Does anybody remember when the Thugs were talking about putting * on Mount Rushmore?

[MoonRiver]

They started pushing this meme after 911 and those jerks were really serious. Thank gawd we dodged that bullet! I really couldn't cope with the idea of one of our most famous national monuments being desecrated by that bastard's image.

[RKP5637]

1. Yep, it would have become the national disgrace. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. I really wanted to see his asscheeks up there

Perfect representation of his presidency. No one seeing an ass on Mt. Rushmore would have had any doubt about what President it portrayed.

[MoonRiver]

7. Yeah, that would have been appropriate!

[NV Whino]

3. I dunno, a giant asterisk might be fun.

[msongs]

4. ummm, no thanks, no reagan on anything nt

[lonestarnot]

19. not ray gun, OP discussing the chimp.

[KansDem]

5. Mount Rushmore

Front and back...

[Ron Obvious]

6. Sure...

... but I don't fear that. However, I wouldn't be too surprised to see Reagan's vacuus, senile old mug up there one day.

On edit: I suppose I assumed * stood for W, but maybe you meant Reagan all along.

[MoonRiver]

8. Nope * means Bush Jr., a.k.a. Dimson and so many other degrading names hahaha.

I can't remember where the * came from.

[Ron Obvious]

9. Doonesbury, I think. n/t

[babylonsister]

10. The * became popular iirc

because no one could stand to mention his name, the disgust was so thick. Lots of nicknames were used around these parts, dimson and blivet being my personal faves.

Edit to add, I used to have to do this, too:


blivet


1. something annoying, ridiculous, or useless.
2. something for which one cannot find a word; something difficult to name.
3. an unpleasant or unsolvable situation or problem.


blivet definition

/bliv'*t/ [allegedly from a World War II military term meaning "ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag"] 1. An intractable problem.
2. A crucial piece of hardware that can't be fixed or replaced if it breaks.
3. A tool that has been hacked over by so many incompetent programmers that it has become an unmaintainable tissue of hacks.
4. An out-of-control but unkillable development effort.


And it still applies!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blivet?s=t

[Mnemosyne]

18. 'the asterisk applies to any achievement gained through questionable means' or the 2000 selection.

Richard Nixon is modern history’s only asterisk President. His * denotes the only President to resign from office. More generally, the asterisk applies to any achievement gained through questionable means.

[GP6971]

11. If anyone, it should be FDR next

*. W.....what a joke. Sacrilege.

On another note, look how revisionist history in the making is going on right now.......look how Cheney and all the other PNAC assholes have recently come out of the woodwork.

Question, off topic. How come no one gives PBO recognition for being half white? I know the answer........color is color with these right wing assholes.

[MohRokTah]

12. First, it pissed of the "Name everything after Ronald Reagan" movement.

Second, adding another face to Mount Rushmore would most likely have the effect of causing all of the existing sculptures to collapse.

[JEFF9K]

13. AN EVEN BIGGER INSULT ...

... Was their plan to replace FDR with "he who deserves to be nameless" on the dime.

[jmowreader]

14. There's already a Bush monument in South Dakota

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. I seem to recall an effort to rename a sewage plant after him

[Rochester]

17. I wonder if he would be as good a sport about it as Dave Barry was...

...when they named a sewage pumping station after him in Grand Forks, N.D.

[jmowreader]

21. It didn't work, tho...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanside_Water_Pollution_Control_Plant

IIRC cooler heads prevailed when they realized naming it after Dipshit would require fifty thousand scarce dollars.

[Brother Buzz]

16. George W. Bush Memorial Sewage Plant Defeated in San Francisco

George W. Bush Memorial Sewage Plant Defeated in San Francisco

A measure to rename a water treatment plant was rejected by 69 percent of the vote.

by Justin Ewers
Nov. 5, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO—Even here, in this defiantly liberal city, it was simply too much. A local measure that would have renamed a sewage treatment plant after George W. Bush was defeated yesterday, with 69 percent of voters opposing it. Thirty percent of voters supported the initiative.

Promoted by a group that calls itself the Presidential Memorial Commission, the measure was dreamed up over beers one night earlier this year. It would have renamed the Oceanside Treatment Plant, located on the western edge of the city, after the current president, who is wildly unpopular here. Only 12,000 signatures were needed to put the measure on the ballot. But with 100 percent of precincts reporting, more than 143,000 people voted against it. More than 63,000 people supported the measure.

Though renaming a sewage treatment plant would have had little practical effect—and had little chance of passage, experts say—many voters here worried that its presence on the ballot would only contribute to the country's perception of San Francisco as the land of the loony left. "I see it as disrespectful to families of the soldiers who have fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan," Colin Gallagher, a Republican attorney in San Francisco, told the Los Angeles Times last week, adding that he is no admirer of the president. "It would speak better of San Franciscans if they remained civil." A sizable majority of voters here seem to have agreed.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/11/05/george-w-bush-memorial-sewage-plant-defeated-in-san-francisco

[lonestarnot]

20. Yep, remember this one too. Got on that thread and raised some hell of disappointment