Posted on 02/05/2012 3:37:05 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie Carr Show thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald article about the mayor of Boston, prone to malapropisms ("together we can beat prostrate cancer"; "jumbletroms" meaning Jumbotron). The outcome of the big game tonight will influence how Patriots fans refer to it tomorrow: It'll be either "WE won" or "THEY lost". Hopefully either way we won't see "a few knuckleheads" acting like lager louts out in the streets of Menino-land tonight. Actually I'm sure we will.
Sun. column ping
Super pol: Mayor praises Wexler and Grabowski
By Howie Carr | Sunday, February 5, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Will wonders never cease — Mumbles Menino has come out against hacks.
After a half-century at the public trough, the mayor has finally realized what a plague these hacks — I mean, hackers — really are. Some hippies hacked into the Boston Police Department website Friday, and boy, did that fry the mayor’s nose, as he would put it.
All dialogue guaranteed verbatim:
“They’re about showboats, they wanna make cause trouble but but there’s nothing that results out of those troubles. I mean like this is hackin’. We have to change our whole system now. It doesn’t make a heck of a lot of sense to me or the police commissioner but it’s a concern. I mean, if they could hack that, what else could they hack?”
Er, the city payroll maybe. But it’s already hacked to the max.
Until then, it had been a great Super Bowl week for Hizzoner. You know, he’s not as young, or as svelte, as he used to be, but there’s something about a big game that still gets him going.
Who can forget his recitation of the “ionic” figures of Boston sports, whether it’s “Red Sock” immortals or “Varitek” splitting the uprights to win the Super Bowl? Or his stern admonitions to spectators at the victory parades not to use “potta-potties” as weapons. Maybe he doesn’t follow the games on TV. Asked once about an “ionic” Boston sportscaster, he replied, “Who Don Gillis?” — but he is a casual fan. Very casual.
As Mumbles opined after the AFC conference championship, “Brady has that, those wide receivers out there, the uh, Grabowski, Hernandiz, Wes Wexler, I mean he has ’em all.”
But it all comes down to Number 12, doesn’t it Mumbles?
“We have Tom Brady [stats] who’s true and has a veteran’s uh technique of how to get through these difficult games, one of those phenomenems in football right now, uh, most favorite player that I saw Brady reviously.”
That’s what he said. I’m just the stenographer.
If only those hackers hadn’t gotten into the BPD computer system, it would have been a perfect week for Mumbles. And the irony is, the group known as “Anonymous” was doing it to protest what they said was the “police brutality” against the Occupy vermin.
What police brutality? Mumbles never laid down the law to OWS like he did to the Pats fans Friday, minus a verb or two.
“We ask all Patriots [team stats] fans to responsible and respectful while cheerin’ on the Pats. Public drinkin’ will not be tolerated. Neither will destructive or dangerous behavior.”
Funny, all of that — and much more — was tolerated for more than two months on the Greenway. Double standard, anyone?
Tip to all Pats revelers (or mourners): If you want to be left alone by the cops in Kenmore Square tonight after the game, just bring along a tent spray-painted with obscenities and say you’re protesting Wall Street greed. They won’t lay a hand on you.
Just don’t try to hack onto any city payrolls. That kind of hacking is reserved for Mumbles and his minions.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1401315
Sun. column ping
Super pol: Mayor praises Wexler and Grabowski
By Howie Carr | Sunday, February 5, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Will wonders never cease — Mumbles Menino has come out against hacks.
After a half-century at the public trough, the mayor has finally realized what a plague these hacks — I mean, hackers — really are. Some hippies hacked into the Boston Police Department website Friday, and boy, did that fry the mayor’s nose, as he would put it.
All dialogue guaranteed verbatim:
“They’re about showboats, they wanna make cause trouble but but there’s nothing that results out of those troubles. I mean like this is hackin’. We have to change our whole system now. It doesn’t make a heck of a lot of sense to me or the police commissioner but it’s a concern. I mean, if they could hack that, what else could they hack?”
Er, the city payroll maybe. But it’s already hacked to the max.
Until then, it had been a great Super Bowl week for Hizzoner. You know, he’s not as young, or as svelte, as he used to be, but there’s something about a big game that still gets him going.
Who can forget his recitation of the “ionic” figures of Boston sports, whether it’s “Red Sock” immortals or “Varitek” splitting the uprights to win the Super Bowl? Or his stern admonitions to spectators at the victory parades not to use “potta-potties” as weapons. Maybe he doesn’t follow the games on TV. Asked once about an “ionic” Boston sportscaster, he replied, “Who Don Gillis?” — but he is a casual fan. Very casual.
As Mumbles opined after the AFC conference championship, “Brady has that, those wide receivers out there, the uh, Grabowski, Hernandiz, Wes Wexler, I mean he has ’em all.”
But it all comes down to Number 12, doesn’t it Mumbles?
“We have Tom Brady [stats] who’s true and has a veteran’s uh technique of how to get through these difficult games, one of those phenomenems in football right now, uh, most favorite player that I saw Brady reviously.”
That’s what he said. I’m just the stenographer.
If only those hackers hadn’t gotten into the BPD computer system, it would have been a perfect week for Mumbles. And the irony is, the group known as “Anonymous” was doing it to protest what they said was the “police brutality” against the Occupy vermin.
What police brutality? Mumbles never laid down the law to OWS like he did to the Pats fans Friday, minus a verb or two.
“We ask all Patriots [team stats] fans to responsible and respectful while cheerin’ on the Pats. Public drinkin’ will not be tolerated. Neither will destructive or dangerous behavior.”
Funny, all of that — and much more — was tolerated for more than two months on the Greenway. Double standard, anyone?
Tip to all Pats revelers (or mourners): If you want to be left alone by the cops in Kenmore Square tonight after the game, just bring along a tent spray-painted with obscenities and say you’re protesting Wall Street greed. They won’t lay a hand on you.
Just don’t try to hack onto any city payrolls. That kind of hacking is reserved for Mumbles and his minions.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1401315
LOL! Good stuff in that column.
I’m kind of wondering if the BC crap on Saturday means Avi Nelson is off permanently. Does BC pay to have this stuff on? It’s the type of programing that makes me switch to WBZ and stay there for a few days.
Not sure; WRKO sometimes runs “overflow sports” that WEEI
(sister station) has no room for. They have to honor
contracts, etc. For example on the day of the AFC Championship game—WEEI carried the “Dial Global” network feed—WRKO wound up with a noon Celtics game and then the
NFC championship, as WEEI went to local talk about the Pats’ game.
Pretty sure Avi’s still there but he’s subject to pre-emption. A few years back they had WRKO doing Red Sox
and that would have meant a lot of pre-emptions for a Sat.
afternoon show.
Wed. column ping. Chumpline calls: “If they threw an orange at a car, would it be a drive by fruiting?” “They’ll get my orange when they can pry it from my cold, dead hands.”
Riot? What riot? It’s usual ZooMass
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
I was calling Kevin Wholey in Hull to inform him that his 22-year-old son, K.P. Wholey, had been arrested Sunday night at ZooMass in the traditional post-Super Bowl riot. The usual charges: disorderly conduct, failure to disperse from a riot.
“I don’t know,” his dad said. “I’ll see you –” Click.
A few minutes later, he called me back. It turns out, I wasn’t the first person who had called him about “K.P.’s Big Adventure.” Somebody from the dean of students’ office had already phoned looking for K.P.’s phone number.
“I called and I let him have it,” his father was saying. “I told him, I shouldn’t have to hear about this from Howie Carr. He was crying. He’s going over to the dean of students’ office right now.”
So did he tell you what happened?
“He says he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He lives there. He threw an orange in the air — he says everyone was throwing stuff in the air. There were plainclothes cops in the crowd and they came over and grabbed him.”
What is it about UMass-Amherst? What’s the attraction of having a riot whenever anything happens? Do you realize these dolts even had a riot when Osama bin Laden was killed? I’m not sure whether it was a celebration or a protest; after all, their library is named after a Commie.
No wonder that one of the Super Bowl starters identified himself as a graduate of ZooMass. It’s a point of pride, I guess. On a scale of 1-to-10, Sunday night’s fracas rated about a five.
The “utes” chanted “(Expletive) the Giants!” and “(Expletive) the cops!” as well as, oddly enough, “U-S-A.”
On Monday, the Springfield Republican quoted a 19-year-old sophomore as saying, “A whole part of the experience at UMass is being a part of the riot. This is where I went tonight because I wanted to experience it.”
Funny, though, how their attitude changes after they get lugged.
I spoke to Bob Habackler, the grandfather of Joseph Habackler of Salisbury, Conn. He was charged with disorderly conduct.
“He climbed a tree to get out of the way of the crowd.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
“Wouldn’t that make sense?”
Yeah, I’d have probably come up with a story like that myself, if I’d been busted.
Next I placed a call to Wrentham, hometown of Barry Guglielmo. He confessed to his dad, Dan — the charges against him were inciting a riot and failure to disperse from a riot.
“My first response was, I was horrified. I made some assumptions that it was liquid courage. But he had some videotape of it, and he was anything but inciting. He said, ‘Dad, I just don’t want to get expelled.’ He could have dispersed more quickly when they told him to, but it was kind of an accident, kind of a mistake. My son’s a good boy.”
They’re all good boys at ZooMass, aren’t they?
For a full list of arrested students, go to howiecarr.us.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1402031
Ah yes, the ole, “Not my Johnny” routine........sad, very very sad and these are the “youts” that will someday be running for office, taking over industries..............run for your life, we are soooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!
Fri column ping. As far as I know WBZ’s Dave Maynard wasn’t in the death pool and I don’t think he’s been in any death pool. Maynard’s daughter was on Facebook recently and I got the feeling Dave was starting to slide health-wise, etc. from her post.
Caged Sal DiMasi will sing like a bird
By Howie Carr | Friday, February 10, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Sal DiMasi is a big fat rat. Does anyone seriously doubt this? No one at the State House, that’s for sure. To even put the phrases “Sal DiMasi” and “stand-up guy” in the same sentence — it is to laugh.
The former House speaker will soon be chirping to a federal grand jury in Worcester. How ironic that as he proves once again that there is no honor among thieves, my pal Sal performs the greatest service of his squalid, sticky-fingered career.
You see, thanks to Sal, the Legislature is “distracted,” or so we are told. Being chased by a posse can have that effect. The hacks are so distracted they just announced they’re not going to raise taxes next year. This tells me we need more distractions, many more.
Sal DiMasi will never be mistaken for a Shakespearean character, although he did, no doubt, know many shylocks in the North End. But in his current canary-yellow incarnation, riding ConBus, enduring those painful hours before the next bathroom stop, Sal does bear a certain resemblance to the Thane of Cawdor in Macbeth.
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
See, the Thane was a traitor to King Duncan. He had to be executed. The king asks Malcolm about Cawdor’s final moments. They sound a lot like Sal’s appearance before the 23 good men and true in Worcester next week:
“Very frankly he confessed his treasons,/Implor’d your Highness’ pardon, and set forth/A deep repentance./Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
The only thing Sal wants to leave is the lock-up. The foreman will ask, Prithee, Mr. Speaker, what other bent solons were in on the Probation Department scam? And Sal will spilleth the beans. Forsooth, he will.
This is why the hackerama is so antsy. Advil, the drug of choice among the bent Beacon Hill boys, is in short supply in Brighton. Meetings of Advil-oholics Anonymous are packed nightly. Convicted felons, and future felons, toss and turn in their beds.
The question is asked, Who can Sal give the feds?
A better question might be, Who do the feds want?
Because Sal will absolutely tell them whatever they want to hear. You understand, they’re all guilty. The State House right now is like a lobster pound; the G-men just have to point out the ones they fancy, and Sal the counterman will reach into the water, grab them and pack them up.
Another irony: Here’s Sal, with all his mob law clients, singing, while what’s left of In Town sweats out their own Sal DiMasi, Mark Rosetti. The sky over Hanover Street is dark with chickens coming home to roost.
How many more, Mistah Speakah? How many more?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1402535
There are pockets of righteousness left in the DOJ, for sure. However, these clean-outs are by nature self-limiting. Who knows what crimes Sal is really guilty of? Perhaps he didn't divvy up the swag according to the notion of someone higher on the hack food chain; appointed the wrong relative to the wrong job, etc. Look for more of this as the blacks and hispanics start to outnumber corned beef and pasta fazool people and want in! As soon as Sal fingers a few of the others the powers-that-be wish punished, his sentence will be reduced and he will be back after a short while, splitting his time between the Cape and Florida.
The only way to clean up MA is to use the tactics Mussolini employed in Sicily to temporarily end the Mafia. That is shoot every third suspect and if that doesn't work go to half, exile the rest to rocky volcanic isles, moving any remaining women and children to an Alp. That really is not going to happen. Slight change in the roster and it's "Game On!"
You might try some of our Old School Montana tactics:
Save the bullets for the folks coming after you with guns, or to stop the flight of malefactors.
Rope will serve for the rest. (...and the moral effect is beyond price.)
From my very incomplete running list, Maynard was in a couple.
I have his last appearance on September 18, 2009, when Patrick Swayze closed out the previous one.
Oh OK; I didn’t remember him being in any but I stand
corrected.
>>what’s left of In Town
btw I had a Barnes and Noble gift cert and bought a couple Boston mob related books (haven’t read yet but I leafed through the pix from the second one):
Betrayal by Robert Fitzpatrick (was on Howie’s show; the FBI
agent who brought him down etc)
And since Howie mentioned there was a book heavy with pictures (actually a lot more text than I would have thought, if this is the one he meant):
The Boston Mob Guide by Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow
There’s actually a pic of one mob hit place where I’ve dined: The 99 in Charlestown. Some wiseguys got offed
there. Mike Barnicle (yes I’ll give him credit for this
one—it sounds like a Howie saying but I googled it and
found it was Barnicle column) had a column about it
titled “Steak Tips To Die For”. (sigh, the pipe artist
actually got a funny title—who’d he steal it from?)
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