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2013-12-08 Government

State Dept on Back Foot over $1 mln Sculpture

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Posted by Fred 2013-12-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 promote cross-cultural understanding.

by spending a million dollars on a big Irish rock,( the long pause that follows is because I am looking for a knife ).
I want to cut a big slice out of your cross cultural Embassy driven gizzard.

Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2013-12-08 04:17|| 2013-12-08 04:17|| Front Page Top

#2 More befitting for State might be a mural entitled "Bloody Fingerprints in Benghazi." I doubt Ms. Harf would agree however.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-08 04:37|| 2013-12-08 04:37|| Front Page Top

#3 this is because of the horror of the sequester

if not for that, the Dept of State could have afforded a $5M pile of granite blocks instead of this paltry $1M pile

Posted by lord garth 2013-12-08 07:32|| 2013-12-08 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 How did the London embassy get a 1M authorization through the Brit hating WH?

"This piece was purchased under the market price after considerable negotiation with both the artist and the gallery.

Another sole source procurement. Can you say - website?

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-12-08 08:36|| 2013-12-08 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Just keep this in mind for the next time Krugman is bloviating about the evil Tea Party cutting food stamps to the poor. $1mm would feed a lot of people.

Posted by Matt 2013-12-08 09:31|| 2013-12-08 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Or provide for some security at an embassy somewhere...

Posted by Steve White 2013-12-08 11:13|| 2013-12-08 11:13|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 How did the London embassy get a 1M authorization through the Brit hating WH?

Subtle perhaps, but "artist" [Sean Scully] is an Irishman, in long-standing self-imposed exile. I doubt you'll find much of Beatrix Potter's or Dayan's work at the State Department or the White House.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-08 11:34|| 2013-12-08 11:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Is this the thing which looks like a pile of crappy suitcases?

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-12-08 11:41|| 2013-12-08 11:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Baksheesh for the Brits

Posted by regular joe 2013-12-08 12:15|| 2013-12-08 12:15|| Front Page Top

#10 >twice been nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize

It will look like a dogs dinner second time around.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-12-08 13:28|| 2013-12-08 13:28|| Front Page Top

#11 "President Obama, we have our eyes on a piece of art by an Irish guy that the Brits will HATE. It's only a mil, can we get it?"

Posted by Frank G 2013-12-08 14:07|| 2013-12-08 14:07|| Front Page Top

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