Archives for the 'Boston' Category
We Can Do This The Hard Way
Published on 28 Nov 2008 at 7:53 am.
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Or we can do it the usual way. Tax-cutting Ballot Question 1 failed thanks to the massively financed hack union “reckless” campaign. Do-nothing Statehouse stickyfingers still need to cut $1.4 billion to maintain business as usual, but they get to do it their way. That means it will be … business as usual. Obama Jr. starts [...]
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From The Airport That Brought You 9/11
Published on 26 Nov 2008 at 8:17 am.
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Filed under Boston, al qaeda, cops, moronocy, terrorists.
Fed wannabe/medical supplies salesman flashed his assistant harbormaster badge, told the airline ticket agents and the state trooper at Boston’s Logan International he was an armed Homeland Security agent, and was escorted around TSA security checks onto the plane, where the flight crew helpfully pointed out who the air marshals were, FBI charges. Affidavit says imposter who claimed to [...]
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Important Herald Poll
Published on 25 Nov 2008 at 8:28 am.
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Herald Pulse
When caught on TV news with your zipper down, should you address it or zip it up and move on?
What’s This World Coming To?
Published on 23 Nov 2008 at 8:45 am.
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Howie Carr on the sorry state of rottenness in Boston. Don’t these corrupt pols know about bagmen? Boston Herald:
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Slumber Interrupted
Published on 22 Nov 2008 at 7:47 am.
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When the feds busted him on the job. Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner was picked up in his City Hall office, sawing logs. Feds say he went down cheap. It was 1,000 bucks to “take the wife to dinner and . . . have some fun.” Boston Herald. Chuck says he objects to being tried in the [...]
War Crimes/Hungarian Porn Activist Busted
Published on 21 Nov 2008 at 10:40 am.
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Filed under Boston, crime, pols, porn.
In fed bribery sting. Boston Herald. Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner is seen here in Government Exhibit B:
It isn’t the first time he’s been taken in. The cash, the secret camera and the indictment are new twists, though.
You’ll recall Chuck Turner as the city councilor who, with the help of local “activist” Sadiki Kambon, got the Boston [...]
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Pay As We Say
Published on 21 Nov 2008 at 8:26 am.
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Filed under Boston, cars, hacks.
Not as they don’t. Toll-hiking, gas-taxing Massachusetts hacks don’t pay the tolls, taxes, insurance or car payments. They charge it all to their campaigns, then collect the generous state per diems they vote for themselves. Boston Herald, Free Rides For Pols:
We’re No 1!
Published on 14 Nov 2008 at 9:59 pm.
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Boston City Hall … the Ugliest Building in the World. Boston Herald:
It Was A Dirty Job
Published on 5 Nov 2008 at 10:55 pm.
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Filed under Boston, literary, media.
But someone had to do it.* One of my favorite Globies, iconclastic freethinker Alex Beam, has a book out and a signing upcoming in Cambridge. “A Great Idea At The Time” is the history of the Great Books series and the debates that went into choosing them, “all fifty-four volumes of them… purporting to encompass all [...]
Scary Boston Gossip Bitches* for McCain-Palin
Published on 4 Nov 2008 at 8:11 am.
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Filed under Boston, Hollywood, media.
Boston Herald’s Inside Track: A vote for McCain-Palin is a vote to send Alec Baldwin to France again.
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Rightwing Conspiracy’s Secret Source
Published on 3 Nov 2008 at 11:00 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama.
Who leaked? Obama. Times of London:
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Closer
Published on 3 Nov 2008 at 9:49 am.
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Filed under Boston, McCain, baseball, cops.
McCain teams up with Sox starter Curt Schilling, another old guy who hung in when it mattered, to finish it. Boston Herald:
Five Questions, 10 Answers
Published on 2 Nov 2008 at 11:03 am.
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Filed under Boston, media, pols.
Five questions the Boston Globe says this election will answer, followed by Howie’s five reasons not to vote for Obama and Marjorie’s five reasons not to vote for McCain at the Boston Herald. Make that 10 questions and 15 answers, because I answered the Globe with five questions of my own. Gray ladies first:
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Hey Sport
Published on 1 Nov 2008 at 1:05 pm.
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Filed under Boston.
This tab’s for you. Herald’s Joe Fitz on an upscale Beantown deadbeat:
Beantown Traditions
Published on 31 Oct 2008 at 9:01 am.
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Filed under Boston, boobs, crime, money, pols.
Alive and well as convicted tax cheat, lately spotted stuffing cash into her bra, vows to fight for her seat. She has to … that, kickbacks and campaign donations are her only source of income and let’s face it, the girl’s in her 50s and not exactly accustomed to work. Anyway, Massachusetts governemtn has long [...]
Busted!
Published on 29 Oct 2008 at 7:59 am.
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Filed under Boston, crime, pols.
You may have heard one of our local solons was hauled off by the FBI yesterday. That’s State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, seen here in Government Exhibit D, stuffing money in her bra.
Keep The Feith
Published on 23 Oct 2008 at 8:05 am.
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Filed under Boston, Iraq, history.
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith is on stage at the Ford Hall Forum* tonight. I get to moderate. Old South Meeting House on Washington Street, 6:30 p.m. Expect critics. His book, “War and Decision” is an excellent, highly readable narrative of the development of war policy post-9/11, with a lot of the history leading [...]
Patrick, Obama, ACORN and My Tax Dollars
Published on 22 Oct 2008 at 12:15 pm.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, pols.
Yeah, it’s a big orbit, maybe 3000 miles and two decades from DC to Chicago to Boston, but they all come together, in my wallet.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Barack Obama like letting people know how much like each other they are. Turns out its true. Want a template for an Obama administration? Look no [...]
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Kerry Humor Evolves
Published on 21 Oct 2008 at 11:34 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
From botched to borrowed. Boston Herald:
Lagos, Meet Whitey Bulger
Published on 6 Oct 2008 at 10:29 am.
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Filed under Boston, Internet, money.
Gotta love those Nigerian Internet scammers. Sitting around all day, trying to come up with a good angle, writing letters so bad that anyone who falls for them deserves to lose all their $$$ in Lagos. But this one came from “Robert S. Mueller, Director FBI.”
Obviously this guy doesn’t know much about the FBI’s reputation around here.
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Thanks, Guys, And Good Night
Published on 6 Oct 2008 at 12:01 am.
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Filed under Boston, media.
They got the paper out. Boston Herald’s Gelzo salutes them as we take another step away from tradition in this brave new world of news. The Herald presses roar for the last time tonight, then we’re out of the printing business.
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Summer of Sam Rockefeller
Published on 3 Oct 2008 at 11:50 am.
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The international man of mystery also known as Clark Rockefeller gave us a heck of a summer potboiler. The surprises never end with Crock, aka Christian Karl Gerhardstreiter, who manages to startle every time he pops out, like a freakish Bavarian cuckoo clock.
Not satisfied with just passing himself off as an American blueblood with a kraut accent, he did it by [...]
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Yee Ha!
Published on 1 Oct 2008 at 11:17 am.
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Filed under Boston, law & order.
Head ‘em up, move ‘em out! Boston Herald:
A well-turned-out Texan and his stunning stiletto-heeled wife pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges they acted like boorish buckaroos while guests of the luxurious Boston Harbor Hotel, allegedly attacking police and berating staff with racist slurs.
The Rowes Wharf rodeo was allegedly precipitated by the lovers locking horns at [...]
Great American Newspaper
Published on 30 Sep 2008 at 8:31 pm.
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Filed under Boston, McCain, media.
Endorses McCain. It’s an experience, steady hand on the helm, unwavering in adversity, bi-partisanship thing, proven from Hanoi to Washington DC. “There is no room for a naif in the Oval Office.” Boston Herald:
Another sobering start to an exceedingly sobering week - but one which points to the need for a political leader who is [...]
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Pahk Your Ka
Published on 17 Sep 2008 at 9:05 am.
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Filed under Boston, Europe, cars.
Instapundit links to this fond review of the Ka, a Ford Euromodel. We have lots of kas around here. We pahk them in Hahvahd Yahd. This one looks like a bumperka, except it doesn’t look like it could take a hit.
JFKlueless in ‘08
Published on 17 Sep 2008 at 8:47 am.
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Kennedy wannabe still running against George Bush. Sounds so … 2004. Somebody better tell him pointing out that he lost his party’s sure thing four years ago might not be the best 2008 campaign line.* Boston Globe:
Underdog
Published on 15 Sep 2008 at 8:13 am.
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I’m not a huge sports fan, but I like a good story line. New England Pats have one. Pats get a win over Favre’s Jets with Backup QB Matt Cassel, underdog in for an injured Brady, in his first start since high school. Cassel finally gets some respect. Boston Herald’s Tomase, Cassel stands tall:
Redemption Song
Published on 27 Aug 2008 at 9:19 am.
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Filed under Boston, military.
Hero with a dark past makes good, in Afghanistan and back home. The decorated National Guardsman combat vet who saved a critically injured motorcyclist’s life is an ex-cop who did time for assaulting his girlfriend. Commenters at the Herald site think it’s unfair to note that past, but at least a couple seem to get there’s a bigger story [...]
Mass Dems to McCain: Mitt Please
Published on 27 Aug 2008 at 7:54 am.
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Best chance for Hairplugs and Charm … sorry, I meant hope and change … is McCain/Romney. Mass Dems want Mitt for veep. Boston Herald:
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Johnny On The Spot
Published on 26 Aug 2008 at 3:58 pm.
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Filed under Boston, booze, cars, military.
Four-time Iraq/Afghan vet John Melson happens on scene, applies a tourniquet to save a biker’s life after his leg is ripped off in a head-on collision with a probation officer, who was driving the wrong way and is now charged with DWI. Boston Herald:
Crock 1, Globe 0
Published on 24 Aug 2008 at 8:41 am.
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Filed under Boston, Germans, clowns, media.
Sunday’s a great day for a thumbsucker, and this one’s highly informative. News quiz:
Q: How many Boston Globe reporters does it take to bungle a Crockefeller softball interview?
A: Three, apparently. The story’s a bit of a snooze but the vid is worth clicking on for the tutorial it offers in slow-pitch interviewing techniques, in which the reporters [...]
Cut The Cheese
Published on 21 Aug 2008 at 7:25 am.
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Filed under Boston, crime, punishment.
The Cheeseman must diet. The reputed Boston mobster/fromagier has been given doctor’s orders he can’t refuse: Lose the gouda or else. It’s like he woke up with a hogshead in the bed next to him. Boston Herald, “Live and Let Diet.”
Math Problem
Published on 20 Aug 2008 at 10:06 am.
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Filed under Boston, lawyers, media.
You might need to use all your fingers to add this one up. Here we go. How is it possible that the Boston Globe, when it wrote this glowing Aug. 13 profile of Crockefeller lawyer Stephen Hrones, “Lone Defender“ …
A week after he began defending one of the most vilified criminal suspects in the country, Stephen B. [...]
Humble Trainwreck Hero
Published on 31 May 2008 at 9:17 am.
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Filed under Boston, Boy Scouts, courage.
Is an Eagle Scout. Mom read the trapped woman’s account of an anonymous hero who stayed with her in the smoke-filled train, called up and said, “That’s my boy.” El Heraldo:
Trainwreck Hero
Published on 30 May 2008 at 9:26 am.
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An MBTA train operator was killed and a number of passengers injured, including one woman who was trapped directly behind the driver when one Green Line trolley rear-ended another during rush hour Wednesday. Even as the wrecked trolley filled with smoke and other passengers ran, one man stayed with the trapped woman. Now she wants to thank him, [...]
Sox Fan’s Face vs. Yanks Fan’s Fist
Published on 13 May 2008 at 12:10 am.
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Filed under Boston, baseball.
Sox fan’s face wins the fight. Whiny Yanks fan wins the $$$. Boston Herald:
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Get Me Outta Here!
Published on 12 May 2008 at 8:52 am.
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Last week, it was the plaintive plea for a super-sized toilet. This week, the Cheeseman shows he’s willing to submit to any indignity to get sprung. Boston Herald:
The Cheeseman Departeth
Published on 8 May 2008 at 9:33 am.
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Filed under Boston, moronocy.
The Boston mob has been a laughingstock for decades. There was the wiretapping of an Omerta ceremony in Medford. Lame-o. There was the taking down of the old school Italians by a murderous Irish upstart drug dealer/extortionist working in concert with the FBI. The murderous Irish upstart also ended up taking down the local FBI [...]
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Top-Rated Sexy Sox Girls
Published on 28 Apr 2008 at 9:42 pm.
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Filed under Boston, baseball, feminism, moronocy, sex.
Another Herald editor was talking to someone in Red Sox marketing a while back who reported women are a hot segment of the booming Sox fan base. Apparently so:
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Come To Boston
Published on 16 Apr 2008 at 9:26 am.
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Gelzo at Boston Herald to Ben XVI:
Valiant Effort
Published on 14 Apr 2008 at 7:36 am.
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Filed under Boston, baseball.
Yankee minions on their knees in five-hour effort to unearth a Sox jersey planted under two feet of concrete, while Yanks rookie chokes at Fenway. A loyal Red Sox Nation partisan, deep behind enemy lines, had attempted to curse the Evil Empire’s new Death Star. Did it fail? We’ll the NY Post tell the tale:
Authortunism
Published on 30 Mar 2008 at 8:06 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
Cruel wit by Howie Carr, re Obamawannabe Deval Patrick and his $1.3 million stepping-stone tome. I think Howie might actually be giving Patrick too much credit. Up from very humble Chicago project beginnings, bright kid makes good but the resume doesn’t show much to commend him to leadership unless you’re impressed by some journeyman civil rights lawyering, [...]
BEANZAI!
Published on 25 Mar 2008 at 6:43 am.
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Filed under Boston, Japan, baseball.
It feels like Dawn over Tokyo, watching Beantown’s own open vs the A’s in the Tokyo Dome at 6 a.m. via the wonder of HDTV. Matsuzaka loses face on the hometown mound, soybeans one and walks another, gives up two runs and throws away 30 pitches in a 2-0 first-inning disaster. That’s OK, the fat geisha hasn’t sung. No need for anyone [...]
Close Encounters of the Perv Kind
Published on 20 Mar 2008 at 8:21 am.
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Boston Herald rides the train with undercover T cops on Grope Patrol. Stalking stalkers, Jessica Van Sack gets stalked.
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Star Power
Published on 17 Mar 2008 at 9:53 am.
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Less than stellar. Ignorance is bliss for Obamite fundraiser Affleck. Boston Herald’s Inside Track:
St. Pat’s Parade
Published on 17 Mar 2008 at 9:41 am.
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Filed under Boston, Iraq, military.
LCpl Walter “Gator” O’Haire’s pals from Golf Co., 2/6 Marines, march through his hometown, South Boston, in yesterday’s St. Pat’s parade. O’Haire was killed in action in Anbar May 9, 2007, shot in the head while on patrol, six days short of his 21st birthday. Boston Herald on the parade here, on O’Haire’s mom hosting [...]
Platoon Mom
Published on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:53 am.
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Gelzo at Boston Herald:
When you have brought five children into this world, adopted four more and nurtured some 50 foster kids, opening your heart to another 25 boys is no problem - especially when they formed the circle of brothers who were with Lance Cpl. Walter “Gator” O’Haire at the moment of his death in [...]
Yea, Though I Walk …
Published on 1 Mar 2008 at 9:59 am.
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Filed under Boston, academia, baseball.
… through the Stadium of the Evil Empire …. Red Sox fans among NYU’s Class of ‘08 forced to endure commencement in Yankee Stadium. Boston Herald:
Global Panic
Published on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:13 am.
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Filed under Boston, media.
As Boston’s Gray Baglady gets ready to sell off more jewelry. Boston Herald:
Perv to Reps
Published on 27 Feb 2008 at 8:52 am.
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Filed under Boston, pervs, pols.
Stop us before we offend again. Just not in prison. Boston Herald:
