[OPINION] Carr: You might be a liberal if ... you’re delusional

MOONBAT-MANIA: Secretary of State John F. Kerry attempted to avoid Massachusetts taxes on his yacht by mooring it in Rhode Island.

You may be a liberal if you believe that allowing working people to keep a few more of the dollars they earned themselves is a “boondoggle” and a “gimmick.”

You may be a Massachusetts liberal if you think that the annual sales tax holiday weekend “diverts” money from “education,” by which you mean teachers unions, and from “the MBTA,” by which you mean handouts for T hacks who retired with full pensions at age 41.

By this definition of diversion, every time you drive past a bank and don’t rob it, you have “diverted” the money inside by not stealing it from its rightful owners.

The annual sales tax weekend in Massachusetts was approved by the Legislature last week, but not without some more absurd rhetoric from the hackerama. The solons’ gripe is that not grabbing that extra $25 million from taxpayers to give to non-taxpayers is “throwing it out the window.”

Remember, this is the state that two years ago admitted to annually handing out at least $1.8 billion in welfare to illegal aliens. That of course is money well spent, because it’s for non-working, non-English-speaking non-citizens. What could possibly be fairer than that?

The website American Thinker recently ran a piece headlined, “You May Be a Liberal if….” The point was that moonbat rhetoric is increasingly diverging from reality. I think after this week I can make a few additions to their list.

You may be a liberal if you want to string up the dentist who shot Cecil the Lion, but you think the ghouls at Planned Parenthood all deserve Profiles in Courage awards.

You may be a liberal if you feel you have to apologize for saying “All Lives Matter.”

You may be a liberal if you oppose funding charter schools for inner-city kids even as you send your own children to private schools.

You may be a liberal if you support higher taxes but have directed the trustees of your own trust fund to buy only municipal bonds — tax-free munis, that is.

You may be a liberal if you want to ban Christmas trees from the public square as you simultaneously demand prayer rooms for the new Muslim “refugees” in public schools.

You may be a liberal if you dismiss the coldest, snowiest winter on record as “weather,” but truly believe that two days with temperatures over 90 degrees represent “climate change.”

You may be a liberal if you believe that felons and illegal aliens should be allowed to vote, but not the military.

You may be a liberal if you believe in confiscating legally registered guns from law-abiding citizens, but agree with Barack Obama and Eric Holder that existing federal firearms laws should never, ever be used against inner-city gang-bangers who are actually committing crimes with illegal weapons.

You may be a liberal if you support Obamacare for everyone else, but are outraged when it’s suggested that you yourself might have to eventually give up your own gold-plated health insurance.

You may be a liberal if you believe that George Stephanopoulos and Brian Williams are “journalists.”

You may be a liberal if you support open borders, but live in a gated community.

You may be a liberal if you didn’t care when John Kerry’s second wife’s first husband’s trust fund bought him a $7.5-million yacht, after which he evaded paying Mass. sales taxes or town excise taxes on it, but when Sen. Marco Rubio spent $80,000 on a fishing boat, that was an “extravagant purchase” of a “luxury speedboat,” as the New York Times fulminated.

You may be a liberal if whenever some nut shoots up a movie theater, you automatically believe some lying liberal media outlet like ABC News or the Daily Beast when they falsely report that the perp was a member of the Tea Party.

You may be a liberal if you haven’t attended a candlelight vigil against war and those genocidal CIA drones of George W. Bush since Jan. 20, 2009.

You may be a liberal if you think it’s a front-page hate crime for a cop to defend himself against a charging thug, but when an unemployed drug-dealing Mexican burglar guns down three Native Americans in cold blood on an Indian reservation in Montana — nothing to see here folks, move along.

You may be a liberal if you think John Kerry deserves a Nobel Peace Prize of his own, just like Yasser Arafat and Barack Obama, for giving the mullahs $150 billion to develop their own nuclear weapons.

You most assuredly are a Massachusetts liberal if, after bloviating about how unfair it is to give bitter clingers a sales-tax holiday, you now plan to spend the weekend of Aug. 15-16 shopping till you drop, instead of driving to New Hampshire to beat the sales tax the way you do the other 51 weekends of the year.

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Via: Boston Herald

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[OPINION] Carr: A soft landing again for Beverly Scott

 

What better place for “Dr.” Beverly Scott’s next soft landing than the National Transportation Safety Board?

The NTSB has as its mission, among other duties, the investigation of train wrecks, and who better to probe train wrecks than a train wreck like Bev Scott?

Another nationwide search, and if you dare question her qualifications, then you are immediately labeled a … well, you know.

The doctor (Ph.D. from Howard, B.A. from Fisk) once scoffed at the MBTA infrastructure as “no spring chicken,” which is an apt description of herself at age 65. But now her dear friend Barack, like her dear friend Deval before him, is taking care of Dr. Scott with a $155,000 a year sinecure for five years.

So she wedges her snout into yet another new trough and starts working on a federal pension, on top of God only knows how many others she’s already grabbing.

Eat your heart out, Olga Roche and Sherri Killins and Andrea Cabral and Ron Bell and Carl Stanley McGee and all the rest of Deval’s greedy coatholders. Bev’s died and gone to hack heaven. Not bad for an MBTA boss who, in retrospect, makes her predecessor Richard Davey look like Steve Jobs.

What would Bev call this kind of score?

“Makin’ a way outta no way,” she said last winter, when the MBTA was absolutely paralyzed by snow and the banana-republic work ethic of Deval’s appointees.

Gore Vidal once said, No talent is not enough. But for Bev, it has been. And still is, apparently.

Like her mentors Barack Obama and Deval Patrick, Beverly Scott is never held accountable for her failures, or anything else for that matter. She never pays the price. Think of her as a professional fare-jumper, with one, and only one, qualification. She’s the right demographic.

But sooner or later, usually sooner, the incompetence catches up to Bev. The optics outweigh the demographics, and it’s time to move on, just like she did from Atlanta to Boston.

We knew she was lugging a lot of baggage with her when she arrived from 
Atlanta. What we didn’t realize at the time was that the bags were full of her dirty laundry, which she was planning to have cleaned at the five-star hotels she junketed to every couple of weeks, charging everything to the taxpayers of Massachusetts.

“Flyin’ like an eagle” — those are some more of Bev Scott’s words, and they aptly sum up her lackluster career.

This is a woman who doubled the number of T employees — as opposed to workers — making over $100,000 a year. Just last year, she added 213 Friends of Deval to the T payroll. She bemoaned the lack of funds to deal with blizzards, after signing off on a state capital expenditures budget of $6.2 billion that included $2.83 million for “snow-fighting equipment.”

That’s one-twentieth of one percent, for those of you keeping score at home.

But by God, she is ready for her new slot on the federal mammary.

“I’ve been through hurricanes,” she said last February, “I’ve been through World Trade Center bombings, tornadoes coming, 30 inches, 36 inches and all so this ain’t this woman’s first rodeo.”

Let’s just hope it’s her last, but I’m not optimistic. Old hacks never die, they don’t even fade away. They just go somewhere else and screw up all over again.

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Via: Boston Herald

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[OPINION] Carr: Pesky facts confirm Donald Trump right on illegals

Every time somebody watches a cable TV newscast, or reads a newspaper, it’s more votes for Donald Trump.

Even the moonbat media can’t ignore the tsunami of violent crime being committed by welfare-collecting illegal aliens. And now we have reports that Donald Trump was threatened by an escaped billionaire Mexican drug dealer, one of those criminals that all Democrats from Obama on down now want to pretend don’t exist.

Illegals are running amok, and the media are angry — at Donald Trump! Odd, though, isn’t it, how the Beautiful People still won’t acknowledge what open borders hath wrought? God forbid the media should ever say that any perp is an illegal. That’s “hate speech.” If you must mention a criminal’s immigration status at all, use Juan Ellis Bush’s preferred euphemism — valedictorian.

Take what happened in Waltham this weekend, at a DCR pool. One Victor Lopez was arrested and charged with groping an 11-year-old girl.

After his arrest, Lopez needed an interpreter to speak to the state police. He had a “Guatemalan passport.” Needless to say, he was identified as a “Waltham man.”

I asked the state police about Lopez’s immigration status. “He’s not a permanent U.S. citizen,” the flack said. What is a “permanent U.S. citizen?”

I asked the same question of the Middlesex DA — is Lopez an illegal alien?

The email response was: “Please note that our office has a Waltham residency for Victor Lopez.”

I didn’t ask about his residency, I asked whether he was a valedictorian. By the way, his bail was initially set at $300 — for groping a little girl in a pool. Do you suppose he paid with his EBT card?

Donald Trump tells the truth about this crime wave, and he’s shunned by the Beautiful People.

Last week in Lawrence the cops stopped a guy who first gave them a false name and then couldn’t produce a driver’s license. A valedictorian, perhaps?

The cops searched his car, then tossed his apartment. The haul was 9 kilos of heroin, two handguns and $340,000 in cash. Now we were definitely in valedictorian territory. I called the Lawrence PD to confirm my suspicions. Nobody called back. I called the Essex County DA’s office. Ditto.

They think we’re so dumb that we can’t figure out who’s committing all these crimes. Anyone who tells the truth must be destroyed.

Two weeks ago, the N.H. State Police grabbed two valedictorians at the DMV in Manchester. In their press release, the staties to their credit identified the perps (who’d given phony names — notice a pattern here?) as Dominicans.

But the next morning, the lead in the Union Leader was “Two men were arrested …”

Last month a sportscaster in Oklahoma City was run over by a valedictorian who’d been deported three times. In his wallet, he had no driver’s license, but he did have cocaine.

The headline: “Man charged in accident … ”

Via: Boston Herald

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Lamestream coverage leans left

By Howie Carr
Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 
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The more the campaign goes on, the more desperate the bowtied bumkissers of the lamestream media become in their attempts to save the failed administration of their hero.

The latest example: A hip-hop expert went on MSNBC (where else?) and claimed that using the word “angry” to describe Barack Obama is racist. Then he threw in the n-word for good measure.

Angry used to be popular with this crowd, at least when describing “angry white men” (Republican voters) or “temper tantrums” (GOP victories).

But now “angry” joins an ever-growing list of moonbat-proscribed words and phrases that have been deemed “racist.”

Also, were you aware that we’re in an economic “recovery”? And that Barack has “created” more than 4 million jobs? 

That’s what his cheerleaders report, day after day, with straight faces, even when they glumly add that the newest numbers are “unexpectedly” bad.

When Obama abruptly changes his position on an issue (think gay marriage), he is said to have evolved. When Mitt does the same (say, on abortion), he flip-flops.

Ann Romney wears a $990 shirt in May, and the Washington Post denounces her as out of touch and “indicative of a tone-deaf campaign.” Last month in London Mooch-elle Obama showed off an embroidered jacket that cost $6,800. The verdict? She “wowed ’em” at Buckingham Palace.

Via: Boston Herald

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