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Howie Carr thread week of April 13, 2008
HowieCarr.com ^ | 4/13/08 | raccoonradio

Posted on 04/13/2008 5:30:59 AM PDT by raccoonradio

Howie Carr live thread, starting off with his Sunday Boston Herald column


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To: Disturbin; All

Tune: Dominique

We’re the priests, oh we’re the priests
Who like to diddle little kids
The Cardinal* doesn’t mind
We’re molesters we are gay
He’ll just transfer us away
Out of sight and out of mind

*—”Bunnie” Law, now in a nice sinecure at the Vatican


21 posted on 04/16/2008 12:25:23 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet
Feed the remains to rodents that are used for medical experiments.

Maybe he came be of some use that way.

22 posted on 04/16/2008 1:18:12 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: raccoonradio
One comment I made about Law when he was hiding out, before escaping to the Vatican, drew umbrage from somebody.

I don't remember exactly what I said, but it was probably along the lines of what Howie is saying now.

I do remember my response used the shepherd analogy, something like "he did a great job, letting the wolves prey upon the youngest of his flock."

And speaking of his sinecure, I was absolutely appalled that they let him preside over something during the JPII funeral.

23 posted on 04/16/2008 1:24:27 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: warsaw44
The Clap Is Back?
24 posted on 04/16/2008 1:33:35 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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To: Little Bill
I hope that was a one day event. Her voice alone is enough to aggravate but throw in her dingbat opinions and her accent and I'm ready to listen to NPR.
25 posted on 04/16/2008 2:03:59 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: Calvin Locke

Good idea, if there’s a lab around there.

There are always coyotes, vultures and bugs around that need to be fed, though.


26 posted on 04/16/2008 2:05:25 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.)
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To: All
Some squash player, a white guy, told me the best players in the world come from Pakistan.

Growing up, a parish priest (also white), played squash. The diocese paid out $$$ to squash lawsuits because of him.

He never put the moves on me. I guess I wasn't his type.

27 posted on 04/16/2008 2:45:00 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Andonius_99; Andy'smom; Antique Gal; Big Guy and Rusty 99; bitt; Barset; Carolinamom; CatQuilt; ...

Thu ping


28 posted on 04/17/2008 11:54:15 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Calvin Locke

Hmmm sounds like the only thing the good father was squashing was kid’s butts.


29 posted on 04/17/2008 12:25:05 PM PDT by Cheapskate (Still backing Hunter"I refuse to be fitted with collar and chain, and given a pat on the back")
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To: Disturbin
I like both Howie &Steve Dahl.

Been listenin to Steve off and on for thirty years.

Actually, both shows have kind of a beer with your buddies at the bar feel about them.

30 posted on 04/17/2008 12:29:08 PM PDT by Cheapskate (Still backing Hunter"I refuse to be fitted with collar and chain, and given a pat on the back")
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To: Cheapskate

Linda Evans???? Must be a different from the one I’m thinking of...


31 posted on 04/17/2008 1:13:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Cheapskate

That’s what I like about Howie. He’s down to Earth, unlike some other hosts who shall remain nameless .....


32 posted on 04/17/2008 1:20:20 PM PDT by Disturbin (Liberals: buying votes with your tax dollars)
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To: Calvin Locke
Pardons? The two congressional perps from Chicago, the paedophile, name forgotten, and the Rostenkowski, the former House Ways & Means chairman.

What about the Florida vitamin scam guy? He was under indictment for running the same scam again, and Clinton pardons him for the first one?

Oh, and along the lines of pardoning terrorists, you can't forget the self-serving pardon of Patty Hearst. That was back when sucking up to people that were buying ink by the barrel made some sense.

33 posted on 04/17/2008 1:35:13 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

Yeah, one would hope anyway!


34 posted on 04/17/2008 1:58:26 PM PDT by Cheapskate (Still backing Hunter"I refuse to be fitted with collar and chain, and given a pat on the back")
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To: Cheapskate

Yeah I think Steve Dahl was the pet rock guy, right? Also
did the disco demolition night at Comiskey Park. Someone gave me a tape once (I later taped over it) of Steve the day
after the riot happened at disco demolition night; his voice
was all raspy from all the stuff going on. Think he also had
a partner named Gary Meyer.


35 posted on 04/18/2008 12:33:12 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio; Andonius_99; Andy'smom; Antique Gal; Big Guy and Rusty 99; bitt; Barset; ...

We will do this as a Friday column ping and also a Friday
show ping. Not sure but I think Howie may be on vacation
next week; someone on SaveWRKO.com had said they heard
WRKO’s Reese Hopkins say he’d be filling in for Howie
“the week of the 21st”...

Column.
Can Mumbles get up from this tumble?
By Howie Carr | Friday, April 18, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

Disability-pension fraud in the city of Boston? Round up the usual suspects!

Like Claude Rains in “Casablanca,” I am shocked, shocked. Actually, it is stunning, but only that finally some local prosecutors are showing even the slightest interest in going after the political kleptocracy that is bankrupting this state.

In Boston, you have the district attorney, the attorney general, and the U.S. attorney - or, as they are known on the street: See No, Hear No, and Speak No Evil. The U.S. attorney - Speak No Evil - finally realized he had no choice but to go after the Boston Fire Department.

First the cops with their steroids and protection rackets, now the faking jakes. Next you’ll be telling me that Mayor Mumbles Menino is taking “contributions” from city contractors.

How bad is it? You remember the old TV spot with the old lady screaming, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Imagine dozens - scores - of firefighters chanting as one:

“I’ve fallen - on the one day that I was working at a higher rank - and I can’t get up!”

This is nothing new at City Hall, of course. Mumbles Menino is in his fourth term as mayor. The last time we had a mayor in his fourth term it was Kevin White, and his political minions, at least a few of whom were ex-cons, were doing the old slip ’n’ fall in then-unprecedented numbers.

I remember one high-ranking hack from Brighton named Squawker McNeil, who claimed he had slipped on a patch of ice - inside City Hall. The joke was, knowing Squawker, he probably tripped on an ice cube. Everybody at City Hall signed off on his phony-baloney pension because, well, they didn’t want him squawking. He went to the can and then got a job at the dog track in Raynham.

Now we have a different mayor and a different “probe,” and Mumbles finds himself in an odd position.

He immediately announced yesterday he’s not a target of the grand jury - strange, because no one had suggested he was.

That’s the good news for Mumbles. The bad news is that, as we all know, many jakes moonlight as tradesmen - painters, electricians, plumbers. Mostly plumbers. Plumbers interact a lot with the city’s Inspectional Services Department, also known as the Building Department, another city agency prone to the occasional blizzard of FBI subpoenas.

Now, if you are a crooked Boston firefighter, and you are looking at the prospect not only of losing your freedom, but also your pension, do you think you might be inclined to trade up? And once the dominoes start falling inside City Hall, you never know how many will tumble.

I noticed an old byline on the story yesterday. The Boring Broadsheet brought back one of the guys who used to chase Kevin White - an old reporter reprising an old scandal, you might say. It’s the City Hall Scandal Reunion Tour ’08. Next they’ll be peddling T-shirts: “I Faked an Accident and All I Got Was This $8,000-a-month Pension.”

And Mumbles has to run for re-election next year.

But you can’t beat somebody, even Mumbles, with nobody, which is what Councilor Mike Flaherty is. How can Baby Flats run on a scandal in the hackerama - those are his peeps, after all, starting with Daddy Flats, the judge, and Sister Flats, the clerk.

If I am the U.S. attorney, this morning I am putting up a new framed photograph in the grand-jury room. It will be a picture of Jackie Bulger leaving the courthouse, on his way to Devens, stripped of his state pension. That’ll put the fear of God into these crooked firefighters.

You know what they say about hacks who’ve been stripped of their pensions? They’ve fallen, and they can’t get up.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1087962


36 posted on 04/18/2008 12:35:04 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio
He immediately announced yesterday he’s not a target of the grand jury

Hopefully, he only meant that he's not the target of this grand jury! Grand juries are like buses -- there'll be another one along in a bit! ;-)

37 posted on 04/18/2008 7:34:59 AM PDT by maryz
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To: maryz
Yup! Been funny hearing the Mumbles clips this week as he reads to 8 yr old kids (and seems to be having a tough time even with that, about a garbage truck. Needless to say, it's great to hear Mumbles read the parts like "Boy do I stink" :)

Via amazon.com, this is apparently the scholarly tome Da Mayah is reading to the kiddies.

Reviews:

4.0 out of 5 stars For Lovers of the Stink!, By J. Liberty "jimlib" (Van Nuys, CA USA)

... "I Stink" by Kate and Jim McMullan is the book for you. This is a really fun book that follows a trash truck as he makes his rounds. The artwork is really unique and the trash truck is pretty funny. You also get a chance to run down the alphabet by naming some of the yucky stuff in the trash truck. It's a unique and funky book, but kids really enjoy it. I thought the artwork was particularly unique and well done.

Defecation: The Book, March 7, 2004
By E. R. Bird "Ramseelbird" (Manhattan, NY) - The most testosterone laden picture book ever conceived and executed. You thought "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" was a tad bit too masculine for your kids? Then forgo the wonders of "I Stink". A rip roaring celebration of the joys of sanitation (THERE's a new word for your kids to learn!) this book follows the daily work of a garbage truck as it makes its daily rounds in the wee hours of the day. The book is so good natured in its exclamations you just can't help but love it either. And trust me, the kids will.

Here's how the book begins. No namby-pamby openers for this morning vehicle. "Who am I? I've got lights. Ten WIDE tires. No A.C., not me. I've got doubles: Steering wheels, gas pedals, brakes. I am totally DUAL OP". You half expect this truck to disintegrate into a series of well-chosen cuss words, it's so certain of its own glory. Acting more like an Oscar the Grouch in garbage truck form, the dirty monstrosity exhibits its own forms of belching before launching into the ABC's of its morning diet. A word of warning: don't read this book too early in the morning. You may find yourself growing nauseous (even as your kids howl for more) reading about fish heads, ugly (stained) underpants, and year-old yams. The authors aren't squeamish about defecation either. Here we can clearly see dirty diapers, kitty litter, and puppy poo (not to put too fine a point on it). The truck then explains how indispensable he (I'm only assuming it's male, but it's a pretty clear guess) is summarizing the predicament we'd be in. Without the Sanitation Department, "You're on Mount Trash-o-rama, baby". Never thought you'd ever hear a garbage truck call you "baby"? You obviously could not have predicted this book.

38 posted on 04/18/2008 9:09:26 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

LOL! I wonder if the choice had anything to do with the problems of city departments (as in Howie’s column) — seems like the sanitation guys are the only ones not under some kind of investigation . . . oh, wait — sanitation’s private now, isn’t it? ;-)


39 posted on 04/18/2008 9:26:43 AM PDT by maryz
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To: raccoonradio
There's always the other children's book, Everybody Poops.

"...elephants have great big poops...", etc.

40 posted on 04/18/2008 1:36:57 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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