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Gone to the dogs: Mass. voters approve racing ban
BOSTON - Massachusetts voters have approved a ban on greyhound racing.
The measure will force the state’s two greyhound race tracks to close their doors by Jan. 1, 2010.
Supporters argued greyhound racing is inhumane and that greyhounds are routinely injured during races, including broken legs, paralysis and even death from cardiac arrest.
The state’s dog tracks say the greyhounds are well cared for and looked after by veterinarians. They also pointed to their efforts to ensure greyhounds are adopted once their racing days are over.
The track owners say eliminating the tracks will take a financial toll on the state. They said up to 1,000 workers will lose their jobs.
A similar question narrowly lost eight years ago.
We’re f-—ed.
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It’s a moonbat nation - but I’m no citizen
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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I’ve gotten used to living in a moonbat state, I’m just not sure how well I’m going to adjust to living in a moonbat nation.
Here’s how bad this election was. The night before every election, in the final hour of my radio show, I always give any candidate who calls in one minute to make a final pitch to the voters.
Monday night, I had 29 candidates call in, from two states, from U.S. Senate to county commissioner. Yesterday at least 27 of them lost, maybe more, and I’m only sure about one guy who won - Sen. Scott Brown.
Last night for Republicans was like 1994 or 1980 for Democrats. They were standing on the shore when a tidal wave hit. The only Republican congressional candidate I saw who ousted a Democrat incumbent was down in Florida. That guy - one of the Rooneys of Pittsburgh Steelers fame - was lucky enough to be running against a one-term incumbent who’d just been outed for paying off a female campaign worker $121,000 for sexual harassment.
The Republicans couldn’t even take out John Murtha in Pennsylvania after he called his own constituents racists and rednecks.
For once I agree with the moonbats who will shortly run the nation: It’s all Bush’s fault. Maybe it would have been better if Kerry had knocked him off in - no, I won’t go that far, not even now.
Not to sound too much like a 12-step program, but sometimes in life you do have to hit bottom. The Republicans reached their nadir last night.
But let’s look on the bright side. Question 2 passed. Marijuana possession has been decriminalized, officially, as opposed to unofficially, which happened here around 1970.
Everybody must get stoned.
I can’t believe Question 1 to abolish the state income tax lost by more than 2-1. This now gives everyone at the State House who’s not going to Washington carte blanche to raise taxes. You know what the hacks will say: “The people of Massachusetts are too smart not to know that they need higher taxes for the children.”
All I’m left with is an ancient Mr. Dooley column that sums up the devastation when one party gets wiped out. Here’s what he said, with the dialect removed:
“Something will turn up, you bet. When the lads that are baskin’ in the sunshine of prosperity find that the sunshine has been turned off an’ their fellow-baskers has relieved them of what they had in the dark, we’ll take the boys by the hand and say, ‘Come on over with your own kind. Now that you’re down we’ll not turn a cold shoulder to you. Come in and we’ll keep ye - broke.’ ”
Until then, it’s a moonbat nation.
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