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Merry Christmas to all! Special Sat. column ping. Howie is off till Jan 2 or so...Avi Nelson and Col. Hunt will fill in
(maybe one doing M-W-F, the other T-Th?). I re-watched the video of Jay Campbell of Quincy winning the $68,000...when they mention he picked envelope #57 he says something like,
“like Heinz 57 (varieties)”. I was thinking the same thing... Howie plays the clip of Obama saying “I’ve now been in fifty...-seven states.” And when you think Heinz,
as in Teresa Heinz Kerry, you think “57 varieties”. Somehow he thought 57 would be a lucky number; it was.

Crash, your phone-y act is up
By Howie Carr | Saturday, December 24, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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Crash Murray just can’t seem to do anything right.

Let’s stipulate that the lieutenant governor’s not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. But couldn’t even Murray have figured out that you release the embarrassing information about yourself on the day before the Christmas break, not on the day before the day before the Christmas break?

The Patrick-Murray administration. Dumb and Dumber.

I’m sure Crash was shocked, shocked to learn that the impending release of his demolished Crown Vic’s black box, after six-plus weeks of having God-only-knows-what done to it in the staties’ parking lot on Route 9, would not be the end of the story.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

Now the Herald is demanding Crash’s cellphone records. In fact, both papers had already filed for them. See, it turns out that Crash and one Mikey McLaughlin, the career hack now in a photo finish with a federal grand jury, had been calling one another dozens upon dozens of times as the local constabulary turned up the heat. That information came from McLaughlin’s phone.

If Crash is spending this much time chewing the fat with Mikey McLaughlin, who else is he talking to? Sadly, the Patrick administration now claims that its phone company (unlike McLaughlin’s) does not provide itemized bills.

This claim is met with a raised eyebrow. After all, just this week it turned out that a judicial nominee with a criminal record was given an application form by the Patrick administration that did not ask him to list his criminal convictions, while another nominee, whose record was clean, was handed an application form that asked her whether or not she’d ever been arrested.

Who was Crash texting (which is against the law) or calling? And what could the subject of his conversations possibly have been? Nationwide searches, perhaps?

Even if, on the off-chance that for once the administration is telling the truth, couldn’t they ask the phone company for the records?

When Crash was elected in 2006, he thought he’d hit the lottery. But somehow things never really quite work out for the Worcester hacks. They’re just not quite ready for prime time. Guy Glodis, Jerry D’Amico, Peter Blute, Karyn Polito ... they do OK for a while, but once they get inside the red zone, they stall out and have to settle for a field goal, or Massport.

Tiny Tim isn’t around as much as he used to be, pre-accident, pre-Mikey McLaughlin. He even missed the menorah lighting at the State House this year, one of the most painless events of the season. And now tonight in his stocking what can he expect except some coal, a few stitches and maybe his 2011 cellphone records.

God bless us, every one.
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