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