> Subject: Mount Rushmore
> 
> N.J. Bud Goldstone <budgoldstone [at] yahoo__com> writes
> 
>> I do believe we may lose chunks of our one-of-a-kind 
>> mountain sculpture Mt. Rushmore to an unsafe "cleaning" 
>> operation. I don't know why high pressure wound up as the  
>> selected method other than it may have been the low bid, 
>> but my database says cleaning off lichen and mold should 
>> be done with a simple, cheap wash job. What was the the 
>> scientific backup that showed a blast was the way to go? 
>> Anyone know?

Yeah, those conservationists. Always waiting until the last minute
crisis to raise an alarm. They should have anticipated these threats to
Mt. Rushmore and already had the research completed in advance of such
an ill-advised proposal to lobotomize the historic icon as a treatment
for its petulant, irrational behavior of growing a 5 o'clock shadow.

Adding Reagan.... Is that what kind of company those inscrutable,
passive faces want to keep? I'd lobotomize them too.

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Raleigh Historic          heretics live on forever"
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