Uh oh... Ashcroft Gone and the moral decline begins

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WASHINGTON - With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.

Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice's ceremonial Great Hall.



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I guess families can no longer take field trips to the DOJ.

Here's the part that was news to me and really shocked me:
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The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000,

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You've got to be sh*tting me. They could have dressed her up in a designer wardrobe for $8000. They could have had a custom made bikini top made to cover them for $50.

Someone should have been fired for spending $8000 to cover a statue's boobs. what wasteful idiots.