Posted on 03/01/2008 9:51:08 PM PST by raccoonradio
Howie Carr live thread, starting off with his Sunday Herald column. Howie is having lasik eye surgery (no more glasses) on Thu so Col. Hunt will be on that day only, I believe.
Howie’s Sunday Herald column
Judges earn contempt, not salary hikes
By Howie Carr | Sunday, March 2, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Judge Richard Moses, the perverts’ pal, needs a pay raise.
Believe it or not, the greed-crazed limousine liberals of the Mass. Judges Conference are rattling their tin cups yet again. They are lobbying to jack up their base salary to $162,000, an increase from the current $129,694 a year that trial judges get. A 25 percent pay raise is bad enough, and even more outrageous is that down the road it would add more than two grand a month extra to their already bloated pensions.
You think it’s easy cutting loose Level 3 child molesters and bathroom stalkers and man-rapists day after day after day? It’s a tough job - just ask Corey Saunders, David Flavell and Kenneth Stone. They’d tell you, Judge Moses is doing a hell of a job.
The shrill timing of these black-robed knaves is a little off, what with Judge Moses, a former ACLU employee and contributor to Barney Frank and George Rogers, on an apparent one-man crusade to release every skinner and Peeping Tom who comes to his courtroom.
It’s a great job, being a judge. All you have to do is scrape up a few grand, send it to the right politicians, and pretty soon you, too, can be screaming at prosecutors to shut up while you’re blowing wet kisses from the bench to whatever tattooed diddler or flasher is appearing in front of you.
And now one of those traditional “blue-ribbon panels” is considering whether to recommend higher salaries for state judges. What suspense. Whatever will they decide to do? When was the last time a “blue-ribbon panel” recommended anything other than a pay raise, or a toll hike?
This bunch of blue-ribbons held their final hearing in Worcester last month, the day after the primary. I had no idea such a panel existed until I stumbled across a story in the Worcester paper. The reporter dryly noted that despite the allegedly “public” nature of the hearing, “members of the public were not in attendance last night.”
The Mass. Judges Conference somehow heard about the hearing, though. Isn’t that the same crew of payroll Charlies who were once scheming to railroad through yet another pay hike, and after the secret confab broke up, one of the hack jurists, a crony of a felon named Tommy Taxes, got bagged for OUI out on Route 128?
“Several testifying last night,” the paper reported, “said the $160,000 starting salary for rookie lawyers at larger Boston law firms is higher than the highest-paid judge’s salary.” There’s a simple solution to that alleged problem. The judges who consider themselves underpaid should apply to become “rookie lawyers.”
The arrogance of these pompous layabout judges is astounding. In addition to the obscene pay hikes, some of them are demanding Taj Mahal courthouses. They want marble palaces, they want the registries of deeds evicted, they want . . . private bathrooms.
Who do they think they are, Mayor David Cohen of Newton? The difference is, Cohen will someday have to answer to the voters for his white elephant $200 million and counting high school.
A suck-up lawyer from Fitchburg said: “Salary is a major stumbling block. I’ve heard them say, ‘I have two kids in college’ and ‘My wife is no longer working. I can’t afford to do that.’ ”
I repeat: If they can’t “afford” to take jobs that pay $129,694 for 37 weeks of work a year, then they should quit. They can go back to starving to death in private practice, chasing ambulances, joining the Kiwanis Club and printing up business cards that say “Reasonable doubt at a reasonable price.” I’ll bet we could find some “rookie lawyer” who’d be willing to try to scrape by on $129,694 a year.
The judges figure they have a pay raise coming this year because the district attorneys just got a hike, up to around $148,000. Is it possible the Legislature wanted to give more money to the people trying to keep the sex offenders behind bars, like the prosecutors, rather than to the black-robed scum who keep cutting the monsters loose to rape again and again.
“It is unfair,” the lawyer added, “the manner in which we pay them. We live in a society that is unfair to a lot of people but it’s horrible to disregard the public interest.”
But releasing rapists and buying judgeships with contributions - that’s in the public interest?
And now the judges howl for still more dough. They should run a public-relations campaign. And I have just the poster boy for them.
Judge Moses, come on down!
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1077137
LOL! I've worked for some big law firms -- the rookie lawyers who want to keep their jobs are frequently working from about 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. or so (and not infrequently all night!), including Saturdays and/or Sundays! Ever wonder why so many lawyers want to be judges??? And so few judges want to go back to being lawyers???
Is it my imagination or has Howie had even more columns skewering the MA judiciary since his recent up close and personal experience with the court system? ;-)
Yes and Howie has spent more time on air talking about corrupt, senile, hack judges. Remember not too long ago when there was a push to pass a bill that would outlaw talking on cell phones in your car unless you used a handset/spkrpohone—oh, but there would be exceptions, like to police and other officials? (This bit is being used on ‘RKO as part of a promo.)
Howie: “Oh,
what a surprise that they made that exception. How about making an exception for drunken JUDGES? How about drunken,
corrupt, SENILE judges in Massachusetts—are there any other kind in Massachusetts? No I didn’t think so..”
And then the following week guess what happens: a drunken
judge from MA makes the news: Robert “Roberta” Somma of
Newbury, who tiptoed through the tulips up to Manchester NH,
got smashed at a gay bar, then got into a fender bender.
There’s your drunken judge, people...but sadly for “Roberta”
he got pinched not in Manchester (by the Sea), MA but in
Manchester NH...so no slap on the wrist, necessarily—
and thankfully for us, and our desire for entertainment,
the Union Leader mentions him having a purse...and other
female attire...Now he’s gonna resign!
So there’s your typical hack hire, drunken judge from MA
making the news, right after Howie went on air to talk
about drunken judges! And yes, Howie took particular delight in getting that story to us!
I hope Howie's pretty confident no one else is going to sue him -- or the judge will figure out a way to jail him on a civil complaint! After all, this is MA -- we don't need no stinkin' Constitution! ;-)
Howie nails it again! He knows the workings of this state in and out, the guy is amazing with the knowledge he possesses. If you haven’t read his book, it’s a MUST read, all the fine details about corruption in MA. No wonder Whitey et al wanted to fill a basketball with C4 explosives.....! Rock on Howie!
Mon ping
It's GOOD that somebody takes delight in their work!hehehe
Howie mentioned that thoughts and prayers go out to the family of his WEEI colleague Glenn Ordway. Glenn’s wife Sarah gave birth to baby Mia last week but there were complications and
Sarah and Mia are both in poor health at this time; Glenn is taking time off to be with his family. The station’s Whiney
Awards are postponed, etc. Details at http://www.bostonradiowatch.com and the WEEI site.
Around Christmas, I was at a party, and people were talking about the fines the Feds were imposing for breaking the speed limit on some trails. People were zipping along at 75-90mph.
I read some article a few years back about snowmobiles. At one time, there were about 150 manufactures. Now, there are like 5.
And the horsepower on some of them is 100+ more than my car.
Not all commercials, either. Some news too.
They have satellite problems? Maybe the time of year—I know in the fall sometimes there are glitches a few weeks after the equinox (in our case, we’re a couple weeks before the equinox). The baseball playoffs would be on and sometimes radio stations would lose the signal (and go to a temp.
phone feed) and also some TV signals would do the same...
Tonight WTKK 96.9 has local talk with Michelle McPhee (7-10 pm) then they
will, for one night, pre-empt Laura Ingraham (which they run on a 13 hour tape delay) for live election coverage with the Great One, Mark Levin (”Men In Black”, and a syndicated show. “Get off the phone you big jerk!”)
Not sure what WRKO is doing—maybe Jerry Doyle, tape delayed from 3-6 pm? What do you expect from Colon Cleanser Radio.
Yes, it happens a couple of times a year, when the receiving dish, the sat, and the Sun are in direct alignment, and lasts for a few minutes.
yup re: satellites & dishes, etc.!
tue ping
Interesting...
Last year I wanted to TiVo that on my direct TV receiver.
I have Starry Night Pro 5.0, and can get the satellite ephemeris (which for a geostationary satellite are really “permaneris”) from the help menu on the receiver and then find out when the sun crosses. Should be a fun experiment.
I once spent some time looking at an S-Band radar A-Scope display for an increase in noise in the morning as it scanned in the direction of the sun, but have to admit that I was disappointed.
Before Christmas, I got into a discussion about the Star of Bethlehem, and ...satellites were appearing in what the date was, 3BC?
Any way, I came across the menu option to make satellites "historical" as well, or I think that's what the option was for.
I would have thought that would be the default.
Isn't the Sun (and Jupiter, as well) "noisiest" at ~20.5Mhz, give or take?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980317/posts
Feds trying to nix $3.1 million award to Whitey Bulger victim’s
family
This woman caller can’t appreciate that Hillary Clinton is just not a nice human being, is intolerable, and wants to turn the US into a Stalinist Hell hole.
Yeah, I noticed satellites winking in and out over Babylon in 136 BC. Never let it bother me. Didn’t know about the “historical” options.
You can go to guides, az/el and click on grid, and presto, you get an az/el grid. Then go to guides, and one of them (Solar System, I think) and click on ecliptic and you get the ecliptic. Then zoom in on the location of the satellite, let time fly by in one minute chunks and sooner or later the sun should fly by. (The sun will never come any closer than the ecliptic does to your satellite.)
Not sure about solar/Jovian spectrum, as Casey Stengel used to say, you can look it up.
Howie column ping
Who knows how, but it ain’t over yet
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Ask not for whom the red telephone rings at 3 a.m.
It rings for thee, Hillary Clinton.
Who would have figured it? All the mud that the Clintons threw at Barack Obama - the Iowa coordinators spreading the rumors that he was a Muslim, Billy Shaheen in New Hampshire intimating that he was a drug dealer, Bob Kerrey endlessly repeating his middle name, “Hussein.”
All for naught but, finally, a Hail Mary pass, what amounted to a Republican ad, stressing Barack’s limp-wristed, Code Pink politics. The spot was based on the most unlikely scenario imaginable - that Democratic primary voters actually gave a hoot about national security.
But it worked. Or something worked. And suddenly, she’s back in the fight. She even took Rhode Island. This means that in the states where Gov. Deval Patrick is seen on the local TV news every evening, Barack Obama is now 0-for-3. Ted and Patches Kennedy and John Kerry once again showed that they too have long coattails -for Hillary.
Yes we can - learn from our terrible error in the 2006 governors race!
Hillary Clinton isn’t the new Comeback Kid. She’s the next Freddie Krueger. And the Pennsylvania primary may well be Barack’s Nightmare on the Main Line.
We will have Hillary Clinton to kick around some more. Nobody wants to write the obituaries for the Clinton dynasty quite yet. This has been just too much fun, watching Hillary twist slowly, slowly in the wind. Because she is in so many ways the female Richard Nixon - unlikable, shrill, phony, stiff, self-pitying and more than a little shady.
But when it comes to politics, she’s a regular Timex. Like Nixon, she takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
The presidential election is like a soap opera, and in this next chapter, all the front-running bumkissers in the mainstream media who’ve been ripping her will now try to make their peace with the Clinton machine, by dropping to their knees. After 16 years, it’s a maneuver they’re quite familiar with.
Texas was still up for grabs early this morning, but at least the Clinton-Obama race goes on. If only Obama’s dodgy benefactor Tony Rezko weren’t being tried in federal court, where no TV cameras are allowed . . .
This is all wonderful news for John McCain. The longer this goes on, the better he looks. Actually, the longer this Democratic bloodbath goes on the less anyone will look at McCain, period, and that’s an even better thing.
Will McCain eventually look good enough? Probably not, if he keeps stumbling over his cue cards and calling himself a “conservative liberal Republican” But it’s his only shot, with Bush in the White House endorsing him this afternoon as the stock market swoons and oil prices are at an all-time high.
Barack raised $50 million last month and Hillary $36 million to McCains $12 million. The Democratic turnout in the four states is double and triple that of four years ago. None of this bodes well for the GOP.
McCain needs the Democrats to pull a 1968, tear each other apart, drive each other’s favorable ratings down even further than they already have.
And now Barack Obama is going to be the issue, at least for a few days. The undecided voters broke for Hillary, after the red phone started ringing. Who would have ever thought it? The first time I saw the spot I started wondering, who’s really calling? Monica Lewinsky? Paula Jones? Kathleen Willey?
But the voters bought it. And now I hear the phone ringing again. This time the call’s for Barack Obama.
I think it’s Tony Rezko. Or maybe Louis Farrakhan.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1077867
“Reasonable doubt at a reasonable price.”
but most of it has been 1 or mabye 2 inches at a time.
FEDS???was this alleged speedlimit going to be set on just National Parks?
On the portion of the trail that’s on Federally managed land.
Wed ping
The Boys are Back in Town ~Thin Lizzy
Friday night,they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Dino's bar & Grill
The drink will flow and the blood will spill
and if the boys wanna fight, you better let'em! This is gonna be a hoot!
"I think it's Tony Rezko or Louis Farrakhan"
Or Mr. Fitz!!!!!
Try "inflammable" and "flammable".
Or "asked" and "axed".
Speaking of weight, anybody see the tabloid pictures of Lisa Marie Presley?
don't catch much of the Dancin/Idol tv crap.
Think how much clearer the donuts will appear!
I haven’t tuned in yet because I was checking out some stuff about WRKO/Entercom’s firing of Moe Lauzier (the thought had crossed his mind to poss. pursue an age discrimination
lawsuit). See posts on the Boston board of radio-info.com
which links to a Herald article.
Thanks a million for the heads up, RR. I sure do love Moe. What a damned rotten thing WRKO did.
Yup..here’s what I posted on that board:
Jessica Heslam’s Media Biz column in the Herald said the thought had crossed Moe Lauzier’s
mind to pursue an age discrimination lawsuit against Entercom/WRKO but he hasn’t done so
at this time. Age disc. lawsuits have been pressed against other Entercom properties.
Jason Wolfe insists Moe’s firing wasn’t personal, but they simply wanted to take advantage of
advertisers who wanted to buy time on the station.
As of last week, no such informercials had shown up. Reruns instead.
Read the march 4 post—Moe reproduces emails from Jason and Julie about how awful they feel and how times are tough, sorry pal, etc.
(Moe has a link on there to a youtube video which is basically the audio of Moe’s last moments on ‘RKO)
Fri column ping
Dem committee calling more moonbats to the flock
By Howie Carr | Friday, March 7, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
If you are a moonbat, there is only one place you can possibly be tomorrow - at Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown for the state Democratic Committee meeting.
The committee, which is of course controlled by Gov. Deval Patrick (because he controls the hack jobs), will be electing 94 “add-on” members from the following categories:
“Male Youth; Female Youth; Male College; Female College; Female Affirmative Action; Male Affirmative Action; Male Veteran; Female Veteran; Female Labor; Male Labor; Gay Male; Lesbian; Male Disabled; Female Disabled; Female French-Speaking; Male French-Speaking; Male Portuguese-Speaking; Female Portuguese-Speaking; Female Senior; Male Senior; Gender Balance.”
What, no transgendered category? I’m sure that oversight will be remedied soon enough. But here’s the really special part about tomorrow: Every candidate gets to make a speech.
Don’t you wish you could be there in Ward 2 tomorrow?
Even John Walsh, the “chair” (as opposed to chairman) of the party, shudders at the train wreck this produces. In his letter to the, uh, real members of the committee, he totes that this election in the past has “taken the entire day - stretching eight to 12 hours.”
His italics, not mine.
So this year, in what I’m guessing will be a futile attempt not to waste the entire day on this, Walsh has issued an “add-on candidates book,” in which the candidates can make a pitch for themselves.
Here’s a typical one, from a “gender balance” candidate from Cambridge named Laurie Leyshon, who includes a photo of herself with Barack Obama:
“I want to create . . . a Nation that is committed to Healing the Earth and All her People who have been so terribly harmed by our past and current transgressions.”
With so many categories in which to claim victimhood, some candidates admit that they had a difficult decision to make.
“I could have run,” says Paul Sousa of Cambridge, “as a male youth/student, Portuguese speaker or gay male.”
He chose the last, and now finds himself running against, among others, a “gay vegan idealist,” the “National co-vice-chair of the Lavender Caucus of SEIU” and a “successful state politics blogger.”
Everyone has to list their political experience, and what experiences they have:
“I have interned for Corporate Accountability International . . . I volunteered my time reaching out to the environmental community . . . Now on staff at the American Federation of Teachers . . . I met (Al Gore) while at Harvard Divinity School . . . I currently work for a non-profit . . . I currently work in human services as a program director for a non-profit . . .”
There are some garden-variety hacks, like Mary Oroszko, a $58,000-a-year Worcester coat-holder for Lt. Gov. Tim Murray. In a truly miraculous gesture of outreach, there are even a handful of candidates who have real jobs, in the Dreaded Private Sector. Very few. For instance, Gene Ring, of Medford, running for a “Veteran-Male” slot. He’s worked for a bunch of pols (good!) but then he did something very bad.
“I am now a small business owner, which is something I believe the Democratic Party needs more of in its ranks.”
Good luck, Gene. You’re going to need it.
Disabled - male? My money’s on William Wood.
“I have been disabled all my life . . . I understand the concept of hidden disabilities, becoming disabled and being disabled. I created the theory of phobic disabilities regarding anti-human development of the disability community. I have written plays about the subject of disability, have a Ph.D. focusing on disability . . .”
See you in Charlestown tomorrow - not.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1078392
Gay Male....
Diddles McGee?
LOL! All together there in Charlestown -- God forgive me, but all I could think was "target-rich environment"! ;-)
LOL - LOL, my thoughts exactly,,,,maybe we can get that basketball full of C-4 and bounce it through the front door! What a hack-a-rama!
Fri show ping. Howie’s back, without glasses.
He called in during the final hour last night to report
to Col. Hunt and sounded...relaxed (cue: sound of drink
being poured, but it was probably the drugs!)
And WRKO will be carrying the annual St Patrick’s Day breakfast (formerly hosted by The Corrupt Midget) this year
with Tom The Felon as host. It’s the hackerama!
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/messenger/index.php/2008/03/06/finnerans-eyes-are-smiling/Ah, the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast.
When all the pols get together for bad jokes and corned beef and cabbage.
WRKO-AM (680) plans to broadcast the annual yuckfest. And guess whose doing his show live from the early-morning roast?
Tom Finneran, of course. The former House Speaker was a roast regular. Below is the station’s release:
WRKO PROVIDES EXCLUSIVE RADIO COVERAGE OF THE ANNUAL
ST. PATRICK’S DAY BREAKFAST
BOSTON, MA (March 6, 2008) – Boston’s Talk Station, WRKO AM 680 will be the only radio destination for complete coverage of the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast. WRKO’s coverage will begin on Sunday March 16 at 8 a.m. with a special edition of Finneran’s Forum live from the Boston Convention Center, site of the this year’s breakfast.
Joining Finneran during the two hour pre-show will be Congressman Stephen Lynch, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray, Senate President Therese Murray and Speaker Salvatore DiMasi. Also scheduled to appear are Representative Brian Wallace, City Council President Maureen Feeney, Councilors Michael Flaherty and Bill Linehan.
“It’s great to be a part of this year’s event and I’m thrilled to give the WRKO listeners an inside look at this Boston tradition,” said Tom Finneran, WRKO Morning Show Host.
At 10 a.m. WRKO will broadcast the breakfast in its entirety which will also be simulcast on CN8. The St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast is a Boston tradition in which local political figures take time out to roast each other on the topics of the day. In 2005 the breakfast was moved into its current home at the Boston Convention Center.
“WRKO is pleased to be the exclusive radio home of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast,” said Jason Wolfe, Entercom Boston Vice President of AM Programming and Operations. “There is no better radio host to take listeners behind the scenes of this Boston institution.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/messenger/index.php/2008/03/06/finnerans-eyes-are-smiling
Dapper O’Neill used to say why the heck would he want to go to an event where you were stuck for three hours and couldn’t
get out to take a crap, or something.
Ha—see the post by “James” (Herald article comments): “ Jason if you want me as a guest on the show, all you have to do is ask my brother for the number!”
One year when Bill Weld was around they joked about how Whitey won the lottery. He sang to Billy,
“We’ve got a gift for you this year, you see/ Your winning ticket in the lottery/ You’re gonna be a
millionaire, there is...no...doubt/ For I had YER BROTHER pick these numbers out!”
He STILL has a face for radio! LOL!
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