HARRY BELAFONTE- remember him? He turned up on CNN the other night looking like a 40-year old. He’s 90!!! What is his secret? A clear conscience? Amazing!
PUBLIX VS THE KIDS- Ever shop at a Publix? In Florida, Georgia and elsewhere in the Southeast, they’re the equivalent of Safeway. Big company with 120,000 employees. They made the mistake of endorsing a candidate who’s real cozy with the NRA and are now facing a boycott led by the brave students from Stoneman High. Hopefully, they’ll come to their senses. If I had to bet, I’d take David Hogg over Publix. In Jax, Publix is the best market, then it’s Winn-Dixie, which is in bankruptcy, then at the bottom there’s Food Lion which is awful but has sweet employees who urge you to “have a blessed day’. Publix has the best grab-n-go lunch I’ve ever seen, a Cubano sandwich that is PERFECT. Someone should be selling those here. A shrink-wrapped Cubano stays fresh a long time.
FOOD NEWS- Southside Mike and his truck will be at St Joe’s at the Harrison Street entrance, from 1130 to 2pm on Tuesdays. Also Murphy’s in Cutten has started their “BBQ” again, M-F from 11 to 4. It is insane that they close so early, leaving the 15,000 or so residents who go past everyday on their way home to pine for burgers and ribs which they would gladly purchase for dinner that night. Go figure.
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HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED that Our Fake President runs away from dealmaking (hid out during the budget negotiations, hid during the Obamacare negotiations, leaving everything to McConnell, blew the immigration negotiations. . He wouldn’t know a deal if he hit one in the road. And have you noticed that whenever he is faced with anyone who is more confident, more educated, more prepared , better spoken, better educated – he pulls a cheap attack like finding “dandruff” on Macron and pretending to pick it off. How come no one else saw the “dandruff’? Now young Justin Trudeau is eating Trump’s lunch and reminding the world what a statement is SUPPOSED to sound like.
MORE RETAIL CLOSINGS- Stonestown Mall, having already lost its Macy’s, is about to lose its Nordstrom’s, leaving the center with no anchor. How times change!
I am very sad about the death of Anthony Bourdain. I bought his “Kitchen Confidential ” book and encouraged my Job Club members to read it, when I was doing that. He apparently did not give his closest friends the slightest hint that he was considering suicide which is sobering. PLEASE pay attention to anyone who acts depressed or seems to need help. You could be saving a life.