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Boba-Phat
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5/13 8:22am
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FOXNews posted:
San Franciscans Want to Put President Bush's Name in the Toilet
A group called the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco has launched a ballot initiative that would rename a city sewage treatment plant the "George W. Bush Sewage Plant."
A petition is being circulated that would put the measure up for a vote in November. If it passes, it will rename the city's Oceanside Treatment Plant for the 43rd president of the United States.
Republican Party spokesman Leo Lacayo said it's just another move from the "hate Bush crowd."
"First of all, it's insulting," Lacayo said. "Second of all, it demonstrates to what lows some people will reach in order to oppose this president and the policies that have kept this country safe during his mandate."
Virginia-born activist and ordained minister John Rinaldi, a co-sponsor of the petition who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year under his nickname "Chicken John," said the initiative would turn "every toilet in San Francisco into basically a shrine for George W. Bush and all his great achievements in his eight years as our commander in chief."
Rinaldi — flush with pride about the idea — said renaming the plant is "the highest honor available to us."
Organizers have collected around 1,100 of the more than 10,000 signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot in November. And while local Republicans call the effort a waste of time and money, they also say it has a good chance of winning if it gets on the ballot.
"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.
The treatment facility, near the city's zoo, processes about 17 million gallons of wastewater a day, which then is discharged into the Pacific Ocean.
Bush never has visited San Francisco, a city known for its liberal politics, during his term in office. He came close once, attending a fund-raiser just outside the city.
Lacayo said the initiative has nothing to do with Bush or the federal government and that someone would even float the idea is ridiculous.
"It's a local cleaning plant for our own necessities," he said, "and it's just one more way of wasting money and the taxpayers' time."
Epstein promised to counter the campaign with mailers and media outreach if it qualifies for the ballot.
Rinaldi said no one should be pooh-poohing the petition.
"You may be thinking we're kidding over here," he said. "This is the best memorial that San Francisco is going to give to George Bush, and he should appreciate it for its face value, for exactly what it is. It's actually the least we can do."
As for what the White House thinks about the campaign: They'd be happy if the whole idea was just flushed down the toilet.
Said a spokeswoman: "It doesn't dignify a comment."
Won't do much for the city's image, but it's a pretty funny idea.
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Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it....
NOW!!!
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I think this is a great idea.
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poop lol
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J-Rod
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Seriously? This is an idea from publicly elected adult politicians? Really? Real live grown-ups? Spending public money in this manner?
Liberals... 
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Lord_Vivec posted:
I think this is a great idea.
QFT.
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That's it. I'm moving to San Fran.
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Lord_Vivec
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J-Rod posted:
Seriously? This is an idea from publicly elected adult politicians? Really? Real live grown-ups? Spending public money in this manner?
The way I look at it, it's better to spend money on a bridge to nowhere than a war to nowhere. 
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imperial_dork
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J-Rod posted:
Seriously? This is an idea from publicly elected adult politicians? Really? Real live grown-ups? Spending public money in this manner?
Liberals...
Two words: Freedom Fries
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Lord_Vivec
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imperial_dork posted:
J-Rod posted:
Seriously? This is an idea from publicly elected adult politicians? Really? Real live grown-ups? Spending public money in this manner?
Liberals...
Two words: Freedom Fries
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imperial_dork posted:
J-Rod posted:
Seriously? This is an idea from publicly elected adult politicians? Really? Real live grown-ups? Spending public money in this manner?
Liberals...
Two words: Freedom Fries
Democrats did it first. Remember WWI?
lol liberty steak
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J-Rod
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Yeah?
A) How much public money was spent on the name "Freedom Fries?"
B) That builds up America. The other tries to embarrass the President of the United States of America.
Seriously, it's 5th grade mentality. Which is OK for forums and chat rooms but not for elected grown-ups.
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Yeah, I don't think freedom fries built up America in any way.
Unless you mean in terms of obesity.
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GrandAdmiralJello posted:
Yeah, I don't think freedom fries built up America in any way.
Unless you mean in terms of obesity.
Sure, but it was meant as a way to express American pride.
GWB Sewage is just meant as an insult. 
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J-Rod posted:
Yeah?
A) How much public money was spent on the name "Freedom Fries?"
B) That builds up America. The other tries to embarrass the President of the United States of America.
Seriously, it's 5th grade mentality. Which is OK for forums and chat rooms but not for elected grown-ups.
By building up America do you mean making us look like a bunch of complete idiots? If so, you're right, it built up America.
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