Sewage treatment produces clean water. Naming something that actually cleans up messes after W doesn't seem all that appropriate to me.

They could call them "Bushit Here On the Spot"

I'll donate the artwork for the logo. Better yet, I'll donate the proceeds from the income to War Vets in need of prosthetics...

I find this entire thing amusing. Howard Epstein's response is especially amusing since his party has a history of similar "loony" renaming (i.e. Freedom Fries). There is even more irony in that when a Republican does such a thing, it is without any vote. From wikipedia:

"House cafeterias were ordered to rename French fries 'Freedom fries"' This action was carried out without a congressional vote, under the authority of Ney's position as Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, which oversees restaurant operations for the chamber."

I was laughing so hard I almost peed myself.

Although I get the joke, I see this proposal as a disservice to the San Francisco water district workers who do a fantastic job of cleaning up our refuse. Although the current administration has done a very good job of making a mess, they have shown very little skill (or even inclination) to try to clean up the messes of their own creation.

But that would be an insult to sewage plants.

Badump bump.

This story is a Catskills comic joke come to life!

When you consider the fact someone has been cleaning up after this guy his entire adult life perhaps the sewage treatment affiliation is more accurate than you might have considered......

At the very least it would be wonderful footnote to his memoires.

:-)

... renaming the Hayward fault to "George W Bush's Fault".

... it's because it's so much fun to see them NOT get the joke at all. Many years ago, I came to see a (generally) basic dynamic of politics:

1) In every group, there always one person who doesn't get the joke.(That doesn't include mean-spirited derisive laughter about something incredibly stupid and nasty being said about the people on the other side.)

2) That person goes into politics (or some affiliated field where people take themselves too seriously to breathe, like Serial Killing).

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Regarding the Bush Prez Memorial Water Treatment Plant, your article stated:

But the chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, Howard Epstein is not amused, calling the ballot measure an abuse of the system and "loony bin direct democracy": "There's no use other than to make these nutcases feel good," he told the Chronicle. "It's typical San Francisco crazies."

HEY - EPSTEIN -- get a sense of humor transplant -- as it is, you're just one more embarrassment to those of us who, as Jews, do NOT want to be lumped in with the likes of you (or, for example, Joey Lieberman) and have people say "So THAT'S what Jews are like."

Not to get pissy, but isn't this better described as a tempest in a chamber-pot.

A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Hoo.

t.

My long-time idea for a Bush Memorial would be a hole in the ground. And people can come from all over the country (and the world) and pay $10 urinate into it. (People from Iraq get to go for free.) Should be able to raise enough money from that to pay for a presidential library to keep Monkey Boy's Comic Books (although keeping order in the incredibly long lines of people who need to go might require highly paid professional help).

It reminds me of the old Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard joke (which none of the people in this administration know, since they've never done that sort of thing) and it goes like this:

The Noncom in charge says to the Private:

"I'll bet when I'm dead, you'll piss on my grave."

To which the Private says:

"No sergeant, once I'm a civilian, I'm never going to wait in a long line again."

Ba-dum DUM!!

been dedicating my daily donations to the local sewage treatment plant in honor of GW.

I agree that naming the plant after him would be more than he deserves.

It wasn't already named after Reagan?

'Howard Epstein is not amused, calling the ballot measure an abuse of the system and "loony bin direct democracy": "There's no use other than to make these nutcases feel good," he told the Chronicle.'

Yeah, that's how I feel about National Airport (and a million other places).

And, I'm not sure the sewage treatment plant naming is fair or accurate: the plant cleans contaminated water, whereas everything W touches turns to shit. How about naming some especially virulent strain of bacteria or an invasive rodent species?

"There's no use other than to make these nutcases feel good," he told the Chronicle.

Which is why we have an aiport named after Reagan.

would be taking "W" and naming it for something similar to "santorum." It's actually even more appropriate in W's case.

P.S. For those of you who don't know what santorum is, I won't go into it. Just let me say it's not pretty.

This story brings back memories from my time living in D.C. during the reign of Tricky Dick. A construction project was beginning on the Mall, not far from the White House. As often happens, the first step was to bulldoze all the unwanted material on the site into a big pile to be trucked away.

In the dark of night, someone placed a large "Nixon Memorial" sign atop the pile of trash. The sign was gone by the end of the morning rush hour.

There was a serious effort to carve Regan's head on Mount Rushmore.

It is fitting that 20 years from now parents can explain to their children that their "pee pee and poopy" is taken care of by someone who used to be the President of The United States.

But expand the name to "The Wide Stance and Bush Memorial Shit Processing Facility" it has a certain "ring" to it.

A sewage treatment plant? Nah.

Let them turn Gitmo into a museum memorializing presidential crimes, and name that after him.

Failing that, name a slaughterhouse after him.

Better still, name a cell block after him and stick him in it.