Iris, some IL politician, think it's a state rep (but not sure off the top of my head) thinks that all American history should be stopped being taught in school until textbooks and curricula are revised.
Can't find an article on it, but it was on the radio yesterday and this morning.
I’m not much of a gambler either. The last time I did so was when changing planes in Las Vegas. I had two quarters in my wallet. I put them in a slot machine and won $6. I scooped them into a cup and went to the nearest bar and bought myself a jumbo beer. Back when $6 was enough to pay for a jumbo beer and tip in an airport bar. I might be a bit older than you think I am...
That lesson learned was in 1973.
When I said I haven't gambled since that wasn't quite true. A couple of years ago we were on a west coast RV trip and on our return home we spent the night in Reno NV. There was a casino nearby which had the closest restaurant to our campsite. We went for dinner and before leaving decided to try our hands at the slots. I put in my $20 and was broke again within minutes. My wife put in her $20 and immediately went up $106.00. She promptly hit the cash out button, collected her winnings and we left. Total gambling time was less than 10 minutes, but dinner was free and she had a few dollars more upon leaving than when we arrived.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
This is how I feel about my investment portfolio. I’ve been playing it for 35 years, things are good, I wanna cash out.
I think slots are boring and I don’t see how anybody can sit there hour after hour doing it. However ! I CAN understand gambling addiction because I had just a hint of it decades ago. We were traveling I think to Florida? Don’t remember exactly it was somewhere south of here and there was an open air bar/restaurant that has some kind of game going on. I really do not remember the specifics of the game,But I remember being absolutely taken with it, spending time there, then going there after dinner, and even going out the next morning skipping breakfast to play. Creepy.
I can also see how blackjack could be interesting although I’ve not played.
A year or so before my big Vegas win I had gone with my parents to check out the new casinos in Blackhawk Colorado. I had budgeted $20 to lose, but after half an hour I was ahead $15 so I quit. After my mom finally lost the last of the $20 she had budgeted I used my winnings to treat my parents to lunch at Subway and we went home. Not quite as nice as your dinner I'm sure! Considering that my two gambling experiences were wins (not counting the occasional megamillions ticket when the jackpot gets into the several hundred millions) it's kind of interesting that I haven't ever wanted to go try my luck again. Now if I am in a casino, which only happens if someone I'm with wants to go, I just watch.
And I was definitely alive in 1973. I'm old enough to have been absolutely riveted to the news reports about the Patty Hearst trial on Walter Cronkite every night.
I appeared on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite in 1974. On April 3rd, 1974 the midwest was ravaged by tornadoes and one pretty much demolished the town of Monticello Indiana near where I was stationed at the time. Members of my Security Police unit were allowed to volunteer to respond to the city immediately following and help go through demolished buildings looking for survivors while also providing generators, portable lights, water, etc. (Federal troops working in a civilian community! OH MY!!) A CBS news crew arrived and filmed myself and several others working in the rubble and I was interviewed. That footage appeared on Walter Cronkite's show the next evening. I called my mother ahead of time and told her to watch, but she forgot. But maybe you saw me.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
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