Posted on 12/02/2007 5:09:14 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie Carr thread; his columns plus discussions related to his radio show
Howie’s column from today’s Sunday Boston Herald
Hackerama, be afraid, be very afraid
By Howie Carr | Sunday, December 2, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com
What a wonderful idea - letting the people of Massachusetts vote next year on whether to abolish the state’s 5.3 percent income tax.
The question is going to be on the ballot, that’s almost certain.
And what a blow abolishing the income tax would deal to the hackerama. It would have the effect of cutting the bloated state budget from the $28 billion it will be next fiscal year back to $17 billion, which it was in 1995.
Eleven billion less in their pockets, $11 billion more in ours.
You say it can’t be done? Well, in 2002, when the same question was on the ballot, the underfunded working people still managed to get 45 percent of the vote.
Here’s what’s in it for you. If you have a real job making $50,000 a year and the state income tax is abolished, you have just given yourself a pay raise of $2,650 a year. About $50 extra a week.
Can’t be done? Well, they get along without an income tax in New Hampshire, Texas and Florida, none of which is exactly the economic basket case that we are.
And come to think of it, shouldn’t New Hampshire residents who pay income taxes in Massachusetts be allowed to vote in this referendum? Seems only fair, considering that the same moonbats who loathe the idea of cutting taxes want to allow non-citizens who pay no taxes to vote in local elections. All that our fellow citizens from the Granite State are asking for is the same rights as illegal aliens on welfare.
You say the hackerama will never let it get to the ballot? That their corrupt judges and craven legislators will again deny the people their right to vote, just as they prevented gay marriage from going on the 2008 ballot this year?
The difference is, ending the travesty of gay marriage would have required a constitutional amendment, which allowed the best legislature money can buy to . . . sell its services to the you-know-whos. Doing away with the income tax merely requires a new law, which means that our for-sale solons won’t be able get their mitts on the question before we do.
This campaign was engineered by a group called the Committee for Small Government, led by a couple of former Libertarian candidates for statewide office. They went out and got many more than the 66,000 signatures they needed. Next spring, they’ll need to get another 11,000 or so more, and then it’s on the fall ballot.
Needless to say, organized labor (not to be confused with work) is in a dither. If $11 billion is excised from the state budget, the pinky-ring boys can kiss paid cop details goodbye. Ditto their astounding pensions, their almost-free health care and the endless 14 percent raises for senile, drunken judges.
First the hacks will go to the State Ballot Law Commission, claiming that the signatures were obtained fraudulently, from idiots who thought they were signing on behalf of marijuana (George Soros’ ballot question) or greyhounds (next year the animal-rights whackos will finally put George Carney out of business).
After that fails, the hacks will mount a paid scare campaign on TV and radio - “the sky is falling!” as Carla Howell put it. What about the children?
It will be an expensive fight. Union dues will have to go up, and of course that means the hack brotherhoods will be seeking more money in their next round of contract negotiations, due to the increase in “the cost of living.” Fixed costs, as the pols always explain, when they cave in to the unions.
Let’s say it passes, and the tax is history as of July 1, 2009. In late 2008, the lame-duck legislature would move to repeal this mortal threat to the hackerama.
Which provides an opportunity for the state’s hapless Republican party. If they could only find some candidates, the GOP could try to force every Democrat to commit to “affirming the people’s will,” or some such phrase. Get the wretched coatholders on record that they will vote against repealing the people’s mandate.
Of course, a lot of the solons made just such a sacred promise in 2006, on the subject of “gay marriage.” They broke that vow as soon as they got back to the State House. When Arline Isaacson says “Jump,” the gutless wonders ask, “How high?” And you can bet she’s planning to herd the lemmings over the cliff on this one too.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1048284
>>led by a couple of former Libertarian candidates for statewide office.
namely Carla Howell (”Small government is beautiful”) and
Michael Cloud; Howell was on Howie’s show last week.
I used to live in NH, got out before the Massholes who moved out of MA because they didn’t like the government tried to turn it into the same government they left behind. It’s true they don’t have an income tax but the property taxes were as high or higher than it would have been with an income tax. In Georgia where I now live I’m paying less in income and property taxes combined than I paid in property taxes on my house in NH. Plus when I lived in NH I worked in MA so I had the double whammy of high NH property taxes and high MA income tax. Now I have a bigger house and lower taxes but no water.
We'll ship ya some! We're expecting some snow in the next 24 hours, we'll bag it and send it to ya! I live in MA, a friend of mine lives in GA and loves it, the no water pproblem will pass.......
The Monday ping.
On Radio Equalizer blog, Brian Maloney is
reporting Imus’ return is getting panned.
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com
“Sounding older and more tired than ever, a neutered Don Imus returned to the airwaves today, struggling for words and rehashing ancient history. In fact, the only real fireworks came before the show, where a newly- demoted Curtis Sliwa slammed the station for replacing his higher- rated show for Imus’s doomed return.
“As a result, even some of the I-Man’s most vocal supporters are panning his WABC debut, which featured a ridiculous attempt at pandering to African- American listeners via a new sidekick.”
There are pro- and con- opinions on Imus on the NYC board
at radio-info
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,87020.0.html
“How about his monolog!!! That was the most heart felt speech I’ve ever heard.”
“What tired, worn out, mumbling, forced, non-funny, uncompelling radio. We waited 8 months for this? Pity the poor people of Citadel who are on the unemployment line today, paying for Imus salary, while the company stock is just over $2.00 a share.”
“He sounded old and confused to me. Why do so many people like this program?? Chris Dodd kissing up to him was funny because if they asked Dodd to speak on the Rutgers issue he would have probably torn into Imus.”
“Nice to have him back - big lineup for the first day McCain, Dodd, Carville and Matalin”
today’s poll
8 men have stepped forward to say they have had sexual encounters with Sen. Larry Craig. He still denies that he is gay. Do you believe him?
Yes
12%
No
88%
Mon Dec 3
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I'm pretty sure that Drudge said a year ago last Summer, that NBC was threatening stations to keep Imus.
Is one of the sidekicks uhhhh ...well endowed like Robin?
After I hit the post button, I wondered if one was a lesbian.
That's about all I know about Robin Quivers. I was never a fan of either host.
I feel sorry for those in NYC that lost the local Sliwa show.
Road flare. Ha! One of the stories in my family is about one guy that was a coal miner that did the blasting. He brought home dynamite and blasted himself a cellar under his house.
Successfully.
Just what you'd want to do after working underground all day. Get your friendly coworkers to help remove another 16 tons of shale, slate, or whatever.
I must have missed it.
Any idea what the announcement was?
I heard Howie say that too. But I don’t think Max ever spilled the beans.
The Tuesday ping
Michelle McPhee is in, Bill O’Reilly is
out at WTKK according to Boston mag’s blog. McPhee leaving Herald to work
on Morrissey Blvd.—not for the Globe, but for that certain radio company right
down the street. You know, the guys who
tried unsuccessfully to get Howie.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/blogs/boston/2007/12/04/mcphee-quits-herald-moves-to-tkk-full-time/
>>UPDATE: Sources have indicated that McPhee will take the 7 p.m. evening slot currently occupied by Bill O’Reilly’s syndicated show. TKK Program Director Grace Blazer offered only a “no comment.”
UPDATE II: Blazer just confirmed the story. McPhee starts as the 7-10 p.m. host on Jan. 7.
try not to let this destroy your view of the rap music
community. “He was trying to turn his life around...”
>>Rapper Pimp C Found Dead in LA Hotel
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:04:48 PM
Pimp C, one-half of the veteran Houston rap group UGK, was found dead in an upscale hotel on Tuesday.
“It is with great regret that I must confirm that Chad Butler aka Pimp C, one half of the legendary UGK, was in fact discovered dead this morning,” his publicist, Nancy Byron, said in a statement. “Manager Rick Martin is asking that everyone please respect his family and those close to him at this time and refrain from rumors and innuendo.”
Pimp C and partner Bun B were pioneers of Southern rap, and hit the mainstream with their cameo on Jay-Z’s hit “Big Pimpin’.”
Wasn't Norman Hsu, on the lam, a "trustee" of The New School?
Bob Kerrey's bastion of cultural deterioration?
let me guess, We don’t have a death pool winner today!!!!
Does Howie still have his musicians’ death pool.
Debra Lafave. Hah, this current caller’s son must have been of Barney Frank’s persuasion, and the adult woman did really play with his self-image then.
I don’t know. I’ve never heard of this guy to tell ya the truth.
But, but, he was 1/2 of the legendary UGK...
He must have forgotten about that death pool—they’re
just doing ONE pool I think...
Howie column ping
Trailer park kook should be ready for day in court
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com
The victim du jour is Leeland Eisenberg, aka Ralph Elliot Woodward Jr.
He is what used to be called a kidnapper, and is now referred to as a “hostage taker.” Like so many before him, Eisenberg amassed a lengthy criminal record in Massachusetts and then moved to New Hampshire, where he caused yet more trouble Friday, taking over Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters in Rochester.
But now we learn that this twice-convicted knife-wielding rapist, this burglar, this nonregistered sex offender, this accused stalker, is in fact . . . a victim. He is a man with a “troubled past.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
He couldn’t afford “medication” - but somehow had plenty of money for booze and cigarettes.
He sued the Archdiocese of Boston, claiming he was molested by a priest - at age 21 - and reportedly received a settlement in 2003 even though his aunt said it was nothing but a “big story.”
He escaped from prison while serving a sentence for his first rape, raped a second woman while on the lam - and then repeatedly sued the Department of Correction. If only they hadn’t let him escape to rape again . . .
His wife said he was “always making her laugh,” and “was perfect in my eyes.” That must have been why she filed for divorce last week. Perfection was too much.
He and his wife lived in destitution in a trailer park, yet when the missus left the courthouse Monday, she stepped into a limousine.
According to his suit against the archdiocese, his mom died when he was young and his father, you guessed it, abused him. Because his father was - only one guess here - an alcoholic. Naturally he became . . . homeless and soon was living in a car (John Kerry can feel his pain) in a junkyard in Ayer.
Are you crying buckets yet? Because there’s more. Apparently the lawyer and the family met over the weekend to get their talking points straight, because everyone has stayed on script.
His stepson said his rapist stepfather’s drunken stunt was “a desperate plea . . . an act of desperation” for help. His lawyer said the kidnapping was the “act of a desperate man.” Key word: desperate.
It was a selfless act, the lawyer claimed. He was “seeking help not for his own situation but for the plight of people everywhere who seek and cannot find answers to their psychological problems.”
A noble cause, an eloquent spokesman. No wonder he demanded the cops send in more beer. He was . . . desperate. For Budweiser.
The neighbors at his trailer park in Somersworth apparently didn’t get the memos, because their stories varied. One said he was “frequently” drunk, another said “always.” But the best quote was from a guy who noted his daily attire of a suit and tie.
“He always looks,” this guy told the newspaper, “like he’s ready to go to court.”
Maybe because that’s where he always is, in court. If you hadn’t figured out that he was a nut by the time he surrendered Friday night, you knew once he took off his sweater and revealed that he was wearing a tie. Who wears a tie on Friday anymore, especially to a kidnapping?
The last time I wrote a column about a local con trying to pull an Alibi Ike, I got a letter from a jailbird at Walpole: “Just because you’ve never had a lick of strife in your right-wing, suck-bag Republican family, you have no right to judge another man, because that’s what JUDGES are for.”
No, pal, judges are there to fix cases, make up laws, drive drunk and, most often, release the likes of Eisenberg on an unsuspecting public to rape and stalk and kidnap again. The only good news here is, Eisenberg committed this crime in New Hampshire, so he won’t get a pat on the back and a settlement check on his way out the door.
Sitting in jail this morning, do you know what Leeland is really desperate for? A lunatic Massachusetts judge such as Kathe Tuttman.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1048851
A Ch 25 Morning News segment from just over a year ago,
the FIRST time Mitt was caught with landscapers who were
illegals. Commenting is Doug “VB” Goudie, of course,
Howie’s former sidekick.
They want those crappy cds, bumper stickers, fridge magnets, or whatever he's trying to unload.
Yesterday, I heard Howie say he gets all of his news from FR. Did you know that? Does he have a user name?
He has said Sandy is on (hi Sandy—probably one of the
folks on the ping list). If he has a user name he’s
keeping it secret.
The Wed. ping. Fun trivia fact: Chip Davis of
Mannheim Steamroller (see below) was a big part of
country/pop hit “Convoy” by C.W. McCall
Wikipedia:
“He also wrote the music for C.W. McCall, including the 1975 hit “Convoy”.After touring with the Norman Luboff Choir, he took a job with an Omaha, Nebraska advertising agency writing jingles. These included spots for a local bakery featuring the fictional trucker C. W. McCall. The spots were co-written with advertising writer William Fries, who became the voice of McCall. The spots were so popular, they were persuaded to begin writing non-advertising songs featuring McCall. The most famous of these is the 1975 “Convoy”. The duo released a total of five albums between 1974 and 1979.
Davis was named ASCAP Country Music Writer of the Year in 1976.
“Davis founded Mannheim Steamroller in 1974 to showcase his interest in fusing modern popular and classical techniques.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Davis
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(the actual WRKO site says Chip Davis “WAS in”...oopsie)
One of natures most beautiful sights, a convoy!
Afternoon everybody!!!
I just happened to hear Glenn Beck the other morning say he did just that with Romney (the morning after Giuliani nailed him about the illegal alien landscapers). Then Beck proceeded to play the phone interview.
good point! I think Ingraham has done that too (pre-
recorded) but if we hear him say “we’ll take calls now”
we’ll know it’s live.
"People are talkin about Prop.13 cutting out dam inspectors.
I say "Good"If you're downstream from a dam, your @ss otta be up there lookin for cracks"
Mitt's @ss(or somebody from the campaign"s @ss should been over there lookin for illegals
Tag????? when I was a kid, I had a bassett hound named Tag.
And there were wet spots on it.
Better her than me.
scary stuff!
I had a stopwatch made by Tag.
"you guy's have a problem with mexicans"
you people should just bend over and take it!!!!!
WRONG!!!!!!!
Did it actually work??? it sure looks like Mitt’s Tag is asleep at the switch.
The one time something happened, such as the FBI chasing bank robbers, I was at school.
When Romney was on Beck, Beck said he always gets a commitment from the contractor that illegal aliens will not be used on his job.
Unless of course,It's north-bound on the NAFTA highway!!!
for all you coast to Coast fans,I'm just practicing my remote viewing
Tag, short for Taggart; Tag is the name of Gulliver’s
dog on the Hanna Barbera “Adventures of Gulliver”
(1968) show.
Thu ping
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Check out Hanna Barbera's 45s Guide
I confess to recognizing more than a few. And I have one of them on a cd in the car.
Oh yeah, and not all were cartoon related. There’s a good blog for “children’s records and more” with some of their stuff.
One of their short lived series, Cattanooga Cats (late 60s)
featured what you could call a feline Archies—and the
tunes were pretty good. One of the people involved:
musician turned politician Mike Curb
http://childrensrecordsandmore.blogspot.com/
(note the Mannheim Steamroller stuff on the Christmas
page!)
Quite a few Cat. Cats videos are on YouTube—very catchy melodies
http://childrensrecordsandmore.blogspot.com/search?q=cattanooga
Well, how about giving us Harry Reid? They, and NV voters, have a heap of 'splaining to do on that one.
Howie column ping
Here’s what Romney just can’t believe
By Howie Carr | Friday, December 7, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com
It was a good speech, better than expected, but the reality is, Mitt Romney didn’t want to have to deliver it. He had to. So let’s go straight to what Mitt was really thinking as he spoke yesterday at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M.
Thank you, Mr. President, and as I reflect on what has brought me to College Station this morning, I think back to your 1988 race for president. I recall, in particular, the end of the campaign, and the famous “Saturday Night Live” skit about a party supposedly attended by both candidates, you and Mike Dukakis.
As I recall, the actor playing you does something stupid, and the Mike Dukakis impersonator, Jon Lovitz, turns full to the camera and says, deadpan:
“I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy.”
Mr. President, I feel exactly the same way this morning. I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy - Mike Huckabee. How can this be? He looks like Gomer Pyle, he buys his suits off the rack, and on the bottom of every one of his pitifully small buys of Iowa TV ads the chyron says “Christian Leader.”
I know the whispering campaign they’re running against me in Iowa. They’re saying because I’m a Mormon I’m not a Christian. The name of my faith is Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. What part of “Jesus Christ” do they not understand?
Another thing these push-pollers are saying about me is that I’m a member of a cult. Look, I know I’m not supposed to brag, but I’ve got two degrees from Harvard. Some cult. And by the way, where did Gov. Gomer go to college - Ouachita State? He used to be the governor of Arkansas. Hello, people! He’s from Hope! Is anyone listening out there?
Every morning I ask myself, how come I’m not running away with this race? By the end of this quarter, I’ll have thrown $20 million of my own money into the campaign. And in the Rasmussen daily national tracking poll, I’m stalled at 12, 13 percent. You-know-who is at 21 percent.
Whatever happened to celebrating diversity? What I would really like to be asking on national TV this morning is this: Why doesn’t anyone in the media ask Harry Reid if he wears magic underwear? He’s a Mormon too, you know.
But oh no, that would be “hate speech,” because Reid is a Democrat.
Am I disappointed that my path to the nomination isn’t the cakewalk it looked like it might be a few weeks ago? Darned right I am. Of course, I was expecting a little bit of assistance in Iowa from Mr. Fred Thompson. He was supposed to split the evangelical vote in Iowa with “Christian Leader.” But nooooooo.
Huckabee and Giuliani are running a tag-team on me. It’s a love fest between those two. And the guy who’s supposed to be my tag-team partner is practically nodding off at the debates.
When is Rudy Giuliani going to make “The Speech” about the sanctity of matrimony? Yet I’m the “polygamist” in the field.
Is John McCain planning a major address anytime soon on the Keating Five? And they say I’m a flip-flopper. Did anyone hear McCain at that CNN debate last week, saying his illegal-alien amnesty bill wasn’t about amnesty? Rudy Giuliani loved illegals, but I’m the one who gets slimed on the “sanctuary mansion.”
I let my son Tagg make the call on rehiring the landscaper, OK? Kids screw up, that’s life. I wonder what would happen if my campaign workers started stopping the guys making home deliveries for the local newspapers and asking them for their green cards.
But a Republican isn’t allowed to say that - I’m lucky the PC Police didn’t bust me after the debate last week for mentioning “funny accents.” Huckabee the pet rock could get away with it, but not me.
Can you believe it, Mr. President? Can you believe I’m losing to this guy?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1049281
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