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A top immigration official has apologized after awarding “most original costume” to a Homeland Security Department employee who dressed in prison stripes, dreadlocks and dark makeup for a Halloween gathering at the agency.
Julie Myers, assistant secretary overseeing Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division, was part of a three-judge panel that lauded the costume, worn by a white employee, last Wednesday. She also posed for a photo with him.
Not racist. Got that, you morons?
(rake thwaps Bon in face) “Errrruhhh!”
We have requested this previously, but it always goes unanswered.
Dear Left,
Please provide us with a comprehensive list of people, places, things, jokes, etc … that are from here forward officially deemed as racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, etc … We tire of this list changing depending on the whim du jour, and want to know right up front that which you will take umbrage to. Keep in mind, this list is final, and not subject to future changes or editing.
Sincerely,
The rest of the world
What’s the big deal?
Now if he had gone as a homicidal clown dwarf…
Homicidal demonic dwarf clowns were banned from my neighborhood for Halloween. It did not work out so well. There was a 5 year old dressed as a clown, one of my neighbors kids. He was banging on the door yelling “I can see you sitting on the sofa Mr. Allen”. I was unmoved. I yelled at him that I left all of the candy on the porch, and to help himself.
#4 JD,
LMAO!
JD: Don’t leave the porch window open! Sneaky little bastards will shimmy through the crack and steal all of your licorice!
Then they’ll approach you with wielding pinking shears…
Spiny – My better half got pissed. That was one persistent clown, kept rining the damn doorbell. Must have been 10 times. Finally, his parents came up to see what was going on, and I made the better half go to the door. She was not really able to explain why I was being so neurotic.
BJ – I am not sure what pinking shears are, and unless they are some ancient tool used to skin dead animals, they sound kind of
faggotty. Just sayin’Does anyone else think Sideshow Bob looks like a collapsing WTC Tower.
Now that you mention it, Sarah.
JD, they look like scissors with little alligator teeth and make edges that look like this – VVVVVVVVVVV
JD:
SCISSORIST! DWARFIST!!
Maggie, I used to work in the apparel industry, many years ago. MY KNOWLEDGE OF PINKING SHEARS IS PROFESSIONAL IN NATURE AND DOES NOT REFLECT LATENT TENDENCIES OF ANY KIND, UNLIKE WHITE CHOCOLATE LATTES!
Just wanted to get that off of my chest…
BJ _ IF YOU SAY IT IN ALL CAPS
I’M MAKING AN ARGUMENT! i’M SHAKING MY FIST AND RAISING MY VOICE!
Somehow, the rest of my comment got cut off.
BJ – It was a mocha, not a latte, you sweatshop running capitalist pig.
Maggie – Thanks. I guess it is sexist of me, but knowing what pinking shears is seems kind of Gleenwaldy to me. I shall now remove that bit of trivia from my brain. Pretty easy to do, I have the attention span of a gnat.
IF YOU SAY IT IN ALL CAPS
The headline reminded me of the year I went to a Halloween party as Robert Byrd.
IT MUST BE TRUE !!!!!!!111!!!!!!one1!
JD: LATTEIST!
All hail the Grand Kleagle.
BTW, he apologized, at some point in the centuries that he has walked this earth, therefore his objective racism cannot be held against the Dems, even if he still goes around calling people niggers, er, white niggers.
Dressing up in a costume and going to a “gathering” at the Homeland Security Department is about the dorkiest thing I can imagine. Who are these people? These are like those people that were at that Christian summer camp in the Ozarks my parents made me go to like 5 years in a row I bet. I never wondered what happened to them.
You know JD, I can’t help but feel a little responsible for your having to give up the XL White Chocolate Mochas. It’s not what I intended and for that I apologize. I say drink up dude. Just get a coffee cup in the shape of a big round tittie and you can drink anything without fear of being labeled.
……….except for a hot cup of jiz
………but that pretty much goes without saying.
White Chocolate Mochas and whiskers on kittens
Hot Swedish stew who wear nothing but mittens
Hot Swedish stews who wear nothing but mittens
Evil Dwarf clowns who wear black leather mittens,
Pinking shears cutting two holes in white hoods.
These are few of the things that are good…
What a great line.
You remember Hot Swedish Stew? He did the balloon tying bit.
Guys, you are killing me. I am in tears !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When the leftists — Call you fascist
When your polls are screwed.
I simply remember the things that are good, especially blond — NUDE STEWS!!!
My daughter loves the Sound of Music, and will not understand when her father breaks down in tears laughing every time she watches that movie now.
I truly cannot describe how hard I was/am laughing.
“”He was clearly trying to not be Caucasian….”
He was dressed as Barrack Obama?
So has there been any objection to Michael jackson doing the recent Ebony Magazine cover in “White Face” ?
Michael Jackson: the original white chocolate mocha.
GODDAMMIT!! Sorry.
al – You have cured me. Not sure I could ever say those words and not get that image in my melon. Thanks.
I went to a H-ween party as Peter Tosh back in 1983. My buddy went as a pimp in a pink cowboy hat. It was at my apartment complex’s clubhouse. In Gadsden, Alabama. The next most elaborate costume was a guy in a cowboy hat and holsters. Great party, mon.
I know what they are because my Momma had some, and I’d usually pick them up on accident. What they’re for? I haven’t got a clue, but my best guess is that they’re for pinking. And I have no idea what that is.
I had my pinking sheared one time.
Hurt like a son of a bitch.
where did you get THAT picture of Cynthia McKinney?
Pinking shears, used by people who make clothes instead of buying polyester junk from other countries that won’t be named. Cloth that is woven instead of extruded will unravel when cut by straight scissors. The blades on pinking shears make a cut that is jagged, thus not allowing the cross threads to be pulled off. People who practice this ancient art also use tools called needles, pins, (needles have a hole, pins have a head); thread (comes in different colors); thimble (metal guard worn to protect finger pushing needle through cloth; pattern (paper or cloth template for pieces that sown together make the garment; pattern wheel (metal disc with jagged edge to transfer pattern lines to cloth); tailor (male); seamstress (female); great book (LeCarre’s “The Tailor of Panama”).
Thanks, Coco. You don’t happen to know anything about the dark art of tatting, do you?
I never knew what they were for exactly. My sister used to use them to cut out letters for signs for drill team.
I used an iron, once.
You really should be more careful.
Tatting is a form of lace making. My Grandmother used to do this but I never learned the craft. It takes a lot of manual dexterity. She had a little shuttle made of silver that was about an inch or two by an inch. She would hold the shuttle in one hand and feed the thread from the other. Each turn of the shuttle and feed of the thread made a loop or knot. The lace was a pattern of knots, built upon knots. This lace wasn’t the fine lace for an elegant dress. It might be for a collar, or cuffs, or for doilies on furniture or tables.
I do all of my own ironing. The better half and even the dry cleaners do not do it properly.
Would it be acceptable for, say, an antimacassar, Coco?
I have a funny story about what happened to my ironing board.
Spill, happyfeet.
The most use I ever got from an ironing board was in a motel in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I had to use it as a computer desk. Damn weak WiFi.
Comment by Dan Collins on 11/6 @ 5:54 pm #
“I used an iron, once.”
I did too,horrific experience. the divots it took out needed four illegals and a truck of sod to replace.
Then this guy? he started talking about “Mulligans”…Hell,I didn’t know the mics were even allowed at the club!
My immediate response, as the costumed maniac, would have been “You want me to apologize because I can’t tan? How cruel is that?”
Or just:
“You’re just so insensitive to my needs.”
…
I had an iron, but I dented it.
I wanna know who the complaining wanker was
talk about someone in need of a nuclear powered wedgie
Dear RWers Who Think You Own World Opinion,
Actually, you’re the stupid ones.
Sincerely,
ROTW
LOL, it’s always fun to get other people’s mail.
I don’t iron, but I do laundry. If people don’t want dress shirts with wrinkles, they should buy poly-cotton blends or shut the fuck up.
You should make sure that you’re actually getting “pinking” shears, rather than “punking” shears. Punking shears are used for giving people haircuts similar to this or this.
Irons are useful for making grilled cheese sandwiches in a dorm or hotel room, btw.
ROTW: who died and appointed you global opinion kommissar?
Oh, I get it: it’s like how Prof. Caric gets to speak for black people, despite not being black or even living within 100 miles of a black person.
Oh, cleo! It’s for you-u-u-u.
Dear Rest of the World,
I really do not think you want us to take our ball and go home. Some of you might actually have to defend yourselves, rather than relying on our goodwill.
Sincerely,
The United States of America
I would think the Rest of the World would be very concerned that we might take some pinking shears to them. THEY’LL LEAVE VERY, VERY JAGGED WOUNDS!
I have learned a valuable lesson here at PW: any unfamiliar term or item can irrevocable hijack a thread into wantom free thinking.
Until the troll comes along…
I don’t get it … I mention a white chocolate mocha (inherently racist) and somehow I now make the Gleenwalds look positively manly. On the other hand, BJ not only knows what pinking shears are, but has experience with them, and he is not a Gleenwald? Someone care to explain this to me ?
Spies – Caric is in ass, just like timmah. FWIW, it appears that Caric has a little plagarism problem over at his site with toddmayo.
It appears that once we stopped commenting there, all that remained were the Caric, timmah, and a plagarist (no, not Joe Biden).
I don’t know who ROTW was, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Angela Merkel. Or Nicolas Sarkozy. Or John Howard. Or Lech Kaczynski. Or Vladmir Putin, for that matter. Or….
Is Sarkozy hellbent on making us respect France ?
FWIW – Here in Indy, a 2-time incumbent Dem Mayor, with high approval ratings, got beat by an incredibly under-funded Republican who has never held any type of political office before. In fact, overall, it was a highly successful night for Republicans throughout the state. It is certainly no trend, but it does give hope.
My pleasure. Tools with funny names are stil tools.
Phoofy beverages are … well … you know … Phoofy!
I should know, being the spawn of a capitalist pig exploiter of the brown people.
Because that’s manly! BWAAA HAHAHAHA!!!
BTW, when I saw “Racist Costume” I thought you were talking about this.
Calling pinking shears a tool is the most Gleenwald thing I have heard today.
Thank, Pablo. Truly scary.
JD:
It’s only Greenwaldian if, as you rip into the fabric with your jagged edge cutting tool, you pause to sip a White Chocolate Mocha.
Clear now? [thumps chest]
So now “jagged edged cutting tool” is a euphemism for Pinking Shears?
Has Miss Cleo ever had a coherent on-topic post?
You’re being too specific. Let’s divide the question:
And the answer to both is “No.”
McGehee – That is difficult to do, on purpose, which leads me to believe that there is some type of disorder at play. It would practically be impossible to be 100% incoherent and 100% off topic 100% of the time, on purpose.
Disorder, hell. Complex. A complex of complexes.
McGehee – That PRE traumatic stress syndrome is a bitch, or so I have been told.
At least according to Miss Cleo.
I consider myself to be as Left as they get and I don’t think this was racist at all. I think there has to be intent behind racism. This was a silly costume. It was Halloween. I seriously doubt anyone with malevolent motives would dress up and parade at a government event. It wasn’t a KKK rally, it was a Halloween party. I think paranoid people have too much time on their hands.
Hilary 08.
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