Taxpayers dollars well spent

[mrsid2]

Does anyone else than me find this thread amusing to say the least?


/snip
There are folks that are uptight and then there are folks that are upTITe.  Well you will find out.  Still to think that more of our tax dollars will be spent covering up a big gold gazonga makes me sad.  Blame Jonathan Beck.
/snip

I'd laugh if it was a joke. Seems like it's not.

[midnight Target]

Well this proves it...........conservatives don't like breasts!

[Wanker]

*Sigh*

It's just another example of how hung up we Americans are with the human body. It's just plain silly. That statue is a work of art not a Hustler centerfold. Take the curtains down and give the money to a family of one of our servicemen/servicewomen who is overseas away from family.

[miko2d]

Who spent the money in the first place to buy the damn bronze thing? I say, while it is popular, auction the statue off. No need for curtains then.

 If our judiciary need to see naked breasts, let them spend their own quarters in a nearby peep show.

 Next thing you know, they will use my tax money to buy stuff even more offensive (to many people I have no wish to offend) , like picture of (alleged) virgin Mary covered in dung and place it in a public  museum.
 Oh, wait - they have already done that in Brooklyn!

 miko

[AKDejaVu]

What amazes me is that camera crews would go out of their way to get the bare breast in the shot.  If there's not enough news.. create it.

And I personally feel the money could have been better spent baring the other breast on the statue.  I've also heard that the FDPs wanted to take it a step further and remove the loin cloth from the male statue nearby.

To each their own.

AKDejaVu

[AKDejaVu]

I've also heard that the FDPs wanted to take it a step further and remove the loin cloth from the male statue nearby.

I've been informed that this was a misstatement.  The FDPs don't necessarily "want" to remove the loin cloth... as a squad.  It turns out that one of them "tried" to remove it... but chipped a tooth.

AKDejaVu

[SirLoin]

Too bad it wasn't A Nude Male statue in background...Can you imagine the in-fighting among Press to get the angle shot..(Also would save tax $$'s as all you'd have to do is hang a fig leaf)..

[SirLoin]

Originally posted by AKDejaVu
What amazes me is that camera crews would go out of their way to get the bare breast in the shot.  If there's not enough news.. create it.

And I personally feel the money could have been better spent baring the other breast on the statue.  I've also heard that the FDPs wanted to take it a step further and remove the loin cloth from the male statue nearby.

To each their own.

AKDejaVu

Nooooooooo!!..Keep the Loin cloth!!!:D

[easymo]

sirloin.  The male is on the right side of the great hall.

[Wanker]

Miko, all artists aren't as bankrupt as the person who made that so called piece of art like the one you describe. You seem to be using that one example to label all artists as "worthless" or vulgar. I beg to differ. The female figure has been a subject of artists for hundreds of centuries. I don't see anything offensive in that bronze statue.

[Udie at Work]

You know, it really was a nice looking boobie too  Though I do find it funny/interesting that the photographer went out of his way to put that boob over Ashcroft's right shoulder, why not the left shoulder?  

 Oh yeah,  why is this news?

[easymo]

I read somewhere that clinton wanted to spend 16 thousend to have the statues breast enlarged.  But they found they could not do it, without defaceing the work of art.

[Eagler]

I thought it was a hat rack ...

[Nifty]

Ashcroft was having problems speaking after experiencing a redirection of blood flow upon viewing the statue.

[Ripsnort]

Press bias in its purest form...again.

Photographers have
              gone to great lengths
              in the past to capture
              the scantily-clad
              female statue in the
              background as the Justice Department's top
              brass addressed the world's press.