Good Morning, Do! Today is Wednesday, April 3 You have seen me mention the Superbloom. This year we lucked out with some satellites at the right place at the right time. Wildflower Superbloom seen from satellite ______________________________________________________ Today, April 3 in 1986 The U.S. national debt hit $2 trillion. More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ | If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! | |
Today's Bonehead Award: Bama teens indicted in deadly crimespree partially livestreamed on Facebook ________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote! ______________________________________________________ I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. --- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. --- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006) _____________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ >From Mary After raising four kids and losing one husband, I decided to return to college and get the degree I had started but never finished. And so, on my first day of college, eager with anticipation, and more than a little nervous, I took a front row seat in my first class in over 40 y! ears--a literature course. The professor told us we would be responsible for reading five books over the course of the semester, and that he would provide us with a list of authors from which we could choose. He ambled over to the lectern, took out his class book, and began: "Baker, Black, Brooks, Carter, Cook..." I was working feverishly to get down all the names, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. The student behind me whispered, "Slow down! He's just taking attendance!" ______________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote! Thanks for your votes! ___________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by DeMarcus Daniels, 19, X'Zavier McWillie, 17, Birmingham, Alabama Teens indicted in deadly crimespree partially livestreamed on Facebook A Jefferson County grand jury on Jan. 12 issued two capital murder charges each against DeMarcus Daniels, 19, and X'Zavier McWillie, 17 in the June 30 shooting death of 20-year-old Antonio Brooks, who was killed with a bullet meant for someone else. Two teens have been indicted in the June shooting death of a young Birmingham father in a bizarre series of events that also left two police officers seriously injured following a crash with the suspects. A Jefferson County grand jury on Jan. 12 issued two capital murder indictments each against DeMarcus Daniels, 19, and X'Zavier McWillie, 17 in the June 30 shooting death of 20-year- old Antonio Brooks, who was killed with a bullet meant for someone else, according to court records made public Friday. The incident began just before 9 p.m. that Friday night when police say one of the teens reportedly stole a credit card from his grandmother to go buy an iPhone. His father went looking for him, spotted him on Jefferson Avenue and began to follow his son. That's when someone inside the teens' vehicle fired shots. When the shots were fired McWillie's father turned off Jefferson Avenue and teens went to a gas station, a Birmingham police detective testified in a preliminary hearing last year. When the teens left the gas station, police spotted them and a high-speed pursuit began while McWillie video-streamed the chase on Facebook Live. The chase ended with the teens crashing into a Birmingham police car and injuring two on-duty officers. Those officers suffered serious neck and back injuries, but survived. Daniels and McWillie were taken into custody and questioned at police headquarters after the crash. McWillie immediately invoked his right to an attorney, the detective said, but Daniels agreed to be questioned by police. Daniels told police he and McWillie were in his car and McWillie got into a fight with his dad. Daniels said McWillie shot at his dad, but was not aware that an innocent bystander had been shot and killed. Two handguns were recovered from Daniels' car. One was a pink- colored .380, and the other a Glock. Officers found a third gun, a Taurus, inside the victim's vehicle. The detective said the three guns have been tested and the department's ballistics expert ruled the bullet that killed Brooks could not have been fired from either the pink .380 or the Taurus, but it could have come from the Glock. Authorities quickly learned that one of the teens streamed the entire crash on Facebook Live. According to that video, obtained by AL.com, the suspect was driving through the area and remarking on all the flashing blue police lights. At one point during the video, he is heard saying, "Damn, free me man." From: HAC Re: MSIIE problems Dear DearWebby Dumb question #32,448,376 -- what would happen if I were to remove Internet Explorer? I seem to encounter so many problems which cause me to shut down and then restart and they all have I.E. imbedded on the tool bar with little IE headings. Do have Mozilla Firefox installed but don't find it as easy to operate. Thanks for any advice you can give. Thanks, hac Dear HAC I UNinstalled MSIE many years ago, probably in the 90s. Everything works just fine without it. I reboot my machine every second month or so, but occasionally axe Chrome from the Windows Task Manager. Chrome works well if you have decent connectivity and keep less than 25 tabs open. Yeah, I know, keeping tabs open to get at them later, when I have some time or when I am done with the priority stuff, is a stupid habit. However, without anybody nagging at me, I continue to do that. Chrome works very well and is easy to use, but if you have interruptions in your connection, and some of the open tabs have self refreshing ads, it gets bunged up. It's not a big deal. CTRL SHIFT ESC opens the Windows Task Manager. Highlight any Chrome instances that use over 200 MB of RAM, and END them. You don't loose them. You get a window asking you if you want to reload them. Not a big deal. Ideally, though, you would keep less than a dozen tabs open. Then Chrome works very well. Have FUN! DearWebby Automatically move ALL your settings and programs. No need to re-install them. The only mover recommended by Intel and Microsoft. >From Frieda One morning while a locksmith had come to change the locks in my house, I realized I had to run a few errands. I turned to him, a sweet older man, and said I was heading out. As I got to the front door, I noticed my sad-faced dog staring at me from the living room. "I love you, sweet boy," I said. "Now you be good. Okay?" From the other room I heard a voice answer, "Okay." | If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! | |
Thanks to Bob for this story: Sue and I got to kicking around living wills the other day. She got me to sign one. You know what a living will is, don't you? It's a document that gives her the legal right, if I become wired up to some mechanical device, to terminated my life. So, yesterday, I'm on the exercise bike, heart rate and oxy sensors hooked up, headphones on, .. . . . Luckily she is a poor shot and got the TV instead of me. ___________________________________________________ Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com Getting Sand Off Your Feet With the summer coming I thought this would be good to share, to remove any dry or wet sand, put baby powder on sandy feet or legs and wipe with towel. Your feet and legs will come clean and you'll smell nice and fresh. Thriftyfun.com ____________________________________________________ | | Photographs of the Old West. |
___________________________________________________ A pious man, who had reached the age of 105, suddenly stopped going to synagogue. Alarmed by the old fellow's absence after so many years of faithful attendance, the Rabbi went to see him. He found him in excellent health, so the Rabbi asked, "How come after all these years we don't see you at services anymore?" The old man lowered his voice. "I'll tell you, Rabbi," he whispered. "When I got to be 90, I expected God to take me any day. But then I got to be 95, then 100, then 105. So, I figured that God is very busy and must've forgotten about me, and I don't want to remind Him!" ___________________________________________________ A spiritualist who'd recently been widowed met a colleague and reported excitedly that she'd just received a message from her dead husband - asking her to send him a pack of cigarettes. "The only thing is," she mused, "that I don't know where to send them." "Why not?" asked her friend. "Well, he didn't actually say that he was in Heaven - but I can't imagine he'd be in Hell." "Hm," responded the friend. "Well, maybe I shouldn't bring this up, but. . . did he mention anything about including matches in the package?" ___________________________________________________ | Ophelia Dingbatter's NewsNo sermon and not suitable for church, just jokes and fun for grownups. Read it on-line or subscribe. If you subscribe, look for the double opt-in confirmation request. |
"I found myself utterly depressed the other day and spent the entire afternoon listening to Celine Dion records... at least that's what I thought I was doing. Turns out the cat had just fallen into the dryer and was trying to get out." ---Julian Clary ___________________________________________________ | Today April 3 in 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida. He had sighted the land the day before. 1776 George Washington received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard College . 1829 James Carrington patented the coffee mill. 1860 The first Pony Express riders left St. Joseph, MO and Sacramento, CA. The trip across country took about 10 days. The Pony Express only lasted about a year and a half. 1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. 1866 Rudolph Eickemeyer and G. Osterheld patented a blocking and shaping machine for hats. 1882 The American outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward. There was later controversy over whether it was actually Jesse James that had been killed. 1910 Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America was climbed. 1933 First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt informed newspaper reporters that beer would be served at the White House. This followed the March 22 legislation that legalized "3.2%" beer. 1936 Richard Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and death of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. 1942 The Japanese began their all-out assault on the U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan. 1946 Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines. 1948 U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan to revive war-torn Europe. It was $5 billion in US goods to aid 16 countries. 1967 The U.S. State Department said that Hanoi might be brainwashing American prisoners. 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "mountaintop" speech just 24 hours before he was assassinated. 1968 North Vietnam agreed to meet with U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks. 1972 Charlie Chaplin returned to the U.S. after a twenty-year absence. 1983 It was reported that Vietnamese occupation forces had overrun a key insurgent base in western Cambodia. 1984 Col. Lansana Konte became the new president of Guinea when the armed forces seized power after the death of Sekou Toure. 1985 The U.S. charged that Israel violated the Geneva Convention by deporting Shiite prisoners. 1986 The U.S. national debt hit $2 trillion. 1987 Riots disrupted mass during the Pope's visit to Santiago, Chili. 1996 An Air Force jetliner carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashed in Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard. 1996 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. He pled guilty in January 1998 to five Unabomber attacks in exchange for a life sentence without chance for parole. 2000 A U.S. federal judge ruled that Microsoft had violated U.S. antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. Microsoft said that they would appeal the ruling. 2019 Do smiled. |
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