'George W Bush Sewage Plant' Proposed In San Francisco

"Looking to honor the forty-third President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, the recently formed Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is looking to change the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility. It seems the group would like to rename the SF Zoo adjacent facility to the 'George W Bush Sewage Plant,' SFist reports.

The grassroots movement is "proposing an ordinance initiative for the November 2008 San Francisco ballot" -- check out their web site here.

Comments

[FutureRefugee]

W's name should be on a s--t lagoon at a big mechanized hog farm. In fact, we should all start calling them bush lagoons.

Naming a sewage treatment after W is a terrible idea. As others have pointed out, sewage treatment plants are good; neither they or the their workers should be stigmatized by associating them with W. Environmentalists worked hard to pass the Clean Water Act and build sewage treatment plants. Putting W's name on a sewage treatment plant would make it look like he helped fund or promote it, which is certainly wrong.

[MrMike513]

Makes as much sense as naming an airport after Ronnie Raygun, lol.

[JimR]

Can we lighten up a little bit? Just a little bit?

[keramos]

You're absolutely right about the contradiction that would arise from such a naming. I understand the underlying sentiment, however, and suggest that maybe the inlet pipes could be named after boy george and the rest of the neo-conmen and sycophants that have surrounded the little pissant since his appointment to the head of this great nation.

[gmmonko]

I agree with the sewage memorial for King George, but it should read: "George Murder Bush.

[forpeace]

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George Sewage Bush.

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[MACinCHI]

They're only going to end up giving Shit a bad name!

[LivingStardust]

It is indeed slanderous to feces.

[SamSedaei - Huffpost Blogger]

The problem with this country... instead of trying to understand one another, we bear so much resentment and take pleasure in name-calling and insulting one another. I'm a liberal, but I don't understand how insulting a sitting president or anyone this way is going to help prove that we're correct on issues. The state of politics in this country is becoming really quite sad.

[naschkatze]

You know, when a president is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and when a president tries to destroy the Constitution of the United States, I don't think we need to make an effort to understand this corrupt and stupid man. What we should have done is figured out a way to get rid of him, nonviolently of course, rather than enable him. What do you suggest? We get together in little bipartisan conversation groups, drinking tea with our white gloves on, and focus on how the poor man is so misunderstood.

[SouthCentralDel]

This revered President has strategically and methodically weakened the separation of powers in our government. He has turned his back with a giggle as electrical, petroleum, pharmaceutical and military complex robber barons plunder our citizens. He ran a moderate and conciliatory campaign in 2000 and 2004 and did the opposite once in office. He has marched us into the cesspool of war built on top of lies and deceipt, with resultant 4000+ U.S. men & women soldiers killed and tens of thousands wounded and/or maimed for life. Some estimates put the Iraqi death toll since the start of the war at over 600,000 not to mention the million plus refugees and a war torn cities that will not be the same.

And all of this with arrogance and that silly smirk. Heckava job Brownie.

And you can't understand our anger and maybe one of the few places we can legally get a bit of it out?

[MaracaKabob]

SamSedaei, breaking news... you are not a liberal.

[thatsitfortheotherone]

SamSedaei, wake up and smell the doo doo.

[Michael56]

This is extremely insulting. As a degreed environmental chemist, who has spent 31 years (now as a wastewater treatment facility manager for the past 4 years), working tin the field of wastewater treatment , I find the naming of a treatment facility after GW demeaning to the people who have dedicated their professional lives to reducing the impact of water -borne pollution (which YOU have all generated in your ceaseless consumption of what-ever damn thing you continue to flush to down toilets and factory discharge lines).

This is every bit as insulting as the city that decided to zone strip clubs next to wastewater plants. Are we somehow considered to be untoucheables, by even the liberal citizens of America's cities? Is there some reason we could be considered more suitable for continuous exposure to businesses (and customers) that demean and victimize women?

You're as inconsiderate and hypocritical as the brahmins of India. Your disdain for the facitlities, and people, that keep you, and your babies, from dying from third-world intestinal diseases, is despicable.

Since you don't have the decency to feel ashamed of yourselves, I suppose the people who clean up your messes will have to, once more, feel ashamed for you.

[gcallaghan]

I just flushed. Get busy.

[Michael56]

The best part of you came down here years ago.....

[dwillisno1]

I have a friend who designs treatment plants. His favorite saying is "it may be shit to you but its my bread and butter." Of course he unlike you, has a sense of humor. Lighten up.

[Michael56]

That's the oldest, hackneyed response in the business. Lighten up....and enjoy your permanent bodyload of endocrine disruptors, emerging POC's and PCB analogs you and your unthinking ilk have discharged into your drinking water over that past 50 years. Now that's funny!

[SouthCentralDel]

OK. Waste treatment plant named after W would sully the work of many. But how about those pig piss pools? Any detractors?

[greencowgirl]

I think it should be called the George W Bush MEMORIAL Sewer Plant. In Fact, we could all be citizens of the United States of George W. Bush's Sewerplant, because he's turned this entire country into one.

[unclebucky]

Hm.

Most of our expressways (free) here in Chicago are named after important people, the Kennedy Expressway, Eisenhower, Stevenson, etc. The new Tollway route i-88 (toll = you pay) was named after Reagan, which though I hate hearing it called the Reagan, I still snicker.

We have the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. We could volunteer that former sewage channel that wound up polluting the Mississippi!

Think of it: George W. Bush Sanitary and Ship Canal.

I would vote for that.

Ugh. --UB.

[unclebucky]

BTW, that Sanitary and Ship Canal made the Chicago River RUN BACKWARDS, in much of the same way that Bush has affected the Nation and its economy.

Ugh. --UB.

[itmaybetoolate]

I wish I had thought of that!!!

[SCG]

Finally! we have found a way to properly honor the legacy of George W. Bush.

[naschkatze]

Let's start a movement (no pun intended) and name water treatment plants all over the country after George W. Bush. Then let's put our heads together and come up with something even better for Cheney.

[zquark]

I'm against the idea...I have a number of friends who work in sewage plants, and they are bright, competent and dedicated to their jobs.While the work is considered by many to be untouchable-type employment, it cannot be argued that S.F. would be worse than Iraq in short order if the sewage workers held the same values as not-quite -president W. Bush is arrogant, incompetent, and convinced (just as he was at Harvard) that his father's influence was sufficient to guarantee success in anything he attempted. Bush is NOT the top dog; he is merely the "Alpha Runt", and his name on anything involving honest labor is an insult to the people who labor.

[SouthCentralDel]

agreed.

[SlithyTove]

Not quite right. The plant does some good by actually cleaning up messes. A better site to name after him would be the proposed nuclear waste dump on ancient burial grounds in the Skull Valley Goshute Indian reservation in Utah.

[naschkatze]

There you go. How about renaming that mountain in Nevada after Cheney?

[kae]

I love this city.

[BrickSykes]

Awww...Now look guys....yo­u're all Ruined it! Frisco has no choice now but to withdraw the name! If we hadn't made such a big thing out of it, it would've slid right on through! Get it? SLID right on Through!

Of course, we can still call it the "DubYa Dumper" or something like that. I mean, the place will for now and evermore be referred to as that, won't it?

Good job, San Francisco!

Brick

[hoopesaz]

That is REALLY funny!! I don't usually laugh at insults at republicans, but who could help that. Pretty clever.

That being said, political hate is really such a waste of time, talent, and energy. A grassroots group that could come up with something like this could probably devise some clever proposals for something a little more pressing. I'm not suggesting this is a Dem problem only. Just seems like we spend way more time and energy hating the politics and ideas of the other side than we do coming up with constructive compromise. Guess that's just politics.