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Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942, in Chicago to Dorothy Ford, a radio actress, and Christopher Ford, an actor turned advertising executive. Ford started acting in 1964.
His acting credits include the Star Wars franchise, the Indiana Jones films, Air Force One, The Fugitive, Blade Runner and the TV series 1923.
December 7, 2023 at 7:33 pm on Driving Range on E. Harbor Island Lease Up for Approval by Port of San Diego — Tues., Dec.5Dang! 
December 7, 2023 at 5:38 pm on Historic Irony: While We Commemorate Dec. 7th Pearl Harbor Day, Trump Insults All Those Americans Who Fought Against Fascism During WWIIAs young liberal adults, we used to jibe my mom that, as a party voter, that she would have voted for Khrushchev if he'd ever...
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December 7, 2023 at 4:03 pm on Driving Range on E. Harbor Island Lease Up for Approval by Port of San Diego — Tues., Dec.5Vern, it's too late; they're signing a 40-year lease. December 7, 2023 at 4:02 pm on Historic Irony: While We Commemorate Dec. 7th Pearl Harbor Day, Trump Insults All Those Americans Who Fought Against Fascism During WWIINice recollections, retired. Just as an aside, after my father had passed, my mother touched the "blue" and told me that the economy was so... December 7, 2023 at 3:54 pm on City Staff’s Failure to Enact Coastal Commission Options on Bike Paths Leads to Higher Costs and Dangers on West Pt Loma Blvd.That's the point of the post. It was the city not the CC at fault. December 7, 2023 at 3:37 pm on SeaWorld’s Noisy and Dangerous Fireworks Return December 9Just. Hard. To. Believe. After all the protests, demonstrations, legal actions, for years, this disgusting entity not only still exists, but continues to thumb their... December 7, 2023 at 3:10 pm on Historic Irony: While We Commemorate Dec. 7th Pearl Harbor Day, Trump Insults All Those Americans Who Fought Against Fascism During WWIINice reflection, Frank, thanks. I'm sure a number of us had fathers who fought in WWII. My father was a submarine commander who patrolled the... December 7, 2023 at 1:40 pm on Driving Range on E. Harbor Island Lease Up for Approval by Port of San Diego — Tues., Dec.5Rather than the bay front, consider that Fairbanks Ranch and Rancho Santa Fe are excellent locations to construct a Top Golf + Pickleball facility while... December 7, 2023 at 1:11 pm on Driving Range on E. Harbor Island Lease Up for Approval by Port of San Diego — Tues., Dec.5"The government agency in charge of bayfront property will sign a non-binding term sheet with Topgolf despite objections from members of the public who labeled... December 7, 2023 at 1:08 pm on ‘Off-site affordable housing plan will enforce segregation. Why is the mayor promoting it?’"... La Jolla-based real estate firm Reven Capital is proposing converting the city's troubled office building at 101 Ash St. into nearly 400 units of... December 7, 2023 at 12:45 pm on ‘Off-site affordable housing plan will enforce segregation. Why is the mayor promoting it?’Per CoStar.com, 10.11.23 "... Few areas of San Diego have been as disrupted by the shift in office fundamentals as Downtown. The area's vacancy rate...
December 7, 2023 at 12:09 pm on Liz Cheney: ‘The Country Is Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship’Labeling the article opinion instead of source is fine. What use is a common foe when spears are still being lobbed? December 7, 2023 at 12:01 pm on Liz Cheney: ‘The Country Is Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship’And Pense stood against overturning electors. The only thing he did right either. Lucking out on a different avenue of 1%ers. 
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According to a story in the Chicago Tribune written in 2021, 49% of Americans born in 1942 are dead. That was 2 years ago and included women in the total – men undoubtedly a higher percentage are dead. Good on Harrison Ford, but he’s surely not the average 80-year-old and has no reflection on Biden’s condition at 80.
I’m older than both these guys
and don’t want either for president.
Nor Trump.
What to do?
So Paul, you’re saying it’s more stressful and/or dangerous to be male? HA! Probably true I guess, at least statistically.
My Buddhist Priest maternal grandpa was fully into Dementia at 80 (the peaceful, gentle little man blankness kind), and lived another four years with me being the sole caretaker for the last year. Maternal grandma disappeared into Alzheimer’s about when she hit 65/66 and lived another 12 years or so if I remember correctly, and that was just her body being a little primate sitting on the edge of a bed kicking her legs with less human in her eyes than grandpa at 80…at least he came back now and then and literally knew what was happening. That was kind of scary.
I quit visiting grandma after a couple years because it was just too painful and there was no point to the exercise. She wasn’t there at all.
Harrison Ford coming out with that statement was completely ridiculous and inappropriate. Shows how calcified he actually is I think. Look I’m driving an Edsel he crows…so all Edsel model cars should be just fine to drive?
No on Biden, no on Trump (who is more of a manic style of Dementia I think but then he’s a Adderall addict and that keeps him tweeting at 4 in the morning). They both are the same age/generation as three years difference at that age isn’t anything at all.
Yeah Tessa, we’re screwed by the stupidity of those that rule us, aren’t we?
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