Seems that some enterprising person out there used their brain and designed an illegal alien Halloween costume; controversy has ensued of course, some people who lack a sense of humor find it offensive. Why not? Everything else is deemed offensive if it’s on the wrong side of the politically correct fence.
We found this story from a local NBC station in Los Angeles, in their write up of the illegal alien Halloween costume they call it “tasteless”. It’s simply an alien wearing an orange jumpsuit holding a green card with the term illegal alien plastered across the chest. What’s so tasteless about that? If you really want to see a tasteless costume click here.From NBC LA:
It’s “distasteful, mean-spirited and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform,” says Angelica Salas.
That argument might hold water if I were to dress up as a Hispanic gang member, say I belong to MS-13 and have the words illegal alien on my chest, but how exactly is a fake alien from outer space mean-spirited? Unless liberals think that we’re being particularly hard on aliens from other galaxies.
Social stigmas? Last time I talked to an alien he told me nothing about the social stigmas that he faces while visiting our lovely little planet. What is this really, just another illustration of the complete lack of humor on the side of the left. It doesn’t matter what issue, you can’t inject humor into the debate without some whiny liberal complaining about social stigmas or being racist of some kind. (Just look at how they turned Rush’s humor around on him.)
Another human rights group, this one out of Los Angeles, The Coalition for Human Immigrants Rights of Los Angeles has asked Target to remove the costume from their website. In proper politically correct fashion, Target said they had never intended to put the costume on their site to begin with; it made it there by mistake. Sure it did.
Oh well, the illegal alien Halloween costume despite the controversy is sure to be a hit this Halloween. And by the way, is there a coalition for non-human immigrants? If there’s not there should be, it’s only the politically correct thing to do.
October 17th, 2009 at 11:51 am
I heard that Obama was going to attach a potato to the end of his penis and go trick-or-treating as a Dick-Tater.
October 17th, 2009 at 11:51 am
I’m sick of political correctness
October 17th, 2009 at 11:52 am
1- ouch. you will never own an nfl team NOW !
October 17th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I’msomewhat surprised it got passed the censor!
October 17th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Michelle can bring a broom for her costume
October 17th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Sheriff Joe will be arresting anyone wearing the illegal immigrant costume
October 17th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
want controversy?
a white beauty queen won at a traditionally black university.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.48d4a7ee7157a03122c383175e63be4f.161&show_article=1
October 17th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
yeah i read that story
October 17th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Now they’ll want their own pageant!!
October 17th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
…I don’t get it. I mean, how is anyone offended by this? If you came to America legally, then this costume isn’t about you. If you came to America illegally, then you shouldn’t be here in the first place and you have no say in the matter. Doesn’t matter WHAT your race is. Besides, freedom of speech. Fact of the matter is, you can say or insult whoever you want. There’s no law against being a jerk; hence why I don’t get mad at homophobic people. I’ll debate my cause, but in the end, they have a right to say what they want about my preference towards females.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
because there are laws about racist speech, which i am sure will be argued here.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
flyingmonkey,
i am not sure you know much about african american society, but there is a … rumor or tradition, however you want to categorize it, that aa women HATE it when aa men go after white women.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
They can say whatever they want about my preference towards females too.
Whew! Glad to get that out in the open.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Those are mostly the militant black females lisab. I live in a town of less than 2,500 after living my whole life in Chicago. I’ve seen more mixed couples here than I saw there. Nobody seems to have a problem with it, male or female, black or white. I’m seeing a black woman now and nobody has a problem with that either.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I wonder if we will ever be able to reverse political correctness. I prefer someone to tell me exactly how they feel, versus looking for the *right* words. Whatever happened to old fashioned honesty…if you must say something mean, by all means do it…just shows your true character.
It’s easier to interact with folks that are straight forward than those being PC.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Joanne, here’s a definition of political correctness that I find amusing and hope you do too.
“Political Correctness”
a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
October 17th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
i heard that it was because there were a lot more professional, college educated aa women with good jobs than there are aa men in the same category
so when a aa man goes after a white women it decreases the odds even more
that is just what i heard on oprah or one of those type shows, not from a scientific paper or anything
October 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Blacks are becoming proud ever since obama became president. I hate blacks.
October 17th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
actually the mexicans outnumber you in los angeles and a lot of mixed heritage folks are around too that are extremely sensitive to any concept of the mention of illegal aliens, as they feel they won california back lock barrel and stock. they basically feel the US stole california from mexico and they are only returning to their rightful and much more profitable home, much like the pali’s want the right of return to Israel which as you can would change the whole politic of the place.
October 17th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
they basically feel the US stole california from mexico
well, they would basically be wrong, just like the palistinians
October 17th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
brian, what are you going to be for halloween ?
October 17th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I hate blacks.- kigwa
that is racism, i believe. i like most blacks.
October 17th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
well they don’t feel they are wrong. so if you say anything they immediately block you out. so if you try and wear an ill. immi, uniform with green cards in los angles they will be throwing tomatillas and mercedes at you and have no interest in even considering your point.
October 17th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
a right pundit?
October 17th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
what is the costume for a right pundit ?
October 17th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
i think i will wear a penis on my head. a DICK HEAD
October 17th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
ooops 25 vulgar-delete
October 17th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
a keyboard with a New England macantosh apple(a real apple) next to it.
October 17th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
in addition to the Green Card, the costume should come with free food stamps and another card that says “Free Healthcare”
October 17th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
That would make you very “PC” Brian.
October 17th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
I don’t see it as PC, since they are the majority in the cell block. PC is a cerebral concept to make you look better in your own eyes as you brownnose to the the few who run the show. But when you realize you are the minority, then it probably makes you smart.
October 18th, 2009 at 12:06 am
actually the mcintosh apple is from canada
the baldwin apple is from new england, specifically from woburn, massachusetts
roughly 15 miles outside of boston
October 18th, 2009 at 12:59 am
If everyone’s this offended by what I thought was a rather clever play on words, I wonder how they’ll react to my costume this year. I’m torn between Gay Hitler or Japanese cartoon porn, if anyone’s wondering…
October 18th, 2009 at 3:40 am
And it’s pronounced Wooben.
October 18th, 2009 at 4:07 am
“It’s “distasteful, mean-spirited and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform,” says Angelica Salas.”
With half of the California prison population being illegal aliens, you’d think they’d have more important social stigmas to be concerned with.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:42 am
oh cliff is an expert on apples all th4 sudden, but actual Macantosh apples are from a particular tree I know in New England, so I guess that is where they come from. so actually you are wrong, again, and again and again.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:52 am
cliffy, you should read All About Apples on the net and they have a long list of breeds, including Mac’s a number of which come from New England. So I guess that makes me correct as well, once again, and again, and again and again, and again, and again……..
October 18th, 2009 at 7:56 am
From Wikipedia:
Every McIntosh apple has a direct lineage to a single tree discovered in 1811 by John McIntosh on his farm in Dundela, a hamlet near Morrisburg, in Dundas County, Ontario.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:03 am
from New England, that is where the Mcintosh apples I consume(d) come from. so there. can I not mention my own New England McIntosh apples, where we call them Macintosh, or Miricle Macs, or whatever “you need” to call them.. I assure you they are not from Onario, they are from trees with roots growing into good old fashioned New England soil. A person should know when they are “not” standing in ontario. If you review the history, instead of jumping to conclusions, you will see Mac’s are the popular New England apple.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Sorry Brian, but it appears you’re wrong again, and again, and again, and again…
October 18th, 2009 at 8:09 am
You can mention your own New England Macintosh apple all you want Brian, but lisab was spot on when she said they came from Canada.
Now the Baldwin apple actually came from Wilmington, Mass. but was named after Col. Loammi Baldwin who haled from Woburn.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:09 am
sorry monkey but if you review the original question you will see I said I would wear a coustome of a keyboard and a new england macintosh apple. for lisab to silliliee take that to start another bizarre argument is just her way of being in our world. but it doesn’t change what my answer was. by the way there is quite a history of planting mac’s in various new england states starting back in the early 1800’s, but anyone can read about it by googling the net.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:22 am
I think I’ll invoke a little social stigmus of my own by dressing up as a Moonbat for Halloween. It wont be easy, thats a lot of sht to drag around.
And who cares if its a liberal who I pi$$ off when they ask me what I’m supposed to be ?
They give crappy treats anyway. Rice cakes, granola bars, food stamps, dried fruits and nuts…
October 18th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Actually Brian, lisab was just throwing out a bit of trivia. It was you that started the argument. Your statement and hers were completely independent of each other until you decided to try and prove her wrong.
Lisab merely pointed out that Macintosh apples were from Canada, and she was correct.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:29 am
The costume is cheap to make micky. Just spend the next two weeks in your basement staring at your computer screen under the soft glow of a 25 watt bulb.
You will emerge a sickly pale color with a sullen wide-eyed stare.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:52 am
actually I was answering a question of what would I wear to a halloween costume event, and it was lisab who then started the argument. are you “people” not honest about anything? I get you enjoy giving me a hard time, but how can you expect me to agree with so many of your archie bunker points of view on everything? my job is to bring in a fresher point of view.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:54 am
I was pointing out that Macantosh apples are from new england cause thats where I have always gotten them. Do you see now? that is reality. lisab is on some arcane talking point that has no bearing on where I get my apples. I do not get them from canada. never have. so don’t try and reinvent reality please.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:56 am
yes give bars of mounds and reeses peanut butter pieces and 3 muskateers and twixt and snickers and krackle, give the real stuff. buy the big bags on sale everywhere.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Again Brian, lisab didn’t say you got your apples from Canada. She simply mentioned that Macintosh Apples are from Canada, i.e. native to Canada.
Had she stated that my last six-pack was actually from Mexico she would have been absolutely correct, even if I bought it at the corner store.
And don’t we call Toyota’s foreign cars even when they’re made in Tennessee?
October 18th, 2009 at 9:34 am
you don’t understand how lisab operates. when she constantly tails me to counterdict most anything I blog. sometimes its direct, sometimes it oblique. like her. by the way, for your reality, the six pack would have originatied at the corner store. I am sure you have metal ions in your cells from madasgascar as well, which orignally came from distant super novae, not even our sun. so should I say because of that you are from supranovae? that will make you even more amorphous and imaginal.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:38 am
I was thinking of going trick or treating as a tampon. Wrap a bunch of toilet paper around me, drag a little string behind me, dump some ketchup on my head. But that could also look like a lit joint, sooo, the moonbats might try to smoke me.
“my job is to bring in a fresher point of view.”
Wonderful, good for you.
Where I used to wor in Waikiki there was a guy who everyday would squat all day long on the sidewalk with his finger in a hole.
After a few days I couldnt take it anymore and asked him what he was doing. he said that if he took his finger out of the hole the earth would deflate and go sputtering and spiraling off into space like a balloon deflating mid air.
That to me was also a “fresher point of view”
October 18th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Toyotas were branded in japan from earlier years. maybe in another generation it won’t even be thought of as a “jap rig”. in my neighborhood Mac’s grew on the trees in our very own back yards. so that is their origination. If they didn’t originate in the new world at all, you’d have to go back to the UK where they came from,, and then the continent of europe, and so forth. and again, the ions in those apples mostly come from supranoave again. so do our apples come from supranovae? just not practical in a normal persons experience. “normal person’s”
October 18th, 2009 at 9:40 am
that is like reaching into a full box of 12 donuts and picking the crumbled up one to eat.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:44 am
My buddies and I went Halloweening as a six pack once. We got six 50 gal. drums, painted them like Bud cans, put shoulder straps inside them and put tin foil flaps on our heads to look like pull tabs.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Apples come from the Garden of Eden
October 18th, 2009 at 9:56 am
“Toyotas were branded in japan from earlier years. maybe in another generation it won’t even be thought of as a “jap rig”.”
The Macintosh apple was branded in Canada.
“Every McIntosh apple has a direct lineage to a single tree discovered in 1811 by John McIntosh on his farm in Dundela, a hamlet near Morrisburg, in Dundas County, Ontario.”
and now, several generations later, it’s not even thought of as Canadian.
“you don’t understand how lisab operates. when she constantly tails me to counterdict most anything I blog.”
I understand perfectly Brian, and on this one she got your shorts in a bunch and made you look stupid. She made an innocent observation, which was correct, and has had you chasing your tail ever since.
And if you’ve noticed, she hasn’t even logged on yet today.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Micky, are you trying to finish him off??
October 18th, 2009 at 10:00 am
apples didn’t evolve from apes ?
October 18th, 2009 at 10:05 am
when i was a kid we used to trick or treat the wk end before Halloween in addition to the correct day.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:06 am
a trick we would do was to have two people, one on each side of the road and act like we held a rope. most cars slowed way down.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Tim, did they refer to you as that addled boy down the street?
October 18th, 2009 at 10:08 am
If you’re talking bout what I think you’re talking about, its a stupid argument in that his whole premise for contesting me is that I’m a prohibitionist.
Anyone with an ounce of intellegence could see that anyone who wants to use California as a model for what legalization would look like, as I do, cant be that much of a prohibitionist.
He finished himself off.
Many here who know me know that I’m having a bout with cancer. 2 of 3 of my doctors say I’m cured. I go for the final biopsy on the 27th.
I’ve had to take morphine for the pain.
Since I’m an addict who would have a hard time recovering from all the morphine they wanted me to take I subbed half of it for marijuana.It helped with the nausea from the morphine and the chemo.
My mom grows her own on the big isle and has a prescription for medicinal.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Tim.
We did that ince when we were kids with a dummy.
We had a rope tied to each arm, laid it down in the bushs, would stand it up when a car came, yanked it out in front of them.
One got all balled up under my social studies teachers car. He got all upset and started bawling thinking he’d killed someone, running around the car like a madman. We got busted cuz he heard us in the bushs laughing
October 18th, 2009 at 10:14 am
No micky, I was refering to Brian chasing his tail trying to prove lisab wrong about the origin of Macintosh apples.
Throwing in the Garden of Eden may cause him to have an episode.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Mr. Ono was his name.
We hated his guts. Our tax dollars at work decided that he needed to draw a pic of a coke bottle on its side so we could understand the design of cars in the 70s.
We were just kids, but we knew what coke bottles looked like.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Brian has been an episode since he popped out his mommy. Prolly started chewing on the umbilical cord right away trying to free himself while saying she was part of a police state collective
October 18th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I hated getting apples for Halloween.
They had razor blades in them.
A jucy red Macintosh was best suited for this since the dark red skin would camouflage the entry point
October 18th, 2009 at 10:23 am
you people just don’t understand because you rerfuse to face the simple reality Macintosh apples were branded in New England for me, very nicely. thankyou.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:25 am
there is nothing about her that is innocent. you guys are such spinners. thats a laugh and very laughable.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:30 am
lisab’s whole stick is negating ones experience any way she can. thats her game. but she can’t negate the fact my Macs are from New England. She has issues that go way beyond me and always has apparently.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:58 am
apples were the worst you could get for halloween. people that gave appples got their windows soaped
October 18th, 2009 at 11:11 am
brian, when i first met lisab she rubbed me the wrong way but over time i came to love her humor and zaniness and her wit. maybe in time you will appreciate her too. she is like a fine wine.
October 18th, 2009 at 11:55 am
she’s smart too.
October 18th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Lisab and I went at each other at first like two rabid pitt bulls.
Brian could never appreciate Lisab.
His idea of busting out is not wearing his cod piece to a cotillion
October 18th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Speaking of “branding apples” did you know that those stickers they put on your produce ( I hate the little fckers) will soon have tracking mechanisms in them that can tell you their origins ?
“And that is what pears – not to mention organic apples, waxy cucumbers and delicate peaches – are becoming in some supermarkets around the country. A new technology being used by produce distributors employs lasers to tattoo fruits and vegetables with their names, identifying numbers, countries of origin and other information that helps speed distribution. The marks are burned onto the outer layer of the skin and are visible to discerning consumers and befuddled cashiers alike.
A new laser technology for labeling fruits and vegetables, designed by Durand-Wayland, Inc., is being put to work at Southern Oregon Sales, a pear distributor in Medford, Ore.
The process, government approved and called safe by the industry, may sound sinister. But it was designed with the consumer in mind: laser coding could mean the end of those tiny stubborn stickers that have to be picked, scraped or yanked off produce.”
October 18th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
wait till they sticker people
October 18th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
actually i did not know the baldwin was from wilmington, i thought it was from woburn … which is indeed pronounced wooben
wilmington is still quite rural compared to the towns inside of 128
October 18th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
“you people just don’t understand because you rerfuse to face the simple reality Macintosh apples were branded in New England for me …”
sooooo brian …
you know … i hear squeaky fromme is single …
October 18th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
yes Tim, lisab is stalking me and has from the start. She has even told me she “was here first!” so how is that for her obssessive territorialness?
October 18th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
so are you saying i preemptively stalked you by being invited to the site when it first opened by McCain?
October 18th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
You speak of being territorial after running off a line like this ?
“face the simple reality Macintosh apples were branded in New England for me “
October 18th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
soooooo brian,
are you watching the patriots game?
October 18th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I would say you were like a bug that follows one everywhere the minute one steps outside. yep. you were territorial towards me. as far as I am concerned you could be sitting in ontario eating your baldwin apples all day long and putting them in neat little piles of three or six or nine all around yourself.
October 18th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
well … actually if i was sitting in ontario i probably would be eating macintosh apples not baldwins.
baldwins are from wilmington, massachusetts not ontario.
macintosh are from ontario.
October 18th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Give me a break, there are costumes of pregnant nuns, sperm, etc. Get over it already..
October 18th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
stop stalking brian, lisa. give him his space.
October 18th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
january jones blindfolded, a nice halloween costume…
http://www.gq.com/women/photos/200911/january-jones-slideshow#slide=7
October 18th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
lisab,
Brian got really lathered up and in a “snit” because he accuses you of tailgating him.
I have had many hearty laughs reading the various comments by all regarding the Macintosh comment, whereby a mountain was painstakingly built out of a mole hill here on this blog .
And I suppose you all know what the word “snit” means as it relates to apple butter making. And that you all know where the Golden Delicious apples all originated from.
(West, by God, Virginia–to save those who did not know from having to Google)
October 18th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
THANK YOU Tim V!
I went to a Halloween party in law school a couple years ago where a guy came dressed as a “Mexican” with a backpack, a canteen, and a bunch of other survival tools. His girlfriend came as a border patrol agent. I believe they won best costumes.
October 19th, 2009 at 3:19 am
I would encourage all of my neighbors to buy and wear it this is so not right. The reason we left Merry ole England in the first place to be free. Well so much for that. If they have a problem with it then maybe they should get a real green card or go back home. If you don’t like the freedom to express yourself then LEAVE!!!!! You do not need to be here that goes for all of this political correct bs. There are things that people say and do i don’t agree with but to make life as a whole a controversy is nuts. We need to respect each other and each other’s views. If you are here illegally then get your real green card or get out. Why are we paying for you to be here when you take over our jobs, don’t pay taxes and live on the shoulders of what was once a working America. Quit ripping us off and get legal or get out.
October 19th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Why are we apologizing for this? Why is the free enterprise system at risk? How many more rights are we going to lose? It us a costume and this is pretend for one crummy day.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:21 am
We are not apologizing for anything Anne. This is merely the MSM and others in the politically correct cultural minority making noise.
When I read the title of the thread I assumed that the costume included a sombrero, bandolear, pancho, and perhaps a cheesy mustache, but it’s a freakin’ space alien.
ANGELICA SALAS is the director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA). She’s the Al Sharpton of the Hispanic community and she needs to get over herself. Notice the absence of the word illegal in her title.
I’d rather talk about apples. But only American apples. Not Macintosh, they’re foreign born also.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:24 am
your welcome ryan
October 19th, 2009 at 11:48 am
yeah, we don’t need none of them stinkin canadian apples here
October 20th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
have you picked out your halloween costume lisa ?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:43 am
Funny how the only people think it’s offensive are here illegally and have no rights in this country because they are not citizens. Regardless of race, anyone from an outside country can be illegal immigrants aka aliens. It’s a joke. Work your ass off for your citizenship and you won’t be the butt end of a joke.