really briefly, this whole thing with changing the white guys' name of Mount McKinley back to the Athabaskan (or Den'ai peoples of Alaska) name of Denali is ridiculous for many reasons. I know how...
View ArticleThere is no federal law naming "Mt McKinley"
Here is the text of the Mt McKinley act of 1917. It names a park. Not a Mountain.http://memory.loc.gov/...
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Republican hopeful John Kasich says he, too, will re-rename that mountain
Oh right, he's running too.Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of the current Republican go-to names among party leaders who correctly worry that all of the presidential candidates preferred by actual...
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Mt. Mckinley and American imperialism
Leave it to President Obama to go ahead and spit on America’s imperialist legacy. Earlier this week, after the news broke that the Obama administration would be changing the official name of America’s...
View ArticleOriginal Place Names: Minnesota Version
The city of Minneapols, Minnesota, bears the sobriquet "City of Lakes" for a good reason. Being the largest city in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, it has twenty-two lakes within its borders. One of them,...
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