Posted on 08/19/2006 4:21:33 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
Yesterday, the New York Daily News wrote:
The hucksters who two years ago tried to peddle the fraudulent Freedom Tower Silver Dollar are back with an even more offensive scheme for trading on the memory of 9/11 for money.They go by the name of the National Collector's Mint of Port Chester, N.Y., and they're marketing a monstrosity called the 2001-2006 World Trade Center Commemorative over the Web and on late-night cable TV. You've got to see it to believe it.
(Excerpt) Read more at takebackthememorial.org ...
I've been seeing that advertised on late night TV. Repulsive.
We made that mistake. :(
They may or may not be making a lot of money, but I once read (and anyone that knows for sure please confirm or deny) that a lot of the commercial like this on late night television is on a commission basis. That is the station or network will run the commercial for a piece of the action. The more often they are ran, the more the station can make.
The point being, those selling the product may not have put down any money up front.
One of the most perishable commodity in the world is the billable air time on network TV. Once that minute is gone, it is gone for good. So if you have not sold it, you may as well make deals. But like I said, this is smoking I read a very long time ago, and may no longer be true.
I think that the raw foundations where those buildings stood is the most fitting memorial. Put a fence up close by so people can leave memorials like they do in Oklahoma City, and leave it alone! Why try to make something that awful "beautiful". It loses it's meaning and memories.
Ruh-roh....I am glad I was told the difference before I ran out and bought the wrong one.
Perhaps I can help you out with your cashflow problem. I am related to Nigerian royalty, and find myself in a position to DOUBLE your investment. If you will immediately forward the appropriate information to the attorney listed below, with a certified check for the paltry sum of $USD 12,000.00; we will pay you 80% after the transaction is complete! Please reference the following: "LAZSCAM240K".
Does anyone else remember "the investment that keeps on grinning?"
Perhaps if enough people sent this to Fox and CNN, they would expose it.
So I don't feel so bad about buying the wrong movie, I told my hubby, well, we'll have it for posterity's sake.
I've always thought the twin beams of light should have been the memorial. They were so beautiful and powerful and most of all, simple. A perpetual light shining upon them...
Actually- it was pretty good. But you're right, there are two movies.
I actually feel happier after reading your post. Thanks!
LOL!!!
It's disturbing that Goldwater has sullied his family name by being associated with these charlatans.
1.)The first thing they'll do is whine about not being safe
2.) Next they would want everyone to stop the world to "feel their pain"
3.) Contribute to their lifetime retirement for going through all of this.
etc. etc.
Any one who buys this crap is too stupid to own a gun.
They will demand that President Bush and our Military save their fat rear ends
And they will save their sorry rear ends
Because they are the are best of the best and not sorry good for nothing pos like those anti war protesters
BUMP
Evidently some NYers prefer a hole in the ground to a memorial.
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