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Next to the bloody weekend we had, there were Obama bake sales adoring almost every Bart station on Saturday. Also, the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is still out there, in case you forgot, gathering way more signatures than they anticipated. While they have the necessary 7,200 signatures -- as of last Thursday, they had a whopping 7,500 -- they still need more to make it stick. Stick more, or something like that.
Anyway you can follow them on Twitter HERE if you'd like.
That said, and now that you have had time to think about it, are you sill in support of changing the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility (i.e., SF's sewage plant) to the George W Bush Sewage Plant? Or not?
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My only problem with this movement is that it implies George W. Bush cares enough about the environment that his name would be lent to a sewage treatment plant. In reality, he'd probably go out of his way to make sure the damn things would never be built in the first place.
The problem is that, in addition to being rather twee, it permanently weds us to GWB.
Long after the trauma of the Bush 2000's have faded, we'll still be forced to conjure up his image every time the effing thing is mentioned --which may or may not be a good thing.
How would the Reagan Nuclear Disposal Facility would sound now? The Nixon Landfill?
I could go either way.
I grew up around lots of landmarks named after scummy politicians: turned out to be a great history lesson when I started looking up who these people were. How else could I have ever learned who Horace was?
Horace Harding, dammit!
We need to centralize some of these petition gatherers ... I'd love to sign this one and the Save the JROTC petitions. I run into the "legalize prostitution" folks quite a bit at the Muni/BART stations. Any other good petitions out there to try to find? :)
Like Billy sez, the renaming plan implies some kind of envionmental-related cred. I'm against it. Unless the plant is deliberately redesigned to discharge foul, untreated sewage, used condoms, and hypodermic needles directly onto Ocean Beach.
We already have a huge, moldering, smelly pile of shit to memorialize the Bush Administration, and that is the US's reputation. Shouldn't take more than a hundred years to clean that one up.
My problem is, didn't Newsom say he wanted to turn that treatment plant into a biofuels facility? I would hate to have something good named after that ass.
(And of course, the fact that Newsom announced this right after the petition drive got underway only bolsters the proposition that he is a DINO in the Dianne Feinstein mode).
I'm against renaming the Sewage Treatment Plant after George W. Bush. I think it's horribly insulting to sewage treatment plants.
Instead, we should change the name of Bush Street to Obama Street -- and have it go into effect on Jan. 20, 2009.
Sewage plants make dirty things clean, which is the opposite of Bush. Don't we have a garbage dump or something we could name after him?
No, naming a garbage dump after George Bush is too unfair to garbage dumps.
As a resident of Bush Street...I'd love to see that name go!
I took a photo a week ago of that guy wearing an Uncle Sam uniform.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agentakit/2578467233/
It's a smear campaign...
And a waste of taxpayers' money. . .
As much as I like this idea, I like the unnaming of Bush Street even more. If somehow we could just toss this cretin down the memory hole.
The somewhat official explanation is nebulous at best, so why not rename it Obama St?
Bush Street
J.P. Bush
Helped O’Farrell Survey San Francisco
This is perhaps the most difficult to trace of all the early San Francisco street names. The name of Dr. Jonathan P. Bush has been suggested, but he did not arrive until 1849, and Bush Street appears on the two earliest maps with street names–both published in 1847.
An unverified story published in the San Francisco Chronicle August 17, 1893, tells of a man coming to San Francisco from Oregon, claiming he was J. P. Bush. He said he had first arrived in San Francisco in 1845 as a cabin boy on the New England Whaler Margaret, then deserted and became one of O’Farrell’s assistants in mapping the city’s streets in 1847, and that O’Farrell had named Bush Street for him. This Chronicle story is the most likely explanation of the name.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/street/stnames3.html
i think we should wait to see if obama wins, and what kind of legacy unfurls, before we go renaming a street after him. it's a little too creepily bay area, mystical-black-man fetishistic at this point.
also, it anything it should be renamed "barack," but that's a personal preference.
If McCain wins are we all moving to Canada again?
It seems the depth of disdain for Bush runs deeper than the sewers. We proposed a mission trip to the SF sewers by our local sewer racoons
club to help propel the Styxian contents by paddling it faster. Google SEWER RACCOON NEWS for more info.
It seems to us that the handling of sewage in His name trumps the also legitimate thought of erasing Him from memory ASAP.
Couldn't agree more, Zep. It does seem fitting that Dubya's name be linked with crap forever more. Especially since he will, of course, get his library and have his portrait hanging with the preceding 42 office holders like he was something legitimate. And perhaps we should not rush to purge him from memory because pain is a powerful motivator and we need to stay motivated to clean up this mess!