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 ___________________________________________________ History: on this day, December 15, in 1773, Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award:  More than half a million dollars of drugs, guns seized in Arizona bust  _____________________________________________________ Q We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. --- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything. --- Susan Rice ____________________________________________________ "What do you mean by coming home half drunk?" screamed the angry wife. "It's not my fault. I ran out of money," said Phil. __________________________________________________ One beautiful Sunday morning, a priest announced to his congregation: "My good people, I have here in my hands three sermons... a $100 sermon that lasts five minutes, a $50 sermon that lasts fifteen minutes, a $10 sermon that lasts a full hour, and a coin sermon that lasts till noon. Now, we'll take the collection to see which one you want." __________________________________________________ An International Bonehead Award has been earned by  Medrano-Erenas, Tolleson, Arizona, USA  More than half a million dollars of drugs, guns seized in Arizona bust  A 19-year-old man was at the center of a huge fentanyl bust after deputies say he was the person who was supplying dealers in the Phoenix area. On Dec. 12, deputies with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant at a Tolleson home and reportedly found half-a-million dollars worth of drugs, cash, weapons and jewelry. "The search warrant came after months of diligent investigative work by Maricopa County Drug Suppression Task Force (MCDST) detectives. Over the months long investigation, detectives investigated a group of suspects selling thousands of fentanyl pills," the sheriff's office said. After several people were arrested, investigators pinpointed Fredy Benjamin Medrano-Erenas as the person suspected of supplying the drugs, using social media to market them. Several law enforcement teams discovered, at the home, the following: 72,000 fentanyl pills (street value $360,000) 748 grams of cocaine (street value $25,000) 3,320 grams of high-grade marijuana flower (street value $14,000) 5,995 grams of THC cannabis (street value $120,000) 339 THC vape carts (street value $6,800) About $124,544 in cash Two rifles, one of them having a fully automatic option 12 handguns High-end jewelry The sheriff's office estimated those listed street values. "All items were seized by detectives and impounded for evidence. Medrano-Erenas was booked into jail several charges which includes drugs and money laundering," the sheriff's office said. ___________________________________________________   ___________________________________________________ The newly-married husband came home from the office to find his young wife in floods of tears. "Darling, what is the matter?" he asks. "Sweetheart," she sobs, "the most terrible thing has happened! I cooked my very first Beef Bourguignon for you, and I got it out the oven to season it, and the phone rang. When I came back from answering the phone," she sobbed again "I found that the cat had eaten it!" "Don't worry, darling," said her husband. "Don't cry. I'll get you a new cat in the morning." ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ A farmer stood leaning on a fence at the edge of his property. He watched as a red sports car came over the top of a hill and followed the road up to the spot where he stood. The driver pulled over to the side of the road and called out to the farmer. "Do you know how I can get to Route 91?" the driver asked. The farmer thought for a few seconds. Then he said, "Nope." "Do you know where the nearest turnpike entrance is?" the driver asked. "Nope." "How about the town of Hadley. Do you know which direction it is from here?" "Nope." Exasperated, the driver raced his engine. "You don't know very much, do you?" he said. "Nope," the farmer replied. "But I don't have to. I'm not lost." ___________________________________________________   Myrio kohyo (yellow) flowering _________________________________________________ Officers were being lectured about a new computer. The instructor said the computer was able to withstand nuclear and chemical attacks. Then he hollered, "There will be no eating or drinking in my class! Get rid of that coffee!" Joe inquired meekly "Sure, but why?" "Because a coffee spill will wreck the Keyboard". _______________________________________________ Greg complains to a friend, "I can't take it anymore." "What's wrong?" his concerned friend asks. "It's Keli. Every time we have an argument, she gets historical!" "You mean hysterical," his friend said, chuckling. "No, I mean HISTORICAL," Greg insists. "Every argument we have, she'll go "But I still remember that time five years ago when you said...." __________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ Two confirmed bachelors sat talking. Their conversation drifted from politics to cooking. "I got a cookbook once," said the first, "but I could never do anything with it." "Too much fancy cooking in it, eh?" asked the second. "You said it. Every one of the recipes began the same way - 'Take a clean dish and....'" ________________________________________________________ DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Renee Re: Get rid of CAPS LOCK. Dear Webby How do I get rid of the idiotic CAPS LOCK without editing the registry, that usually requires bringing the computer to Staples, where they send it to Turkmenistan, where they steal my precious W7 hard drive and replace it with a useless W11, and steal all my files? That expedites the computer into the nearest dumpster! What do YOU do? Renee  Dear Renee Here is what I have done since the 80s: I take a tea spoon, pry the pesky CAPS LOCK key right off the keyboard, and epoxy it onto the nearest coin operated copy machine. You can of course epoxy it onto anything. It will never again annoy you. Have FUN DearWebby _____________________________________________________ The wife chewed out her husband at the company picnic a while back. "Doesn't it embarrass you that people have seen you go up to the buffet table five times?" "Not a bit," the husband replied. "I just tell them I'm filling up the plate just for you!" ____________________________________________________ Today, December 16 in 1653, Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1773, Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company. 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate. 1835, In New York, 530 buildings were destroyed by fire. 1838, The Zulu chief Dingaan was defeated by a small force of Boers at Blood River celebrated in South Africa as 'Dingaan's Day'. 1850, The first immigrant ship, the Charlotte Jane, arrived at Lyttleton, New Zealand. 1901, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time. 1903, Women ushers were employed for the first time at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. 1905, Sime Silverman published the first issue of "Variety". 1912, The first postage stamp to depict an airplane was issued was a 20-cent parcel-post stamp. 1940, French Premier Petain arrested Pierre Laval after learning of a plan for Laval to seize power and set up a new government with German support. 1944, During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war. 1950, U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism." 1951, NBC-TV debuted "Dragnet" in a special preview on "Chesterfield Sound Off Time". The show began officially on January 3, 1952. 1960, A United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City, killing 134 people. 1973, O.J. Simpson broke Jim Browns single-season rushing record in the NFL. Brown had rushed for 1,863 yards, while Simpson attained 2,003 yards. 1981, The U.S. Congress restored the $122 minimum monthly social security benefit for current recipients. 1990, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a leftist priest, was elected president in Haiti's first democratic elections. 1991, The U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a vote of 111- 25. 1993, The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for negotiations on a comprehensive test ban. 1995, Many U.S. government functions were again closed as a temporary finance provision expired and the budget dispute between President Clinton and Republicans in Congress continued. 1995, NATO launched a military operation in support of the Bosnia peace agreement. 1996, Britain's agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain. 1998, The U.S. and Britain fired hundreds of missiles on Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein's refusal to comply with U.N. weapons inspectors. 1998, Eric Michelman filed the earliest patent for a scroll wheel for a computer mouse. 1999, Torrential rains and mudslides in Venezuela left thousands of people dead and forced at least 120,000 to leave their homes. 2000, Researchers announced that information from NASA's Galileo spacecraft indicated that Ganymede appeared to have a liquid saltwater ocean beneath a surface of solid ice. Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is the solar system's largest moon. The discovery is considered important since water is a key ingredient for life. 2000, U.S. President-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to be the first African-American secretary of state. Powell was sworn in January 20, 2001. 2001, In Tora Bora, Afghanistan, tribal fighters announced that they had taken the last al-Quaida positions. More than 200 fighters were killed and 25 captured. They also announced that they had found no sign of Osama bin Laden. 2001, Cuba received the first commercial food shipment from the United States in nearly 40 years. The shipment was sent to help Cuba after Hurrican Michelle hit Cuba on November 4, 2001. 2001, A British newspaper, The Observer, reported that a notebook had been found at an al-Quaida training camp in southern Afghanistan. The notebook contained a "blue print" for a bomb attack on London's financial district. 2009, Astronomers discovered GJ1214b. It was the first- known exoplanet on which water could exist. 2022 Do smiled. 

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