San Francisco group proposes naming sewage plant for President George W Bush
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Taka313
Legacy boy!
Taka
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rjd_jr
Great idea!
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Wolfpack
Geez, those socialist whacko's out there on the left coast sure are petty! Guess they got tired of burning American flags and spitting on servicemen unlucky enough find themselves in the People's Republic of San Francisco.
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Helter_Skelter
San Francisco - the home of fruits and nuts.
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thundercat
I needed this article yesterday morning! Too funny!!
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adaydream
Sounds appropriate. < :-)
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JoeBigs
Now that is one heck of a shot across his bowels.....LoL oh the punz the punz I tell you...........Wonder if he will show up for the naming ceremony?
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Triumvere
Wow. Nothing says "class act" like petty insults. Way to go, San Fran.
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Badsey
why don't they just name the whole city "Bush" or even change the state to "Bush"
=few want to live in Cali anymore.
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RedMeatKoolAid
How clever, how snarky - and truly infantile - in that uniquely SF "liberal" kind of way.
Little children do sometimes express curiosity and fascination with what happens to their 'creations' after mommy flushes it away.I guess the kind that never grew out of that stage run the show in SF.
For a real laugh try and imagine the trouser-soiling hysteria among the same set nationwide if a similar referendum from their political opposites in even the smallest town were designed to 'commemorate' anyone other than a white Christian American male politician who held conservative political views.
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Taka313
kool-aid's right, now that I think of it. A TRULY befitting memorial to the bush administration (legacy boy!) would be to name a plant that spews sewage after him. Isn't there some company illegally dumping chemicals into a river that we could name after bush insead?
Taka
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skipthesong
what a great way to have young kids to learn to have faith in their country.
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timorborder
Maybe they could go one further and offer to build a Presidential Library next door. It would get more visitors in SF than if it were built in Crawford Texas. Then again, I don't know how many adults would be interested in seeing a huge collection of picture books and fairytales.
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adaydream
Then george bush should have been thinking of "this legacy" when he was useing the nation as his personal playground. When he was lieing his ass off. Screwing most of the nation's citizens. < :-)
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timorborder
JoeBigs: Now that is one heck of a shot across his bowels.....LoL oh the punz the punz I tell you...........Wonder if he will show up for the naming ceremony?
How does one "name" a sewerage treatment facility? With ships it is a bottle of bubbly across the bows, with sxxxx is it one out of the bowels?
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RepublicofTexas
Wow, this isn't petty at all.
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bushlover
More appropriate would be a complex of outhouses called the "George W Bush War Planning Room".
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TonyUS
Faith in a country is nothing to faith in a leader. No faith in Bush does not mean one has no faith in the country. Maybe the sewage Bush has brought to the US should leave a landmark to remember his time of reign and maybe this will open the eyes of many so such a looser that is suppose to represent Americans, never gets voted in again!!!!!
Easy to see blinded republicans on here and people with sense such as democrats and independents. Hahahaha But there are radicals in all parties as well, all three parties. Die hard Rep, Die hard. Dem. And also some totally out there Indep.
Now make sure everyone goes to vote so we can get these sicko money hungry, incompetent politicians that would sell their soles and the country’s integrity to the highest bidder, out of office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone mentions about SF flag burners??? Bush has down graded our flag big time around the world in his eight glorious years,, Lets hear the ones talking about flag burning ridicule Bush’s incompetence and what he has made our flag stand for including attending the opening ceremonies that many leaders are associating the brutal crack down in Tibet along with China’s funding of the mass killings of innocent people of Dufur. Now that is degrading the American Flag and what it stands for.. What a disgrace Bush has brought to this country and what people around the world sees when looking at an American flag. His so called wars also showed how incompetent the strongest military in the world can be.. Get his butt out of there and bring respect back into the Country of the US!!!
The association with sewage and Bush would also bring recognition around the world that the people of the US is not in support of such leaders with the mindset of Bush and his buddies..
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smithinjapan
They shouldn't name the WHOLE building after him, just the part that collects and stores all the human waste. The actual cleaning components and area could be labelled a name with a positive ring to it.
It's hilarious to see the uproar by the people on the right.... hahaha! Suck it up, boys and girls, you all knew your president is/was the worst in the world, now that fact is bearing fruit.
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RedMeatKoolAid
"Liberal" America -
Any American voter not on your side but who refers to your 08 candidate by his full name is guilty of "hate speech" , but naming a sewage plant after a man half the electorate saw fit to elect to two terms is "tribute."
As much as I dislike Carter I could never imagine naming a sewage plant after a man millions of decent Americans voted for.
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Madverts
Kool AId kid, from the article;
for the lame duck leader
Heh. Kinda reminds me of the toilet roll you could get in the late eighties in the UK with Maggie's face printed on each sheet and the guidelines of "go on, rub her face in it".
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Madverts
Fitting, as the US dumbest and most catastrpohic president heads to the toilet bowl of history.
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USNinJapan2
This is incredibly infantile. I don't care which President it is, which party he belongs to, or what he may have done in office.
Oh how truly noble of him. If I were McConnell's parent I'd be wondering what part of his upbringing I had screwed up.
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smithinjapan
USNinJapan: "If I were McConnell's parent I'd be wondering what part of his upbringing I had screwed up"
It's clearly not only McConnell, friend, as more than 10,000 people turning in signatures, and I'm sure if you polled the whole country it would be some.... hmmm.... 70%?
Bush has done everything to deserve having the sewage plant named after him. Deal with it.
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Madverts
Come on USN, bush's entire presidency has been at best a monumental screw up that has made the office of the POTUS an international bad joke.
We're talking about a "statesman" who can't even ennunciate his words correctly.
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USNinJapan2
Get real Smith, Madverts. Even if 70% of Americans hated Bush I doubt that even a portion of them would actually want to name a sewage treatment plant after him. I hope that 70% of the American public isn't that petty and idiotic. It's not a matter of disliking the individual or what he's done, it's a matter of having enough sense and class to understand that this is not appropriate or becoming of a mature...never mind, you clearly won't understand anyway...
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RedMeatKoolAid
"We're talking about a "statesman" who can't even ennunciate his words correctly."
It's spelled enunciate, Georgie.
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smithinjapan
USNinJapan: Even a portion? 10,000 is a portion, regardless of whether it is small or not. Multiply that one small number in one state by every state (of course fewer in some, and FAR MORE in others) and you've got a HUGE number. Look up the definition of portion and rethink your wording.
I agree it's pretty immature, but I'll take immature so long as it's fitting over a president who has lied, caused utter turmoil around the globe as a result, and the whole time lacked the intelligence of a child. Naming a sewage plant after bush merely shows just how angry and upset the people are at bush's idiocy, and want to mark it with, with a touch of wit. A much lesser evil than all the things bush has done.
I understand perfectly what you're trying to say, doesn't mean I agree, and I would very much like to see the name go through. A president who is no more than a toilet doesn't deserve to have streets named after him/her... just the sewers that line them.
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RedMeatKoolAid
The glee this project elicits from some of the more infantile among the America-obsessed out there got me wondering if we weren't getting the full pic here at JT.
Having met a few self-loathing SF "progressives" over the years I figured there also had to be an overtly anti-American element prominent in their project.
So when I visited the official SF website sure enough I find that like Barack Obama they have appropriated and redesigned our national seal, only this time defacing it with the slogan "E Pluribus Anus".
And the familiar American eagle is seen wielding two toilet plungers.
Again, there is only one party in America that would pull something like this.
http://presidentialmemorial.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/sealweb.jpg
http://presidentialmemorial.wordpress.com/
Stay classy, "liberals".
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WMD
way to go 'frisco
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RedMeatKoolAid
"Others think the plan reeks. The chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party has promised to fight the measure if it does make the ballot."
I'm sure the Dems will step up.
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Madverts
USNinJapan,
" hope that 70% of the American public isn't that petty and idiotic. "
Neh?
The voted him in for a second term bud.
Case closed.
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Taka313
From the site kool-aid provided:
"The Presidential Memorial Commission is a NON-PARTISAN, non-government organization dedicated to paying tribute to the president."
Don't let the facts get in the way of temper tantrum, kool-aid.
Taka
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Madverts
"Don't let the facts get in the way of temper tantrum, kool-aid."
Heh, when the facts are thus;
That in memory of dubya's presidency, they are petitioning to name a raw sewage treatment plant after his tenure, then I'm not surprised the toys have long flown from the pram.
"residents in liberal San Francisco are preparing a parting gift of sorts for the lame duck leader."
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sailwind
Actually it's pretty cool. Though a little cruel in the name the George W Bush Sewage Plant, it just doesn't feel right. San Francisco has a tradition of tolerance and ability to rise above such notions and rather suprised that they show this ugly side of themselves, but as always here to help. I'd proposed a more appropriate moniker in keeping with the San Francisco tradition. It would be nice plaque all can agree with.
Be cool to see a kid a hundred years from now read that. Good Job Frisco.
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Sarge
"way to go 'frisco"
Heh.
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smithinjapan
sailwind: "Actually it's pretty cool. Though a little cruel in the name the George W Bush Sewage Plant, it just doesn't feel right. San Francisco has a tradition of tolerance and ability to rise above such notions and rather suprised that they show this ugly side of themselves, but as always here to help. I'd proposed a more appropriate moniker in keeping with the San Francisco tradition. It would be nice plaque all can agree with."
Kudos on a very objective post. I respect that. Still like the sewage plant name more, but hey...
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yosun
Hey! guys: how can they do this ? sewage plants are so important infrastructure for human life! why they insult honorable sewage plant to name after " the name can't say " ???
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Betzee
On the ground insight into democracy in action:
Bright Winn, a San Francisco plumber, enthusiastically gave his signature to the cause.
"(Bush) has always done well for the affluent of America, and anyone that does well for the affluent should be named for the effluent," he said....
Officials at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which owns the plant, say they get the humorous intent. But they note that the plant is an award-winning facility that keeps the city's streets and the ocean clean. "If you are looking for a place to make a negative statement about the Bush administration's impact on the environment, this would be the last place to do it," agency spokesman Tony Winnicker said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/24/MNPQ11A3T7.DTL&hw=bush+sewage&sn=003&sc=202
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Taka313
kool-aid, So...if that list of people you mentioned are indicative of party affiliations, I guess this project will be a big hit with republican congressmen from Florida, is that your point?
Taka
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RedMeatKoolAid
"The Presidential Memorial Commission is a NON-PARTISAN, non-government organization dedicated to paying tribute to the president."
Imagine that, they want to spare their Lefty allies from backlash.
But seriously, what is a thinking person supposed to infer when there appear to be no Democrats that oppose a project whose official website features The Great Seal of the United States redesigned - defiled - so it features an eagle wielding toilet plungers, beneath the inscription "E Pluribus Anus" ?
Stay classy,Liberals.
And remember to demand that no one question your patriotism.
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Taka313
Yes, when one must politicize everything under the sun, a healthy imagination is important, isn't it?
Taka
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Triumvere
Seriously, folks (liberals I'm talking to you now, but conservatives should take note as well...) this is not the way to go about things. Hurling insults and profanity just makes you look small. I don't care how much you hate Bush (or anything else for that matter); conduct yourself with a little decorum and act like an adult. Do so and you not only make yourself appear more reasonable, but make others more open to listening to what you have to say. Invective does nothing but polarize, spurring those on the otherside to knee-jerk reactionism.
This sort of behavior has turned political supporters on both sides of the asile into absurd cartoons, and has made any sort of casual political debate in the US completely intolerable.
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TonyUS
The assumption that this plant does such a wonderful job of cleaning dirt has nothing to do with such a rosy conception that it would be an honor to have your name placed upon it.. hahaha Come on, who the heck is trying to fool who..
Bush= sewage!!!!!!!! That is the intent and that is what all sees it as being. Try to paint it in a positive way if you like but that does not change the perception given by such an action. The Bush legacy is that of failure!!!!!!! That goes definitely for the loss of lives in the Iraq war from the incompetence of all with him, and under him. What a shame and a sham! Then move to the deals with China and over looking what was to be held for promises they had made when joining the WTO. The US has many problems these days and Mr. Bush has only contributed to them. And besides the WTO commitments, we have the biggest trade deficit in history with the biggest communist country of the world that is building its forces against solely……us!!!!!!
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