Posted on 08/16/2009 12:04:20 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread starting w/ his Sunday Herald column
Some solon in this lifeboat is going to become breakfast
By Howie Carr | Sunday, August 16, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
The good news is, Massachusetts is probably going to lose one of its 10 congressmen in the upcoming national redistricting.
The bad news is, we’re not going to lose two.
The reason for this political RIF is that the Bay State’s population is not growing - what a surprise. I mean, what’s not to like about this wonderful commonwealth, at least if you’re a pinky-ring union thug, a trust-funded moonbat, a hack out on a fake disability pension or a freeloading illegal alien with an anchor baby?
Alas for our solons, almost everyone in Massachusetts not on the dole is fleeing. That’s a problem - for the political class, anyway.
In the past, when we had to lose a congressman to a low-tax Sunbelt state, the one to go was usually the guy who’d been indicted most recently. If you doubt me, look up U.S. Rep. Tom Lane of Lawrence.
The problem with our current crop of limousine liberals is that they’ve pretty much aged themselves out of the active criminal class. The ever-worthless John Olver turns 73 next month, Barney Frank (D-Fannie Mae) is 69. Bill Delahunt (D-Venezuela and Club Hedonism) is 68. Fast Eddie Markey, the “dean” of the delegation, is slowing down at 63, and even Richie Neal has reached 60.
Some people compare the elimination of a congressional district to a political version of musical chairs. Actually, it’s more like the Donner party - only instead of starving pioneers in the snow, it’s hungry hacks, sizing one another up for dinner.
Cannibalism among the congressional comrades. What would their dear leader Fidel Castro say?
Most likely nominee for the stew pot: Olver, from Amherst. He’s the most ancient and the least relevant. The problem is that 1st District of his. The Golden West he represents is so sparsely populated that in the last redistricting, to make the numbers work, the map-drawers had to run him all the way east to the outskirts of Lowell.
Whichever district is eliminated, the remaining nine solons will each have to pick up about 75,000 people. The 1st District is just too far west to allow the inside-128 solons to recruit more voters to replace the ones who are voting with their feet by the thousands.
Most of the eastern districts are already stretched tight, which is a polite way of saying gerrymandered. Steve Lynch has South Boston and a corridor that snakes through JP and Ward 18 to reach the Southie diaspora on the South Shore and in Plymouth County. Barney’s twin pillars are Brookline-Newton and New Bedford. Fall River is split between Barney and Jim McGovern, our man in Havana.
The most logical district to dismember is Fast Eddie’s. Winthrop to Framingham - it makes about as much sense as Markey’s cap-and-trade bill, which is to say, none. He’s hardly ever seen in Malden, where he allegedly lives, and out on Route 9, Fast Eddie is not even a rumor.
Nobody would miss “the Dean,” except the Dean himself.
Mike Capuano seems safe. He has most of Boston and all of Cambridge. The comrades say, “Thanks but no thanks.”
Come 2011, the gerrymandering, er redistricting, will be done by the Legislature. It’s never too early to start bumkissing at the State House. Just ask Fast Eddie. If I were these dolts, I’d forget about calling Hugo Chavez and Hot Bottom for awhile, and concentrate instead on brown-nosing Senate President Terry Murray.
Madame President’s birthday is Oct. 10. Do I have to draw you guys a diagram?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1191292
Howie said yesterday the death pool would likely be (today) in the 4 pm hour (was this for Eunice Shriver last wk?)
Robert Novak who was also in the pool (#12) just passed on\
(see link below)
but the person who had Shriver (#46, the last one) is the winner from before...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318718/posts
The July 29, 2009 death pool
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2311276/posts
and scroll down to post #5
Thank you FDNYRHEROES
Tue show ping
I’ll re-pro the list of the 7/29/09 death pool to help those who need suggestions for their nomination.
Howie Carr Show 7-29-2009 Death Pool
* = “Quick Pick” supplied to caller
1. Patrick Swayze
2. Dick Clark (American Bandstand)
3. Art Linkletter (97 Years Old)
4. * Kirk Douglas
5. Nancy Reagan
6. * Olivia De Havilland
7. Don Imus
8. Senator Ted Kennedy
9. Senator Robert Byrd
10. Joe Jackson (Michael Jackson’s father)
11. Bob Newhart
-—12. Robert Novak [gone—died today]-—
13. Kim Jong Ill
14. Kasey Kasem
15. Annette Funicello
16. Fidel Castro
17. Raymond Flynn
18. Jack Klugman
19. President GHW Bush-41
20. Liz Taylor
21. Ethel Skakel Kennedy
22. * Lauren Bacall (85 years old)
23. * Ernest Borgnine
24. Rev Billy Graham
25. Frank Cady (Storekeeper Sam Drucker on Green Acres)
26. Bob Dylan...Caller Hung up-Name back in Play
27. Wilford Brimley
28. Margaret Thatcher
29. * Jerry Lewis
30. Wayne Newton
31. Stephan Marberry
32. James Arness
33. Rev Al Sharpton
34. Kevin White (Former Mayor of Boston)
35. Andy Rooney
36. Keith Richards
37. * Sophia Loren
38. Harry Morgan
39. Hugh Hefner
40. Jack Welch (former GE)
41. * Dennis Hopper
42. Doris Day
43. Bob Barker
44. Aretha Franklin
45. Conrad Murray (personal physician to Michael Jackson)
-—46. Eunice Shriver [gone—died last week]-—
We need a plan to keep people from leaving the state.
I don't know who Phil Redo is (do you, RR? He seems to be a radio person), and I'm surprised the Globe printed it. I hope Howie sees it -- he had so much fun with the NH shoppers, he'd love this! ;-)
You failed to honorable mention #26, Mr. Bob Dylan who will be down for breakfast, but recently was stopped by the police "Like a complete Unknown, Like a Rolling Stone". The Death Pool caller hung up prematurely so that particular Death Pool pick did not count, sparing Mr. Dylan's life for at least until the next Death Pool.
Phil Redo used to be a bigwig (program director?) at WTKK,
the rival station that tried to hire away Howie in ‘07. He worked for their owner, Greater Media. I don’t know him personally but I know of him; thanks for link!
As the lyric in Crossroads/Cross Road blues (Robert Johnson;
later, Eric Clapton) put it: “would you spare poor Bob if you please....”
>>sparing Mr. Dylan’s life
And the crossroads, which I visted last week in Miss., is on the corner of (old) Hwy 61 and Hwy 49.
Highway 61 revisited. (It also goes up to Dylan’s home state, Minn.)
Howie Carr Show 8-18-2009 Death Pool
* = “Quick Pick” supplied to caller
1. Jerry Angiulo (former Boston Mafia Underboss)
2. Rev. Billy Graham
3. Patrick Swayze
4. Senator Ted Kennedy
5. Elizabeth Taylor
6. Tim Guetner
7. B.B. King
8. Helen Thomas
9. Florence Henderson
10. Michael Vick
11. Senator Robert Byrd
12. James Arness
13. Andy Rooney
14. James Garner
15. * Kirk Douglas
16. * Olivia de Havilland
17. Barbara Walters
18. Wilford Brimley
19. Jean Kennedy Smith (Last of the Kennedy Siblings)
20. Jack La Lane
21. Sargent Shriver
22. Vern Troyer (Mini-Me)
23. Dick Clark (American Bandstand)
24. Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC)
25. Andy Griffith
26. John Goodman
27. Howie Carr
28. John Wooden
29. Johnnie Peske (Former Red Sox)
30. Art Linkletter
31. Bob Crane (former Mass State Treasurer)
32. George Stienbrenner
33. * Peter Graves
34. Dick Cheney
35. Queen Elizabeth Windsor
36. Harry Morgan (90+)
37. Russel Johnson (Last man standing,”The Professor” on “Gilligan’s Island”)
38. Mike Wallace
39. * Jack Klugman
40. Tony Bennet
41. Robert Culp (”I Spy”)
42. Phyllis Diller
43. Furlyn Husky
44. Annette Funicello
45. Senator Chris Dodd
46. Ernest Borgnine (”Mchale’s Navy”)
47. Ryan O’Neal
48. Nancy Reagan
49. Jerry Lewis
50. Fats Domino
51. Joan Rivers
52. Ariel Sharon
53. Kevin White (Former Mayor of Boston)
54. Betty White
55. George H.W. Bush - 41
Thanks FDNYRHEROES for compiling the death pool list!
Wed column ping
Yet another speed bump in Flats’ road
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Two words that would solve this latest embarrassment to the dodgy Flaherty clan: Hurricane Bill.
With just a slight shift in its track, within 10 or so days that dump the Flaherty’s own in Plymouth could be floating out toward the Gulf Stream. In the meantime, though, it’s yet another low-grade scandal plaguing the Flahertys - and no wonder some of their neighbors in South Boston refer to the sticky-fingered hack clan as “tinkers,” as in the itinerant Irish gypsy-types, only with freckles and red hair.
This week the Ward 6 tinkers in a jam are retired Judge (and ex-state Rep.) Mike “Flats” Flaherty and his oily son, Boston City Councilor Mike “Baby Flats” Flaherty Jr., a candidate for mayor. You look at the Flaherty’s beachfront tenement and you think . . . Section 8. It looks like Baby Flats’ biggest constituency, firefighters Local 718, just used it for a week-long beer blast/fund-raiser for their candidate for mayor.
Check out all the boarded-up windows - a little bit of the old D Street projects in America’s Hometown. Where is Frankie Flame when you really need him?
Naturally, Baby Flats has got the old man taking the heat. Hey, it’s the judge’s name on the deed, plus, Flats knows how to take a hit. He got his judgeship through then-House Speaker Felon Finneran, to whom Flats contributed generously before the Felon’s conviction for obstruction of justice.
Thank you, ex-Gov. Jane Swift. Flats was approved despite a scandal about his legal work on the estate of his cousin, Jimmy Flaherty. Jimmy was a double-dipper who had jobs at both the State House and the BRA before being murdered by a gay hustler in Florida in 1994.
After his appointment to the bench, Flats was ordered to repay $60,000 to Jimmy’s estate, including $2,400 he charged (at $150 an hour) for viewing, among other things, gay-porn videos, $220 for a meal at Anthony’s Pier 4, and $1,200 for “examining the cocktail lounge where deceased was last seen alive.”
So by the standards of Southie’s First Family of Tinkers, 3 Bayberry Road is but a minor setback. And there could be an upside. Baby Flats has been whining about his campaign signs being vandalized.
Baby Flats, cover the family eyesore in Plymouth with Vote Flaherty signs. OK, it’s not the city, but I guarantee nobody’s going near that dump to rip ‘em down unless they’re wearing a hazmat suit. But of course, Hurricane Bill remains an even better option - because that way, the Flahertys end up with something they understand only too well.
A kiss in the mail.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1191950
Afternoon everybody!
head exploding............toooooo many people getting the “kiss in the mail” where do I sign up?
Special Thu column(s) ping
Deval Patrick goes off deep end yet again
By Howie Carr | Thursday, August 20, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo
Photo by Ted Fitzgerald
Hey, Deval, if you thought your recent poll numbers have been abysmal - and they have been - wait until after this latest pool-closing fiasco.
You’ll be . . . drowning.
Do you know what the governor calls a Herald plane hovering over his sparkling pool and cabana on his $1.7 million estate in Richmond on the second-hottest day of the year?
“Every rich man’s nightmare.”
The name of Deval’s Berkshires retreat, by the way, is Sweet P Farm. Now we know what the P stands for - pool.
Talk about tone deaf - firing Dan Grabauskas, not firing Jim Aloisi, the billion-plus in new taxes in a moribund economy, the idiotic comments during Gates-gate, and now this. There’s a heat wave in August, and his Department of Conservation and Recreation, larded with the flotsam of John Walsh’s Plymouth County hackerama, is shocked, shocked.
Why, the lifeguards have to go back to school . . . Why, we’ve run out of chlorine. It’s hot in August. Who knew?
All of which proves, you can take the initials MDC out of the DCR, but you can’t take the MDC out of the DCR.
In the 2006 campaign, weren’t there stories that Deval could trace his European DNA back to Ireland? Now I’m thinking France, as in Marie Antoinette. From “Let them eat cake!” to “Let them open a fire hydrant!”
This is how bad it is for Deval. This latest public-relations fiasco has accomplished the near-impossible - it’s actually made Mumbles Menino look competent. All Mumbles’ organization has been doing for these past few days is making sure that his giant re-election signs are posted over every bucket of blood and on every overgrown burned-out vacant lot in the city.
Yet somehow Mumbles is managing to keep the city pools - if not the drawbridges - open.
Deval’s from Chicago. They used to have a mayor there, Michael Bilandic. Then he forgot the snow after a big blizzard. Say goodnight, Mike. Deval himself dodged a bullet in late 2007 when his payroll patriots forgot to plow the Turnpike after an early December storm that he himself managed to flee hours before gridlock settled on I-90.
Snow is bad, but heat waves may be even worse. Back in the final days of the Kevin White administration in Boston, after all of his first-string mobbed-up ward bosses had been lugged by Bill Weld, he promoted a guy to run his organization in one of the low-number wards. It took the feds about two weeks to bring that guy down. His neighbors ratted him out, and do you know why?
Once the guy started moving up in the White organization and making real money, he built a crummy little pool in his back yard. But he never invited the neighbors’ kids to swim in it. People will forgive a lot, but not that.
Are you listening, Deval?
But it’s too late to turn this pool disaster around. It may be too late for your governorship, period. Take out a life insurance policy on Tim Cahill, Governor. And have the staties put in some anti-aircraft batteries to take out the TV choppers that’ll be reaching Berkshire County sometime about 9 this morning.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1192164
Water’s fine at Gov. Deval Patrick’s manse
...while most swimming holes closed in Mass.
By Laurel J. Sweet and Howie Carr | Thursday, August 20, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Politics
Photo
Photo by John Wilcox
While Gov. Deval Patrick has padlocked state pools from Attleboro to Agawam in the midst of a sweltering heat wave, he won’t have any trouble keeping cool in the crystal-blue, in-ground pool at his 24-room estate in the Berkshires.
The swimming pool at Patrick’s Sweet P Farm retreat is a 20-by-40-foot rectangular concrete basin whose centerpiece is a descending turquoise staircase that’s straight out of a Busby Berkeley musical.
Just 3 years old and valued by the town of Richmond at $37,900, the pool is complemented by a very cool 12-by-16-foot cabana worth $8,100 and his-and-her lounge chairs with Blue-State blue cushions for the state’s chief executive and first lady Diane Patrick.
For those times when Patrick voluntarily chooses to get himself into hot water, there’s also a spa.
The governor’s $1.7 million country manse is less than an hour’s drive from three of the 21 swimming holes he closed in recent days: John Thomas Memorial Pool in Springfield, Gerald Mason Memorial Pool in Agawam and Sara Jane Sherman Memorial Pool in Chicopee.
“I’ve never been to his place. I hear it’s beautiful,” said state Rep. Bradley H. Jones Jr. (R-North Reading), who ripped the governor for refusing to reopen pools.
“Quite frankly, it’s a lack of leadership on his part,” Jones said. “I certainly think he should try, but the administration’s attitude seems to be, ‘We’ve made our decision.’ ”
Keeping neighborhood pools afloat with weeks left to the summer “is the kind of thing you’d have thought the governor would say we’re going to move heaven and Earth to do,” said Jones, who suggested the state pool resources with staff at YMCAs and state police divers to fill empty lifeguard chairs.
Patrick spokesman Kyle Sullivan defended the pool closings, saying, “Unfortunately, we are in the midst of the biggest international fiscal crisis in decades and have been forced to make deep cuts in programs for the most vulnerable people in society, and there just is no money to expand the pool schedule.”
But Kevin Sowyrda, spokesman for GOP gubernatorial candidate Christy Mihos, 60, offered Patrick a compromise of sorts.
“Wouldn’t it be nice if he opened up his back yard pool?” Sowyrda asked. “If he wants to be as generous to sunburned constituents as he certainly was ready to be to Sen. Marian Walsh when he tried to create a job for her, he’ll not only open the pool, but he’ll serve pina coladas poolside.”
Indeed, the temperature at Sweet P yesterday reached a balmy 80 degrees while Hub area kids were sweating out another day in the wilting heat and humidity.
Unfortunately, no shout of “Everybody into the pool!” was forthcoming from Beacon Hill yesterday. Should it happen, inflate the water wings and slather on the SPF 100, but bring your own beach chair because the Herald Air Force counted only two recliners poolside at Sweet P yesterday.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1192201
I’m sure the “change the Senate succession law” discussion will rule today.
btw Race B sent this to me and asked I fw: it to Howie; will do so but will also repro here.
We would like to speak to him, we are trying to combine Southern Mass and Connecticut for the 9/11 Tea Party Express rally, if he could let us call in and announce it a few times, it would be awsome!
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The first one is an event Branford has been waiting for! Next Saturday, August 29th at 10AM in Branford in front of the Board of Education on Main Street, the Branford Tea Party Patriots will be gathered in force and Everyone is invited!
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CHESHIRE Every Monday Afternoon, from 5 PM to 6 PM, at the Cheshire Town Hall, located on Route 10.
WATERFORD Every Monday Afternoon, from 5PM to 6PM, at the intersection of Rte 1 and Clark Ave
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SOUTHINGTON Every Tuesday, 5PM till 6PM, Queen Street, Rte 10, Right in front of Starbucks/Dennys, Keep walking on the sidewalks to avoid issues
WILLIMANTIC-Every Tuesday Afternoon, from 4:30 till 6 PM, Across from the FROG BRIDGE
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TORRINGTON Every Wednesday- Torrington, 4 PM - 6 PM, at Coe Park on Route 202 & Main Street;
NORWICH - Every Wednesday, 3:30 until 6 PM, At the FRONT SIDEWALK
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PUTNAM Every Thursday, At the intersection of Rte 44 and Kennedy Drive, from Noon till 1PM for the Month of August. The time and date may change in September.
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from the Herald:
FOX25 anchor Maria Stephanos was rushed to the hospital this morning after collapsing in the Dedham newsroom.
Stephanos, the station’s chief anchor, complained of not feeling well in the studio, newsroom sources told the Inside Track. She also said she “couldn’t feel her hands” and told the newsies to call 911, we’re told.
Maria was on the floor when the EMTs arrived, sources said. She was immediately dispatched to the hospital.
We are awaiting an update from FOX25 spokesgal Maggie Hennessey-Nees.
More as the story develops . . .
update on Stephanos from the Herald
FOX25 anchor Maria Stephanos has “sprung right back to life” after being re-hydrated at a local hospital after collapsing in the station’s newsroom this morning, reports her hubby.
Dale Stephanos told the Track that Maria, who ran five miles this morning before her shift, called him from her car on the way to the Dedham studio and told him she was “disoriented, nauseous, and she felt like she was going to pass out.”
He also said she told him she “couldn’t feel her hands.”
“She couldn’t pull over because of all the construction but she finally made it to FOX, she dropped and they called 911,” said Stephanos, who got to the station and rode with his wife to a local hospital.
“They got an IV into her pretty quickly and she sprung right back to life,” said the illustrator, joking that his bride “successfully weaseled her way into a day off.”
Dale said Maria, who is being released shortly, was “feeling hungry” when he left the hospital to grab his bride’s purse from the station.
“That’s sort of the default setting for any Greek mother,” laughed Stephanos.
Thu show ping. See above about Maria Stephanos; fortunately she’s OK.
I kinda missed the Great Pool Scandal — I’m only now recoving consciousness from the heat wave (yes, Official!) of the past few days. Couldn’t Deval give at least one of those 6 figure jobs he’s been handing out to unemployed neighbors and such to at least one normal, taxpaying citizen who could advise him on normal people?
Not Hardly Guilty.
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