He had some risk factors. I was talking with my aunt who is a Colorado substance abuse counselor about why there seems to be a variance in symptoms from smoking. Some people get emphysema while others don't (going from Denver to sea level provides a lot more oxygen), and she thinks this stems from body size, with large people not getting it as quickly. Some people who smoke seem to be able to run and bike w/o problems. Cancer, which is one of the major smoking risks, has been found to be strongly driven by polonium-210 resulting from the addition of phosphate fertilizers, and the risk of lung cancer from tobacco was much lower before the 1930s or so. So people who can afford organic brands essentially can avoid most of the cancer risk.
Hilda, I think you should look at this graph. If you are smart as you think you are, the main reasons for the increase in lung cancer rates since the 1930s will be obvious to you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ima...on_from_NIH.svg
It's been the official US government position since the early 60s that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. People who smoke know the deal, they just don't care.
Polonium is just one toxic component of tobacco smoke. There are so many others. I think removing the polonium from tobacco would decrease lung cancer by a modest amount.
Note that smoking concentrates the polonium in tobacco into small particles; each of these are the remnant of a resin gland on the tobacco leaf. This "shrinking" of the resin particles increases the local radiation intensity by a factor of about 1,000. This is a fundamentally different process from exposure via eating food crops fertilized with phosphate.
The good news is that the half-life of Po210 is only 138 days. In a year or so it's pretty much gone.
Having had major surgery myself, I hope Ward does OK and gets out of the hospital ASAP. A hospital is a good place to get sick or be subjected to an unfortunate mistake.
I'm guessing he'll still be around when he's ninety. Too mean to die. He's got decades to reinvent himself.
I'm with you, General. Not that it would hurt my feelings if he kicked the bucket, but not from a hospital mishap. I'd prefer to see the headline "Disgraced Ex-Professor Dies In Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation Blunder; Gerbil In Stable Condition, Say Paramedics"
Yeah, it's a long headline, but nothing else seems to satisfy.
Maybe Wardo is going to be outfitted with a defibrillator
"Disgraced Ex-Professor Now Impersonating an Indian Corpse".
These things are often misunderstood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A...h?
v=AzaA5v9iSJE
I'll try again.
Maybe Wardo is going to be outfillted with a deFIBulator
Ah, we get it, Snaps. Ha.
he'll probably be fine if he stops stressing and paying attention to you. Already, news.google isn't giving John Martin many articles to repost recently, so he has had to expand to other topics.
a friend of mine actually had a horrible experience with a boyfriend who might have killed himself as mr. Pain above describes, minus gerbil. They inferred that because he was naked when he was found hanging dead. I hear elementary kids keep killing each other by playing the choking game?
He was sort of an arrogant theater major, and his sad music collection seemed to consist of a stack of 'Yes' tapes, and they weren't getting along and had broken up. Then there was a mess because the family didn't contact her for the funeral and she heard word of mouth. What a load of guilt if you had just been fighting. I love my friend's current husband.
mr. Pain: Your headline is unbelievable: No way that gerbil gets out alive.
Hilda: You're right, Ward should stop stressing over me and my crummy reposts. So should you.
Snaps: I agree with JWP: Ha. Bobby Seales said the same.
General: Yeah, we might well have Ward to kick around for a while, but it wouldn't surprise me if once the doctors got looking they saw all kinds of places that need bypassing and stenting. These things don't happen in isolation.
Hilda says: I love my friend's current husband.
So did Hilda just admit to loving Wardo? Is she friend's with Natsu?
So is wishing harm on someone justified when you disagree with them politically? Even if you find them extremely detestable, there's no need to stoop to that level. Otherwise you sacrifice any real sense of ethics, and only are left with an agenda.
That is what Churchill does---tell how people deserve to be murdered.
He compared you to a NAZI and said it would be a good thing if you were killed.
Ward Churchill said that the two murdered FBI agents Coler and Williams deliberately provoked and initiated the June 26, 1975 shooting and so deserved to die "Custer-like--in their self-made trap."
Churchill denigrated these innocent victims as perpetrators in exactly the same way that he denigrated American mothers and our children when he said we should "snuff" our children and kill ourselves because we were destroying the earth.
Churchill also denigrated the innocent 9-11 victims as "little Eichmanns" who deserved what they got.
He even writes that he dreams about American politicians being hanged.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspo...d-
williams.html
Snapple,
So we should treat Churchill in the same way he treats others? Would that make us "little Churchills"?
No, Laurie. I post what Churchill publishes and does.
I tell how he is always saying who deserves to be attacked or killed. He even tells this to college kids.
Churchill's acolyte Ben recently said that I should be thrown off a building or down the stairs.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspo...-should-
be.html
Churchill denigrated the innocent murdered FBI agents. He denigrated the people who perished in the WTC or who had to jump out of the buildings because of the terrible heat and fire as "little Eichmanns."
I wonder why Ben didn't say I should be thrown over a cliff? Isn't that the way of his people?
Ward "of the State" (or Ward "4 Pack a Day") Churchill is overdue to move on to the Happy Hunting Grounds except that he's ineligible, since he is 100% White/Northern European. I invite everybody to google my "Up Sand Creek Without a Paddle" to get a comprehensive overview of how vile and fraudulent this faux Indian, faux scholar and faux radical really is.
Far from being the enemy of the state that his credulous leftist acolytes make him out to be, Churchill has always had agent provocateur written all over him. His role in the American Indian Movement has been purely destructive, and he is repudiated by Indian activists and traditionalists alike (including his outrageous claim to this day to be a member of the Keetowah Band of Cherokees: check their website to learn otherwise).
He got a pass into academia, and tenure, with less qualifications and worse scholarship than whoever was sweeping out his office. It was the liberal academics whose chickens came to roost when this imposter went too far with his "little Eichmanns" tirade, whose malevolence has to be read to be belied, and I doubt most of his supporters have read it.
Churchill was fired for the wrong reason, but he was also hired for the wrong reason, and if he was fired for the wrong reason, the pretextual reasons are valid all the same. As a researcher he is a fraud, certainly. Is he the only one? Of course not. That's not a reason not to fire Churchill, it's a reason to fire some more professorial frauds, but to do that, somebody has to work up a case.
Churchill, who once publicly regretted that a certain Jim Hogshire did not gun me down when he had the chance, is just an opportunist thug, probably FBI subsidised to infiltrate and disrupt the Native American movements and what remains of the left, whose handlers found him too hot to handle after his psychopathic 9/11 rantings finally got wide notice, and so dropped him.
Ward Churchill cannot drop dead too soon.
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