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Monday Jack Lord Open Comments

I was catching some old “Hawaii Five-O” shows, marveling at some of the fashion styles, and got curious about Jack Lord’s real life story.  My sisters and I had a crush on McGarrett when we were young.  I found some interesting facts:

From the IMDB web site:

I never knew he was in the Merchant Navy, nor that he was an accomplished artist.

I found this tidbit quite interesting – can you imagine how life would be different today if he’d been James T. Kirk?

Was considered for the part of Captain Kirk in Star Trek (1966), but was rejected by Gene Roddenberry and Desilu Studios but turned it down because he didn’t like the role. According to William Shatner, Jack tried on the Captain Kirk uniform, looked at himself in a three-way mirror, and said, “There is no way I’m playing this (expletive) role,” and walked out.

Midway through season 6 of Five-O, the producer died and Jack Lord offered – and offer accepted – to take his place.  He didn’t want to be listed in the credits, but he remained executive producer until the show closed.  He was also director for six episodes.

And he had a brush with James Bond: 

Was the first actor to play CIA Agent Felix Leiter in the “official” James Bond films, beginning with Dr. No (1962). His real name, John Patrick Ryan, is also the name of the CIA Agent hero of Tom Clancy‘s novels. Both characters first appeared on film opposite Sean Connery.

He made $30,000 per episode of Five-O in 1968.

Sadly, he met his only son once, when his son was an infant.  His boy later died in a car accident.  That first marriage must’ve ended in a disaster.  Fortunately, his second marriage lasted fifty years, until he died in 1998, so he found a lasting love.

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65 responses to “Monday Jack Lord Open Comments”

  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It’s MONDAY. . . . .endeavor to persevere.

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    $30,000 an episode ? Sheesh, there are people who aren’t near as smart or talented as Jack Lord making 20 times that amount today.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      That WAS years ago. I thought about computing it in today’s dollars, but never got around to it.

  3. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m still fasting – numbers are reflecting it, and according to my Dr. Boz ratio, I’m burning fat right now (yay me!) – so I took a moment to check in before voting and then handling my beads…

    ….and realized that with my church business on Saturday, I forgot to cover the C&C! Sacrilege! The world did not stop spinning, which surprised the heck outta me, but there ya’ go. A reminder that in the big wheel of life, I’m more like that missing tire valve cover than the axle. Ah, well.

    So, here’s the roundup from last Saturday’s C&C:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Time for the Weekend Edition. Your author is still recovering from a fall cold, with congestion, brain fog, and oddly, neck aches. So your short but punchy roundup this morning includes: robot taxis set to take the country by convenience and introversion; NASA scrubs Boeing altogether as SpaceX surges into first place in the space race; media reporting Harris campaign shifts using totally depressed rhetoric; and corporate media’s complaints about Trump election security efforts are unintentionally encouraging.

    ***

    I’ll skip all the other stories, but the NY Mag reports the efforts by the R’s and Trump to stop the steal this election cycle:

    In New York Magazine’s view, the Trump Campaign is relying on four strategies to “suppress the Democrat vote.” Haha, like me, you’ll instantly recognize the four techniques NYMag complained about as being ways of stopping Democrats from cheating. Here they are:

    1. Widespread purging of ineligible voters off of rolls all across the country. (NYMag whined: Republicans are removing people just for not responding to inquires fast enough.)
    2. New rules in various places make mail-in ballot fraud much harder. (NYMag whined: “ridiculously strict rules” excluding votes for “trivial” slipups like late ballots and bad addresses.)
    3. A tidal wave of new Republican poll watchers. (NYMag whined: “flooding” of polling places with Republicans trained to challenge ballots for “sketchy” reasons.)
    4. A muscular, local, local, local push to ensure Republicans are well-represented in key counties. (NYMag whined: ”MAGA loyalists” infiltrated key election positions in county and state offices.)

    I don’t know about you, but unlike New York Magazine, I find all those developments extremely reassuring and frankly, profoundly encouraging. NYMag called it “twisting the system,” but I call it long-overdue.

  4. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And I don’t know if y’all saw this “clothed streaker” for Trump over the weekend.

    h/t CFP

  5. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I looked up today’s value of $30K in 1968: almost $272,000

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Jack Lord, from IMDB;

    A dedicated liberal activist, he was a vocal advocate of gun control in the United States.

    So that is why I don’t like him as a person although I enjoyed Hawaii 5-0 until I realized how insidious some of the show plots were.

    One that really stood out was the episode; Diary of a Gun

    From IMDB;

    A Saturday Night Special handgun that appears to have a mind of its own goes from one person to another, leaving a trail of dead and injured people in its path. McGarrett and the Five-0 Team work frantically to find the gun, and stop the shootings.

    FWIW; This was before the “Saturday Night Special Law” was passed nationwide, Hawaii already had a similar law on the books so a shipment of small 25 auto’s that were legal in the states shows up on the islands and one of them goes on a killing spree, so to speak. With each death they tried to make it seem that it couldn’t have happened without this little gun, never mind that there were thousands of larger more deadly weapons already in the state that could have accomplished the job better.
    Oh and Mornin’ Gang

  7. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Off to make sure some dead person isn’t stealing my vote.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My @8:02 Propaganda can be so insidious and cleverly disguised as factual information, especially pertaining anything about gun control. ~SPITS~

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Good BS!

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Headline: US Investigates Leak on Intelligence about Israel’s Iran Attack Plans

    Lee Smith, October 2023

    The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. 

    and,

    They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier.

    Mary Kay Linge, October 2023

    Malley was quietly placed on unpaid leave in June for his alleged mishandling of “protected material.”

    But the Pentagon will let Tabatabai, 38, keep her $153,434-a-year job, along with her top secret security clearance, the Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday.

    “Ms. Tabatabai’s employment and clearance processes were carried out in accordance with all appropriate laws and policies,” Pentagon official Rheanne E. Wirkkala wrote to Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) last week.

    Republicans reacted with fury to news that Tabatabai will keep her job — and her access to the Pentagon’s most sensitive secrets — and called her an Iranian “spy.”

    Graeme Wood, September 2023

    In one of the leaked emails, She wrote to her contact at the Iranian foreign ministry and asked his advice on whether to work with officials in Saudi Arabia and attend a meeting in Israel. Her contact told Tabatabai to look into Saudi Arabia and avoid Israel. 

    Adam Kredo, August 2024

    The Biden-Harris White House hosted a Pentagon official at the center of an Iranian government influence operation eight times—after her ties to Tehran’s hardline regime were exposed, raising further questions about the official’s ongoing access to classified information.

    Senior Department of Defense official Ariane Tabatabai participated in multiple meetings organized by the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, which is responsible for recruiting and vetting scores of nominees across the government, visitor logs reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      In any other country on the planet, Ms. Tabatai would be dancing at the end of a rope for espionage; along with Robert Malley.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Back from voting. No line, but a steady stream of folks. I’d be interested in seeing the polling place in a few hours.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And I’m flipping my routine this morning, reviewing today’s C&C before I work my beads:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! We are now fifteen days till the election. Today’s roundup includes: Trump’s adventures in fast food opportunities trigger leftists and excite fans—but will it sway fence-sitters?; media and government agencies target world’s most productive man for destruction; GOP sues over overseas ballots and Democrats bitterly complain; and it’s covid season again! Or is it? Who knows.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Re the fry cook/Trump event:

    If President Trump is the Burger King, then Kamala Harris must be the Hamburglar. …

    Okay, that was moderately amusing. Mr. C. goes on to discuss how the media is expecting Trump to prove a negative – that he can prove the Cackler never worked at McD. How is he supposed to do that? Query every person who ever worked at any McD store? It would be easier for the Cackler to provide some proof to support her story, but I think I just answered my own question there…

    So the Donald got his apron, salted his fries, and served customers through the drive-through window.

    “I’ve now worked at McDonald’s fifteen minutes longer than Kamala,” Trump informed reporters, fifteen minutes into his shift.

    It was a simple political stunt —nobody except joyless partisan Democrats think Trump actually worked at McDonald’s— but it went over like two tons of political fireworks all exploding at once. Conservatives, who already loved President Trump, loved him even harder:

    Yeah, it was a political prop, but it made his point.

    Media exploded. It didn’t want to cover the story, but it was unavoidable. There’s something fascinating and wholly unusual, if not historic, about a billionaire working a minimum-wage job at the french fry station. Nearly every corporate media platform ran some sort of story about Trump’s fast food affair. Within just four hours, the TikTok of Trump serving regular folks from the drive-thru got 9 million views and 1.6 million likes.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And now Elon has to spend a chunk of his personal money on beefed up personal security:

     Elon Musk, on the other hand, now sits squarely in the deep state’s crosshairs. They’re literally trying to get him killed. Fox ran the story yesterday headlined, “Elon Musk to upgrade security after left-wing magazine labels him ‘Public Enemy No. 2’.” …

    /snip

    But Der Spiegel’s inelegant “public enemy” cover was just a warm-up to the New York Times’s much more sophisticated, long-form, magazine-style, multimedia article headlined, “U.S. Agencies Fund, and Fight With, Elon Musk. A Trump Presidency Could Give Him Power Over Them.”

    The point is made that the military now NEEDS Elon and his technology companies, so he is *somewhat* protected; e.g., “insurance”.

    But his rocket insurance won’t be enough to save him from being swarmed, Gulliver-like, by thousands of tiny federal agency Lilliputians. The government’s web of investigations, lawsuits, and bureaucratic warfare is so vast and complex …

    I remember how True the Vote founder Englebrecht (?) and her husband were hounded by the IRS and other alphabet agencies when she became active in trying to clean up the voter rolls.

    From all corners of the government. While invocations of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged are nearly as popular these days as mentioning George Orwell and 1984, Elon Musk is increasingly filling the bill as Rand’s main character, John Galt. Elon’s self-preserving decision to go ‘all in’ with Trump is comparable to Galt’s decision to abandon society.

    If Trump wins, Elon wins. If Trump loses, Elon’s goose gets cooked for Christmas dinner.

    Some folks harbor reservations about Elon Musk. They don’t like his brain chips, or they find his conservative conversion a little too convenient. But it is undeniable that, in a healthy society, transformative entrepreneurs like Musk would be held up as role models, and the government would be working full-time to help, not hinder, him.

    We clearly do not have a healthy society.

    I think that 1984, Animal Farm, and Atlas Shrugged should be required reading in every high school in America. But they’re not.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next up, overseas ballots. Not overseas, mysterious, small-dollar-don’t-need-to-be-tracked-by-the-millions donations, mind you – these are ballot issues:

    To obtain an overseas ballot, one must write one’s name on a postcard. Legibly. That seems to be a hurdle hard to overcome. /smh/ Republicans don’t like this…because….these types of ballots have exploded in number over the more recent cycles – and almost always lean Democrat.

    The GOP has sued in at least three tossup states, Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina. Democrats responded with four clever arguments, none of which deny the massive opportunity for voter fraud when invisible folks in foreign countries can get ballots without verifying their ID. First, Democrats argued that while the rules may not be perfect, they are still the rules, and Republicans have no evidence that fraud occurred.

    Well, of course! If you don’t look, you won’t find it! Who’s in charge of the looking?

    Second, they complained that Republicans have filed at the wrong time: before the election. Third, Democrats argued Republicans are just trying to tee up post-election challenges, by filing now so those future cases won’t get dismissed like last time in 2020, for filing at the wrong time: after the election.

    Fourth, Democrats argued that, without at least a little flexibility around the mail-in ballot rules, they can’t ever win. Okay, I added that one, they didn’t actually say it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true.

    /snip

    As you well remember, many judges dismissed Republicans’ elections cases in 2020, holding that evidence of fraud was irrelevant since the procedural lawsuits could have been brought before the election, so that procedural changes could have been made before voters relied on the challenged rules. In other words, sorry, but you should have brought this to me before the election.

    Now, four years later, judges must wrestle with their own rules. They must rule now, before the vote, and before there can be any evidence of voting fraud. These judges want to say “come back after the election with your evidence of fraud,” but they can’t, since they sagely opined the precise opposite last time.

    In essence, judges invited these pre-election challenges. Now the judicial chickens have come home to roost.

    The petard hoisting is epic.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Okay, on to the beads. I’m listening to my “Return to Tradition” podcast, and Mr. Stine (probably new baby sleep deprived, God bless ‘m) is reporting that pachapapa and his band of merry gay men are moving the Church closer to accepting homosexuality as legitimate.

    I pray daily for my Church, and try hard to remember that I have faith in the ship, not the captain.

  17. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    A bright and beautiful good morning to fellow Hamsters.

    We have a few days of real Fall weather to enjoy but not much chance of seeing any colorful leaves on the trees. Need at least a light frost for that. However the trees around here are looking a bit weary and have lost some of their deep summer green.

    The front page of the Chron amazingly has a picture of the Texans and Packers at the last seconds of the game yesterday when our Packers scored to win it. That was one wild game of low scores because both sides were playing extremely well. We are proud of both teams.

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    152 had voted by 9:30am at my polling place – an astonishing number. The first time ever I had to wait in line more than a minute or two.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Do you know the total number of voters in that Precinct?

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        I do not.

        1. Shannon Avatar
          Shannon

          But it’s early voting, so all polling places are open to all Austin County voters regardless of precinct.

          1. Super Dave Avatar
            Super Dave

            I thought about that after I posted.

      2. wagonburner Avatar
        wagonburner

        152 have voted, so the number of voters is prolly 46.

  19. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Only in Kalifornia do you have a man abused by his spouse. 😉

    Clint Eastwood’s Daughter Arrested In Beverly Hills

    Clint Eastwood’s daughter Francesca Eastwood was recently taken into custody on charges of felony domestic violence. The arrest came following a dispute with her boyfriend during a drive in Beverly Hills.

    “Officers conducted an investigation, and based on statements and injuries, Francesca Ruth Fisher Eastwood of Los Angeles was arrested for a felony, PC 273.5 – Domestic Violence, and was booked at BHPD Jail,” BHPD Lt. Andrew Myers said.

    Following the incident, which involved visible injuries on her boyfriend, Eastwood was taken into custody and later released on $50,000 bail.

    FWIW; I am a fan of Clint Eastwood but I know little to nothing about his ex wife’s or girlfriends.The only one that comes to mind is Sandra Locke and she was pretty mean from what I understand. But Francesca Eastwood’s mom is Frances Fisher who played the evil old mother in the Titanic.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      I guess he made her day. 😀

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    As I have done in the past, I sat in the parking lot and watched voters come and go. Call me paranoid but there seemed to be an abundance of 30-and-under females voting. Pray for a Ted Cruz victory,

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It is going to be 80 here today, low humidity and not a cloud in the sky. Our early voting doesn’t begin until Saturday morning, but we will be there.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today was a black wooden bead day. Another 2 1/2 rosaries made. The single decade rosary used some leftover orange beads.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #2 rosary

    My work here is done.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Thinking I need to enter the kitchen and cook up my batch of ground beef and make another pot of bacon. I really like cooking up a whole package of bacon in a stock pot. It’s so much more efficient and the splatter mess is greatly reduced. It’s good for me to have stuff like that ready to go: beef patties, beef crumbles, bacon “chips,” chicken wings, hard boiled eggs, etc. I will probably break my fast later today.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Cooking done:

    1 package of bacon, cut four times, cooked in a hgh walled pot.
    Drain the grease, put the pot back on the stove.
    Cook my hamburger patties in the little bit of remaining grease, will leave me some grease when they are cooked.
    Put in my break-fast meal: 2 eggs, 2 bacon (in “chips”), about an ounce of leftover ground beef crumble, cooked in the tallow left behind.

    So, one pot, and a stash of carnivore meals/snacks put away. Minimal waste of my animal fats.

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Trump ad: Vote against the machine

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Election integrity guy tells Elon he has proof of past and current election fraud.

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I haven’t asked a woman out in 38 years.
    More like 45 years actually.

    Wish me luck, so she lets me down easy. 🙂

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Oof, I can’t imagine having to do that again. You’d think seniors would have some kind of way to skip all that courting stuff. Like, can you make me breakfast in the morning?

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Oh come on man.
        I would at least offer to cook her breakfast.
        🙂

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Good luck! I hope she’s one who knows quality when she sees it.

      1. Adee Avatar
        Adee

        What Tedtam said. 🙂

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Where’s Dr. Phil Good ?

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      They got him.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Yep. Drowned him in the bayou.

        He’d be so proud that it was the “Republicans” who did it.

        1. GJT Avatar
          GJT

          He’s in a box, with a sternly worded memo on his chest.

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just days before the election, dr phil has self-committed at one of those fancy places on the west side of Houston. He bought extra mental health care coverage several years ago.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Aaaarrggghhh….I’m trying to calculate my dinner, I’m falling short of the targets for calories and fats. Again. Maybe I can another tablespoon of cream in my evening coffee…or eat another tbsp of butter….putting pencil to paper again, metaphorically.

    Okay, figgered it out: cut out 2 oz of beef, add another tbsp butter and cream. 99% of my RDA for calories and close enough to my fats target.

    Even after 40 hours of fasting, getting enough into me is still a challenge. I’ve never had this problem before – not wanting to eat enough.

  32. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Just days before the election, dr phil has self-committed at one of those fancy places on the west side of Houston. He bought extra mental health care coverage several years ago.

    Things are good here.
    the walls are soft and I get to ride the horses.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    She has stuck with Trump all this time and is now deputy comms director for the campaign. First, it was Hope Hicks taking everyone’s breath away and now we have…woof, woof,

    Margo Martin – straight out of Oklahoma.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Margo Martin looks so much like Melania, NBC broadcast images of her in NYC calling her the former First Lady..

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Whether I have a date or not I am looking forward to attending the wedding and reception of my Godson’s daughter this Saturday night.

  36. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just saw a video of a guy who thought he’d be clever and change his car plates to “NULL” – which in programming means no value. He assumed that when his plate was input into the tollway system, it would result in no ticket being issued.

    Worked for a year, until he got a parking ticket. The “NULL” got attached to his personal details. From them on, every time a ticket was entered without a plate number, he got the ticket. Racked up $12K in fines for cars he never owned.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    5:35 pm TP

    Hope Hicks. Perhaps the hottest woman I ever saw.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Might as well throw this out here.
    Melania is not a pretty woman.
    In the least.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Before I pull the trigger and throw it away…

    I trust y’all’s advice…

    Will I ever have any use for this five year old roll of Wax Paper.?

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      I still use it to line cake pan bottoms – your cake will NOT stick to the pan with that in there 😉

      1. bsue54 Avatar
        bsue54

        also if you want to separate hamburger patties that you keep in a ziplock in the freezer – if I make my own patties, I use wax paper to pat them out on, then carefully peel it off, and lay the patty back on it and set it on top of another just. like it, til I fill the freezer bag, to put in the freezer – that way I can take out 3 patties, instead of thawing the whole bag, or having to pry them apart

        1. Shannon Avatar
          Shannon

          Thank you BSue.

          Bye bye wax paper.

      2. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Cake?
        You still bake cakes?
        Bravo!
        I Never had much use for cakes. Although I was young 8-9- years old I baked a lot of cakes for Mom.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      You ? No.

      Normal people who actually prepare food ? Yes.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Now that is likely true.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And you thought my brother was the weirdest mofo from Austin County.
    Meet my late classmate:

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      You didn’t ever tell me Mike Newman died this past March.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        At this point in my life it’s pretty difficult to keep you informed of the passing of my peers.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So you might ask have I ever been to Newman’s famous Castle?

    Nah.

    But would be you be open a tour of skinny dipping in Sandy Creek?

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat’

    Mike Newman excelled at a lot of things.
    Especially building his own castle.

    As a baker, not so much.

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