Nice hat, Senator
Y’all know I’ve been pretty depressed about this presidential election. John McCain seriously harshes my shadenfreude. Every time I start to go after a Democrat, I hear McCain’s evil-grampa laugh in my ear, and my (entirely metaphorical) balls shrivel.
But I’ve listened to the entirety of Jeremiah Wright’s National Press Club and NAACP speeches and I can’t remember a time I have so passionately wished to poke someone in the snoot. Entirely metaphorically, of course.
I think it was where he imitates the way white people talk. Being mimicked reaches right back into my nursery school braincells and makes them throb with screaming monkey rage.
Or maybe that bit about how Europeans and Africans are different right down to the brainal level. I don’t know from neuropathology, I only know if a white man had said anything close to that, it would buy him a one-way ticket to Lepertown.
Listening to Wright made me feel grubby; that he is slick only makes it grubbier. It was like being dipped in a cesspit of toxic racial sludge. Like attending a Klan rally on Bizarroworld.
How bad was it? Bad enough that Obama disowned the man he could no more disown than the black community or his white grandmother (watch your back, Granny).
Wright didn’t develop his peculiarly smelly brand of afroNazism over the weekend. It’s totally implausible that Obama rubbed elbows with Wright for twenty years and never heard a word of his ridiculous, balls-out craziness before yesterday. Clearly, Obama chose this church for these qualities, because he desired that particular flavor of cred.
I doubt Obama believes a word of that crap; he doesn’t strike me as a retard. That makes this ass-bite especially satisfying. It’s dangerous to handle poison, Senator.
Heh. Heh heh. Heh heh heh.
Oh, shut up, John.
UPDATE: I told mesa I’d make a color version, but it was pretty much FAIL. I’ve never tinted a photo using this technique, and it looked awful. Like a tinted photo. So I made some slight adjustments to the grayscale version and replaced the image in the post. I’ve also uploaded a large version and one that is 160 pixels wide. It’s a bit too tall for a sidebar graphic, but I’m not the boss of you.
This is as good a time as any to review my graphics policy: take it. Take anything you like. Change it, if you want. Post it. Have it tattoo’d on your butt. No need to link back or give credit. This is ephemera we’re making here and I need the karma.
Just…say something nice about me when I’m gone.
UPDATE THE TWOTH: Yay! Ace-o-lanche! It’s raining morons! Thanks, Deb!
Posted: April 29th, 2008 under artwork, oppositeland, politics, race.
Comments: 141
Comments
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: April 29, 2008, 3:28 pm
Yay, Weasel! (I ain’t gonna ‘rassle her, YOU do it! ‘Cause she ain’t afraid to get dirty none, and she BITES when she get mad!)
Listening to the stupid so us morons don’t have to! Thank you, Weasel, for caring about us so much!
I doubt Obama believes a word of that crap; he doesn’t strike me as a retard.
One minor quibble here. OB went to school in Hawaii…and for some reason, there is a virulent strain of racism extant in the Islands. And its a kind of racism that would feel comfortable with Rev. Wright’s brand. So OB may not outwardly “believe” the crap, but someplace deep in his soul there is a little fertile spot where this morality destroying weed grows.
/Hmmm. Now what was it got me banned over at that other place? Oh, yeah. Firsties!
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 4:11 pm
Obechicken Haiku!!!!!
Chicken Obama
The dish made by real racists
Tasty and no-cal.
Chicken Obama
Twenty years in the making
Twenty days to spoil.
‘Obechick The Hen’
Help us please, Obechicken
You’re our only hope.
Obechick the Hen,
There when a real crock of shit
Needs to be stirred up.
Chicken Obama
You just know that it’s made Wright
‘Cause it’s so damned wrong!
The roosting chicken
On Obama’s head it sits
Wright at home – yes?
Chicken Obama
Soon, egg will be on his face
And chicken crap – Wright?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 29, 2008, 4:38 pm
Whoa! Wright uncorked your muse, McGoo. You back on the opiates again?
Meh. More I look at it, the more I think I should’ve tilted Chicken Head the other way. Compositionally, I mean.
It was kind of a rush job. And I had a hard crash in the middle of it (blue screen of death and everything).
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: April 29, 2008, 4:41 pm
Because Her Stoatliness follows Harry Hutton’s blog (I believe), I have to share this comment from a thread about a first grader (named Randy Castro) who has been branded a sex offender:
Once again, a name appears to be destiny for little Randy, tho’ by that logic the Castro part implies he’ll end up one of those guys who tells you he’s not queer ‘cos he’s the pitcher not the catcher.
All is not lost, young Randy – little Kevin De Kok had a similarly troublesome moniker, but with a little lateral thinking he was able to parlay it into fame and riches as head of the UN World AIDS Program. Tho’ I forget now whether he’s fighting it or spreading it…
I teeheed.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 4:47 pm
I think I see what you’re talkin’ about (I am only an egg – heh!), but it’s fine, Weasel! Besides, the ballistics of his shoulder “dandruff” wouldn’t be ‘just so’ if it were tilted otherwise.
Tain’t broke – don’t fix it!
I think its the Metformin insulin stuff I’m popping. The diarrhea finally hit my brain…
I may be droppin’ a load of limericks in a bit. I sense rumblings in the nether regions. I hate it when that happens.
BTW: I can’t believe you endured all of Wright’s most recent spewings. God. You probably need to sterilize your entire alimentary canal. Alcohol in excess is recommended – and most efficacious in such situations.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 29, 2008, 4:52 pm
Actually, I haven’t been over there in ages, Musli. I forget. I keep meaning to blogroll him.
You there, EW1(SG)? As long as I’m patching up my blogroll, I’ll put you back on…now that you’re regularly posting again. Are you a Moron, or Other?
Comment from Lemur King
Time: April 29, 2008, 4:56 pm
Tough old world when you have to sell out your ideals and values (worthless in the first place) just because you got caught being and hanging out with scumbags.
Can’t believe y’all have the nerve to call him on it. Not fair.
Heh heh heh heh.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:11 pm
You need a new category, Weasel.
Spook. or ex-spook.
…and that’s not racist: he’s a member of the Old Crows, so he’s been spooky some time in the past. Now, with a moniker like EW1(SG), how would I surmise that…?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:20 pm
I assumed his moniker was something military…or ham radio. I get the two confused.
I thought about putting up a category called Tennessee after finding Big Stupid Tommy. It seems to me all the really wholesome stupid comes from my home state.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:27 pm
It seems to me all the really wholesome stupid comes from my home state.
It might be the soil. Very fecund. The whole Mississippi delta is fertile that way. Tennessee seems to have gotten its’ share and then some – no offense. Kentucky, MO, and Arkansas are fairly rich in Stupid, too. Hey! It’s a gift.
I’m guessing EW1(SG) stands for sumpin like Electronic Warfare One – Senior Grade, which just droobles ‘military’ all over the place.
Comment from Lemur King
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:30 pm
Whereas the fertile soil of the NW coupled with temperate weather is good for grapes, cranberries, and hippies/hobos. Lots of ’em.
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:37 pm
Compositionally, I mean.
I dunno, I seem to share McGoo’s art skillz, though not his muse. But I swear that it took me a long time to realize that wasn’t the Kremlin behind him.
Are you a Moron, or Other?
Well, I pretty good at general stupidity, but don’t know if I can claim the title “Moron.”
…something military…or ham radio. I get the two confused.
Not to despair! For me, it was both at the same time!
McGoo sez:
how would I surmise that…?
I ain’t exactly sure, but bonus points for the SG part, if you can figger ’em out?
Comment from mesablue
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:41 pm
Please, please, please make that into sidebar thingy size.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:47 pm
I was gonna do that, mesa. In color. You’re welcome to steal it now, if you have sizing capabilities.
My general graphics policy is: take anything you want and do whatever with it.
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:47 pm
McGoo keeps sayin’ stuff:
I’m guessing EW1(SG) stands for sumpin like Electronic Warfare One – Senior Grade, which just droobles ‘military’ all over the place.
Droobles. Now that is just the military turn of phrase I were looking for.
The “EW1” part is a Naval rating (now part of Naval history) that reads as “Electronics Warfare Technician, First Class.” Pronunciation hint: The “SG” part is silent, because its a ‘designator,’ not necessarily (and in this case, not at all) related to the rating.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:48 pm
Wow! And I thought Carmen Miranda was the headwear queen!
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:51 pm
LK:
Lots of ‘em.
Which is why the area is now known world wide as The National Hippie Preserve®.
Comment from mesablue
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:54 pm
Oh, I stole it already. But, I’ll wait for the colored version now.
Comment from porknbean
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:56 pm
So OB may not outwardly “believe” the crap, but someplace deep in his soul there is a little fertile spot where this morality destroying weed grows.
Don’t forget his parents. Mama a self-loathing commie and daddy writing a paper outlining his beliefs – one being he was all for 100% taxation.
I think he believes every word from Wright. He felt comfortable with him because that was what he was fed from birth and that is what he has surrounded himself with (Ayers).
(and his extended family – Odinga, a radical islamist whom he took calls from during this campaign)
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 29, 2008, 5:56 pm
Hahaha…no, but if I get caught tomorrow doing political cartoons on comp’ny time, my ass is grass.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 6:00 pm
What I really want to steal is Running Weasel – but it won’t ‘steal’, dammit.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 29, 2008, 6:05 pm
Oh! Ummm…it’s a matter of working out the real URL. Which is:
http://sweasel.com/wp-content/themes/weasel/runningweasel.swf
Then a “save as…” should work, I think. Looks like shit full screen, though 🙂
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 6:08 pm
Yup, PnB – I think Obechicken believes every bit of what Wright has been spouting – to the extent any politician believes in anything. He’s damaged goods, big-time. We’re talking, like, “David Duke” level damage. I’d say “Hitler-level” damage, but I don’t think Obechicken hates anything – or feels anything – to the intensity of a Hitler. You might say that even as a hater, he’s a pathetic mediocrity.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 6:11 pm
Weasel! I’m excited now! I got it! Than’ kew!
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 29, 2008, 6:23 pm
Please note, long about frame 5, weasel blinks.
I’m especially proud of that.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 6:39 pm
I’ll be dipped in shit! Weasel does blink!
That is so cool…
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: April 29, 2008, 7:50 pm
Huh. I guess the upshot is that I should host the “rassle” graffick on my own bandwidth, huh?
Did I mention that its my fav0rite graffick on the whole innerweb thingie?
And then, McGoo sez:
I’ll be dipped in shit!
Which is similar to something I said, but then a Brit with a skanky sense of humor had to top that with:
Right….well I’ll be given a cold guano enema, boiled in skunk piss, do ten lengths of the waste tank at the elephants dysentery hospital, given a liberal coating of tarantula droppings and then I’ll be fired out of a cannon into a dead whale’s rectum…….now….er what were we talking about again?
which I have to attribute to bweep.
/Heh™. I knew that would come in handy someday.
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Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 9:19 pm
Say, Weaz? That wouldn’t be a Black Jersey Giant chicken, would it? Covington would be excited…
It ain’t no Cornish Game Hen – that’s for sure.
Hell EW – do what Weasel did/hinted at:
1) right-click on the graphic and hit “view image”.
2) Then right click on the resulting displayed “rassle” image and “save as…” to your hard drive or wherever.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: April 29, 2008, 9:31 pm
Well, slap my jaw and call me momma! (I don’t really understand what it means and why such a phraseology was used, but I understand the connotation.) The weasel, he/she does blink!
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 9:45 pm
yes, the weasel blinks quite nicely! – and I’m suspicious about the weasel at this post:
http://sweasel.com/archives/1102
Its the one down in the lower right corner. I think it moves when I look away.
And it keeps looking at me.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: April 29, 2008, 11:02 pm
I beg the indulgence of the English people, and those who know them. I have two questions about the word “punter”:
1. What does it mean?
2. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being “gosh”, 10 being the f-word), how would you rate “punter” on the bad-word-scale?
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: April 29, 2008, 11:19 pm
AFAIK, “punter” is a Briticism used to describe those gambling on a sporting event: particularly horse races. As to the bad-word-scale, it rates right at 0, unless you’re dealing with some stupid ass-wipe that don’t know what “niggardly” means neither.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 29, 2008, 11:21 pm
Mu – (is it ok to call you Mu? Mu is the Greek letter representing the fundamental physical quantity “permeability” in electronics, and is also the quantity prefix “one millionth”)
Mu – In the US, ‘punter’ can mean a specialized football kicker, like a field-goal kicker. It can also be used to describe a gambler, horse-handicapper (gambler again), or an investor.
Used in a derogatory fashion, it would mean ‘risk-taker’ and perhaps having a seedy, cheap, cut-rate, fly-by-night, or slightly disreputable business reputation.
I would say its no higher than a 1 or 2 and could be used in polite or mixed company with no issues. It is simply mildly demeaning to the object of the label.
All the above my opinion only, of course. God knows what the Brits and Aussies make of the word.
Comment from LemurKing
Time: April 29, 2008, 11:25 pm
Muslihoon – I speak english but not the Queen’s English.
Urban Dictionary had it listed:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=punter
All I ever knew it to be was the football (not soccer football) position/player. Do any of those sound close?
Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: April 29, 2008, 11:59 pm
Ha! I just now noticed the crap (or is it a broken egg? I like it better if it’s crap) on Obama’s left shoulder. That’s great. I love your attention to detail, Weas.
It’s breathtaking how disgustingly racist Wright is. And, similarly to He Who Must Not Be Named’s newsletter debacle, the best possible spin on the situation for Obama is that he is a total naïf and a poor judge of character. Which kinda disqualifies him from the whole Presidency thing, don’t you think? Like that one reader of Geraghty’s said, can’t you just imagine President Obama saying, “The Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who nuked Tel Aviv today is not the man I held a summit with in 2009”?
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: April 30, 2008, 12:02 am
Thank you! I have always wanted to call such-and-such a ruffian “punter!” but daren’t until I knew what I was saying. Far more polite than “wanker”, that’s for sure.
But I’m sure I can make “punter” sound like a right insult.
And you can call me anything, Mr. McGoo. Mu sounds quite nice.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: April 30, 2008, 12:04 am
What newsletter? I hate being out of the loop. Just a clue, please?
I was ready to publish a pretty preachy yet vitriolic post on Wright. Lots of quotations from and citations of Scripture. But I felt uncomfortable revealing that side of me so I deleted it.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: April 30, 2008, 12:08 am
And Ms. Weasel:
I should like to submit a complain about this here post, for it brings out the racist in me. Every time I see the headline, I read it as “Nice hat, Señor.”
The fact the main character in the picture is not white, does not help much.
Thank you.
(I’m just jesting, of course. Although I do read it as “Nice hat, Señor.”)
Comment from mesablue
Time: April 30, 2008, 2:35 am
is it ok to call you Mu?
We know him as either “musli” or “Mr. Snark.”
Though, he’s only allowed to do snark at The Hostages or he will be punished.
Either way, he’s gonna put more learning on you about world religions and/or languages than is healthy for half a dozen small morons.
Comment from IM1
Time: April 30, 2008, 3:09 am
“Like attending a Klan rally on Bizarroworld”
Heh! gudun. You get a gold star for that. 🙂
Comment from Old Iron
Time: April 30, 2008, 5:21 am
The Bar Slaves keep saying that Wright is a little left of mocha to be a black pseudo-political quasi-theological spokesman, but what do we know.
Actually I showed a color pic of the guy to one of the Nigerians here and asked him what Wright’s nationality was. He said Spaniard or Italian.
Funny.
Comment from Old Iron
Time: April 30, 2008, 5:22 am
-Would have posted earlier but there is a bit of a timezone difference. 🙁
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 5:29 am
Yeah, I actually posted about his and Obama’s shared paleness a week or two ago. I think they’re both trying too hard to be black, on account of they’re not very.
Then I worried the whole subject was over the line and dropped it, nervously.
See, this is why listening to Wright over the weekend pissed me off so hard. The man was DANCING ALL OVER THE FUCKING LINE. And laughing.
The unfairness of the “conversation” we get to have about race over and over and over again. When you get to talk and I don’t, the word for that is not “conversation.”
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 5:48 am
See, this is why listening to Wright over the weekend pissed me off so hard. The man was DANCING ALL OVER THE FUCKING LINE. And laughing.
This is exactly why we need for Hillary to win the nomination; the (D)s are already greased and ready to scream that ANY STATEMENT from (R)s about Obechicken and his situation and this debacle is RACIST! They’ll be pounding the (R)s from the moment the convention is over. I don’t believe it’ll help get Obechicken elected, but it’ll be UGLY, and will light off a lot of nastiness that’s been festering a long time. Hillary won’t win; she carries too much baggage. But Obechicken and the (D)s can rip this country apart.
My opinion – usually wrong – your mileage may vary – written on a closed road with a complete moron at the keyboard who has not had his first cup of coffee.
And – mesa – I’ve already learned so much from Mu it’s indecent!
Mu – use wanker, or one of the modern arbitrary two-word vulgarities – like dickwad or buttsucker. Punter isn’t near vulgar enough for an insult.
Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:50 am
Musli, “He Who Must Not Be Named” is what I call The Only Man Who Can Save America, also known as the Man with Two First Names, because if you actually say his name, his supporters appear and begin ranting about the gold standard. Ace covered the newsletters…if you still don’t know who/what I’m talking about, I’ll dig up a link when I get home. Right now, I must get to work.
My dear mustelid, you are exactly right. I was appalled by the racism of Wright’s speech. I think Obama’s candidacy has hurt race relations in America very badly. Many of us, while still thinking Obama is a Marxist and not even remotely qualified to be President, still bought into the post-racial bit and assumed that Obama genuinely was a nice guy, and now we’re seeing that that’s not true.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: April 30, 2008, 10:36 am
Ah, got it, Mrs. Peel. Thank you for not mentioning his name. I would hate to see this lovely site soiled by such simians.
I don’t think race relations were worsened: I think their true status was simply brough out into the open.
So, yes, America has a problem with racism, and the problem isn’t the whites, that’s for sure.
I understand Lady Weasel’s scruples when it comes to racism, though I still don’t necessarily agree. I think the only way white people will have a say is when they talk despite what reaction or opposition they may face.
Of course, the whole issue of racism may be thorny, considering that if we observe practically every single ethnic group in other countries of the world, each one is ethnocentric or racist. *shrug* So, whatev.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 11:06 am
Oh, you’re probably right, Musli. But I am not that trailblazer. Other people are going to have to have the courage to come forward and take the shit. The first few will get mown down and never recover, and that’s not for me. Too cowardly, too selfish.
I don’t think the time is right, anyway. Solid conservative voices of color need to lead this one, I think. We’re getting there.
Me, I want to spend my allotment of days puttering around Badger House painting pictures of sheep.
Unless the voices tell me otherwise. Stupid pixies.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 11:48 am
If any aspiring P’shoppers out there want to try their hands at it, what I was doing was creating a layer on top for color (CTRL-SHIFT-N) and change the Mode dropdown to Color Burn. Then grab your brush and start laying color over the gray. It’s a fun technique that often gives good results.
Just…word of advice: when painting persons of color, it’s really important to get the color right. Don’t be making people a stupid color, ‘K?
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: April 30, 2008, 11:48 am
Me, I want to spend my allotment of days puttering around Badger House painting pictures of sheep.
Knowning your skill, you could put these paintings up for sale and earn a pretty penny.
Just sell them in Frons or somewhere the taxes won’t eat you alive.
I actually agree with your point that conservative non-whites need to step up and blaze that trail. Maybe I should be more outspoken.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 11:51 am
You’re doing pretty good, Musli 🙂
We’ve got some good people on our side (including my favorite ever SCOTUS justice) and I have every faith the numbers will grow. Because conservative ideas work, dammit.
Comment from skinbad
Time: April 30, 2008, 12:43 pm
Wonderful graphic. Thanks for the laugh.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 12:48 pm
Conservatism (minus the falsely-implicit religious aspects) is reality-based. That’s why it works. Liberalism is (essentially) self-indulgence, which is why its so popular with the young and dumb.
Weaz, you’re not selfish and cowardly: you’re like me; you’re “saving yourself” for when it really, really counts.
Holding oneself in reserve, calmly, quietly, ever-watchful for the opportunity to throw oneself on the deadly Dem-hurled epithet or irrational moral-equivalence and save the squad!
That’s the way I want to go!
Comment from Conservative Belle
Time: April 30, 2008, 2:06 pm
Great work! I borrowed, credited and shared with the Cotillion. Thanks.
Comment from zoey
Time: April 30, 2008, 4:27 pm
what a terrific photo. i will borrow and give you credit! thanks so much. 🙂
Comment from eddiebear
Time: April 30, 2008, 4:30 pm
I’m tellin’ ya, Rev Wright has to be a paid, undercover Rove Operative.
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: April 30, 2008, 4:47 pm
Muslihoon:
if we observe practically every single ethnic group in other countries of the world, each one is ethnocentric or racist.
I was sometimes astonished by the racism/ethnocentrism that I ran into in other countries.
But it hasn’t been all that long ago that racism was a normal attitude or behavior here. A couple of generations. But the astounding thing is, that just in that small space of time~entire generations can become more than what their parents were, even while reaching higher because of the foundation earlier generations have built. I was surprised to find bigotry in my family in an older generation, my daughter has not got a clue what it is.
Which is pretty neat.
Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: April 30, 2008, 5:12 pm
{toeing a stone, hands in pockets} stinky ol’ photoshop…
Really though, excellent work & thanks for the pshop tips, Stoaty.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 5:25 pm
Weasel, I think your sitemeter went tharn. Well, one of ’em. They’re not readin’ the same and that’s not right…(now they are)(now they’re not)(now they are)
BTW: I looked at the “Locations” thingy in there and – whoa! – you gots folks from all over de erfs lookin’ at you. There was even someone in Iran in there somewheres. Watch your back! Oooh! Is that racist? I don’t care.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: April 30, 2008, 5:32 pm
As a non-white, I was on the receiving end of racism only once. When I was a wee kid, someone told me to go back to India. I was confused: I never came from there, so why should I “go back” there?
Otherwise, I have not had even one racist encounter.
On the other hand, I met the most racist person evah in college. He’s an Indian (dot, not feather). Heh.
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Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 5:54 pm
When I was about five, my mother and I were driving through downtown Nashville and got caught at a redlight. There was a bus next to us, and I looked up and spotted a little black girl, just about my age, in the seat above me. Our eyes met. I smiled up at her shyly. She stuck her tongue out at me.
Granted, I was a little white girl in a big gold Ford LTD with air conditioning in 1965, and she was not. If the roles were reversed, I might’ve made a rude gesture, too.
But it did a lot to prepare me for the “conversation” I was going to have about race for the next forty-some-odd years.
Comment from Nice Deb
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:30 pm
I’m “Deb H” by the way. He does that just to piss me off.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:32 pm
Heh. Thanks, Deb. I’ve sent him self-referential links a couple of times, but I always feel like a giant douche. Now, I confine myself to news articles and sending him links directly thereunto.
I’m grateful as hell for all the links I get, but Ace only has to fart in my general direction for the hit-O-meter to go blooey.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:35 pm
Holy sheep shit! I just looked at that counter not 15 minutes ago, Weaz! It was like 67093 if memory serves.
350+ hits in 10 minutes.
Woooot!
Comment from doubleplusundead
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:37 pm
Ha, I was just about to go ACE-O-LANCHE!!!!
It really is great, I linked it in the links today.
Comment from Nice Deb
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:40 pm
I’ve sent him self-referential links a couple of times, but I always feel like a giant douche.
SAME here! But Ace has said that smaller blogs need to do that sometimes to generate traffic.
Anyway, that photoshop deserved to be seen by a larger audience.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:41 pm
Oh, it’s sweet McGoo. It’s sweeter’n Tylenol #3 washed down with beer. It’s best if you have no idea it’s coming, and you just click on site meter in a moment of idle boredom, and you think to yourself, “self, I must be drunk. Those numbers, they make no sense.”
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:44 pm
You deserve it. Your Art-Fu (and your political ‘eye’)is really strong.
*Add another 100 hits just while we’ve been jabbering*
Comment from LemurKing
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:46 pm
Muslihoon (Mr. Snark?)
Way back up there, you said: “So, yes, America has a problem with racism, and the problem isn’t the whites, that’s for sure.”
You don’t know how nice it is to hear that for once. I am pretty tired of always being assumed to be racist because I’m white and assumed to be a rabid one if I speak out against the characterization. My grandparents were racist to a point where I was disgusted yet resigned. I’ve said elsewhere, a black roommate and a hispanic best-man kind of says *something* doesn’t it?
The reality is that depending on the person or group, it goes both ways, which is sad.
An indian (dot) friend/co-worker who was a PhD in my lab once told me about how upon learning that he was from India, a woman asked him if everybody lived in trees. Crickets chirped before I could ask “She didn’t *really* say that, did she?” Yep. This was in the 90’s.
So, even though you might have said elsewhere, would I be racist to wonder where you really are from? You’ve made comments that have led me to assume that, so sorry if I am wrong.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:46 pm
It’ll be catblogging for a week, after this! I can only be relevant for so long before I strain my Seriousness Ligament.
Comment from doubleplusundead
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:49 pm
Catsophone, LOLcats, or just pics of cute fuzzy kittens doing cute kitten things?
Comment from LemurKing
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:52 pm
Weas, can we do both pro AND con regarding katz?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 6:57 pm
Well sure, LK…but I thought you had a beloved Himalayan…?
You know, I have a cat that does actually like to have his ass blown across. Or his balls blown upon. I’ve never really understood which. When he was a baby and we played on the carpet, he used to waggle his little ass at me. He was neutered at that point, but I realized he was pretend scent-marking me. So I decided to shock him with a puff of air.
He developed a taste for it.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:03 pm
LK – Weasel can do anything!
DPUD is providing me with my own -lanche. Thanks, dood!
Nothing will ever beat the catsophone. I’ll never listen to that damned Danube waltz again without seeing WeaselArt(tm) catsophones. God, it was great.
Comment from doubleplusundead
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:14 pm
The facial expression of the guy doing western songs with the catsophone is priceless.
Comment from LemurKing
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:15 pm
Yeah… but it’s a wuv/hate thing. He’s been a good kitty but he’s had three toes amputated, two teeth extracted, another needs to come out (his breath will peel paint), he’s in his low teens and peeing on things (including my pillow a few months back). Flip side is he’s awesome with the kids (only two nips, ever) and he shadows you constantly, because he just plain wants to be with you.
So, while being the sweetest kindheartedestest Katt in the world, he’s a $4000 cat. With bad breath.
So to avoid anymore unpleasant seriousness, I ask you… who WOULD’T like his balls blown upon?
Catsophone is hard to beat. That’s like a lifetime score, there.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:16 pm
All the posts on sweasel.com labeled ‘cats’. I have to think I’m a sloppy labeler, because there have been LOTS more than that.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:22 pm
There’s definitely one missing, Weasel! The two guys in the chairs! The Blue Danube one! With Toccatta Del Stoat in J-minor (Opus PiRsquared), Weasels greatest hit!
Comment from steveegg
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:24 pm
No color, no problem. The black-and-white ensures that everybody knows it’s a Stoaty masterpiece.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:34 pm
Blue Danube. I am definitely a sloppy labeler! The Damien label. The Charlotte label. There’s *still* stuff I remember that didn’t turn up.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 7:44 pm
Oh! Thank God! I thought it might have been a dream, or sumpin.
And – yes – there are more. Let me think…and drink.
Stoaty don’t need no stinkin’ color…color is for woosies who wequire a cwomatic cwutch. Aw we agweed?
Comment from LemurKing
Time: April 30, 2008, 8:00 pm
No, he’s not diabetic. He has had some issues with a combination of poor circulation and urea granules related to nutrition (sounds yucky, doesn’t it). It runs in his particular family line. He originally was declawed and the crystals ended up disturbing the healing, causing bone infections. He’s on a special diet which nipped that in the bud.
Not sure about the teeth. I haven’t been on his case about flossing.
Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: April 30, 2008, 8:23 pm
I shit you not: I dreamed about the Catsophone last night. It must’ve been a vestige of our pshop lessons yesterday…
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 9:24 pm
To really appreciate the subtle nuances of Strauss’ Blue Danube, one simply has no choice but to listen to the delicate tootling of Weasels variation in J-minor (granulated).
Comment from doubleplusundead
Time: April 30, 2008, 9:27 pm
Interesting, is that a trait in Himalayans?
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Comment from LemurKing
Time: April 30, 2008, 9:37 pm
Interesting, is that a trait in Himalayans?
Not flossing? Maybe. It’s probably harder for him without those toes.
Oh, you mean the crystals in the tissues part? Maybe. Let me ask the wife and I’ll get back to you.
Comment from doubleplusundead
Time: April 30, 2008, 9:49 pm
Not flossing? Maybe. It’s probably harder for him without those toes.
Heh.
Comment from USCitizen
Time: April 30, 2008, 9:53 pm
You have indeed created a masterpiece!
Most excellent.
Comment from LemurKing
Time: April 30, 2008, 9:58 pm
Ok doubleplusundead,
I had a rectal-cranial inversion (leads to nasal polyps in the colon). Perhaps McGoo can shed light on this.
Silver d’Cat had urea crystals in his urine (which makes sense) and required special dietary adjustments, and the crystals in his toe tissues was an unknown. Vets up at the university had no idea either. Perhaps from living too near the Hanford reservation? (chilly organ music in the background) Maybe he ate some Plutonium peanut butter. Prolly not since he wasn’t badged to get out to the hot areas.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 10:10 pm
Not flossing? Maybe. It’s probably harder for him without those toes.
That was really very good, LK! If I’d been sipping anything I’d be cleaning monitor.
Rectal-cranial inversion can lead to serious episodes of nasal droobling.
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: April 30, 2008, 10:12 pm
Okay, I admit it. For once, I did something like real blogging…and its Weasel that gets the ‘lanche.
Me, I just have a almost World Wide Web exclusive of a folk song about parsimonious gunfire, but all everybody really wants to see is a crappy politician with a butt ugly chicken on his head.
All right. I’m gonna stop blog whoring. In a minute anyway.
/Sniff. She’s purtier, an’ she can rassle, an’ it’s been a shitty week so far, an’ an’ an’…
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Comment from LemurKing
Time: April 30, 2008, 10:42 pm
I thought you was sippin’ suds, McGoo. Beer lacquer can protect you from the UV from your monitor. Anyhoo, thanks, you made my evening.
EW1(SG), dude, respect yourself. Must I come over there and have your Man Card revoked? 🙂
Comment from Jude
Time: April 30, 2008, 10:45 pm
I don’t know who the hell you are, or how you got so crazy, but this is one fine site.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 10:56 pm
I try to never actually sip or eat anything whilst at this site. Well…every once in a while I forget. then I have to clean the monitor and keyboard. I hate getting food and drink up my nose, too …
Jude! How are you? Do you like music? Click here and then hit the play button below the drawing:
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: April 30, 2008, 11:02 pm
Say! Mitchieville is reporting that Ecuador is going to make orgasm compulsory.
http://mitchieville.blogspot.com/2008/04/ecuador-shit-ya.html
Y’know – that country’s really coming along.
Comment from Pandora’s Grandma
Time: May 1, 2008, 12:22 am
Great place, I’ll be back.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: May 1, 2008, 1:26 am
I’m sure there are plenty of white racists. But a good lot of you have been guilted into being not only non-racist but to devalue your own race. Whence wiggers and whatnot.
Where am I from…well, I was born in IL, then moved to Pakistan, then to the United Arab Emirates, then to IL again. Mom comes from Pakistan. Dad from India. And yet they’re cousins. (Dad’s family was slow to migrate to Pakistan.) So, really, I have no idea where I am from. My family roots are from the Pashtun/Afghan area (yes, it pains me that I may be distantly related to the Taliban; but we don’t have any cultural practices of the Pashtuns: we’re thoroughly regular South Asian Barelvi Hanafi Sunni people, more common with the people from the Deccan than from the Pashtun areas) and from the Punjab area, and actually family legend has it that we go back to the Kingdom of Israel, which was scattered before the Kingdom of Judah. In other words, we’re from one of the lost Ten Tribes (which may make sense considering that until the Taliban took over, there were a good number of Jews in that region, and the names of many tribes betray an Israelite origin). My ancestors were Muslim, before which some were Sikh, before which they all were Hindu and possibly Buddhist and, if the legend is true, Jewish. I complete the chain by becoming a Christian (after dabbling with Judaism, Santeria, Western occult mysticism, neo-paganism, Satanism, and toying with Zoroastrianism and Yezidism).
I’m sure that was entirely TMI.
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: May 1, 2008, 1:58 am
Muslihoon:
I’m sure that was entirely TMI.
No, but it was a lot of info in a dang small space!
I’m sure there are plenty of white racists. But a good lot of you have been guilted into being not only non-racist but to devalue your own race. Whence wiggers and whatnot.
I suppose, and I even met a white racist or two. Not always sure, because many are smart enough to keep their mouths shut.
But honestly, I’ve met many more black racists, of the attending church with a pastor like Wright type than any other kind. (I’ve also met a number of Hawaiian racists as well.) And I can’t say that I was guilted into anything, it just never was anything that my mother would teach or pass on, so I didn’t have any idea that anybody cared what somebody else’s skin color was.
I will admit though, that I grew up in an area where there wasn’t a whole lot of racial diversity. I remember the first time I saw somebody in person who was black, instead of on (the B&W) TV. I was maybe ten or so, just preteen I think, and my first thought was “Wow!! What a terrific tan!” as the individuals were a pair of early teen boys at a swimming hole someplace with the sun shining.
I remember being envious because I thought they were really handsome with that beautiful dark skin in the sun. And they were.
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Comment from Rocketeer
Time: May 1, 2008, 1:24 pm
Weasel, you have de-throned Slublog with one black and white p-shop! That is freakin’ awesome.
EW1(SG), do I win a prize or something for knowing what the “SG” stands for? Which I believe is: Silent Service, If they Need You. That’s the informal interpretation, of course…
Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: May 1, 2008, 1:31 pm
Rocketeer:
do I win a prize or something for knowing
You getta shiny object, and pie, and mebbe ice cream if you want!
And you’re very close, it is indeed “Silent Service,” but not “If they need you.” It’s “Silent Service, who the hell let him in?”
Oh, and that’s opposed to the normal SS, which is “Silent Service, you signed for it and you can’t send it back.”
/A gold star is a shiny object, right?
Comment from Anonymous
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:08 pm
you crazy fuckers!
Comment from Anonymous
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:13 pm
You jackasses preach the bible, yet you critize and have totally forgotten that folks are human and we ALL make mistakes. I would hate to see what’s in your closets!
Comment from Rocketeer
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:16 pm
Heh. Apparently, Anonymous thinks this is a religious blog.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:17 pm
Yes. Yes, you really wouldn’t like what’s in my closet at all. I’m working on it.
Here’s a great storage tip: kitty litter. Seriously. It was designed to soak up smelly liquids, and it works a treat!
Just…don’t buy it all in one place at one time, ‘k?
Comment from Rocketeer
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:19 pm
Also, Anon, not all of us make the “mistake” of preaching Bizarro-Nazism for twenty years, or of attending the “rallies.” Small point, I know, but I thought it was important to note.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:24 pm
My first real troll. I’m so pleased!
Every time before when somebody anonymous showed up and said something really crazy, it turned out to be a regular reader who forgot to fill in the form.
Comment from Rocketeer
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:28 pm
Sorry, Weasel – I guess I should have asked you first if it was okay to play with it, since it’s yours and all.
See, this is the proof – that p-shop is GOLD, WEASEL! GOLD, I TELL YA!
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:32 pm
Oh, gosh no, Rocketeer. Trolls belong to everybody. They’re a renewable, sustainable resource: they run on stupid.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:35 pm
Yep – I came *this* close to posting a really offensive photo for Anonymous, but it was kinda edgy…
It’s still in my cut’n paste thingy. Festering.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:39 pm
I don’t think WordPress would let you, McGoo. I tried to post a photo the other day without being logged in as admin, and the post came out without the picture. And it was hosted here!
(Typed entirely with my right hand on account of there;s a cat on mt left hand. As Charlotte is shy and doesn’t hop up here often, I hated to disturb her).
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:40 pm
Being imperfect is one thing. Being completely insane, and a traitor, is quite another.
Trolls don’t stick around to be batted about. That saddens me.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:42 pm
The really robust trolls save themselves for the big timers. Down at our end of the blogosphere, we’re only worth the hit and run.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:46 pm
Poor word choice, m’lady. I meant “post a link” to the photo, of course. Naturally it would link over to A&A.
There’s a cat laying on your left paw? Are there any Escudos nearby?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 1, 2008, 4:49 pm
My escudos! I just realized I left them on the dryer downstairs when I changed clothes…
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I hardly drop remarks, but i did a few searching and wound up
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allright. Could it be only me or does it seem like some of these comments appear like they are coming from brain dead folks?
😛 And, if you are writing on additional sites, I would like
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