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State Department Buys Million Dollar Granite Sculpture from Irish-Born Artist
The Weekly Standard ^ | DEC 3, 2013 | JERYL BIER

Posted on 12/04/2013 3:28:48 PM PST by PreciousLiberty

At the end of September, the federal government's fiscal year was drawing to a close, the threat of a shut down was increasing, and the State Department was shopping for art. Four contracts were awarded in the last two weeks of September, including $1,000,000 for a granite sculpture by Irish-born artist Sean Scully to be installed at the new U.S. Embassy in London. Notice of the awards was posted Sunday afternoon of Thanksgiving weekend on the Federal Business Opportunities website.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bama; badart; broke; donttreadonme; dosoutofcontrol; idiocracy; sculpture; tanstaafl; time2partyagain; treeofliberty
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To: PreciousLiberty

Apparently Sean couldn’t make it as a stone mason.


41 posted on 12/04/2013 4:49:38 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Vendome

That is the most ornate dog turd I have ever seen. Is that one of Sean’s droppings too?


42 posted on 12/04/2013 4:50:57 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: MinuteGal

“You have to know how governments on all levels work when it comes to budgets.”

And that is where the GAO should come in as a check to say that this is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

One major problem is the GAO is not working effectively.


43 posted on 12/04/2013 4:57:49 PM PST by PreciousLiberty
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To: Ann Archy
Are you SERIOUS????? THAT IS CRAP!!!!

OK, fine. The State Department will go with their first choice:


44 posted on 12/04/2013 5:05:17 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java

Great, except that one has cost around $10,000,000,000,000 so far... :-P


45 posted on 12/04/2013 5:08:59 PM PST by PreciousLiberty
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To: PreciousLiberty
An Irish sculpture in front of the embassy in London. How interesting, given the condescending attitude of the English toward the Irish. This may just be another carefully planned slap at the Brits by the hateful Obama.
46 posted on 12/04/2013 5:30:18 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: TigersEye

That is our turd of San Jose, CA? How dare you insult our POS!

It’s suppose to represent “Quetzacoatl” the Aztec& Mayan Deity.

Their POS couldn’t match our awesome God, so it deserted its people and they stopped challenging us quite a few years ago, once they acknowledged their inferiority.

Seems our God can step in anything he wants and then just scrape it off the bottom of his feet in a briar patch.

Chuck Norris showed him how to do that and now God calls on him for any new thoughts on excercising being all powerful....and that...


47 posted on 12/04/2013 6:17:13 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome

I’m sorry. I had no idea what a speshul turd it is.


48 posted on 12/04/2013 6:19:36 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Ezekiel

those drawings appear to be ACTUAL SIZE!

it does require a degree to sense that this poor schlub got his start...in art therapy...


49 posted on 12/04/2013 6:37:17 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: PreciousLiberty

If a piece of “art” looks like it was thrown together by a 12 year old then its not art.


50 posted on 12/04/2013 7:07:25 PM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: TigersEye

It’s KuhRRRRap!!!!


51 posted on 12/04/2013 11:50:50 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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