The Boston Herald reported yesterday, that in the wake of Milena Del Valle's tragic death in in the I-90 Connector Tunnel, Mitt Romney interrupted his vacation just long enough for a shrill & hysterical press conference before jetting back to the Granite State.
You now see just what Governor Romeny really thinks of the whole matter...fodder for fear-mongering and posturing nothing more. A crisis sufficiently trivial that it can be left to his staff to sort out with "Lt. Governor Barbie" to act as an acceptable and decorous cut out at the press briefings.
There are a lot of reasons to be suspicious of the Governor's so called leadership, but the one in the spotlight right now is his sheer superficial amateurishness.
Faced with a problem with legislative, public safety, emotional and financial facets to it, Mitt sighs, shrugs and tries desperately to play the hero in demanding Matt Amorello's resignation.
Only an amateur like Mitt would try to desperately to posture and preen in such a simplistic fashion at a time like this.
According to Scot Lehigh and Brian McGrory, Romney is a private sector managerial wizard in extremis, frankly I don't see it. The man is an amateur and bumptious one at that, he made his pile playing with other people's money at Bain Capital Group this is not a background tailor-made for the development of crisis management skills.
Sadly, I think we are in for worse outrages than this...Mitt is on short time and wants only to grasp the short term opportunity so he can start campaigning for President full time in 2007. If after that, the whole damn thing goes up in smoke, well that is just tough tittie for Massachusetts.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Friday, July 14, 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006
David Brooks on Imus Today...
And lordy what a whiny snickering twerp he is.
But give David credit he is loyal to the convolutions and knots that constitute the current freeper line.
Today he offered up the extraordinary notion that Senators Kerry & Clinton's promise to support the victor in the current Connecticut democratic senatorial primary (you remember, Lieberman v. Lamont) represents a quiet cave in to political thuggery in the democratic base.
David Brooks really is an opportunistic and cynical little bitch isn't he? If John McCain had bolted the GOP in 2000 to run as a third party presidential candidate no doubt Brook's irritating soprano would soar high and loud over the rightical chic chorus of disapproval.
For that fact, go back and check...I guarantee David Brooks was freeping out hard about Ross Perot's independent candidacy back in 1992.
Somehow now, it is the duty of all "big tent" democrats to back Joe Lieberman's notional vanity third party run should it come to that in Connecticut.
Awk...typical freeper punditariat manipulative drivel...you could program a computer to write this stuff it is so predictable.
However I have to say, I'm glad I've been elevated to rank of "thug" in the estimation of Mr. David Brooks; conservative pundit and columnist.
For the past six years I've been called a faggot and an appeaser by rightical chic elements in American society. "Thug" seems to indicate the freepers are starting to look over their shoulders a bit.
And the term also has a bit of outlaw chic to it...can't deny that.
Elias Nugator, Thug
Think I'll have that business card printed up one of these days.
But give David credit he is loyal to the convolutions and knots that constitute the current freeper line.
Today he offered up the extraordinary notion that Senators Kerry & Clinton's promise to support the victor in the current Connecticut democratic senatorial primary (you remember, Lieberman v. Lamont) represents a quiet cave in to political thuggery in the democratic base.
David Brooks really is an opportunistic and cynical little bitch isn't he? If John McCain had bolted the GOP in 2000 to run as a third party presidential candidate no doubt Brook's irritating soprano would soar high and loud over the rightical chic chorus of disapproval.
For that fact, go back and check...I guarantee David Brooks was freeping out hard about Ross Perot's independent candidacy back in 1992.
Somehow now, it is the duty of all "big tent" democrats to back Joe Lieberman's notional vanity third party run should it come to that in Connecticut.
Awk...typical freeper punditariat manipulative drivel...you could program a computer to write this stuff it is so predictable.
However I have to say, I'm glad I've been elevated to rank of "thug" in the estimation of Mr. David Brooks; conservative pundit and columnist.
For the past six years I've been called a faggot and an appeaser by rightical chic elements in American society. "Thug" seems to indicate the freepers are starting to look over their shoulders a bit.
And the term also has a bit of outlaw chic to it...can't deny that.
Elias Nugator, Thug
Think I'll have that business card printed up one of these days.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
So now the Big Dig has an official Body Count...
thank you so bloody much Bechtel Parsons, that was surely $14 billion dollars very well spent wasn't it?
True to form though, Governor Romney, faced with a fatal cave-in in one of the Big Dig's tunnels came rocketing back from his vacation straight to the front of the TV cameras where he indulged a shrill and scary performance sowing raw panic among the commuting population of Boston.
he looked particularly appalling last night on FOx25 news with his hair askew and the sweat rolling down his face with that screechy little voice of his.
Ish...ugh.
The facts alone are scary stuff, nevertheless here comes the Viceroy rantin & raving about unsafe tunnels and screaming for Matt Amorello's head.
This is a tragedy pure and simple, Humble Elias' heart goes out to the family of Milena Del Valle...this shouldn't have happened.
Alas though, this disaster casts a harsh light on the sheer amateurishness of Romney's leadership style. For all his feckless bluster, Mitt somehow really thinks that ousting Amorello is gonna fix everything up for good.
Why?
No doubt the Viceroy will dig up some hapless toadying hack for the job and that person will flail around for a few months or years until some other god-awful catastrophe and then the whole stupid farce will repeat itself under the aegis of another Governor.
Mitt will be campaigning in Epsom Cirle New Hampshire by then and probably pleased with the "business-like" manner that he handled the whole crisis.
Obscured by this tragedy is a very real indictment of corporate America, the very womb out of which Mitt Romney sprang to the Governorship.
If you can't trust Bechtel Parsons to dig a big hole in the ground and take some god-damned pride in the job then there is something seriously WRONG with the way we do business in the USA.
Nope, that is all over in America, nowadays we are nothing but a huge money laundering operation for turning Chinese Yuan into US Dollars. Workmanship, pride, and a sense of SHAME when things go wrong are not part of the MBA Curriculum and it's certainly nothing that would make you a big wheel at the Bain Capital Group.
Look at the way we do business in America, its a miracle the whole damn tunnel didn't cave in en masse with the sea rushing in to reclaim all.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
True to form though, Governor Romney, faced with a fatal cave-in in one of the Big Dig's tunnels came rocketing back from his vacation straight to the front of the TV cameras where he indulged a shrill and scary performance sowing raw panic among the commuting population of Boston.
he looked particularly appalling last night on FOx25 news with his hair askew and the sweat rolling down his face with that screechy little voice of his.
Ish...ugh.
The facts alone are scary stuff, nevertheless here comes the Viceroy rantin & raving about unsafe tunnels and screaming for Matt Amorello's head.
This is a tragedy pure and simple, Humble Elias' heart goes out to the family of Milena Del Valle...this shouldn't have happened.
Alas though, this disaster casts a harsh light on the sheer amateurishness of Romney's leadership style. For all his feckless bluster, Mitt somehow really thinks that ousting Amorello is gonna fix everything up for good.
Why?
No doubt the Viceroy will dig up some hapless toadying hack for the job and that person will flail around for a few months or years until some other god-awful catastrophe and then the whole stupid farce will repeat itself under the aegis of another Governor.
Mitt will be campaigning in Epsom Cirle New Hampshire by then and probably pleased with the "business-like" manner that he handled the whole crisis.
Obscured by this tragedy is a very real indictment of corporate America, the very womb out of which Mitt Romney sprang to the Governorship.
If you can't trust Bechtel Parsons to dig a big hole in the ground and take some god-damned pride in the job then there is something seriously WRONG with the way we do business in the USA.
Nope, that is all over in America, nowadays we are nothing but a huge money laundering operation for turning Chinese Yuan into US Dollars. Workmanship, pride, and a sense of SHAME when things go wrong are not part of the MBA Curriculum and it's certainly nothing that would make you a big wheel at the Bain Capital Group.
Look at the way we do business in America, its a miracle the whole damn tunnel didn't cave in en masse with the sea rushing in to reclaim all.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Brian Williams on Imus in the Morning today...
If Microsoft Office had an "Anchorman" package, the whole mishaugas would probably look and sound a lot like NBC premiere newsman Brian Williams. Pleasant, avuncular, detached, baritonal & meaningless, Williams can wander in the deep verdant garden of news cliche's with the best of them.
Today he was on Imus bloviating about Iraq being on the "brink" of civil war. If we dialed back six months or a year we could easily find Bob Schieffer or Howard Fineman saying essentially the same thing. For two full years now since Secretary Rumsfeld finally recognized an "insurgency" in Iraq, that nation has been ritually described as being on the "brink" of civil war.
This trope endures because the news media wants to sound "hysterical" in it's reportage but then the whole "brink" thing also serves the Admin's purposes as it allows everyone to believe that the mess in Iraq hasn't quite become unretrievable yet.
The fact of the matter is, civil war broke out in Iraq almost as soon as Saddam's statue came down in Baghdad. It has ebbed and flowed since then, as all civil wars do and it will continue after our troops leave assuming they ever leave.
The game is afoot over there and the players are not the emerging democratic forces that fire Tom Friedman's delusions but a ragtag collection of religious fanatics and ethnic cleansers.
That is what we've stumbled into in Iraq and that'll be our legacy when we leave.
Brian Williams cannot say anything like this, being an alleged network newsman, the last thing he dares do is report the story in stark simplicity.
No his job to evade and qualify and massage things along til tomorrow night's broadcast.
And collect a huge paycheck.
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the Congressionally Licensed Public Airwaves
And elsewhere
7-11-06
8:40am EST
God Save the Republic
God Save the Commonwealth
Today he was on Imus bloviating about Iraq being on the "brink" of civil war. If we dialed back six months or a year we could easily find Bob Schieffer or Howard Fineman saying essentially the same thing. For two full years now since Secretary Rumsfeld finally recognized an "insurgency" in Iraq, that nation has been ritually described as being on the "brink" of civil war.
This trope endures because the news media wants to sound "hysterical" in it's reportage but then the whole "brink" thing also serves the Admin's purposes as it allows everyone to believe that the mess in Iraq hasn't quite become unretrievable yet.
The fact of the matter is, civil war broke out in Iraq almost as soon as Saddam's statue came down in Baghdad. It has ebbed and flowed since then, as all civil wars do and it will continue after our troops leave assuming they ever leave.
The game is afoot over there and the players are not the emerging democratic forces that fire Tom Friedman's delusions but a ragtag collection of religious fanatics and ethnic cleansers.
That is what we've stumbled into in Iraq and that'll be our legacy when we leave.
Brian Williams cannot say anything like this, being an alleged network newsman, the last thing he dares do is report the story in stark simplicity.
No his job to evade and qualify and massage things along til tomorrow night's broadcast.
And collect a huge paycheck.
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the Congressionally Licensed Public Airwaves
And elsewhere
7-11-06
8:40am EST
God Save the Republic
God Save the Commonwealth
Monday, July 10, 2006
With regards to North Korea,
the sequence runs this way: they threaten to do something serious, we bluster, they do whatever the hell they want UP to a certain point, everyone wallows in shock & outrage, we then go on blustering.
And then the recycle reiterates over say a two year period...nothing irrevocable happens but everyone gets a good scare.
This time though, the score seems to be one to one...North Korea's big scary-ass rocket disintegrated after two minutes of flight but the Bush admin's dire threats to deploy our strategic defense capability came to nothing.
For the moment, it seems like Pyongyang can't build an ICBM capable of reaching Beverly Hills or Kerry Healey's mansion...but that could change over time based on how much moolah Komrade Kim wants to waste on missiles in a nation neck deep in starvelings.
The USA on the other hand, has had twenty years and three hard core conservative administrations to come up with a workable regional missile defense system.
So far billions upon billions have been spent since Reagan's day and NOTHING has yet been deployed.
If the Manhattan Project had taken this long to produce a nuclear warhead, the Japanese would be opening Geisha Houses in Salt lake City by now.
But the GOP goes on blustering, if strategic defense hasn't yet paid off in protecting America from ICBM attack is sure is a king hell gimmick for pillorying liberals and democrats.
The History Channel (which is increasing Fox News loaded up with stock footage) loves to run crude animation of 747's armed with huge phallic looking laser cannons...none of which can be found flying over the sea of Japan at the moment.
But as a rhetorical device with which to accuse democratic party of treason and cowardice, it has no equal.
We got the atom bomb in four years of concentrated effort. We got the hydrogen bomb in four more years of comparable effort. We went from nuclear subs to missile firing nuclear subs in about six years...our strategic forces transitioned from unreliable liquid fueled missiles to solid core ICBMs in something like five years.
And yet after twenty plus years of work we still can't shoot down a rattle-trap lashed up ICBM prototype that wouldn't been laughed off the lot at Peenemunde.
Just wait though, the cry will go up this very week in congress for MORE strategic defense funding...our guys are wrapping scrap metal about their hummers in Iraq for armor and all gang on Capitol Hill can think is more anti-missile funding.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
And then the recycle reiterates over say a two year period...nothing irrevocable happens but everyone gets a good scare.
This time though, the score seems to be one to one...North Korea's big scary-ass rocket disintegrated after two minutes of flight but the Bush admin's dire threats to deploy our strategic defense capability came to nothing.
For the moment, it seems like Pyongyang can't build an ICBM capable of reaching Beverly Hills or Kerry Healey's mansion...but that could change over time based on how much moolah Komrade Kim wants to waste on missiles in a nation neck deep in starvelings.
The USA on the other hand, has had twenty years and three hard core conservative administrations to come up with a workable regional missile defense system.
So far billions upon billions have been spent since Reagan's day and NOTHING has yet been deployed.
If the Manhattan Project had taken this long to produce a nuclear warhead, the Japanese would be opening Geisha Houses in Salt lake City by now.
But the GOP goes on blustering, if strategic defense hasn't yet paid off in protecting America from ICBM attack is sure is a king hell gimmick for pillorying liberals and democrats.
The History Channel (which is increasing Fox News loaded up with stock footage) loves to run crude animation of 747's armed with huge phallic looking laser cannons...none of which can be found flying over the sea of Japan at the moment.
But as a rhetorical device with which to accuse democratic party of treason and cowardice, it has no equal.
We got the atom bomb in four years of concentrated effort. We got the hydrogen bomb in four more years of comparable effort. We went from nuclear subs to missile firing nuclear subs in about six years...our strategic forces transitioned from unreliable liquid fueled missiles to solid core ICBMs in something like five years.
And yet after twenty plus years of work we still can't shoot down a rattle-trap lashed up ICBM prototype that wouldn't been laughed off the lot at Peenemunde.
Just wait though, the cry will go up this very week in congress for MORE strategic defense funding...our guys are wrapping scrap metal about their hummers in Iraq for armor and all gang on Capitol Hill can think is more anti-missile funding.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Sunday, July 09, 2006
A brief resolution for July...
before we select a moderator for any two or three way gubernatorial debate this fall, let us all privately agree NOT to invite Tim Russert back for a repeat performance this time.
I'm really serious about this, Shannon O'Brien got asked nothing but the usual leading questions from Phat Tim back in 2002, we can expect more of the same this time be our nominee Chris, Tom, Deval or the unquiet shade of Adlai Stevenson.
Now, I don't think Russert wil quiet be able to manage the hopeless look of adolescent worship he reserved for candidate Romney, but Tim can do us some damage and will if he gets the chance.
Phil Johnston ought to insist that any panel empowered to moderate a gubernatorial debate ought to be composd exclusively of local journalists.
Remember that gentle readers, NO TIM in '06!!!!
I'm really serious about this, Shannon O'Brien got asked nothing but the usual leading questions from Phat Tim back in 2002, we can expect more of the same this time be our nominee Chris, Tom, Deval or the unquiet shade of Adlai Stevenson.
Now, I don't think Russert wil quiet be able to manage the hopeless look of adolescent worship he reserved for candidate Romney, but Tim can do us some damage and will if he gets the chance.
Phil Johnston ought to insist that any panel empowered to moderate a gubernatorial debate ought to be composd exclusively of local journalists.
Remember that gentle readers, NO TIM in '06!!!!
Friday, July 07, 2006
Just a thought....
The C.I.A. has quietly shut down it's Osama Bin Laden task force, the one charged with getting the 9-11 mastermind "dead or alive".
Assuming that OBL is still alive with that $20M price on his head, I say we should put the US House of Representatives GOP caucus on the Al Qaeda Leader's trail. Those portly smilin GOP congressmen can hear a dollar drop over a mile away, perfect capability for huntin' a known terrorist.
Besides with Jack Abramoff in jail conservatives in congress need new sources of revenue...if they catch Bin Laden that bounty will buy a lot of television adverts this fall calling their opponents faggots and cross dressers.
Denny Hastert's corrupt crew in the house love money as a hog loves slop, I don't see why this shouldn't be put in the service of US National Security?
Assuming that OBL is still alive with that $20M price on his head, I say we should put the US House of Representatives GOP caucus on the Al Qaeda Leader's trail. Those portly smilin GOP congressmen can hear a dollar drop over a mile away, perfect capability for huntin' a known terrorist.
Besides with Jack Abramoff in jail conservatives in congress need new sources of revenue...if they catch Bin Laden that bounty will buy a lot of television adverts this fall calling their opponents faggots and cross dressers.
Denny Hastert's corrupt crew in the house love money as a hog loves slop, I don't see why this shouldn't be put in the service of US National Security?
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