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

By Bronwyn's Harbor on October 29, 2009 at 11:30 PM in Current Affairs

This toon has been borrowed from The Nose On Your Face.

In this open thread, you may only praise The One. Otherwise, he’ll cast a spell on you and shun you!

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Since Barry probably doesn’t read No Quarter, say what the hell you want. Enjoy free speech while you can.

Thanks to Larry Johnson for sending this toon.

  • TeakWoodKite

    I thought socialist zombies preferred mops.

    Very funny.

  • helenk

    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 bums a ciggie

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

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

    • barry bums a ciggie

      sorry for the strike out on the whole sentence, I was hit with the curse ‘strikeitallamus’:)

  • TeakWoodKite

    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.”

    .

    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?

    • snosandy

      Looks like we’re going to have to deny that we’re Americans when we travel abroad once again.

    • Docelder

      “Drone strikes are terrorism”

      There we go. We are right back to the 90′s when we spent a million for a tomahawk missile to blow up a $100 tent. The thing that these cultures resent above all else is the premise that we can operate at a level so far above them and their inferior nomadic ways. And here we are using technology to strike at them by just pushing a button. If this doesn’t fuel the desire to strike back, I don’t know what will. Think about it, if you were living in the desert in a tent and not knowing when the next remote control airplane will strike, and not knowing why or where the strike may come… It would tend to make you hate and hate deeply. Add to that a cleric that will say these remote controlled toys are tools of Satan and we have fertile ground for a holy war.

  • http://www.zoombits.de/computer-zubehoer computer zubehör

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

  • Judy L. NC

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

  • oowawa

    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.

    • TeakWoodKite

      I like the Doors version of this tune as well.

    • Onofre’s arm

      Hey oowawa, where’ve you been? I was getting concerned.

      Yesterday my 12 year old son was telling me about an exercise he had done in school. The students were shown pictures of only the eyes of various people. From their impression of the eyes they were to asked to describe what they thought the person was like from a list of adjectives like angry, happy, rich, poor, etc. My son described one of the set of eyes as belonging to an angry rich guy. It turned out that the eyes belonged to Obama. I howled when he told me this. However, the teacher was apparently not as amused as I was. Out of the mouths of babes.

      • oowawa

        Hiya Onofre’s arm, Teak, Sassy. You know, sometimes you just feel like sitting in your cave and banging rocks together. Man, it’s depressing out there!

        • TeakWoodKite

          oowawa, Easy Wind to you.

          I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer,
          been chippin’ up rocks for the great highway,
          live five years if I take my time,
          ballin’ that jack and a drinkin’ my wine.

          I been chippin’ them rocks from dawn till doom,
          while my rider hide my bottle in the other room.
          Doctor say better stop ballin’ that jack,
          if I live five years I gonna bust my back, yes I will.

          . Easy Wind. :)

          Onofre’s arm , that’s a riot!!

          • Onofre’s arm

            Or “Sixteen tons, and whaddaya get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St Peter doncha call me cause I can’t go, I owe my soul to the company store.”

          • oowawa

            Nice, Teak. An anthem by the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils fits nowadays:

            I’m all tore down
            I’m all tore down
            Standing up tall
            With my back flat on the ground . . .

            Watching Thee One strut around saluting people who are actually in the military doesn’t help . . .

            Commander-In-Chief – - Gag.

      • Katmoon

        Wow, talk about intuitive.

  • Sassy

    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!

    • Onofre’s arm

      “Buffalo plaid”? Is that what that’s called? I thought Michelle was doing her part in sustainable practices by recycling an old picnic table cloth.

  • donjo

    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.

    • ziggy

      Meanwhile, the general public is hearing absolutely nothing about any of this this on any of the major news networks.

  • ImaLindatoo

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

  • Anonymous

    Barry Hussein sucks brooms!