Posted on 12/18/2011 3:10:27 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Congress sees the light over bulb ban"
Sunday column ping
Congress sees the light over bulb ban
By Howie Carr | Sunday, December 18, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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The forces of science and rationalism won a big victory in Congress this week over superstition and religious intolerance, but somehow I doubt the American Civil Liberties Union is celebrating.
Here’s the headline: “Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban.”
That’s right. The ban on 100-watt incandescent Thomas Edison light bulbs, which was supposed to begin Jan. 1, was put off. Congress has denied the green fundamentalists any funds to impose their eco-sharia law on the rest of us infidels who have figured out that global warming is a scam, or should I say false religion.
Is that blasphemy, what I just said? Am I a denier? It’s certainly lese majeste, because the ruling classes, Republican and Democrat alike, have embraced this strange cult.
You can see the fanatical true believers engaged in their bizarre rituals, sorting out their trash and depositing each type at a different altar in the suburban landfills — a different one for cardboard and newsprint and green glass bottles and clear glass bottles and plastic bottles and tin cans and aluminum cans. ...
Like all new cults, the Greens have zero tolerance for the older religions. Just because they believe in global warming, it must be true, and therefore anyone who opposes them is an infidel who must be shunned.
They have their own Book of Revelation — the movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Alas, the inconvenient truth is that the date of the apocalypse keeps getting moved back. Temperatures aren’t rising, they’re falling, thus the now-famous memo from alleged scientists (actually high priests) about “hiding the decline” in global temperature.
Archbishop Barack Obama, who in 2008 predicted that his nomination would be the day the sea levels stopped rising, now admits he can’t control the weather.
Well, even St. Augustine was plagued by doubts.
What’s ironic about the Church of Green is that these are the same people who want government out of their bedroom, or their uteruses, now want government in your light socket, or your toilet.
As late as the 1960s, Roman Catholics were forbidden to eat meat on Fridays. It was a mortal sin — an express ticket to hell — to enjoy a cheeseburger or a pepperoni pizza. Yet, no Catholic pol would have ever dreamed of filing legislation to ban everyone from eating meat on Friday.
But the shock troops of this new religion have no such qualms.
First they came for your toilets that flushed, next they came for incandescent light bulbs.
Whatever happened to the old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Or the Hippocratic oath: “First, do no harm.”
Stopping the light bulb ban, at least temporarily, was a small victory for us nonbelievers. At least we have something to be thankful for this Christmas, or, as the Greens describe this season, “the winter solstice.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1389309
If I didn't know better, I would think I was reading Steyn.
Listen to him (from here in VT) almost daily.
He is a bit of a RINO and is supporting Mittens as he has bought into the Newt can't get elected, BS, but other than that, he is great.
Howie has tried to get Steyn to fill in for him but Steyn has some kind of exclusive deal with Rush.
The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.
AGW is unfalsifiable: All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.
Ineligible dog abuser, bad governor, Romney:
“I bet you $10,000 that Howie Carr supports me
no matter about RomneyCARE,
no matter my love for global warming,
no matter my continuous lying,
living in Nazi mansions or my Sanctuary estates,
or even my impositions of whatever I want.
It’s good to be King with a docile lackey
on the radio for us,
smearing our opposition without a second thought.”
Scott Brown’s re-election theme: If you want to ban light bulbs vote for Elizabeth Warren.
Or just show “consumer advocate” Elizabeth Warren, promising to outlaw the light bulb.
Wonderful - thanks for the ping:
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Archbishop Barack Obama, who in 2008 predicted that his nomination would be the day the sea levels stopped rising, now admits he can’t control the weather.
Well, even St. Augustine was plagued by doubts.
What’s ironic about the Church of Green is that these are the same people who want government out of their bedroom, or their uteruses, now want government in your light socket, or your toilet.
As late as the 1960s, Roman Catholics were forbidden to eat meat on Fridays. It was a mortal sin — an express ticket to hell — to enjoy a cheeseburger or a pepperoni pizza. Yet, no Catholic pol would have ever dreamed of filing legislation to ban everyone from eating meat on Friday.
But the shock troops of this new religion have no such qualms.
First they came for your toilets that flushed, next they came for incandescent light bulbs.
Whatever happened to the old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Or the Hippocratic oath: “First, do no harm.”
Howie hasn’t mentioned yet if anyone won the death pool with Kim Jong Il...would think they could do one soon if someone did. I’ll send an email...got the feeling nobody had him but who knows. “Stay tuned”...
Chris Hitchens would have been a more likely death pool selection.
Wed. column ping (indeed Kim Jong Il was not in death pool)
A visit from the Feds
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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Photo by Stuart Cahill
‘Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the Big House,
Not a creature was stirring,
Not even a rat.
Whitey sits in his cell, scratching his Depends,
Wondering is this what the nuns meant by the wages of sin?
Once they called me Top Echelon Informant,
But now I’m 82, the docs tell me I’m sickly and gaunt.
The longer I’m in stir, the more it seems a tomb,
Not nearly as much fun as the good old Dog Room.
I used to say Christmas was for cops and for kids,
But all these years later, I find myself on the skids.
If only Catherine had stayed away from that tabby cat,
He brought the cops on me faster than any old rat.
Of course it could be worse, I could be old Zip, the G-man
we called “Neighbor,
Last time I checked he was in Starke, doing 40 years hard labor.
The guy who screwed my brother, his name is Mitt,
And I can’t get at him, I’m stuck here doing this bit.
And then there’s Flemmi, in solitary in Otisville,
Stevie’s chance of parole: absolutely nil.
God, how I wish I was yet on the lam,
But sometimes I think nobody even still gives a damn.
I miss all the women — Jackie, Catherine, Teresa and Dottie —
But out of them all, Sal Mineo had the best body.
All gone now — Buddy Roache, Billy O, Hank Garrity, too,
You’re all dead, and yes Willie McDonough, this even means you.
The Pen Tavern is padlocked, Triple O’s is no more,
And never again will the Choctaw Kid walk through my door.
It was ’55 when Rico slapped the cuffs on me,
I think I’ll rhyme this line with Pat Nee.
Crossing the bridge, tip your hat to Tommy King,
So what if they’ve dug up his body, it still has a nice ring.
Weeks was too weak, I should have given Rakes a shake,
As for O’Neil, what a big bloated fake.
The Dog House is shuttered, Angiulo sleeps with the fishes,
I’d be dead, too, if Zannino’d gotten his wishes.
Now the dawn sky is brightening, the sun’s rising o’er the bay,
And I have just one question: Are you sure Jimmy Cagney
done it this way?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1390053
Re today's show featuring Mitt -- someone should tell Howie he sounds utterly unconvincing reading from a script. I've noticed it before when he reads ads, but he doesn't pretend he's not reading the ads. Today, with Mitt, he sounded like a good little grammar school boy reading "with expression," as the teachers used to encourage. I wonder if Mitt provided the script. Mitt sounded as if he was reading from his own.
Call screening apparently screened out all but the most disgustingly fawning Mitt-bots -- maybe they were provided with scripts, too.
All in all, a disgusting performance on all sides!
Herald:
Lt. Gov. Tim Murray has ordered state police to release the black box data from his pre-dawn crash last month in Sterling.
Developing ...
Fri column ping. Part of this showed up yesterday as a Web Exclusive.
Mitt Romney hits pay dirt with Uncle Omar stand
By Howie Carr | Friday, December 23, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Mitt Romney needs a lot more of the headlines like the one he got in the Drudge Report yesterday:
“Romney: I’d Deport Obama’s Uncle.”
It made me feel pretty good, too, since I’m the one who asked Willard the question on my radio show Wednesday afternoon. Think of it as my Christmas present to you, Mitt.
This is the kind of red meat GOP primary voters want. Forget those 59-point economic plans and your 42-year marriage to Ann. Everywhere Americans go, they see illegals lounging on the corners, crowding the emergency rooms, using EBT cards at supermarkets, demanding translators in the district courts, dominating the local newspapers’ police blotters (driving without a license, driving without an inspection sticker, etc.).
The old song was right. Everything free in America. At least for illegal aliens.
The fact that the president of the United States has not one, but two relatives who came into the country illegally tells you absolutely everything you need to know about Barack Obama. You don’t need to ever bring up his birth certificate issue as long as you keep Auntie Zeituni and Uncle Omar out there front and center.
It’s a no-brainer. I was just surprised Mitt didn’t know who I was talking about at first when I mentioned “Uncle Omar.” I understand that he wouldn’t read Barack’s narcissistic memoirs, but hey, Uncle Omar’s been in the Boston papers for months now.
The reason Gov. Rick Perry dropped like a stone in the polls last fall wasn’t so much that he had that brain freeze in the debate, it was that he described Americans who are concerned about the free rides for illegals as “heartless.”
Now Mitt ought to add Auntie Zeituni to his stump speech. I know she’s been granted “asylum” — wink wink nudge nudge. But the fact remains, she admitted last year that she was collecting welfare and living in public housing even when she was an illegal alien.
I used to get so much grief from my moonbat callers for pointing out that illegal aliens collect welfare. The Birkenstock crowd would tell me I was flat-out lying. Then Auntie Zeituni went on Ch. 4 and let out the dirty little secret.
People who live near her in the Southie projects claim she’s got “security” of some sort, although that’s never been confirmed. Out in Framingham, where Uncle Omar lives, the ones who need security are the other drivers — he blew a .14 on the Breathalyzer the night he was lugged last August. Now his lawyers say the machine was defective — stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
As for you, Mitt, you don’t have to thank me. Just come on my show more often.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1390641
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WRKO/Howie had a contest to win $68,000. A lucky listener had a 1 in 100 chance
to win. How do you think he did?
envelope #57...just like Obama’s 57 states in the U.S.
Yeah, I can see that.
It’s getting harder to listen to his show, as he seems to be having an increasingly hard time formulating coherent sentences.
Wow, that’s a lot of on the arm hair there on his head.
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