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A Children’s Treasury of Terrible 9/11 Art

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

You could've STOPPED THE PLANES or something, but you wept. Thanks, Cunt - Wonkette
On this solemn day a half-dozen years ago, nearly 3,000 people were horribly killed so that Rudy Giuliani could earn a hundred million dollars and run for president of 9/11 and the most corrupt administration in American History could wage endless war around the world that has killed some 700,000 people while finally making energy and defense stocks the solid dividend payers favored by long-term investors. Also, “September the Eleventh” has inspired the most insipid, maudlin kitsch in the history of an already very kitschy nation, along with some truly stomach-turning old-fashioned American Huckersterism.

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Baghdad Bric-a-Brac

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Direct from Baghdad, courtesy Wonkette’s They’re Everywhere Operative, Maj. Bob Bateman, the “Saddam Hussein-George Bush commemorative F-16 Fighting Falcon cigarette lighter.”

Lighter Photo-1
Guess it’s true: There are no aesthetes in foxholes.

Maj. Bateman’s narrative of discovery of this truly incredible artifact after the jump.

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