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(My Fox DC) Stupid Despite owing thousands in back taxes, former DC Mayor Marion Barry pays $800 bucks for an opera coat at an auction. FARK: He outbid Wolf Blitzer   (myfoxdc.com) divider line 72
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Soumac [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 12:16:01 PM  
It looks like he's already on a payment plan with the gub'mint. Is Fox just hasslin' him because he used to be ON CRACK?

 
absoluteparanoia 2009-04-29 12:16:15 PM  
Stupid, or smart? The only thing keeping him out of a cell is that they can't afford to pay for his kidney condition in jail.

Genius, really. Not stupid.

 
TheYeti [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 12:42:46 PM  
Well, to be fair, he also spent $500/pp on tix for the George Washington University Cancer Gala that held the aution.

 
veedeevadeevoodee [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 12:55:28 PM  
www.washingtonpost.com

MAYOR FOR LIFE

 
RaceDTruck [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 01:06:55 PM  
I wasn't aware that Mr. Barry was an opera fan.

 
TheYeti [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 01:21:24 PM  
RaceDTruck: I wasn't aware that Mr. Barry was an opera fan.

He also enjoys the ballet.

i43.tinypic.com

 
gopher321 [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 02:00:31 PM  
No 'Biatch set me up comment' yet? For shame...

 
SeismicJizzer 2009-04-29 02:18:50 PM  
someone should have given that guy a role on The Wire, he would have fit in perfectly.

 
inert [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 02:19:35 PM  
i224.photobucket.com

 
nosferatublue 2009-04-29 02:19:49 PM  
Thousands of dollars in back taxes, you say? Surprised he hasn't yet been offered a job by you-know-who.

 
Smackledorfer 2009-04-29 02:20:47 PM  
I'm eating marrion berries right now, so I'm getting a kick out of this thread's timing.

 
schubie 2009-04-29 02:24:45 PM  
An opera coat seems like an awfully gay purchase for someone so opposed to gay marriage.

 
Polly Ester 2009-04-29 02:26:33 PM  
adamsandler.jt.org
Grazia, Marion, grazia!

 
Mighty Taternuts 2009-04-29 02:27:06 PM  
Despite owing thousands in back taxes, former DC Mayor Marion Barry pays $800 bucks for an opera coat at an auction. FARK: He outbid Wolf Blitzer Blazer

FIFY

/Here all week
//Try the veal

 
Ken at Popehat 2009-04-29 02:30:21 PM  
In other Marion Barry news, the four-times-divorced, convicted-of-tax-and-drug-charges, about-to-be-jailed-for-probation-revocation-for-still-not-filing-taxes has emerged as the new spokesman for traditional marriage and American morality.

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 02:31:20 PM  
Haters.

/Those of you who haven't gotten caught smoking crack with a hooker can cast the first stone.

 
Linux_Yes [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 02:33:24 PM  
the same Marion Barry who got busted for buying cocaine and got his job back.


only in the good ole USA.

 
HotWingConspiracy [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 02:33:24 PM  
So he's like a new conservative hero.

 
Podna 2009-04-29 02:34:13 PM  
vernonFL: Haters.

/Those of you who haven't gotten caught smoking crack with a hooker can cast the first stonecrack rock.


FTFY

 
Apik0r0s 2009-04-29 02:35:09 PM  
img144.imageshack.us

 
solokumba 2009-04-29 02:40:38 PM  
Did somebody say back taxes?

www.americansforprosperity.org

 
redmond24 2009-04-29 02:40:38 PM  
Wolf Blitzer probably has the coolest names in the history of names.

 
Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher 2009-04-29 02:44:31 PM  
TheYeti: Well, to be fair, he also spent $500/pp on tix for the George Washington University Cancer Gala that held the aution.

YEAH GW!!!

 
RevMercutio [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 02:51:54 PM  
nosferatublue: Thousands of dollars in back taxes, you say? Surprised he hasn't yet been offered a job by you-know-who.

Sarah Palin?

 
PumpUpDaFark 2009-04-29 02:54:15 PM  
RevMercutio: nosferatublue: Thousands of dollars in back taxes, you say? Surprised he hasn't yet been offered a job by you-know-who.

Sarah Palin?


No, Wesley Snipes.

 
flannelled fool 2009-04-29 03:08:00 PM  
HotWingConspiracy: So he's like a new conservative hero.

Yeah, right. You can have him, Sen. Specter, and a player to be named later. Anyone else see that train wreck of an announcement this morning with Specter and Obama?

s89.photobucket.com

 
davideo_games 2009-04-29 03:08:07 PM  
nosferatublue: Thousands of dollars in back taxes, you say? Surprised he hasn't yet been offered a job by you-know-who.

Hot Damn! That's the most clever joke I've heard all week! You think up that original gem all by yourself?

/get over it. imagine what it's like to hire a crew for a ship that is currently sinking, then you can start making fun of Obama's cabinet choices.

 
DROxINxTHExWIND [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-04-29 03:13:28 PM  
Soumac: It looks like he's already on a payment plan with the gub'mint. Is Fox just hasslin' him because he used to be ON CRACK tried crack to get some pussy?

Not defending him, but get it straight.

 
Mighty Taternuts 2009-04-29 03:13:38 PM  
flannelled fool: Anyone else see that train wreck of an announcement this morning with Specter and Obama?

No, what made it a train wreck?

 
generaltimmy 2009-04-29 03:15:04 PM  
He owes back taxes! he should be nominated/selected for Obama's FDA chief.

 
Antonio_Talibanderas 2009-04-29 03:16:42 PM  
Okay.. I can totally see Marion Barry pimped out in an opera coat. No problem at all. I see him pairing it with a fabulous fedora - generously appointed with the exotic feathers of rare and extinct birds. In fact, I'd be kinda surprised if he doesn't already have several such outfits - in multiple shades and colors.

But Wolf Blitzer? SRSLY?!?

If I were a senator on his show, I don't think I could resist asking HIM a question or two...

 
Catran 2009-04-29 03:17:20 PM  
What surprises me, is he is able to pay $500.00 for tickets then spend $800.00 for an opera cape. But,he pays $3400.00 a month in back taxes every month and I am sure he has to pay alimony to his 4 ex-wives.

What I want to know is where is he getting all this cash to burn?

For a convicted felon, he is sure doing well for himself.

 
DROxINxTHExWIND [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-04-29 03:18:15 PM  
flannelled fool: HotWingConspiracy: So he's like a new conservative hero.

Yeah, right. You can have him, Sen. Specter, and a player to be named later. Anyone else see that train wreck of an announcement this morning with Specter and Obama?


I like how quickly Spector became expendable once he dumped the party. Its kinda like you telling that girl that you didn't want to fark her anyway after she saw your small poenis and left the room.

/just an analogy.

 
Pants full of macaroni!! 2009-04-29 03:19:29 PM  
Eight hundred dollars bucks?

/can't believe i'm the first

 
Donald_McRonald 2009-04-29 03:21:15 PM  
This is likely a set-up, possibly orchestrated by a vulgar woman of some sort.

 
Random Guy 2009-04-29 03:21:52 PM  
davideo_games: imagine what it's like to hire a crew for a ship that is currently sinking

Wow, want an analogy for the Obama administration. I am sure you did not mean it come out that way did you?

 
flannelled fool 2009-04-29 03:23:04 PM  
Mighty Taternuts: No, what made it a train wreck?

I've watched and listened to Specter for about 30 years. What used to be a a quick mind, with words flowing effortlessly, is now slowly forming thoughts, the words sometimes seem to escape him for a few seconds, and he has a little bit of the 'deer in the headlights' look about him. I have spent some time with senior citizens in a both professional and volunteer capacity, so I kinda recognize the signs. It's not sour grapes on my part, but he really should just retire. Give someone else a chance. I really don't care, either party.

 
bravian 2009-04-29 03:25:11 PM  
Ah yes ... Barry - just yesterday this thrice divorced convicted felon stated that same sex marriage should be banned because its a moral imperative.

 
Phil Moskowitz 2009-04-29 03:26:51 PM  
You are now thinking about Wolf Blitzer's sexual fantasies.

 
Mighty Taternuts 2009-04-29 03:26:54 PM  
flannelled fool: I've watched and listened to Specter for about 30 years. What used to be a a quick mind, with words flowing effortlessly, is now slowly forming thoughts, the words sometimes seem to escape him for a few seconds, and he has a little bit of the 'deer in the headlights' look about him. I have spent some time with senior citizens in a both professional and volunteer capacity, so I kinda recognize the signs. It's not sour grapes on my part, but he really should just retire. Give someone else a chance. I really don't care, either party.

That is your definition of a train wreck?

 
Nemo's Brother 2009-04-29 03:29:08 PM  
Democrat leaders don't have to pay taxes the way we do.

 
cchris_39 2009-04-29 03:29:35 PM  
Cue the pic of big pimpin' Kramer

 
Mighty Taternuts 2009-04-29 03:31:31 PM  
Nemo's Brother: Democrat leaders don't have to pay taxes the way we do.

Old and stale troll is old and stale.

 
flannelled fool 2009-04-29 03:36:34 PM  
Mighty Taternuts: That is your definition of a train wreck?

What do you call it when the baseball or football player, long past his prime, fumbles the ball or repeatedly gets called out on strikes at the plate? Someone you watched your entire adult life, sometimes with respect, sometimes in horror *magic bullet* and recognize something so obvious that his fellow athletes or his 'friends' should be telling him. I guess no one wants to look this gift horse in the teeth.

 
Antonio_Talibanderas 2009-04-29 03:37:14 PM  
flannelled fool: Mighty Taternuts: No, what made it a train wreck?

I've watched and listened to Specter for about 30 years. What used to be a a quick mind, with words flowing effortlessly, is now slowly forming thoughts, the words sometimes seem to escape him for a few seconds, and he has a little bit of the 'deer in the headlights' look about him. I have spent some time with senior citizens in a both professional and volunteer capacity, so I kinda recognize the signs. It's not sour grapes on my part, but he really should just retire. Give someone else a chance. I really don't care, either party.


I think that can be said about half of the senate. Ted Stevens threw his hat in the ring for 2012. He's gonna be 89 by then.

I know some people age better than others, but there is no way you can convince me that an 89yo is:

1) mentally capable
2) is in touch with the issues and reality of the present. Series of Tubes.

There should be a way to get these guys to just call it quits and live out their golden years on their nice fat pension. You'd think that would be a pretty attractive incentive, but it isn't.

 
EL_FABREZ 2009-04-29 03:40:20 PM  
So his wages are being garnished and he uses the rest of his money to go to charity.

OUTRAGE!

 
Philip J. Fry [TotalFark] 2009-04-29 03:42:43 PM  
flannelled fool: Mighty Taternuts: That is your definition of a train wreck?

What do you call it when the baseball or football player, long past his prime, fumbles the ball or repeatedly gets called out on strikes at the plate? Someone you watched your entire adult life, sometimes with respect, sometimes in horror *magic bullet* and recognize something so obvious that his fellow athletes or his 'friends' should be telling him. I guess no one wants to look this gift horse in the teeth.


Britney Spears had a train wreck of a performance. What you describe is like a tapped bumper in the parking lot that leaves only a smudge that you manage to rub off with your sleeve and the other guy says "Yeah, that's cool, don't even worry about it."

 
Soup4Bonnie 2009-04-29 03:43:46 PM  
flannelled fool: What do you call it when the baseball or football player, long past his prime, fumbles the ball or repeatedly gets called out on strikes at the plate?

President Reagan?

 
flannelled fool 2009-04-29 03:52:28 PM  
Soup4Bonnie: flannelled fool: What do you call it when the baseball or football player, long past his prime, fumbles the ball or repeatedly gets called out on strikes at the plate?

President Reagan?


As much as I admire President Reagan, I will concede he was not the same man at the end of his second term as he was at the beginning of his first. The symptoms of Alzheimer's were no doubt beginning/had begun in subtle ways. Recent research is showing that the brain begins to decline at and before the age of 27. Which was five decades ago, in the case of Sen. Specter.

 
Sgt. Pepper 2009-04-29 03:53:06 PM  
Aida know if I'd pay that much. Seems like a Verdi high price.

 
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