SFist: Breaking News: George W. Bush Sewage Plant Renaming Qualifies for November Ballot

erielhonan

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:11:04 -0800

you win the internets ChiTown :-)

ChiTownLiberal

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:49:10 -0800

Why not just change W's middle name(s) to Waste Treatment Facility. His father had 2 and he always likes to one-up his dad, so he'd love 3 middle names. Besides, then you get: 42: William J. Clinton 43: George W.T.F. Bush 44: Barack H. Obama

erielhonan

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:29:28 -0800

How about this instead? Instead of renaming the sewage treatment plant, why not offer a ballot measure to refer to George W. Bush in all future publications as "Waste Water Treatment Facility"? President 42: Bill Clinton President 43: Waste W. T. Facility President 44: Barack Obama President 45: Zombie McCain (2017-2021; **pure speculation**) That way it won't just a little local joke, it will be in all the grammar school history books across the country!

Begonia Buzzkill

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:04:55 -0800

It might behoove our 28 percenters to emulate the ancient Egyptians and scrape all images and written record of their Imperial Deciderer to protect their delicate and terrified little girl sensibilities.

Belgand

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:41:43 -0800

Wow... it was only a resolution and now an actual bill? That's incredibly weak. Making it non-binding like that isn't going to increase the people voting on it, just prove that it'll never happen even if it wins. Y'know, like mayoral accountability. Frankly I think we need a binding ballot measure to make it illegal to distribute any periodical through unsolicited home delivery. Yes, you can get the Examiner to stop, but we need to keep it from happening to begin with. This is nothing but physical spamming.

limefink

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:16:59 -0800

According the organizers' web site, the initiative reads: "Should The City And County of San Francsico Rename The Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W Bush Sewage Plant?" "Should" is not compulsory. "Shall" would be compulsory. The measure seems to leave the decision on renaming to the Board of Supervisors, and I doubt very much that they would vote to rename. Why didn't the text read more like this?: "Shall the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant be hereby[*] renamed the George W. Bush Sewage Plant?" *that is, by this initiative itself (leaving the Board of Supervisors out of it)

erielhonan

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:57:51 -0800

LOL yeah I probably did. I failed to get my PC badge in the Gender-non-specific Scouts.

californicator

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:47:21 -0800

I can just see it now... "San Francisco Loses Presidential Election for Barak Obama After Renaming Sewage Plant After George Bush". Puuuuuullllleeeesssseeeeeee! That would be a right-winger's wet dream. It ain't gonna happen!

californicator

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:42:06 -0800

"I am left of a lot of the fruit-and-nut crowd"... I think you just lost your credibility with the "fruit-and-nut" crowd, lefty.

erielhonan

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:36:22 -0800

"seems like a lot of comments from 28%ers" No way man. I am left of a lot of the fruit-and-nut crowd out here. But I'm also a pragmatic, and don't think that our electoral process should be submitted to pointedly inane gestures like this. String these bastards up for the war, but don't do anything stupid in the meantime.

erielhonan

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:32:42 -0800

"I think it is fitting for us to do something clowny in return for him." If you want to bring him and his crew up on war crimes charges, then fine. Naming a sewer plant after him is weak city. Seriously, we need to have a counter-ballot measure process that doesn't involve putting an opposite measure on the ballot. Let's say, a ballot measure has to be submitted and validated by date X. By date X + 60 days, opponents have an opportunity to collect an equal number of signatures to suppress the original measure from appearing on the ballot. Back on the east coast we don't get to - or want to - vote on all manner of silly bullshit. And because of this our local governments are forced to deal with real issues instead of all this hand-waiving over effete political issues in an endless series of bleeding-heart pissing contests.

californicator

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:28:42 -0800

Wow... seems like a lot of comments from 28%ers in here. Gotta love Digg! If you think this measure is a waste of time and money, then what do you call the war in Iraq? It seems only fitting that George W. Bush clean up our shit, while we're cleaning up his.

largo01

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:53:02 -0800

Hey, even if it is retarded, it is pretty funny. You gotta have a sense of humor--even in politics. Because once you lose that, it is over. And if it gets voted through, then it will represent the will of the people. Say what you want about ideas that are a waste of time and resources, but for having such a clown as a president, I think it is fitting for us to do something clowny in return for him.

mpantone

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:20:30 -0800

This is asinine. SF's constituency is already marginalized as a bunch of nutcases. Thoughtful liberals should focus their efforts on bettering our world, not trivializing the democratic process with juvenile, playground-caliber shenanigans. Retarded.

erielhonan

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:39:08 -0800

I'd like to propose a ballot measure, that everyone with a stupid fucking idea please just STFU. No wonder most of the good, progressive ideas that grow in the Bay Area have a hard time getting much traction. Cos for every urban composting plan we have, we have a GWBush sewage plant, a bunch of hippy treesitters, and pink grannies vs. the Marines. Progressivism needs more thinkers and less stunters. Be a thinker.

manys

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:29:23 -0800

This is totally stupid and a waste of resources for everybody involved, but this just may be the first initiative I vote Yes on that doesn't have to do with school funding.

pancakebreakfast

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:49:17 -0800

I'd honestly be more surprised if it somehow didn't make it onto the ballot.