Posted on 02/28/2009 9:24:02 PM PST by raccoonradio
Howie thread starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column
Howie Sunday column ping
Perv clerk an all-time star in Hackerama
By Howie Carr | Sunday, March 1, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Who got reputed perv Chelsea court clerk James Burke his $85,000-a-year hack job?
Or, as one poster on a Herald message board asked at 1:28 Friday afternoon:
“Who’s this clown related to that he’s a court officer? You don’t get that gig without connections.”
He got his answer in 12 minutes from a poster with the handle “magnumforce,” who also added his personal assessment of Burke’s intelligence: “He’s dumb as a rock.”
We can’t say for sure yet who Burke’s political sponsor was. Everybody was ducking yesterday: Burke and his lawyer, not to mention the clerk’s alleged patron, whom we’ll call Hack X.
As for the unspeakably corrupt Massachusetts court system, it’s conducting an “internal investigation.” Riiiiiight. They’re just waiting for this latest scandal to drop off the front page.
Rest assured the courts aren’t going to turn on one of their own, especially a distinguished member of the International Brotherhood of Payroll Patriots [team stats]. No ratting allowed. Omerta - silence - may be dead in the Mafia, but not in the state court system. The only difference is, the Mob is always looking for “earners.” The courts only accept “takers.”
Meanwhile, let me fill you in on the curriculum vitae of Hack X. He has the same name as a relative who happened to be a gangster who was shot to death in Charlestown. His father, another hack, was indicted for arranging welfare benefits for the family of another Townie hoodlum. But Hack X’s dear old dad beat the rap after hiring as his attorney the brother of a serial-killing cocaine dealer from South Boston.
Mrs. Hack X eventually landed a $100,000-a-year state job, having been hired by the lawyer of Hack X’s dad. Meanwhile, Hack X himself was recently rebuffed in his attempt to reinsert his snout into the public trough, which would have boosted his pension more than somewhat.
Say what you will about Clerk Burke. He reminds us that in Massachusetts, the court system isn’t about “justice,” it’s about “just us.” It’s a multigenerational conspiracy by connected layabouts to avoid ever having to work for a living.
Burke was lugged one day after the latest miscarriage of justice in a state courtroom. Did you see what happened to the ex-police chief of Stoughton, who was convicted last month of being an accessory to attempted extortion?
The judge threw the book at him - a comic book. The chief got a suspended sentence after four years of “administrative leave,” which means, full pay. A four-year paid vacation. That’ll show the chief, by God.
The chief also lost his pension - at least until he can get his appeal into a state court, which I predict won’t take long.
This ethical cirrhosis that so infects the state courts has spread into the local federal courts. Exhibit A: Felon Finneran, the corrupt ex-House speaker, guilty of obstruction of justice - another suspended sentence for a major felony. Like I said, there’s a lot of that going around.
Now Felon Finneran will soon be trying to get his law license back. Anyone want to bet on whether he gets it?
Meanwhile, Clerk Burke must look for a new job. In the hackerama.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1155374
Another thing Mitt Romney, Master of the Universe, Hero of the Utah Hack Olympics wouldn’t touch, corrupt judges. He had the personal power to reward good GOP and Democrats, and took a pass. Too rubber meets the road, too much ‘getting in there, rolling up sleeves’, or whatever palaver he’s always preaching, but doing nothing, about.
and this
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
and then this.....
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
How does one account for a grade school political failure, or in this case, abrogation of power and responsibilities with effects that go for decades?
What, two stop light town executive gives up constitutional power to the opposition
Was Mitt...
Stupid?
Lazy.
Careless.
Politically comfortable with liberal/leftist/gay Democrats continued disproportional percentage of Massachusetts Judgeships? You know, kind of like working, real hard, to deliver the last areas of private medical care into the hands of socialist experimenters, hack Democrat Mafia and money grubbing merchantilists rent seeking businessmen.
I don’t think there is a bigger, backstabbing liberal snake in the conservative grass than Mitt.
I am in for a listen until Steve, the Canadian Layabout drives me away
Wed column ping
So long White House gig! My taxes are in order
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
It’s official - I will not be getting a high-level appointment in the Barack Obama administration.
OK, so it was always a longshot, but now it’s a certainty. I just got the news in a letter from the federal government - not from the White House, but from the Internal Revenue Service.
“I have completed the examination of your tax return for the year(s) shown above (2007),” it began. “I am pleased to inform you I’m proposing no change to your tax return.”
In other words, I am not a tax cheat, and I’ve got it in writing.
I wasn’t going to mention this until Tim Geithner, the tax-evading Treasury Secretary, came out yesterday for “tax fairness” - that is, higher taxes. The fact that he said it in front of Rep. Charlie Rangel, another confessed tax cheat, made his breath-taking hypocrisy even more aggravating.
Geithner, you may recall, didn’t pay withholding taxes for years and years, even though he signed affidavits saying he had. Even worse, he illegally took a tax write-off for his kid’s overnight-summer camp. The Geithner doctrine: tax “fairness” for you and me, tax cheating for the Beautiful People.
The fact is, Barack missed his true calling. He should have been an IRS fraud investigator. How many tax cheats has he outed now? But I guess it’s easier to hook ’em when you’re only fishing in a pool of filthy-rich liberal Ivy League Democrats. Do as they say, not as they do.
I know, Geithner made an “honest mistake.” That’s what his flacks said. For Tom Daschle it was a “simple oversight.” This week’s alibi is, “He thought the arrangement was proper.”
That came from the former mayor of Dallas, Ron Kirk, who has been nominated for U.S. trade representative. Among other grifts, he got caught trying to take a $3,000 deduction for a used TV set.
Three grand! I remember when I went to work for a TV station and bought my first color set. I called my accountant and asked him, “How much can I write off?”
“How much time do you want to do?” he replied.
But then, I don’t have a trust fund. I didn’t go to Harvard. The reason these big-shot Democrats don’t care about taxes is because they dont pay em, unless and until Barack gives them big new jobs.
It’s such fun to be audited. I had to pay the bank for records. I then had to pay to send them to my accountant, whom I also had to pay. And as I drove around, I got to hear Barack and all his tax cheats on the radio lecturing me about my “responsibility.” But now I’ve been cleared . . . by Tim Geithner’s IRS.
I miss the Clintons. Remember their writeoffs for used underwear and moldy shower curtains? Sure, it was unseemly, but nobody said they didn’t actually “donate” the stuff, and they were only taking crummy $3 writeoffs.
Now I’m watching Geithner on TV again. He’s telling Charlie Rangel he wants to get Americans back to work. I presume he means under the table.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1156060
A bit of talk radio news for those up in Portland acc. to a post on boston radio interest mailing list:
“Radio for men” that was on WZAN 970 (which also reaches the north shore of Boston a bit) moves to 1400 & 1490. The nostalgia format that had been on those stations will be gone. WZAN 970 will pick up: Imus, Laura Ingraham, Joe Scarborough, Hannity, Michael Savage, and Lars Larson.
Phil Hendrie, too.
http://www.mainestalkradio.com/Schedule/3931605
(And:
“WHAT HAPPENED TO “RADIO FOR MEN”????If you’re a fan of Bob and Tom, Mike O’Meara,Lex and Terry, Adam Carolla, Loveline and more...relax. All of those shows will be on 1400 and 1490, The Home of Bob and Tom In The Morning, in just a couple of days. We know there are a LOT of fans of these shows and they aren’t going anywhere...you can still hear them in Portland on 1490 AM and in York County on 1400 AM.”)
1310 WLOB will have Mike Gallagher, Neil Boortz, Lou Dobbs, and John Gibson.
WGAN 560 may have some changes but as far as I know keeps Howie. (acc to the WGAN site: Morning News, Glenn Beck,
Rush, Howie, Mark Levin, etc.)
Howie will love this:
another Rapper trying to turn his life around.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199013/posts
‘’He’s a rapper, but he’s not a bad boy the way they say,’’ she said. Her son didn’t carry a weapon, she said.
Family members told Miami Herald news partner WFOR-CBS 4 that Levy was an aspiring rap artist who went by the name ‘’Dollar Bill’’ AND THAT HE WAS TRYING TO TURN HIS LIFE AROUND. They told CBS 4 that Levy was at home doing a recording session and that police did not have to use deadly force.
Levy had previous arrests in Miami-Dade, including a 2000 conviction for fleeing and eluding and aggravated assault on a police officer or firefighter.
Thu show ping. Article in Globe today says Treasurer Tim
Cahill may run for governor, prob as a Dem (he’d have to
go after Patrick from the right, though, and MA is a liberal
state they say) though he could also run as an independent—
which could take anti-Patrick votes away from a “strong”
Republican nominee. Which could well mean four more years
of Together We Con, as it would split the vote...Article
also says Patrick has high approval ratings. Even after
all this budget/tax/toll nonsense? Moooooooooooonbats.
>>Cahill will complete a serious assessment by Labor Day to decide what political route he will follow, first looking at his chances of wresting the nomination from Patrick as a conservative Democrat in a primary typically dominated by liberal voters. The other choice, said some of those advisers, is for Cahill to position himself as a fiscal conservative and run as an independent in the general election, skipping any primary campaign.
((snip))
Still, Cahill faces significant obstacles if he decides to run as an independent or Democrat. The state electorate has shown a general skepticism of third-party candidates; just once in the last century has a third party or independent candidate come in higher than third place in a gubernatorial race. And if a strong Republican candidate surfaces, Cahill could split any anti-Patrick vote.
>>In a Democratic primary, Cahill would probably run at Patrick from the right, a difficult prospect electorally. In addition, Patrick controls the state party apparatus and would be able to use it to try to prevent Cahill from getting the 15 percent of the convention delegate voters necessary to appear on the September 2010 primary ballot. Just the battle for the ballot qualification could exhaust much of Cahill’s war chest.
I had read an article on a Bloomberg Terminal back in November/December 2008 that discussed shifting demographics in the different regions of the USA.
For the southern New England states, it boiled down to a trigger point of higher taxes, and less job opportunities.
If those two events occurred to middle class, non-goverment dependent, workers (taxpayer's), they were more apt to just leave their state.
I wish I had a copy of it
will you send this thread to your Howie ping list?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200266/posts
OK just did!
HC list Fri Column ping
What’s Barack Obama’s Rush to make new enemies?
By Howie Carr | Friday, March 6, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Barack Obama’s administration has uncovered a new Public Enemy No. 1.
Forget Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Obama and the pampered poodles on his staff are going after the real Mr. Big - Rush Limbaugh and his Excellence in Broadcasting network.
Does something seem a little . . . off, shall we say, about the moonbats’ newly rediscovered obsession with El Rushbo? From the War on Terror to the War on Talk Radio.
Obama’s been in office less than two months and he’s already got an enemies’ list. Whatever happened to the old saying, “Every knock a boost”? James Michael Curley used to say, “Never complain, never explain.”
What he meant was, anytime you respond to somebody, you elevate him to your level. Hell, no smart public figure ever admits he has a problem, even if he’s ambushed leaving the courthouse by camera crews demanding answers.
Remember last fall, when indicted Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner stumbled out of his house in Roxbury at dawn with his zipper down? Hardly anyone even knew about Chuck’s sartorial faux pas until he launched into a diatribe on live TV against Ch. 25 for mentioning it.
What happened? Within five minutes, everyone listening to his speech had clicked onto Ch. 25’s Web site to check out the hilarious video for themselves. Within 10 minutes, Councilor Turner had a new nickname - Superfly.
These limousine liberals have revitalized Rush. Suddenly he’s back to where he was in 1995, back when he had a TV show and best-selling books. I couldn’t be more pleased, because I have a vested interest in Rush Limbaugh’s success: He’s my lead-in. If Obama’s jihad means a lot of new listeners are “sampling” him (and it does), at least some of them may stick around at 3:06 when I come on.
Until two weeks ago, Rush was still on top, but he wasn’t as on top as he used to be, if you know what I mean. Too many afternoons he’d end up babbling about his private jet, or meander on and on about the Pittsburgh Steelers or George Brett.
No wonder Rush’s favorability rating among those under 40 had slid to 11 percent. Everything about him screamed “RICH OLD FART.” He still had his 600 stations, but he was slowly fading into a $30-million-a-year irrelevance.
Now he’s back. He’s No. 1 on the new White House Enemies List.
How long did it take Nixon to come up with his enemies’ list? At least three or four years. This Barack guy, he moves fast.
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