Author Topic: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
Jabba-wocky 
Registered: May '03
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:14pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
Everton, okay. Will do.

 

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AaylaSecurOWNED 
Registered: May '05
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:14pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
J-Rod posted:
A) How much public money was spent on the name "Freedom Fries?"

Sorry, how much public money is being spent on the name change to the sewage plant?

 

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Souderwan 
Registered: Jun '05
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:18pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant - Date Edited: 5/13 2:21pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Souderwan
They're spending money collecting signatures, and then they have to actually bring a referendum--something else that will cost money. The Freedom Fries thing was done by the people running the cafeterias in DC, IIRC. It certainly was not something that came to a vote on the House or Senate Floor.

So the difference is some money vs no money. The people of San Fransisco will decide if that sum of money (whatever it is) is an acceptable cost to them.

Edit: I take it back. Our Congresspeople are stupider than I even thought. Apparently two dorks in the House actually ordered the renaming in the House Cafs after the name caught on. Ok. Some money.

 

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Jaden-Skywalker 
Registered: Mar '04
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:21pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant - Date Edited: 5/13 2:24pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Jaden-Skywalker
Souderwan posted:
Jaden-Skywalker posted:

I could move to America and I'd be happy to have the freedom to work. But happy to have the freedom not to earn enough, get sick and die?

No thankyou.


Remarkably, you also have the freedom to earn whatever you're willing to work for, see the best doctors in the world, and live a long and healthy life, too. But whatever.
And those that don't have the skills to get a well-paid job? Or those that can't afford university?

Edit: I don't mean to drag this into a healthcare discussion, just wondering.

 

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Lord_Vivec 
Registered: Apr '06
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:22pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
I find this whole thing amusing.

 

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Darth_Bumble 
Registered: Mar '03
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:22pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
Andalite-Bandit posted:
What I meant though was that sometimes the amount of people expressing viewpoints here like Darth Bumble is depressing to me, that so many people in this country have those kinds of baseless and nationalistic viewpoints. It's just like kind of "arrrghhhhh."



Just because my "viewpoint" is different does not make it baseless. And I wasn't trying to be nationalistic. Just becasue I say that I enjoy steak more than chicken doesn't mean I don't appreciate what salmon has to offer.

Don't let the fact that some else is different ever get you down. Embrace diversity! Co-Exist!

 

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Jabba-wocky 
Registered: May '03
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:23pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
This is an awful idea, and totally inappropriate.


Sewage plants clean up crap.

 

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Everton 
Title: Forum Feud Winner
Registered: Jul '03
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:23pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
lol

 

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Andalite-Bandit 
Registered: Apr '05
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:24pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant - Date Edited: 5/13 2:25pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Andalite-Bandit
Saying that the elected officials of San Francisco see Che Guevera as a hero and that the majority of mass atrocities are committed by "leftists" is pretty close to the realm of baselessness.


Jabba-wocky posted:
This is an awful idea, and totally inappropriate.


Sewage plants clean up crap.


Jabba Wocky I commend you on your quality joke, however I always thought Neo-Pilgrims would have supported George W Bush due to your doctrines which advocate war.

 

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AaylaSecurOWNED 
Registered: May '05
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:24pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
It sounds like the petition is being circulated by a private group called the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco, are they using public money to get the signatures?

 

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Souderwan 
Registered: Jun '05
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:25pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant - Date Edited: 5/13 2:29pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Souderwan
Jaden-Skywalker posted:
And those that don't have the skills to get a well-paid job? Or those that can't afford university?

Edit: I don't mean to drag this into a healthcare discussion, just wondering.


Do you have any idea how many different opportunities there are to obtain skills to get a well-paid job? To go to university? Every year, millions of dollars of scholarships in this country go unclaimed.


Look. I'm not trying to convince you to live here. My point is that the cost for the freedom to succeed is the freedom to fail. To some people, it's unacceptable to let anyone ever fail. I disagree. I value the freedoms we have. We're not perfect, but your characterization of this country was unfair and myopic.

Edit: Dani, I don't know the internal workings of San Fransisco city government operations to comment on the costs. The only thing I can say for sure is that it will cost something--between holding the referendum to actually changing the name if it passes. Again, I don't care what it costs, though, because I'm not from San Fransisco.

 

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DarthPoojaNaberrie 
Registered: Jun '05
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:28pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
Andalite-Bandit posted:
...man I need to get out of this country. The JC is depressing sometimes.


go back to these kinds of threads. maybe you'll feel better

 

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Everton 
Title: Forum Feud Winner
Registered: Jul '03
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:29pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant - Date Edited: 5/13 2:30pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Everton
I will hand out some grass and pots of paint (shades of green). You may use whichever shade you wish, but you MUST PAINT YOUR GRASS.

 

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Darth_Bumble 
Registered: Mar '03
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:32pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
Andalite-Bandit posted:
Saying that the elected officials of San Francisco see Che Guevera as a hero and that the majority of mass atrocities are committed by "leftists" is pretty close to the realm of baselessness.


As for part A, admittedly this is based on an extrapolation of known personality characteristics and probabilistic statistical analysis of leftists that I have encountered who were willing to be forthright with their opinions. While I may be wrong, my opinion is not baseless. (Nonetheless, I submit that the claim also was meant as satire, i.e., an apparent exaggeration of reality for the purpose of commentary or correction.)

As for part B, I admit for the record Che Guevara, Pol Pot, Stalin, etc. (not to mention the case that can be made for viewing facism as leftist). Again, while you may disagree, also not baseless.

 

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AaylaSecurOWNED 
Registered: May '05
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Date Posted: 5/13 2:34pm Subject: RE: George W. Bush Sewage Plant
Brian, I was really replying to J-Rod tongue

 

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