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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Baldur Fjvlnisson who wrote (304490)	10/4/2002 6:11:05 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: Someone said that if you put Ashcroft's brain in a bumblebee - it would fly backwards. And he seems above average. In this lame duck administration. Ashcroft's fight against naked terror Attorney General John Ashcroft objected to the semi-nude female statue in the Justice Department building's Great Hall. He didn't like being photographed at events in the Great Hall with the statue's exposed aluminum breast in the background. The statue's title is Spirit of Justice, though it's colloquially known as "Minnie Lou." According to Beverley Lumpkin, some news photographers make a point of angling their shots to get that particular statue in frame. The most famous pictures of all were shot when former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese proudly released the final report of his commission on pornography. No one in the Great Hall that day could ever forget the spectacle of the still photographers writhing on the floor, flat on their backs, in order to grab the shot of Meese holding up the porn report with Minnie Lou's breast over his shoulder. Ashcroft solved the problem by ordering massive draperies to cover the offensive statue at a cost of $8000. There are so many obvious jokes here, it's hard to know where to begin. So let me just say: what an asshole. Press release posted at whitehouse.org: John Ashcroft announces Operation Mummified Sculptural Genitalia. "Beginning today, over four hundred (400) federal agents will begin fanning out across America, where they will storm the perverted ramparts of any and all public buildings, parks, and museums which harbor objectionable 'art.' While most offending works will be shrouded in draperies or clad in over-sized Brooks Brothers suits, some (most notably the Statue of Liberty) will undergo extensive artistic revisions, while yet others will find their repulsive intercourse muscles wrapped snugly and permanently in cocoons of industrial strength duct tape." dazereader.com