San Francisco Wants To Name Public Works After George W. Bush
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Jul 08, 2008 6:30pm
God, I love being a San Franciscan... I can't think of a more appropriate dedication for this administration.
Some presidents get carved into Mt Rushmore; others have airports, motorways, and even entire cities named in their honour. But when George Bush leaves office, his most visible memorial may be a mouldering patch of human effluent.
In November, alongside casting their ballot for the next president, the people of San Francisco will also vote on a measure to rename one of the city's largest sewage works the George W Bush Sewage Plant, to provide a "fitting monument" to the outgoing commander-in-chief's achievements.
Activists from the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco, a mischievously-named group behind the move, will ask supporters to participate in a "synchroni(z)ed flush".
It may sound like a student prank, but the proposal is almost certain to be passed. Democrats usually secure between 70 and 80 per cent of the vote in San Francisco - and in 2006 passed a proposition to impeach Mr Bush and his Vice-President Dick Cheney by a majority of almost two to one.
"In 50 years from now, we want people to see George Bush's name on that plant, and ask each other what went wrong," said Brian McConnell, the Memorial Commission's organi(z)er. "We want them to be reminded of the Iraq war, and his other dramatic mistakes, and this is the perfect way to do it."
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And a brilliant idea in SF!
Old news but I hope they can do it.
WHAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
I think they should name it the Nancey Pelosi sewage plant.
It will be a source of inspiration to all future republicans.
I think I'd wait until the plant malfunctions, and shit covers the streets. Then, naming it for Bush would be perfect.
The facility has too noble a purpose to asscociate it with Bush's name.
Any chance we could relocate the Bush 43 library there too?
as dumb as bush is he'll probably show up for the dedication ceremony.
The only down side: In 50 years, the last thing I want is to be reminded of that worthless chimpanzee.
I never comment here, but as a native San Franciscan I've got to give a tip o' the hat to whoever is involved in this.
A most excellent, fitting, and hilarious idea.
This is classic; wastewater treatment facilities are improving and protecting our environment from the waste that we all produce and discharge our nations waters. To name a facility in humor after President Bush is an insult to all the great public servants that are trying to make our environment not only better for us but our children. Shame on those who would even consider such a thing. What President Bush has done to EPA and our the environmental laws that are suppose to protect us is a crime.
San Francisco...classy as always.....
I leeeeeffft my faaaaaaarrrrt in Saaaaan Fraaaaaanciiiiiissssscccooo!
Beautiful. Good Job, City by the Bay.
As much as I like this idea, a sewage plant has a useful purpose in cleaning up crap, something Bush has only succeeded in creating. A better thing would have been a garbage dump as it is full of cover-ups.
WHY NO MAJOR FISA POST? IS THIS AN ANTI-AMERICAN BLOG?
Nicole Belle: Is the scroll wheel on your mouse broken? Look down the page.
Funny, but ultimately pointless.
Quite the opposite, George Bush turns anything palatable into shit.
I have just the appropriate paraphernalia:
http://www.baronbob.com/bushtoiletpaper.htm
"I can’t think of a more appropriate dedication for this administration."
I can. Name a mortuary after him. Or a landfill.
Brilliant and funny, I heard this on the Daily Show a while back. If only they could "cement" him into the building somewhere.
Maybe the idea will take hold and spread across this great nation. I feel a movement coming on ...
They should name the waste matter after Karl Rove.
I heard about this, and I love it!
Naming a shit factory after a shit president.
When I crap, I always refer to it as "taking a Bush".
Naming this plant after King George would be an insult to Gutter Scum!
Can't wait to see the plant's new letterhead.
I love it!
Walter Sobcek @ 27:
the logo should be a TurdBlossom
I can just hear SF conversation in a few years.
*sniff* chuck do you smell that?
yeah larry the Bush must be backed up again.
HOLY CRAP, is what I say. :-D
That is hilarious, and I wish we could rename all shit factories "The Bush Treatment Plant"
Especially that really REALLY rank one in Jersey right off the highway, that makes the whole area smell like refuse... yeah, I like it!
Pelosi should definitely share the honors. If she'd allowed impeachment on the table, she could have kept the honor to herself for at least attempting to flush the filthy shit. But no. She's also gone from simply not stopping him to abetting him, enabling him, actively, so maybe they should name some graveyards after her too.
dothehop @ 15:
Or perhaps a nuk-u-ler waste storage facility. W's messes are gonna take a long, long time to clean up.
I think we should instead name the worst superfund site after Bush.
"In 50 years from now, we want people to see George Bush's name on that plant, and ask each other what went wrong,"
Considering that our great great grandchildren will still be paying off the debt he ran up in order to give tax cuts to Dick Cheney, I don't think there's any doubt people will be asking what went wrong 50 years from now, or (best McCain voice) 'maybe a hundred.'
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Damn! I just moved away last month after living there for 15 years. I would love to be able to vote in favor of this! There are so many things I will miss about that city...
Robert Lockwood Mills @ 6:
LMFAO!!! Awsome.
No sh*t?
Brilliant.
redcat @ 9:
Good, then he can be pushed in and be 'treated' like the utter 'waste' he really is.
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Underground Pirate @ 25:
You mean it's been updated from "Taking a Nixon?" Wow, he really HAS bested Dirty Dick!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nixon
@ Bud
For the record, despite my small pissant donation to the Obama fund, FISA was strike two for me as far as my vote is concerned. One more and he won't get it. Of course in the long run it won't matter. If McCain is truly part of the R party (rapeuallican party), they'll rig the elections anyway.
The George W Bush Memorial Shithouse would have been more appropriate; but I'm cool with Sewage Plant.
Considering how well public works and cleanups went in New Orleans and Iraq, the last thing I'd want to associate with Bush is a hard-working wastewater treatment facility.
Now, an untouched toxic waste site that's going to take decades to clean up, that I could see. Or maybe the Hanford site where liquid radioactive waste is leaching into the groundwater next to the Columbia River....
Pericles @ 42:
don't forget to wipe your cheney
Where exactly is this plant located?
We may be travelling through the LA/San Fran. area at the end
of the year and a visit to this pace should be added to the itinerary.
Hearst Castle, Big Sur, Yosemite, Golden Gate Bridge , Napa Valley
and the "George Bush Sewage Treatment Plant".
SCHRODINGER'S CAT @ 47:
When your in Big Sur, Go to either Deetjens or Ventana. Ventana is my fave. Great food, great wine selection. and clothing optional community hot tubs.
SCHRODINGER'S CAT @ 47:
No "My Vacation" slide show would be complete without a shot of your grinning mug posing next to the treatment plants new sign!
On a more serious not, they're going to get a lot of prank calls.
This reminds me of when they changed the name of National Airport to Reagan National. We still call it National.
I think this is a "movement" that should "go" nationwide...
mudshark @ 48:
OH, carry extra gas when going thru Big Sur. They gouge you down there pretty bad. 7 bucks a gallon.
God Bless SF!!!!
I had to go off topic since you guys don't seem to want to talk about it. I would love to know how you feel about all this.>
HOW APPROPRIATE< WTG< SAN FRAN!!
How about calling one of the buildings "Dubya's Dumper" and another one "Pelosi Pissoir?" A third building could be christened "The Reid Recepticle."
mudshark @ 52:
Thanks for the travel tips.
And " Exotic Blue Lensman @ #49"
I expect to see a line up for picures in front of that sign.
you mean, every time someone flushes (or pulls the cheney) in san francisco, they'll get to say "take that george bush!"?
sounds very cathartic
WakeUpAmerica! @ 16:
Anti American? I doubt it. They're probably waiting until a lot of people calm down about the outcome. I think I need a few hours or I'll say something that I regret later.
Besides, this thread is funny as shit!
If they do I will risk a trip to the country to leave massive steaming turd in that place !
I hope it's a very efficient plant as it's currently full of an awful lot of shit that needs to be dealt with .........
Way to go, San Francisco! Reading the comments has given me the biggest laugh I've had all day ... there are some very funny people here.
Hee hee, I've seen this petition circulated around my beautiful home city. It always made me laugh and think. And I'd like to chime in with Nicole as a proud San Franciscan!
Call us whatever they will in other parts of this country, WE! ARE! AMERICA!
Very simply, we are the city that truly believes that ALL PEOPLE are equal, and endowed with the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We understand that gay people are included in all people. We understand that transgendered people are included in all people.
We understand that pagans and atheists are part of all people as well. And, of course, we have plenty of Christians too, but our faithful are more likely to head out to the Tenderloin district to feed people than condemn them.
Those who deride us for these quintessentially American attitudes suffer from the cognitive dissonance that has plagued the United States since the southern colonies forced the removal from the Declaration of Independence those clauses that denounced slavery.
Despite the less-than-valiant efforts of some people in some other regions to maintain that cognitive dissonance, we in San Francisco truly implement the spirit of our founding document.
GOD, I LOVE SAN FRANCISCO
Where do I make a donation?
I love the fact that they want to dedicate it on 1/20/09,Bush`s last day(if all goes well).Wonder if a lot of people will fly into the area on that day just to take a dump.
How appropriate, since Dubya has put this country in the crapper.
I don,t get it, this sewage plant is valuable part of the city's infrastructure, IT'S USEFUL, it demeans that utility to put a name like Geoorge W. Bush on it.
Demvet @ 44:
ROFLMAO.this thread is great.
The Karl Rove Sediment Pond will need a sign, too.
Stay classy, San Franciscans.
Set the example for our children.
I love my birthplace San Francisco!
If this would only become a trend across the country, Dumbya deserves the recognition with every flush!
George W Bush - buffoon or great leader?
'The Walker-Bush Shit Plant', covers the whole crime family.
Gotta get Jeb in there too.
umm, notice how close that is to the beach?
as for the name hell yeah. that and turd blossom pond.
that close to a pubic beach.errr, ummmm(public)
not good.
Karen @ 62:
Good to hear that some understand, shame you're in such a minority, best get converting the rest of the country !
San Francisco is a little late to the party.
I named my toilet "The GW Bush household receptacle" back when he got elected governor.
I call it George for short.
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 4:
How about "NANCY'S ROOM" (for girls)
As someone who helps design water sewage treatment plants for a living, naming the plant after George Bush is almost too good for W. After all the sewage treatment plant does provide a valuable public service unlike our current president.
On the other hand the sewage treatment plant is full of shit, much like our current president.
Wow, making a sewage plant a tourist attraction ...
"Dear, I want to get a picture of me standing beside the George Bush sewage plant sign. I just need to show it to our friends in Debuque."
Heck I'd want a picture of me standing next to that sign!
The problem is: this facility actually deals with the shit it's supposed to.
bill doh @ 77:
No, borrow a bit from the Duke's movies "The Green Berets"
Name a public restroom .. like in a park... after Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi ... etc. etc. etc.
But isn't a sewage plant actually a rather useful thing unlike g. bush?
The next time we name a 'landfill' here in Oregon I am going suggest the George W. Bush Landfill - Full of garbagep and hard to cover it up.
Che's Lounge @ 18:
I agree, the metaphor is backwards. Besides, crap is too good for this man and his ilk.
Hey, I've never been to San Francisco, but now I have another reason to visit. It's one of the few American cities I'd like to see (been to NYC and Boston.) Do you really eat Rice-a-Roni?? :)(I actually do like it.)
I hope they are building a humungous toilet!
Edwin Hussein the appeaser @ 85:
Rice-a-Roni is actually made in San Leandro...
I just signed the petition a couple of weeks ago to get this on the ballot. They say that our sewage plant will be the FIRST public site to be named after W. :o)
I guess once they spruce up the place
they have Mr Bush out for a ceremonial
breaking of a bottle of champagne
It would be fitting
for another city to
give his name to
a Garbage Dump
Falling down on the job, C&L. This story is a couple of weeks old already.
I'm a San Franciscan, & I want to point out that the plant they want to rename is a plant that CLEANS UP SEWAGE. Whereas George Bush creates shit. You don't name a plant that fixes the problem after someone who created the problem.
That bad thing about this is that facilities like these wear out and eventually are closed and probably paved over for something new to be built on the site. Thus in maybe 30 years, it will be gone and forgotten. Bush deserves a monument that will last for thousands of years, a reverse Mt. Rushmore, say a carving of him on a mountain, that is dumped upside-down into a pit in the ground and buried under tons of manure. And to make sure the point is clear that it is a reverse memorial, it needs smaller carvings of Nixon and Reagan on either side of Bush.
I'm sure grateful Americans across the nation would be willing to chip in to a fund to help make the sign LARGER. I'm in for $10, and I'll bet a million more would line up behind me.
I hope this catches on and spreads to other cities. Lots of qualified Republican names left to use. Mitch Mc Connell certainly deserves a similar honor bestowed upon him. Just to be "fair and balanced" I would also name one "The Joe Lieberman Sewage Treatment Facility."
Very SF, alright. Sarcasm is what they do there. I know, having been "born and raised" and spending my early professional life as a musician there.
But I am no longer entranced. The City excludes in its hipness...The City..That's what people like to call it. As for me, I have enjoyed living elsewhere..in places where the backs on the Major League baseball team's shirts clearly state the name of the players because everyone is invited in to be a fan and not just "those in the know."
dennis @ 70:
Yeah, this is a callow gesture if you ask me.
I hope so, Bush so deserves the dedication. If not maybe they can invite the entire administration for a stroll through hunters point and ditch them their.
Frank Dufek @ 96:
Callow like a President and a political party that trashed, bashed and abused San Francisco and its 'San Francisco values' to turn one group of Americans against anothe as part of a cheap ploy to grab political power? No, it's not THAT bad.
Traditionally, when a country is attacked by outsiders it brings the country's citizens together. This is the first time in history that the U.S. has been attacked, and ended up more divided than it's been since the Civil War. All thanks the the calculated divisive policies of the Republicans, using hot-button wedge issues, and abusing subgroups of their fellow Americans to cling to power and reward their friends. I'm not normally a petty person, but in this case I think any petty insults the Republican party has to take from now on are pretty much their own doing. And the people in San Francisco, having taken more abuse from them than just about anybody else, deserve to throw the first tomato.
I think its a bad idea. This treatment plant does its job well.
Andrew @ 1:
Just another idiotic blunder by SF that will isolate the city even more. I'm waiting for it to catch fire!
I would only name a sewage treatment plant after him, but I would have to struggle with that decision.
It's not completely on target, but I guess it's close enough. It would be more appropriate if the plant to clean water and turned it brown.
neverbeenfooled @ 102:
"took" clean water and turned it brown.
Bravo! Great idea.
Talk about being flushed with victory. Read more. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/06/most-appropriate-monument-for-our-43rd.html
that's some funny ShiT~!!!
Via @ 11:
God, you San Franciscans have quite a sense of humor. Youre my kind of people. I love you all!!!
A fitting tribute for a (?)man who is full of it!!!
Bwaahaahaahaahaa
binkey @ 100:
Oh, lighten up, binkey! Its funny as hell!
Wouldn't naming it for Dumya mean that the plant doesn't have to work after 5pm and gets three months vacation?
This is a wonderfully fitting tribute to the second-greatest president of the twenty-first century (so far).
As a San Franciscan, I'm completely against naming this facility after that idiot!...beside the shit of San Franciscans deserve much better.
Bismarck @ 19:
bush will do anything to look up your ass.
This is a stupid idea.
Good, honest, hard working people will spend 8 or more hours of their day in a place named for an asshole. This tells employees who work there that theirs is a low-status job and a joke. The facility will open with an instant morale deficit.
I wouldn't want to work at the "Adolph Hitler Memorial Landfill" or the "Osama Bin Laden Port-a-Potty Scrubbing Plant." Why would anybody with good sense saddle good employees with that stigma?
Johnny2Bad @ 39:
No, "fullashit".
What we have here is an insult to effluent.
After it's renamed I hope the place will have postcards on sale. Chrismas cards too, to send to my wingnut relatives.
Why not name a laxantia--or even better an enema after Bush..
Many people would love to flush a Bush down the drain.-
Must be worth millions.
a sewage/waste treatment plant named after G Bush and/or D Cheney.........BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an insult to sewage everywhere.
ROFLMAO... I absolutely love it!! Now if only there were a proposal to move the punk's "libarry" to the sewage plant too.
I hate to say this, but I think this is the exact wrong message to send about Bush -
A Sewage system takes in unhealthy, effluent, unsanitary sewage that would kill anything it came in contact with, and sends forth (I hope) clean water, suitable for helping things grow, improving the environment, etcetera.
The Bush administration does this in the *other* direction . . . .
Jonnan
I don't see how naming a public facility with a useful and valid function after a failed president is a good idea at all. Please think of the people who work at this plant and the jobs they do before you belittle them with this stupid proclamation.
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