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SAN FRANCISCO -- With President Bush's term in office headed for history, some residents in liberal San Francisco are preparing a parting gift of sorts for the lame duck leader.

A group submitted a proposal Monday to rename a civic structure after No. 43: the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

Supporters hoping to put the issue on the November ballot turned in more than 10,000 signatures to election officials, said organizer Brian McConnell. The measure needs just over 7,000 valid names to qualify and he expects to find out later this month whether they made it.

Proponents of the renaming plan see it as fitting tribute to a president they contend has plumbed the depths of incompetence.

"We think that it's important to remember our leaders in the right historical context," said McConnell, a member of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco, which was formed after a group of friends came up with the renaming idea.

"In President Bush's case, we think that we will be cleaning up a substantial mess for the next 10 or 20 years," he added. "The sewage treatment facility's job is to clean up a mess, so we think it's a fitting tribute."

Souce (http://www.ktvu.com/news/16813160/detail.html). I find it insulting to sewage and sewage treatment plants everywhere to be associated with George W. Bush. What are your thoughts?

The things people who has too much time on their hands will do.

Re-naming a sewage plant is apparently one of them.

The things people who has too much time on their hands will do.

Re-naming a sewage plant is apparently one of them.

Spending time on NSG is another. :D

Whoa. I guess they showed him. Now he's going to renounce everything he's ever done, said, or thought that they didn't like, go into exile, and cry himself to sleep on his pillow.

On the other hand, it might be slightly more effective than U.N sanctions in having even the tiniest scintilla of a chance of affecting anything.

Welcome to two weeks ago when I made this thread. :p

Sewage treatment plants deserve better than this.....

Welcome to two weeks ago when I made this thread. :p

Oops!

Sewage treatment plants deserve better than this.....

I agree! Naming such a high-standard, very important, upstanding public facility such as this after a president such as Dubya Bush (Jr.) is like naming it after a KKK abolitionist who runs an abortion clinic.

And as mentioned in the old thread, a sewage plants takes shit and cleans it up; and we all saw that Shrub did the exact opposite. Well, look at the sig for the most appropriate monument to Dear Dubya.

In a sense, it is rather fitting since the function that George W Bush, a figurehead, is similar to the sewage plant. As the Bush administration dump their truck load of shit policies onto his table, it is up to his writers to clean them up enough for George W Bush to dump to the public. Seeing as how his idiocy filter successfully keeps the educated portion of the population under control, I think he's really doing his job well.

Shit!

Shit!You know something is sheer undirected madness when LG says shit.

I guess we'll finally have a chance to give Bush some shit.

Now when they say "coffee break's over, back on your heads" it won't be to the american populace, except for the people who choose to have that guy's name on their checks.

How petty.

It's a bit petty, yes. Nevertheless it's seems to be fitting. I like the symbolism.

Sewage treatment plant - shit goes in, useful water and fertilizer comes out.

George W. Bush - water and food go in, shit comes out.