Posted on 07/17/2011 2:02:36 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the week starting with his Sun. Herald column
Sun. column ping
Whitey Bulger and the case of the missing canine
By Howie Carr | Sunday, July 17, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo
And now for another unsolved Whitey Bulger mystery: What’s the name of the third French poodle in this
photograph of Whitey from the early 1990s?
We know that Catherine Greig owned two standard black poodles
— Nikki and Gigi.
She even enrolled them in dog-obedience school; then when she
a
nd Whitey went on the lam in 1995, she left their “diploma” behind for the feds to find.
But there is no record of a third poodle, the one who makes it a “three-dog night,” as in the old Top 40 band, Three Dog Night
.
Nikki and Gigi came to a sad end — Catherine left them behind with her twin sister, Margaret McCusker. A few years later, when McCusker was sentenced to house arrest after pleading guilty to lying to a grand jury, she had the hounds put down.
Rhode Island Mafioso Robert DeLuca later wrote a poem about Whitey’s flight, titling it “Who’s Minding the Puppies?”
As for the band Three Dog Night, it seems that when Catherine left with Whitey, she ignored the wisdom of one of its first hits, penned by Randy Newman — “Mama Told Me Not to Come.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1352340
see the comments - “DUDE!”
wishin’ Howie would get back onto something with relevence, like following the slinky John F’n Kerry around - now THERE’S a topic we’d like more info on...JF’NK has been instrumental in foisting the obamanation upon us and he is complicit in the one’s socialist agenda...
not to mention that we’d love ‘more Terayyyyyysa’...
RE: Steve from Montreal
DAM IT HOWIE!!!
Why will you not defend your own country, from this Moon-Bat from Quebec?
I work in an office were a group of us all listen to the same internet station.
As soon as it becomes clear you are going to give this foreign, north of the border moon bat, troll, an unchallenged forum to run down America, the shouts from the other offices start with, “Shut off Howie”, which means the fairer sex wants “easy listing, or Top40 disco”
RE: Steve from Montreal
DAM IT HOWIE!!!
Why will you not defend your own country, from this Moon-Bat from Quebec?
I work in an office were a group of us all listen to the same internet station.
As soon as it becomes clear you are going to give this foreign, north of the border moon bat, troll, an unchallenged forum to run down America, the shouts from the other offices start with, “Shut off Howie”, which means the fairer sex wants “easy listing, or Top40 disco”
Hacks nickel-and-diming us again
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Wait a second — wasn’t the state budget signed last week among much backslapping and hosannas about how there would be “no new taxes?"?
But now the solons are considering a new bottle bill. The old one’s been in effect for 30 years, and it covers beer and carbonated beverages. And for all these years, the airwaves have been full of PSA’s lecturing everybody how alcohol is bad for you, and soft drinks are even worse. If they’re not full of sugar, then they’re pumped up with sugar-substitute chemicals.
Guess what? Sales have fallen. People are now drinking a lot more bottled water. So what’s the answer? Tax the water bottles — slap a nickel deposit on every Poland Spring.
“The only way it’s a tax,” sniffed state Sen. Cynthia Creem of Newton, the moonbat pushing this latest tax hike, “is if they don’t turn in the bottle.”
This is a variation on the Turnpike argument. You don’t like paying the tolls, pal, well, you got an option? It’s called Route 9.
I’d be much more concerned if not for the efficiency of the Beacon Hill lobbying community. I sense that the right deposits, no return expected, will be made, and this bill will be recycled again in 2012.
The moonbats have come up with a new phrase for this bill — “closing the loophole.” Putting a new tax on something that’s never been taxed — that’s closing the loophole.
If you don’t turn in the water bottle with the new nickel deposit, the state gets to grab the nickel, like it already does with beer and soda containers. Multiply the nickel by a few hundred million unreturned empties and pretty soon you’re talking about some more money for the hackerama, although of course the unclaimed deposits “would help local recycling programs."
Yeah, right. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. This is a rerun of the smoking scam. They tell people not to smoke, people stop smoking, and guess what — the per-pack revenues fall off so precipitously that they have to jack up the taxes on cigarettes. And wasn’t that higher-tax cigarette money supposed to be “earmarked” for anti-smoking programs? The payroll patriots earmark money about as often as they “sunset” a tax.
How’d you like to be a convenience store owner along the New Hampshire border this week? Beacon Hill is slamming you with a double whammy. They’re talking about allowing Lottery sales on the Internet, which is not good news for you as a Lottery agent, even if it is for your customers.
And now this — another reason for your customers to drive to New Hampshire, to add a couple of cases of bottled water on their next trip north to pick up their Cokes, Budweisers, smokes and fireworks.
I want to know one thing: Why aren’t they slapping a deposit on wine bottles? Could it just possibly be because the Beautiful People drink wine?
Still waiting for the NH legislature to award its Certificate of Merit to the MA legislature for its heroic contributions to the NH economy! ;-)
Vapid liberal woman on WRKO this morning subbing for Finneran. I usually don’t listen more than a couple of minutes in the morning, but this one really made me cringe in the brief period that I heard her voice.
ah...I missed that. Am on one of my trips (all by car this time), mostly VA and a bit of DC tomorrow (Newseum etc). Saw the White House...of the Confederacy (Richmond VA) and a related museum (you know, the war of Northern Aggression, some say), Williamsburg and all that.
listening online now though
Governor wheeling and dealing
By Howie Carr | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Wait a second — I thought the deal was, if we rolled over and didn’t repeal the 25-percent increase in the sales tax, the hacks would take the 19-cents-a-gallon gas tax off the table.
Do you think the vote last year on cutting the sales tax back to 5 percent might have gone the other way if the voters had figured out that Deval was pulling the old bait-and-switch on them yet again?
Forget the U.S. attorney’s public-corruption unit, we need to unleash the bunco squad at the State House. Deval ain’t much of a governor, but damn, can he play three-card monte.
“Lookee here, folks, see if you can figure out which peanut I got this here property-tax cut under . . . ”
From the people who brought you the Big Dig, now comes The Gas Tax!
Maybe it’s the heat, but Deval, et al. seem to be sending out one contradictory message after another this week. First they want to put deposits on water bottles because they’re broke, but then they announce they took in an extra $2 billion in revenue this year.
Then on the same day Deval announces there’s plenty of money to give every illegal alien in the world a free college education, his doughnut-addled lieutenant governor floats the trial lead balloon about the gas-tax hike.
You know it’s a trial balloon, because now Deval can step up and say, “My aides wanted that increase, but I know what I promised my people. And that’s why it’s only going up . . . 17 cents a gallon.”
The moonbats will genuflect and swoon.
The extra money, of course, will be “earmarked,” although you might notice that Tiny Tim didn’t use that word. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time, although you do have a better chance if the people are from Massachusetts. So now the new millions will be “dedicated” to road projects.
Shovel-ready projects no doubt, although that’s another newly banned phrase. Why don’t we call them “orange-cone-ready” projects. The taxpayers’ money will pay for lots more “prevailing wage” jobs — no wonder the real state motto is “Don’t Kill the Job.” Nobody in the trades wants to go back to working for real wages, which is maybe half the “prevailing wage.” Meanwhile, the Route 128 project around Westwood will soon be celebrating its 25th anniversary.
And by the way, Deval, whatever happened to all those civilian flaggers that were supposed to cut construction costs so much? We’ve already got so many worthless highway projects around here that as far as I can see, they’ve run out of real cops for the details, so first they went to retirees, then they cut in the sheriffs’ correctional officers. School crossing guards are next on the free-money detail list.
Last time the voters were told they could have either higher gas taxes or a higher sales tax. The choice was easy: Drive to New Hampshire to beat the sales tax. After all, the price of gas is about the same in both states.
But not for long. Soon there will be yet another reason for driving to New Hampshire — two, actually, once they put the nickel deposit on water bottles. But Deval will be ready for that one too — toll booths on the New Hampshire border.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1353458
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