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

Brock Keeling — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:19:03 GMT

Wayne Pickering (AKA, Brian McConnell), head of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco formed to honor George W. Bush -- which, at the risk of boasting, SFist was the first to tell you about back in March -- just contacted SFist to let us know that commission's ordinance initiative to changing the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility to the "George W Bush Sewage Plant" will, in fact, be on the November ballot. More details to come. Stay tuned.

Pickering was worried yesterday that they might not qualify since there was a spot check of 500 of their signatures. But that's normal since the process works like this: the power that be test 500 random signatures against the voter files. Based on said raw count, if no more than 143 of the 500 signatures (28%) are thrown out, you automatically qualify for the ballot. And: ta-da! Also, according to Wayne, "we turned in 11,999 signatures, of which 11,041 were counted in the official raw count. We need 7,168 signatures from SF voters to qualify, so we went in with over 50% more than we needed."

Congrats, craz poop plant renaming people! For the full press release, follow the jump.

Quote of the Day: George Bush and the Nazis

Brock Keeling — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:22:42 GMT

Good grief. During a speech/swipe at Barack Obama to Israel's Knesset (i.e., Israel's legislature), President Bush quipped:

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

God bless the man, but, really, how has he eluded assassination for almost eight years?

San Francisco Proposal For George W. Bush Sewage Plant Gets the FOX Treatment

Brock Keeling — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:27:17 GMT

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.

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