True. But things change.

This only brings me back to the theory that the message of "3 O'Clock" for Tony AND Paulie only was a warning about which direction their assassin would be coming from. Assuming Tony was indeed killed (and I think only a few hold-outs disagree on that point), from the RIGHT was in fact where the Members Only guy would have come from to shoot Tony. We can only speculate about Paulie's demise.

I WILL say this (and it's been mentioned before elsewhere). The creepy orange cat coming up to Paulie in his very last scene wasn't a good omen. In the Sopranos (as in the Godfather) orange is the color of impending doom. Reportedly, Chase had the picture of the big orange tiger in the resteraunt purposely placed there for Tony's last scene. What does that tell you? The same is true for the orange cat walking up to Paulie in HIS last scene.