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2020-05-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Elvis Was King, Ike Was President, and 116,000 Americans Died in a Pandemic

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Posted by Clem 2020-05-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Excellent post.

Posted by borgboy 2020-05-05 00:42|| 2020-05-05 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Perspective. If you're under 35, you don't have any.

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-05 00:47|| 2020-05-05 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Boomers are the most selfish generation ever and will continue to sacrifice their children, grand children and great grandchildren to try and make their skin a little more comfortable.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-05-05 03:31|| 2020-05-05 03:31|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Can I have a home in 'The Villages' and a Winnebago pulling a Mini-Cooper to go with that ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-05 03:41|| 2020-05-05 03:41|| Front Page Top

#5 By population ratio, that would be about 210k today.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2020-05-05 04:56|| 2020-05-05 04:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Boomers are the most selfish generation ever and will continue to sacrifice their children, grand children and great grandchildren to try and make their skin a little more comfortable.
Bright Pebbles, I heartily disagree. I am a Boomer. Most of the people my age that I know are also Boomers. I think what you said is true of parts of all generations. Don't paint us all with the same brush.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-05-05 07:03|| 2020-05-05 07:03|| Front Page Top

#7 #3 Yep, we should just do like the old Eskimo.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-05 07:05|| 2020-05-05 07:05|| Front Page Top

#8 "Medieval brutality"? Good Lord, some people need to get some effing perspective.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-05-05 08:48|| 2020-05-05 08:48|| Front Page Top

#9 The mystery of why today vast numbers

Little mystery...hourly counters update, daily death tolls and video briefings, too much sharing drives the sheep into a panic and they demand their herders do something about it...

But everybody has an equal voice now. Then it was over before many knew what was happening.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-05 10:02|| 2020-05-05 10:02|| Front Page Top

#10 this first postwar generation deserves our respect and admiration.

Um, do I have to point out that the oldest of this "New" generation was 11 in 1957?

I doubt that they had much to do with anything other than maybe Elvis' popularity. My sister loved him, I hated him....but then I was only 8.

Posted by AlanC 2020-05-05 14:11|| 2020-05-05 14:11|| Front Page Top

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