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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8965
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 - 12:06 pm: | 
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I just saw a TV ad for the "9/11 Commemorative Coin". It has a little 3-D Twin Tower pop-up. Part of the proceeds will go to "official 9/11 charities".
It's one of those fake-mint type places. $29.95 for "your piece of history."
This is profiting from tragedy.
What "patriots". To quote from their website: "We're proud of our association with Barry M. Goldwater, Jr." |
Project 37
Citizen
Username: Project37
Post Number: 244
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 - 12:11 pm: |
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Ugh. Spitzer shut this BS down before:
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2004/10/14/spitzer_suspends_sept_11_silver_coi ns.php
Hopefully he'll find a way to do it again.
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SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 3477
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 - 12:11 pm: |
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I remember those things coming out a few years ago.. maybe on the 1st anniversary. Guess they figured since they movie was out that the public is ripe for sales. Don't plan to buy one.. nor do I plan to see the movie (although I hear it's very well done and really about the human spirit, I just never want to visit that moment in time again.) |
Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 2456
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 - 12:33 pm: |
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But c'mon it's made from gold and silver reclaimed from the actual site. How could you not want one? |
Duncan
Supporter
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 6884
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 - 12:35 pm: |
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greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8967
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 - 12:38 pm: |
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Well, the pop-up feature did have me in a quandry. So, you think installing Goldwater as their director is an attempt to show how "legitimate" they are?
Hopefully, Spitzer isn't too busy with his campaign. I'm glad that he had it shut down before, but what is his jurisdiction? The link between the claims that the materials came from NYS (the "Gound 0 silver")? |
Project 37
Citizen
Username: Project37
Post Number: 245
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 - 1:16 pm: |
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I don't get it. Spitzer got them to issue over $2 million in refunds, not to mention almost $400K in civil penalties:
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2005/oct/oct19b_05.html
...and yet they go ahead and release a POP-UP version (with more of the "Ground Zero Silver" nonsense)?!?
As for Goldwater, their copy is priceless:
Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. is More Than Just a Patriot, More Than a Compassionate Conservative...He is a Humanitarian!
He should also add "real f*#%ing hero" to the list. Disgusting. |
bettyd
Citizen
Username: Badjtdso
Post Number: 270
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 - 1:26 pm: |
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This reminds me of another tasteless thing I saw post 9/11. I was walking with a friend in Lower Manhattan (may have been Church or Barclay Street, don't recall exactly), and there was a banner over a bar which read "Closest Beer to Ground Zero." I was so taken aback I had to ask my friend if she was seeing the same thing. |
buzzsaw
Citizen
Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 5598
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 - 1:56 pm: |
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^ that sign has come up before......
I saw that too.
really really bad
there were a lot of depressing and tacky stuff down there in the months following.
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