DISGUSTING commercial

[malachibk]

The National Mint is selling US Silver Dollars that are plated in silver retrieved from the WTC vaults.

That's right -- 9/11 commemorative coins!

Are you fucking kidding me?

[eyesroll]

1. I saw this a few days ago...

Thankfully, the "National Mint" isn't the actual U.S. treasury mint -- it's a private company.

But, still...:puke:

[malachibk]

6. I wonder how this company obtained the silver?

eom

[traco]

14. The information on the commercial

Says they found some silver in the vault of the treasury department(?) which was on the bottom floor or in the basement of the WTC, and that is what they are using to make these.

[gospelized]

2. actually

if you notice, they say they are "government issue"

but they don't say WHAT government.

they are actually from some island country.

[gospelized]

4. or so i hear nt

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

3. I thought you were going to talk about the commerical for Levitra

that knock off Viagra for men. Smarmy looking woman talking about "enhanced performance for my man" with this wink-wink nudge-nudge look and her voice drives me up a wall and they act so smarmy through the WHOLE commercial ("gives my man the performace he needs").

Ug. But yours is ug too.

[moderatepenguin]

9. I love the word

"smarmy." And I agree about the ads.

[Deja Q]

5. You think everybody would have creamed their pants 3 years ago...

I'm shocked some would still stoop so low, after all this time.

(Oh, October 2001-January 2002 was hell with everybody selling coins and documents and DVDs and condoms and everything else that's WTC-related, yet only in a nominal way.)

[SoCalDem]

7. They are counterfeit..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4487579,00.html
US Mint Warns Consumers of WTC Coin

... money. National Collectors Mint is advertising the coins as products of the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The ...

[Paranoid_Portlander]

13. Bush is "Chief of State" of the Northern Mariana Islands.

And Cheney is second in command. Interesting.

[tridim]

8. I saw it awhile back

and dismissed it as BS. There's a disclaimer that says it's something like .001 millimeter silver coated. Still, it's in very poor taste.

[moderatepenguin]

11. Your signature

graphic is absolutely inspired.

[onebigbadwulf]

10. Comes with an authentic 5 dolllar holocaust bill!

Collect the whole set!

Pearl Harbor Pennies!

Somalia Silver Dimes!

Yugoslavian ethnic cleansing Euros!

Hiroshima / Nagasaki Nickels!

Kurdish Gassing Greenbacks!

And every other horrible act of mass murder or genocidal massacre in the history of the civilized world! Horray!

(Gotta catch em all - puke-e-mon!)

[Chovexani]

12. You think that's bad

That's tasteful compared to the tsotchkies (sp?) they were selling down on the street around the WTC site. It's not as bad as it used to be but it's still pretty awful.

Especially when you factor in the tourists posing for pictures. These fuckers act like it's Disneyland or something, instead of, you know, a crime scene where almost 3000 people were murdered.