Good Morning, Do! Today is Sunday, Oct 22 __________________________________________________  ______________________________________________________ History: Today, Oct 22, in 1968, Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft had orbited the Earth 163 times. __________________________________________________ Q Conceit is God's gift to little men. --- Bruce Barton An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. --- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) "It's time for the human race to enter the solar system!" --- Dan Quayle, on the concept of a manned mission to Mars ___________________________________________________ If You Can Spare A Coin, Please Hit Paypal With It! ___________________________________________________ BONEHEAD AWARD Colorado teens threw rocks at moving cars for 2 months before killing woman _______________________________________________________ A man was having trouble getting his neighbor to keep his chickens fenced in. The neighbor kept talking about chickens being God's creatures, and as such they had the right to go where they wanted. The man was having no luck keeping the chickens out of his flower beds, and he had tried everything. Two weeks later, on a visit I noticed his flower beds were doing great. The flowers were beginning to bloom. So I asked him how he managed to keep the birds away. "How did you make your neighbor keep his hens in his own yard?" "One night I hid half a dozen eggs under a bush by my flower bed, and the next day I let my neighbor see me gather them. I wasn't bothered by God's chicken after that." ________________________________________________________   Strelitzia reginae, also known as the South African Bird of Paradise _______________________________________________________ If You Can Spare A Coin, Please Hit Paypal With It! ___________________________________________________ Some teachers at state universities get to know our students fairly well. One instructor told his communications class of his plans to propose marriage. A student spoke up and said that he had recently asked his girlfriend to marry him as well. "What was her answer?" the instructor asked. "I don't know," the student replied. "She hasn't e-mailed me back yet." _________________________________________________   Juvenile Male Pileated Woodpecker 08/17/2020 Fish Creek, Calgary, A ___________________________________________________ Two youngsters were closely examining bathroom scales on display at the department store. "Have you ever seen one of these before?" one asked. "Yeah, my mom has one," the other replied. "What's it for?" asked the first boy. "I don't know," the second boy answered. "I think you stand on it and it makes you mad and gets you cussing. Don't go near your mom when it looks like she might stand on it." ___________________________________________________  DearWebby's Tech Support Pits From: Olga RE: Icon arrangement on W10 Dear Webby W10 keeps re-arranging my icons. Is that just to annoy me and punish me for downgrading to W10? Is that fixable? Olga Dear Olga It is just a deviously hidden setting, and you can fix it. Right click on a blank area on your Desktop. Hover on View. In the right pane, look for Auto arrange icons. If it's checked, make sure to UNcheck it. Hover on View, again. This time, UNcheck Align icons to grid. Now you can move your icons anywhere on the Desktop, and they will stay there. Have FUN! DearWebby ________________________________________________ Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, "Coach, I don't know and I don't care." Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D: "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject." ___________________________________________________ If You Can Spare A Coin, Please Hit Paypal With It! ___________________________________________________ Amarillo High School and Oiler coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, Phillips responded: "Because she is too damn ugly to kiss good-bye" ____________________________________________ A Bonehead Award Has Been Reported By Rock  Joseph Koenig, Nicholas "Mitch" Karol-Chik Zachary Kwak USA  Colorado teens threw rocks at moving cars for 2 months before killing woman  A Colorado investigator testified Wednesday that the teenagers accused of killing a 20-year-old woman after throwing a landscaping rock through her car windshield had been throwing rocks at moving vehicles for about two months before their actions allegedly resulted in a fatality. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO) in April arrested three then-18-year-old suspects Joseph Koenig, Nicholas "Mitch" Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak, of Arvada in connection with the homicide of Alexa Bartell, who died after a large rock flew through her windshield and hit her in the head on April 19. A judge ruled after a preliminary hearing Wednesday that the three teens will face trial. The lead investigator assigned to the case testified during the preliminary hearing that Karol-Chik told him he and his friends had thrown rocks at cars approximately 10 times between February and April. Prior to Bartell's death, Koenig and Karol-Chik allegedly threw a landscaping "statue head" at a vehicle carrying a couple and their children earlier in April, the investigator testified. The suspected admitted to "throwing rocks not just at targets but at people driving," the investigator said. Between 10 p.m. and 12 a.m. on April 19 and April 20, the suspects allegedly threw rocks at six different cars, injuring multiple drivers and killing Bartell. Earlier on April 19, they made plans to meet up and drove to Walmart together, where they picked up landscaping rocks from the edge of the store's parking lot and loaded the rocks into Koenig's pickup, according to an arrest affidavit previously obtained by Fox News Digital. A fourth friend saw the three suspects loading the rocks into their vehicle and asked them to drive him home before they went on the alleged rampage, police said. Koenig was driving the truck when the suspects left the parking lot, the affidavit states. That witness later told police that Koenig "frequently participates in destructive behavior" because he enjoys causing "chaos," the affidavit states. Throughout the rest of the night, the three suspects allegedly threw rocks at six different vehicles, including Bartell's, killing the 20-year-old woman just before 11 p.m. as she was driving while talking on the phone with her friend. The investigator testified on Wednesday that the suspects were driving about 80 mph at the time. Bartell's friend told police that she was speaking with Bartell on the phone when she "abruptly stopped talking." After noticing that they had struck Bartell's windshield, the three suspects turned back around and drove past the victim's vehicle, which had swerved into a field, at about 50 mph to observe the damage. Kwak is accused of taking a photo of her vehicle as a "memento." Koenig allegedly declared the group "blood brothers" after realizing Bartell was dead, according to Karol-Chik's interview with authorities. Karol-Chik told investigators that Kwak became "excited" when he hit a vehicle with a rock. Kwak, meanwhile, told investigators that Karol-Chik would use "Marine" terminology, such as "contact left," before hitting a vehicle to the left with a rock. Bartell's friend used a phone-finder app to track Bartell's location and eventually found her stationary vehicle in a field off Indiana Street in Jefferson County and called police. Investigators used cellphone data to identify the suspects, tying a common phone number that pinged at different crime scenes. The Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy also testified that based on his interviews with the suspects, Kwak and Koenig were the only two suspects accused of throwing the rock that killed Bartell. After investigators interviewed Kwak, he allegedly insisted that he did not throw the rock that killed Bartell. When the detective who testified Wednesday told Kwak, "I hear you," he responded: "I don't need you to hear me. I need you to believe me. I did not throw that rock." All three suspects are charged with one count of first-degree murder, one count of extreme indifference, six counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of second-degree assault and three counts of attempted second-degree assault. ____________________________________________ _________________________________________________ History On Oct 22, in 1746, The College of New Jersey was officially chartered. It later became known as Princeton University. 1797, Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet. 1836, Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas. 1844, This day is recognized as "The Great Disappointment" among those who practiced Millerism. The world was expected to come to an end according to the followers of William Miller. 1879, Thomas Edison conducted his first successful experiment with a high-resistance carbon filament. 1883, The New York Horse show opened. The first national horse show was formed by the newly organized National Horse Show Association of America. 1907, The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks. 1954, The Federal Republic of Germany was invited to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). 1962, U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island. 1968, Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft had orbited the Earth 163 times. 1975, Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was discharged after publicly declaring his homosexuality. His tombstone reads " "A gay Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one." 1979, The ousted Shah of Iran, Mohammad Riza Pahlavi was allowed into the U.S. for medical treatment. 1981, The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August. 1983, At the Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia, an armed man crashed a truck through front gates and demanded to speak with U.S. President Ronald Reagan. 1986, U.S. President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law. 1991, The European Community and the European Free Trade Association agreed to create a free trade zone of 19 nations by the year 1993. 1995, The 50th anniversary of the United Nations was marked by a record number of world leaders gathering. 1998, The United Nations announced that over 2 million children had been killed in war as innocent victims since 1987. 1998, Pakistan's carpet weaving industry announced that they would begin to phase out child labor. 1999, China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied Western definitions of civil liberties. 1999, The U.N. Security Council voted to send 6,000 troops to Sierra Leone to oversee a peace plan that had been signed in July. 2008, The iTunes Music Store reached 200 million applications downloaded. 2010, The Internation Space Station set the record (3641 days) for the longest continuous human occupation of space. It had been continously inhabited since November 2, 2000. 2023, Do! Smiled. Have Fun Dearwebby 

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