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Any and all violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.Doors Steel Doors Door Hardware Hardware Independence2 Commentary Locks Security BusinessThe 2AM 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, which is all provided for your reading pleasure by Ronald P. Baldine, Managing Member of Independence2, LLC an Architectural Door and Hardware Industry Manufacturer.The 2AM 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, which is all Ronald P. Baldinerbaldine@neo.rr.comRonald P. Baldinehttp://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2020/10/volume-96-survival-critical-to-our.htmlTue, 13 Oct 2020 10:35:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-7730947164717506045 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2019/12/volume-95-francesco-digiuda-part-1.htmlSat, 28 Dec 2019 10:32:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-2839289329423641521    (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’ 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2018/02/volume-94-opioid-crisis-part-2.htmlWed, 7 Feb 2018 11:50:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-6219637991308105095 "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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2017/11/volume-92-one-year-latertime-to.htmlThu, 16 Nov 2017 12:31:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-1573639041458679230It 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.  You0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2017/03/volume-92-kelly.htmlWed, 8 Mar 2017 17:11:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-1780038679763106612On 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2016/10/volume-91-most-important-national_18.htmlTue, 18 Oct 2016 12:47:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-2278221374642057416As 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2015/11/volume-90-most-important-national.htmlTue, 3 Nov 2015 11:40:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-6953865772727874108 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2015/08/volume-89-on-monday-i-went-to-wake.htmlThu, 20 Aug 2015 11:50:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-3107346991495239477 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2015/06/volume-88-mystery-italy-continuation-of.htmlTue, 30 Jun 2015 12:29:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-2598581415711406091...(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, 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2015/04/volume-87-nation-of-complainers-seduced.htmlThu, 9 Apr 2015 12:30:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-7039209919416055885...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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2015/01/volume-86-2015-outlook-as-2014-passes.htmlThu, 15 Jan 2015 15:36:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-8037933957628282877Every 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2014/04/volume-85-my-tribe-cleveland-indians.htmlMon, 14 Apr 2014 13:42:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-3156465227144557701The 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2014/01/volume-84-part-3-unpublished-novel.htmlSat, 4 Jan 2014 19:03:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-3801402412225177759...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, 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2013/12/volume-83-mystery-fact-or-fiction-part.htmlTue, 3 Dec 2013 14:04:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-7694817539558791117...(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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2013/11/volume-82-mystery-fact-or-fiction-part.htmlThu, 7 Nov 2013 15:25:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-57776120044902081The 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2013/10/volume-80-customer-is-not-always-right.htmlSun, 27 Oct 2013 17:42:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-2889447187484461619The 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2013/10/volume-80-second-day-of-government.htmlWed, 2 Oct 2013 09:09:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-3779641955417096259....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....0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2013/09/volume-79-here-we-go-again.htmlTue, 3 Sep 2013 13:37:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-6964794887825618827As 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2013/08/volume-78-consensus-of-stupidity.htmlThu, 15 Aug 2013 09:56:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-2919449058205505702....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, 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2013/08/volume-77-sabatical-is-over-why-is.htmlThu, 1 Aug 2013 16:28:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-8222279269758918548WOW! 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;0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2010/12/volume-76-finally-end-of-2010-or-maybe.htmlThu, 30 Dec 2010 11:00:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-3055393871329171332Within 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 0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)http://the2amtalkradioshow.blogspot.com/2010/11/volume-75-where-are-we-heading.htmlMon, 15 Nov 2010 10:41:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11783044.post-9163050743691257607It'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 reached0rbaldine@neo.rr.com (Ronald P. Baldine)