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August 8, 2006  |  
 
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If these terror profiteers were clever, they'd price their "2001-2006 World Trade Center Commemorative," complete with "Certificate of Authenticity verifying its 24 KT gold and .999 pure Ground Zero recovery silver content" for $9.11. Then no one could resist this fabulous offer.

Says Matt, who gets the hat tip: "[T]hese coins are sure to please the dim-witted jingoist in your household. A whopping $5 of every $30 order will be donated to 9/11 charities. That's 17%, for those of you counting at home. The National Collector's Mint would have increased that percentage, but a shyster's gotta live, you know?"

Sure. But what does he do to sleep at night?

(The Tattered Coat)

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Posted by: Roverton on Aug 8, 2006 8:54 AM   
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...are all the profits going for this venture. Surely to the widows and their children, right? it's the Christian thing to do>

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Charities?
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Posted by: Roverton on Aug 8, 2006 8:55 AM   
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Which charities in particular?

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I Think They Could Have a Use.....
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Posted by: sirossisofliver on Aug 8, 2006 9:09 AM   
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Maybe the DOD can purchase them at a discount, and turn them into uniform War On Terra Service Medals to award to the limbless survivors of Operation Desert Sturm.....or perhaps turn them into makeshift Body Armour???

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Crap.. .
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Posted by: Domokun on Aug 8, 2006 10:02 AM   
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I know some of those jingoists. Guess they'll have those displayed proudly the next time I visit. What, no Pentagon coin? Coaster? Napkin set?

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SEEMS LIKE MORE THAN 1 SUCKER BORN PER MINUTE!
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Posted by: chanceny on Aug 8, 2006 12:03 PM   
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Considering the still long lines hovering around 'ground zero', buying up tee shirts, postcards, pictures and flagpins, taking photos posing with their smiley-faced clueless gawking hometown gang in front of the hole that remains as a constant reminder of the incompetence and greed of our inept and corrupt government, why not add to the shitpile this crapola? There's obviously no law preventing stupidity or the moron hotlines would be a-buzz, warning their brain-dead fellow travelers to go elsewhere for their ghoulish delights - too bad the Pentagon's already been rebuilt!

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Sad
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Posted by: jrh1972 on Aug 8, 2006 12:20 PM   
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I like the scene in Rescue Me where Dennis Leary pisses on the table of the guy selling 09/11 cookies.

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"Hello. My name is Joe Shmo, and I died on 9/11. But when I heard about this fabulous offer, I just
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Posted by: cthelyt on Aug 8, 2006 4:52 PM   
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had to come back and tell you all about it."

As Jerry Springer, the progressive sage of Air America Radio, endlessly demonstrates on his TV show, one can plumb the depths of human nature without ever reaching the bottom. But if you plumb enough, you can make quite a living off it.

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AND WHERE
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Posted by: Roverton on Aug 8, 2006 8:54 AM   
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...are all the profits going for this venture. Surely to the widows and their children, right? it's the Christian thing to do>

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Charities?
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Posted by: Roverton on Aug 8, 2006 8:55 AM   
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Which charities in particular?

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I Think They Could Have a Use.....
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Posted by: sirossisofliver on Aug 8, 2006 9:09 AM   
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Maybe the DOD can purchase them at a discount, and turn them into uniform War On Terra Service Medals to award to the limbless survivors of Operation Desert Sturm.....or perhaps turn them into makeshift Body Armour???

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Crap.. .
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Posted by: Domokun on Aug 8, 2006 10:02 AM   
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I know some of those jingoists. Guess they'll have those displayed proudly the next time I visit. What, no Pentagon coin? Coaster? Napkin set?

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SEEMS LIKE MORE THAN 1 SUCKER BORN PER MINUTE!
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Posted by: chanceny on Aug 8, 2006 12:03 PM   
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Considering the still long lines hovering around 'ground zero', buying up tee shirts, postcards, pictures and flagpins, taking photos posing with their smiley-faced clueless gawking hometown gang in front of the hole that remains as a constant reminder of the incompetence and greed of our inept and corrupt government, why not add to the shitpile this crapola? There's obviously no law preventing stupidity or the moron hotlines would be a-buzz, warning their brain-dead fellow travelers to go elsewhere for their ghoulish delights - too bad the Pentagon's already been rebuilt!

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Sad
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Posted by: jrh1972 on Aug 8, 2006 12:20 PM   
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I like the scene in Rescue Me where Dennis Leary pisses on the table of the guy selling 09/11 cookies.

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"Hello. My name is Joe Shmo, and I died on 9/11. But when I heard about this fabulous offer, I just
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Posted by: cthelyt on Aug 8, 2006 4:52 PM   
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had to come back and tell you all about it."

As Jerry Springer, the progressive sage of Air America Radio, endlessly demonstrates on his TV show, one can plumb the depths of human nature without ever reaching the bottom. But if you plumb enough, you can make quite a living off it.

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