Nitpick: Denali National Park & Preserve combined the Mt. McKinley National Park and the Denali National Monument.
No, I just have some awareness of how many North American peaks and natural monuments have been given stupid, even offensive Anglicized names even after longstanding aboriginal and native names were known. There may not be much we can do to undo the damage done to Native Americans, but remembering and respecting the names they used when Columbus was still shitting in his didies would be a good start.
Unless, for every “Devil’s _______” around (meaning “Them savages think that’s a holy place, and they don’t even know Jesus!”) you’d like to add “Pederast” to the name of the nearest cathedral?
[relevant but distracting interjection]
I’m still not sure, like anyone I’ve asked, if that big tall building downtown is The World Trade Center or Freedom Tower or what.
The subway stop is World Trade Center.
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ETA: re-read thread. sealcleaner made similar relevant but distracting interjection, and just when ahead and did it.
Or, let the state of Ohio just outright buy that big mountain in Alaska, then name it what they want. They could even relocate it to Ohio if they want.
Yes, to Mt Tacoma or Tahoma. For inexplicable reasons, this idea is more popular in Tacoma than Seattle.
Move a mountain from Alaska to Ohio? That solution is both silly and cost-prohibitive.
*Tectonics *is the serious solution. Just crack the perimeter of Ohio down to the lower mantle, forming its own plate. Then have Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Lake Erie give Ohio a big squeeze, till it rises higher than Mt. Everest.
If there are remaining funds, they should drill a big hole down the middle and turn it into a volcano. Volcano McKinley—that’s got a nice ring to it. If my calculations are off and Ohio sinks instead of rises, they can call it Hellhole McKinley.
That’s ridiculously complicated. Just sell Ohio to Central America and plop it down on any volcano vent you like. Presto. Mount/Volcano McK, and we get rid of the biggest PITA state in politics (after maybe New Hampshuh.)
Not just “a” speedbump. The McKinley Speedbump.
I figure that if The Usual Suspects are going to piss and moan anyway, he might as well give them something to piss and moan about. “Alinksy National Airport” has a ring to it, dontcha think?
And from there, it’s a quick ride down the Jeremiah Wright Expressway to Ayers National Park.
Me either. There are something like 6 or 7 presidents from Ohio depending how you count them and none of them were spectacular President. Grant was a decent General but not much to speak of as President. McKinley, I’ve forgotten long ago that he was from Ohio.
Disagree about Grant. He is overshadowed, and justly, by Lincoln; he may have been too easygoing on subordinates, but the caricature of him as a disengaged drunk is just that. He believed strongly in the idea that blacks deserved the same rights as whites, and sent troops to the south to break the KKK. But there were limits to what he could do, the country wasn’t eager to re-open hostilities. And he was what passed for a liberal on Native American rights.
Not great, but unjustly maligned.
As for Denali, I thought it had been renamed years ago. I guess I was confused by the park renaming.
Or for a real “fuck you”, change the name of Mt. Denali/McKinley to Mt. Czolgosz.
First five words were enough. 
Saw a Facebook thing today with a photo of President McKinley, capioned: Hero to millions of Republicans, as of yesterday.