Oso planning to go pro
Front page above the fold doom. (I'd like to punch those UW scientists in the ..)https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2018/12/10/curious-what-climate-like-3-million-years-ago-we-may-find-out/2267459002/
There are very few murders in Mexico that aren’t between drug cartels. You are safer in the tourist areas of Mexico than in bad areas of major cities across the US.
16,399 the number of murders in mexico over the first 7 months of 2018??this number shocked the bejeeeeebers outta me!! that's a rate over 7 per 100,000. by comparison, the usa is between 4-5 per 100,000 "But this time, Tatiana, a slim blonde who worked for a pharmaceutical company in San Francisco, returned home in a body bag, becoming one of the 16,399 homicides recorded in the country in the first seven months of this year, according to statistics collected by Mexican law enforcement.Already, 2018 promises to be one of the most violent years on record in the country. Homicides shot up 16 percent during the first half of this year — a number that has been rising at an alarming rate over the last two years as splintered groups of drug traffickers and gangs battle for dominance." what did this girl have to do with the war on drugs? dumb luck?
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/16/soaring-suicides-are-another-sign-of-our-toxic-social-disconnect/
And for my wife's birthday tonight...we're headed to a memorial service for her best friend's husband, who committed suicide.
Doom/Arby's capitol of the USA:https://www.apnews.com/f1915b8dafdb462986883142ed2ccac6Maggie Hill .. ticked off the many deaths that have befallen her family: An older brother drowned in a flood in 1977. A sister died in a house fire. Two siblings, both smokers, died of lung cancer. Two others were stillborn. Her first husband died of congestive heart failure.Then there were the suicides. Two of her three sons shot themselves to death, one of them after losing his job. Her second husband died the same way, using a gun in their bedroom closet one Sunday morning while she was still in bed.“I don’t think people have a lot to live for,” she said. “I really and truly don’t see things getting better.”
"This is why we can't have nice things" is what I'd say if this wasn't a thread about doom.
Suicide and opioids, two sides of the same coin really, are two large reasons the life expectations for Americans is dropping.
There was just a story on this re West Virginia as the bell weather. WV has been about 10 years ahead of national curves, first in terms of obesity, then diabetes, and now opioids deaths. Life span for WV residents showed a downturn ahead of the rest of the U.S.
Hmm, a shame we don't have a link to such a story...