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I just found out the glamorous Joanna Lumley smokes up to 40 cigs a day, at 77. THEN I found out research is very quietly being done to see if smoking, when of course it doesn’t kill you, makes you live longer. I did some research of my own. I have no idea how kosher this list is. The link is at the end of the main post, and I think the list will have to run into comments, it's LONG. I did some spot-checks and discarded a few obviously dodgy ones. Cheer up. It could be diet, or booze, or coffee. Nobody seems to know. But golly.

Jeanne Calment, who died in France at the age of 122, was known for three things: her quick wit, her fondness for bicycling around the small city where she grew up - and the fact that she was a daily smoker. At 117 she quit smoking (because she was blind and was too proud to ask often for someone to light her cigarettes for her) but resumed smoking when she was 118 because, as she said, not smoking made her miserable and she was too old to be made miserable.

Marie-Louise Meilleur, of Canada, became the oldest living human being when Calment died. She had chain-smoked all her adult life but quit at 99. She died at 117. So the jury’s still out there.

John McMorran of Lakeland, Florida smoked cigars, drank beer and ate greasy food. His eyesight failed in his final years, and people needed to shout for him to hear them, by the time he died at 113.

The Queen Mother, mother of the late QE2, was a bon vivant who loved horse racing, gin cocktails, champagne and cigarettes. She died at 101. (For balance it should be noted the King died quite young of lung cancer and his daughter was violently anti-smoking as a result, as is the present King.)

Hollywood director Billy Wilder, a heavy smoker, died at the age of 95. No wonder smoking is banned from the silver screen. Not even 100!

The above facts were cherrypicked from this link and more (and some non-clebs, but older) follow in the comments. This blog is obviously only for those downtrodden skulking puffing behind the bins as the non-smokers will instantly dismiss it as propaganda. Yup! Somewhere to point when people sneer that smokers are too stupid to realize they are killing themselves.

But possibly lethal to those not who have not yet had a Covid infection. LoL

In the big F ...as Non Forecasted rain
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.eYe have evolved - yup- that's the word - into Fresno's Foremost Night Creature.

I see in the news that Donald J. Trump was holding a $100,000 a plate fundraiser dinner for his former attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The event was to be held at his Bedminster country club.

I haven't followed up as of yet, but one article brought some interesting reader comments and that is usually better than the story itself.

For example...
If Trump would have paid Giuliani for his legal fees in the first place, he probably would not need to have the fundraiser.

MAGA complain about prices and the economy, yet they continue to donate money to trump and his minions.

Trump must be scared that Rudy will flip on him.

Trump doing something to benefit someone else?? Somehow he will make it all about himself. There has to be something in it for him or else he wouldn't bother.

If Ghouliani thinks he needs money now, just wait until they see the settlement for Miss Ruby, his lawsuit for exploiting his secretary, and Jack Smith drops the J6th charges on him.

He's apparently trying to keep Rudy in the fold. Rudy knows where all the bodies are buried going back to the old days. Since Rudy is guilty as sin, the chances of him turning are good. djt doesn't want that.

Only a complete fool would give Rudy money, he created his own mess, let him pay the price!

Would love to know the number of plates sold and who paid for them. Also, the names of the people who actually attended.
(don't worry - it wouldn't surprise me if there will be investigations for the source of the funds)

Those who contribute to the defense of this traitor are traitors themselves.

Yeah, I’m totally sure ALL of it is going to Rudy, trump wouldn’t ever skimm

MAGA: My Attorney Got Arrested!!

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
? Steven Weinberg




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A teen ram-raider is suffering early onset arthritis and faces a hip replacement in his 20s, with another likely when he’s older, after falling badly while fleeing police

To lose one's trust is pretty tough ..in my opinion.

What I mean by that is....I don't trust somebody unless they give me a reason not to trust them.

So, my default mindset toward trust with most people is usually of neutral natural. I don't completely trust them, but I don't completely distrust them.

Normal life interactions usually are construed under these circumstances...meaning, we live day to day life and function quite well with this neutral level of trust. We don't need to assess somebody on a deep level to determine their trustworthiness in order to interact with them on a casual level.

Of course, if somebody sticks a gun in your face and robs you, yes...you should not trust them....and of course, you want to avoid them. Thankfully, I have never had this happen to me ever...and thankfully this does not happen very often.

And of course, before you invite somebody into your house, you should have done a little deeper level assessment of how trustworthy they are. Naturally, if this person is going to be living in your household for even a longer time, you should even be that much more certain of their credibility/trustworthiness.

So, we are starting to explore the nature of trust here.

Now, I was in a relationship where she lost my trust. This loss of trust is the sole reason why I called off our 13 year relationship. 13 years is a long time and a lot of people were effected...not only us as individuals...but her family, my family...and our friends...and many others....because of a loss of trust.

But the day I called off our relationship...I told her "I no longer trust you, and that is not fair for you or fair for me."

What did I mean by that? What I meant by that is that she could have taken 2 minutes longer to go get the mail and suspicion could have arose. Of course this is an extreme example, but none the less, a legitimate example.

This blog has nothing to do about me and my past relationship. That was just an example. This is about trust, the loss of it, and the illness associated with it.

Loss of trust = the illness of suspicion.

What about when a population loses trust in its Gov?

Nietzsche says, when a country loses the trust of its people, that country no longer exist.

The illness of suspicion will breed conspiracy...then maybe wrongful beliefs...then...how ill can things get..

In other words, is there anything a country can do to reclaim trust...or anything anyone can do to reclaim it?

Is it only me that is getting 3 to 4 pop up ads jumping up at once on your screen with this site? For me, that is what is going on and it actually makes it very difficult to use this site. Heck, I hardly even use the site anymore, and that is even difficult to do. lol

If you are curious to know how OxyContin became the #1 addiction pill then you should watch a movie on Netflix called PainKiller that explains it. It started out as a pain killer for people with cancer and serious pain from surgery but it turned into something else when doctor's kept prescribing higher and higher doses which filled their bank account balance higher and higher.