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p style="font-family:arial"> Good Morning, Do! Today is Fiday, Friday, March 24 Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops! ___________________________________________________ History: on this day, March 24, in 1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings. THat did not go over well. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award: California authorities said they have become "very familiar" with one man after they've arrested him 10 times in the last 31 days. __________________________________________________ Q Fools rush in where fools have been before. --- Socratex Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. --- Voltaire (1694 - 1778) I have such poor vision I can date anybody. --- Garry Shandling (1949 - ) Yeah, me too. ________________________________________________ On a bulletin board: Success Is Relative. The more The Success, The more The Relatives. When I Read About The Evils Of Drinking... I Gave Up Reading Sign In A Bar: 'Those Of You Who Are Drinking To Forget, Please do Pay In Advance.' Sign In Driving School: If Your Wife Wants To Learn To Drive, Don't Stand In Her Way... Behind Every Great Man, There Is A Surprised Woman Laugh And The World Laughs With You, Snore And You Sleep Alone The Surest Sign That Intelligent Life Exists Elsewhere In The Universe Is The Fact That It Has Never Tried To Contact Us. ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal, and says to the first man he meets, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The man says, "I do Father." The priest says, "Then leave this pub right now!" and approaches a second man. "Do you want to got to heaven?" "Certainly, Father," is the man's reply. "Then leave this den of Satan," says the priest, and he walks up to O'Toole. "Do you want to go to heaven?" "No, I don't Father," O'Toole replies. The priest looked him right in the eye, and said, "You mean to tell me that when you die you don't want to go to heaven?" O'Toole smiles, "Oh, when I die, yes, Father. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now." _________________________________________________ The mother of a problem child complained to the pediatrician that she was on the go constantly trying to ward off the little boy's next misadventure. The pediatrician prescribed tranquilizers for her and on her next visit he asked whether they had helped calm her. "Yes" the mother answered. "And how is your son now?" he asked. _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ The mother of a problem child complained to the pediatrician that she was on the go constantly trying to ward off the little boy's next misadventure. The pediatrician prescribed tranquilizers for her and on her next visit he asked whether they had helped calm her. "Yes" the mother answered. "And how is your son now?" he asked. "Who cares?" she replied. ____________________________________________________ Dear God: --"Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother." -- Larry. --"If You watch me in church on Sunday, I'll show You my new shoes." -- Mary. --"In school they told us what You do. Who does it when You are on vacation?" -- Jane. --"I read the Bible. What does 'begat' mean? Nobody will tell me." -- Alison. --"Did You mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?" -- Norma. --"Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy." -- Joyce. ____________________________________________________ Thanks to Jean for sending this picture: ____________________________________________________ "I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, come home and expect to be fed and stroked, then want to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat." ___________________________________________________ Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. __________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Keith Chastain, 38, in jail in Clovis, California, USA California man arrested 10 times in 31 days California authorities said they have become "very familiar" with one man after they've arrested him 10 times in the last 31 days. 38-year-old Keith Chastain of Fresno was last taken into custody Tuesday morning after Clovis Police received a call about a stolen truck Chastain was suspected of driving. "An observant officer located the stolen truck driving in Old Town Clovis and followed it until additional officers were in the area," officers said in a news release. Authorities initiated a high-risk traffic stop before taking Chastain into custody without incident. Investigators said he was the only person in the truck and was on his way to pick up personal property from the police department when they arrested him. Of the 10 arrests, Clovis Police said they've arrested him six times and other agencies arrested him the remaining four. Authorities did not explain why Chastain was freed after each arrest. Right now, Chastain is facing 18 felonies and 15 misdemeanors from those arrests and charges include stealing 6 vehicles, DUI, vandalism, fraud, possession of a controlled substance, and more. Once again, he's now booked at the Fresno County jail. "The public should know he's been in Clovis six times -- he's going to be here again," said Clovis Police Department Cpl. Meredith Alexander told KMPH. "Everyone should know what he looks like." ___________________________________________ DearWebby's Tech Support Pits From: Ginger re: Malwarebytes for Linux Dear Webby You are always talking about how Linux is easy, fast and secure so when my laptop died I found a refurb laptop with Linux Mint preinstalled for less than $100. It is really fast and is easy to use (similar to old Windows XP) but you never said whether it still needs things like Malwarebytes, CCleaner and other programs. Do I need to get them for this computer? Thanks for your assistance, love your newsletter. Ginger Dear Ginger Good for you! Yes, there is a Malwarebytes for Linux. MailWasher goes right to the server and washes out the spam BEFORE it gets to your computer. The server is already Linux anyway. I don't think you need CrapCleaner, but if you do, BleachBit makes a Linux Mint version of CrapCleaner. Crap does not normally run on Linux. You don't have to worry about most of those utilities. IF and when, emphasis on the IF, you get some kind of problem, that needs to be dealt with, ask a friendly nearby Penguin or me, and we will find the proper program. However, until you DO have a problem, don't worry about it. We run servers on Linux until the machine dies of old age, without ever using any utilities. So, don't worry about it. Have FUN! DearWebby _____________________________________________________ Today, March 24 in 1379 - The Gelderse war ended. 1545 - German Parliament opened in Worms. 1550 - France and England signed the Peace of Boulogne. 1629 - In Virginia, the first game law was passed in the American colonies. 1664 - A charter to colonize Rhode Island was granted to Roger Williams in London. 1720 - In Paris, banking houses closed due to financial crisis. 1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings. THat did not go over well. 1792 - Benjamin West became the first American artist to be selected president of the Royal Academy of London. 1828 - The Philadelphia & Columbia Railway was authorized as the first state owned railway. 1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio. 1837 - Canada gave blacks the right to vote 1848 - A state of siege was proclaimed in Amsterdam. 1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was formed. 1878 - The British frigate Eurydice sank killing 300. 1880 - The first "hail insurance company" was incorporated in Connecticut. It was known as Tobacco Growers Mutual Insurance Company. 1882 - In Berlin, German scientist Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ (bacillus). 1883 - The first telephone call between New York and Chicago took place. 1900 - Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke the ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1900 - In New Jersey, the Carnegie Steel Corporation was formed. 1904 - Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur. 1905 - In Crete, a group led by Eleutherios Venizelos claimed independence from Turkey. 1906 - In Mexico, the Tehuantepec Istmian Railroad opened as a rival to the Panama Canal. 1906 - The "Census of the British Empire" revealed that England ruled 1/5 of the world. 1911 - In Denmark, penal code reform abolished corporal punishment. 1920 - The first U.S. coast guard air station was established at Morehead City, NC. 1924 - Greece became a republic. 1927 - Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-shek over the Nationalist goals. 1932 - Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train. It was the first radio broadcast from a train. 1934 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines. 1938 - The U.S. asked that all countries help refugees fleeing from the Nazis. 1944 - In Rome, The Gestapo rounded up innocent Italians and shot them to death in response to a bomb attack that killed 32 German policemen. Over 300 civilians were executed. 1946 - The Soviet Union announced that it was withdrawing its troops from Iran. 1947 - The U.S. Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to two terms. 1954 - Britain opened trade talks with Hungary. 1955 - Tennessee Williams' play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" debuted on Broadway. 1955 - The first oil drill seagoing rig was put into service. 1960 - A U.S. appeals court ruled that the novel "Lady Chatterlys Lover" was not obscene and could be sent through the mail. 1972 - Great Britain imposed direct rule over Northern Ireland. 1976 - The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country's military. 1980 - In San Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass. 1982 - Soviet leader Leonid L. Brezhnev stated that Russia was willing to resume border talks with China. 1985 - Thousands demonstrated in Madrid against the NATO presence in Spain. 1988 - Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pled innocent to Iran-Contra charges. 1989 - The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground. 1989 - The U.S. decided to send humanitarian aid to the Contras. 1990 - Indian troops left Sri Lanka. 1991 - The African nation of Benin held its first presidential elections in about 30 years. 1993 - In Israel, Ezer Weizman, an advocate of peace with neighboring Arab nations, was elected President. 1995 - Russian forces surrounded Achkoi-Martan. It was one of the few remaining strongholds of rebels in Chechenia. 1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform package that made the most changes in social programs since the New Deal. 1997 - The Australian parliament overturned the world's first and only euthanasia law. 1998 - In Jonesboro, AR, two young boys open fire at students from woods near a school. Four students and a teacher were killed and 10 others were injured. The two boys were 11 and 13 years old cousins. 1998 - A former FBI agent said papers found in James Earl Ray's car supports a conspiracy theory in the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 1999 - In Kenya, at least 31 people were killed when a passenger train derailed. Hundreds were injured. 1999 - NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo. 1999 - The 7-mile tunnel under Mont Blanc in France became an inferno after a truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire. At least 30 people were killed. 2001 - Apple Computer Inc's operating system MAC OS X went on sale. 2002 - Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart. 2005 - The government of Kyrgyzstan collapsed after opposition protesters took over President Askar Akayev's presidential compound and government offices. 2006 - In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire. 2014 - It was announced that the U.S. and its allies would exclude Russia from the G8 meeting and boycott a summit in Sochi in response to Russia's invasion of Crimea. 2019 - U.S. Attorney General William Barr released a four- page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report in U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign. The report concluded that there was no collusion with Russia. 2020 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 2,100 points (11.3%). It was the largest one-day percentage gain since 1933. 2023, Do smiled.
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