I did a soccer camp in the summer of '77. My parents tried to get me away for summers, weekends, and whenever they could. (I sometimes had that effect on people). But I had a great time, made friends, memories. And one of the last summers I had without a job.
The Coral Reefs are dying, and it must be due to Global Warming. End of days are upon us, the only cure is Socialism. Then when we find they're recovering and this is a natural cycle, media silence. The reefs have likely come and gone since the earth had 20x the CO2 that it does today, and was much warmer (or cooler). The planet is not balanced on a razorblade.
To show this is nothing new. Monroe Phillips killed 5-7 and wounded 20-32 (Newspaper accounts vary widely) with a shotgun before a local man grabbed a gun from a local hardware store and shot Monroe dead, ending the spree.
FakeNews/idiots claim that the AR-15 bullets (the .223) are uniquely deadly. That they can do things like enter one place, and spin inside you body and exit somewhere else. The truth is the .223 is weaker than most varmit rounds, and it's advantages were weight (carry more rounds), not firepower. But anti-gunners and media without fact checkers won't tell you that.
Smoking on a plane Flying back to O.C. from a semester at an Illinois College in 1982 (though NYC), I got lit on a 747.
1974 🌿 Marijuana I was an experimental kid, one of my early discoveries was the joy of the marijuana.
1978 🚘 Objects in the sideview mirror I was 14 the first time I was hit by a car. I was riding along in the bike lane when a trucks mirror took me out.
1978 Cinedome Theaters I did a summer job I did was at the local movie theaters; the Orange Cinedome.
2016 Cover Bias Time Magazine has a proud history of demonstrating bias in photojournalism (covers)
1976 Ridgeline Country Club Ridgeline Country Club - I was a caddy, sous-chef, dish-washer, bus boy, gopher for the local posh country club.
1976 Carter Russian Collusion During the 1976 election, the Soviets suggested, "they could... affect the outcome of the election so as to favor Carter."
1938 Hitler: Time Man of the Year "Man of the Year" isn't always a good thing, the truth is that Time was sometimes fawning and positive about Hitler.