Hint: The ball went through his legs...
Dewey Evans caught it.
Posted on 04/06/2008 5:34:27 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Hint: The ball went through his legs...
Dewey Evans caught it.
Q: “What do Bill Buckner and Michael Jackson have in common?”
A: “They each wear just one glove for no apparent reason.”
Ah! I remember that one!
Wed column ping
Marzilli facing reps’ usual rap
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Sen. Jim Marzilli must not have attended the orientation classes for new members of the Senate.
The rule is, House members are the ones who are supposed to be accused of assaulting women.
Senators generally get lugged for something a little more white-collar, like attempted extortion.
But now look what’s happened. Jim Marzilli, a moonbat’s moonbat, has been accused of indecent assault and battery on an acquaintance he accompanied to “a local arts event” on Saturday night.
Ah, the old “local arts event” . . . how Arlington is it? And he probably still wonders why he got crushed in Billerica when he was elected to the Senate last winter.
It could have been worse, though - Marzilli could have been charged with impersonating a Kennedy. And speaking of Kennedys, Senator, when you’re accused of this sort of thing, do you really want to have a lawyer named Kennedy speaking for you?
Marzilli has been reeling for a while this year. He got a real jolt in that special Senate election when he had to campaign in places like Billerica and Burlington - you know, places where people don’t have trust funds, and actually have to work for a living. North of 128, he found himself in an unknown land, terra incognita if you will. It’s called America.
Then, another shock to Marzilli’s fragile system. Hillary Clinton narrowly carried Arlington on Super Tuesday over Barack. Talk about a stunner - Arlington is mostly moonbats whose trust funds didn’t allow them to buy the traditional $1.6 million single-family in Cambridge. But nowadays even moonbats are in total consternation over the property tax rates in Arlington, and the fact that Town Hall does not offer abatements to Beautiful People who have “Darfur - Not on Our Watch” signs in their front yards.
And now Marzilli, with his squirrelly little goatee, gets tagged with the sort of rap usually associated with solons from Waltham or Worcester. On Mass. Ave., as fat women with no makeup knit and their men braid unwashed gray hair, the moonbats are whispering that they always suspected something was a little off with Marzilli, but they couldn’t quite put their finger on it.
Now they know what the problem is. He’s a heterosexual.
Say what you will about moonbats, they’re not usually accused of sexual assault. The prescription meds have dampened their libidos. The sex drive is replaced by the blogging drive.
Did you get a bad ice cube, Senator? Lawyer Kennedy says his client will be acquitted, and maybe he will be. Convicted drunk-driving cross-dressing Judge Robert Somma doesn’t see any reason why the fact that he rear-ended a truck on the main drag of the Queen City - Manchester, N.H. - should cost him his $158,000-a-year-for-life job.
Naturally, Marzilli won’t resign. They never do. They have no shame. One of his big issues is “global climate change.” I’m guessing he’s undergoing some very big climate change around his home, mostly cooling. He’s married to Susan Shaer, not just another pretty face as they say. She’s cooking every night for him, I’m sure - hot tongue and cold shoulder.
This beef should really put him in tight with that 30 percent of the Senate that is female. But maybe they’ll understand that Marzilli just spent too much time in the House of Representatives - 17 years. All those years with no opposition - DiMasi’s three-watt bulbs tend to get sloppy.
But even the dolts in the Legislature take some precautions. Usually, House members try to restrict their tomcattin’ to the State House. It’s like Vegas - what happens on Beacon Hill stays on Beacon Hill. You can touch everything but the third rail in Boston, but when you go home to “the district,” you keep your nose clean. It’s OK to put your State House girlfriend on the payroll, as long as it’s somebody else’s payroll. Then you hire the girlfriend of the guy who hired your galpal.
Sometimes mistakes are made, as Bill Clinton would say. One chairman ended up in the jail where his wife worked. One high-ranking member of leadership still lists his address as a post-office box, just because his favorite country song became “Livin’ Here, Lovin’ There, Lyin’ In Between.”
Try not to let this destroy your faith in the integrity of the Massachusetts state Senate.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1085951
BUMP another Howie masterpiece.
The Felon will resume lobbying....
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1085957
Howie’s taskmasters will”monitor the situation”
Hopefully he’ll step over the line and get fired; it could
only improve their ratings
radio-info.com says Mitt Romney fills in for Paul Harvey tomorrow (show is prob not on in Boston; WTTT had it but they went Spanish)
At least they got Mitt “His Hair Was Perfect” Romney to
fill in. Imagine the other former MA governors they could have had:
—Mike Dukakis, national model...good jobs at good wages...
zzzzzzzzzzzzz
—Paul “You Talkin’ To Me?” Cellucci (Still disappointed
his man Rudy fell short)
—Jane “I’m in a Firing Mood” Swift
—William “Pink” Floyd Weld (dove into Charles River
fully clothed to show how clean it was; author of
such spellbinders as “Mackerel By Moonlight” and
“The Big Ugly”)
Afternoon Everbody!
Wed ping
Last half hour on WRKO pre-empted by Celtics ( Red Sox on WEEI)
Howie was all over the lobbying thing during the first few minutes of the show, funny stuff!
Why have a hamster? To have a pointed story about giving mouth-to-mouth to a rodent to assuage traumatized offspring, of course.
Finneran, Reese, and Russshhhhhhhhhh aren’t doing well for RKO. The shows place 25th and 26th
while WTKK came in 9th with Imus and 8th with Graham and Eagan and Braude
Some wondered if Finneran’s ratings would suffer if he had Howie on WTKK opposite him. But he’s actually being beaten by a whole bunch of other stations (including the man Howie calls “the corpse in a cowboy hat”)
even with Howie safely in the afternoon WRKO lineup rather than at WTKK (no word from Herald on
what HC’s ratings were)
If WRKO were a station running all syndie in those time slots (say, Air America, Jones, or Salem shows)
those numbers would probably lead to a change of hosts, maybe even a format change.
Instead RKO gets them with six hours of local and three of the #1 talk host nationwide. What gives,
Entercom?
Thu show ping and a special Thu column for Howie.
Mayor’s fee plan needs a good kick to the curb
By Howie Carr | Thursday, April 10, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Hey, Mumbles Menino, you want to raise some revenue, forget about soaking the motorists again.
Instead, do what everybody else in the state has to do when they run out of money - run a Proposition 2 1/2 override election. Let’s see how you do then. Ask the taxpayers to cough up some more dough on their property taxes to keep the Mumbles clan in the chips and see what the answer is.
Let’s run the numbers from the new, improved, everything-included city payroll now online at bostonherald.com. First we have Mumbles Menino, mayor, $175,000 a year.
Next comes Thomas M. Menino Jr., Boston police detective, total pay, with base salary, overtime, police details and Quinn bill benefits for education: $137,529.14.
Next comes Mrs. Thomas M. Menino Jr., a/k/a Lisa, administrative assistant, Property Management: $102,050.22, including $29,140.03 in overtime.
At City Hall, they call this cornucopia of six-figure Mumbles salaries “basic city services.” The rest of us, who are picking up the tab, call it the hackerama.
Hey Mumbles, I know it’s been a while since you drove yourself into the city, so let me be the one to give you the bad news. The reason people park in crosswalks or fire lanes or wherever is because there aren’t any more open parking spaces downtown.
Every one is reserved - for the judges, for the “court personnel,” for the BPD, for the MBTA police, for the - well, you get the picture. And my favorite proposed new fine - $35 for parking more than one foot from the curb.
The first snowstorm usually hits in mid-December. The city’s snow plowing is, like most other city services, substandard. The piles don’t go away for months. And now, the meter maids falling behind in filling the ticket quotas that City Hall says don’t exist will always be able to write a ticket for “more than 1 foot from curb.”
How much do you want to bet that the rulers they use to measure the distance will be 10 inches or less, just like the 2-hour city parking meters that start flashing “EXPIRED” after 90 minutes.
Naturally the fines are only going up downtown, because Mumbles figures the only people down there are suburbanites, tourists and rich Yuppies who are just drifting through.
The excuse at City Hall is that these downtown parking fines haven’t been raised in 17 years. That’s true, but you can say the same thing about the cost of parking at the South Shore Plaza.
Cost to park in Braintree (or at any mall) in 1991: zero.
Cost to park in same in 2008: zero.
Somehow, the malls have been able to hold the line. But then, I doubt they have many “administrative assistants” making $102,000 a year.
Another City Hall rationalization: Everybody should take the T. To which I reply: You take the T, if you like it so much. They don’t call certain lines “the Vomit Comet” for nothing.
A gallon of gas now costs over three bucks. The state gas tax is probably going up. The tolls were just hiked 25 percent, and will soon be going up again.
Mumbles, have pity on the working man.
Here’s a suggestion: Hit the colleges on their in-lieu-of-taxes payments. Harvard owns Allston, lock, stock and tollbooth. Boston College has acquired most of Lake Street.
Jack up the money the colleges pay for “basic city services.” Make them foot the skyrocketing cost of keeping the Menino family, as well as so many others, in the chips.
I don’t care if the snotty Euro-creep college boys double-parking on Newbury Street get hit harder. Just don’t hit me again.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1086158
Thanks for the ping!
I love reading Howie’s columns.
I only bring it up because Howie/Sandy once said something about Tony Shalloub's wife (name escapes, but she was in one of the many crappy Stephen King movies, iirc. And about 50lbs lighter, too) getting appendicitis immediately after being on Howie's show.
Fri column ping. btw is Howie taking another week off?
Someone on SaveWRKO.com said they heard Reese Hopkins say he’s in for Howie “the week of the 21st”...
Retired Bulger boy grabs onto second state job
By Howie Carr | Friday, April 11, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Another nationwide search, another Bulger added to the state payroll.
And not just any Bulger, either, you understand. This new Bulger on the state payroll, Patrick, has already maxed out his MBTA pension, so now it’s time to start working on a new one. At the still-tender age of 43.
It’s a beautiful thing, the hackerama that is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. You get on the T in July 1984, at age 20, when your father is president of the Senate and your uncle is the biggest gangster in the state, and you get to retire as a $72,675-a-year construction inspector last Dec. 1, with those 23 years you needed to max out your T pension.
State budget crisis? What state budget crisis? Not for anybody named Bulger, anyway.
This all happened so fast that, as of yesterday, we had Patrick listed twice on the Herald payroll Web site, once for his old T job and once for his brand-new probation slot.
For the record, Pat Bulger is now collecting around 60 percent of his T salary, or just over $40,000 a year. Plus his new state job as assistant court services coordinator pays $40,447 a year. Add it all up, and the Corrupt Midget’s kid is raking in more than 80 large a year.
Of course, Pat doesn’t make nearly as much as his little brother Chris Bulger at his job at the Probation Office, but then Chris is deputy legal counsel, for $102,947 a year.
I found out about this latest nationwide search in a snail-mail missive from a concerned citizen.
“Howie,” it began, “looks like your (sic) slipping. I can’t believe you missed another Bulger getting on the state payroll.”
“Signed, Howie your (sic) losing your step.”
Hey, pal, how do you think I get my information? By putting on a turban and a cape, turning off the lights and sitting in front of a crystal ball, watching hacks’ names float up to the surface through the ether? You dropped a dime, it’s in the paper this morning, OK? Just get me the ball and I’ll run with it.
As long as we’re talking about Bulgers and pensions, let’s run down the list, with the latest up-to-date numbers for the whole clan. First, as always, is Pat’s dad, Billy - the King of the Kiss in the Mail.
Annual gross state pension, and it’s very gross: $197,305.92. Monthly: $16,457.16.
Then there’s his serial-killing older brother, Whitey, who “won” one-sixth of a huge Lottery game in 1991. On July 26, Whitey’s annual check will be issued: $119,408. Sadly for the Bulgers, that Lottery loot now goes directly to the feds. What was once Whitey’s check is now made out to “U.S. Marshals Service Re: James Bulger.”
Another Bulger-family tragedy: The third brother, Jackie, has also been stripped of his state pension, which was over $4,000 a month, on account of his federal felony conviction. Jackie is appealing to get his kiss back on Eighth Amendment grounds - that it’s cruel and unusual punishment to deny any Bulger any opportunity to insert his snout into the public trough.
Jackie’s ex is a former court-system employee, and she now collects a pension of $26,577. Jackie’s son Mark is on the MBTA for $55,764, and his son-in-law Bob Zodda is likewise a T employee for $55,224. Beth Bulger Zodda works for the Senate (go figure) for $56,779. Her aunt Jean Holland is retired from a Senate job and collects $22,189. Billy has a son-in-law named Michael Hurley (perhaps you remember his name from his father-in-law’s latest photo finish with a grand jury) who is also employed by the state Senate, for $89,142.
Another sister: Carol McCarthy, who came to the trough late, but still partakes of the traditional kiss in the mail: $1,809.17 a month for her distinguished service at the state archives and then the MDC.
In-laws are also invited to come on down, and not just at the T and in the East Cambridge courthouse. Say hi-how-wah-ya to Billy’s brother-in-law William McKeon, former bigshot in the state Environmental Police, aka the Fish Police. He’s retired with a monthly state pension of $5,291.94. Not bad, except by Bulger standards. I wonder if he can get another job somewhere else to supplant his kiss. Do you suppose the Coast Guard is hiring?
I’m sure I missed a few, but feel free to drop a dime. I need your help. The name is Carr, after all, not Carnac.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1086385
Do you suppose New Hampshire is bribing them to do this? Surely, they wouldn't prop up NH's economy for free, at the expense of MA . . . they'd have to be really stupid . . . oh, wait -- this is the MA legislature we're talking about. Never mind!
It struck me this a.m. that even more MA-ites will be driving up! And the thing is that, when you go to NH for cigarettes, you can't help noticing how much lower prices in general are, not to mention no sales tax and no bottle bill, and . . . well, you get the picture. MA recession/depression, here we come!
They have a new commercial on how business-friendly MA is -- there really is one born every minute, I guess!
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