Good Morning, Do! Today is Tuesday, July 7 ___________________________________________________ Today, July 7 in  1754 Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later. 1930 Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.  _____________________________________________________ Today's Bonehead Award: Carjacker rams stolen car into deputy's patrol car  ______________________________________________________ 
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 _____________________________________________________ The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. --- Harry Golden (1902 - 1981) _____________________________________________________ Lost Again! You've all heard of the Air Force's ultra- high-security, super-secret base in Nevada, known simply as "Area 51?" Well, late one afternoon, the Air Force folks out at Area 51 were very surprised to see a Cessna landing at their "secret" base. They immediately impounded the aircraft and hauled the pilot into an interrogation room. The pilot's story was that he took off from Vegas, got lost, and spotted the Base just as he was about to run out of fuel. The Air Force started a full FBI background check on the pilot and held him overnight during the investigation. By the next day, they were finally convinced that the pilot really was lost and wasn't a spy. They gassed up his airplane, gave him a terrifying "you-did-not-see-a-base" briefing, complete with threats of spending the rest of his life in prison, told him Vegas was that-a-way on such-and-such a heading, and sent him on his way. The next day, to the total disbelief of the Air Force, the same Cessna showed up again. Once again, the MP's surrounded the plane...only this time there were two people in the plane. The same pilot jumped out and said, "Do anything you want to me, but my wife is in the plane and you have to tell her where I was last night!" ------------ I have been at Area 51, well on the outskirts anyway, just taking pictures of blooming cacti. I had a feeling of being watched with fancy telescopes, but never saw anybody and never talked to anybody. Just stay far away from buildings and you'll be fine. _____________________________________________________   Did somebody you once knew get re-incarnated as an Elephant Seal in Australia? ___________________________________________________ Elizabeth was surprised to receive ten dollars from her Aunt for her birthday. The Aunt asked how she was going to spend it. "I'm taking it to Sunday School and giving it to God." the little girl replied. "He'll be just as surprised as I was at not getting a dollar like usual." ___________________________________________________   An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Nathaniel Hollins, 36, Fresno, California, USA 
 Carjacker rams stolen car into deputy's patrol car 
 A south valley man is accused of a car jacking, and ramming the vehicle into a sheriffs deputies patrol unit, in a crime all caught on camera. Deputies were called to the area of Avenue 384 and Road 48 in Kingsburg, where two people reported that a car had crashed into them, the driver of which then fled. He later came back, and stole their vehicle. 36-year-old suspect Nathaniel Hollins of Fresno was found in Dinuba. Deputies tried to negotiate with him, but Hollins refused, and rammed a patrol car, nearly striking a deputy. After that the stolen car stalled and Holins was arrested.  
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 On a military training exercise, the British divisional command radio operators were getting very bored one quiet night, when breaking the silence a voice asked over the air, "Are there any friendly bears listening?" After a moment, another voice replied, "Yes, I'm a friendly bear," and then another voice, "I'm a friendly bear too!" At this point, the Officer at Headquarters grabbed his microphone and let loose a blistering tirade at the operators for fooling around on an radio link. When he had finished, there was silence for about ten seconds. Then a small voice said, "He's not a very friendly bear. Let's go to Secret Command Frequency 69." Everybody shut down and went to sleep, because that frequency does not exist. Headquarters is apparently still searching for it. _____________________________________________ One afternoon, a woman was in her back yard hanging the laundry when an old, tired-looking dog wandered into the yard. The woman could tell from the dogs collar and well-fed belly that he had a home. But when she walked into the house, the dog followed her, sauntered down the hall and fell asleep in a corner. An hour later, he went to the door, and the woman let him out. The next day the dog was back. He resumed his position in the hallway and slept for an hour. This continued for several weeks. Curious, the woman pinned a note to his collar: "Every afternoon, your dog comes to my house for a nap." The next day he arrived with a different note pinned to his collar: "We have ten children. He's trying to catch up on his sleep. Can I come over too?" ____________________________________________ A dietician was once addressing a large audience in Chicago. "The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water." "But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" A 75-year-old man in the front row stood up and said, "Wedding cake." 
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 Today July 7 in 1754 Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later. 1846 U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison. 1862 The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri. 1885 G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine. 1917 Aleksandr Kerensky formed a provisional government in Russia. 1920 A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, VA. 1930 Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River. 1937 Japanese forces invaded China. 1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint. 950 The U.N. Security Council authorized military aid for South Korea. 1969 Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure that made the French language equal to English throughout the national government. 1981 U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. 1983 Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov. 1994 Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in Seattle, Washington under the name "Cadabra." 1998 A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery. 1999 In Sierra Leone, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and rebel leader Foday Sankoh signed a pact to end the nation's civil war. 2000 Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it would buy Netiverse Inc. for $210 million in stock. It was the 13th time Cisco had purchased a company in 2000. 2000 Amazon.com announced that they had sold almost 400,000 copies of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire," making it the biggest selling book in e-tailing history. 2003 In Liberia, a team of U.S. military experts arrived at the U.S. embassy compound to assess whether to deploy troops as part of a peacekeeping force in the country. 2017 The first Tesla Model 3 rolled off the assembly line. 2020 Do smiled. 
 
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