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San Francisco to vote on naming sewage plant after George W. Bush
San Francisco to vote on naming sewage plant after George W. Bush
New York Times
June 25, 2008
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.”
New York Times
June 25, 2008
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.”
Re: San Francisco to vote on naming sewage plant after George W. Bush
rrtopper@excite,com wrote in news:13d1da94-68a4-4528-99a5-6708c821f916
@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups,com :
> New York Times
> June 25, 2008
>
> An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
> By JESSE McKINLEY
The joke will be on SF when in the fullness of time the output of
this facility is fed back into the municipal water system.
IBM
rrtopper@excite,com wrote in news:13d1da94-68a4-4528-99a5-6708c821f916
@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups,com :
> New York Times
> June 25, 2008
>
> An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
> By JESSE McKINLEY
The joke will be on SF when in the fullness of time the output of
this facility is fed back into the municipal water system.
IBM
Re: San Francisco to vote on naming sewage plant after George W. Bush
On Jun 25, 1:52 am, Ian B MacLure <i...@svpal.org> wrote:
> rrtop...@excite,com wrote in news:13d1da94-68a4-4528-99a5-6708c821f916
> @y21g2000hsf.googlegroups,com :
>
> > New York Times
> > June 25, 2008
>
> > An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
> > By JESSE McKINLEY
>
> The joke will be on SF when in the fullness of time the output of
> this facility is fed back into the municipal water system.
Which it seems to me is pretty much what is going to happen to all of
us from the actions of the Bush administration...
But, that said,
Allow me to point out the significance of this liberal-hatched
"plan".
1. They were all drug users and under the influence at the time. (came
up with it in a bar)
2. It's just a joke (like most liberal political schemes), but it's
all to be paid for by taxpayer dollars.
3. Just to make the liberal point, they also want people to join them
in a dangerous and destructive "synchronized" flush. Never mind the
sewerage equipment or perhaps even lives that might be recklessly
endangered by the sudden rush of water.
And THESE are the people who stand ready to tell YOU how to run your
lives! They "care". You, on the other hand, are too inbred and
ignorant to be allowed to make decisions for yourselves.
On Jun 25, 1:52 am, Ian B MacLure <i...@svpal.org> wrote:
> rrtop...@excite,com wrote in news:13d1da94-68a4-4528-99a5-6708c821f916
> @y21g2000hsf.googlegroups,com :
>
> > New York Times
> > June 25, 2008
>
> > An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
> > By JESSE McKINLEY
>
> The joke will be on SF when in the fullness of time the output of
> this facility is fed back into the municipal water system.
Which it seems to me is pretty much what is going to happen to all of
us from the actions of the Bush administration...
But, that said,
Allow me to point out the significance of this liberal-hatched
"plan".
1. They were all drug users and under the influence at the time. (came
up with it in a bar)
2. It's just a joke (like most liberal political schemes), but it's
all to be paid for by taxpayer dollars.
3. Just to make the liberal point, they also want people to join them
in a dangerous and destructive "synchronized" flush. Never mind the
sewerage equipment or perhaps even lives that might be recklessly
endangered by the sudden rush of water.
And THESE are the people who stand ready to tell YOU how to run your
lives! They "care". You, on the other hand, are too inbred and
ignorant to be allowed to make decisions for yourselves.
Re: San Francisco to vote on naming sewage plant after George W. Bush
rrtopper@excite,com wrote:
> New York Times
> June 25, 2008
>
>
> SAN FRANCISCO will have the George W. Bush
Sewage Plant where FAGGOTS send their crap.
rrtopper@excite,com wrote:
> New York Times
> June 25, 2008
>
>
> SAN FRANCISCO will have the George W. Bush
Sewage Plant where FAGGOTS send their crap.
