So, Ferguson happened, then the #MeToo movement, and "Okay, Boomer… " (nearly) became a taunt.

And now:

Karen Tumulty @ktumulty
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A year ago, the Democrats were fielding the most diverse presidential field ever. Now, the race has come down to three white guys whose ages go all the way from 77 to 78.
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Also— Warren & Bloomberg went to Harvard; if they're not the nominee, it will be the first time without a Harvard or Yale grad on the presidential ballot since…

1984, I think. Coney might know better.

The whole "OK Boomer" thing didn't sit well with me. I'm glad for older, experienced people to be in leadership positions.

To wit, literally—

Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific

12h12 hours ago




I hope this isn't making Bernie and Michael feel bad about their stents.

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At least the boomers are doing OK.

There is always some new brag and some new taunt.

Here's a fun Hollywood paragraph in Wiki:

Dick Powell's death, Aaron Spelling's Exit

On January 2, 1963, a day after his last appearance on his program The Dick Powell Show aired, Dick Powell died of stomach cancer. The stomach cancer was likely a result of having directed Howard Hughes's The Conqueror, amidst dust clouds of atomic test radiation in Utah. Out of a cast and crew of 220 people, 91 contracted various forms of organ cancers by 1981, including stars John Wayne and Agnes Moorehead.[5]

The movie was shot from June through August 1954 among the scenic red bluffs and white dunes near Saint George, Utah, an area chosen by Powell for its similarity to the central Asian steppes. At the time it did not seem significant that Saint George was only 137 miles from the atomic testing range at Yucca Flat, Nev.

Golly, I should show the whole passage:

At the time it did not seem significant that Saint George was only 137 miles from the atomic testing range at Yucca Flat, Nev.; the federal government, after all, was constantly reassuring local residents back then that the bomb tests posed no health hazard.

Is this offensive or not?

https://twitter.com/gragnorr/status/1233620068786831360

Of course I was wrong about 1984, since GHWB was on the ticket.

Okay, 1968: Nixon/Agnew v Humphrey/Muskie.

T. clips—

• Tumbling goats

• Dashing bunny

“On January 2, 1963, a day after his last appearance on his program The Dick Powell Show aired, Dick Powell died of stomach cancer. The stomach cancer was likely a result of having directed Howard Hughes's The Conqueror, amidst dust clouds of atomic test radiation in Utah. Out of a cast and crew of 220 people, 91 contracted various forms of organ cancers by 1981, including stars John Wayne and Agnes Moorehead.[5]”

Coincidentally stomach cancer is sky high in northern Japan. The further north you go, the higher the rate gets. Amazingly enough Hiroshima and Nagasaki are both in the south. Warm water ports.
Which there is some correlation to certain types of cancers and short term radiation exposure, that is a much higher correlation to smoking, heavy alcohol consumption and a poor diet low in essential vitamins particularly vitamin D.

My hearty German great grandparents born in the 1860’s lived into the 1950’s. Their smoking drinking wealthier children died on average 25 years sooner, mostly of cancer and heart disease.

Not sure what you're saying there: What's causing the stomach cancer in the North?

Earlier, I meant the Westitude not the Eastitude, but everyone knew that.

Map— Yucca is the flag at West, St. George is the city at East.

And while we're at it, can anyone identify the connected plots to the East of this highway an hour north of Vegas?

Former missile silos? Some kind of drilling?

...it will be the first time without a Harvard or Yale grad on the presidential ballot since ~ Crid at February 29, 2020 11:25 PM

Are we counting law schools?

Okay, 1968: Nixon/Agnew v Humphrey/Muskie. ~ Crid at March 1, 2020 8:00 AM

Let's see. I didn't have time to include the VP candidates.

• 1960: Kennedy (Harvard) vs. Nixon (Whittier / Duke Law)
• 1964: Johnson (Southwest Texas Teachers College) vs. Barry Goldwater (Arizona State University)
• 1968: Nixon (Whittier / Duke Law) vs. Humphrey (University of Minnesota)
• 1972: Nixon (Whittier / Duke Law) vs. McGovern (Dakota Wesleyan / Northwestern Law)
• 1976: Ford (University of Michigan / Yale Law) vs. Carter (US Naval Academy)
• 1980: Reagan (Eureka College) vs. Carter (US Naval Academy)
• 1984: Reagan (Eureka College) vs. Mondale (University of Minnesota / University of Minnesota Law)
• 1988: Bush (Yale) vs. Dukakis (Swarthmore College / Harvard Law)
• 1992: Bush (Yale) vs. Clinton (Georgetown / Yale Law)
• 1996: Clinton (Georgetown / Yale Law) vs. Dole (Washburn University and Law School)
• 2000: Bush (Yale / Harvard Business) vs. Gore (Harvard)
• 2004: Bush (Yale / Harvard Business) vs. Kerry (Yale)
• 2008: McCain (US Naval Academy) vs. Obama (Columbia / Harvard Law)
• 2012: Obama (Columbia / Harvard Law) vs. Romney (BYU / Harvard Law)
• 2016: Trump (Penn) vs. Clinton (Wellesley / Yale Law)

Lotta Ivy in that list. The University of Minnesota comes in with a surprising number of candidates.

Not sure what you're saying there: What's causing the stomach cancer in the North?

There were a few theories, that it was picked smoked foods, Soon debunked. But the key seems to be that lack of vitamin d and antioxidants in the diet is a pretty clear indicator for high rates of cancer.
Live in Okinawa and get plenty of sunshine, and fresh food, low cancer rates, Live in the north and endure a long winter, low nutrient diet with heavy smoking and lots of booze, high rates of cancer.
Us lighter skinned Europeans can get away with no sun in the winter at least for a while. The darker skinned Japanese not so much

Italian health is only partially from the Mediterranean diet. Mostly it is the sunshine.

Science really missed the mark in the search for causes of cancer. A better question is almost always, what prevents it.

https://www.webmd.com/cancer/cancer-alcohol-cancer-link#1

https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20111004/low-vitamin-d-levels-linked-to-advanced-cancers#1

I was including veeps just to be purist. Hard to believe Bernie would select an Ivy just because someone on the Democratic team asked him to.

This will be an interesting year! Maybe I'll live to see the end of it.

(I currently presume [given the personal projects for the year] that I'll be infected by Covid-19, but will survive the illness. Going without food and all the other blessings of modernity will be tougher.)

The 'connected plots' are utility-line towers.

Our winter is becoming lame thanks to global warming... people go outside in the snow and get plenty of sunburned cheeks, but not so much in the rain. I wonder if we'll see spikes in these vitamin D problems.

Yeah, I'm assuming we will all get the virus as well.

And my overimaginative brain is coming up with conspiracy theories.

Here's mine, that I have no proof of or any reason to believe is true except that my paranoid mind came up with it:

This crazy, over-the-top, let's shut down every big event in the country reaction is not about containing the virus.

It's about seeing how compliant the people are when the government starts acting super controlling.

It's low stakes, since the virus is bad enough people might listen, but not so bad that if the people say "screw it, no, we're gonna have carnival anyways" it will be a total disaster.

This way they can see how obedient we are if there is a real disaster, or if they for some reason just want to do a power grab.

It's a test run.

And the one old White guy (Biden) seems too soft-of-mind (not necessarily dementia) to do the job. He should just drop out, spend time with his grandkids, and hope that the old White communist guy doesn't win the nom.

In the meantime, I think that self-checkout-only stores can go screw themselves, but he does have a point.

The War on Self-Checkouts Shows the Make-Work Bias Is Alive and Well

This way they can see how obedient we are if there is a real disaster, or if they for some reason just want to do a power grab.

It's a test run.

That sounds entirely plausible to me. It might be useful to see if the private people shutting down their own events are registered Democrats or known RINOs.

In the meantime, knowledge is useful:

What Is a Chemical Pregnancy?

> Our winter is becoming lame
> thanks to global warming...

I'm sure you were speaking sardonically, but...

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. [...]

This will be an interesting year! Maybe I'll live to see the end of it. ~ Crid at March 1, 2020 12:09 PM

I'd include the Veeps and VP candidates as well, but didn't have the time or energy to look up their educational backgrounds.

Could be a fascinating study.

We've invested way too much faith in our presidential candidates having Ivy League educations - to the exclusion of them having a resume of actual accomplishments or significant executive experience.

> Here's mine

Friends, do not let a hospitality for gratifying, romantic drama in your life corrupt your perception of worldly phenomena.

Authorities in all sectors across the globe are morally dicey & irredeemably self-interested. You shouldn't presume anyone takes enough interest in you (specifically) to build a conspiracy around your suffering.

It isn't me, specifically... they've shut down all public events and festivals in the whole fucking country, smack in the middle of carnival season!

Yes, they are real. They hate you, and some of them want you dead. Just ask Amy, who received frivolous negative Amazon reviews on her latest excellent book following her opinion that the bike lanes on a busy LA street were unnecessary. Or ask Tucker Carlson, who nearly had his front door bashed in by an unruly Leftist mob. And so on.

Just be ready for them.

When the Leftist Mob Comes For You

"I'm assuming we will all get the virus as well."

Everyone already has it. It's the precursor to the Z virus which will be released from a different Chinese bio-weapons lab.

Then it gets interesting.

> Yes, they are real.

Quiver with fear. Terrify your loved ones. Collect guns and idiot things, and cloud your mind with pandering, manipulative media. Remember the handshake! Tell no one you saw me!

I think Mats Järlström has been mentioned here before.

Today, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) formally announced that it voted to adopt a new formula for determining the timing of traffic lights. The vote vindicates the theory of Mats Järlström, who was fined $500 by the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying for publicly criticizing traffic light timing without first obtaining a professional engineering license.

The ITE’s vote updates a 55-year-old equation with Mats’s formula, which takes into account the time drivers need to slow down when making a turn in an intersection.

https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-makes-history-with-new-traffic-light-timing-formula/

Quiver with fear. Terrify your loved ones. Collect guns and idiot things, and cloud your mind with pandering, manipulative media. Remember the handshake! Tell no one you saw me!

Perhaps listening to you is a custom best honored in the breach.

Corona Virus Live Thread. No 7.

"No. No. No. No...."

Correct.

Also incorrect is the idea that we do things free of consequences.

Any things. A call for understanding and a bit of responsibiity is not Chicken Little crying.

Some feel-good running stories.

How I Went From 4-Hour Marathoner to 2-Time [Olympics Trials] Qualifier

Ray Young Started Running to Bond With His Daughter—Now He’s Healthier Than Ever

> feel-good running stories.

Don't try to sooth your suffering with petty amusements! The sinister, omnipotent cabal is targeting you, Mpet! You're doomed!…

DOoooOOOooOMED...!

"In the breach."

Fun conspiracy theories, eh?

Most people don't know how smoke detectors work. Essentially there is a little radioactive bit and a radiation detector. When smoke gets in between the two the radiation detector sees a drop in radiation and sets off an alarm.

What most people don't know is that NASA has been increasing the radioactivity in smoke detectors for years. As the average radiation dose Americans get increases those weak against radiation get cancer and die off sooner. It is natural selection for radiation immunity.

Why is NASA doing this? Do you have any idea how hard it is to rad harden a space ship? Totally not worth it. So they came up with a different solution, rad harden the package instead. If all the astronauts are immune to radiation we can save a bundle on spaceship parts.

Very little of what I said is real, but it is a fun conspiracy theory.