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CURRENT MUGSHOT FASHION: Here are two recently arrested ladies sporting the finest in Barack Obama casual “No Hope” designs. They probably don’t even know each other or anything! But at least our nation’s hopeless are now wearing cheap Obama-themed t-shirts while doing whatever petty crime. [The Smoking Gun]
I saw a photo of bin Laden wearing a Palin t-shirt with “Drill Baby, Drill” written on it.
At least, I think it was Palin. I couldn’t see her face.
Each has scribed on her cheek, “epoh on, tsirC eilrahC”
The accused should be given new T-shirts to replace the “Yes We Can” Slogan.
The new Ts should read: “No, you didn’t” but with a pick of McCain on the front.
Those t-shirts are so obviously unofficial fakes. How do you expect honest politicians to make any money if no-one buys authentic t-shirts. Shame on them. No wonder they have been arrested.
the one on the left is that shitty MoveOn shirt. I have it, it’s ugly, and now MoveOn sends me emails all the time.
Hey, he’s their president-elect, too. But as a counterpoint:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1128081mugs3.html
Next time I rob a liquor store, I’m wearing a suit and tie. Better safe than sorry.
gurukalehuru: Hold a fountain pen, not a gun.
Zhu Bajie
Who wants to bet this dude’s related to Saxby Chambliss? Either his cousin or nephew — or, more like, both.
THIS is our weekend Wonkette? feh.
zhubajie: point taken.
SayItWithWookies: He’s my cousin (slap) He’s my nephew (slap) He’s my cousin (slap) He’s my nephew (slap)
Anyone watching Fox News this morning? Jesus they can’t be more douchey. Everything is anecdotal, EVERYTHING. How can this be a news channel?
…the one on the left is kinda cute, in a misdemeanor kinda way!
Yes we can, big boy, get bizzee, and then rob a liquor store. rrrr! First join me in the audacity of dope, yo. You be the lookout, stud.
Nothing new to say, this is an avatar test
AngryBlakGuy: id hit it
gurukalehuru: :FAIL
gurukalehuru: Shit. Will try again later.
Did a matador take the photo of the chick on the right? She looks like she’s about to charge.
The one on the left looks like an American Apparel ad.
Yes we can. It’s so nice to see criminals embracing the power of positive thinking. Barry really did bring change to America!
AngryBlakGuy: I have to agree with you. I was thinking, ‘Man, if she looks that good in a mug shot, she must be kinda hot.’
I mean, other than Paris Hilton, how many people have decent booking photos?
hey, isn’t bristol palin’s baby due, like, ten minutes ago? what ever happened about that, anyway?
I really hope they share a cell with the cut nut, Ashley Todd.
the t-shirt at jail said”no you didn’t.”
gurukalehuru: Nice avatar.
You should take a second to flip through those mug shots & be thankful none of these yahoos are related to you. I esp. like the guy at the end who had his collar flipped up ala James Spader in Pretty in Pink.
Texan Bulldoggette: So what’s wrong with my collar? No love for haute couture on the Wonkette?
haha. black people smoke da crack.
Should have worn ironic Nixon T-shirts and escaped the wrath of teh internetz.
Slight OT: Thursday night, I stopped by a friend’s house for a dinner party. After sipping drinks and nibbling dessert, he asked me about Obama (since he knows I am a political junkie, not because I am Black). I made a joke, as is my way, about being glad racism was done and over with. (Side note: this is one of my best friends, who is Mexican, gay and lives with his partner and two other minority roommates that go to UCLA law.) One young lady, a pretty blond haired Russian emigrant - one of 2 white people there - looked confused when the other minorities around the table waved off my sarcasm. She lives in DC and it was it really true, she claimed, that black people really DID think Barack ended racism. It was a proposition she considered “ghetto,” since everyone knows “Martin Luther King had already done that.”
The conversation only got stranger from there - with me, who hates all races of people, yes, including Black - trying to undo 30 years of this woman’s miseducation about America, patiently explaining things like why Black people in 2008 aren’t just content to be sharing water fountains with white people. I tried to tell her that housing, jobs, education and health mattered more to them, but her sole point of reference seemed to be the “mean and ghetto” Black people she has “met” on DC’s U Street. With the help of my two Ivy league liberal arts degrees, I didn’t managed to enlighten her, but I sure managed NOT to slap her across the face every time she spat out the word “ghetto” in her mouth-full-of-shit, Russian accent.
There is no point to this comment; I just had to share this with someone. I don’t know if I convinced her of anything, but my own personal xenophobia is at an all time high. I feel we need to bomb the fuck out of Moscow. Now.
“Fresh fish! Fresh fish!”
problemwithcaring: Amen to that! Why, that idiot Russian woman probably told her friends the next day all about the patronizing jackass who mentioned his Ivy League degrees a dozen times and ironically displayed his own intolerance as he patiently educated her on the state of race relations. The nerve of those immigrants!
Dear Problem with caring:
That was almost like an essay.
There is no limit to my admiration.
Thank you.
Weeping Jesus: That’s “displayed her own intolerance.” Hilarioiusly (but completley seriously), I got into a fist fight afterward in the parking lot when the white guy she came with pushed my cousin, so you are probably more right than you know.
problemwithcaring: Huh. Black folks get invited to gay messican dinner parties these days?
I hereby declare Racism is officially Dead!
(No, I’m not Russian, but I can still do that.)
You think that is weird, check THIS Obama supporter. It explains the Palin pick, don’t you think?
These ladies are very attractive, but gosh darn Smoking Gun doesn’t say what their crimes were. Are they whores, shoplifters, druggies, terrorists, parking ticket deadbeats or what? How can I have a masturbatory fantasy about them with nothing to go on?
problemwithcaring: Convincing a Russian that racism here isn’t dead might have been a more Sisyphean task than you imagined, considering many Russians don’t understand why so many Chechens, Georgians, Lats and others are still upset about having their land taken away so many decades ago and half their populations being exiled to Siberia. The fact that the U.S. hasn’t sent an entire ethnic group to concentration camps since the 1940s probably seems like coddling to them.
Here is a much better mugshot site. It even has Glen Campbell and Joey Buttafuoco.
Good Morning WalMart Shoppers!
I just wanted to tell everyone that this isn’t my
real name.
Also, we’re havin a special on aisle 237. Just
step over any dead people along the way and
thanks for shopping at WalMart! Also!
Sans the Diaper: They are looking for you.
I guess the Yes We Can shirts are in 2008 what Black Flag T-shirts were in ‘81. And, come to think of it, “Rise Above” is a remarkably similar slogan to “Yes We Can.” Hmmm….
problemwithcaring: Never occurred to you that the blonde Russian blint wanted to have a little “Mandingo” action with your African-American Man-Meat?
Gesh.
The young are getting more and more clueless.
Must be the floride in the water or something.
Freedom is messy.
Is it just me, or is that Ving Rhames in drag on the right?
The word you want is “bleyad”. That’s how you piss russian women off.
As far as whether or not racism is dead or not, I have a little theory about that:
Of the world’s 8 billion people, percentage x is of mixed race. When those people breed, their children are also of mixed race, plus percentage y of the new generation. It never goes down. So, it may take 2 generations, it may take 20, I haven’t got the stats and I haven’t done the math, but racism just can not possibly last forever.
I don’t know if love is a stronger emotion than hate or not, but sex trumps everything.
I like to dress the homeless for black-tie events, myself.
Semi-Literate: More positive thinking.
They’re aren’t any homeless people anymore
because Peggy Noonan doesn’t see them.
I can tell, just by looking at those two girls, that they suffer from a lack of reading Peggy Noonan’s column on a regular basis….
I just wanted to say I’m not related
to the other Hans the Brinker.
He skated off somewhere.
Hans the Brinker: More likely he pawned his silver skates to spend at walmart on Black friday
at least Pegs ain’t Palin funny
gurukalehuru: Yeah, racism is officially dead [yee-haw!], but last week was Kick A Ginger Day [you OK, Jim?], so there is that…
I’ve been saying for about 40 years that when racism dies, we’ll just lynch people with freckles. I was wrong [yee-haw!]
Instead, we must lynch Gingers. But I really LIKE Jim, so I’m havin’ none of it. And I DON’T care if they call me a Ginger-lover. No noose is good noose.
There oughta be a law! (Smacks fist into open palm.)
I want to go on record as being very troubled by Asian people who don’t like to pronounce the letter L correctly in certain words. I consider it audacious or something.
I couldn’t find any other internet forum where I could express this, and I’m happy I found this Wonkette place. I feel like god put his hands under my wings.
Canuckledragger, as a black Ginger, I feel the love. Really. All the way over here.
I missed the shirts and noticed that both had thrown their hair over their shoulder like a continental soldier.
Do any of you suki know how to cuss in Russian?
I got smugged by someone wearing an Obama tee the other day. It was so awful. I was minding my own business when she jumped out of the bushes and held me down and then the smugger made me read the closing chapters of The Audacity of Hope out loud and then I was forced at knife-point to admit that I was behind the curve when I didn’t predict a year ago that Obama would win the election by a landslide. It was very distressing.
wheelie: uh oh
Weeping Jesus: You can always unclench about it here….
Weeping Jesus: “I mean, other than Paris Hilton, how many people have decent booking photos?”
Tom (douche) Delay, in a looking into the face of Jesus kind of way.
This being the weekend and all, perhaps it’s time to note that the ‘billies from OSU are making the studs at Okrafuckinghoma U look lame. Last time I did weekend wonkette, my alma mater was kicking Texas Tech’s ass. OSU fucking sucks. I wish someone would shoot that chick riding her horse around the field.
problemwithcaring: Interesting and thought provoking essay. I read every word, but will pass on bombing Moscow, unless you’re suggesting a white survivalist cell in Idaho. That’s a plan I could get behind.
If Obama had been white, he would have swept every state but OK and Utah. And possibly Idaho.
Anyone notice that South Carolina declared a 2nd Amendment celebration this weekend and suspended the sales tax on gun sales?
Sans the Diaper: Being trampled to death at Walmart is the most tragically white trash death ever recorded.
Corporate greed brings down the entire fucking global economy and here on the home front, a man is killed by trailer trash fighting their way to buy cheap shit made in China.
Meanwhile, Alan Greenspan offers a “my bad” for thinking corporate cocksuckers would use their massively deregulated largesse to line their own pockets rather than, you know, use it to make society a better place and Henry Paulson hands out billions to financial institutions to make business loans and is shocked when the wealthy welfare recipients use it for dividends, bonuses, luxury spa retreats and, you know, put some in the vault as a hedge against a rainy day.
It’s raining, you assholes. Right now.
Regulation isn’t about limiting business or about big government, you blind, elitist ivy league corporate assholes, it’s about keeping the rest of us safe from GREED.
And while no one was looking, Bush pardoned a raft of buttholes who were convicted in the wake of the Savings and Loan meltdown when that industry was deregulated.
gurukalehuru: “sex trumps everything.”
Holy shit, there’s some real truth-telling going on here in the wonkerrati universe.
Finally, OU is kicking Silo Tech’s cow dung covered ass. The earth’s orbit just righted itself, however slightly.
And in the stands, T. Boone Pickens weeps. Karma for bankrolling the Swift Boat liars’ ads against Kerry.
Godammit, just realized I’m talking to myself. Oh well, I found me fascinating.
I think when the editors leave us for the weekend with a post about Obama T-shirts in mug shots, it’s a passive/aggressive invitation to go off-topic.
1. illegal
2. ill legal
SayItWithWookies: Also, Russians now have an increasingly removed and warped understanding of what the gulag was really about…
i refuse to actually confirm for myself —- but fox MUST be pounding this around the clock, right ?
DustBowlBlues: Biting it at a Great White show ranks right up there on the “undignified ways to go list”, but being trampled to death by a bovine herd at Walmart may top that…
DustBowlBlues: The commentator called him
Boone T. Pickens.
DustBowlBlues: I’m sure you’ll be very happy.
With yourself.
Because you found yourself fascinating.
According to your previous post.
I loves me some weekend Wonkette. Any weekend Wonkette. Even this. Don’t listen to the haters. Just keep it real.
You mean Barrywear isn’t a get-out-of-jail-free? Crap.
Also, please note the Lou Dobbs Nightmare Award.
Fake Obama tee shirts? They really make those? Hmm… I wonder if my tee shirt of Calvin pissing on John McCain’s head is authentic.
Tracy Morgan (R) so crazy!
There’s an obvious bias when you don’t see a single Palin breast tattoo in any of the mugshots.
I wear a University of Tennessee football T-shirt. Doesn’t make me a linebacker. Although God knows I could probably do a better job tackling.