tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117830442024-03-13T15:43:15.009-05:00The 2am Talk Radio ShowThe 2 AM Talk Radio Show is a combination of business commentary, industry and world updates, along with a splattering of federal, state and local politics slightly stirred together with a dash of personal perspective and the occasional rant, as well as a few novel writings, all provided by the Founder and Managing Partner of Independence2, LLC, an Architectural Door Hardware Commercial Door Hardware Company with its U.S. Registered (R) Commercial Hardware.R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-7472218389206447832022-04-16T09:46:00.000-05:002022-04-16T09:46:34.220-05:00 VOLUME 98: Francesco DiGiuda
– Final Chapter
(Previous ‘Tuscono’ excerpts
in Volumes 82,83,84,88, 95 and 97)
….The ‘Red’ and ‘Duffmaster’
arrive in Brownsville, Texas after their five hundred mile escorted journey
from the hacienda of Skyler Monique Salazar-Luconi, head of the Sinaloa Cartel,
having related, in specific detail, the conversation to both aircraft that had
R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-88553578103056514422020-11-05T11:50:00.000-05:002020-11-05T11:50:09.544-05:00 VOLUME 97: Francesco DiGiuda
– Part II – Recovery Attempt of Italian Mystery segment
(Previous ‘Tuscono’ excerpts
in Volumes 82, 83, 84, 88 and 95)
…eleven hours later after
departing from Shanghai Jay Hymon and his HRT lands at Leonardo Da Vinci
International airport and is met by Captain Maria Delgros and a squad from the
Gendarmerie Corps.
…nine hours later R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-77309471647175060452020-10-13T10:35:00.000-05:002020-10-13T10:35:08.092-05:00VOLUME 96 - SURVIVAL CRITICAL TO OUR REPUBLIC - NATIONAL ELECTION WITHIN WEEKS I interrupt the continuing story in Volume 95:
Francesco DiGiuda – Part 1 involving the missing of Francesco DiGiuda (Captain
with the Corps of the Pontifical Swiss Guard), the kidnapping of Karol Jozef
Stephenson (God Son to Pope Paul II), millions of Dollars from the Vatican bank
along with the death of Pope Paul I and possibly the threat to the present
Pope.
HOWEVER, this R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-28392893294236415212019-12-28T10:32:00.001-05:002019-12-28T10:43:26.200-05:00Volume 95: Francesco DiGiuda - Part 1
(Previous ‘Tuscono’ excerpts
in Volumes 82, 83, 84 & 88)
The Main Characters in these
excerpts are real people, some with slight name changes and some with
fictitious names to protect the innocent. The Events are mostly fictitious and
only intended for amusement.
GST (Golds Sachs &
Thomas) is a firm formed by the C.E.O. Tony Tuscono during the Presidency of
‘41’ R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-62196379913081050952018-02-07T11:50:00.000-05:002018-02-07T11:51:12.329-05:00Volume - 94 Opioid Crisis: Part #2
"In effort to combat opioid epidemic, Philadelphia plans safe-injection sites".....According to officials in Philadelphia these safe injection sites will be medically supervised locations where users can inject heroin and other opioids without fear of arrest. The walk-in sites would offer sterile needles and naloxone. In addition to medical supervision, users would have access to R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-15736390414586792302017-11-16T12:31:00.000-05:002017-11-16T12:32:29.586-05:00Volume - 93 One year later.......Time to write...Opioid crisis: Part #1 Introduction & LegislationIt has now been one year since the passing of my daughter Kelly. It feels like yesterday but it is time to write.......
THE OPIOID CRISIS: PART #1 INTRODUCTION & LEGISLATURE
As is the case with all investigative work, the correct questions must be asked:
What is the Opioid Crisis? Until that question is answered there is no direction to the problem. YouR.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-17800386797631066122017-03-08T17:11:00.000-05:002017-03-08T17:11:21.449-05:00Volume 92 - KellyOn November 1, 2016 our daughter Kelly passed away
In my 7 plus decades of living and experiencing life, both good and bad, I was never prepared to live through my daughters nightmare of fourteen plus months of incurable cancer. It has taken me four months even to attempt to write about this horrible passing. Having seen death before as a civilian and also as a former law R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-22782213746420574162016-10-18T12:47:00.000-05:002016-10-18T12:47:22.054-05:00Volume 91 - The Most Important National Election in the History of this Great Country Part IIAs I have stated in my Volume 90, almost a year ago, this IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL ELECTION IN YOUR LIFE-TIME FOR THIS GREAT COUNTRY. This election is about the Economy, Immigration, Foreign Policy, and putting America First. The following has been taken from a source of mine which I fully endorse thus the quotation marks:
"This may be the best and most honest political R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-69538657727278741082015-11-03T11:40:00.000-05:002015-11-03T11:40:26.130-05:00Volume 90 - The Most Important National Election in the History of this Great Country
Sometimes it is just difficult to understand how we find ourselves in such harm’s
way. Unfortunately it appears that there is still a majority of people working under some kind of ‘Alice in Wonder
Land’ illusion but this isn't Kansas and we better somehow crawl out of the
rabbit hole and grasp the understanding of how important this National Election
is to our salvation as a Nation, a R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-31073469914952394772015-08-20T11:50:00.000-05:002015-08-20T11:50:19.882-05:00Volume 89 - On Monday I went to a wake....
On Monday, I went to a wake…..
It is quite easy for me to write/rant about politics,
especially with the circus of the last decade, or business, since our economy
has never recovered from 2009, or even that of writing fictional stories with
the biggest problem simply of finding the time for such endeavors. However, when it comes to very personal
matters the difficulty is painful R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-25985814157114060912015-06-30T12:29:00.000-05:002015-06-30T12:29:29.640-05:00Volume 88 - Mystery "Italy" (continuation of Volumes: 82-83-84: excerpts unpublished novel)...(Continuing from Volume 84 -Part 3 of Unpublished Novel Excerpts)
...The secured telephone conversation between Tony Tuscono and Francesco DiGiuda, Captain with the Corps of the Pontifical Swiss Guard (Guardia Svizzera Pontificia) concerning the kidnapping of the God-Son of Pope Paul II who was very good friends with Pope Francis concludes.
Tuscono gets up from his desk, R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-70392099194160558852015-04-09T12:30:00.000-05:002015-04-09T12:30:23.628-05:00Volume 87 - A Nation of Complainers seduced by the welfare punch bowl and leftiest philosophy ......so much so that the massive flow of subsidies has taken a rising toll on the character of the recipients. The longer any group or class of people receive money that they didn't earn the worse their social condition. There was a time no long ago that we never took anything from the government. We never whined about our suffering and our struggles. Where our Republic became a R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-80379339576282828772015-01-15T15:36:00.002-05:002015-01-15T15:36:37.189-05:00Volume 86: 2015 Outlook as 2014 passes in rearview mirrorEvery writer of every genre has something to say about the great events, deaths, and crises of 2014 and the expectations of the New Year 2015 whereas I have much more concern for the trends involving Freedom, Failure, Success and Responsibility during this coming year.
It only took us less than seventy years to go from ‘simple flight’ to landing on the moon yet our high school graduation rates R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-31564652271445577012014-04-14T13:42:00.000-05:002014-04-14T13:44:35.850-05:00Volume 85 - 'My 'Tribe' - The Cleveland Indians and Chief WahooThe world today is simply a mess. The Government is out of control from a foreign policy that is so weak it has similiarities to a third world country from a predicted taken over of Ukraine (the first step in the rebuilding of the Soviet Union - see excerpts in Volume 82-83 & 84) to 'acceptible' provocative fly-overs by Russian SU-24 warplane over the USS Donald Cook (a guided-missle destroyer R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-38014024122251777592014-01-04T19:03:00.001-05:002019-11-20T12:25:44.705-05:00Volume 84 Part 3 Unpublished Novel Excerpts (Continuation of Volume 82 & 83)...Tuscono watched from the bench as Levine got into a checkered cab and headed off Ocean Drive to the airport or to a stop at an U.S. based Masad operative, the destination was never discussed; knowing that the truth would not have been told.
Since the time was now closer to 1 p.m., Tuscono walked across the street, feeling some hunger pains, and into one of his local favorite restaurants, R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-76948175395587911172013-12-03T14:04:00.001-05:002015-06-29T15:58:50.585-05:00Volume 83 - Mystery - Fact or Fiction? Part 2 Conclusion: The End Game...(continuance of conversation from Volume 82)..."your inquiry about the Syrian conflict and the relationship between Putin and Rowhani somewhat confuses me, my friend. Your question is very 'local' in nature and you well know that my response will be much more international in scope with greater implications; possibly, because you are so close to the 'tinder box' and can 'smell the flames' you R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-577761200449020812013-11-07T15:25:00.000-05:002015-06-29T15:52:34.403-05:00Volume 82 - Mystery - Fact or Fiction? Part 1 - Introduction-Visit-QuestionThe following is a conversation that took place four weeks ago, on or about October 8, 2013 in the 700 block area of Ocean Drive, in the public park diagonally across from the former Victor Hotel, Miami beach (South Beach), Florida. The participants, sitting on the park bench, are Tony Tuscano and Jacob Levine. The time is approximately 10:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Tony Tuscono is the R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-28894471874844616192013-10-27T17:42:00.000-05:002013-10-27T17:43:36.232-05:00Volume 81 - The Customer is Not always rightThe Customer is NOT always right is something that we have always known but have been uncomfortable to publicly claim since "the Customer" is the reason for our existence, and we have always been told 'no matter' the situation "the customer is always right." Herein, however, lets inspect this creature (the customer) and attempt to understand my belief that the Customer is Not always right, and R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-37796419554170962592013-10-02T09:09:00.000-05:002013-10-02T09:09:05.379-05:00Volume 80 - The Second Day of Government Shutdown....Has anyone noticed that the Federal Government is in the 2nd day of a 'shutdown'? Not only has this action caused little or no inconvenience we shouldn't stop the 'shutdown' but should enlarge its scope.
Since the Federal Government keeps doubling its size every five years or so, now is the perfect time to cut the excessive amount of Federal employees. You say this cannot be done....R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-69647948878256188272013-09-03T13:37:00.000-05:002013-09-03T13:37:09.275-05:00Volume 79 HERE WE GO AGAIN!As of 12:30 p.m. EST we have not as yet embarked on another war as the 'leaders' of our great nation forces us to become the 'policemen' of the universe. However, now with House Speaker John Boenmer support, the President will certainly stike against the present Syrian regime under some type of 'humanitarian argument' but please don't attempt to sell us again the American Security argument as R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-29194490582055057022013-08-15T09:56:00.000-05:002013-08-15T09:56:26.033-05:00Volume 78 The Consensus of Stupidity....As I'm sitting in my local bar attempting to wash away a terrible sales day at my company, a group of golfers start arriving after their Wednesday afternoon round of golf. I'm familiar with most of them as we all live within this small town of under 10,000 people. They all gather at the other end of the bar from where I'm sitting and carry on about their round of golf, paying up bets, R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-82222792697589185482013-08-01T16:28:00.000-05:002013-08-01T16:30:13.991-05:00Volume 77 (The Sabatical is over) Why is a generation of workforce/students a disappointment?WOW! It's now been over two and half years since my last post. Amazing what happens over that period of time with the bigger question 'simply why write again'? What does one have to say that is so damn important as to write it down? The truth of the matter is 'nothing' and 'I don't know'. It's just therapy; a formulation of thoughts put to pen. So, after a couple of years the 'sabbatical is over;R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-30553938713291713322010-12-30T11:00:00.000-05:002010-12-30T11:00:06.922-05:00Volume 76 - Finally the End of 2010! ...or maybe not...Within days, the pathetic year of 2010 will come to an end only to be put 'on the bookshelf' with its twin catastrophic sister of 2009; That's not 'pessimism' nor 'negativism' speaking it's simply stating the truth caused by a lack of understanding of our American History by people who legislate laws for this Great Country. As we know the Global economy went 'into the toilet' in 2008 due to R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-91630507436912576072010-11-15T10:41:00.004-05:002010-11-15T11:39:24.113-05:00Volume 75 - Where Are We Heading...?It's the middle of the 4th Quarter (2010) and a good time to ask the 'big' question: Where are We Heading as a Nation?Economically speaking, as the Managing Partner & Founder of a small business the outlook is not very good. There are no 'indicators' on my radar screen showing any type of improvement in the foreseeable future. The Price of Gold has reachedR.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-16496405948893164332010-09-21T01:00:00.000-05:002010-09-21T01:00:02.802-05:00Volume 74 - Four Key Components for SuccessWhile preparing for my recent business trip to Memphis, I put together notes from a decade ago concerning changes at a major Hollow Metal Manufacturer as well as a 'distribution center' concept, since one of my meetings this coming week is 'distribution center' oriented. In reviewing my notes, letters, and outlines for the restructuring of a large Los Angeles Distribution Center it became very R.P.Baldinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10872079182212839165noreply@blogger.com0