Something about this building just fits with Mumbles.
Posted on 07/13/2008 5:15:18 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread starting off with his Sunday Herald column
In Mumbles’ Hub, stuff ‘mappens’
By Howie Carr | Sunday, July 13, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Mumbles Menino - he’s not just your mayor, he’s your tour guide. Got the can’t-afford-to-go-on-vacation summertime blues? Is the price of gasoline, and in a few months heating oil, keeping you close to home this summer?
Mumbles feels your pain. Let’s go straight to the audio, all of which you can hear at bostonherald.com. As we join the mayor of summer, he is speaking at the Frog Pond on the Boston Common:
“These cost increases can get away-a havin’ summer fun ba only we let it.”
That’s right. Or, as FDR might have put it, “We have nuttin’ ta fear ba fear itself.”
So Mumbles, what would you suggest people do, if they’re flat broke and can’t leave the city?
“When you tryin’ to plot your summer fun, look for the oversized mappens, they’ll be at different lo- attractions across our city.”
Mappens? Usually I can figure out whatever Mumbles is babbling about. This time, I drew a blank, until someone pointed out that the city has been putting up, not mappens, but map pins, giant “oversized” map pins at alleged major tourist attractions. I actually saw the “mappen” on the Common on Friday.
Let us rejoin the mayor in his endless journeys across his city, beginning with the Celtics [team stats]’ victory celebration last month. Briefly, Mumbles was speaking coherent - OK, semi-coherent - English. The hiring of an elocution teacher was suspected. Next year is of course an election year, so the mayor has been revving up his political machine.
Recently, I even spotted a white-on-green Mumbles bumper sticker. He’s run so many times you can never be certain which campaign any sticker dates from, but this one wasn’t discolored and peeling from salt and pigeon excrement, so it may have been new. Green is the trendy color this year, ecologically, and basketball-wise. Right, Mumbles?
“Tomorrow’s a day is a celebration in our city. Come down to Bos - come downtown, enjoy yourself, give the Celtics the rousing ahh cheer they deserve arousing city, city, a rousing season in the city of Boston.”
The rumors about Mumbles’ elocution teacher quickly died down.
Cut to an awards ceremony for Boston educators, as Mumbles endorses . . . cannibalism.
“I’m really delighted to have eat your host . . .”
Listen, I’m not one of these scribes who makes up quotes. I don’t wear a bow tie; I don’t work for the Globe. I’m from around here. Please, check out the soundbites for yourself if you don’t believe these quotes. Let’s start again.
“I’m really delighted to have eat your host in our first ahh ever joint ceremony of to celebrate 2008 Boston Educators and Service Excellence Award Winners.”
Mumbles thinks a lot about the youth of the city. He’s been lucky, to say the very least. How many Bostonians who think “youse” is the plural of you are looking at a pension of $140,000 a year? So he encourages the next generation of boobs to get some book learnin’.
“But also ya know doin’ resumes the other thing they gonna teach ya on Friday are very important so if I, I was you it behooves you to be there.”
Kids, it also behooves you to - oh, never mind.
“You could be head of John Hancock. You could be the publisher of the Globe, and I’ll you when Mayor of Boston City of Boston you could be Mayor of Boston cause it all come from the same place.”
The land of Red Ink, would be my guess.
Another thing on Mumbles’ mind, such as it is. The homeless.
“Yes, the number individual homeless is - are down.”
Is, are, who cares really? Personalize the story, Mumbles. You’re in the South End, near the Pine Street Inn. You pick it up from there.
“I was out in Berkeley Street one day who was on the street beggin’, the guy I played cards with, cause he taught, turned into alcoholism.”
He turned into alcoholism? Haven’t you always wondered what alcoholism looks like? Mumbles, you better get another mappen down there to the South End, pronto.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1106662
Dontcha just love Boston, endless fodder around every corner! Howie does it again! Thanks Mumbles for all the laughs...........
An instant classic.
Mumbles will win in a landslide. Again. Sad.
People who run unopposed tend to do that . . . happens all the time in People's Republic type gov'ts!
Of course, last time he had a challenger. Maura Hennigan. I didn't know much about her, so I perked up a bit. Then I heard her on the radio. Talk about barking moonbats -- she made Menino look like Calvin Coolidge!
Something about this building just fits with Mumbles.
...none dare call it ‘brutalism’...
I do! Hah. Soooooo perfectly encapsulates all that is Liberalism, doesn’t it? Right down to the cold wind that rips across the plaza, right through your clothes.
Oh man, my sides hurt!
God bless the mayor of the schitty of Bos, uhh... downtown.
So, will there be a Death Pool sometime this week? I would be very surprised if no one picked Tony Snow the last time.
Not sure about Snow being in death pool...
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Howie said a little while ago that no one had Tony in the death pool.......
Someone on radio-info board heard that WCRN is now running Dennis Miller tape delayed 7-10 pm (had been Michael Savage).
The WCRN website hasn’t been updated, probably because the site is run by Mike Roberts who I believe is no longer WITH the station. The show will prob be pre-empted most nights by Red Sox (and maybe Celtics too, later) but this week it should be on what with all star break.
from today’s Herald; the “Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final
today” file (was there a roof collapse at their house...?
a cost over-run...?)
http://bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view/2008_07_15_Amorello_story/srvc=home&position=5
Things just keep coming unglued for kicked-to-the-curb Mass. Turnpike chief Matt Amorello. Yesterday, his wife of almost 12 years filed for divorce!
Charlotte Amorello, 41, citing an “irretrievable breakdown in communications” at the couple’s North Shore home, is seeking custody of their 8-year-old son, new locks on their $658,000 Wenham manse and all the financial support she can grab, according to divorce papers filed in Essex Probate Court in Salem.
However, she’s not completely heartless. Charlotte is letting her hubby, 50, keep their 17-foot Boston Whaler.
The Amorellos would have celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary last Sunday. But, according to Mrs. A, who married Matt when he was a GOP state senator from Grafton and she worked as a secretary in the state’s administration and finance office, the relationship began to unravel in January.
Charlotte’s attorney Abbe Ross declined to comment.
Under intense pressure from former Gov. Mitt Romney to hit the road after a ceiling collapse in a Big Dig tunnel killed Milena Del Valle of Jamaica Plain, Amorello resigned from his $223,000-a-year post in August 2006.
What the hell took her so long to realize this guy is a sleeze bag,,,,,remember right after the accident this a$$clown said the tunnel was safe to drive thru.....we found out otherwise.....fat matt has no conscience, wth did Charlotte see in him to begin with.....
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“wth did Charlotte see in him to begin with.”
I’ll give you a hint: it fits nicely into a wallet.
condoms????? LOL!!!!
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Alleged Prius perv might have a kiss waiting for him
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
It’s not the economy, stupid. It’s the pensions.
Everything now in the hackerama is about the kiss in the mail. The body-building firefighter, the ex-Senate president groveling for the job at the Boston Public Library, the gangster’s brothers and, of course, Sen. Jim Marzilli, the alleged perv in the Prius.
They’re all after the same score. A fatter pension check, while they’re still young enough to enjoy it for, oh, 40 years or so.
Life in the Dreaded Private Sector is short, nasty and brutish, and only getting more so. But in the hackerama, the COLA’s just keep climbing, you get a free car, and the work week is shrinking - hey, let’s shut down all the town halls on Fridays. You know, to save energy. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Here’s Marzilli’s situation. He’s 50, he’s already got in enough years to check out with about $13,000 a year, but obviously that will not suffice. His plan is to keep his snout firmly entrenched in the trough until January, because as a solon, if he “works” a single day in any calendar year, he gets to claim an extra year for his pension.
For Marzilli, that would amount to only a few hundred extra bucks a year. So now suspicion is growing that Marzilli may be plotting a “Forman” - named after the former sheriff of Plymouth County who claimed he was “fired” by Jane Swift. Under an obscure provision of state retirement law known as Section 10, Peter Forman’s termination enabled him to basically double his pre-age 65 pension.
Forman’s trump card was a letter from Swift saying she had terminated him. Obviously Marzilli will have no such “proof,” but that’s not the point. He’ll just go in front of the State Retirement Board, claim he was forcibly removed from his job and demand a double pension under Section 10. The Retirement Board will summarily reject his claims, and he’ll go to court, where judges tend to look favorably on their fellow unemployable layabouts. Professional courtesy and all that.
Then there’s Tom Birmingham, the 58-year-old former Senate president. His pension is a mere $16,000-and-change. He has a wife, Selma Botman, and when Birmingham controlled the state budget, Selma had a six-figure job at UMass - another nationwide search. But that job went away about the time her husband did, and she cashed in her pension contributions. No kiss for you, Selma.
Which brings us to the BPL. It’s the answer to the Birminghams’ retirement dilemma. The guy Tom would be succeeding, Bernie Margolis, made just under $170,000.
Oh sure, he might have to “pay back” the pension system for what he’s already collected, but so what? The important thing is, get in at least three years at $200,000 or so. That would set him up for a pension of $150,000 or so. Once more, the sage of Chelsea will be able to hold his head high wherever hacks gather.
The saddest payroll Charlies are the ones who’ve been stripped of their pensions merely because they committed a few felonies. Poor Jackie Bulger. Not to mention ex-House Speaker Tom Finneran, the convicted felon. Tommy Taxes can handle his pathetic failure in talk radio, he can even deal with losing his license to practice law.
But the $32,000-a-year kiss in the mail? He’s gotta get that back. See, Felon Finneran’s new racket is lobbying. At the State House, no one cares if you’re dirty. It’s actually a compliment when someone says of Finneran that he’s so crooked he needs a corkscrew to get into his trousers.
But losing the pension? That means you’re an incompetent criminal. Who wants to hire you, except maybe the State Police Association? Tommy Taxes’ appeal continues under the radar screen, while everyone focuses on the allegedperv in the Prius.
Sen. Marzilli, repeat after me:
“I was discharged from my position, I am a victim, and under the provisions of Section 10 . . . ”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1107327
Wed show ping.
I wil be away from July 23 through 29; if someone like
GQuagmire would like to do the ping, great. Doesn’t have to be every day, but whatever.
The ping list can be found at
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or
but I’ll be here thru next Tue...
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Wooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo! Howie’s in the Radio Hall of Fame, he got the official call a little while ago!
yup Bruce Dumont of Radio hall of fame called Howie on air.
He’s in! Ceremony in November.
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Sen. Jim Marzilli, the alleged perv in a Prius, proudly told his moonbat constituents in Arlington more than two years ago that he liked to sit on park benches and strike up conversations with female strangers.
And yet these limousine liberals continue to make excuses for the Menotomy masher, even after seven women have stepped forward to accuse him of various dastardly deeds.
The indicted Socialist’s musings on women and park benches appeared on the main moonbat Web site in his ultra-PC hometown back in January 2006. The context was the doomed bill that would have given illegal aliens basically a free ride at state colleges.
In his posting, then-Rep. Marzilli talked about how many illegals he knew from his habit of hanging out on park benches in Maverick Square in East Boston while waiting for his wife to arrive on flights home to Logan.
Riiiiight. One of the nonmoonbat posters called Marzilli on his whopper. On Jan. 19, 2006, Marzilli responded, and at this point, let’s go back and forth between Marzilli’s description of his m.o. and the commonwealth’s case against him involving Victim #4 from June 3.
Marzilli: “I sit on one of the benches near the Maverick MBTA station with reading material.”
Commonwealth: “She sat down on the bench . . . Marzilli then turned around and sat very close to her.”
Marzilli: “Generally, women are more willing to talk than men and I don’t try to talk to anyone under the age of 30.”
Commonwealth: “Marzilli then moved his hand and eyes toward her vaginal area. He was within inches of her body.”
Marzilli: “Many people are glad to talk.”
Commonwealth: “Victim #4 leaned away as far as she could and screamed, ‘Don’t you dare touch me!’ ”
Marzilli: “Yes, I do talk with a LOT of immigrants.”
Commonwealth: “Victim #4 was afraid; she did not know what this man was going to do to her.”
Marzilli: “You can try it in Somerville (Winter Hill), Everett and Malden too. Wait until the weather gets warmer. It is easier on your butt and people are more inclined to linger.”
Commonwealth: “Workers inside 16 Middle Street saw how distressed Victim #4 was and she told them what had occurred outside.”
Here’s a question for all you moonbats. If Sen. Marzilli has bi-polar disorder, why didn’t he admit it after the first (of seven) women came forward and get himself some help then? Instead, Marzilli dusted off the old Bill Clinton defense and attacked his accuser’s credibility.
The moonbats don’t care. All of their handles should be the same: Alibi Ike. Sexual assault? Big deal.
“Is a sexual advance or attack on women categorically different from any other crime or failure?”
They’re kidding, right? No, they’re not kidding. When a liberal assaults a woman, it’s not a crime, it’s a “medical disability.”
Next, a woman named Barbara, with her theory: “Imagine you were in an accident, suffered a serious head injury and went to the hospital. . . . A few weeks later you behave in a way that is described as lewd or harassing. What is your responsibility for your behavior?”
Only one problem: Sen. Aqualung didn’t have an accident.
Another moonbat mentioned a case with a 15-year-old who rode his bike over a parking garage wall and plunged several stories.
“Before this incident he was a normal teen. After it, he was disinhibited, including eating non foods (?), and lewd and assaultive behavior.”
Only one problem: Sen. Aqualung didn’t drive a bike off a parking deck.
How about my theory, moonbats? Maybe your idol went up in a spaceship built by George Soros to shoot down the Halliburton Hurricane machine that Karl Rove and Dick Cheney used to destroy New Orleans with Katrina, and on his way back to earth, Sen. Aqualung’s spaceship traveled though some comet dust . . . and that’s what caused his disinhibitions.
It’s up to the cops now. District Attorney Leone, maybe you should check the police reports in Everett, Malden and Somerville. Attorney Gen. Martha Coakley, how come a private attorney had to file for a civil-rights injunction against Marzilli? Why is your silence on this alleged one-perv crime wave against women as deafening as that of Gov. Deval Patrick and Senate President Therese Murray?
And one final theory that I predict all the moonbats in Arlington can get behind. What if George Bush secretly drugged Sen. Marzilli with a disinhibition potion? In other words, like everything else, this is all Bush’s fault.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1107778
It isn’t just Herald readers who think Howie’s the greatest.
WRKO-AM (680) radio host and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has been inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago.
The popular afternoon-drive host got the good news on the air yesterday when Hall of Fame chairman Bruce DuMont called his show.
Carr won in the “active local or regional” category, beating out Steve Dahl of Chicago, Bob Grant of New York and Ronn Owens of San Francisco.
“I thank my listeners. They did a great job voting for me,” Carr said last night. “I’m happy to win. I’m rejoining Jerry Williams.”
The late Williams, a legendary Boston talk radio host, was inducted in 1996. Williams left WRKO in the late 1990s and died in 2003.
Carr has been hosting his afternoon-drive show on WRKO since 1994.
The 2008 winners will be inducted Nov. 8 at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel.
The late Jess Cain, heard on the Hub’s morning airwaves for over three decades, will be inducted posthumously. Cain died in February at age 81.
Owens is a schmuck. Congrats Howie!!!1!
Nah, he's just a hack in the Hackopolis of Esseff. If they wanted to nominate a real host on KGO, they shoulda gone for Bill Wattenburg, who has the cajones to tell it like it is.
Jerry’s induction into the radio hall of fame, 1996
http://raccoonradio.freehostia.com/Air/jwrhof.mp3
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