West Fargo, ND, USAF Veteran -- Rolex Watch -- January 29, 2020

First things first: google Fox Business Antiques Roadshow guest floored by value of old Rolex watch West Fargo North Dakota. Yeah, I know, it's long. Cut and paste. Data points:

• West Fargo, ND, "Antiques Roadshow"
• seller paid $345.97 for the watch in 1974 while serving in the USAF
• ordered in 1974 at the BX -- came in April, 1975
• 1971: draft number, #7
• munitions in the USAF
• with a 10% discount
• the watch
• will sell for "six figures"
• Paul Newman model
• "Oyster" -- extremely, extremely rare;
• "Roadshow" estimate: $400,000 at auction 
• this particular one: $500,000 to $700,000
• never worn; if worn, it will drop to $400,000

Politics:

• Hillary: recalculating, recalculating, recalculating
• Pocahontas; Sanders: last-minute plea for donations; "we fell short"
• “We have some bad news,” Warren’s campaign wrote in an email to supporters late Tuesday night. “We fell short of our daily goal yesterday, which means we're already pacing behind to meet our goal of $3.5 million by the FEC deadline on Friday.”
• That goal for the last five days of the month averages out to $700,000 per day, Warren’s biggest fundraising goal to date. (By comparison, Pete Buttigieg’s campaign asked voters to chip in $1 million, about $200,000 per day).
• And both Bernie and Pocahontas are stuck in their Senate chambers with no access to their donors most of the day, most of the week
• Hillary: pushing for two witnesses each from each US senator; let this drag on for months;

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One Exception

From the iconoclast, John Hands, Cosmo Sapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe, c. 2015, page 583, from his list of 39 conclusions, on evolution of species:

12. With one exception, surviving lineages [surviving species, surviving clades] ended in states of the last species, with some minor reversible morphological changes ....

13. That one exception was the human species, in which consciousness had risen to the point that it had become conscious of itself: its members not only know but know that they know; uniquely, they possess the ability to reflect on themselves and on the cosmos of which they know they are a part.

Wow. Time to go to Costoc and reflect on really good beef choices at really, really good prices.