Posted on 05/01/2014 5:00:16 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the month starting with his Thu May 1 column
Either Way, You Pay
Howie Carr, Boston Herald 5/1/14
Here’s how this fall’s referendum to repeal the hacks’ automatic increases in the gas tax is going to be paid for.
If you’re against this odious taxation without representation, you’ll be paying for the campaign to repeal it at the ballot box — with your donations. You will likewise be paying for the campaign to relieve the hacks of their responsibility to take a tough vote — with your tax dollars.
This is how it works now in Massachusetts. Heads they win, tails you lose.
That was the whole point of the complaint filed with the State Ethics Commission yesterday. The Patrick administration sent out “talking points” to be used in the pro-hack campaign (which I wrote about last Sunday). They were emailed to 18 overcompensated payroll Charlies by yet another state employee who is also the spouse of Deval’s one-time budget boss.
Yes, another nationwide search.
According to Rep. Geoff Diehl (R-Whitman), some of the state-funded coordination has been going on between the tax-’em-back-to-the-Stone-Age coatholders at the State House and the Greater Worcester Chamber of Commerce. The hacks are tapping into the general funds to finance their campaign, because otherwise they’d have to rely solely on contractors and the pinky-ring union thugs who are counting on the confiscated cash to pay for their featherbedding prevailing-wage projects.
The kleptocracy’s television campaign will feature “crumbling” bridges and apocalyptic potholes, as if we don’t see them every day already. But here’s what the tax-fattened hyenas will never admit: If they’re really running out of dough (and they’re not) all they have to do is vote to raise the gas tax.
But the solons don’t want to go on record as voting for anything that might cost them their phony-baloney sinecures on Beacon Hill. Hell, they’re too frightened to even debate anything controversial — the leadership has forbidden any mention in the current budget deliberations about the welfare fiasco or local aid (it’s being cut to working-class towns and increased to non-working-class cities like Lawrence).
By the way, it’s not just the gasoline tax that pays for roads and bridges.
Ever hear of the automobile excise tax? Or the 6.25 percent sales tax on automobiles bought in the commonwealth? How about the tolls? And don’t forget the Registry of Motor Vehicles — an agency that costs $60 million to run, and brings in $600 million or so every year.
The game here is, get the gas tax going up automatically, with no pols ever having to vote to increase it again. Then the hack-erama can funnel those endless millions to the connected contractors and the don’t-kill-the-jobs unions, both of which will then kick back to the state Democrat machine to keep the regime humming.
Mistah Speakah, stop them, before they steal again!
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The MAholes will elect and re-elect these people even if they are still in custody. They believe Elizabeth Warren is a Cherokee. They believe St. JFK of Hyannis was a Virgin and Martyr, along with his brother, Little St. Bobby (aka "The Little Flower?") They believe John Kerry is an Irish Catholic. They think Mayor Menino was a great orator. Not a peep out of'em when Whitey Bulger held down a no-show state job. They elected Coupe Deval, IMNVHO, because he looks like the guy on the Uncle Ben's Rice box. Could there be any other reason?
Let's face it, MAholes will always be MAholes and have been ever since the Pilgrims started having sex with the Indians. Unfortunately, just as they spread disease among the Indians, they spread this idiocy throughout the rest of New England, once a bastion of American common sense.
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http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/05/carr_justina_needs_jokers_justice
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http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/05/deval_uation_continues
PC backstory on Tsarnaev falling apart
Howie Carr, Boston Herald 5/14/14
The Politically Correct narrative of the Boston Marathon bombing is sinking faster than Barack Obama’s poll numbers.
Remember Tamerlan Tsarnaev, aka Speedbump. The Boston Globe tearfully informed its moonbat readers that Speedbump was “a stay-at-home dad.”
When he died at the age of 25, Speedbump was a “person of interest” in seven murders in Massachusetts, so apparently the stay-at-home dad got out of his (Section 8) house every once in a while.
Now we find out that his 9 mm came from a “Maine gang,” two words I never thought I’d type in the same sentence. But then, Vacationland has become a diversity-celebrating magnet of late, welcoming all sorts of Somali immigrants who demand translators at their endless criminal trials.
Last winter, two Somalis went on trial in Lewiston for fraudulently taking federal housing assistance. They’d grabbed $58,000 in rental assistance when they owned the entire apartment building. Now the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Speedbump had “ties to the illicit drug trade in Maine (that) helped finance his six month trip” back to the Third World hellhole from whence he came.
But … but … didn’t the Globe tell us in their War-and-Peace-length takeout on the Tsarnaev Crime Family that “money was always in short supply?”
Apparently not so much.
It was during his trip to the Muslim heartland, the L.A. Times reports, “where he became radicalized.”
But … but … didn’t the bow-tied bumkissers insist a couple of months ago that Speedbump was a “homegrown terrorist”?
Er, never mind.
Now it turns out that Speedbump picked up the gun he used in his final gun battle from one Biniam Tsegai, “an immigrant from Eritrea,” who has a five-page rap sheet, including conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
Another DREAMER, in other words.
Portland, which used to be a fairly peaceful (if inebriated) city, is now overrun with these bloodthirsty African gangs with names like True Somali Bloods. They were brought into this country and immediately put on welfare because they were escaping persecution from … other Muslims. Remember, in the immediate aftermath of the marathon terror bombings, how obvious it was who had committed this genocidal attack.
Barack Obama, April 15, 2013: “We still do not know who did this, or why, and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before we have all the facts.”
Deval Patrick, April 16, 2013: “There are times when all kinds of forces conspire to make people think of categories of people sometimes in uncharitable ways.”
Hey Barack and Deval, is it still too early for us to jump to conclusions and think of categories of people in undesirable ways? Even if they are your most loyal Democratic voters?
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Clear Channel is buying four stations on the Cape incl Howie affiliate WXTK 95.1—prob no changes but who knows.
>>(Cape Cod, MA: News/Talk 95.1 WXTK, Sports 96.3 WEII, Classic Hits “Cool 102” 101.9 WCIB, and Hot AC 106.1 WCOD
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Column ping and news about 105.5 FM in Portland rebroadcasting WGAN. See above
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