Agency rejects bid to change name of Mount Diablo (to Mount Reagan)

[Newsjock]

Source: Contra Costa Times

A petition to change the name of Mount Diablo to Mount Reagan or Mount John Muir got a thumbs down last week from the federal agency in charge of landmark names.

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names unanimously rejected the name-change petition from Antioch resident Art Mijares.

The board cited little or no local support and a rejection of the proposal by Contra Costa County supervisors, the state Geographic Names Advisory Committee and California State Parks officials.


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[pnwmom]

1. How about Mount Clinton?

:shrug:

I mean, if we're changing names to popular Presidents.

[saigon68]

18. How about "Mount up on----Insert Noun"

[alfredo]

19. Someone has already mounted him, and it got him in a fix.

[KansDem]

2. Oh, I don't know. Aren't "Diablo" and "Reagan" synonymous?

When I hear one I think the other...so to speak.

[valerief]

12. LOL!

:rofl:

[awoke_in_2003]

17. I thought it rather fitting. nt

[vduhr]

20. No...

Reagan was much worse.

But seriously, I lived in Contra Costa County for many years, and I now live in Albuquerque, NM. Both have a landmark mountain - something you recognize immediately, whether it appears in a movie or snap shot, or you're returning home from a long trip - it's a homey familiar sight. Naming it after Reagan, to me, is insulting. I can't even believe it was considered. Everyone I know who are still living in that area were completely against it.

[alfredo]

23. No, Mount Reagan is a job for a taxidermist.

[KansDem]

32. LOL!!!

But who would want him on the wall of their den?

[alfredo]

33. Bill O'Reilly

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Would be kind of a lateral move, wouldn't it?

[stopbush]

4. Isn't this story at least two years old?

[ck4829]

6. It's supposed to be

But no, they're at it again.

[ck4829]

5. It's not much of a name change, now is it?

[Fearless]

7. I've got a mountain to name after Reagan... it's called the national debt. n/t

[vduhr]

24. That would be more like a sink hole.....

[whistler162]

8. What is wrong with changing the name to Mt. Reagan????

Ron Reagan jr. seems like a nice guy so whynot name a mountain after him.

[stopbush]

9. The truth is that Pres Reagan isn't liked so much in CA

where everybody remembers what a disaster Gov Reagan was for the state.

You'd have an easier time naming a mountain in Idaho or Colorado after the Gipper than you ever will in CA.

[RaleighNCDUer]

31. There's plenty of un-named mountains left in Alaska. nt

[alfredo]

21. Naming it Mt Reagan is not really changing the name.

[33Greeper]

10. I would have preferred the name

Mount Often

[tomm2thumbs]

11. GOP'ers try anything to keep their Ronny shiny and new

uh, he's gone folks - and he wouldn't be allowed in today's GOP anyway - a former Democrat? heavens no

[LuckyLib]

16. Nancy's full time job for years has been to promote a Ronnie name on buildings,

landmarks, an airport, etc. It's disgusting. Rewriting history and make us live with the consequences. I still call the DC airport "National".

[Gormy Cuss]

13. It's the annual attempt by Mr. Mijares to rid the county of the name of the Devil.

I guess he doesn't have any other hobbies.
Poor man sees the devil mountain from every part of his town.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. It's the annual attempt by Mr. Mijares to rid the county of the name of the Devil.

DUPE! IT'S TEH DEVIL'S HANDIWORK!!!!!!!!!!

[bongbong]

15. Very approriate

It was appropriate to rename Diablo to Raygun; he has the greatest claim to being the anti-christ that all the teabaggers wail about.

In addition to the well-worn chestnut that his name, or his "mark", is 666 (Ronald Wilson Raygun), he also lived at 666 St Cloud in Bel Air (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia). And don't forget that he got policy advice from Nancy's astrologer Joan Quigley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley)

Not that astrology is per-se proof of "satanic" connections, rather, it is hokum. But teabaggers consider it pretty nasty.

IOW, by the teabagger's own standards raygun was the anti-christ. Ironically, Liberals don't harbor such delusions. Just put this in the gigantic fun list of "Teabagger Unintentional Irony", as item #4,775.

[urgk]

22. I call for compromise - Mt. Reagen es el Diablo.

Done and Done.

[jdadd]

28. Tomato Tomäto

[PfcHammer]

25. No difference anyhow. Prolly should call it Ketchup Hill or Catsup

Peak. Lol. :rofl:

[Liberal Veteran]

26. They should have said "The astrological chart indicated this would be bad"

[jmowreader]

27. There USED to be a mountain in Idaho that woulda been perfect to name for him...

The problem is, it's in the process of being removed.

Kellogg, Idaho, used to be the home of the Bunker Hill Smelter, which converted the galena dug in the Silver Valley into lead, silver and sulfur--the valuable products it contains. Once they remove the salable elements, they're left with a black slag. This slag was piled along the edge of the smelter property. In the wintertime, the state would go there and load slag into their trucks to sand roads with--it is very abrasive and is extremely good for making slick roads non-slick.

My thinking is, because this slag is about 50 percent toxic heavy metals and it's poisoned all of North Idaho by being scattered on the roadways, there's no better monument to the Gipper than to name this huge Superfund mound after dear ol' Ronnie.

[Javaman]

29. Mount Diablo or Mount Reagan?

kinda of the same in my book.

:evilgrin:

[RaleighNCDUer]

30. I'm willing to compromise -

Mount Diablo Reagan.