Wonkette
SEND YOUR LOVE & FLOWERS TO MARION BARRY: Former D.C. MAYOR FOR LIFE and current Ward 8 council member Marion Barry was scheduled to undergo his kidney transplant surgery at 2:30 this afternoon, so that’s… well he’s probably under the knife right now! Barry’s body has taken some abuse over his 72 years, so we hope that his new kidney serves him well in prison, where he may soon go for never paying his income taxes. [DCist, Washington Post]
Marion Barry’s clothing provided by Don Cherry, Inc.
Love and Flowers, Hell! Guy can have my spare kidney if he needs it! Barry’s a true hero of the crackhead-bitch-set-me-up rights movement.
I’ll pitch in for a gift certificate for a comfort handjuhb from some Angela Davis lookalike from ActForLove.org. Or Helen Thomas. Also.
I would probably be a little upset if I found out that my dead loved one’s kidney went to Marion Barry. Marion Barry? Really?? Isn’t that like when Mickey Mantle needed a new kidney because years of alcoholism no longer enabled his to function??
hockeymom: Don Cherry’s still around? I remember when everybody in Denver (well, both hockey fans) was excited because he’d been hired to coach the Colorado Rockies, who are now the NJ Devils. Same guy? Is he a thousand years old yet?
Texan Bulldoggette: Oops, I meant Mantle’s liver.
Racist Faux News story, or NY Post editorial cartoon, about Barry’s new kidney coming from that dead anger chimp coming in 1…2…3…
I’ve always found his brothers Logan and Boysen much tastier, but Gawd Bless the insanely corrupt old porch-rocker anyway.
With the taxes thing, Barry’s got some cred for Secretary of Commerce, though.
“Bitch kidney done set me!”
Blago sends his respects.
Marion Barry needs a kidney like the Titanic needs Bondo.
It would be fitting if his new kidney is the one surgeons pulled out through some woman’s vagina.
I’ll just send him a bag of primo rock. Thanks for the suggestion though!
I thought Lando was in Cloud City…
V572625694: Don Cherry is the Chuck Norris of Canada City. His suit coats can kick your ass.
Speaking of Denver hockey, has Sakic recovered from his tragic snowblower accident?
He’s 72 Years Old. Man, that guy knows how to rock out. I hope I can hit it that hard by then
Noonan Flash:
This is so exciting,” I wrote to a friend. “I am on an airplane going over the Rockies. I am sending you an email. I am surfing the Internet. I am browsing. I have never been on Wi-Fi on a plane before. I am looking down at the Rockies. I am tediously narrating my experience. I am typing. Typing. Typing some more[...] I am looking out the window. I am looking up the aisle. I am wishing I brought a better book. I am looking down the aisle. I am living in an age of miracles and wonder. I am wondering if there is a bathroom free…”
Wait a second. Marion Barry, Barry Obama, hmmm, sounds scary, possibly terrist.
V572625694: He’s very around, dood. He’s pretty much the 2nd most famous person in Canada, after Our Barry.
C’mon you libtards!!! How dare you forget Barry once took a bullet in the chest from TERRORIST HANAFI MUSLINS while defending our beloved house of government! If only the passengers on September 11 had his courage, we’d still have our Twin Towers!
Continue to Live Free of Die, Barry!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry
The WaPo Several council members said they were wishing Barry success with the surgery and a speedy recovery. “The Wilson Building just isn’t the same without him,” council member Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5) said in a statement.
I can imagine. One can use the loo today without the acrid scent of crack smoke seeping out of the men’s john. But give “Mayor” for Life his due…he paid his taxes, just late. Daschle was late too–years late. A brother can’t catch a break in this town….
Bitch set him up. FOR SURGERY!
Kidney? I’d have bet on liver. Anyway, congrats DC: your tax dollars at work. And, yes, (full disclosure) I’m ashamed to admit I voted for the guy the first time he ran for mayor.
Knowing his Mayorship, they’ll probably find a huge stash of something that he hid there during a previous incarceration and he’ll come out just fine. Remember, he went on a high colonic binge a few decades ago.
Do people who live in DC have to pay taxes? Huh!
snideinplainsight: I am living in an age of miracles and wonder.
Yeah, wi-fi is a fucking miracle. A miracle that costs $50 to set up at your house. She probably thinks cordless phones are wonders as well. And TV mics that stay on when you go to commercial.
Oh great. He rates a kidney and Barry White didn’t?
swearing_is_caring: Destination if no new kidney.
No snark: there are several causes for renal failure. Regardless, it is slow death. Being a once flambotant asshole does not temper that.
S.Luggo: flamboyant.
i know barry has been a punchline for a while now, but is anybody even aware of the fact that the government spent over a million dollars investigating barry before finally using that woman to entrap him? that barry is actually on the tape uttering the words “i’ve never done this” before he takes a hit? i’m not saying the guy is or was ever worth half a fuck, but something about his name becoming shorthand for asshole bothers me whenever i think about the circumstances of his investigation and subsequent fall.
It’s too bad he had sold his one good one for some rocks.
HairyIckey: Send a bag my way too, please.