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For the record, I don’t think Alec Baldwin drinks blood, concocted a plan to off a cinematographer on a movie set and I don’t wear a tin foil hat because it chafes where the hair used to be. I do think he’s a loose cannon, a hypocrite, emotionally unstable, is enabled by his peers in an industry full of hypocrites, and lives a life filled with chaos. It would not surprise me in the least to see his life take a dark turn where someone in his personal, non-professional sphere ended up seriously injured or dead. There are reports that this movie production was chaotic, that financial commitments we’re not being kept, that security was lax, and that a number of professional crew members walked off the set earlier that day and were replaced with new people. Those stories, if true, mirror the drama that always seems to follow this guy and might well foster a dangerous environment on this particular set. As producer of the film and guy who fired the shot, I’d think it’s absolutely fair to investigate and speculate about his intentions, actions, and culpability, especially in light of his very public stance on the police and gun control generally. It seems in real life “I thought…” doesn’t really cut it for him, especially in light of his Michael Brown t shirt stupidity above. I also wonder, generally, why in a world of carefully crafted illusion there would be any “prop” that included projectiles fired from a weapon at or in the direction of people. I also wonder if any of those involved took even the most rudimentary gun safety course.

I read what you post, feel I understand your perspective and the context in which it’s offered, and stand by my reporting. Concern yourself not with what I may or may not note, concern yourself instead with tending to your own dooryard.

I don’t thinks it’s complicated. If Biden is breathing, and if he wants it again, Biden is the nominee. There have been no surprises, he’s not underperformed in the eyes of his supporters and they see him as a crackerjack progressive delivering on his promises. His mental and physical decline was on display for several years before he ran. There’s strife in Afghanistan, Americans abandoned and military members killed in the poorly executed withdrawal. That sort of thing has happened on his leadership watch over 5 decades. He and Harris trash talked the vaccine while in development under the Trump admin, they encouraged the spread amongst protesters all last year, he’s screwed the messaging in 2021, but the death count is irrelevant under his watch. The border is a mess, it’s been a mess for decades and they voted him in anyway. There is concern he’s weaponizing the DOJ against parents concerned about CRT and education, to the point of targeting speech against school board members. His supporters seem to agree with that approach. His cognitive issues are nothing new, his supporters simply see him as having a stutter. He’s a tough talker on tax increases, and progressives like that even in spite of his obvious hypocrisy here. In short, this was predictable and likely what they envisioned when they cast a vote for B-H. The risk is that he strokes out, dies in office or gets rolled out like a trained monkey if necessary to perpetuate the narrative. The trade off is the value his supporters receive in exchange for their vote. Cost, as they say, is only an issue in the absence of value.

I think they meant full-ish. Full-like. On the fuller side. Of, as, is and/or pertaining to full. Not full full, movie full, Oliver Stone creative license full. Full like based on actual events full, but just supersized for drama full. I think it can be said there are definitely individuals full of something in this debate.

Biden’s ineptitude is off the charts. “Trump gave you the vax Joe, just don’t f*** this up Joe, for once in your life lead Joe” should have been all that needed to be said. Still, some pro-Biden folks can’t square it all emotionally. Can’t be in them and the old simpleton they voted for.

You care. It’s odd how much, but you care playa. It’s 2021, men have babies, girls have veggie stix, our president believes himself arbiter of blackness and laborers surely invest. The Chef souffléd you here, rightly so, and you should take the hit.

Just seeing this post this evening Mup, and thank you so much for sharing. I did not get all the way through it yet but your daughter is a beautiful young lady with an amazing talent. I don’t know much about the spectrum, but I do know the importance of a positive environment for children and it seems you knocked it out of the park.

The only time I was out that way was to visit a cottage owned by my aunt and uncle. This was a good listen-thanks for sending it over. Bet they were a fun band to see.

And thank you, as well, to Corn Pop and the Popcorn Westies crew for not shiving a young Joe Biden when they were beefing over milkshakes, dames and hairy legs in Scranton back in 19oughtFourty-and-7. All is right in the world, though it’s tough to get Corn Pops in your neighborhood bodega these days. Irony.

Old school! I never saw LS play, missed the concert at Rich (though @Muppy) was in attendance. My buddies went, but I was doing something else. I did see Rossington-Collins Band at Kleinhans, and somewhere else as I recall. Love em, hate em or anywhere in between you saw true rock legends! I’m not a musician, I flaked around when my parents paid hard earned money to take lessons and I was so unprepared I laid low in the back at church and hoped no one would notice I had no idea the chord progressions (or chords). Still, I figured they would know I was Christian by my love (by my love) and forgive me. Little RC folk music humor if you don’t know the tune.

I’ll watch it. My son plays guitar, and his instructor is a pretty well known guy in this area. He’s involved with Grammy voting (or was), worked with many notable artists (Phish, the Wilson sisters from Heart, Kanye as i recall). Anyway, he makes custom guitars and was working with Ed King on a guitar just before EK died in 2018. He said the hard part is the artists typically want what they want, but he’s particular on how he makes them and won’t sacrifice. I think he and EK had worked through all that and unfortunately he passed away. I also have to check—many years ago my company had a conference in Mexico and the entertainment was the World Class Rockers. We were drinking poolside and we’re going to skip the event but my son wanted to go, he was 11 or 12. Anyway, it was a very cool event. Guys from Skynyrd, Steppenwolf, Journey and the like played and invited some of the kids on stage. I believe it was Ed King who invited my son up and let him strum the guitar a bit. My son got them all to sign the set list and it’s in the house somewhere. My recollection is hazy because of the various guys in and out of Skynyrd over the years. Rock on Chef!

The story of the crash and aftermath is crazy. Sad stuff. Btw, there was a podcast a couple years ago where Artemis Pyle talked about the crash and the band, and his experience trying to get help. I feel like it was an interview with Chris Jericho, who was a pro wrestler. Fascinating story.

On, the “yikes” about this song being ‘complimentary’, I would not have used that particular word, but I understand the sentiment. The Stones are rock and roll giants of course, but I never really cared enough to see them live, or buy their fancy 8 tracks. Anyway, when that song comes on the FM radio, I mumble through most of it not really thinking too much about words I’m not completely sure of. I thought it was about defying societal norms and the pursuit of forbidden love if only for 10-30 minutes from the perspective of the songwriter. Reading the lyrics today, yeah, I can see I may have missed a bit. I heard the other that “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” has very little to do with baseball. I don’t know how much more I can take.

Good to see you back Chef. Hope all is well.

We don’t always usually ever agree, but I feel for you here Niner. When my children were younger I taped whenever I could, and most of our extended friend group knew to leave the lovable but slightly wacky Bills fan to himself. Our area is primarily Giants and Pats bandwagon fans, so for the most part o got through unscathed. Good luck, and mad respect from here for doing the right thing. ✊🏻

I disagree in this case. Union dues are just that, dues to the collective representing your interest exclusively. I think that’s a far cry from “Give blood or you’re fired.”.

It’s highly likely that if you were born and raised in this country, and your ancestors a couple generations back were as well, that someone in your family tree fought and suffered against this sort of employer overreach. It doesn’t matter if the employer action is a net positive for the community. It starts with blood letting and next thing you know the local Target is having obligatory “Toss off Tuesday” to support the local sperm bank, and carving 10% off your gross to send over to Planned Parenthood.

I'll consider.

I believe he's pulled up short because he doesn't want to agitate a large part of his voting bloc. The dem leadership has been politicizing this since last year when they actively encouraged behavior that lead to the spread of COVID. I agree on the authority issue as well, btw, but these people are slippery fish. Yesterday, Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden were out dining maskless like it was 2019, in violation of rules, regs and common sense as he lays it out. He's certainly in the high risk category for significant challenges if he becomes infected, yet, he's out there commando. I suppose one must wonder on any given day if he even remembers the Covid problem, but yeesh.

I don't have a problem with an employer enacting lawful mandates. I do have a problem with authoritarian overreach and selective enforcement, where an administration chooses to thread the needle on a mandate supposedly designed to protect the public from near certain doom. Using your example above, and thoughts previously shared on the subject, I'd think you would be no happier finding chunks of fecal matter in your tuna salad simply because you ate at an independent sole proprietor establishment than you would if you found it in your endless soup bowl at the Olive Garden. I can't quite figure why old Joe didn't require vax4all, it's almost like he's hedging bets to protect himself politically, or this admin does not see the threat as clearly as others do.

Interesting spin..."Liberal, Republican" = pathetic after labelling another poster a "Boomer". The bigger problem imo is that we really have a one party system, where folks argue about wanting more, then vote for a candidate who was a caricature of our broken system when he had all his marbles, which was two election cycles ago. When you always do what you always did, you always get what you always got.

The messaging is being sent to the wrong party. Corporate America is being targeted by Biden et al to be the fall guy here. They shift the blame from a tepid and impotent government to large business under threat of massive fine, and the will be happy to collect the fine. You have otherwise reasonable folk, @ALF for example, supporting this approach. And when someone does catch the Vid, what better source of revenue than to blame it on the local McDs, who obviously violated govt mandates. I went to a local bagel shop last week. Sign on the door reads “Masks Recommended”, I didn’t have one so in I went. The employees were nice, I received no push back from other customers, but couldn’t help but notice after filling my coffee cup, she grabbed a stirrer with her ungloved fingers and put it in my cup. I also noticed the communal sugar/cream/napkin bar had the signs of being pawed over by any number of Covid carrying folks, some in masks. Worse yet, as I left through a side door, I saw two or three discarded masks littering the sidewalk. With respect to the zone of danger, me walking around maskless may have been the least dangerous element of the day.

I think like most things, there are multiple issues that lead to the challenge at the ports. Shutdowns and lockouts during the pandemic, decreased production followed by an increase in demand are problematic; Onerous, complicated and confusing regulations with respect to COVID create a nightmare at various ports of call, slowing down the delivery of goods across the board; Overzealous climate tyranny and it’s impact on cost and availability of fuel and energy in general; The relatively easy access to social safety net funds that allows people to sustain and meet household expenses in the short term; Biden’s reckless and politically charged kinda mandate and it’s potential crushing impact on business leaves large employers scramble to analyze the best course of action to follow moving forward; Most problematic of course, is the fact that our president has apparently no plan whatsoever to address the issues, and likely received an “out of office auto-reply” from the man charged with overseeing the entire system. And sure, guys like The Omaha Hot Shot signing off the CB for the last time is likely impacting the supply chain as well. In a nutshell, you drop a pebble in a pond, ripples should be anticipated and planned for. The logjam at the ports is a symptom of a much larger problem. I’m mostly convinced this is part of the transformative plan that the Dems are shooting for and it’s intentional.

Again, at the risk of stating the obvious, I think Biden and Buttegeig are actually meeting the expectations of those in charge. You do not fundamentally transform the country by delivering supplies, goods and services to the American people at/as expected historically.

Holy cow. Sometimes I think you run a parody account like the Babylon Bee or CNN. Then, I’m not so sure.