Bush monument set to be unveiled in Houston

[Judi Lynn]

November 13, 2004

Bush monument set to be unveiled in Houston

HOUSTON The unveiling ceremony for a monument to honor former President George Bush is planned for early December.

The George Bush Presidential Monument is located in a Houston park. It's a one-point-seven (m) million dollar project.

One of the project's organizers tells the Houston Chronicle that the monument, which will remain fenced off until the unveiling, is a nonpartisan and privately funded gift to the city by civic leaders and private foundations.

The monument's features include a plaza with a wall featuring four reliefs depicting key moments in the 41st president's career, an eight-foot sculpture, timelines, quotations from Bush speeches and benches for visitors.
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http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2560630

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Pigeons of the world... UNITE!

Be patriotic... poop on Poppy!

On edit: If they're erecting monuments to mediocre, failed, one-term presidents, when are they going to erect a statue to Warren G Harding? Or Millard Fillmore?

[Sandpiper]

9. Don't forget Rutherford B. Hayes

Every bit as memorable a President as George H.W. Bush.

[tsuki]

16. At least Hoover got a dam.

[CO Liberal]

66. It Was Originally Called "Boulder Dam"

From Wikipedia:

The naming controversy

The dam, originally planned for a location in Boulder Canyon, was relocated to Black Canyon for better impoundment, but was still known as the Boulder Dam project. Work on the project started on July 7, 1930. At the official beginning of the project on September 17, 1930, President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior Ray L. Wilbur, announced the name as Hoover Dam. Hoover was already campaigning for re-election in the face of the Depression and sought credit for creating jobs.

Hoover did not win, and on May 8, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes, renamed the dam Boulder Dam. The intent was to deny Hoover credit, though the dam had been begun in his administration. Finally, on April 30, 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed legislation restoring the name Hoover Dam.

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

[amber dog democrat]

28. Martin Van Buren is undervalued

but if you are looking for failed one-term leaders don't forget President Franklin Pierce - even then - he stands above the Chimp and Poppy.

Calling all pigeons.

[St. Jarvitude]

72. Van Buren's failure was the result of Jackson's failure to handle banking

He really fucked up any chance of Van Buren having a successful presidency by singlehandedly launching the Panic of 1837.

I really think John Quincy Adams is the most underrated President - at least domestically. He was the first President to be fully committed (Jefferson did a little of this) to funding internal improvements for the betterment of the nation (interstate roads/canals, scientific research).

[fudge stripe cookays]

92. And he was an alcoholic...

JUST like Chimpy! (Pierce, I mean...)

FSC

[signmike]

32. I'll always remember...

...Ol' "Whatsizname"

[AlFrankin]

24. "Pigeons of the world unite"

Now they will have a place to dump and a person the richly deserves it!!:bounce:

[maddogesq]

52. We don't need no stinkin' pigeons!

Let's send some of those Canadian geese that live around here down Houston way...Now that's some serious doo-doo! :)

[Mika]

25. Here's the definitive Bush statue pic

[Lost Creek]

49. sure would like to see that.

and would not be suprised.

[lefthandedskyhook]

27. Can't we upgrade their poop for special ops...

or send that f16 pilot who strafed the school over there for "training"?

[suegeo]

34. Dogs can contribute too

Pee on his leg. Poop in the park.

Do you part poochies.

[jdj]

35. Please let somebody go paint a big "665" on his forehead. eom

[LiberalFighter]

55. Need mutant pigeons...

bred to produce cancerous/acidic excretment.

[Demeter]

62. Does It Commemorate the Japan Trip?

Barfing on the PM?

[TaleWgnDg]

2. rofl . . . that first photo would make an excellent statue!! n/t

[opihimoimoi]

3. There will be those who might want to do nasty things ..like

use a tank to pull it down with a cable, lol.

[Menshevik]

4. gahhhhhh

It's bad enough they named an airport after him (and put a ridiculous statue in there).

When I used to fly DC to CA, I had to fly out of Reagan National airport and switch planes at Bush Intercontinental :puke:

[Crispus Attucks]

5. How will they illustrate the one where he puked n the Japanese PM ?

[dbt]

12. Hello, Crispus Attucks and

Welcome to DU! For a guy that's been dead as long as you have, you sure get around. Did you just get tired of rolling over in your grave?

:hi:
dbt

[Crispus Attucks]

65. Thanks for the welcome, glad you remembered me. : )

I had to come out of retirement, because of current state of affairs here in Amerika.

Looks like two hundred some years experiment going down the *rapper.

Wanna know the real reason that it's headed that way -
Friend lives in Japan. Some Japanese students went to Georgia for student exchange program. One of the first things their American host (had to be a Reptardicon) did was show the students a VCR and told them that you could tape and watch movies on it, and by golly, it was a Sony.

Duh ! Next thing they go to the mall and they explain escalators - you can go from 1st floor to 2nd floor. Gee.

People, we're in trouble. Pet rocks got more brains than that.


(For any lurking Freepers, Sony VCR's come from Japan)

[dbt]

85. Reptardicons? Oh, HELL yes!

We're going to get right along, you and me! I still can't believe the way you only got one sentence in the history books, though.

:evilgrin:
dbt

[BlueStatesForever]

6. It occurred to me

...that after a couple more years of Bush, the pigeon poop on the monument will BE the monument.

[ixion]

7. key moments

like when he puked on Japan's PM. :evilgrin:


Or when he lied about Saddam 'killing babies' to fire up the sheeple for the first Gulf Arab Shoot. :-(

[booksenkatz]

14. Yes, those heady key moments in his career...

ummmm, I'm guessing that the sides on that monument are TOTALLY SMOOTH, right? Well, they could always chisel in that JFK assassination letter he wrote.

And as ixion stated, there's always the puke moment.

[NEOBuckeye]

8. What an utterly ridiculous waste of time, money and space.

George H. W. Bush is little less than a vain and deceitful man who has contributed absolutely nothing of meaningful value to the world. If anything, his entire existence has been a drain on the planet -- literally -- through his endless whoring for oil and weapons corporations. Let's not even get into the fact that this two-faced charlatan was allowed to reproduce himself. Needless to say, he's the ideal poster child for castration.

If they wanted to dedicate anything to the man, they should erect a golden toilet and fill it with bones, blood and dollar bills, to represent the lives and taxpayer's money senselessly wasted on King George I's pathetic delusions of grandeur.

At least the pigeons will make good use of it.

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

10. According to unnamed sources it will actually be

50 American citizens representing each state, symbolically painted in red, white, and blue, all bent over grabbing their ankles.

Dr. Batsen D Belfry

[dbt]

11. Hello, Dr!

Welcome to DU!

:hi:
dbt

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

38. Thanks for the welcome!

I was beginning to think I had accidentally doused myself with my patent pending invisibility potion

Dr. Batsen D. Belfry

[dbt]

86. I'm afraid you'll have quite a patent battle on your hands.

The invisibility, by my calculations, affects every 2,623rd signup at DU. There were 2,622 new members ahead of you; enjoy the curse!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[booksenkatz]

15. Impossible

They already used that idea for Reagan's monument!

Welcome to DU, Doc!
:toast:

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

39. So true, so true.

How could I forget?

Thank you for the welcome, by the way.

Dr. Batsen D. Belfry

[Minstrel Boy]

13. and about time!

[colonel odis]

17. looks more like an invitation to vandalism to me.

perhaps the good folk of houston are doing us a favor. want to bet they'll need a special crew to clean the red paint, manure, rotten tomatoes, and eggs off it?

if i'm ever in houston, you can bet i'll make a beeline for the place just to show my disrespect.

interesting news story that might make, too, when after the statue's been up for a month, cleaning crews will have had to go out there every day to clean it up. c'mon, houston du'ers! let's show poppy what we think of him!

[ChicanoPwr]

20. If it is going to be erected

in Herman park. I'll be the first one to give it's (Dis)respect every morning when I go for my morning walk. :evilgrin:

[colonel odis]

23. what should be the first decorations? puke? a picture of saddam?

a mask of barbara?

[booksenkatz]

59. I vote for piss from the honey pots of Baghdad. nt

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

40. Since it is a Republican monument, it cannot, by law,,

be "erected". Constructed or built, perhaps, but the word "erect" and all forms that can be in any way related to erection will soon be banned from the language. I believe the punishment for using the word will either be public stoning or beheading.

Dr. Batsen D. Belfry

[signmike]

36. Does Houston have a Rent-A-Tank ?

[The Flaming Red Head]

18. Remember your egg counts!

Egg worthy, Egg worthy and I'm not too far from Houston. At last a place to vent and vent and vent and vent. Anyone?????

[Ilsa]

42. Yeah, I was thinking of bringing an egg salad sandwich picnic

and celebrating right there.

I'm fuggin sick and tired of Texans' absurd and disillusioned pre-occupation with this vile and dysfunctional family.

[ChicanoPwr]

19. I don't get Houston at all

I don't understand why a city keeps honoring this guy. He really never like TX, he always stayed in his cabin in the North. We all know why he picked TX as his home state. Cheap Bastard didn't what to pay state taxes and now with his son as President, he doesn't Federal taxes. What a lucky guy. Second, he never did a damn thing for TX or the city. HOUSTON WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!

[rainbow4321]

54. Hotel room...

I vaguely remember hearing a few years ago that he used a Houston hotel suite as his permanant address..that way he could still use the Texas "no state income" law when he did his taxes each year.

[stlsaxman]

82. Right- and wasn't that hotel on Dealy Plaza just off the grassy knoll? n/t

ooops sorry- that's in Dallas! lol

[Castilleja]

57. People are just s...l...o...w to learn.

I expect at *some* point it will be sadly obvious to even these people, but man, it may take awhile.

[Carolina]

21. No offense to my fellow

DUers but I will never set foot in Texas, spend a dime there or support that friggin state in any way. From the Kennedy assassination to the rise of the Bushes, it has given the nation nothing but bad news and grim futures.

I simply can't stomach a place where there's a Bush airport, a Bush monument, a Bush library (oxymoron), a Bush this and a Bush that... Gag, Choke, Puke.

[ChicanoPwr]

26. None taken

I hear yeah. Houston has always voted Demo, but why they have this thing for Bush boggles my mind. The Aggies....that whole school is oxymoron. (Sorry to offend an Aggie DUer, remember it is Nov. so my school pride is coming out, HOOK'EM HORNS)

[okasha]

41. Bienvenidos,

fellow Teasip! My Upper Rio Grande Valley county has always been proudly blue.

Okasha

[amber dog democrat]

31. Hmm, I have always felt that way about Kansas

Granted many Texans are stupid, evil or stupid and evil.
still many of us had no choice in regards to where we live or the morons who float up to the top of local, state and national politics.

These jeeters may build statues, dedicate parks and find other ways to worship them selves - not a wole lot of us happen to care or agree with them - and i am a 5th generation Texan planning to move to Alaska or Oregon/Washington State.

This Bush empire is going to crumble away eventually. That family are like dogs that like to mark things by peeing on them. But I still have a RE Defeat Buch sign in my front yard and i am keeping my NO W sticker on my car too.

I am so proud of Travis County - with the exception of one race still in a recount we went completely blue. There's a Rebel Alliance still holding out against Tom DeLay's Death Star. Count on it !

[Carolina]

37. go Travis County!

and feel free to bash SC, my home du jour, which makes me understand all too well the sentiment "still many of us had no choice in regard to where we live or the morons who float up to the top of local, state and national politics."

I was born in one blue state and raised in another. Then husband moved me to his red zone and I'm going nuts, though our county went blue too.

Bear with me, I'm still in outraged, spiteful bitch mode and anything Bush just makes me bare my fangs!

[liberalcanuck]

48. I know and share your pain down here in Georgia -- the near

King Kahuna of fundamentalism and rabid theological indoctrination -- where if you believe the 'vote' tallies smirk received over 60 percent!

This canuck will be gladly moving to busy Brooklyn in April where I will be eagerly anticipating semi-normal conversation that doesn't end in chapter and verse.

[amber dog democrat]

76. why do you hate jesus so much ?

There are fundies all over Texas too. I don't think they are as powerful as they want to believe they are - but unbelievably stupid things are being done to textbooks.
The big thing now is sexual abstainance - like sex never happens right ?

Oh, Mark Chapter 17, verse 9

but i have no idea what it is. but here in fundie land we always end conversations in chapters and verse too.

:)

[ChicanoPwr]

60. A message from the Rebel Alliance

With the whole talk about National Votergate, I am starting to look at the numbers, especially DeLays for a couple of reasons.
1) Heflen, who also likes to think he will make a better parent for African-American children, is really making a big stink about a recount. I guess the fix did not his way. So I was thinking, Delay's district go through Heflen district and DeLay did not win big. Morrison was coming up fast ever since the Grand Jury, and the ethics committee ruling, and the Fort Bend newspaper endorsed Morrison. It sure does raise a lot of questions.

2. After looking at the vote count in TX, I too found strange numbers for this election. So I am wondering were we robbed in 2002. I can not see how the "Dream Team" lost. I can not see how Sanchez only received 55% of the Hispanic vote.

[amber dog democrat]

75. We have the plans for the Death Star in a little R-2 Unit.

named Ronnie Earle - our RE Elected Travis County DA.
He has already gotten criminal indictiments against 3 of Darth DeLay's aids
My thinking is that once we begin the prosecution against his minions - DeLays turn will be in the works.

That is a given.

As for the election of 2002, man, you've got me. My wife even voted for Perry saying she trusted him more... but I could not EVER vote for that fool, Governor Good Hair.
Not a whole lot of bad OR good comes out of Texas State Politics - but keep a sharp look out for what is to come when the mid terms happen. We are not going to let them get away with the redistricting.

Perry is vulnerable and he knows it

[fudge stripe cookays]

93. Don't forget the tollroad in Dallas....

We call it the No New Taxes Thru-way.

FSC

PS- Too bad you'll also never see the gorgeous bluebonnets in the springtime, the Stevie Ray Vaughan statue, The Alamo, the beautiful Texas beaches, or the biggest human statue there is (Sam Houston). But I respect your decision.

I wouldn't feel like tootling off to Florida or Alabama myself.

[0007]

22. Golly, now I'll have something to look forward too when I visit

Houston in April. An eight-foot sculpture? Will Kennth Lay's statue be just a little bigger? After all 'Kenny Boy' has given much more money to Houston than daddy bush.

[Lady Effingbroke]

29. From now on, I shall refer to Texas by its new, and more proper, name -

*Bushistan*.

Yes, I live in Houston.

[Carl Brennan]

30. Sorry, I better not say what I am thinking. nt

[tlcandie]

33. And how many people could these funds

feed/clothe/house? Amazing waste of money all for someone's ego. :cry:

[Ilsa]

44. Bushes have never been interested in improving life's lot

for the poor, underprivileged, disenfranchised, hungry, or those suffering injustice. Their behavior is completely antithetical to Christ's teachings.

I love the "665" on the forehead option mentioned above.

[HR_Pufnstuf]

43. the moral of the story..

"He who names everything he can after himself before one dies, is nervous about his legacy"

bush intercontinental airport
bush langley cia bldg
bush museum tx a&m
bush statue houston

on and on..

he was just a one termer. what is the big deal?

[54anickel]

45. Is it inscribed with "Read my lips"? n/t

[jobycom]

46. Key moments: Like dead children from Panama and Iraq? Like a list of the

List of the promises he made during his last State of the Union Speech, which a couple of months later he cavalerly admitted were lies to bolster his campaign? Lies he told before the full Congress, the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and all of America in an event mandated by the Constitution?

We should visit the park daily, and bomb it with balloons filled with blood, to more accurately represent his regime.

[northzax]

47. wait, GHW Bush died?

when did that happen? after all, Democracies like the US only build statues and monuments to leaders who have passed on to their great rewards, right?

actaully, this reminds me of rapid City, South Dakota. They have statues of the Presidents on street corners downtown. In order to make it fair, they started with the most recent President (in this case GHW) and the first. Every time they put up a new one, they match it with the next in line (Reagan/Jefferson, Carter/Adams, etc. Think they'll ever get around to the Big Dog?

and it may be a statue, pravately financed, sure, but it can't be a monument since by very definition is to a dead person. and he's not dead, right?

mon·u·ment ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mny-mnt)
n.
A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial.
An inscribed marker placed at a grave; a tombstone.
Something venerated for its enduring historic significance or association with a notable past person or thing: the architectural monuments of ancient Rome; traditions that are monuments to an earlier era.

An outstanding enduring achievement: a translation that is a monument of scholarship.
An exceptional example: “Thousands of them wrote texts, some of them monuments of dullness” (Robert L. Heilbroner).
An object, such as a post or stone, fixed in the ground so as to mark a boundary or position.
A written document, especially a legal one.
source: American heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, courtesy http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=monument

[daleo]

61. I agree, it is unseemly to do this while someone is still alive

I thought that was a basic principle of these statues - they were memorials. Building and unveiling it while the person is still alive reminds you of either:

- the pharaohs, and their self-deifying religion.
- vultures, who can't quite wait for their food to die before going for the feast.

Take your pick. Either way, it is unsettling.

[northzax]

63. quick, name a rulerwho hadstatues erected to himself in city squares!

a: Joseph Stalin
b: Saddam Hussein
c: GHW Bush
d: All of the above.

[Lizzie Borden]

80. Peter the Great,

Catherine the Great(no they weren't related).

[iconoclastic cat]

50. Hmmm...what food or beverage causes the worst urine odor?

[saigon68]

67. Double post N/T

[saigon68]

68. Bull Ice BY STROHS/ HEILEMAN

some testimonials


BRUCE;

"We've drunk it here and while it is actually very smooth, it finishes with an everclear like aftertaste - very reminiscent of the moonshine I used to drink in Alabama..."


Truong Nguyen

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I WILL VOLUNTEER TO BUY A DOZEN CASES OF THIS STUFF AND HOLD A PARTY FOR THE HOMELESS. WE CAN THEN GIVE THE STATUE OF THE HEAD BUSH CRIMINAL A GOLDEN SHOWER.

[iconoclastic cat]

74. Yeee-hah! Let's go! Ya mess with the BULL,

ya get the HORNS!

Gimme that funnel.

[Jose Diablo]

79. In the interests of decorum and civility I must speak out

Among those of us that hold to the trappings of social graces and hold dear those practices that separate us from our more base instincts, I must protest the implication that these edifices be directly urinated upon.

In the interest of civilization, the actual act of urination must be done in seclusion and privacy into a container, the uric acid may then be deposited on the monuments.

Are we just animals?

[Hekate]

90. Indeed, if we are "just animals" then this is justice!

After all, who among us has not been trickled on by Bush Economics I & II?

Hekate

[Z_I_Peevey]

73. How about broccoli? n/t

[dkofos]

51. I can't wait to go piss on that one.

:evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[shanti]

71. i know someone who wanted to make a political statement

by pissing on the steps of the state capitol building. unfortunately, there are hidden cameras and the state police nabbed him :-( he was detained for 6 hours, but ultimately let go without a fine.

[Occulus]

53. How very Stalin.

I saw a documentary on Stalin last week I think it was- DU had a few threads on it. I was struck by just how very much Bush* and Stalin have in common wrt their attitudes.

Interesting comparison, that. More valid than comparing him to Hitler, IMO.

[indypaul]

56. And what would be more appropriate

than to have "Kenny Boy" do the unvieling? I wonder
if he or a few of his Enron buddies might be
any of the "civic minded" donors.

[Judi Lynn]

77. You'll have to wonder if they get pardons!

It always helps to "prime to pump!"

The one the British made of his sonny boy, in London, didn't fare too well:



8/8 The protesters had made a giant statue of Mr Bush, which they pulled down and jumped on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/pictures/galleries/newsid_3224000/3224688.stm

[The Zanti Regent]

58. Is Triumph going to cover it?

If he does, I hope it's with a LOT of his poop...

[Gin]

64. How I wish I was a bird.....every day....I would poop on his head...

until the head was uncrecognizable. That is a fitting monument to shit head.

[Buns_of_Fire]

70. Speaking of heads... It WILL be made to bobble, won't it?

Maybe the people who are donating would be willing to chip in a few million more and create a whole "BushWorld" park to surround it.

BushWorld... Where nothing can go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong...

[Zorra]

69. Heh. They are going to need to post a guard 24/7. Another waste of

taxpayer money.

[Fridays Child]

78. $1,700,000 could have built 37 Habitat for Humanity homes...

...if Satan's sperm donor hadn't needed a statue.

[Stinky The Clown]

81. Will it have a representation of that damned errant sperm

that was **supposed** to become a future president?

[stlsaxman]

83. heheheh and certainly it will show his "Waspy Loins"!?!? n/t

[Not_Giving_Up]

84. I live near Houston and...

all I can say is what a HUGE waste of money!!!!!!

The City of Houston is broke, the police department is dealing with scandal after scandal, the schools (remember, Rod Paige used to run HISD) are pathetic...if someone REALLY wanted to donate something USEFUL, why not some money (that could be watch dogged to make sure it went to the right places) to help with some of these problems.

By the way, (and my apologies in advance to those Houstonians who didn't), Houstonians voted to expand the Metrorail, which runs right alongside the cars...They've had a ridiculous number of accidents (over 60 in less than a year)....But they voted to do some more! It would cost too much to elevate the trains!!

[Bridget Burke]

95. The Metrorail doesn't have accidents--the cars do!

Too bad it's not elevated, but we're lucky we've got what we have. Tom DeLay blocked most Federal funding. The latest hot idea was to build the next bit of rail as a subway, which would work great until the first heavy rain.

[arikara]

87. Yah, sure I really, really do believe that its nonpartisan

Just like I believe that there were WMD's in Iraq, that God speaks to _{george jr.}, that _{george jr.} won the election fair and square, and that Satan is living in Falluja.

[struggle4progress]

88. Isn't the Bay of Pigs one of his great contributions? eom

[flordehinojos]

89. narcissistic freaks they (the bushes themselves) are probably financing

the whole thing...creating a cult to themselves,you know.

[NamVetsWeeLass]

91. My only Question

How does one Memorialize "You forgot Poland" ??????

[Sanity Claws]

94. I'm willing to..

contribute a few dozen eggs.