| Good Morning, Do! ! Today is Fiday, April 7 Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops! ___________________________________________________ History: Today, April 7 in 1980, The U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed economic sanctions in response to the taking of hostages on November 4, 1979. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award: Dominos Pizza Delivery Driver Robbed At Gunpoint _____________________________________________________ Q Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. --- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972) Reason is immortal, all else mortal. -- Pythagoras ______________________________________________________ A cyclone hit a Kansas farmhouse just before dawn one morning. It tore off the roof, and picked up the beds on which the farmer and his wife were sleeping. By some miracle, the cyclone set them down unharmed the next county over. The wife was sobbing uncontrollably. "Don't be scared, Mary," her husband said. "We're not hurt." Mary continued to cry. "I'm not scared," she said between sobs. "I'm happy... this is the first time in 14 years we've been out together. ___________________________________________________ Joel Garo Ring-necked Pheasant April 5,2023 Calgary ____________________________________________________ More than anything, Bob wanted to be a cowpoke. Taking pity on him, a rancher decided to hire the lad and give him a chance. "This," he said, showing him a rope, "is a lariat. We use it to catch cows." "I see," said Bob, trying to seem knowledgeable as he examined the lariat. "And what do you use for bait?" "City slickers with shiny shoes." ____________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ A motorist driving by a Texas ranch hit and killed a calf that was crossing the road. The driver went to the owner of the calf and explained what had happened. He then asked what the animal was worth. "Oh, about $200 today," said the rancher. "But in six years it would have been worth $900. So $900 is what I'm out." The motorist sat down and wrote out a check and handed it to the farmer. "Here," he said, "is the check for $900. It is postdated six years from now." _______________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been reported by Rock Evandole Lusane, 20, Boynton Beach, Florida, USA Dominos Pizza Delivery Driver Robbed At Gunpoint Boynton Beach Police Nab Suspect, Charged, Jailed A Boynton Beach man is accused of robbing a Dominos Pizza Delivery driver at gunpoint. Boynton Beach Police officials issued this statement Tuesday afternoon: The Boynton Beach Police Department has arrested 20- year-old Evandole Lusane for the armed robbery of a Dominos pizza delivery driver. The incident occurred before 11 P.M. on March 31st in the Cove apartment complex, after the suspect placed a pizza order using the TextNow application. When the driver arrived at the delivery location, Lusane was hiding in a nearby stairwell, armed with a firearm. Lusane pointed the firearm at the victim and stated give me everything you got. The victims cell phone was amongst the items Lusane took during the robbery. Hours later the cell phone was located, abandoned in a stairwell one building over from where the initial crime occurred. On April 3rd the Boynton Beach Police Department was investigating an unrelated incident in the Cove apartment complex where they arrested Lusane. After a thorough investigation, Lusane was positively identified as the suspect from the robbery of the Dominos pizza delivery driver, and the firearm used to commit the robbery was also located. Lusane has been charged with Robbery with a firearm and is currently being housed at the Palm Beach County Jail. ___________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Randall Berg, 69, Draper, Utah, USA Shameless airport boss insisted his 50,000 child sex abuse images were classy stuff" An airport boss caught with 50,000 child sex abuse images insisted he hadnt done anything wrong, and described the material as classy stuff, police say. Randall Berg, 69, reportedly offered the astonishing explanation and justification after being arrested in Draper, Utah, on Wednesday. Confronted about the huge stash of child abuse material found during a police search, the former Salt Lake City International Airport director of operations described them as classy stuff, and adamantly stated he believed his conduct was legal. Court papers say Berg also showed unwillingness to acknowledge the severity of his actions. During the same interview, Berg allegedly admitted to searching for child sex abuse material since 2001 or 2002, and described the victims depicted in the images as younger teens. Investigators believe that some of the children featured in the illegal material are as young as seven or eight years-old. ABC4 reported how Google had passed on a tip to police that Berg owned an online account that contained multiple abuse images. A subsequent search of that account during the raid on Bergs home yielded 30,000 illegal images, interspersed with images of the alleged pedophile himself, it is claimed. Investigators also checked the recycle bin of Bergs computer, where they are said to have found an additional 20,000 images depicting similar abuse, court papers say. Berg was charged Friday with 25 counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor, all felonies. He is being held without bail at Salt Lake County Jail. A judge accepted prosecutors warning that Bergs former job at the citys airport means he could have the connections and knowledge to try and flee justice. A second court date for Berg has not yet been set. I guess they are still busy counting images. DeaWebby's Tech Support Pits From: Hank Re: Email server Dear Webbby; I greatly appreciate your daily Humor Letter. What Mail Server do you recommend? I have had Incredimail for years and they folded up. Thank You Sir, Hank Dear Hank For the last 20 years or so I have recommended Gmail. It is free at http://gmail.com The mail is stored "on the cloud", in those huge server farms that you probably have seen pictures of. All you carry is your user name and password. When you get to your hotel in Timbucktoo, you go to the courtesy computer in the lobby, log in to Gmail, and all your mail is waiting for you and everything configured just like at home. Sure, it takes a bit of getting used to, just like a new girlfriend. But it works well and is reliable. Google has been invaded by Socialist Yuppies, who can't leave a good thing alone, and who are frantically making useless and awkward changes, but it is still way better than Incredimail. Have FUN! DearWebby _____________________________________________________ Today, April 7 in 1712, A slave revolt broke out in New York City. 1798, The territory of Mississippi was organized. 1862, Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh, TN. 1864, The first camel race in America was held in Sacramento, California. 1888, P.F. Collier published a weekly periodical for the first time under the name "Colliers." 1922, U.S. Secretary of Interior leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming. 1927, The first long-distance TV transmission was sent from Washington, DC, to New York City. The audience saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover. 1930, The first steel columns were set for the Empire State Building. 1933, Prohibition ended in the United States. 1940, Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp. 1943, British and American armies linked up between Wadi Akarit and El Guettar in North Africa to form a solid line against the German army. 1945, The Japanese battleship Yamato, the worlds largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a suicide mission. 1948, The United Nations' World Health Organization began operations. 1953, The Big Four met for the first time in 2 years to seek an end to their air conflicts. 1953, IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer. 1957, The last of New York City's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan. 1963, At the age of 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament. 1963, Yugoslavia proclaimed itself a Socialist republic. 1963, Josip Broz Tito was proclaimed to be the leader of Yugoslavia for life. 1966, The U.S. recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain. 1967, Israel reported that they had shot down six Syrian MIGs. 1969, The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. 1970, John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in "True Grit." He had been in over 200 films. 1971, U.S. President Nixon pledged to withdraw 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December. 1980, The U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed economic sanctions in response to the taking of hostages on November 4, 1979. 1983, Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson made the first Space Shuttle spacewalk. 1983, The Chinese government canceled all remaining sports and cultural exchanges with the U.S. for 1983. 1985, In Goteborg, Sweden, China swept all of the world table tennis titles except for men's doubles. 1985, In Sudan, Gen. Swar el-Dahab took over the Presidency while President Gaafar el-Nimeiry was visiting the U.S. and Egypt. 1985, The Soviet Union announced a unilateral freeze on medium-range nuclear missiles. 1987, In Oklahoma a 16-month-old baby was killed by a pit bull. On the same day a 67-year-old man was killed by another pit bull in Dayton, OH. 1988, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to final terms of a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet troops began leaving on May 16, 1988. 1988, In Fort Smith, AR, 13 white supremacists were acquitted on charges for plotting to overthrow the U.S. federal government. 1989, A Soviet submarine carrying nuclear weapons sank in the Norwegian Sea. 1990, In the U.S., John Poindexter was found guilty of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. The convictions were later reversed on appeal. 1990, At Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center a display of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs went on display. On the same day the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges. The charges resulted in acquittal. 1994, Civil war erupted in Rwanda between the Patriotic Front rebel group and government soldiers. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in the months that followed. 1998, Mary Bono, the widow of Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term. 1999, Yugoslav authorities sealed off Kosovo's main border crossings to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving. 2000, U.S. President Clinton signed the Senior Citizens Freedom to Work Act of 2000. The bill reversed a Depression-era law and allows senior citizens to earn money without losing Social Security retirement benefits. 2002, The Roman Catholic archdiocese announced that six priests from the Archdiocese of New York were suspended over allegations of sexual misconduct. 2006, The Boeing X-37 conducted its first flight as a test drop at Edwards Air Force Base, CA. 2009, Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. 2023, Do smiled.
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