Good Morning, Do! Today is Friday, February 19 Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!  ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________  Woman, 2 children found suffering severe neglect. Husband in jail now  ___________________________________________________ Today, February 18 in 2004 Former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling was charged with fraud, insider trading and other crimes in connection with the energy trader's collapse. Skilling was later convicted and sentenced to more than 24 years in prison. ____________________________________________________ Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. --- Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher ____________________________________________________ Thanks to Mary N for this one: Thought for the day: Any CEO caught using corporate funds for his own personal gains should be charged with impersonating a politician. ____________________________________________________ Many a golfer prefers a golf cart to a caddy because the cart cannot count, criticize or laugh. ____________________________________________________     Harbin Ice Festival ___________________________________________________ The young woman really thought she'd been very patient, through a protracted period of dating with no talk of marriage. One night her steady boyfriend took her to a Chinese restaurant. As he perused the menu, he casually asked her, "So . . . how do you like your rice? Boiled? Or fried?" Without missing a beat, she looked over her menu at him and replied clearly, "Thrown." __________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Bryan Snow, Blue Springs, Kansas City Missouri, USA  Woman, 2 children found suffering severe neglect  A suburban Kansas City man has been charged after emergency responders found his girlfriend and their two children suffering from severe neglect, Jackson County prosecutors said. Jackson County Fire Protection District responders found a 27-year-old woman in a waste-filled bathtub at a Blue Springs home on Friday, according to a probable cause statement from Blue Springs police. Police said the twin girls were severely malnourished. They said their father locked them in a closet for a long time and frequently punished them, the statement said. The suspect, identified as Bryan Snow, told police he put the woman in a bathtub because she has multiple sclerosis. He said he worked for two days and checked on her on the third day. Snow was charged with two counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child/creating a substantial risk, and second-degree domestic assault. The family had several contacts with social services last year, The Independence Examiner reported. A Missouri Department of Social Services spokeswoman did not respond to a message seeking comment.  
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From:Trevor Re: Defrag large drive  Dear Webby we got a new computer in the office with a 2 TB hard drive. How often should that drive be defragged? I'm afraid it will take a whole shift to do that. Trevor  Dear Trevor UNused parts of the drive defrag really quickly. Use Partition Magic to partition the drive. You need a small 2 - 3 GB partition for Windows and software, and a few partitions for data. I imagine the reason for the huge drive is to store incoming faxes. If those are just viewed and printed but not annotated or edited, then they don't change in size and rarely need defragging. That way you can just quickly defrag the small partition where Windows keeps changing things. If you don't partition your drive into a system and a data partition, then the rule that "the bigger the drive, the more often it needs to be defragged", applies. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 Jolene had wanted new kitchen cabinets for a long time, but her husband insisted they were an extravagance. She went to visit her mother for two weeks, and when she returned, she was overjoyed to find that beautiful new cabinets had been installed in her kitchen. A few days later, a neighbor came over to visit and mentioned, "We were sure glad that the fire your husband had while you were gone was confined to the kitchen, and that he was able to clean up the mess before you got back!" ____________________________________________ Nancy knelt in the confessional and said, "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned." "What is it, child?" "Father, I have committed the sin of vanity. Twice a day I gaze at myself in the mirror and tell myself how beautiful I am." The priest turned, took a good look at her, and said, "Nancy, I have good news. That isn't a sin - it's only a mistake. You probably need new glasses." ____________________________________________ A drummer got bored with his instrument and decided to take up the accordion instead. Walking into a music shop, he spotted one he liked and asked the shopkeeper, "how much is that accordion by the wall?" The shopkeeper looked at him and said, "You're a drummer, aren't you?" "Yes, how did you know?" he said. "That's the radiator." ____________________________________________ 
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 Today February 19 in 1807 Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama. He was later tried and acquitted on charges of treason. 1846 The formal transfer of government between Texas and the United States took place. Texas had officially become a state on December 29, 1845. 1856 The tintype camera was patented by Professor Hamilton L. Smith. 1878 Thomas Alva Edison patented a music player (the phonograph). 1881 Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages. 1942 U.S. President Roosevelt signed an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans. 1942 The New York Yankees announced that they would admit 5,000 uniformed servicemen free to each of their home ball games during the coming season. 1942 Approximately 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin. 1945 During World War II, about 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima. 1953 The State of Georgia approved the first literature censorship board in the U.S. Newspapers were excluded from the new legislation. 1959 Cyprus was granted its independence with the signing of an agreement with Britain, Turkey and Greece. 1963 The Soviet Union informed U.S. President Kennedy it would withdraw "several thousand" of its troops from Cuba. 1981 The U.S. State Department called El Savador a "textbook case" of a Communist plot. 1981 Ford Motor Company announced its loss of $1.5 billion. 1985 Mickey Mouse was welcomed to China as part of the 30th anniversary of Disneyland. The touring mouse played 30 cities in 30 days. 1985 William Schroeder became the first artificial-heart patient to leave the confines of the hospital. 1985 Cherry Coke was introduced by the Coca-Cola Company. 1986 The U.S. Senate approved a treaty outlawing genocide. The pact had been submitted 37 years earlier for ratification. 1986 The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. 1987 A controversial, anti-smoking publice service announcement aired for the first time on television. Yul Brynner filmed the ad shortly before dying of lung cancer. Brynner made it clear in the ad that he would have died from cigarette smoking before the ad aired. 1997 Deng Xiaoping of China died at the age of 92. He was the last of China's major revolutionaries. 2001 The museum at the Oklahoma City National Memorial Center was dedicated. 2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft began using its thermal emission imaging system to map Mars. 2004 Former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling was charged with fraud, insider trading and other crimes in connection with the energy trader's collapse. Skilling was later convicted and sentenced to more than 24 years in prison. 2005 The USS Jimmy Carter was commissioned at Groton, CT. It was the last of the Seawolf class of attack submarines. 2008 Fidel Castro resigned the Cuban presidency. His brother Raul was later named as his successor. 2021 Do smiled. 
 

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