"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

BARNICLE BROTHERS’ ONE FUND CHARITY VID...

by admin on Apr 23, 2013
By Jason Mastrodonato / MLB.com BOSTON — Brothers Colin and Nick Barnicle have long been in the field of video production, where they’ve found plenty of success and gratification, including “Down the Line,” a behind-the-scenes documentary on Boston’s Fenway Park released in 2011. So when the tragic bombings t...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

IRAQ WAR AT 10

by admin on Mar 21, 2013
Early Wednesday, the day after the nation paused to remember a war that began exactly a decade ago, the grass and ground in Arlington National Cemetery was still soft as a sponge from the rain that fell Monday evening. As always, it was quiet as a cathedral with the only noise billowing from passenger jets that leaned into the cloudless s...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

A PROMISE TO THE CHILDREN OF NEWTOWN

by admin on Dec 19, 2012
Now we witness a regiment of the wounded, the survivors, burying a whole company of the young dead in a small New England town filled with a grief that simply cannot be measured. Monday’s dead babies were Jack Pinto and Noah Pozner, both 6 years old. Tuesday’s funerals saw James Mattioli and Jessica Rekos, again, only 6, their small coffi...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

ONE DEATH IN AFGHANISTAN: BEN SKLAVER’S STORY...

by mikebarnicle on Dec 6, 2011
Last week, Laura and Gary Sklaver buried their oldest boy, Ben, who was 32 when killed by a suicide bomber in the remote village of Murcheh in the distant land of Afghanistan. Ben was a captain in the U.S. Army. Now he has become one of 804 Americans, 37 from Connecticut, to lose their lives in an expanding war that belongs mostly to the ...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

Tito and Theo – Grantland

by mikebarnicle on Jul 11, 2011
Tito Francona is tired. He is sitting at his desk in the manager’s office located at the far end of a small locker room in a ballpark — Fenway Park — approaching its 100th birthday. He is wearing white uniform pants, a red hot-top and black spike-less athletic shoes, a Red Sox cap on his hairless head. And he is staring at a cluster...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

The Afghan War Through a Marine Mother’s Eyes...

by mikebarnicle on Dec 9, 2009
Mélida Arredondo, of Roslindale, Mass., center, holds boots worn by her son, Marine Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in Iraq in 2004, as she joins demonstrators in Boston Dec. 2 in opposition to President Obama’s plan to commit an additional 30,000 troops to the war in Afghanistan. Josh Reynolds / AP Nearly everyth...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

Barnicle on Kennedy: Of Memory and the Sea – ...

by mikebarnicle on Aug 27, 2009
Here was Ted Kennedy, 74-year-old son, brother, father, husband, Senator, living history, American legend. He was sitting on a wicker chair on the front porch of the seaside home that held so much of his life within its walls. He was wearing a dark blue blazer and a pale blue shirt. He was tieless and tanned on a spectacular October morni...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

Boston getting used to idea of beating New Yo...

by mikebarnicle on Dec 28, 2007
How did this happen? Was there a specific date, a single event that erased the burden of history and allowed the weight of municipal inferiority to be lifted from the shoulders of every fan in New England who has been witness to decades of humiliation delivered by New York teams? Think about it. Saturday, the Patriots play the Giants at e...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

When murder’s not enough; Grim details just w...

by mikebarnicle on Feb 10, 2006
  This time, homicide came to a quiet cul-de-sac in a peaceful suburb, apparently driven by a growing wave of debt built on delusion that collapsed into a despair so deranged that the only escape route Neil Entwistle could allegedly think of was to grab a gun and kill his wife and 9-month-old daughter as both slept in a rented home o...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

A Bit of Humor Goes A Long Way – Boston Globe...

by mikebarnicle on May 26, 1998
BELFAST — It is a balmy, lemon-yellow evening and I am standing outside a large glass and cement structure called Waterfront Hall, completed last year along the River Lagan in Belfast where people have the capacity to loathe a stranger based solely on beliefs or a baptism. Community input here means a funeral or a fire, yet it occurs to m...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

Getting a fix on the real thing – Boston Glob...

by mikebarnicle on Feb 24, 1998
  Like most major American cities, Boston is like a layer cake. Some elements are as obvious to the eye as frosting while others remain obscured by simple geography. Yesterday, for example, a gray Monday, if you walked from the Public Garden to Kenmore Square and back along Newbury Street you could easily think the city was filled by...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

Silent Dreams Coming True – Boston Globe

by mikebarnicle on Aug 10, 1997
  Hong’s incredible journey began on the day 11 years ago when he sat confined to the dust of his fishing village near Can Tho in Vietnam and suddenly heard someone mention America. Of course, Hong did not actually hear what the person was saying because he has been deaf since birth. But he sure did understand the primitive sign lang...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

Firefighters’ heroic effort in blaze that cla...

by mikebarnicle on Dec 1, 1992
“I was driving the chief,” Walter Cobe was saying. “We got there just as Engine 48 pulled up. It was maybe three or four minutes after the alarm was sounded. I jumped out of the car and one of the people standing outside said there was kids still inside so I went right up the ladder.”     Walter Cobe is 5...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.
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A HERO IS FOREVER

by mikebarnicle on May 14, 1991
When the old man swung the imaginary bat through the fresh air of a clear, sunlit afternoon, the weight and dust of all the years fell away like marbles toppling off the edge of a three-legged table. Adults clapped. Little kids hung from the rail and sat atop a parent’s shoulder. Some men and women, of a certain age, and with a cert...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

We died for the 4th of July – Boston Globe

by mikebarnicle on Jul 5, 1987
  It’s the Fourth of July weekend. A time when much of America marches and sings and stops to do all sorts of different things for all kinds of reasons. Where are you today? At the beach? On the front step? Down the Cape? Up in Vermont? Just sitting around the house hoping the sun will clear that clutter of clouds and provide you wit...
"MOST PEOPLE REGARD JOHN BOEHNER, MITCH MCCONNELL AND WHOEVER ELSE IS ON TV TALKING ABOUT THIS AS 'TALKING WALLPAPER' IN THE BACKGROUND," SAYS MIKE IN REGARDS TO THE IRS CONTROVERSY. "WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT...IS A FEELING THAT GOVERNMENT IS INCOMPETENT; THAT IT'S NOT UP TO THE JOB [AND] THAT THEY ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR THEIR TAX DOLLAR...THE BIG VULNERABILITY FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ANYONE IN POWER IS...YOU ARE INCOMPETENT; IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THIS GOVERNMENT." ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

The clock takes a holiday at Fenway – Boston ...

by mikebarnicle on Apr 12, 1986
  Baseball is a game of memory, and it returns tomorrow to a place where grass has not yet given way to a carpet. It comes home to a green haven filled with reminders of both heartbreak and happiness, a ballyard called Fenway Park where the cargo of past athletic time refuses to yield to sports’ current themes of greed and arrogance....
 
 
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