I dunno about you, Gentle Reader, but I find this abomination fits the definition of the word "despicable" precisely:
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I suppose it had to happen sooner or later: some low-life, money-grubbing, motherless SOB would figure out a way to make a buck off the nation's darkest day since Pearl Harbor. This both saddens and outrages me at the same time... and you wouldn't want to be in the same room with me when the teevee ads for this crap come on. The air turns blue and it's a wonder my teevee still lives, given my apoplectic reaction to this brand of greed and opportunism.I don't see how any American who was alive and in possession of their mental faculties on that black September day could EVER forget. The appropriate way to commemorate and remember 9/11? Observe a moment of silence when the day rolls around in September. Make a pilgrimage and join in the solemn ceremonies that will be held at Ground Zero, the Pentagon, or the site of the Flight 93 Shanksville Memorial. Do anything other than buy this bullshit. Anything.
Disagree? I'd like to hear your rationale in comments... but ya better make it good.
No chance I'm going to disagree with you Buck - cuz I flat out agree with you.
ReplyDeleteGrotesque and an abomination; defies all logic and rational thinking. I haven't seen this ad - yet. If and when I do I'm fairly certain the air in my house will be the same color blue as yours.
Never forget the 3,000 innocent victims. Never forget the sacrifices our warriors have made since then to right this heinous wrong.
Buy a collectible piece of paper? OMFG.
No way could I disagree, my friend. It is down right disgusting.
ReplyDeleteYou got it right, Buck. This is despicable. It makes me sick to my stomach.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read your post I was reminded of something I read back in '09 about Obama and the democrats plan to turn the day into a national day of service. Here's a link to somebody who detested that plan almost as much as you detest this commemorative $2 bill get rich quick scheme.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/24/obamas-plan-to-desecrate-911
We're all on the same page. I remember that "National Day of Service" bullshit all too well, Dan. There was QUITE an outcry about that and I prolly read the American Spectator piece you linked when it hit the streets (it sounded familiar). The gall and cluelessness of some people, especially those on the left, never ceases to amaze me.
ReplyDeleteAt some point each week, I see one of the tribute type youtube videos regarding the 9.11 attack. Sometimes it's President Bush and the bullhorn, sometimes it's been the full 10 or so Naudet Brothers production, which is well worth watching entirely at least once as they went in the burning WTC with firemen minutes after it was hit...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7rlYdf34w
I wasn't working that week, all I had to do was drive the 3 kids in grade 2 & 4 to school, and feed them 3 squares each day. Instead we ended up watching A LOT of Tv, and crying and talking A LOT about the world at large.
I'm not looking forward to the 10th anniversary coming up in 6 months, it's a raw nerve still. Don't fuck with it.
There is no rationale for turning 9/11 into a day of national shopping greed. I'm afraid these disgusting 9/11 anniversary "commemorations" are just beginning.
ReplyDeleteThere just aren't words to explain the gall and cluelessness of some people. Even hitting them upside the head wouldn't be enough.
marc: Thanks for the Naudet Brothers link. I'd never seen the film before and watched all ten episodes today. It was riveting.
ReplyDelete9/11 is still pretty raw for me, as well. I was on the other side of the country (in SFO) and was just arriving at work when the first plane hit the WTC (yeah, at 0600 hrs; I was always an early guy). I worked in a high rise in SFO's financial district and the morning was pretty much a blur for me. We had to implement my company's disaster recovery plan, which involved moving my entire operations crew to a back-up data center and getting all ops personnel and a lot of other stuff out of our building. The afternoon, however, dragged. Three of us stayed behind to man phones in case clients called, even though we'd notified them all we were going to our contingency plan. The only calls we took that afternoon were from family... I think all of America stopped what they were doing the moment the first plane hit.
Red: Completely agree.
The only justification that I could see from something like this is if it were to be used as a fund raiser for some memorial or fund for those who were affected by the attack, but even then I think it would be a real stretch.
ReplyDeleteI looked at the Twin Towers just about every working day for nearly 20 years. I also worked a little in the towers and surrounding buildings, and had friends lost in the attacks. I don't want to see it become a holiday, nor do I think it will. We don't have Pearl Harbor holiday, so I would think that even with the numbnuts that occupy the WH and congress, we are safe from that.
I still feel anger and pain when I see a movie that shows the Towers proudly in the skyline, I can't imagine having anything such as this to plague me.
Its nothing to celebrate.
...but even then I think it would be a real stretch.
ReplyDeleteConcur, Anon. A REAL stretch. I also hope you're right about the holiday thing; the current administration went too damned far with their "National Day of Service" BS, as Dan noted above.
I traveled to NYC on business on occasion in the way-back, and made my last trip there in November of 2001. The absence of the WTC had a profound impact on me, which was mitigated somewhat by all the American flags. I'd never seen so many flags flown from every possible place in my life. The cab ride into Manhattan from JFK that day was an experience I'll not soon forget.
We had taken a cruise that left from NYC in 1999 - one of my fave pics of that trip is of the Twin Towers as we sailed down the Hudson.
ReplyDelete3 years later in mid September 2002 we took another cruise out of NYC and the gaping hole in the skyline was almost too much to bear.
The ONLY thing that 9/11 should ever be is a day of remembrance and reflection; honoring those whose lives were so brutally taken from them.
If any commerative items are issue, unless the money goes to a 9/11 charity - they should be illegal to sell.
Period.
If any commerative items are issue, unless the money goes to a 9/11 charity - they should be illegal to sell.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about illegal, but the sellers should be mocked, ridiculed and SHUNNED.
Ah, I found it, my memory is not playing tricks on me:
ReplyDeletehttp://doxalogos.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/tasteless-and-a-scam-the-2008-911-commemorative-coin/
Keep reading, down to the 2004 coin, with the pop-up buildings. Yeah no kidding. It pops up, like out of a kids' book. Ain't that cute?
++eyeroll++
Word verification: "moarsid".
I hate THAT ad, too. It's gratifying that the perps of that clusterfuck are being prosecuted, albeit not for the reason I'd prosecute 'em. Or shoot 'em.
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