Posted on 01/22/2011 10:19:43 PM PST by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the week
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Death pool winner? Tweet via an LA station says Jack LaLanne has died at 96
I heard it too. I have no idea if someone picked him the the DP though.
Don’t think so. He was #23 in the previous DP that ended with the end of Bob Feller.
Talk about a "kiss in the mail!" Of course, the question is "Why?" The guy had very low ratings, had failed as a sports announcer (BIG TIME), and was pretty damn dumb!
yes Howie said that whle LaLanne was in previous death pools, not in this last one
Wed column ping
Non-essential? How about non-employed
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Have you noticed that the hacks don’t use the word “non-essential” to describe themselves anymore? It was just a little too descriptive.
I mean, when the governor calls a press conference at the bunker and describes a vast number of his tax-fattened minions as “non-essential” and says they don’t have to come in to “work,” then people with real jobs are likely to conclude that said state employees are . . . not essential.
So sometime either late this afternoon or early tomorrow morning, we may be hearing on the radio or TV that the state’s “non-emergency” workforce is being given yet another day off.
A day off with pay, needless to say.
But the paper-shufflers are no longer “non-essential.” They’re just “non-emergency.”
This is one of the many ways life in the Dreaded Private Sector (DPS) is different than in the hackerama. State workers take an average of 15 “sick days” a year; those in the DPS, five. Hacks get pensions, the rest of us don’t. They get Bunker Hill Day off and we don’t.
And most importantly, in the DPS, there is a different word to describe someone who is “non-essential.” The word is expendable, the synonym for which is, “You’re fired.”
The state is currently facing a deficit of $2 billion. Is that an “emergency”?
Of course, it’s business as usual up at the State House. This afternoon, the unqualified wife of a despicable state rep named Garrett Bradley will most likely be confirmed as a judge. This outrage occurs two days after a newly unemployed Republican ex-state rep was hired after a nationwide search by a Republican sheriff to fill a position that had been vacant for two years. One of the lame explanations offered for the hiring was that another guy had just left the office. A guy who was making $57,000.
And now the ex-solon rep gets $110,000 a year.
I’m sure, though, that Jeff Perry is “essential.” He must be, because his title is “special sheriff.”
They can’t keep giving six-figure jobs to every one of their unemployable friends and relatives. Sooner or later some pink slips will have to start flying. So I have a suggestion.
Tomorrow, if indeed the “non-emergency” state workers are loafing at home, every agency boss should make a list of who came in and who didn’t. If you’re a hack and you don’t show up for work, you will be considered non-essential, er, non-emergency. You will be fired.
How do you think Speaker DeLeo will like my plan? It means almost every single layabout slug he’s related to will be unemployed.
Now that would be a real emergency, at least for Mistah Speakah.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1312040
Is there really a weather guy up there named "Biff Buffington"?!
LOL! ;-D
Of course that’s Howie doing a voice spoofing the weather forecasters/newscasters. There’s nobody with a name like
Biff Buffington—it’s a name he made up
WHOA................
It’s payback time, Sal. You have been selected as the makeup call for Chuck “Superfly” Turner. The streak ends with you, Mistah Speakah.
No, not the streak of legislative leaders being indicted. That streak will never end. I’m talking about the streak of corrupt white politicians in Boston getting caught committing the most heinous sorts of crimes and then walking away without even spending a day in stir.
It’s the good old boys network. Generations of Hibernian highwaymen, and their faithful Italian companions, have gotten away with everything — and after they plead out, they’re handed fat pensions and their own rotten, no-ratings talk shows.
But the whole racket has gotten a little too obvious. Sal, it’s time to jail a white guy.
Think about this, Sal. Chuck took a grand, and he gets three years. You’re accused of pocketing $57K. If, God forbid, you’re found guilty, and Judge Mark Wolf uses the “Superfly” sentencing guidelines, you are looking at . . . 171 years.
On the bright side, you’ll be eligible for parole in 144 years and 4 months — in the year 2155.
Repeat after me, Sal: “Guilty, your Honor.” The best you can hope for at this point is to keep your bit to a bare minimum. I don’t care what Tom Kiley is telling you as he chauffeurs you down Northern Avenue to the courthouse in that green Jaguar of his.
Of course, the old phenomenon of rewarding crooked pols went far beyond Felon Finneran and Good Time Charlie Flaherty and Mrs. Johnny Pockets.
Remember the late Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald, also known as Money Fitz? Relieved a bag lady of $200,000, which he was ordered to repay . . . to her estate. So his fellow hacks made him the State House sergeant at arms — the guy with the top hat and the stick whose only real task every year is to lead the governor into the House chambers for the State of the State address.
How about the Boston city councilor Brian McLaughlin, better known as Cryin’ Brian after he broke down and began weeping when he explained how terrible it was to have to hide the cash he grabbed from a developer in the bedroom in his parents’ house, where he still lived at the age of 30?
Cryin’ Brian didn’t get life — he got a lifetime sinecure at City Hall. Who says crime doesn’t pay? It damn sure does if you’re a white hack from Boston.
I know Chuck talked his way into Club Fed all by himself. But still, just to prove the system isn’t as corrupt as it so obviously is, the cops are going to have to lock up a white guy.
Paging Sal DiMasi . .
The Colonel is at the following address if anyone is interested in sending cards, etc.
French Hospital Medical Center
1911 Johnson Avenue
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Oops... if Howie is lurking on this thread, I'm sure he's getting a good laugh over my "Is there really a Biff Buffington" stupid question, LOL!
That's a great name, though... I'll have to remember that one if I ever need another screen name somewhere. ;-)
thanks for passing along; I heard that segment too
oops, did I do it again? This comes from times when I either post from my Netbook or don’t check to see how it came out (or “preview” it) or both! Sorry!
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