Marion Barry Drops Barnyard Epithet on Dais
Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry is currently on the dais interrogating a panel of city officials, including Deputy Mayor Valerie Santos.
Barry kept trying to get Santos to admit it was a mistake not to send parks contracts totaling in the tens of millions to the council for review. She offered dodgy answers, and after one of them, Barry let his frustration get the best of him:
"Oh, that's bullshi...," he said, catching himself on the heels of the last possible phoneme.
He immediately turned to Harry Thomas Jr., chairing the hearing: "Oh, sorry, Mr. Chairman!"
4:40 pm
I saw that. And I completely understood his sentiment. This Deputy Mayor seems completely inclined to answer as few questions in as broad a manner as possible. She doesn't straightly answer anything.
4:47 pm
If anyone knows bs, it's Barry. He's an expert.
11:52 pm
Not his fault. G-D Bitch set him up.
5:36 am
Barry once again embarrasses the DC Government, get some class please, it's called decorum. This Council is delaying and obstructing the building of parks and schools instead of supporting them. The deputy mayor has been badgered, insulted, and now cursed at by this Council, over what? going past the redtape and bureaucracy of DC procurement to build schools and parks faster and better than they have ever been built in the District ever! There is no moral wrong here, just procedural mistakes easily correctable. This is not even a scandal, there is no sex, there is no stealing, in fact the District saved millions and we are getting what Barry and the Council have never accomplished: better schools and parks today!
8:44 am
UMM!
EXCUSE ME Resident tired of Council Obstruction WHAT ARE YOU BASING FOR FACTS ON?
U MUST BE ADRIAN FENTY'S DOWN LOW LOVER CAUSE YOUR FACE IS ALL OVER HIS GENITALS!
LOOKY HERE NUM-NUUTZ THE REASON POLICIES AND PROCEDURES WERE SET UP A CERTAIN WAY WAS TO AVOID WHAT FENTY WAS DOING. FENTY ACTUALLY WAS BREAKING THE LAW AND SHOULD BE LOCKED UP FOR HIS CONSPIRATAL ACTIONS!
I APPLAUD MR BARRY FOR SPEAKING HIS MIND AND STATING FACT. HER ANSWERS WERE COMPLETE BULL SHIT AND ANYBODY WHO THOUGHT IT WASNT MUST HAVE GOT THEIR FACE IN MR FENTY'S GENITALS ALSO!
10:20 am
Try not to kill anyone today noodlez.
10:28 am
Yes. here answers were purposely vague and lacked obstentious clarity. She was dodging questions that the average concerned taxpayer would find enlightening.
Barry was right, but his outburst was not. I understand his frustration. I only wish the rest of the council were equally frustrated with a stonewalling executive. One that ignores checks and balances at every turn. One that invites an atmosphere of corruption.
10:38 am
The entire DC government is a fucking joke. Decorum? Class? What the fuck is that in this City. We have a childish Mayor, running circles around himself, fronting his frat buddies hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts, a disorganized and self-interested City Council, whose members care only about their political gains than what is right and wrong.
Harry Tommy Thomas is a buffon. Barry isn't. He's a con-artist, but a fool, no way.
11:51 am
"The bitch set me up"
12:10 pm
This guy or gal, 'NOODLEZ' must be a closeted gay person who hates who they are. I am reminded of a line in a play, "The lady dow protest too greatly"
Either 'NOODLEZ" is like I said gay or had the umbilical cord wraped around his/her neck and was deprived of oxygen to the brain at birth. 'NOODLEZ', FYI the KKK still meets in Frederick County, Maryland.
3:21 pm
HEY MR MANGUS-A LIL FYI FOR FUTURE POSTS: BLACK, STRAIGHT, NATIVE WASHINGTONIAN MALE WHO LOVES HIMSELF!
MANGUS GET YOUR DOME OUTTA HIS LAP AND WIPE YOUR MOUTH!
YOU INADEQUATE CUMSUCKER! WHY DONT YOU GO BACK TO THE MIDWEST AND TAKE YOUR WEAK MINDED HOMOSEXUAL FRIENDS WITH YOU! WE DONT WANT YOUR KIND HERE! IM GLAD YOU TOLD ME ABOUT THE LATEST KLAN MEETING IM HAVE TO GO UP THERE AND RECRUIT SOME OF THOSE CRACKERS TO GET RID OF ALL THE FAGALA SCUM IN MY CITY.
THE FIRST ONE WE GONNA START WITH IS MS THANG RICK MANGUS OR IS THAT SHORT FOR RICK MAN YOU SO FAR IN MY GUT.
THIS ONE IS FREE! NEXT TIME MAKE A LEGIT COMMENT THAT IS
WORTH ME SPENDING MY TIME ON.
PUNK!
5:04 pm
Hey!, 'NOODLEZ' you fogot something in you're brief resume to this blog that you gave us, IGNORANT!
And I am sure you, "Who loves himself" because no one else loves a dumb ass bigot in today's society.
So, 'NOODLEZ' put that crack stem down, get in you're car and go North on I270 to Frederick County, Maryland and as a black man I'm sure they would burn a cross in you're honor!
5:16 pm
CORRECTION:
I have to make a spelling correction, line one, 'forgot' instead of 'fogot'. I guess that I got caught-up in the stupidity of 'NOODLEZ' comments.
10:50 pm
On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt
Winner of the 2005 Bestseller Awards, Philosophy Category, The Book Standard
"One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory."
Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all.
Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."
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