GWB finally gets the honor he deserves.

[likwid]

An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
By JESSE McKINLEY

SAN FRANCISCO — Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital (and a state, too). But President Bush may soon be the sole president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom.

From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

The plan, naturally hatched in a bar, would place a vote on the November ballot to provide “an appropriate honor for a truly unique president.”

Supporters say that they have plenty of signatures to qualify the initiative and that the renaming would fit in a long and proud American tradition of poking political figures in the eye.

“Most politicians tend to be narcissistic and egomaniacs,” said Brian McConnell, an organizer who regularly suits up as Uncle Sam to solicit signatures. “So it is important for satirists to help define their history rather than letting them define their own history.”

Not surprisingly, those Republicans in a city that voted 83 percent Democratic in 2004 are not thrilled with the idea. Howard Epstein, chairman of the ever-outnumbered San Francisco Republican Party, called the initiative “an abuse of process.”

“You got a bunch of guys drunk who came up with an idea,” Mr. Epstein said, “and want to put on the ballot as a big joke without regard to the city’s governance or cost.”

The renaming would take effect on Jan. 20, when the new president is sworn in. And regardless of the measure’s outcome, supporters plan to commemorate the inaugural with a synchronized flush of hundreds of thousands of San Francisco toilets, an action that would send a flood of water toward the plant, now called the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant.

“It’s a way of doing something physical that’s mentally freeing,” said Stacey Reineccius, 45, a software consultant and entrepreneur who supports the plan. “It’s a weird thing, but it’s true.”



USA! USA!

[spence]

That's most excellent...

One of the biggest things I think this Administration let the people down on is how they used the war for political purposes, again and again and again...

If the shoe fits.

-spence

[Rockport24]

Originally Posted by likwid

“You got a bunch of guys drunk who came up with an idea,” Mr. Epstein said,

and how is this different than the Republicans?

[EarnedStripes44]

George H.W. Bush Int'l Airport

George W. Bush Sewage Plant

talk about underachieving...

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by spence

That's most excellent...

One of the biggest things I think this Administration let the people down on is how they used the war for political purposes, again and again and again...

If the shoe fits.

-spence

no you got it wrong. They used 9/11 (war on terror) for political purposes and scared the living daylights out of normal Americans into believing that some way or another they were going to die a slow death if they did not give them total power to do what ever they wanted. Most of which was to serve corperate interest groups.

[likwid]

Dudes in the "other place" went into complete nerd-con RAGES over this.

But hey, its an important part of the infrastructure of a large well developed city RIGHT?

[spence]

Originally Posted by Nebe

no you got it wrong. They used 9/11 (war on terror) for political purposes and scared the living daylights out of normal Americans into believing that some way or another they were going to die a slow death if they did not give them total power to do what ever they wanted. Most of which was to serve corperate interest groups.

Are you being intentionally redundant?

-spence

[WoodyCT]

George W. Bush:

A leader who terrorized his own people (post 9/11) into granting his administration excessive power.

A leader who wasted tax payer money and sacrificed the lives of his nations’ soldiers to mop up what his daddy started but didn’t finish.

A leader who tried to use the Constitution, the very document his forefathers crafted to give his nation its freedom, as a tool do deny freedom to homosexuals.

A leader who pandered to the industries that allowed him to be elected, more than once, while his nation’s economy crumbled under unchecked corporate greed.

A leader whose administration allowed endangered animals (wolves) to be removed from the Endangered Species List, knowing full well that the states who will assume control already plan to allow the indiscriminate killing of wolves, possibly returning them to the ESL at further expense to tax payers.


Naming a turd processing facility after him is far far too kind for the worst President this nation has ever known.

Woody

[stripersnipr]

Nothing like a good old fashioned #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& circle jerk after dinner and before dessert.

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by spence

Are you being intentionally redundant?

-spence

yes

[spence]

Originally Posted by stripersnipr

Nothing like a good old fashioned #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& circle jerk after dinner and before dessert.

#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, now that's a nice word certainly worthy of what you bring to the dialogue.

-spence

[buckman]

Leave it to the most effed up city in the most effed up state to waste taxpayers money on something so childish. I'm glad it brings you guys a smile to your face because like all the liberal symbol over sustance crap you despense, it accomplishes nothing.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by buckman

Leave it to the most effed up city in the most effed up state to waste taxpayers money on something so childish. I'm glad it brings you guys a smile to your face because like all the liberal symbol over sustance crap you despense, it accomplishes nothing.

Oh c'mon you laughed.
Admit it.
Deep down inside you're saying "well...".

ADMIT IT!

[buckman]

It's all laughable

[likwid]

So really now, how is SF the most "effed up city?"
Low crime rate.
TONS of jobs.
Basically right there next to the technology center of the universe.
Some of the suburbs are AMAZING (up in the hills of Redwood city is beautiful).
Tons of cultural and MUSIC related history.
And they're putting the naming to VOTE to let the citizens decide if they should spend their tax dollars on this. Not just, I dunno, making the people of the entire country go to war with a fake enemy while a chance existed for nation building and creating a major power center.

But you probably have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about in the last sentence.
That right there would be effed up.

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by likwid

i And regardless of the measure’s outcome, supporters plan to commemorate the inaugural with a synchronized flush of hundreds of thousands of San Francisco toilets, an action that would send a flood of water toward the plant, now called the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant.

And none of those people have a problem with wasting hundreds of thousands of gallons of water in a city with historical water shortages. Typical hypocrates.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

And none of those people have a problem with wasting hundreds of thousands of gallons of water in a city with historical water shortages. Typical hypocrates.

Water is a renewable resource.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by likwid

Water is a renewable resource.

Tell that to Arizona and New Mexico.

Most of (Southern) California's water is from way upstream.
Water is renewable and sustainable in some place, but not everywhere...

[likwid]

Don't live in a desert then.
Crazy I know.

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

And none of those people have a problem with wasting hundreds of thousands of gallons of water in a city with historical water shortages. Typical hypocrates.

Wow a conserv. worrying about saving natural resources.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Wow a conserv. worrying about saving natural resources.

HIYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[WoodyCT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Wow a conserv. worrying about saving natural resources.

you have to save them before you can get rich off of them!

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by WoodyCT

you have to save them before you can get rich off of them!

or make them endangered... look at bottled water- what a scam.

[likwid]

Update!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25735046

oh please pass
PLEASE PASS!

"In President Bush's case, we think that we will be cleaning up a substantial mess for the next 10 or 20 years," he said. "The sewage treatment facility's job is to clean up a mess, so we think it's a fitting tribute."

[Nebe]

Dont count on it passing if the voting machines were made by DIEBOLD

[likwid]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Dont count on it passing if the voting machines were made by DIEBOLD

Now THAT would cause riots.