“The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire…” — Kipling
On the Ripple of Hope Award Banquet: Prediction No Indictment for Baldwin from the AZ DA
“The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire…” — Kipling
On the Ripple of Hope Award Banquet: Prediction No Indictment for Baldwin from the AZ DA
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Can’t leave it alone
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Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
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Groubert had the Kerry Kennedy facts a little wrong.
She was arressted and charged with speeding and DWI on Interstate 684 in Westchester County, New York. Dropped her ex husbands ( the Gov) name (which she managed to remember) all over the place. Which did her no good.
She stood trial in White Plains New York and Mark was right, paraded every Kennedy that was still breathing into court. That included Ethel who took 20 minutes each day to make it to the Court doors, in front of the cameras, assisted by family and a walker.
The second miracle that day, besides Kerry’s aquittal was Ethel leaving Court……jumping in the air doing kicks like she was doing a Toyota commercial (unassisted).
The pathetic libs in Westchester fell for the entire ruse, hook line and sinker. Still stuck in Camelot.
Last heard from, the Cop is still walking a beat up on the Canadian border.
-with the Trooper who dated Cuomo’s daughter.
& just in case someone here hasn’t noticed (OK I’m sure everyone here has.), Alex Baldwin still has killed more people than the Omicron variant.
James, my friend apparently your wrong. It was the gun who killed the victim. Alex had zero to do with this unfortunate event.
That said, Baldwin WILL be convicted of some crime, what crime is the real question.
I’m sorry the videos are pandering, pre court defensive moves, to change public opinion, not the actual facts of the case.
When I click on to watch, I see a guy my age, with enough fucking jell in his hair to deter a hurricane, I’m done. How do any of you take these fucking clowns seriously.
“ I’m an expert witness, I’m a gun for hire, I’m a saint,,,,, I’m a liar,,,, I’ll get you any result you wish. And I sleep very well at night.
While the criminal justice systems broke, I’ve lived all over this planet.
I take the justice system here in the US any time. Rather see a bad guy go free, then one innocent man jailed,,,,,, cops understand tomorrows a new day to hunt the motherfucker down!
VI
Alec does not have the authority to answer “the Punishment Question”. That will be solved a moment after he dies. Baldwin will not like the answer.
Mike….. Mike…. it’s poetic, it’s quaint, as George Carlin describes it…. but there’s no “up there” or “down there” or “after” life, okay? It’s rather juvenile to believe so. If you’d ever contemplate eternity, the most useful tool in your kit, you’d dispense with this folly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVCZ0lI8-A
In your unceasing efforts to proselytize and convert others to your sad and unimaginative views of dour atheism and a non-existent eternity, if Carlin is the best you’ve got, you really should just quit. And what’s your point anyway? You know nothing, Tom Hyland.
ALL is God. There is nothing else and there will never be “other.” There is no other anything. There is no separation from anything. All is one. It’s your’s and Mike’s belief that identifying with this temporary package you inhabit, that has caused you to invent an imagined eternity with the Jack and Mike packages forever in place…. and lots of other packages such as Jesus & Mary & Joseph to keep you company. Wake up. you’re dreaming.
No, I’m not dreaming and neither are the millions of others who have had experiences, all within the confines of time, and who understand that this life is just the short course.
But it’s an important short course and everyone is given a choice….trust the instructor, pay attention in class and do your homework. Or not. The course is different for everyone but make no mistake; it exists within time, you are enrolled and adamant rejection and denial is a great deal like a small, spoiled child crying and throwing a tantrum in protest of a thing he doesn’t want to accept.
You don’t have to accept it but you really should control yourself and not be so quick to poop in the soup of those who are willing to listen, ask questions, learn and make up their own minds.
I’ve said it before… truly contemplate eternity. Upon what condition would eternity unfold? Just think about it. How do “you” fit into eternity? Do you imagine a “Jack” forever sitting, or standing, or lying about with “others” in the vicinity? How is eternity supposed to function? What will you do there? Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. There is only one being. Call it God, or the Self, or Atman, or whatever, but you are that. I am writing this to myself or the Self. There is no one else. There will only ever be One and there has never been anything else. The mind is like a chattering möbius strip forever defining, judging, keeping your attention separate and causing you to view “Jack” as an individual. But “Jack” is impermanent and what you truly are was here and prior to “Jack” coming along. So, who are you? Really. Think about it. My words are not a tantrum. I am speaking peacefully from a place of conclusions regarding the eternity question.
I’ve know far too many atheists than I care to recall and to the man, every one of them was a proselytizer of some sort, obsessed if he could pin you down, to making you understand and accept his notion of nothing. And, I was an atheist too for several decades of my life…running around and absolutely cock sure that I might do what I cared to do because there was nothing else in time or eternity and certainly nothing or no one to answer to. I had seen the beer commercial and I was going for the gusto. And, I got away with it for awhile but I didn’t get away with it or anything else, at all.
As for what the immortal soul will do while sitting around in eternity, I have no idea but I have an idea. If the God, who has always been and will be always be and who created every single thing that is and for all I know is still creating, tells me through His word to humans, without directing anything to me specifically, that there is more to life and to eternity than I could ever imagine, then at the very least I’m gonna give it shot. I’m interested. But I cannot do it my way, I have to do it according to the word and directives of a man whose name was Jesus.
No one but Jesus can direct you and no other person in recorded or otherwise known history has come upon this planet and into peoples’ lives to prove it and to guide men to it. He comes to those who ask in His time and in His manner and nothing can speed Him up or slow Him down. And, it’s useless and childish to think anyone can. Learning that can take a lot of time and arguing about it won’t speed it up but it can slow you down.
Proud humanity believes that individuals are Gods, who know everything and need nothing else at all. Atheists are particularly unimaginative in that sense….there is nothing and nothing came from nothing….blah, etc. But the Creator of the Universe, who doesn’t give me (or anyone else I am aware of) a view or any kind of a hint of anything beyond my immediate and infantile limited senses and awareness and only says ‘believe and trust’, offers everything and promises that eternity will be a reward and not a trudge or a bore.
You make signs for a living, God makes universes, worlds, life forms and dimensions you couldn’t imagine, much less understand. You reason in one channel, God invented, sees and understands everything in another. You want to be your own Lord and God will let you do just that, despite all else He can do to rescue you from what you are. In a sense, He won’t like it but He will let you go straight to Hell in your own way but there is no reason in any sense to actively choose that route.
You don’t believe in a Godly plan but you question it and then you demand to know the plan. That’s just strange. You could attend the class but you will not and you work constantly to ridicule everyone who does show up. That’s just strange too. If there is nothing and you don’t want it if there is, why waste your time?
Well said, Jack.
Therefore tell the people,: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Return to me,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord Almighty. Zechariah 1:3
Where does Mohammad fit into all of this?
I read the budget was low, like 6M (that’s real low). Films like this are conducive to get a credit, make a few bucks, party and chase girls, maybe network.
A lot of people work low-budget because that’s where their connections are.
Remember Baldwin and a few others already paid themselves.
He pulled the trigger.
After he didn’t clear his gun.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
He still doesn’t recognize the word “humble”, the arrogant asshole.
I’m not 200% thorough on the story, but did hear that they were plinking on the location and had loose rules and basically a shit-show of a production. Then, they ask, rhetorically, I guess, how did live ammo get on the set? He was willingly ignorant of firearm safety, and a complete failure as a producer/ leader/ manager.
However, his sycophant followers will somehow believe the trigger pulled itself!
How many more like him in Hollyweird? What about his But! Bud!ies in the anti fa/bl emm movements who carry at protests and riots? How is their trigger finger discipline? They are a clear and present danger in our cities, and their mayors are the gang leaders.
Rumor was Halyna Hutchins was scheduled to begin work on a documentary focussed on pedophilia when this Rust movie wrapped up. And lo and behold, recent revelations in the Maxwell trial has opened Epstein’s little black book wider to reveal Alec Baldwin’s name and contact numbers within. Baldwin & wife immediately shut down their Twitter and Facebook accounts just last week.
There’s massive amounts of downtime on a movie set. Sheriff Mendoza wasn’t in town when this happened, but he got out to the set the next day and said he found hundreds of live rounds. During downtime the crew was target shooting, because, why not? Live rounds on a Western movie set is probably a Hollywood tradition. Hollywood has other traditions more strange, I hear. The assistant director Dave Halls handed Baldwin the .45 revolver. Mr. Halls has just been subpoenaed to be interviewed by investigative authorities. He’s been requested to appear for questioning a couple of times now but kept refusing through word of his attorney. Saying he wasn’t going to be available until the investigation has concluded. Well, Halls is stifling the investigation. The way things go, Baldwin will write a book titled “IF I Had Shot Her Dead” before this thing wraps up.
https://tinyurl.com/y9ytk3vw
Casey, that’s the problem we ALL read it. Think I’ll wait for the criminal case to better understand what happened.
Anymore reporters don’t report facts, they present plausible possibilities using flowery words and quotes. It’s about numbers man, nothing to do with the truth.
Dirk