Posted on 11/25/2007 5:36:29 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie made his grand return to radio on Nov. 18. In this weekly thread we follow his show plus I'll post interesting columns by him, etc. There are usually daily pings Mon.-Fri. and Sun with his column.
Aw jeez, you mean that actually happened?
that's probably where Drudge caught wind of it.
And surprise, surprise, he was recognized by some witnesses...
whew! I bet those witnesses kept a low profile and some REAL tight buttcheeks for quite a while.
Gotta run! catch Ya later
Since it caused a traffic jam, I would imagine that the police could put 2+2 together from missing money and Whitey’s driverless car.
So, what was the story that Marine Medivac guy was talking about before they cranked up the tunes and hit the dump button? Something about Billy Bulger and a $500k payoff?
It can’t be 25 State street. That wasn’t very “alleged”, according to “The Brothers Bulger”...
‘course the Midget wasn’t indicted, much less convicted...
no idea—I heard that too...Howie said something like
“We can’t prove that...”
column ping
Stop the insanity by electing judges
By Howie Carr | Friday, November 30, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Here’s a modest proposal: Let’s start electing judges in Massachusetts.
I know, it’ll never happen. The powers that be have a vested interest in the dysfunctional system that keeps throwing up, literally, the likes of Kathe Tuttman, Maria Lopez, fill in the name of your own least favorite black-robed megalomaniac hack - the list is endless.
Here is how a lawyer now gets to be a judge in Massachusetts. He/she is either a prosecutor, working for relatively short money by legal standards, or a private attorney who is starving to death in the Dreaded Private Sector.
The wannabe judges are all looking for the same thing, and it isn’t justice.
They want early retirement - a lifetime appointment, with a guaranteed pension from day one, thanks to the infamous “involuntary disability provision.” Starting pay: between $129,694 and $151,239.
Talk about feeding at the trough. Massachusetts judges have what is quite likely the cushiest job in the world - 30 “working” days vacation, 20 sick days, five “educational” days, five personal days and 15 federal, state and county holidays.
That’s 15 weeks off, year in and year out.
To score his judgeship, the shyster begins contributing money to politicians, usually candidates for governor, who nominate the judges. Sometimes, if he’s really hungry, the lawyer gets his parents, his in-laws, and his secretary to max out to the local member of the Governor’s Council, which has to rubber-stamp the governor’s nominees.
I say, let’s eliminate the middlemen. Instead of giving money to candidates running for office, let the would-be judges go on the ballot themselves. OK, maybe most of them would run unopposed, like the legislators do. So what? At least the threat would be out there. Why do you think illegal aliens don’t yet pay in-state tuition at state colleges? Because solons were petrified of retribution.
Does anyone think Judge Tut-tut is worried, or even embarrassed, because her liberal idiocy resulted in the murders of two newlyweds? One of her pals, the chief justice of the so-called Superior Court, says Tut-tut is “now living every judge’s nightmare.”
Au contraire. The nightmare every judge dreads is not being a judge anymore, not having all those court officers parking their car and kissing their rear ends.
By the way, perhaps you’re wondering which pol Judge Tut-tut hitched her star to? The answer is, Robert B. Reich, the moonbat candidate for governor in 2002. She gave him $50 on April 4 and $100 on Sept. 6. It’s the thought that counts.
That’s what Mitt has to answer for in this whole sordid mess - how did his staff miss the contributions to Robert Reich?
But Mitt didn’t care all that much about judges. He knew who was applying for the judgeships - the kind of bust-out lawyers he wouldn’t have hired to fight a parking ticket for him when he was CEO of Bain Capital.
Mitt preferred prosecutors, on what we now know is the erroneous assumption that prosecutors are not social-planning liberal do-gooders, as Dapper O’Neil would say. He didn’t want a Willie Horton on his watch. Instead, he gets Daniel Tavares.
Some people are trying to put a stake through the heart of this grotesquely corrupt system - every year Holyoke police Chief Anthony Scott files a bill for the election of judges.
And for his trouble, Chief Scott and his bill get treated with less respect than anti-spanking advocate Kathleen Wolf. I’m not kidding.
Meanwhile, Gov. Deval Patrick is rounding up the usual suspects. The case of Judge Tut-tut, a former assistant Essex County district attorney, will be investigated by Kevin Burke, the former district attorney of Essex County. The traditional book will be thrown at her - a comic book.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1047981
one more ping for the week, this time for the show
itself
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30
1st Hour to be announced
2nd Hour to be announced
3rd Hour
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4th Hour
Veterinarian John deJong will be with us to talk pets.
(Ch 4 report—with video—from last year about “Dr.
John”—
http://wbztv.com/pets/local_story_228222512.html
“Dr. John de Jong is one of a growing number of veterinarians making house calls. His car, with the license plate “Dr. John,” is loaded with all the supplies he needs.”
“I was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time!”
exactly—a top 40 hit. I liked his Gumbo album (’72)that had
stuff like “Iko Iko” and a medley of Huey Piano
Smith songs. “Right Place Wrong Time” came out on
his next album, “In The Right Place” (’73)
thread for situation in Rochester NH—man in his 40s,
salt and pepper hair, claims to have bomb strapped to
back walked into Hillary HQ took 2 people hostage
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932902/posts
"We all know the Clintons are a week ahead of the what everybody else knows from all their constant polling. Coincidence? Be back after the break folks..."
from the other thread:
“Just reported that this guy is a local older guy with a history of mental illness, who told his son today to watch the news.”
WRKO just ran anti-Mitt ad, “just another Massachusetts
flip flopper” (runs clip of Kerry’s “voted for before I
voted against” remark). Sponsor? ...Log Cabin Republicans.
I can't keep up with the other thread.
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