Genius, absolute genius.
I look forward to the George W. Bush slag pile.
I think it would gall me as a civil engineer to see some difficult chemical and civil engineering named after a man who probably gets hypnotized watching the baggage returns at the airport (if he can remember them.)
Great news. I have been saying for a long time that the quickest way to close Guantanamo prison would be if Congress passes a resolution renaming it as the "George W. Bush Gulag and Torture Center". Of course such a resolution would be vetoed, but it sure would piss Bu$h off. Or how about pressuring the Democratic presidential and congressional candidates to back such a motion if they were elected.
san francisco has also revved up an advertising campaign geared at reaching immigrants to let them know that they will be safe in san francisco.
when the laws regarding immigration are so insane, organized and sensible defiance is the only rational action.
Giving shit a bad name.
will there be a matching one at 1602 Pennsylvania Ave? I think they'll need one
National Airport is still called National Airport. The "Official" name is "Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport," which is of course pronounced in Northern Virginia as "National Airport." When people ask me about "Washington Reagan" I always tell them there is no such place.
We will restore the name in due course. Of that you can be sure.
I read about this a few days ago, and figured it was a stroke of brilliance!
Now THIS is effective action! Where can we write to support it?
I won't be satisfied until the Ape House at the zoo is named the George W. Bush Chimpanzee House.
No. no. no.
We need something more along the lines of the Santorum treatment.
That's the kind of legacy this shitbag deserves.
Great one.
Meanwhile, OT, but, over in the Clinton camp...
...and then there were two.
Mark Penn falls on his sword after it came out he pushed a free trade agreement with Colombia that Hillary issupposedly against. Oops.
bjacques:
Don't be so sure. Penn is "gone," with intentional air quotes, because he's only stepping down as chief strategist. He'll still be doing the polling. In this, Hillary is keeping to the tried-and-true Democratic campaign strategy: hire corrupt incompetents, and stick by them through thick and thin (cf., Bob Shrum).
Oh, and Penn's "replacement" is a two man team of Wolfson and some other schmuck. How could divided leadership possibly go wrong?
I feel the naming is an error. The plant takes human waste and turns it into something very useful, judging by the photo, fertilizer.
George, on the other hand, has performed another trick entirely; he has taken many valuable and useful things and even whole societies and turned them into waste.
I am thinking his name would go better at Yucca Mountain.
Well, I think they're being just tooooo kind with "sewage plant" designation. Call it what it is: The Bush Presidential Library".
As I read the news from San Francisco, I sense a disturbance in The Force ... like a distant wave of multitudes of right-wing crackpots, snivelling & whimpering ... it sort of tickles.
WARNING: Off-Topic.
Clinton's chief strategist quits
The chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's campaign to become the Democratic Party's candidate for the US presidency has resigned.
Mark Penn stepped down after a row over a potential conflict of interest involving his public relations firm.
Mr Penn's company had been employed by the Colombian government to help it pursue a free-trade agreement with the US - a deal Mrs Clinton opposes.
Mrs Clinton is vying with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.
They have been fighting a close battle in the continuing state primary election campaign.
The latest count of pledged delegates to the party's national convention in August, according to Associated Press, puts Mr Obama at 1,634 and Mrs Clinton at 1,500.
A total of 2,024 delegates is needed to win the Democratic nomination.
Union opposition
In a statement, Mrs Clinton's campaign manager, Maggie Williams, said Mr Penn had stepped down after it was disclosed he had met Colombian officials seeking his help to push the Colombia Free Trade Agreement through Congress.
"After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as chief strategist of the Clinton campaign," she said.
She said he would "continue to provide polling and advice to the campaign".
Mrs Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson, and pollster Geoff Garin will take over co-ordinating her "strategic message team", Mrs Williams added.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Mr Penn had met the Colombian ambassador to the US on 31 March in his capacity as chief executive of the public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller, to promote US approval of the trade accord.
Mr Penn later issued a statement apologising for attending the meeting, calling it an "error of judgement that will not be repeated".
His words were not, however, well received by the Colombian government, which said it considered the "declaration a lack of respect towards Colombians, which is unacceptable" and reportedly fired the PR company.
The deal is opposed by unions, whose support is essential for Mrs Clinton
The US government completed the Colombia Free Trade Agreement in 2006 and is seeking approval in Congress. The pact would eliminate tariffs on flowers, corn, machinery, meat and other products and also set rules for investment.
A BBC correspondent in Washington says the free trade deal is opposed by US trade union leaders, whose support is essential for Mrs Clinton.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ameri...cas/
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We need a bush-evoking word that can be applied liberally to assorted disasters and undesirable places.
Hoover had Hoovervilles. bush needs something appropriate.
Dubyadumps?
Sorry: I got nuffin'.
this dosn't work for me, bush makes messe he dosn't clean them up. If i didn't like beacon so much iwould vote for a mega hog farm beign named for bush.
I wonder if, upon renaming, the plant foreman will suddenly lose his understanding of the nature of sewage and start fighting it in "surges," and if the plant manager will suddenly start chirping about how the new end products of the process will be now be gold bars, cheap oil, and sweet, sweet chocolate.
It's a nice idea, but we know the effect Dumbya has on public enterprises. SF really can't risk losing this vital part of its reality-based infrastructure.
Ceabird wrote:
No. no. no.
We need something more along the lines of the Santorum treatment.
That's the kind of legacy this shitbag deserves.
Best.
Googlebomb.
Ever.
moonglum may be onto something here, but I'd focus it a bit more narrowly:
The George W. Bush Memorial Hog Waste Lagoon
It's full of shit and stinks to high heaven, does nothing to solve the problem, and periodically contaminates its surroundings.
Sounds to me like a perfect match.
The new Measurement of Incompetence:
The Dubya.
It's subdivided into 1,000 millidubyas for those fine gradations of incompetence (for example, the Florida Legislature can manage about 450 millidubyas on their worst days) while the whole integer Dubyas can be used to describe incompetence that can lay waste to entire countries.
Robert Mugabe's administration in Zimbabwe, for example, can ring in at 2.5 Dubyas.
Prof's cummerbund wins the thread.
In the Philadelphia Inquirer a few days ago, there were a couple letters suggesting that a new national cemetery be named after Dubya, because he's done so much to fill it...
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