Good Morning, Do! Today is Tuesday, December 24 Christmas Eve! I hope you were nice enough to get what you have been praying for. Just saw a picture of Trump signing the bill to establish he Space Force. Ho. Hum. long overdue! What stopped me was neither Trump nor the news, but First Lady Melania behind Trump, grinning like she had battled for the Space Force for years, and finally got it! Yes, it does look like she is an old Classic SF fan, and knows what is necessary. Trump could never have selected a better wife, or let a better wife catch him. Saint Asimov and Saint Heinlein are smiling up on their high orbit! ____________________________________________________ Today, December 24 in  1818 Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr.  ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award:  UIC student found strangled in car was killed because she ignored man's catcalls  __________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. --- Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. --- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956) _______________________________________________ >From Sandie There are women whose thoughtful husbands buy them flowers for no reason. And then there's me. One day I couldn't stand it any longer. "Why don't you ever bring me flowers?" I asked. "What's the point?" my husband said. "They die after about a week." "So could you," I shot back, "but I still like having you around." ________________________________________________`   ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Donald Thurman, 26, Chicago, Illinois  UIC student found strangled in car was killed because she ignored man's catcalls  A University of Illinois at Chicago student who was found strangled in her car Saturday was murdered because she ignored her alleged killer's advances, according to prosecutors. Ruth George, 19, was found unresponsive in her family's car parked inside the Halsted Street Parking Garage and an autopsy determined she died of strangulation. The suspect, 26-year-old Donald Thurman, was arrested the following day in connection with her death. Thurman was charged with first-degree murder and criminal sexual assault in George's death. Prosecutors told a judge during a hearing on Tuesday that he confessed to the attack, and supposedly admitted he was angry that George ignored his catcalls. He claimed it was her fault. "The defendant was angry that he was being ignored. The defendant came up behind the victim, grabbed her around the neck from behind, and put her into a chokehold," Cook County Asst. State's Attorney James Murphy said. "With his arms still wrapped around the victim's neck the defendant dragged the victim from the ground and he opened her back seat car door." Thurman allegedly then sexually assaulted George before killing her. George's body was found Saturday morning in the school parking garage. Her family reported her missing to campus police after they hadn't heard from her since Friday night. 
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Erin Re: Laptop Table  Dear Webby, I have a problem trying to watch video clips; mostly, from u tube. It keeps freezing up, no sound and it has white dots that keep going round in a small circle in center of screen. Can you give me an idea or ideas of the problem? Many thanks, Lisa  Dear Lisa That is perfectly normal and what you expect with a slow connection. The movie is coming in slower than it plays, so it has to pause and wait for a bit more to drizzle in. If you are paying for high speed, contact your ISP and get them to give you the speed that you pay for. However, if you are on slow dial-up, then all you can do is pause the movie, wait for the faintly colored loading bar to complete, and THEN play it. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 >From Liz "That's a great place to work!" shouted my 16-year-old brother after coming home from the first day at his first job. "I get two weeks' paid vacation." "I'm so glad," said my mother. "Yeah," added John. "I can't wait to find out where they send me." ------------- Western Balconia 
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 A traveling evangelist always put on a grand finale at his revival meetings, When he was to preach at a church, he would secretly hire a small boy to sit in the ceiling rafters with a dove in a cage. Toward the end of his sermon, the preacher would shout for the Holy Spirit to come down, and the boy in the rafters would dutifully release the dove. At one revival meeting, however, nothing happened when the preacher called for the Holy Spirit to desend. He again raised his arms and exclaimed: "Come down, Holy Spirit!" Still no sign of the dove. The preacher then heard the anxious voice of a small boy call down from the rafters: "Sir, a big black cat just ate the Holy Spirit. Shall I throw down the cat?" 
 What's the Heirloom Christmas Book about? It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved. You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions "bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi'," but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers, probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put them all together into one e-book. This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that should be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format, you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the CD with family pictures and other keepsakes, making it a true heirloom. I have produced a smaller version last year. This final edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the price down to the same $10. The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice Christmas gift!  Click on the book cover to get your copy or click on Heirloom Christmas Book http://webby.com/cb You can download it and give the file as a gift! ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com Meet Family in the Middle Yesterday was a fine day. My kids drove south for 20 minutes and we drove north for 20 minutes. We all met at a car show. Perfect weather to wander around and look at over 1000 various cars. Meeting at a place like that saved us all driving time and gas money. I was thrilled to spend the day with my husband and kids. I will have find more free events in the same area for future outings. Rural Angel from Kent County, Delaware  Thriftyfun.com also has a newsletter. If you want more than just one tip per day, or if you want to share your tips, then you can subscribe to it here: ThriftyFun ____________________________________________________  
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ A gentleman goes to an estate sale and notices that one of the items for sale is a large parrot. He's always wanted a talking bird, so when it comes up for bid he offers $50. The bidding proceeds hot and heavy with someone always bidding ten dollars more than he until the parrot is finally sold to him for $1,500. When he goes to get the bird, he asks the auctioneer, "Can the bird talk?" The auctioneer replied, "Who do you think was bidding against you?" ___________________________________________________ A trailer park in Semmes, Alabama was broken into. The thieves stole a computer and jewelry from one trailer, TV and stereo from another, and even got away with radios and CD players out of cars. When the cops asked the manager of the park if he was broken into too, he said: "Yeah my office, and they pried my lock open with their drivers license, and left half of it in my door..." ___________________________________________________ Bob and Katie were having a discussion about family finances. Finally Bob exploded, "If it weren't for my money, the house wouldn't be here!" Katie replied, "If it weren't for your money, I wouldn't be here either __________________________________________________ 
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 Today December 24 in 1814 The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium. 1818 Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr. 1828 William Burke who, with his partner William Hare, dug up the dead and murdered to sell the corpses for dissection, went on trial in Edinburgh. 1851 A fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, destroying about 35,000 volumes. 1865 Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan. 1906 Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, MA. 1914 In World War I, the first air raid on Britain was made when a German airplane dropped a bomb on the grounds of a rectory in Dover. 1943 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord. 1944 A German submarine torpedoed the Belgian transport ship S.S. Leopoldville with 2,235 soldiers aboard. About 800 American soldiers died. The soldiers were crossing the English Channel to be reinforcements at the battle that become known as the Battle of the Bulge. 1948 For the first time ever, a midnight Mass was broadcast on television. It was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. 1948 The first completely solar-heated house became occupied in Dover, MA. 1951 Libya achieved independence as the United Kingdom of Libya, under King Idris. 1965 A meteorite landed on Leicestershire. It weighed about 100lbs. 1966 Luna 13 landed on the moon. 1968 Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the moon. 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the country's Marxist government. 1981 In Eastern Kazakh/Semipalatinsk, the Soviet Union performed a nuclear test. 1985 Fidel Castro, the Cuban president, announced that he was a non-smoker. 1989 Ousted Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega took refuge at the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City. 1990 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married. 1992 U.S. President George H.W. Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal. 1997 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal," was sentenced by a French court to life in prison for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national. 1998 At Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, a tourist was hit by a piece of flying metal while waiting to board a ride. The man's wife and a Disneyland employee were also injured. Luan Phi Dawson died December 26th from his injuries. 1999 Ivory Coast President Henri Konan Bdi was overthrown in a coup. 1999 An Indian Airlines plane was seized during a flight from Katmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi. In Afghanistan, the 150 hostages were freed on December 31 after India released three Kashmir militants from prison. 2000 The "Texas 7," seven convicts that had escaped a Texas prison, robbed a sports store in Irving, TX. The suspects killed Officer Aubrey Hawkins, stole $70,000, 25 weapons and clothing. The men had escaped on December 13. 2019 Do smiled. 

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