Good Morning, Do! Today is Thursday, October 29 Thank you Elsbeth! Thank you Mike!! ___________________________________________________ International Bonehead Award AZ Husband Was Plotting to Kill wifewith Fentanyl bought from FBI _____________________________________________________ Today, October 28 in 1940 The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S., 2 years prior to WWII, _____________________________________________________ The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. --- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) "There are more important things in life than money - but they won't go out with you if you're broke." --- Socratex _____________________________________________________ A preacher was winding up his temperance sermon with great fervor. "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and throw it into the river." The congregation cried, "Amen!" "And if I had all the wine in the world, I'd take it and throw it in the river." The congregation cried, "Amen!" "And if I had all the whiskey and demon rum in the world, I'd take it all and throw it in the river." And the congregation cried, "Amen!" The preacher sat down. The deacon stood up. "For our closing hymn," he announced, "let us turn to page 126 and sing, 'We shall gather at the river'." _____________________________________________________   Wild horse, Alberta ___________________________________________________ Two little girls are looking at a book of fairy tales. "Who's that on the cover?" asks the younger of the two. "That's Cinderella." replied her friend. "It's a nice story with a happy ending." "But why is she crying?" Asked the first. "Because her wicked step-Mother won't let her go to the mall." ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Dallas Michaels, 42, Mesa, Arizona, USA 
 AZ Husband Was Plotting to Kill wifewith Fentanyl bought from FBI 
 Theresa Michaels says she was told her husband wanted her dead for her insurance -- and to marry another woman In early June, Theresa Michaels was preparing to leave on a weekend trip from Arizona to California with her husband and three kids when six detectives showed up at her door. "That's when they informed me," she says, "that my husband was plotting to kill me." Dallas Michaels, 42, allegedly "wanted to kill his wife because he was engaged in a long term affair and wanted to collect money on her life insurance policy," according to a statement from Mesa, Arizona, police. Authorities allege he was trying to obtain fentanyl, a prescription opioid more potent than morphine, with the intent to "poison her drink," said police. Investigators say they were tipped to the alleged plot by an unidentified woman who claimed that Dallas mentioned his plan to her several times over six months and wanted the woman's help to obtain the drug ahead of his family's California trip, with the goal of doing it then," said police. He was arrested and remains jailed without bond in Maricopa County on charges that include premeditated first-degree murder and use of electronic communications in a drug transaction, PEOPLE confirms. It's unclear if he has entered a plea and no attorney is listed on his behalf in online jail records. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for PEOPLEs free True Crime newsletter for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. "This is the worst kind of betrayal," Theresa told Phoenix TV stations KTVK/KPHO. "He was so desperate to get me out of the picture." She further told the outlets that the woman with whom Dallas was having an affair -- who Theresa now knows -- was engaged to Dallas without knowing he was married. "She says that he lied to her, just like he lied to me," Theresa says. Officers arrested Dallas after setting up a sting with the aid of the woman from whom he allegedly tried to buy the drug. According to police, "On June 25, 2020, detectives obtained cell phone texts between Dallas and the female where he confirmed he was going to California on a family trip and was 'doing it then.' He again asked for the female to notify him if she came across anything in the next few days. The female called Dallas and the conversation was overheard by detectives. In the conversation, Dallas arranged to purchase fentanyl from the female and being committed to the task for the weekend." When arrested, he "admitted to speaking to the female about killing his wife though he insisted he was more interested in killing himself," according to police. "He stated both he and his wife have life insurance policies and he described the overdosing strategy to avoid suspicion." In a GoFundMe post seeking help with relocation costs, Theresa -- under her maiden name of Doctors -- said the couple was married for eight years, and she carried a $500,00 life insurance policy. She says she is now stuck with the lease on a martial arts studio where Dallas formerly taught that is "completely tarnished," and facing bankruptcy. She alleged that Dallas, who also is being held on prior charges of impersonating an officer and extortion, had previously explained to her that he "was trying to find a way to get us out of this financial rut that he put us in," she told KTVK/KPHO. "He misinformed me about everything. He was a con man." "I am in the process of obtaining a divorce by default," she wrote in her GoFundMe plea. "However, in the meantime, I am struggling to make ends meet with my income alone. I have held a steady job for the past 15 years. I am behind on mortgage payments and have to move. I want to get far away from here."  
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits From: Yana RE: Roomba   Dear Webby, I know this is not a web or computer question, but you have answered wild ones before. You know about those UFO style disk that scurry around and sweep, vacuum, mop. What is a good one? Yana  Dear Yana Your first one is going to be a "Door Prize". Cheap junk, that sorta works and that is ALMOST more nuisance than it is worth. It will teach you, though, the involved lingo and what to look out for. You will also find out that every Tuesday there will be a newer and much better model. So you give yours to an aunt, and buy a more expensive one. Nice! That will keep you happy for a while, and then you find out that they now make even better ones. I doubt that you will stop lusting after newer and better ones until you get up into the $200+ range. Don't let that stop you from starting with a below $20 door prize unit. They will sweep and vacuum the high traffic areas, and if you fence them out of toilets or other places, where they will get stuck, they can save you valuable FaceBook time. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 As he was standing in line at the grocery store checkout counter, a friend of John's noticed he was purchasing a dozen roses and a card. "You in trouble with Jill?" the friend asked John. "Nope!" was John's reply. "Preventive maintenance." ____________________________________________ Jill, with two burnt ears went to the doctor, who asked what had happened. "The phone rang, and I accidentally picked up the iron." "What about the other one?" "My upstairs neighbor called, and asked what all the screaming was about." ____________________________________________ Two mothers were talking about their sons. The first said, "My son is such a saint. He works hard, doesn't smoke, and he hasn't so much as looked at a woman in over two years." The other woman said, "Well, my son is a saint himself. Not only hasn't he not looked at a woman in over three years, but he hasn't touched a drop of liquor in all that time." "My word," the first mother said. "You must be so proud." "I am," the second mother replied. "And when he's paroled next month, I'm going to throw him a big party." ____________________________________________ 
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 Today October 29 in 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I. 1652 The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth. 1682 William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania. 1863 The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded. 1901 Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted. 1923 Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk. 1929 America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market. 1940 The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S., 2 years prior to WWII, 1945 The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each. 1956 Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis. 1959 General Mills became the first corporation to use close- circuit television. 1960 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) won his first professional fight. 1966 The National Organization for Women was founded. 1969 The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation. 1973 O.J. Simpson, of the Buffalo Bills, set two NFL records. He carried the ball 39 times and he ran 157 yards putting him over 1,000 yards at the seventh game of the season. 1974 U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status 1985 It was announced that Maj. Gen. Samuel K. Doe had won the first multiparty election in Liberia. 1990 The U.N. Security Council voted to hold Saddam Hussein's regime liable for human rights abuses and war damages during its occupation of Kuwait. 1991 The U.S. Galileo spacecraft became the first to visit an asteroid (Gaspra). 1991 Trade sanctions were imposed on Haiti by the U.S. to pressure the new leaders to restore the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. 1992 Depo Provera, a contraceptive, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. 1998 The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth. 1998 The oldest known copy of Archimedes' work sold for $2 million at a New York auction. 2020 Do smiled. 
 

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