Posted on 06/27/2009 4:56:32 PM PDT by raccoonradio
OK a little early but at least I'll get it started. Hope to post Howie's Sun column later tonight. After that it's mostly GQuagmire (thanks!) doing the pings for the next 2 weeks
Will post Howie’s column in a few hours when it goes online (prov. wifi link at motel where I am is OK)
Raccoon, if I’m lurking in the early AM, I’ll be happy to post!
Howie Carr Article: June 28, 2009
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1181666
THANKS ! well here it is anyway
Hack stiffed on ki$$ is cause to re-Joyce
By Howie Carr | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
How can we miss these hacks when they won’t go away?
Take Franny Joyce. Please. Six years after the former tin whistle player in Billy Bulger’s band started collecting his $6,552-a-month state kiss in the mail, he’s still scheming to collect even more.
Francis Xavier Joyce, age 66, forgotten but not gone.
He’s just been slapped down again, this time by the state Contributory Retirement Appeal Board. He was trying to get severance pay added to his last three years of base pay at the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA). If he’d won, his kiss would have gone up to around $10,000 a month, even as the state is going broke.
A call was placed to Franny in South Boston.
“I have no comment,” he said.
Well, are you going to appeal this latest setback?
“That’s it.” Click. Too bad - my next question was going to be whether he was available to play tin whistle at my Fourth of July party next week.
In addition to his musical career with Billy Bulger, Franny was a helluva mailman in his day. Who better to run the new MCCA back in 1982? It was a “lifetime” job, at $75,000 a year, a huge amount in those days, but the darnedest thing happened - nobody applied except Franny. And after a nationwide search, too.
Soon the daughter of Whitey Bulger’s girlfriend was on the MCCA payroll. Another nationwide search.
By 2002, Franny was making $126,518, but his “lifetime” guarantee was running out. His patron, Billy Bulger, was teetering himself, and the MCCA board wanted Joyce gone. But which member could reach out to the surly Bulgerite? The choice was obvious - Jimmy “Bunzo” Byrne, the longtime Boston city councilor. He could speak to Franny in his native tongue - hackese.
See, Bunzo was a law partner with the crooked ex-House speaker Felon Finneran, and they have a lobbying firm now, although since his obstruction-of-justice conviction Finneran has been stripped of both his ticket and his state pension. Bunzo has also been known to max out to the Felon’s successor as speaker, the now-indicted Sal DiMasi.
I tell you, covering the hackerama is like a card game. You never know exactly which card you’re going to turn face-up next, but one thing’s for sure: You’ve seen every last one of them before, game after game after game.
According to the Appeal Board decision issued June 12, in December 2002 Bunzo sidled up to Franny and asked what it would take to make him do an early Dixie off the Hynes.
“Joyce answered that he ‘wouldn’t even consider . . . that topic until (the board reached a conclusion concerning an adjustment to his salary).”
An adjustment - that’s the spirit, Franny! Leave nothing on the table - not even a nickel. The Corrupt Midget must have been proud of his boyo.
The taxpayers finally cut Franny a check for $51,855.04, and Franny retired in February 2003. He was succeeded at the MCCA by a guy named Rooney who was already collecting his own $60,000 pension from the MBTA.
Now Franny will have to continue scraping by on a measly annual pension of $78,218. I figure he can keep appealing for an upgrade for at least another 20 years. Think of the retro dough when he finally wins.
In the meantime, Franny, I’m still looking for a good tin whistle player.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1181666
Elderly driver hits pedestrian in Melrose
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO117564/
>>Police say that a man was seriously injured when he was struck by a car driven by an 86-year-old woman.
Death pool anyone?
Tom FelonMan wants to court to give him back his law license,
asking for forgiveness. [Off to the Steel City for my cartoon convention in a few hours!]
Tuesday HC ping.
I didn’t hear most of Howie’s show yesterday. When is the next death pool? The celebrity herd has been culled the last week or so, who’s next?
GQ, Here is last Friday’s Pool. Please excuse all spelling errors...ain’t worth worrying about anyhow....
Howie Carr Show Death Pool 6-26-2009
* = “Quick Pick” supplied to caller
1 LizTaylor
2 Patrick Swayze
3 Professor Irwin Corey
4 Walter Cronkite
5 * Lauren Bacall
6 Sen Robert Byrd
7 Eunice Shriver
8 Mickey Dolenz
9 Kirk Douglas
10 Ted Kennedy
11 Nancy Reagan
12 Fidel Castro
13 Bob Dole
14 Elton John
15 Ryan O’Neal
16 Achmenedinjad
17 James Arness
18 Robert Novak
19 Roger Mudd
20 Andy Rooney
21 Johnnie Peske
22 Susan Atkins from the Manson Gang
23 Delores Hope (100 years old)
24 John Forsythe
25 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
26 Sean Connery
27 Ozzie Osbourne
28 Amy Winehouse
29 Peter Graves
30 Don Imus
31 William Shatner
32 Kim Jong Ill
33 * Jack Klugman
34 Dan Rooney - Pittsburg Steelers
35 Steven Hawkings
36 Leonard Nimoy
37 Les Paul (93 yrs old)
38 >>>>Already Dead - Joey Bishop
39 F. Lee Bailey
40 Willie Nelson
41 Bob Barker
42 Dick Clark
43 Barney Frank
44 Mitch Miller (98)
45 John Wooden
46 Kieth Richards
47 Frank Buckles (last vet WW1 107)
48 Mousavi
49 Art Linkletter
50 OJ Simpson
51 Jerry Lewis
52 Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.
53 * Olivia DeHaviland
54 Harry Morgan
55 Jerry Remmy (Red Sox)
56 Courtney Love
57 Linsay Lohan
58 Margaret Thatcher
59 Mickey Rooney
60 Anita Bryant
61 Carmen Basilio
I didn’t listen last week from Wed. on.(Golf trip) He did one the same day FF shed her mortal coil?
Howie had it last Friday. I tried for an hour to get thru, no luck though.
FF and jacko both died on Thu and the death pool on Fri was actually for Ed McMahon I think
That day, Howie filled in for Dennis Miller and I recorded it and heard back the last hour of THAT via mp3 while waiting in Phil. for weather “out west” to clear so I could then fly on to Pitt. And I heard Howie say “breaking news just in, Farrah Fawcett has died” The Jacko news came after 5 that day
—raccoonradio live from just outside Pittsburgh...just went briefly into nearby Raccoon Creek State Park. I had to based on the name! nice
thanks for doing ping list of course!I have sightseeing in Pittsburgh (the late Billy Mays was born in nearby McKee’s Rocks) and my furry cartoon convention the next few days. While I could conceivably hear the show via netbook I will be too busy while it’s on but who knows, could go to their podcasts and hear it!
Howie needs an affiliate in the Steel City!
heard karl malden passed, not on death pool i think
Soggy Thursday Howie Carr Ping
Thursday, Jul 02PDT
1st Hour
2nd Hour
MIT climatologist Richard Lindzen says Bah Humbug to global warming and is a signatory along with several other notable scientists to a statement recently sent to Congress which says “The sky is not falling.” Far from warming, “the Earth has been cooling for 10 years’’ - a trend that “was not predicted by the alarmists’ computer models.’’ Prof Lindzen will be joining us to talk about the lovely weather we have been having.
3rd Hour
CHUMP LINE!!! Call 617-779-3469 and leave a message for Howie or Sandy that may be played back on the air
4th hour
Here in Pittsburgh we have had rain off and on but I think it’s done. It’s still not as warm as it should be. (Am having fun at cartoon convention. Joe “Underdog” Harris will speak. I saw Pirates lose to Cubs the other night. Went to Carnegie Natural History Museum today
Howie Carr Article, Friday, July 2, 2009
Your name is Deval Patrick, and you are a taxaholic.
On Monday, a reporter asked you a question about raising the gasoline tax, and you blurted out, maybe we’ll have to.
On Tuesday, you signed into law both a 25 percent increase in the sales tax and a new 6.25 percent sales tax on alcohol, which already has an excise tax on it.
On Wednesday, you floated a trial balloon about increasing the state income tax, saying that some high-income taxpayers would be willing to contribute more.
You’re Deval Patrick, and you’re way too busy to check out the latest DOR statistics on how many of those wonderful affluent moonbats were willing this year to pay income tax at the voluntary higher 5.85 percent rate - 1,500 out of 3.1 million filers, which is one-twentieth of 1 percent.
You’re a taxaholic, and if Step 5 of the program is admitting the exact nature of our wrongs, then is it too late for you to apologize to all the homeowners in Massachusetts who’ve been waiting since 2006 for the property tax relief you promised them?
You’re Deval Patrick, and has anyone seen Doug Rubin? Because you’d like to ask him why in the latest polls you have fallen behind both Tim Cahill and Christy Mihos.
Tim Cahill, who lost $15 billion in pension funds in the economic meltdown, and Christy Mihos, who said in 2006 that he’d vote for you if he weren’t running - where the hell did Doug Rubin leave the opposition research book?
You’re Deval Patrick, and you devoted most of Wednesday to Operation: Change the Subject, doing one-on-one interviews in which you fell off the wagon again, rhapsodizing about jacking up the income tax.
You did all those interviews and still nobody is taking seriously your ethics reform bill that authorizes the state attorney general to begin impaneling statewide grand juries - in 2015.
You still don’t get that the voters are a lot angrier about the Marian Walsh scandal (which is 100 percent your fault) than about the Dianne Wilkerson scandal (which isn’t).
After all this time, you don’t understand that voters are more amused than anything else about Dianne stuffing cash in her bra. She was only grabbing a grand for a weekend at Foxwoods, while Marian was setting herself up for life with a $135,000-a-year pension - and she couldn’t have done it without you and Doug Rubin, and where the hell is he anyway?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1182788
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