This is the tragic scene from a Borders closeout sale in Maryland. Do we spy a “Young Adult” section in the background of the photo marked with only a 70% off sign? FOR SHAME, AMERICA. [Thanks to Wonkette Operative "Alex S."]
FUNNY PICTURES 2:55 pm September 8, 2011
Brave Bush, Palin Memoirs Still Cling To Shelves Amid Ruins of Bookstore Closeout
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Great, now she can afford to buy her book to read what's in there.
That is one ghost-writing job that will never show on any resume ever. Who would ever admit to that?!?
Actually, in Lynn Vincent's case, Sarah Palin's book is a step up from her previous work.
One of our San Diego locals. We're so proud.
no good, she cannot read. where is cheney's new book?
over at the fiction section!
Even at 90% off, that's a little pricy for toilet paper.
Don't squeeze the Palin™!
And you sure as hell don't feed Palin's after midnight.
because they get teen-pregnant?
Which food-group is wine-cooler?
Nevar Forget!
Nevar buy this shit!
Loneliness is Rotting on a Bookrack.
The invisible hand giving the visible finger.
More like a resounding bitch-slap.
I think Politics is closer to 100% off right now.
It's literally not worth the paper it's printed on.
Just like her handshake, as Sam Goldwyn would say.
Really?!? No one wants to "read" (color) the amazing witticisms of these fine, upstanding individuals? That's crazy talk…
Still too much. Now, if I had a fireplace and they were willing to pay me to take them away.
Nah…still not worth it.
Would probably stink a bit less being burned though…
Obviously it’s because they were misshelved, readers searching for fiction probably couldn’t find them.
Fiction?
Try True Crime.
So America stood up and said "We really don't care". What a great day for this country.
American by heart. Idiot by nature.
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Grifter by profression.
So, just like Palin, her book is 90 percent off. Perfect.
**ethnic hooting and whooping**
From the Wasilla Def Comedy Jam with my sixth grade classmate, Nick, a black kid who preferred living in Alaska, & Ed Chigliak, the stoner from Northern Exposure.
JW: It would be perfect if the second half of the book was blank.
That's the 'oh fine just take it' shelf at the bookstore. Seriously. They often put them outside the entry door. You shoplift one of those and they most likely don't even send someone out to chase you down.
If they do chase you down for stealing W's book… they make you take a Palin… excuse me… I have to go take a Palin right now… BRB.
No, don't! That's what got Levi in trouble.
Tent/Wine Cooler libel!
They do chase you down and make you take another copy.
Do I spy with my little eye a copy of "Presidency for Dummies" on the back shelf?
Their sign is incorrect. There are no numbers in "Please take these fucking things home with you, gratis. Seriously, the publishers have sobered up and don't want them back, stripped or otherwise."
Not even the "think tanks" or wingnut blogs can hoist this shit off on anyone.
These might be effective to soak up the next massive gulf oilspill. Or are they already too full of shit?
Recyclers will pay by the pound … that's pretty much the only market for this garbage.
You can't take those word-thinghies to McDonald's and trade them in for anus burgers, so why exchange actual monies for them to begin with?
DUH, also!
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Such a tragic waste of trees.
A pine tree cries, alone in the forest, wondering if he/she's next.
I certainly am against book burning, but since even if given away no one out of prison would read these, couldn't we give the books to New England senior citizens to toss in their fireplaces during the coming winter of our discontent. Maybe throw in a few Ann Coulter screeds as fire starters.
Maybe Borders can donate them to the homeless. They'd do fine warming up a can of hobo beans.
They could be tossed into Boston Harbor?
Can I buy them all with one Ron Paul dime?
Is it a true silver dime?
Makes one long to have a chair or table with one leg about 2.75 inches short. Almost. I could use a couple to chock the tires when I change the oil in my car.
Good, more room for sexy teen vampire books!
Obviously, Borders is Un-American. I say, burn that store!
They are probably praying for a fire to collect on the insurance and the burden of having to unload those books.
Those are some pretty cheap doorstops….
Ironically, "My Pet Goat" is more expensive now than "Decision Points"
And more readable.
And more believable. Also.
I could use something to level my water heater, so I may just pick up a copy of "America By Heart"
Look at all that leftover trash. Their books probably suck, too.
What do you expect? Their target audience can't read above the second grade level.
I weep for the trees that were sacrificed. Cut down in their prime, those trees could have gone on to save lives as medical textbooks. Or sparked a spirit of kindness as a bible or inspirational novel. Maybe they could have given a budding entrepreneur the tools to become a job creator as a business guide. Instead those trees have become a generation lost to the shallow thinking of America's least rigorous minds. I weep for them.
Hey, some trees strive to be awesome porn mags. Don't forget those trees.
If the two of them would never read their own memoirs (or any other book, for that matter) then why should I?
"Politics, 90% off" is pretty much the most sussinct descriptions of either Bush or Palin that I've ever seen
We might be looking at a cost effective way to heat your house this next winter.
At least they didn't quit selling her POS book.
Bristol's Memoir can be found in Bookstore's bathrooms everywhere, as a substitute for TP.
"Bookstores"?
Oh gawd, I saw the Bristlecone book at the Borders going out of business sale earlier this week. I actually stopped at the Bush and Palin books on the rack for a few seconds, but walked right past the Bristle book without stopping.
Heh. I went to a Border's closeout not long ago in Maryland and there were a lot of Palin books left. People are buying the fixtures, even, and hauling those off. Eventually it will be like an art installation: 4,000 square feet of retail space empty of everything but a pile of Palin trex.
I think that back shelf actually says "Young Slut".
So, 70% off copies of Not Afraid of Life?
How is Perry's Book 'o Lies selling???
You mean Fed Up? It's a joke, see? Cuz Ricky doesn't like the Federal Reserve system, the Federal Government, and, if he'd ever heard of them, the Federation of American Scientists. He's fed up! Ha!
Obviously he is fed up. Look at the way he inhales a “corndog”.
This reminds me of my days in a bookstore. Rather than send the slow selling books back, we had to strip off the covers and pitch them. Later, after work, my co-workers and I would go harvesting in the dumpster (we couldn't just put them aside. on no! that would be stealing)
Forests of trees destroyed, dozens of manuscripts by promising writers ignored, tankers of fossil fuels used to print and ship (and now remainder), and now internet traffic tied up just so vain failures can try to rewrite history in their own times.
Those who don't learn the lessons of history should be condemned to eat it!
Pay me. Still wouldn't take either book.
"it used to be that you'd stop into a Borders and buy my book for $25.99 and a bookmark for $2. now, instead of paying almost $30…you only pay for the bookmark." –Sarah Palin
I dunno. Even 90% off seems kind of expensive for crap.
It's such a pity, but if 'Murica had actually READ these two works, they would have found that George W. Bush's prose has an almost Marxian sprightliness in its trenchant invective, and a Swiftian-sharp rapier wit at every twist and turn, while this latest Palin tract wisely explores the generosity of her humanistic – nay, humoristic side, with passages reminiscent of Shecky Greene at his most rumbustious and Irwin S. Cobb as his most urbane. And don't even get me started on her close parallels with Dorothy Parker.
No, nobody reads no more. Not even the classics.
PS: I haven't read the Jim DeMint book yet, but it looks good! Too bad my Borders has already folded.
Sounds like your drug dealer is still in business.
We've all gotta get through Modern Life somehow…
I thought 90% off seemed like a pretty steep discount for Palin's book until I checked Amazon: asking price of $0.01 (gently used).
Can you return it if the gentle use includes brown streaks?
Used like anyone who has donated money to her PAC or payed to see her speak, except they were quite harshly used.
Plus shipping, though? Still too much.
I personally won't consider buying Bush's book until it contains his recollections from his years spent slowly dying in the Hauge.
The only good news here is that in a few years we'll also see Bachmann and Perry's "books" on the clearance shelves.
The name of each of their books should be "If/How/When I Did It"
Oooh, it's a universal experience. I was in a Borders yesterday picking over the carcass and there was a shelf just like this, with these books. . . and some urban fantasy titled "Dead on Delivery" that they couldn't get rid of either.
Bush-Palin-Books? Surely you jest. You don't mind if I call you S……….?
These books ain't worth the fire to burn 'em.
I'm getting a stack to put next to the toilet, along with an Origami instruction book.
The original Ripoff Press is far superior.
If it wouldn't boost her sales numbers and put that horrifying self-satisfied smile on her face for even a minute, I'd buy it all up for a snarky eye-catching display at my next PR event.
RWNJ publishers use the tax code and generous writeoffs to stay in business.
money laundering?
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