Archives for the 'hacks' Category
Crazy Is As Crazy Blogs
Published on 20 Nov 2009 at 10:48 am.
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OK, indulge my obsessed-lefty obsession for a minute. A quick wellness check on two of my favorite serious, thoughtful, expert moonbat commentators, Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan. First Sullivan, a professional political observer whose mental health we’ve been closely monitoring (and whose Daily Dish since resuming “as normal” yesterday has racked up no fewer than 23 Palin posts), [...]
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Normalcy Promised
Published on 19 Nov 2009 at 9:51 am.
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It’s a tall order. It’s Andrew Sullivan, coming down off his Palin-induced state of brain implosion, or whatever that was:
Never Mind The Sexism
Published on 18 Nov 2009 at 2:01 pm.
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(IMPORTANT UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan and his entire staff are gobsmacked. He reports he has some delusional fantasies he needs to sort out. I’ll say. He could start with who is the unhinged party and lacks a grasp on reality in his running Palin obsessathon. Also, what constitutes craziness on his part.)
How about the ripoff? Runner’s World said that shot [...]
Courageous!
Published on 8 Nov 2009 at 10:26 pm.
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House votes 220-215 to entirely reorder a vast portion of our economy, plus create massive new entitlements someone will have to pay for. NYT is keen to explain that it would have passed by more, but … 39 Dems come from districts that don’t want it. Also via NYT: Obama calls the House vote “courageous.”
Cash For Cons
Published on 25 Aug 2009 at 10:23 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, hacks, money, moronocy.
Sounds like an “Only in Massachusetts” kind of thing, but even the hacks in Taxachusetts couldn’t believe it when the feds mailed economic stimulus checks to state prison inmates. Boston Herald:
Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some [...]
Mystery Fog Over Boston
Published on 12 Aug 2009 at 1:55 pm.
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My worthy adversaries at the Boston Globe marvel at the “mystery fog” that settled over Boston yesterday afternoon, shutting down Logan International Airport for several hours. It wasn’t that big a mystery. As the fanciful, horror flick-citing weather story eventually gets around to partially explaining, when you have a mass of hot humid air over cold water, you [...]
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Drive As We Say …
Published on 5 Aug 2009 at 9:03 pm.
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… Not as we fly. Congress orders up three Gulfstreams for its own use. Roll Call:
Last year, lawmakers excoriated the CEOs of the Big Three automakers for traveling to Washington, D.C., by private jet to attend a hearing about a possible bailout of their companies.
But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel: [...]
Free The Herald One
Published on 12 Jul 2009 at 10:57 am.
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Filed under Boston, hacks, media.
The Boston Herald’s Howie Carr had to be handcuffed to his hospital bed to keep him down. The scourge of hacks, hoods, deadbeats, welfare queens, etc., is also a hard-working, highly professional, old school Tabloid-American who is a pleasure to work with. He may have already turned in his column for the day, or it may [...]
Economic Credulus
Published on 11 Jul 2009 at 11:11 am.
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Obama rejects a second stimulus. Coming from the Hero of Guantanamo and Savior of America’s Image Abroad, I believe that. via the Boston Herald:
Manure
Published on 28 Jun 2009 at 8:42 am.
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Filed under hacks, moronocy, warmalism.
It’s all about making the world a better place, but Boehner calls the big energy bill a pile of __it. Actually, it’s being reported as a “pile of s__t” at The Hill, where a Dem aide is allowed to yuk anonymously, “What do you expect from a guy who thinks global warming is caused by [...]
His Inner Kerry (UPDATED: Adieu, Jacko)
Published on 25 Jun 2009 at 8:35 am.
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WE INTERRUPT OUR NORMAL PROGRAMMING WITH THIS BREAKING NEWS:
Heat’s off Sanford … Michael Jackson’s dead. Do you remember where you were when you heard? Sanford does … off the front page.
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Payroll Patriots, Hack Heroes
Published on 19 Jun 2009 at 10:13 am.
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Speaking of great battle anniversary observances, I missed one the other day … just like the Massachusetts payroll patriots: who insist on taking this highest of hack holidays,* Bunker Hill Day, June 17, as a paid day off, though they skipped the actual commemorations of the day in 1775 that American militia faced off against British troops on Breed’s Hill in [...]
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30 Percent Rage
Published on 22 May 2009 at 8:38 am.
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Howie Carr’s “Hate To Say I Told You So” to the 70 percent of Massachusetts voters who blocked the elimination of the state income tax last November. Boston Herald:
Value Not Added
Published on 20 May 2009 at 9:55 am.
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Filed under Boston, Europe, hacks, taxes.
Nor expected any time soon. Commenter Simonwise helpfully notes in the “I just got mugged” post below that Massachusetts’ 6.25 percent sales tax is nothing. It’s 21.5 percent Value Added Tax in Ireland.
He’s got a point. Theoretically, if they tried that around here, they’d have to add some value. With our pending 25 percent hike in the sales [...]
And Another Thing …
Published on 20 May 2009 at 8:45 am.
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About that mugging, here’s the mob who did it. In another profession, the following would be called “Omerta.” via Boston Herald:
More than three-quarters of Beacon Hill lawmakers - including the House speaker and Senate president - threw up “a veil of secrecy” when pressed for the size and salaries of their taxpayer-paid staff, even as [...]
Cheap Date
Published on 17 May 2009 at 10:35 pm.
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Maureen Dowd rips off Josh Marshall. Pretty lame. She apparently claims inadvertence, but it looks kinda … I dunno … advertent. Advertently lame, that is. She claims didn’t know she was ripping off the Talking Points Memo blogger. She thought she was just letting a pal do the heavy lifting while she phoned it in. [...]
Turncoat Pariahed
Published on 6 May 2009 at 9:56 am.
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Specter denied seniority, given junior rank on the Dem side of committees. Hey, I thought he had Harry Reid’s word on that! Turns out he’ll get it … if he behaves through 2010. It’s evil and diabolical. I like it. Fitting punishment for someone who bailed on the party he rode in on, squawking about [...]
Machine Gunning The Lifeboats
Published on 26 Apr 2009 at 8:02 am.
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Filed under Boston, hacks.
Howie Carr with a great 10-point plan to resolve Massachusetts’ $400 million budget crunch … which may not sound like much with the numbers thrown around lately in DC, but for a state with 6 million people, legally obliged to balance the budget each year, it’s a pile.
His plan has a lot of great ideas. It centers on firing hacks, [...]
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Quid Pro Quo Sought
Published on 8 Apr 2009 at 11:05 pm.
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Lefty bloggers tired of being saps for lefty PACs, non-profits and Dems, would rather be whores. Greg Sargent, WP’s The Plumline.
“They come to us, expecting us to give them free publicity, and we do, but it’s not a two way street,” Jane Hamsher, the founder of FiredogLake, said in an interview. “They won’t do anything [...]
Cynicism Decried!
Published on 2 Apr 2009 at 11:19 am.
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Huffy hack lashes out at the shrill tabloid coverage/public outrage that forced her to resign from her $175,000 do-nothing job that had been vacant for 12 years at the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority, an agency no one ever heard of. Massachusetts state Sen. Marian Walsh, sounding hurt, whines to the Boston Herald’s Margery Eagan:
“We live in [...]
Obama Lite
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 9:15 am.
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Barack Obama and Deval Patrick campaigned for each other, wanted to make sure voters knew these two race-barrier-battering Chicago guys are the same, and a while back I cautioned that the Massachusetts governor might be a good indicator of what the Obama admin might look like. So it’s always good to check in.
Deval: upgrades to a Cadillac, [...]
Suicide Pact!
Published on 12 Mar 2009 at 9:25 am.
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Kerry, urgently, re warmal policy delays! AFP:
“Climate change is not governed by a recession, it’s governed by scientific facts about what’s happening to Earth. And you either accept the realities of the science or you don’t,” said Democratic Senator John Kerry.
He spoke after some of his colleagues argued that the United States should not impose a [...]
Edward M. Kennedy Non-Presidential Consolation Institute
Published on 11 Mar 2009 at 10:20 pm.
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It’s sort of a non-Presidential Library for a guy who was never quite president. It’ll be next to his brother’s presidential library in Dorchester. Teddy didn’t get one of those, but he’s hung in for nearly 50 years, through events that would have croaked a lesser man’s career, and incidentally he’s a Kennedy, so he’ll get the Edward M. [...]
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Change
Published on 2 Mar 2009 at 10:01 pm.
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He promised it, now he delivers. Change turns out to be from campaign rhetoric to actual practice, as Obama caves on Congressional pork. Speaking of change, it’s AP beating up on Obama again. Not without some gratuitous Bush-bash, of course. And only because McCain forced them to.
Calling All Porkbusters!
Published on 2 Mar 2009 at 8:01 am.
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Massachusetts GOP calls on citizenry to drop dimes on any state workers insufficiently stimulated, or over-stimulated, by the billions in stimulus bucks. Boston Herald:
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Sigh
Published on 27 Feb 2009 at 9:28 am.
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It used to be all the jokes were about Taxachusetts. Hey, we still are Taxachusetts. Advancing to Feeachusetts and Tollachusetts. But now all the meanspirited rightwing nutjobs are making jokes about Chicago. It’s shocking the left. I see it as a little sad, end of an era. That Chicago crowd is just a bunch of strongarm thugs, [...]
Too Tough On Crime!?!
Published on 27 Feb 2009 at 1:09 am.
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Filed under hacks, law & order.
I’m not sure I know exactly what this means. Yeah, I speak the language, I understand the words, but I find this hard to grasp.
“You said something here that concerned me . . . about whenever possible to maximize protection. What does that mean? Are you going to be presumptively in favor of protecting the public?”
I’ve [...]
Hacklash!
Published on 25 Feb 2009 at 12:17 pm.
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From a bullet through a city hall window in the wake of layoffs, to a pile of stinking fish on a mayoral doorstep in the Gorton Fisherman’s hometown, to earfuls in a gas station over the gas-tax hike proposal, pols are feeling the heat as they cut and tax in tough economic times. Boston Herald.
Hack Crusaders Waterboard Righteous Jihadi!
Published on 18 Feb 2009 at 10:11 am.
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The hated Hack Crusaders of Massachusettsanamo employ harsh measures in response to Michael Graham’s righteous jihad. Former state rep, current RMV chief Rachel Kaprilian decides the best defense when trying to convince people that an interstate paperwork glitch is an arrestable offence is a document dump. But another hack, state Sen. Brian Joyce (cruelly dubbed “Multiple-Choice” by Howie Carr for his many [...]
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Good Jobs At Good Wages
Published on 4 Jan 2009 at 12:23 pm.
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With a pay hike for the pols who helped bollix your economy. Barney Frank admits a twinge of guilt. About the raise, not helping to bollix your economy, that is. Boston Herald:
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Great News
Published on 18 Dec 2008 at 10:52 pm.
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We may have Al Franken to kick around. TPM. They’ve already lost their filibuster-proof supermajority, so why not send in a clown? Meanwhile, dynasty-addicted New York is looking at a Kennedy or a Cuomo to replace its Clinton. CBS reports that annoyed reporters are turning on Caroline, who is looking for a coronation. Annoyed Buffalo News columnist reports her “listening [...]
Making It In Massachusetts
Published on 17 Dec 2008 at 1:22 am.
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They carry thousands of commuters everyday, but 54 MBTA bus drivers, train and trolley operators and others who failed drug and alcohol tests since 2006 are still on the road, on the rails and on the job. Boston Herald: Two-strike policy works for workers … straphangers ride at their own peril.
Meanwhile, that state of emergency Gov. [...]
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Hack Hero
Published on 5 Dec 2008 at 7:57 am.
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Norfolk County Register of Probate Patrick McDermott to union hacks: No more banging in for hangovers, long weekends. No malingering on the public dime if you’re not sick. Yeah, there’s hack outrage at the injustice of it all. Howie Carr:
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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Pay As We Say
Published on 21 Nov 2008 at 8:26 am.
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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:
Re AP Suckage
Published on 12 Oct 2008 at 10:30 am.
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Editor & Publisher reports there’s a lot of it. Small-, mid-sized newspapers grumble about $$$hakedown, lack of relevant content. This article does not touch on the AP’s naked, get-a-room Obamism. Obamist E&P has carried the AP Obamism, but seems to have missed the reax.
Nod to Instapundit re AP’s woes among smalltown pen-toters.
Left Exultant!
Published on 11 Oct 2008 at 1:53 pm.
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Mealy mouth Alaskan hack report thrills the Obamists. I don’t get it. Bounding pol palling around with an unrepentant ex-terrorist and inflammatory bigot pastor, good. Palin trying to get a public menace out of uniform, bad. What do these people have against law and order? Roundup starts, where else, in Left Field:
Trooper Finding
Published on 10 Oct 2008 at 9:27 pm.
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A hasp and a hinge or two shy of a gate, as the Alaska Legislature’s bid to shaft McCain-Palin comes up a little short. Ethics violation alleged by partisan hacks in efforts to fire the trooper. No law broken in commissioner’s firing. Wall Street Journal:
The Bill & Barney Show
Published on 4 Oct 2008 at 11:38 pm.
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That was good TV. Boston Herald:
Re Ann Coulter, Shocking Tastelessness
Published on 15 Apr 2008 at 11:35 am.
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Same crowd that thinks Ann Coulter is shockingly tasteless … goes shockingly tasteless on Ann Coulter. Shocking tastlelessness alert.
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TP
Published on 4 Apr 2008 at 11:05 pm.
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Goldfarb at Weekly Standard notes Amanda at Think Progress seems to have neither thought nor progressed.
Islamically Incorrect
Published on 16 Mar 2008 at 8:35 pm.
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Iran shuts down nine fanzines for showing forbidden images of corrupt western starlets and reporting details of their decadent lifestyles. AFP. Someone tell Hollywood. Maybe this will clue them in to the nature of the Islamic Republic, aka partner for peace.
Gun-toting Toll Collectors
Published on 27 Feb 2008 at 8:37 am.
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Disarmed. Boston Herald:
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Hillary’s French Campaign
Published on 2 Feb 2008 at 8:26 am.
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Gets a manager. Captains Quarters on Ann Coulter’s latest bomb thrown calls it McCain Derangement Syndrome, asks if she’s jumped the shark. I’d call it her “moving to France” moment. She’ll join the Hill campaign if McCain wins the GOP nomination. Transcript excerpts via RCP:
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Cafeteria-Style Public Service
Published on 16 Nov 2007 at 12:46 pm.
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U.S. may not have to order griping cowards to Baghdad. But it should anyway. And fire those who refuse.
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King’s Shilling
Published on 3 Nov 2007 at 9:04 am.
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Here’s one ointment-embedded fly from the TOL package referenced below. Apparently unwilling to get in on an Iraq on the upswing, maybe influenced by all the good news they aren’t hearing, people who draw pay at the State Department rebel against directed assignment to Baghdad:
