Mike Barnicle on Imus in the Morning today...

(Oh the subtle joys of unemployment, I can watch Imus' MSNBC simulcast over breakfast)
The columnist was in a funk today...could hardly rouse himself to blather on about how "likable" the president is despite his inept and corrupt policies.
Barnicle also talked about about the situation in North Korea predicting "not much" would happen over there. Given Mike's record with prognostication we can no doubt expect the entire region to go up in flaming irradiated chunks by the end of next week.
Barnicle then went on to take the inevitable Imus bait and started mocking Ned Lamont's senatorial candidacy down in Connecticut. He made some boilerplate remarks about the "liberal coastal enviroment" in New England in the fashion of Andrew Sullivan.
Imus and Mike then gave some props to Lieberman for sticking to his pro-war principles despite the war's manifest unpopularity...these were to say the least strangely muted props for two such unabashed toadies and suck ups.
Ah but you see, Imus in his own confused fashion and Mike Barnicle are both more or less against the war. So lauding Lieberman for his stubborn belief system is about all either of them can do.
Of course, back in the spring of 2003, Imus had a completely different view of the war, he was heaping praise on President Bush for his costumed flight deck appearance on the U.S.S. Lincoln in terms thick with displaced homoerotic sentiment.
As for Mike I don't recall seeing him on the anti-war picket lines back then or right now.
In fact I'm not sure Mike understands the war outside of a very limited telenovela context in which "ordinary people" are victimized by a strange unfathomable called "policy".
It is all very deliberately ignorant manipulative and shallow....in short typical Barnicle.
Ah but lets face it, with all his scandals and strange sentimental fetishes, Mike has degenerated into a sort of sentimental bloviator...his opinions can be discounted without worry or woe.
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But all in all it was a remarkably dispirited performance from Mike Barnicle usually a reliably truculent self hating liberal. Oh he tried to gin up some of his patented sleeveless tee shirt populist outrage noting that we are focused on gas prices and gay marriage and not on "kids dyin' in Iraq" but there was no energy behind his rap whatsoever.

Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the Congressionally Licensed Public Airwaves
Here and Elsewhere
7-06-06, 8:31am EST
God Save the Republic
God Save the Commonwealth

Ken Lay R.I.P.

Janeane Garofalo joked on Air America Radio today that Kenny Boy faked his own death and his started life anew in some forged identity...which is naught but the plot of a Richard Condon novel but then these are Condon-esque times we are living in.

What I wanna know is, will George Bush Jr. read the eulogy? Or even attend the funeral of one of his most relentless and corrupt supporters?

There a grim irony here, Ken Lay the despoiler of California and author of the rolling balckouts that brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to power, dies on the day crude oil hits $75 a barrel.

They stuff themselves with money, and they stuff themselves some more, then they die.
But we go on paying....that is the sheer beauty of our American Way of Rugged Individualism.

Kultur Note for the 5th of July 2006,

Even as Humble Elias struggles with a pesky hangover induced by a wee too much room temperature vodka, he is tormented by one unanswerable question:
"Who in God's name is buying tickets to see Imus in the Morning sidekick Rob Bartlett'standup act?"
Sorry kids, the man is about as funny as a Texas pistol whipping...his impressions are perfectly awful and his "spontaneous quips" occasion a sort of hopeless shivery dread one reserves for zombie acts like William Hung.
Unless of course, Bartlett is holding out on Imus (which wouldn't surprise me) and uses his a-list material exclusively when he is on tour.
Which raises the chilling question as to what sort of vituperative freeper nonsense Rob Bartlett considers "A-List" material anyway?

Joe-verconfidence?

Yesterday Senator Joe Lieberman announced that he will run as an independent in the fall election if he loses to Ned Lamont in the Connecticut democratic senatorial primary. He made some the usual comforting noises that if elected as an independent, he'd vote with the democratic caucus...which is something of a veiled threat at his colleagues to stay out of Connecticut this fall.
Alas poor Joe, look how the mighty have fallen.
Where was this kind of drive and heedless ambition in November of 2000 when the issue was in doubt during the Florida recount?
Well, of course, back then Lieberman had already secured simultaneous re-election to the US Senate so his position was at least secure.
Humble Elias has tried to steer clear of the whole Blogs v. Lieberman thing, he has friends who are big admirers of the Connecticut Senator and besides the whole mishaugas is an out of state intramural issue in extremis.
However....did Robert Reich run as an independent in 2002? Did Patricia McGovern run as a third party candidate in 1998? Did Paul Tsongas heed the pleas from without his campaign to run as Ross Perot's VP in 1992?
The answer to all that is...no.
These are all democrats who put the needs of the citizenry ahead of their own ambition and personal pride.
Lieberman's rival Ned Lamont has already stated he'll support the ticket no matter who is nominated...Joe on the other hand has mumbled some cliche's about a higher loyalty and started collecting signatures to get on the November ballot.
More importantly, who can say Joe won't switch party's after the election is won? We have but his word on the matter and we've already seen how intense is his dedication to his own ambition. How reliable will that pledge be if the GOP retains control of the senate and can start making beguiling offers?
I mean, think about that.

Treason Notes...

Three years have passed and still the White House can't figure out who snitched out Valerie Plame's CIA cover to Robert Novak. Yet when the New York Times divulges the well known afact that the NSA is pouring over foreign business transactions in an effort to track down Bin Laden the whole of the Praetorian Class rises as one screaming treason and calling for a rope and lamp-post.

They can howl and scream all they want, but they are all a low wretched pampered spoiled bunch...no amount of scapegoating and straw-men will ever change that.

Keep Diggin'

The Boston Sunday Globe has reported that the Massachusetts State Police uses a facilities company notorious for hiring illegal aliens to clean various barracks. This would be National Facilities Services of Boylston whose President one Charles T. jasiak has been a lavish contributor to BOTH the Romney and Healey campaigns.
So quite literally Kerry Healey's current anti-immigrant jihad has been bought with sweat of illegal aliens....how d'ye like that action?
To the Globe, the Herald, the Phoenix, the State Democratic Committee et al, all Humble Elias can say is...keep digging!
As I've noted before, one cannot be rich in Massachusetts without benefiting in some way from low wage illegal immigrant labor.
Even as I write this, someone, so to speak, with a bum green card is mowing the lawn at the Healey Mansion or they are cleaning Reed Hillman's new pool....count on it.
I can smell the stench of hypocrisy all the way from the top of the hill here in Menotomy...there is bad faith somewhere, I can feel it.

Just to prove

that this, the Little Blog that Cried, is NOT solely about calling the Governor of Massachusetts a chronic onanist, her is a real link to a review of "Superman Returns" that neatly parallels Humble Elias own reactions to the film.

Now turn off your computer and Go Outside for Ghod's Sake...its a nice day out there.