The George W. Bush Sewer Plant
Carla Axtman
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.
The rest of the piece is here.
I think we should get something like this on the ballot here in Oregon. Perhaps change the name of the Hillsboro Landfill to the George W. Bush Garbage Dump? Or the Ashland Wastewater Treatment Plant could adopt the name the folks in San Francisco are using--but complete it with the Dick Cheney Oxidation Ditches?
This is way better than anything Sizemore could cook up.
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Jun 25, '08
If we name anything after Randy Leonard, we would have to use Duct Tape
Jun 25, '08
Mike Erickson Women's Health Clinic
Bill Sizemore Center for Ethics in Government
Erik Sten Software Development Center
Dick Cheney Peace Institute
Donald Rumsfeld Bureaucracy and Paperworr Reduction Act
Richard Nixon Recording Studio
Phyllis Schlafly Center for Radical Feminism
1:04 p.m.
Jun 25, '08
I remember when Houston Intercontinental was renamed after the first President Bush. To this day, most people refuse to call it that.
Jun 25, '08
Pretty good.
I bet you're happy you can't get the death penalty for raping a child. You libs must be proud! What an accomplishment for 'progressives'.
Long live the Democrat PAR-TAY!
1:31 p.m.
Jun 25, '08
Fun: trolls!
I'm thinking that the most likely place to get a public vote along these lines is right here in Multnomah County.
And of course, we wouldn't want to rename anything that already is named after someone...
I suggest the City of Portland's Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant.
I suggest we follow the lead of our neighbors to the south... and call it the "George W. Bush Sewage Plant".
Randy Leonard is the commissioner in charge. Whaddya think, Randy?
1:40 p.m.
Jun 25, '08
Golly Zen, I bet you're now so happy, you want to go off and rape a child yourself! I bet!
Isn't it nice when you can make stuff up in your own mind to get outraged about?
For the record, I'm against capital punishment for the simple reason that I don't trust police/prosecutors (for that, right wingers can substitute the word "guv'mint") to always do it without making a mistake. And the safeguards we already have already cost more than just locking the convict up without the possibility of parole. I don't agree with the Court, however, that "evolving societal standards" have made child rape off limits to states that do allow it.
I'd gladly that decision for the political one that selected Bush over Gore.
1:42 p.m.
Jun 25, '08
Also, for the record, I think the whole thing about naming things for controversial people is childish. But still, it's fun to think about naming a bathroom stall after Senator Craig.
Jun 25, '08
Why would you name something that protects the environment after George W. Bush?
Jun 25, '08
Steven,
This is why it's so important to get Progressives on the Supreme Court - to protect the children.
If you haven't done so already, you might want to write the Oregon Parole Board, your fellow democrat Richard Gillmore could use your support.
Also for the Sewer Plant name: "Progressive Ethics Center" "Democrat Policy Center"
2:27 p.m.
Jun 25, '08
Why would you name something that protects the environment after George W. Bush?
Fair enough. I think the logic is a little simpler: It's full of shit.
Jun 25, '08
Why would you name something that protects the environment after George W. Bush?
Irony comes to mind...
3:59 p.m.
Jun 25, '08
The Avel Gordly Yo-Yo Factory The Dennis Richardson HIV/AIDS Center The Ted Kulongoski Lukewarm Water Treatment Plant The Jeff Merkley Milk and Toast Works (sorry!) The Greg Macpherson Department of State Residency Status The Ben Westlund Sperm Bank (duh) The Scott-Minnis Retirement Home (yay!) The Ron Saxton Day Laborer Center The Donna Nelson Aquanet Manufacturing Plant Steve Novick's Big and Tall Shop
4:06 p.m.
Jun 25, '08
Zen: [Y]our fellow democrat Richard Gillmore
The "Zen Troll"(*) Ministry of Truth.
(*) For "Zen Troll" you could substitute FOX or half the rest of the mainstream media.
Jun 25, '08
I'm surprised this is just now being talked about here on BO. This story is really, really old -- I think I even heard about it in the mainstream media like two months ago.
What the folks in SF are doing is amusing but, I think, ultimately, if the plant does end up getting the name of a President, 50 years from now, he'll just be a past President and nobody will remember how worked-up you all got while he was President. So, the plant will have the name of a past President and those that do take note will think it ironic and maybe disrespectful and another symbol of how government in general is dysfunctional (after all, the government named a sewage treatment plant after a President -- very few folks will make a stink that it came via public initiative). So, if the folks of SF want to remind people that government is dysfunctional, more power to them, they only weaken the argument that government can intervene in folks' personal lives and make life sugar and spice.
My .02
geoffludt
Jun 25, '08
Oh, and here's my contribution to naming of institutions and assets after public figures:
The Bill Clinton Department of Sexual Welfare.
Now, that would be a "Great Society".
Jun 25, '08
Goldschmidt Children's Place.
Ted and Bernie's Quiet Cafe (preferably located near Mahonia Hall), with lots of intimate booths.
Betsy Johnson Prison for Women.
Jun 26, '08
So the Verdict is in:
Libs / Progressives on the Supreme Court:
You progressives must be Proud!
7:58 a.m.
Jun 26, '08
Hmmm...maybe Zen needs his/her own named sewer plant.
LOL
Jun 26, '08
Carla,
Glad you got a laugh out of the fact that had it not been for conservatives on the Supreme Court: someone could kick your door in [you wouldn't be able to own a gun to protect yourself or your family], rape your children. and not have to worry about their own life.
You must be Proud!
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.
8:19 a.m.
Jun 26, '08
I'm embracing my mental disorder, Zen..just as you're embracing your sewer.
:)
Jun 26, '08
Zen...
You have got to stop drinking your Kool-Aid with the extra sugar the NeoCons are filling into it. It's rotting your mind and keeping your common sense center of your brain from working normally.
Jun 26, '08
Why are you even wasting your time reading this, Zen? Don't you have your own life to be concerned about. I'll never understand trolls.... I never waste my time reading the conservatives conversations with themselves. I already know that we disagree.
Jun 26, '08
I'm happy that the Supremes are upholding my right to easily murder my family in a fit of insane passion. Imagine if I had to do the deed with a table knife, say.
Jun 26, '08
Zen, give it up. Even IF the Supremes ruled that we had NO rights to guns, people wouldn't give up the ones they have and indeed, just like alcohol during prohibition, illegal gun sales would skyrocket. "Guv'mint" ain't coming in black helicopters to take your precious guns away, so chill already.
And I'm sorry, but I've lived in really crappy, dangerous areas of the country, the suburbs, and the inner cities. And I've yet to hear of anyone having someone kick in their door and rape their children. Are you sure you're not confusing real life with some video game somewhere?
Quick Poll---how many reading have had their house's doors kicked in by those wishing to harm them (no fair counting drunk ex-frat brothers who are trying to mess with your head)?
Seriously, like Eric said, lay off the kool-aid. You're starting to foam at the mouth. Not pretty.
12:21 p.m.
Jun 26, '08
Mel, Zen (who isn't) is a wacko. The weird thing is that the Supreme Court ruled that there is an individual right to own weapons, including having them loaded without a gun lock in your house, without belonging to a militia, according to NPR this morning. It just said that the right's not unlimited, which is the only reason I can imagine our unbalanced friend objects. Dang, I really wanted that F-16.
And the decision was written by that well-known liberal Antonin Scalia, to boot. Damn that sell-out Reagan who appointed him, anyway.
But un-Zen's reference to Richard Gillmore upstream refers to a case before the parole board of a guy who did break into a house (apparently while unoccupied) and raped a 13 year old girl after she came home from school. Now the likelihood that the presence of a gun in the house would have changed that is vanishingly small, given the detailed description of what happened that I heard the victim give on the radio earlier this morning, and if at that age she'd been able to get to such a gun there's a pretty high likelihood that he would have managed to get hold of it and turn it against her. Still, his reference is in some kind of tenuous touch with reality.
Actually, once a house I lived in during college was broken into by a deranged guy with a gun (probably Zen) who was looking for a housemate's friend, a guy named Lars (not on the radio these days), claiming that Lars had stolen some pot that belonged to him, and screaming "Lars is not a viking! Lars is not a viking!" according to the one housemate who was home at the time. Housemate nonetheless managed to persuade ur-Zen that the non-viking was not in the house, at which point he kicked a hole in the wall and stormed out. Not sure if this counts as a version of the frat scenario or not. Seems quite unlikely that another gun would have improved the situation, though. And it was not quite a random break-in either, I guess, insofar as we had a housemate who was friends with a small-time pot dealer.
Jun 26, '08
Ted Kennedy School of Driving.
12:35 p.m.
Jun 26, '08
Hey folks.... Can we please take the gun control conversation over to the thread on gun control, please? Let's try and stay on topic.
Jun 26, '08
I think it's a good idea to name you liberals stench after one of our greatest presidents. He's done a fine job of deflecting the shit you fucks spew all the while protecting you nasty vile rainbow warriors from the camel riding terrorists who would just as soon behead you pine cone eating idiots as look at you. I am so ever thankful he beat the owlgore and the poodle.
Jun 26, '08
Golly Gee, Tony.
Faced with your incontrovertible evidence presented in such an articulate, logical and well-thought out argument, I have no choice but to see reason and be won over to your way of thinking. Please tell me, what is my next step towards your enlightened position?
Jun 26, '08
protecting you nasty vile rainbow warriors from the camel riding terrorists
You mean protecting us from the terrorists who destroyed the WTC, tried to destroy the Pentagon, and killed 3,500 people?
"One of our greatest presidents" was ignoring CIA briefings, reading "My Pet Goat" and soiling himself on Air Force One on 9/11. Was that what you meant by "protecting" us, Tony?
How about we rename the section of Arlington Natl. Cemetery where the Iraq War veterans are buried after Shrub?
Jun 26, '08
The Neil Goldschmidt Day Care Center
Jun 26, '08
PS. To our Tony Zen Trolls, angry name calling might help reduce your blood pressure but it won't prevent the stunning defeat of the Republicans in November. Get ready for eight years of severe high blood pressure!
Jun 26, '08
I for the life of me cannot figure out why people who don't agree resort to ridicule and name calling. Oh, yes, I can. they have nothing else. Could you guys just grow up. You make it unseemly for the rest of us.
Jun 27, '08
I'd like to see a sewage treatment plant named after George W. Bush. It would deffinatly go down in the ANAL's of history
Jul 18, '08
Gay Fagots using time wisley