Few clamoring to name things after current president

[sonias]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/11/20/1120bushname.html">AAS 11/20/08
Few clamoring to name things after current president

By Ken Herman
WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, November 20, 2008

WASHINGTON — Former President George Bush has an aircraft carrier, an airport in Houston, a turnpike north of Dallas and the George Bush Center for Intelligence (the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.).

Lincoln has a tunnel. Washington has a bridge and a state. Hoover has a dam. Madison has a Square Garden.

President Ronald Reagan has nearly 100 things named in his honor, including a ballistic missile test site, a New Hampshire mountain and a bust at a McDonald's in Alabama.

President George W. Bush has an elementary school, a Waco-area road and highways in Ghana and Georgia (the country, not the state).

Whatever happened to the sewer treatment plant that might have gotten G.W.s name? This one:

Huffington Post 4/2/08
'George W Bush Sewage Plant' Proposed In San Francisco

April 2, 2008

"Looking to honor the forty-third President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, the recently formed Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is looking to change the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility. It seems the group would like to rename the SF Zoo adjacent facility to the 'George W Bush Sewage Plant,' SFist reports.

:rofl:

Sonia

[sonias]

1. Crap - it didn't pass

SF Weekly Nov 4th, 2008
Voters Flush George W. Bush Sewage Plant Proposition, Ruin Backers’ Plans for Double-Entendre-Laden Victory Speech



Well, shit.

By Joe Eskenazi

Gathered in front of a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln conveniently sitting, yet leaning forward – not unlike someone in the midst of utilizing the toilet – backers of a proposition to rename a Parkside sewage plant after President George W. Bush waited out a cold night.

While Barack Obama stormed to victory and re-defined the term “blue state,” there was no joy in sewageville. When all the dust – we’ll assume it was dust – settled, they’d lost by roughly a 70-30 ratio.

This came as a blow to Bob Katz, who flew in all the way from Florida to be here for what he assumed would be the Proposition R victory party. Katz had been telling anyone who’d listen how a sewage plant should be named after the president for years, so when he found out such a plan was in the works in San Francisco, he enthusiastically lent his support.

Too bad!

:rofl:


Sonia

[WolverineDG]

3. Oh poo!

So much for the Inaugural Flush at noon on January 20, 2009. :(

dg

[Horse with no Name]

2. It seems I read that they already passed legislation to remove

the "Proud home of President GWB" from under the state border signs post haste after he leaves office.:rofl:

[sonias]

5. Our state signs - are you serious?

I hope that's true but I can't see the Rs in control of the Lege doing any such thing. Those idiots are proud of GW Bush. The 15% of the nation that still approves of Bush and the way he has handled the economy, the war etc all live in Texas. :eyes:

Sonia

[WolverineDG]

4. I could rename the Ronald Reagan Memorial Outhouse

or should I build another one & name it after shrubbie? :shrug: Should it be a 2 seater, so it would memorialize Junior & Senior?

dg

[sonias]

6. How about naming it "Crap and Crappier"

Two presidents who flushed America's reputation down the shit hole.

Two seater.

#1 The Reagan "Trickle down" memorial
#2 The G.W. "Asshole" Bush memorial. I would suggest that you get someone to paint his likeness on the toilet lid too.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Sonia

[justabob]

7. misread op... sorry

[johncoby2]

8. George W Bush Airport in South Houston

It is now called Ellington. Where he flew out of when he was in the guard.

It has a trailer house terminal with cheap carpet, a snack machine, and cold drink dispenser.

It never developed into anything except for an air show each year.

Kind of fitting.

[tanyev]

9. That's too bad. C'mon, all of you who have compost heaps--

how about renaming them in W's honor? Show the guy a little respect.

[lennytee]

11. Dubya Landfill..

like the one on McCarty Rd or the one in Ft. Bend County...

:hide:

[Longhorn]

10. I named my cancer after him.

I expect both to be gone this year. :hi: