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State Dept on back foot over $1 mln sculpture
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Posted on 12/07/2013 5:58:00 AM PST by bryan999
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posted on
12/07/2013 5:58:00 AM PST
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bryan999
To: bryan999
Ladies and gentlemen, behold your tax dollars at work:
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:01:40 AM PST
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bryan999
To: bryan999
If Hellary and Skerry turn into pillars of salt, we can call it even.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:02:15 AM PST
by
Old Yeller
(America: Under Iranian hostage since Jan. 20, 2008.)
To: bryan999
To: bryan999
It kind of looks like a hacked and mangled up rock version of an American flag.
Pretty lame all around. Bad art, bad decisions.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:04:16 AM PST
by
bryan999
To: bryan999
It’s Sharia compliant so that is okay.
To: bryan999
Glad they didn't pay “market price” for this monstrosity.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:05:36 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: bryan999
PLEASE tell me that is not the sculpture? of note
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:05:50 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: bryan999
Flippin' the bird....
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:07:17 AM PST
by
Utah Binger
(Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
To: knarf
Like much “public art”...it is BS. What a complete waste of taxpayer money. Complete.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:08:44 AM PST
by
ogen hal
(First amendment or reeducation camp)
To: bryan999
There's not a picture of Morgan Freeman on it anywhere! We wuz robbed!!!
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:09:08 AM PST
by
niteowl77
(Establishment Republicans possess fewer guts than the last gnat that hit the windshield of your car.)
To: knarf
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:09:49 AM PST
by
bryan999
To: bryan999
We couldn't afford security at the Benghazi consulate. But look what we did buy with your tax dollars.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:10:40 AM PST
by
OwenKellogg
(Fundamental transformation sucks.)
To: bryan999
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:11:02 AM PST
by
bryan999
To: bryan999
They could have gotten this for free.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:15:57 AM PST
by
JPG
(Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
To: JPG
Don't laugh: Carl Andre's Stone Field "Sculpture"
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:21:45 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: bryan999
“The piece by Irish-born artist Sean Scully”—”Where we can promote cross-cultural understanding... we think that’s a good use of our limited resources,”
I didn’t think we had much difficulty in understanding the Irish. Doesn’t Biden have a home in Ireland? I don’t understand Biden any better because of a pile of bricks. Wait a minute...
I should like to sell the government a pile of bricks, being a TEA Party fan I believe it would promote cultural understanding. Heck, I could pay off everything with that kind of money with most of left to stash in a bank.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:24:50 AM PST
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Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: bryan999
It’s a pile of rocks.
Two factors were most likely at work here:
- First, spend any money left in the budget so next year’s baseline budget will keep going up,
- And second, spend it on a friend. I wonder who got the commission on the sale and how large it was?
To: bryan999
I wondered who dug that out of my garbage.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:27:30 AM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
To: Irenic
Oops—I think it is Dodd who bought the house in Ireland. I don’t think the bricks help me understand him any better either.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:27:59 AM PST
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Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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