San Francisco may name sewage treatment plant after Bush

[Flashermac]

SAN FRANCISCO: Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital, and a state, too. But President George W. 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 - hatched, naturally, 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," 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 a 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 toilets that would send a flood of water toward the plant, now named the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant.

 

"It's a way of doing something physical that's mentally freeing," said Stacey Reineccius, 45, a supporter of the plan. "It's a weird thing, but it's true."

 

 

 

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[Hugh_Hoy]

San Fran...surprised that cesspool has a sewer.

 

HH

[Torneyboy]

What a great idea

[Bangkoktraveler]

I named all of the urinals after Bush also.

[dean]

As I wrote to a S.F. city official two years ago, I just hope that I'm still alive when the "big one" hits the city. There are more scumbag city officials there per capita than any other city in the world.

[Flashermac]

Can't argue much with that. The city has changed since I was a kid. It wasn't always Sodom by the Sea.

 

 

[rchapstick]

Well, Deano ... seeing that you are visiting LA in the near future, here's hoping you and your family are in LA when "the big one" hits.

 

Not so funny now, is it smart ass ....

[dean]

Actually, if you want me to quote my letter exactlly, I wished the "big one's" epicenter would be at city hall. Hopefully, you don't live anywhere near there. Besides, I won't be in LA. My wife and her kids will be on that flight, which I'm buying flight insurance for (it's more likely that a China Airline's flight will crash than an earthquake hitting LA after it has landed). I'm flying NWA through Minn. on a flight four days before my wife's flight. The last time that I checked, Minn. doesn't lie on a fault plane. Finally, its not my fault if you live in a scumbag town that lies on THE major fault line in the U.S. I'd love to debate you on the rationality of living near this fault line but this is my last say on the subject!

[rchapstick]

Amazing! You can actually rationalize wishing for a natural disaster on a metropolitan area of over 6 million people?

 

Dude, I don't live in SF proper, and I am no fan of the vast majority of SF politicians, but I would NEVER wish a natural disaster upon a ANYONE, let alone on a major metropolitan area simply because I do not like a group of politicians. That would be like me wishing your wife and kid die in a plane crash, because I do not like the pilot.

 

You are seriously sick person.

[dean]

Rchapstick, I think that you give me more power than anyone has. I don't think that anyone can cause an earthquake. Concerning my conflicts with S.F. city hall, I tried, for over a year, to settle things peacefully. They are, literally, a bunch of fucking assholes. That letter that I sent to them was a parting shot. Unless I am mistaken, every scientist studying the San Francisco area has pridicted a major earthquake sometime in the next 30 years. IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!!! Its not like other major natural disasters that can not be predicted. And my comments in the letter were directed toward the city officials who decided to sieze a property of mine in San Francisco worth $6,000.00. They were not directed toward the people of S.F. in general. If you tell me that you have never wished anyone that you met and have had bad feelings toward would drop dead, I'd call you a liar. But I certainly wouldn't act on those feelings. By the way, I brought this topic up 18 months ago here and you didn't respond then. Why not? End of discussion!