Good Morning, Do! Today is Thursday, April 29 Thank you, Francis! ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________  17-time convicted felon gets 3 year sentence for stealing blind musicians guitar at Loop CTA station  ___________________________________________________ Today, April 29 in 1992 Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days. ____________________________________________________ The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. --- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC) ____________________________________________________ Son: Why is Father singing to the baby so much tonight? Mother: He is trying to sing her asleep. Son: Well, If I were her, I'd pretend I was asleep. ____________________________________________________ Deja moo: Knowing you've heard this bull before ____________________________________________________   ____________________________________________________ A young mother paying a visit to a doctor friend and his wife made no attempt to restrain her five-year-old son, who was ransacking an adjoining room. But finally, an extra loud clatter of bottles did prompt her to say, "I hope you don't mind Johnny being in there." "No," said the doctor calmly, "He'll be quiet shortly after he finds the anesthetics and poisons." ____________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Maurice Williams, Chicago, Illinois, USA  17-time convicted felon gets 3 year sentence for stealing blind musicians guitar at Loop CTA station  A man whos amassed more than 80 criminal cases in Cook County under at least 20 different aliases has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a blind mans guitar at the Jackson Blue Line platform. Maurice Williams was out of prison for just 16 days when he allegedly stole the visually impaired musicians guitar and hopped on a train around 3:30 p.m. on March 7, 2020. The guitarist, Juan Hernandez, frequently plays for money on CTA platforms downtown. He told the Chicago Tribune, Jackson Blue Line has become increasingly dangerous. When Im playing, the same people are asking around for money, spare change and just hanging around, so I dont feel safe in that spot. This was a reprehensible act of cowardice against a member of our special needs community, a top CPD spokesperson tweeted after the incident. Williams should be ashamed, he said. Police accessed CTAs sprawling surveillance camera system and tracked Williams to a train on the Near West Side. They arrested him and returned the guitar to the victim. Williams allegedly stole Hernandezs livelihood just days after being released from prison where he served half of four concurrent sentences for theft, records show. He was accused of stealing iPads, cell phones, and credit cards from restaurants in Uptown in those cases. With time served before trial and Illinois standard 50% good behavior sentence reduction, Williams walked out of prison on February 20, 2020. He went almost 16 whole days without being charged with another felony. His previous prison terms include one year for theft in 2018; two years for theft in 2016; three years for narcotics in 2014; 30 months for retail theft in 2012; three years for retail theft in 2011; seven years for burglary of a school or place of worship in 2006; two years for retail theft in 2005; three years for retail theft in 2003; four years for burglary in 2001; a concurrent four years for burglary in 2001; one year for narcotics in 1998; another six years for cocaine distribution in 1998; and four years for burglary in 1996. Now, Judge William Raines has sentenced him to three years for stealing Hernandezs guitar. Williams will receive 397 days credit for time served while awaiting trial and will also enjoy a 50% sentence reduction for good behavior in prison. His parole date has not been set. 
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 I asked Mom if I was a gifted child... she said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me. ____________________________________________ Children are natural mimics, who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ____________________________________________ A fellow who's just reached his 150th birthday was giving a press conference to the assembled media. "Excuse me, sir," one of the reporters said, "but how did you come to live to 150? "It's actually quite simple," the old fellow replied. "I just never argue." "That's impossible," the reporter responded. "There must be something else, like diet, or meditation, or something. Just not arguing won't keep you alive for 150 years!" The old fellow shrugged his shoulders and said: "Hmmm, could be you're right." ____________________________________________ 
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 Today, April 29 in 1289 Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli. 1429 Joan of Arc led Orleans, France, to victory over Britain. 1661 The Chinese Ming dynasty occupied Taiwan. 1672 King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands. 1813 Rubber was patented by J.F. Hummel. 1852 The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus was published. 1858 Austrian troops invaded Piedmont. 1861 The Maryland House of Delegates voted against seceding from Union. 1861 New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War. 1879 In Cleveland, OH, electric arc lights were used for the first time. 1913 Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper. 1916 Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities in Dublin. 1918 Germany's Western Front offensive ended in World War I. 1924 An open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba. 1927 Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis was completed for Lindbergh. 1945 The German Army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. 1945 In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor. 1945 The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated. 1946 Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals. 1952 IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world." The computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. 1974 U.S. President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal. 1975 The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon. 1981 Steve Carlton, of the Philadelphia Phillies, became the first left-handed pitcher in the major leagues to get 3,000 career strikeouts. 1984 In California, the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor went online after a long delay due to protests. 1988 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev promised more religious freedom. 1990 The destruction of the Berlin Wall began. 1992 Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity. 1992 Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days. 1994 Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris which granted Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. 1996 Former CIA Director William Colby was missing and presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in Maryland. Colby's body was later recovered. 1997 Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was dishonorably discharged. 1997 Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first U.S.-Russian space walk. 1998 The U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA trade. 1998 Brazil announced a plan to protect a large area of Amazon forest. The area was about the size of Colorado. 2002 Kelsey Grammer and his production company, Grammnet Inc., were ordered to pay more than $2 million in unpaid commissions to his former talent agency. 2003 Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) filed a lawsuit against Best Buy Co. Inc., that claimed the store did not have permission to use his likeness in a print ad. 2009 NATO expelled two Russian diplomats from NATO headquarters in Brussels over a spy scandal in Estonia. Russia's Foreign Ministry criticized the expulsions. 2015 The White Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-2 at Camden Yards. The game was played without a crowd present due to the ongoing riots and protests in Baltimore. This was the first time a Major League Baseball game was played in front of an empty house. 2021 Do smiled. 
 
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