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king about in alleys sunday salon about me monthly archives august 2015 right in the neck posted on august 31 2015 by greg 61 the athabaskan people who lived near the mountain called it denali which meant the high one it s a pretty name for a mountain i like it another local tribe the dina ena called it doleika which meant big mountain which is less poetic but still pretty accurate it really is a big mountain the russians moved into the neighborhood in 1783 they called the mountain bolshaya gora which also means big mountain they didn t really change the name they just said it in russian which is appropriate but the russians left in 1867 and i suspect folks in the area just continued to refer to it the big mountain in whatever language they happened to have handy at the moment because it really is a big mountain then in the late 1880s the white folks in the region decided to call it densmore s peak after frank densmore a gold prospector who was apparently inordinately fond of the mountain i don t have any solid evidence to base this on but i m going to guess the natives continued to call it denali or doleika regardless of what the white folks did because what did the white folks know about it fuck them in the neck then politics happened a guy named william dickey who d been prospecting for gold in the susitna river returned to the lower forty eight and wrote an article about alaska for the new york sun newspaper this was january of 1897 shortly after republican william mckinley had been elected president of these united states mckinley you see was a proponent of the gold standard on which to base u s currency and dickey was a republican who d been a gold prospector mckinley s democratic opponent in the election william jennings bryan was in favor of a silver standard rather than a gold standard dickey had met a lot of silver prospectors while in alaska and they all favored the democrat this is all important information because in his article dickey made this rather suspect claim we named our great peak mount mckinley after william mckinley of ohio who had been nominated for the presidency whether that was true or not it struck a chord for republicans in congress and twenty years later they made the name official mount mckinley they also named the area around the mountain mckinley national park basically it was republicans saying fuck you in the neck to democrats and to all the native folks in alaska it seems nobody in alaska liked the name and most folks just continued to call the mountain denali who cared what the people south of canada called it in the 1970s alaska made the practical decision to officially change the name back to the original denali they petitioned the u s board on geographic names yes there s actually a government agency that oversees geographic names to do the same and hey the board seemed open to the idea then politics happened again the republican congressman who represented the ohio district when william mckinley spent most of his life a complete jackass named ralph regula intervened and basically stopped the process basically he was saying fuck you in the neck to the people of alaska the people of alaska sort of shrugged off the whole fuss and in 1975 the alaska board of geographic names yes the state has its own government agency to oversee its geographic names went ahead and changed the name anyway in 1980 president jimmy carter decided to change the name of the park from mckinley national park to denali national park and preserve basically he was saying fuck you in the neck back to congressman regula but while the president was authorized to change the name of the park regula could still prevent him from changing the name of the actual mountain which officially remained mount mckinley basically regula was telling the president re fuck you in the neck and that s how things stayed until regula retired at that point alaska again petitioned the board on geographic names to change the damn name then politics happened yet again two members of congress from ohio both democrats decided to carry on regula s profoundly stupid fight to retain the name of mount mckinley basically it looked like ohio saying fuck you in the neck to alaska but the people of ohio spoke out and told their members of congress to grow the fuck up and stop interfering with alaskan politics and they did so today president obama is officially authorizing the board on geographic names to recognize what alaskans have always recognized that the mountain deserves to be called denali because it really is a big high mountain and hey guess what politics are happening republicans and particularly those from ohio are rebuking the president s decision speaker of the house john boehner stated he was deeply disappointed in this decision senator rob portman decried the decision as yet another example of the president going around congress and of course the proud patriots of freerepublic are voicing their considered opinions on the issue why not call it glorious jihad if hussein cared about what the people of alaska thought he would ask valerie for permission to open up the northern slope for drilling alaskans want that too obonzo didn t do jack he s going up there to fundraise and kiss some minority for his rat comrades up there everyone in alaska already refers to the mountain as denali the bastard kenyan didn t need to do anything this is just another one of his historical in yo face whitey moments mount barack in honor of bareback mountain stupid bammy has to interject himself into normal people s lives like the narcissist he is this is the work of a tyrant i m surprised it s not going to be kilimanjaro to make zero feel more at home islam could easily be involved pakistan is close jihadis are everywhere to be fair not everybody on freerepublic is a lunatic many of them have pointed out the fact that most alaskans want the mountain to be called denali they don t necessarily object to renaming the mountain they just object to president obama renaming the mountain basically the people of freerepublic are saying fuck you in the neck to the president but hey it s a done deal now and it ll be obama s smiling face we ll see standing in front of denali on the national news tonight and guess what he s basically symbolically saying to the folks of freerepublic right in the neck posted in current events general asshattery historical crap you learn something new 61 replies it seems some mass shootings aren t mass enough posted on august 27 2015 by greg 9 sometimes i find myself sitting around and thinking you know this situation is pretty fucked up i was thinking that after yesterday s mass shooting which by the most commonly used definition of the term wasn t actually a mass shooting a culture is pretty fucked up when there has to be a debate over how to define mass shooting here s the most commonly used definition shootings at a public place in which the shooter murdered four or more people excluding domestic gang and drug violence in a single episode there are at least three problems with this definition here s the first and most obvious problem murdered this definition only counts bodies you go to your neighborhood cineplex and wound half a dozen people but only kill a couple of them it s not going to count as a mass shooting that s pretty much fucked up right there not a mass shooter second problem excluding domestic gang and drug violence i can sort of understand why researchers would choose to exclude gang and drug violence that sort of violence is incidental to other behaviors the violence is a consequence of gang drug activity you get involved in gangs or the drug trade you re voluntarily assuming a certain amount of risk it s like base jumping in that sense so if you kill a half dozen folks when your drug deal goes bad it s not going to count as a mass shooting that s fucked up but domestic violence why exclude that it s the most common sort of violence faced by the public in fact if you include domestic violence the number of mass shootings skyrockets even if you restrict the definition of mass shooting to those that produce multiple corpses the research is limited but it all suggests that the vast majority of mass shootings take place in a domestic situation a house or an apartment what we re talking about here is male violence against women almost all mass shooters are men and the most common type of mass shooting is a man shooting members of his family or his ex s family or his girlfriend s family or the family of a woman who rejected him most of those victims are women and kids you get pissed off and kill a bunch of folks you claim to love folks who aren t strangers it doesn t count as a mass shooting maybe they ll count it if you do it in at the local mcdonald s maybe but otherwise it s just another domestic murder you know what that is it s fucked up is what it is and here s the third problem with that definition in which the shooter murdered the shooter isn t included in the butcher s bill now i understand the emotion behind excluding the shooter the sumbitch doing the shooting doesn t deserve to be considered a victim but it s still part of the episode he s still dead or wounded and let s be honest that s often just as intentional as the shooting of the other folks you shuffle over to the local mall and open fire kill three people wound half a dozen more then eat your glock it s not going to count as a mass shooting that is totally fucked up not mass shooting victims the shooting yesterday not a mass shooting not the one in brooklyn center minnesota in which four people were wounded not the one in chicago where only one of the four people who were shot actually died not the one in west palm beach in which two were wounded and two were killed and not the one in virginia the one that was televised the one that left three people dead yes i m including the shooter and one wounded that s six dead and ten wounded yesterday and not one of them is considered a mass shooting fucked up is what it is we re talking 33 shooting incidents in august so far with 40 dead and 124 wounded and not one of them is considered a mass shooting that s fucked up on so many levels what if we broaden the definition of mass shooting shootings in which four or more people are killed or wounded in a single episode makes sense doesn t it there s actually a crowd sourced mass shooting tracker that uses that definition by that definition there have been 248 mass shootings so far in 2015 that s as of fifteen hours ago there ll be more today you can count on it and the fact that you can count on another mass shooting today one that will go uncounted because not enough people died or because the wrong people died or because the dead weren t littering a public place that s fucked up beyond all recognition and here s another thing that s fucked up the guy who shot the reporter and cameraman in virginia recorded the non mass shooting on his phone and posted it to facebook and twitter that s fucked up in ways beyond the obvious what sort of twisted individual would put that shit on social media way it s fucked up because research shows that mass shootings that get publicized tend to be contagious they spark more mass shootings often with the same weapons used in the initial mass shooting people who for one reason or another are fucked up in some way often model their behavior on the behavior of other folks some highly publicized behaviors like teen suicides or hate crimes establish what social psychologists call a path of action a complete narrative in which the person can visualize their steps and their effects and that path of action helps them follow through on the act whether it s suicide bashing trans folks or shooting a whole bunch of people so it s fairly safe to assume we ll see more homemade first person shooter videos this may become a trend which brings me back to my original thought this situation is pretty fucked up update as of january 2016 the mass shooting tracker mentioned above revised its definition of a mass shooting to exclude the shooter the new definition is four or more shot and or killed in a single event incident at the same general time and location not including the shooter my initial response is that excluding the shooter from the body count seems unnecessarily judgmental as if including the shooter would suggest sympathy for him on further reflection though the definition includes the wounded as well as the dead and it makes sense to exclude the shooter if he was wounded by law enforcement in their efforts to stop the shooting posted in another mass shooting current events guns tagged wprightnow 9 replies boom and they re gone posted on august 20 2015 by greg reply this fuckwit is campaigning to be the republican nominee for president of these united states and they re taking him seriously what s wrong with these people we have excellent military leaders we need to employ their expertise because this is a war we are fighting that s the bottom line that s dr ben carson and that war we re fighting he s talking and i swear i am not making this up he s talking about the border between these united states and mexico and he said that in response to a question about whether the us should consider drone strikes on american soil to secure the border dr ben carson doesn t really look crazy but apparently is drone strikes drone strikes you know like we ve been doing in yemen and somalia and pakistan this fucking lunatic thinks drone strikes are worth considering to prevent folks from illegally crossing the border to pick the watermelons you ll be eating at your next picnic oh and did i mention that carson as i write this is in second place among the candidates for the republican nomination for president he is second and what makes this even crazier is he s running second behind donald trump whose border policy i believe is to build a giant wall o trump it ll be yoooge classy and he ll hire frat boys to stand guard on top of it and if they see a brown person approach from the south they ll shit in their own hand and fling it at the poor bastard drone strikes you know because this is a war we re fighting if we have to ram a missile up some brown person s ass well you can t make an omelet and all that you look at some of these caves and things out there one drone strike boom and they re gone boom just like in the road runner cartoons of course it costs between us 2 500 and 3 500 per flight hour to run surveillance drones you want a strike drone one that can fire missiles say a predator or a reaper the costs go up dramatically it takes a team of about 180 people to operate and maintain each of those sumbitches also each hellfire missile costs around 60 000 and you can only use them once you know watermelon terrorists for the love of jeebus won t somebody do something it ll add up pretty quick drone strikes against illegal immigrants but hey war right...