Ideas Hatched In A Bar Are The Best Ideas

I actually think this is unfair (8.00 / 1)

Sewage treatment plants are essential parts of a city's infrastructure, and serve a useful purpose, making dirty water clean.  And this plant is a particularly good exemplar of the class of facility.

By contrast, George Bush serves almost no useful purpose, except as the national Goofus object lesson.

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by: jsw @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 18:02:05 PM CDT

Something to consider (0.00 / 0)

A sewage plant that doesn't work is not a good thing at all. If the plant in question ends up anything like its proposed namesake, the citizens of SF would be in deep doodoo before too long.

I might suggest an oil tanker being named after him, but when it ran agroud and spilled all of its contents into our oceans, well that wouldn't be good either.

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by: dkirk @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 18:45:34 PM CDT

As I've told the signature gatherers ... (0.00 / 0)

I vehemently oppose this Proposition, because it is horribly unfair to sewage treatment plants.  Even naming a garbage dump after George Bush would be unfair to garbage dumps.

I have a better idea: on January 20, 2009, the City and County of San Francisco should re-name Bush Street ... to Obama Street.  I've written about this idea: http://www.beyondchron.org/new...

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by: paulhogarth @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 18:57:30 PM CDT

Puppet Street (0.00 / 0)

Were you there on the morning of January 20, 2001, when all the "Bush Street" signs had been renamed "Puppet Street"? It was great.

I always thought Bush Street should be renamed, and Obama Street would be an excellent choice.

You can check out any time you like but you can never leave

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by: Robert in Monterey @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 19:15:25 PM CDT

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Right now, I'd prefer (8.00 / 1)

Feingold Street.

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by: jsw @ Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 19:16:29 PM CDT

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For San Francisco, I'd say Harvey Milk Street (0.00 / 0)

Personally, I'd actually rather just keep the name as it is. Changing a street name like Bush would be costly for the City and the business owners along the street. But, if we did change it, I'd go with Harvey Milk St. I think it's more appropriate for the City.

Shouldn't 3 strikes apply to Arnold? Strike 1, Strike 2, Strike 3. Life Sentence!

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by: Brian Leubitz @ Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 11:11:28 AM CDT

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the oceanside plant is too good to be named after GWBush (0.00 / 0)

i like bars and many of the ideas hatched in them. still, a mark of good satire is that it actually underlying fallacies of our political culture.  this thing doesn't get out of the mentality of laughing about shit.  

the plant in question is an EPA award winning plant completed in the 80's.  I've been working on reforming and rebuilding SF's wastewater infrastructure for a decade now and frankly this place is too good to be named after W.

the last thing we ought to be doing is naming anything that keeps our water clean after the man who has done more to undo environmental regulations than anyone in recent memory.  i mean, this guy actually vetoed a clean water infrastructure bill this past year.

this thing looks like its going to get on the ballot.  don't degrade the name of the plant and vote against it.

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by: sfalex @ Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 01:21:55 AM CDT