Ecce Yankee Fop.
Posted on 04/11/2009 9:14:55 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread starting with his Sunday Herald column
Howie Sunday column ping
Here’s an idea! Pay extra taxes to Taxachusetts!
By Howie Carr | Sunday, April 12, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Moonbats of Massachusetts - on this final weekend before April 15, I implore you to pay your state income taxes at the voluntary, higher rate.
Do it . . . for the children. It’s just your “fair share,” after all, and it’s for the crumbling infrastructure. Consider it an investment in the future.
But once again, the local limousine liberals who endlessly talk the talk are refusing to walk the walk. The current state income tax rate is 5.3 percent. But considering how this state teems with pompous pony-tailed horses’ asses who are endlessly clamoring for higher taxes, the Legislature in its wisdom has allowed the truly committed liberal to make a statement with his checkbook rather than his postings on moonbat blogs.
Every taxpayer has the option of paying at the old Mike Dukakis-era rate of 5.85 percent.
As of last Tuesday, according to the Department of Revenue, 2,100,827 individuals had filed their calendar year 2008 income tax returns in Massachusetts. And of those 2.1 million, exactly 802 opted to pay at the higher, voluntary 5.85 percent rate.
I have difficulty calculating fractions that small, but 21,000 is one percent of 2.1 million, so 2,100 would be one-tenth of one percent, so let’s just round off and say 802 equals about 1/25th of one percent.
The additional contributions of these 802 patriots have amounted to $77,845 - just about enough to pay Sen. Walsh’s old salary for a year. So the average volunteer taxpayer had taxable income last year of $20,000, which means almost all of them probably live in Mom’s basement.
At the risk of sounding like Jerry Lewis on Labor Day, we can do better, dammit! And so I would like to challenge all the “prize-winning” journalists at the Boston Globe, who have for so many years thundered on a daily basis for higher taxes of every sort - gasoline, sales, income, excise, tolls, fees, you name it.
The taxpaying middle classes that the Globe has so obviously disdained all these years are holding “tea parties” all over the country on Wednesday to protest the onerous taxes imposed upon them by the tax-cheating Democrat liberal elites.
At 135 Morrissey Boulevard, the Beautiful People can have a counter-demonstration - a “green tea party,” as it were. They can all write big checks to the commonwealth out of their trust funds at the old 5.85 percent rate.
Sound good, Globies? I mean, with that lifetime job security that you enjoy, you never have to worry about being laid off or having your pay cut, right? Right? You work for benevolent liberals who wouldn’t think of treating their employees like chattel, throwing them out of the street just because they’re losing a mere $85 million a year. Right?
Globe staff, I beseech you. This year, pay through your aquiline noses. After all, you never know when you could find yourselves in the unemployment line. I know it sounds ridiculous, but . . .
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists//view.bg?articleid=1165065
Wow :) Well I’d like to think that Howie is still a man of the people, not a Wellesley elitist :)
btw was looking through my copy of the Jerry Williams bio
(the authors show their lib bias at one point by saying that Bush was “selected by the Supreme Court” but it’s a good book otherwise) and the words “tea party” came up. Turns out that tea parties were a nice way to send a message in the 80s/early 90s when Ralph Nader—yes,
him—got talk hosts like Jerry to send tea bags to their Senators and Congressmen, urging them to reject a huge pay raise: “Read MY tea bag!” (as in “read my lips”).
Howie Wed column ping
Another fun-filled episode of ‘Spanning the Globe’
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Back by popular demand, more of the greatest hits of the Boston Globe, or, as the bow-tied bumkissers now modestly refer to themselves, the “Crown Jewel.”
In 2001, the Globe scoops the world with a front-page story about two murdered Dartmouth profs, a married couple. The Globe exclusively reveals that the murders were “crimes of passion” resulting from “an adulterous love affair.” The New Hampshire attorney general immediately dismisses the report as nonsense, and that afternoon, two teenagers from Vermont are charged with the slayings. It was a botched burglary, not a love triangle. An editor’s note follows.
In 2008, a Globe columnist writes about the substance-abuse problems among Local 718 firefighters. The scribe quotes the fire commissioner as saying, “I think if you’re legally drunk, you’re impaired.” Five days later, the columnist himself is arrested by T cops for OUI - in a Globe-owned car.
In 2001, the Globe runs a story about inventor Dean Kamen, which describes his brother as “a noted oncologist who lives in Jew Jersey.” An editor’s note follows.
In 1998, a Globe columnist who had recently been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize confesses that “I have attributed quotes to people who didn’t exist.” The columnist, who describes herself as a “slam poet,” resigns.
In 2008, the Globe hires a female reporter from the Miami Herald. Soon e-mails are revealed between the young woman and a school official she covered in Florida - a married man, 16 years her senior. Among her messages to him: “I seem to have forgotten to bathe the past two days. I also haven’t shaven.” She resigns to “pursue other opportunities.”
In 1996, the Globe hires a summer intern named Jayson Blair. His stories so impress the Globe that he’s rehired the next summer, before going to The New York Times [NYT] to become the Old Gray Lady’s most famous reporter since Walter Duranty, Stalin’s stooge.
In August 2005, yet another Globe columnist writes a snarky piece about billionaire Bill Koch. Five weeks later, a groveling, 183-word editor’s note follows, containing the following phrases: “omitted facts . . . did not mention . . . there is no evidence . . . did not note . . . referred imprecisely.” The Globe and the scribe “regret the omissions.”
One last thing. This Globe publisher, P. Steven Ainsley - he looks like somebody Central Casting would send over if you called for a pluperfect Yankee fop. Now, as somebody on the Herald message board noted, if P would just lose the four-in-hand and start wearing more traditional bumkisser neckware - a bow-tie.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1165687
Ecce Yankee Fop.
ah!
Howie show ping
There’s one for you, 19 for me. ‘Cause I’m the taxman,
yeah I’m the taxman— G. Harrison/Beatles
For Republicans, Every day is July 4th. For Democrats,
every day is April 15th.—Ronald Reagan
T_axed E_nough A_lready
Hub activists to hold tax day protests
http://bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1165717
>>“We see a lot of the same from both (the Democratic and Republican) parties - and that’s why people are so angry,” said Simmons College senior Corie Whalen, who’s organizing a Boston Common TEA Party. (“TEA” stands for “Taxed Enough Already.”)
Massachusetts Liberatarian Party activist Carla Howell and other speakers plan to use the event to slam the government’s bailout of Wall Street and other private concerns. “People from all idealogies - from liberal to conservative - aren’t happy that our tax dollars are going to private businesses,” Whalen said.
Plans also call for conservative radio talk-show host Michael Graham to lead a re-enactment of the original Boston Tea Party. In 1773, Bostonians dumped tea from British cargo ships into Boston Harbor to protest hefty tea taxes.
Are they dressing up like Indians? Or is that too politically incorrect? ;-)
I don’t know but supposedly some will dress in colonial garb.
One radio newscast I heard (may have been the 11 am “Fox News”
update on WRKO) said people were going to “party like it’s
1773”...
Friday column ping. btw yesterday I tuned out for a moment and hit the button for 96.9 and who should I hear but Doug
“Virgin Boy” Goudie! Yes he was filling in for Jay Severin,
on opposite Howie!
For those unfamiliar, VB started as a co-producer on Howie’s
show and briefly had his own nightly gig, “The Pit” but around ‘03 or so, TV called, and he became a regular part of the Fox 25 Morning News (he claimed the VB actually stood for
Victor Bravo for awhile)
I do know VB has called in to Michelle McPhee’s show on 96.9
(the station Howie wanted to go to; “Happy” is one producer of McPhee’s show, and when asked about him, Howie says Happy “has gone to a better place”) and had McPhee on
Fox 25, too...
Meet the Duke of dumb hacks: Deval Patrick
By Howie Carr | Friday, April 17, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
I never thought I’d be writing these words, but Mike Dukakis is no longer the most clueless hack ever to serve as governor of Massachusetts.
Deval Patrick, come on down!
Think about what Ed King and Angelo Berlandi did to the Duke before the Democratic primary in 1978. They put slow-moving trucks on the old Central Artery during rush hour, slowing traffic to a crawl. On the back of the trucks were giant signs: Blame Dukakis for this Traffic Mess!
That was a dirty trick. What happened Sunday on the Mass Pike produced even worse traffic jams, but the Pike debacle was orchestrated not by political foes, but by Deval’s own coatholders. They pulled a dirty trick on themselves, and then sent Alan LeBovidge, which sort of rhymes with Blagojevich, out to giggle in front of the cameras.
This is like the last days of Dukakis, Sen. Richie Tisei was saying Wednesday night. The wheels are coming off.
Nobody’s home. Doug Rubin, the chief of staff, is busy writing job descriptions for worthless hacks. The lieutenant governor’s campaign spending reports look like a Zagat’s Guide. It used to be, hacks would settle for jobs for themselves. Now they want ’em for themselves and their sisters. Right Jim Aloisi? What say ye, John Walsh?
Deval Patrick - he’s putting the “good wages” back in “good jobs at good wages.”
Yesterday the county bailout bill was flying through the state Senate. Say what you will about M. Stanley Dukakis, at least he understood how worthless county government was. He didn’t understand much, but with the help of the crooked sheriffs he appointed, the Duke finally did figure one out. Not so Deval - this bailout is his legislation.
Here’s the deal: The state will now pick up the tab - $36 million - for the sheriffs in the remaining independent counties. That way, in places like Norfolk, Plymouth and Bristol counties, the county commissioners can then take the money the sheriffs have been relying on to preserve those really important jobs like county dog officer, and county tourism director, and county treasurer, and director of the county golf course, and the mosquito control board, and the custodians of the courthouses owned by the counties.
No wonder nobody takes Deval seriously when he says state government is tightening its belt.
Still, unlike the Duke in ’78, Deval can probably win the Democratic primary next year.
Happy (Payroll) Patriots [team stats] Day.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1166133
No Way!!! VB’s Howies Competition [fill-in]
That won’t do....;)
by Brian Maloney:
How strange to see FOX 25 morning oddity Doug “VB” Goudie filling in for WTKK’s Vay Cay Jay. Isn’t he part of Howie’s entourage?
Now, he’s competing against Carr, at least temporarily. With Vay Cay generally gone more than he’s around, could this become a habit?
VB:
From Fox 25:
BOSTON (myfoxboston) - Protesters gathered in Boston and across the country Wednesday to protest higher taxes and the actions of big government.But a day later the question is, will the movement gain momentum?Conservatives, libertarians and others disenchanted with government flocked to the airwaves of 96.9 WTKK on Thursday, where FOX25’s VB Goudie was guest hosting and taking calls.He heard from working-class New Englanders who say they are suffering through taxation and big government spending. Protesters pointed out the original tea party protest in Boston started small and, in the end, created a revolution.
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