May 14, 2008
San Francisco Proposal For George W. Bush Sewage Plant Gets the FOX Treatment
As most of you know by now, the George W Bush Sewage Plant proposal--news that SFist broke way back in March (yay, us!)--is making the rounds all across this great country of ours. And after landing on FOX News last week, the steady stream of hate mail makes for a fantastic read. Here are two of our favorite,most thought-provoking rebuttals so far. Ahem:
You truly are a cancerous ulcer on the anus of an AIDs Infected faggot. You think this is funny, why don’t you go and do something that is worth while instead of making a mockery of our President. If you don’t like this country then get the FUCK OUT. Better yet, take the majority of those knee jerk liberals from the Bay Area with you. Go try Lebanon or Iran and see how far your nonsense will take you there. The rest of this great country don’t need you and the rest of those knee jerk liberals up there with you.
And:
They should put a picture of your mother's stinking, overgrown, sweaty bush on the sewage plat, you fucking cocksucker.
Don't be scared to send the Presidential Memorial Commission you most intimate thoughts.You can do it here.
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I love how they always suggest a place like Iran, as if there aren't tons of nicer options. If the plane ticket's on them, I wouldn't mind getting me some of that French healthcare.
Sadly, after 9/11 the ability to become a Canadian citizen got a lot harder. Otherwise...
This is like the Howard Stern hate mail! I love it!!
What would Jesus do? I'm sure he'd call anyone he disagreed with "a cancerous ulcer on the anus of an AIDs Infected faggot" too!
I'd move back to Belgium in a heartbeat if the weather were better!!
Fun Fact: Worthwhile is one word!
Fun Fact 2: Getting angry about poop doesn't help anyone or anything "GET OUT!"
A lot of countries, I think the EU among them, have a provision that makes it easy to immigrate if you have enough money or pension income to not be a leech on their welfare states.
I should take up a collection among Fox News fans - for $1 million (maybe less!) my wife and I would gladly move to France for the rest of our lives.
No 2 option - if you have Italian grandparents (and who shouldn't!) is to become an Italian citizen. One of my college friends has an Italian passport now and after a few years her husband will be able to either get a passport as well or get an EU green card (I don't remember which.) In typical Italian bureaucratic fashion the process took her something like four years of back an forth paperwork, but, hey, if you're not into that you have no business moving to Italy.
Supposedly there is a loophole in French law that allows you to bypass the five year residency requirement and apply immedately for citizenship if you were born in a "formerly held french territory." And apparently this applies to the Louisiana Purchase.
I hope to be testing this loophole shortly.
The rest of this great country don’t need you.
Damn right - what better time for Californian Independence?
What eloquent comments in the post above, no doubt penned by poets!
Fun Fact3: The "s" is also capitalized in AIDS!
Yay!
For the record, I vehemently oppose naming the Sewage Treatment Center after George W. Bush. I believe that it is terribly unfair to sewage treatment centers.
If anything, I believe that San Francisco should change the name of Bush Street -- http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4409
"You think this is funny, why don’t you go and do something that is worth while instead of making a mockery of our President."
I suppose hate mail is a worthwhile endeavor that glorifies the office of the President. Gee, with these kind of typically Amurrican reasoning skills, folks wonder why I'm basically genocidal at any given moment of any given day.
Time for California to abandon this stinky union once and for all. I think I'll set about drafting a constitutional amendment to allow that to happen.
According to http://www.jdcjr.us/SFStreets.html Bush street is "reported to have been named for J.P. Bush who reached Yerba Buena in 1845 as a cabin boy on the whaler Margaret. He assisted Jasper O'Farrell in making the first map of The City. One story is that O'Farrell named the street after him in lieu of payment for his services with the survey."
So that would not be fair to old J.P. Of course, "J.P. Not The Disaster of a President Bush Street " would work for me.
These comments have been interesting to me. Bushies have been yelling at people in SF to get out of 'Merca if we don't like it, but just about everyone in this thread has said they would get out if they could.
Do, do we hate 'merca?
paulhogarth: Jesus, you have way too much time on your hands. Why don't you volunteer or do something meaningful?
From the Fox News article:
"Naturally, we're going to fight it," said Howard Epstein, the chairman of the city's Republican Party.
They call the move just another "crazy" idea from the "weirdo" transients who call San Francisco home.
I hate 'merca's government and its priorities.
Fun Fact4: The sewage plant can be said to be on a plat of land (per dictionary.com), however the plant itself cannot be called a plat.
Whee!
I quite like being American and I quite like america; I for one would much prefer it if these hate-mail guys (and, of course, W and crew) went to a place like Iran or Syria or North Korea since the culture and governments there seem to fit their values much more closely.
This president needs no help in making a mockery of the office he holds, my friend... if you don't like the tradition of liberalism and Enlightenment values that this nation was founded on, why don't YOU get the hell out? It's not like you've got your blue-collar job anymore anyway. Follow your ancestors' example and emigrate someplace else, why dontcha.
I picture the George W Bush Sewage Plant as a metaphor for the cleansing and purifying and reclaiming that we need to do to America's soiled and tarnished reputation around the world. I think of it as a testament to the vital work that our sewage workers do. It's nice to think that even shit-water can be reclaimed. It gives me hope that maybe the damage that Dubya and company have done isn't permanent.
It's a joke. It's all a joke.
Does the proposal include an estimate of how many millions the name change will cost, and how it will be paid for?
The effort must be bipartisan, folks. In exchange, give the conservatives a William Jefferson Clinton STD Clinic or a James Earl Carter Hostage Scenario Training Facility.
I certainly don't agree with the hateful comments sent in about the renaming but c'mon it's a dumb idea. It doesn't really mean anything, nothing gets accomplished by it and it gives people another reason to say how crazy everyone is in SF.
Personally I would rather not name anything after this lame excuse for a president. He doesn't deserve the honor and he doesn't deserve the energy that people put into hating him. He is absolutely worthless and the best thing would be for all of us to forget he ever existed.
I always love how the nutjobs like to classify disagreeing with the government or the current state of America) as saying that you are the one who hates freedom and thus should be forced to go live somewhere else. Maybe it's a defect in their education which stressed that the only freedoms you have are the freedom to "love America" and the freedom to put up and shut up.
Frankly I've long wanted to rename the city New Sodom. It would piss off all the right people and help promote our long-standing sex-positive attitudes and welcoming of homosexuals (though I think only a complete asshat of a nutjob would call someone a "sodomite"). Hopefully we could convince Oakland (or better -- and more likely -- Berkeley) into becoming New Gamorrah.
I love 'merica more than dubya does.
Forgetting the Bush presidency is a terrible idea, virtualguthrie. Who cares if the nation thinks SF is nutty? Every time we're ridiculed, a week later several other cities choose to adopt whatever municipal ordinance was formerly deemed bat-shit crazy.
Naming the treatment plant after a sitting president is a joke, something we have a great tradition of here (re: Twain, Bierce, etc). And it serves to remind us next time to flush the toilet at the ballot box. Hell, I wish we could export the idea to Woody Guthrie's home of Oklahoma where I'm from. You think Bush is bad, check out the two senators there. They're unforgettable.
If they want California to leave the union, that would detriment the rest of the country since we would take with us the 5th largest economy in the world. California has a huge population and is totally unrepresented in the Presidential election and it is rather unfair that it only gets 2 senators (although admittedly that was the compromise)... Considering we are like 1/4 the American tax-base and we get nothing in return, it is a wonder California hasn't already left.
@ largo01
Part of the problem is that we've never fully resolved arguments over federalism. Are we a group of largely independent states conglomerated into a unified nation for our common good or are we merely subdivisions of a greater national government?
There are many valid arguments on both sides and as time passes and interstate and international travel becomes increasingly common it makes this 200 year-old issue flex and change and become even more relevant.
The electoral college is a fine example of this. The present system does not go by popular vote because it is an anti-federalist system. The states are the ones voting and are merely weighted based on population. As such the elections are just for you to select your state's decision.