ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY MY ONLY POST ABOUT DENALI

1. No it’s not a Kenyan word. Kenyan is not a language. Yr thinking of Swahili. And it’s a not a Swahili word either.

2. The mountain was named after William McKinley in 1896 by a gold prospector who supported McKinley’s presidential campaign. It didn’t become official until 1917 – 16 years after McKinley was assassinated.

3. The locals still called it Denali, and in 1975, the Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed the name of the mountain back to Denali. The same year, the Alaska state legislature asked the United States Board on Geographic Names to do the same at the federal level, but the request was blocked by Ohio congressman Ralph Regula, whose district included McKinley's hometown of Canton.

4. No one cares about this except McKinley’s relatives, politicians from Ohio and Republicans who will take anything Obama does and turn it into additional proof that he’s an evil Socialist Kenyan imam dictator who hates America. (See also: latte salute, teleprompters, terrorist fist jabs, spicy mustard, etc ad nauseum)

5. President McKinley was on the $500 bill until the Treasury stopped printing them in 1945 and discontinued the bill entirely in 1969. Which is also Obama’s fault.



Queen of Denali,

This is dF