Howie Carr Show Christmas/New Yr's Thread

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[raccoonradio]

This is the Howie Carr show thread for the week or so surrounding Christmas and New Year's. Howie will be back on air just after New Yr's. If there are any columns I will post them here.

[AlexSmyth]

Howie’s Tummy Doc may be the best in the biz, but my previous next door neighbor is a Canadian eye surgeon, and she always told friends perusing breast augmentation, to always have it done in a hospital. And alwasy research that doctors qualifications.

I remember her stating, to think about this way, if something goes wrong, where would you rather be, in a doctor’s office in-route to a hospital or in a hospital?

[raccoonradio]

Special Sat column ping

Our pols charge forth... to jail
By Howie Carr / 2011 Predictions: Politics | Saturday, January 1, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

Whenever anything I predict here does indeed happen in the new year, please remember and be sure to mention my brilliance to all your friends. When any of my 2011 predictions go awry, all I can say is, what predictions?

The following will occur in 2011:

• Sen. Scott Brown’s new book will easily outsell Gov. Deval Patrick’s.

• Chuck “Superfly” Turner will be sentenced to prison, but it will be short Club Fed time, and he’ll be home for Christmas, er, Kwaanza.

• Ex-Speaker Sal DiMasi — guilty as charged! And he will have to do a real bit — there were only so many wrist slaps these federal judges could hand out to corrupt connected white guys before somebody finally noticed.

• Mumbles Menino will go on a diet — several, as a matter of fact.

• One topic will be totally off-limits at the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast — the Probation Department.

• Like his predecessors Shannon O’Brien and Joe Malone before him, Typhoid Tim Cahill will spend hours wondering why he ever gave up the best job he could ever hope to have, state treasurer, to end his two-bit career in a kamikaze run for governor.

Many of these thoughts will occur to Tim as he’s working at his new job in the Dreaded Private Sector — raking leaves.

• An elected law-enforcement official will be indicted by the feds in 2011.

• Over-under on how many local pols come out of the closet this year: three. I’ll take the over.

• At least one crooked hack will be hired as a talk-show host by a dollar-a-holler AM radio station. (That’s a guarantee every year, right?)

• We’ve not heard the last of the congressman’s convicted-felon wife, Patrice Tierney, a/k/a Mrs. Johnny Pockets. Her fugitive racketeering brother will turn himself in to the feds, and what a sordid tale he will weave for the grand jury.

• Best bet for Congressional “contraction” (as LeBron James would say): Barney Frank decides to retire, his district is dismembered, and none of the other posturing popinjays have to run against each other in a Democrat primary.

Second best bet: John Tierney decides to spend more time with his family.

Third best bet: The Legislature combines the western districts of John Olver and Richie Neal, because it makes the most sense, and is less likely to lead to anyone’s indictment in 2012.

• Best bet for legislative redistricting: Therese Murray, the Senate president, will see to it that the town of Sandwich is removed from her district, because that’s the home of a lot of Republicans, one in particular — Tom Keyes, the selectman who came thisclose to defeating her last November.

• Sen. Marc Pacheco will agonize over the fact that when probation prober Paul Ware came calling last year with a subpoena, he didn’t pull a Petrolati and take the Fifth.

• Deval Patrick’s parrot, the Globe, will float trial balloon after trial balloon for proposed new tax increases. Deval will even try to “revisit,” as he would put it, the sales tax on alcohol, the will of the people be damned, as usual.

• Many pols will “amend” their annual State Ethics Commission filings — but only after they’ve already been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

Happy New Year, same as the old year.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1306518