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I give the parents and everybody else great credit for simply not hauling off and kicking the shit out of him because I want to do it from way over here.

His iconic line for me was.... "Behind the bag!!!"

But what if you are an independent? Do you not get to vote in the primary? To me it's up to the parties to decide how they nominate their candidate. If they want to take the chance for that then that's a risk they willingly take. A closed primary puts you in position to not get a true reflection of the electorate. I don't see anything unfair about it. My job yesterday was to pick who I wanted the nominee to be for a particular party. That was the choice. It wasn't about who I wanted to be governor.

The other night I listened to about an hour of Apollo 8 transmissions. The lead up to TLI.

GOP says Tudor wins.

I took on a variation of a process I saw Ralphie do on the show. When you drain the pasta either don’t drain it all the way or leave some water in the pot. Put the. Pasta back in the pot and take a half ladle of sauce and mix it up. Gives the pasta a nice coating and keeps it from sticking. Ralphies process used butter and you heated the pot up and stirred the pasta into it. growing up my mom , who isn’t Italian, would put the pasta into the sauce pan and mix it up. My mother in law said that’s how her best friend Rosie’s family did it. They were “eye-talian”. They stayed friends all these years. When I got my first job out of school I worked about 1/2 mile from their house. I went over there and she did the “Italian woman going to feed a man” thing. “You look skinny? Is your new wife feeding you? Come on. Eat. You need to get strong to make babies”

Today I voted in the GOP primary. The D side was uneventful. This morning I saw one of my fundamentalist GOP nutjob friends (who I do love dearly) mention who they’d be voting for if they still lived here. I looked at his page and yeah he’s a goof. So I voted for him. Thought about Rinke or Kelly. I think Tudor’s got the only real shot at winning. totally ethical on my part to do that. They are asking me who I want the GOP nominee to be. I answered.

that doesn't work by the way.... I saw a thing on it "don't put too man onions" "I didn't put too many onions Paul... just 3 small onions" "Aw you gotta have the pork... that's the flavor" Part of me thinks Scorsese just put a bunch of old Italians in the room and told them to cook and set up his cameras and filmed.

Well I do think it showed us something. Saul/Gene had two opportunities we know of to not go hard. The Walt/Jesse scene was there so that Mike could come in and tell him about Walter and that he should just forget about him. He's dangerous. Saul ignored him. In the "present" he was told to not go after the cancer guy at the bar and he was given the choice again and he ignored it. If Saul took Mike's advice how different would have things played out for everyone in the show?

wow, good theory on that being a cover for the money.

That's why 3 lane urban freeways are the worst. The right lane is out b/c of the very short entrance ramps. Trucks don't drive in that lane for that reason, they can't stop/accelerate consistently to avoid disaster. So they clog up the center lane and with advanced tracking can't go too fast or else they get in trouble. That leaves the left lane for "normal" driving. Well... add one idiot into that and you have a clustermuck.

I plan on watching the Better Call Saul episode of BB because I read that these two episodes fit together like a puzzle.

https://www.ayresassociates.com/breaking-down-the-zipper-merge/

zipper merge

I believe the science. But I think the real culprits in the zipper merge are not the people who drive up to the end. It's the people in the other lanes who keep switching because "That one's moving". Then that lane stops and the other starts moving and then they move back. Just stay where you are and it'll work itself out and nobody really gains anything. But that goes back to my point earlier where people are impatient and so afraid that someone else might "get there first".

Something in the Kim call triggered him. Did he find out she didn't want to see him? Did something happen to her? Does she need money? I forget Saul's involvement in BB as it relates to Gus and Walt? Did that sequence change anything that we thought we knew? Or was it just to serve as a parallel? Hearing Jesse say "Lalo" was very cool. I got goosebumps.

Protect him from the prison guards? one of the reasons they protect isn't to just save his life but for torture situations where he could give up national security knowledge (I'm sure he's already done this for cash but that's the theory). Does the SS today monitor who cooks the food a POTUS and former POTUS eat? It'd probably be determined that the hassle wouldn't be worth it and he'd just be in some kind of federally mandated exile.

I wondered about the SS thing before. I wonder if they’d just get a special wing together at one of those country club prisons and he would be in isolation. Secret service would be around and he might have limited time around others. They would never go into a hardcore prison. Interesting thought exercise though. A combo of federal marshals to enforce to enforce punishment and SS to protect. Think of Johnny Sack when he went to his daughters wedding. Of course he would pull an uncle Junior and “fall”.

Styrofoam cup?

He was such a legend that David Halberstam devoted a lot of ink to him in his great book The Fifties and how he transformed the game.

Is this the fish from Jimmy and Kim’s apartment? Are we going back that timeline again?

I won't have sympathy for people who treat their employees like crap and then complain that "nobody wants to work". It's time employers take responsibility and not expect that they are guaranteed a work force on THEIR terms. With so many job openings out there employees have the upper hand and it's time for bosses and managers to adapt, like employees are always expected to do. A grieving employee owes nothing to an employer when that employee has options. The employer wouldn't think twice about cutting that person loose if they had the upper hand so now the roles are reversed.

WCF wasn’t “given” the Lions by Ford. The two entities have nothing to do with each other. He was a very wealthy man given his special stock ownership and bought out his partners. Nobody at the company made that happen. He knew HFII was in charge for the long haul and Lee Iacocca he was right behind him. WCF was one of the few heavy backers of Lee within the company… that’s not a bad thing. But HFII couldn’t accept him. As he said when he fired him “sometimes you just don’t like a fella”