Voters to decide: Bush memorial sewage plant?

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco voters will be asked to decide whether to name a city sewage plant in honor of President Bush, after a satiric measure qualified for the November ballot today.

Backers of the measure, who for several months circulated a petition to place the measure on the ballot, turned in more than 12,000 signatures on July 7, said organizer Brian McConnell. The Department of Elections today informed those supporters, the self-proclaimed Presidential Memorial Commission, that they had enough valid signatures - a minimum of 7,168 registered San Francisco voters - to qualify for the November ballot, he said.

... The measure, if passed by a majority of voters, would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. McConnell said the intent is to remember the Bush administration and what the group sees as the president's mistakes, including the war in Iraq.

Some people aren't laughing, including the San Francisco Republican Party, which sees the measure as an embarrassment, even to this famously-liberal city. Chairman Howard Epstein has vowed to fight the measure with all means available to him.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/0...

[davidinalameda]

1. I wish I lived in SF so I could vote for this

[HopeFor2006]

23. Or better yet...

A GWB sewage plant in every city!

[davidinalameda]

28. I live in Alameda

it's still the Bay Area but there are more than a few repugs there

doubt this would go over very well there

there used to be a Navy base there and there's still a Coast Guard base

[tekisui]

2. I have faith in the voters of SF,

name it after the war criminal!

[TomInTib]

12. If it makes it onto the ballot, it will pass.

People here are all gassed about it.

It will pass.

[hisownpetard]

24. Sometimes I just love California.

[YvonneCa]

29. Me too...

...

[TomInTib]

38. And sometimes...

California loves you back.

[undeterred]

3. It is an entirely fitting way to remember his administration.

[Maggie_May]

4. LMAO

Really thats how much I was laughing!!!

[Happyhippychick]

5. What an incredibly childish ballot initiative.

I wish like hell I could vote for it!

[AnneD]

7. Maybe we could....

And when they go to investigate 'irregularities' in voting-will MSM name it 'pottygate'. Of course we would have to hire our own plumbers........

[Happyhippychick]

10. If we support this measure, I we considered "party poopers"?

[AnneD]

21. GOP....

grand ol poopers.

[AnneD]

6. After all the crap the middle class has been dealt from this admin....

it is the least we can do for him. A fitting tribute indeed. High time some of these pompous politicians be taken down a peg or two. George Washington he ain't.

[Eugenian]

8. Say what?

The "San Francisco Republican Party?" Now that's funny.

[stimbox]

11. I think there's like 3 or 4 members. LOL

We should just rename Bush Street.

[bemildred]

9. In memory of the most shitty pResident ever. nt

[TomInTib]

13. I will pay for the bronze placque if they will use that, bemildred. nt

[KamaAina]

14. I hear the real progressives are against this

because unlike Bush**, the sewage plant is actually useful for something!!!

[Frank Cannon]

15. A sewage plant is too good for him

A sewage plant actually cleans up waste. Everything this man has had any contact with has turned to shit.

More appropriate would be to name the nation's largest dairy lagoon after him. I can think of a few good candidates in southern Idaho, and the state loves him.

[The Sushi Bandit]

16. NOT LBN posted last Monday from NewsDay

here is the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[salguine]

17. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand,

it is fitting that, if anything were to be named after President Bush, it would have something to do with sewage.

On the other hand, a sewage treatment plant—"Water Pollution Control Plant", in this case—actually performs a function that is pretty antithetical to anything George Bush has ever done...i.e., a sewage treatment plant treats sewage—a basically "cleaning" function. However, a hallmark of Bush's administration has been the complete failure to ever clean up after any of the disasters it has visited upon everything it has ever touched. If anything, the George W. Bush Sewage Not Treatment Plant might actually be more appropriate.

But it might actually be worth overlooking semantic nitpicking just to make veins in Republicans' heads pop.

[olddad56]

30. I'd be afraid that the plant would somehow fail and cause an ecological disaster

[salguine]

32. THAT would be the time to name it after Bush.

[Baby Snooks]

18. The Bush Memorial Toilet

The vote on whether to allow SMU to house the Bush Library on campus is next week as I recall. Maybe the Methodist Council will vote no to the library but allow SMU to name a toilet for him.

The Bush Memorial Toilet.

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. 'Twould be most befitting our beloved Urinary Executive.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

19. It's a perfect site for his "library".

As the old Unix computer geeks would say, "Garbage in, garbage out."

Shit happened, at they called it George Bush.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Tough call.

A sewage plant benefits the community for obvious sanitation and environmental reasons.

Bush on the other hand, benefits a precious few.

I could see this going either way.

[Olney Blue]

22. Why do they hate sewage?

[bvar22]

25. What Fun!

Maybe this could go Global.

[skoalyman]

26. If I lived there and it passed I'd come home and make a deposit

[Vinca]

35. Mission accomplished!

[sofa king]

27. Do it!

For those of you sitting on the fence, I've already envisioned the scene:



(Though a reader already pointed out that I left out the pigeon's contribution.)

And if you like that, just wait until these bastards kick off:

[tidy_bowl]

33. This is juvenile....

....what if another city somewhere else were to name a sewage plant after Obama, where does it end? There are far more important issues to spend effort on than this. What a waste (pun intended) of time.

[Leftist Agitator]

37. This, from someone who goes by "tidy_bowl"?

Pardon me while I...

[skoalyman]

42. :spray:

[Leftist Agitator]

45. Canton, OH!

I used to live in Plain Township!



And Belden Village is the shit, I must say.

[skoalyman]

46. I haven't lived here long

originally came from a little town called bastrop Louisiana closed to the Arkansas line. I moved up here 2 years ago its nice here and all but the winter snow is something else.

[TNOE]

40. Whatever it takes

you screw over the people - and they WILL find a way to screw you over. Let their conscious be their guides - otherwise - you wind up having a sewage/trash dump named after you for evermore.

[OneBlueSky]

34. something like the "Shit-Stain Shit Strain" perhaps? . . . n/t

.

[Wabbajack_]

36. Sewage>Bush

don't insult sewage.

[samsingh]

39. bush is sewage

[buddysmellgood]

41. This is wrong. I have too much respect for the selfless, nameless engineers

that work very hard to make sure we have a high quality of life. I get why they are doing it, but it is misguided. They should name a site that needs Superfunds for Bush or some other toxic festering boil on the ass of society.
Having a sewage treatment plant named after you is a high honor. Have you ever heard the phrase, "Get your shit together." or "They don't have their shit together."
Having your shit together is the fundamental measure of the success or failure of a society. If you don't have your shit together in one place where you can treat it, then you are probably dumping it from buckets or otherwise flinging it into the street and causing untold harm and disease. Bush has caused untold harm, death and disease.
This is fundamentally wrong.

[Dave From Canada]

43. This idea is like a tatoo you get of the person you're dating. It seems like a great idea at the

time, but 10 year from now, where you're no longer together, not so much. That being said, if it's what the voters want, then fine. But I think there's more important things to be spending these tax dollars on.

[ohio2007]

44. these are the important issues informed voters need to make in SF ?

sounds like BS to me


http://www.theonion.com/content/video/poll_bullshit_is_...

[pinniped]

47. The Egyptians used to desecrate statues, cartouches,....

and other things attributed to people they wanted to erase from history.

Absolutely nothing should be dedicated to this dictator shithead. A manure farm maybe, but not a municipal water treatment plant which serves an important function.

The only mention of this piece of shit should be in the history books, where it should depict him as the disgusting piece of shits he and his family are.

And who the fuck wants to be reminded of this asshole if/when he's gone?