October 31, 2008

San Francisco has approved Proposition R to be on the ballot. What's Proposition R? A move to change the name of the city's Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to the George W Bush Sewage Plant. Reaction has been mixed, both from Bush supporters to supporters of the sewage plant. Come on, Bay monkeys -- vote early, vote often!
posted by Capt. Renault 16 years ago
  • Thanks Cappy - that one brightens up my whole day.
  • Also on the ballot: Proposition K, to 'decriminalize' prostitution (or more accurately, not investigate or prosecute it). More info on all propositions here. [humongo PDF]
  • well about the only thing I would consider naming after him would be something filled with shit, so hey!
  • It would have been more subtle to name it "The George Bush Center for Philosophy". Then 'Friscans could avoid using a euphemism like, "I'm going to drop the kids off at the pool", they could say, "I'm just going to send W. a fresh thesis". "Sometimes I sits and thinks... and sometimes I just sits."
  • My favorite bit is that the "opponents say renaming the plant after Bush would be disrespectful to the plant and its workers." I suppose such an association is too much even for those who can put up with smelling everyone's shit for eight hours a day.
  • What about the George W. Bush Memorial Gambling Casino for the Insane?
  • Guys, your jokes really stink up the joint.
  • Bush is such a huge no-thing for me, and the idea of honoring him by naming anything after offends me so much that its hard to speak coherently. But it is a sewage plant, and the idea of memorializing his name linked with literal feces is so just, after all he's done to symbolically link his name feces. I'm torn on how I'd vote.
  • Sewage treatment plants, or water pollution control facilities as they are often referred to, serve a vital and necessary function for today's cities. Putting George W. Bush's name on one of them demeans the sewage treatment plant. This summer I visited one of the largest sewage treatment plants on the West Coast. The people that were giving the tours were employees, and the work that was being done was interesting and varied. They're not people whose only qualification is the ability to put up with "smelling shit for 8 hours a day". It would be much better to name an emergent, deadly disease after our current president. Something that kills people, and ruins lives.
  • How about an aircraft carrier, then?
  • I'm with retrosurf, though personally I'm thinking he needs an intestinal parasite named after him.
  • Poor wormie.
  • For the record, I didn't say that the only qualification is being able to deal with smelling shit all day. However, it is still a necessary qualification for many of these employees. I like the disease idea. There was some new hemorrhagic fever discovered in southern Africa a month or two ago, what do you say we write a letter to the discoverer?
  • I keep thinking about when Ted Striker hopped the wall of the insane asylum, and it proved to be named after Reagan...
  • Juvenile behavior.