“Barry Potter” + His Not-So-Open Thread

I thought socialist zombies preferred mops.

Very funny.

the obots thought they were getting a treat with backtrack.
guess what we all got a trick and not a good one.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS, BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

Barry Potter also knows how to speak in parsel bullshit tongue as well.

Hillarious, photo. He kinda looks like Erkel as well.

OT:

Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) — Pakistani talk show host Waheed Hussain interrupted a guest discussing the U.S.-led Friends of Democratic Pakistan, which had pledged $5.3 billion in aid to the nation. “You mean foes of Pakistan,” Hussain said.

In the same Oct. 8 Waqt News program, Hussain stopped another guest who was talking about a bill by U.S. Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar to triple non-military aid, subject to curbs including an end to army support for terrorists.

“It’s ‘looter,’ not Lugar,” Hussain said. “American forces want to keep the army under pressure with the conditions and appease India.”

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Then I read the reports regarding Clinton’s visit to Pakistan. There was a photo of some young people holding signs saying “Drone strikes are terrorism”.

Hearts and minds mixed with a propaganda campaign. Sound familar?

This one looks cool. May be he should try it in public.

My first thought was Erkel too! Bwahahaha! Thanks for the treat.

Only praise? How about BO praising himself:

I walked 47 miles of barb-wire
I wear a cobra sake for a necktie;
I got a brand new house on the roadside
Made from rattlesnake hide.
Got a brand new chimney made on top
Made out of a human skull
Now come on and take a little walk with me darlin’
And tell me–who do you love?

I’m a MAN
I spell M. - A. - N.
That spells MAAANNNNN!

Oh wait–That’s Bo Diddley, not BO POTUS.

oowawa,
You aren’t wrong if you go with BO Diddley Squat!

Where’s BO’s side-kick in her buffalo plaid? Some rodeo clown is missing his britches!

How DC works, or why this country is in such deep doo-doo.

From “Naked Capitalism.”
Bank-Favoring Censorship by our Corrupt Cowardly Congress

Harper’s Magazine has written up the lengths to which the authorities will go in censoring views that dissent with what is the unstated official policy: that no demand of the banking industry is too unreasonable not to be catered to.

The object lesson is the gutting of the falsely-branded derivatives reform bill. It arrived with a loophole so large you could drive a truck through it, namely that customized derivatives were not covered. So this bill will do nothing to impede the growth of complex opaque products; in fact, it encourages it, since banks will have no oversight if they tweak a product so that is can be deemed “customized.” It was further weakened by excluding most of the banks in America and by excluding a whole swathe of end users. The final insult was making the derivatives clearing house self-regulating.

The hearings on the bill had testimony scheduled only from what amounted to industry flacks. Someone apparently realized at the 11th hour that that might not go over with the correctly angry public too well. So less than 24 hours prior to the session before the House Financial Services Committee, an invitation was issued to Rob Johnson, a former managing director at Bankers Trust Company and former economist at the Senate Banking Committee and Senate Budget Committee.

So what transpired? As Ken Silverstein recounts:

Johnson, who came last, offered the only serious critical viewpoint… After about five minutes of his testimony, Congresswoman Melissa Bean—another industry-funded committee member who chaired the hearing because Frank was absent—had heard enough. “I’m just going to ask you to wrap up because we’re running out of time,” she told Johnson.

Johnson gamely continued. “When I hear the testimony today that are largely financial institutions and end users, I believe that I represent a third group that comes to the table, which is the taxpayers, the working people of the United States,” he said.

“I do need a final comment,” Bean interjected seconds later.

That put an end to Johnson’s testimony. “I was just called to this hearing last night, so I will provide detailed comments on your bill and a statement for the record that will finish my comments,” he concluded.

So what happens next? The House Financial Services Committee has refused to publish his testimony, offering “the dog ate my homework” level excuses, first that they hadn’t gotten it, then that it was in the wrong format, then that their IT department was experiencing difficulties (always a good one when real reasons are running thin). The last one was pure Catch-22: that he had gotten his written testimony in too late.

You can read his statement, which is obviously too offensive to powerful interests for it to see the light of day in any officially-sanctioned venue, at the Roosevelt Institute.

I think the Henry Louis Gates, Jr costume would have been much scarier to see on Halloween.