Monday, January 03, 2011
The Most Horrible Idea
In the history of selling hideously tasteless crap to mouthbreathers.
Ever.
Whoever thought this up, whoever approved it, whoever fronted the money to bring it to market and whoever actually buys one...all of them need to be frogmarched immediately into the public stocks so that any helpful passerby with a 2x4 can explain to them why they should not be part of our species.
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Another testinony that Barnum was right! Great podcast on Friday!!! You and BG were in excellent form!!!
Apparently The cockbags responsible have learned something from the last time around.
For reference, here's the size of a 1 gram nugget of gold. So imagine a volume 71 times smaller than that, and that's the volume of gold used to plate what is probably a nearly worthless hunk of stamped stainless steel.
Here's what Googling "Uniform Division Benefit Fund" turned up. Apparently they run a gift shop near the White House, that runs a charity. How that makes them able to authorize reproduction of the FBI logo, I have no idea.
Actually... 18 U.S.C. 709
I'm no laywer, but if they didn't break the law by making this add they walked right up to it and slapped it in the face with their dicks. Unless it was actually authorized in writing by the director of the secret service, in which case there's a nice story waiting for some journalist.
Surely a brilliant pastiche? No? Arrrrrgh!
24-carat depravity
It's just the opening salvo of 9/11 10th anniversary porn. By the time September rolls around, the people who are involved with this "coin" will look like pikers.
And David Gregory will have permanent Rudy 9uillani splooge stains on all his collars.
Tasteless and disgusting,
I love the way you think.
Tears in my eyes,
S
P.S. Yes, you rock (as always).
I can see your essay as being a public service notice some day when sanity again prevails.
P.P.S. Ha! Word ver: "rebut"
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Please let this be an Onion parody. No? Then let me be a member of some another, less evil and stupid species.
Like violence, fetishizing tragedy for profit is apparently now as American as cherry pie.
;>)
Usually when I see general "mint" crap in this catagory, I imagine an old style boiler room operation, guys who don't give a shit as long they can sell whatever crap they have to sell.
But this is on a whole different level. You just know it is some winger paranoid true believer operation, thinking they are performing a public service by making sure authoritarianism is perpetually linked to 9-11. If they have to nudge the rules a little (or a lot) to make their point, well obviously that's some eggs that must unfortunately be broken.
Horrific.
Tasteless? I am still waiting for my Commemorative Columbine TEC-9 Carbine with extended Klebold clip! DG, nothing too surprising here, just another take on "blood money".
Yeppers: controlling my gag reflex required a near-superhuman effort, when I first saw this abomination on late-night tv a couple of days ago.
And I had the damn thing muted!
I must admit, though, they've shown surprising restraint in not hawking this bit of mass-murder kitsch on the basis of its containing some carbon atoms from the victims.
Snabby has it right: better stock up on the Dramamine, folks, 'cause this is just the beginning. In the run-up to the tenth anniversary of Little Boots' and company's spectacular malfeasance, every right-wing grifter will be working extra hard to extract the last morsel of profit from jingoism, fear and paranoia.
I would be disappointed if they DIDN'T try to sell this.
Years ago there was an outfit selling necklaces that featured a small glass ampule containing water from the Sea of Galilee. Made a beautiful commercial about Jesus and owning water from the very sea he walked upon, send your check to this address in Colorado Springs (fundy central in Colorado). The folks selling these were Jewish through and through, but they had contacts in the Holy Land, and a brilliant idea and marketing plan.
As noted above, PT Barnum may have been the most astute observer of American culture ever.
From the USS New York website:
From flight deck to crew quarters, the LPD of the 21st century is state-of-the-art in design and technology, superseding four older classes of amphibious landing craft.
In fact, the vessel you see in New York harbor today is the latest in a long line of warships named for the state and city of New York (Click on 'Other Former USS NEW YORKs' tab, above).
She is one of three new amphibious assault ships named after places in three states where more than 3,000 people were murdered in the infamous terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.
Still in construction are the other two: the soon-to-be USS ARLINGTON (LPD-24) named for the Virginia county in which the Pentagon is located, and the USS SOMERSET (LPD-25) named for the Pennsylvania county where American Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field.
If "They" really felt they had to make a ship out of WTC metal, it ought to have been, say, a Fire Department Ship... or a Hospital Ship, or Police Search & Rescue Helicopters. That kind of thing. The notion of making a landing craft LANDING CRAFT! In the 21st Century! out of the "hallowed remnants of 9/11" is just beyond comprehension.
What? No more commerovative Elvis plates available?
I'm glad they put only a penny's worth of silver (along with 35 cents worth of gold) in each $30 + $5S/H coin, so they can make 2000 coins with each ounce of silver. Otherwise they'd 'have to cease production' before every true American could own one.
And just think: the impurities in your coin's silver just might include the ashes of an actual 9/11 victim! Act now!
You get
you get
you get.
Yeah, act now.
But you don't understand, dg: things gotta be paid for. Not watching the commercials is like stealing. As Cool Hand Luke said, 'those bosses need all the help they can get'.
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