Good Morning, Do! Today is Friday, July 9 Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!  Thank you, Andrew !!! Thank you, Roy ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________  Dopey driver in Fresno sentenced for murder of unborn baby  ___________________________________________________ Today, July 9 in 1816 - Argentina declared independence from Spain. ____________________________________________________ Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. --- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) ____________________________________________________ >From Rock few years back I was hanging out with a great old pal of mine, He was back with his wife and 3 kids staying at his dads old place at a lake vacationing. There really wasnt much there, his 8 ,,10 and like 13 yr old kids were all bored, His wife told the kids , "Well, gee why dont you play solitaire?" All 3 chimed back in unison, "But Mom, we have no computers here." ____________________________________________________   ____________________________________________________ Smith emailed his supervisor in the front office. "Boss," he wrote, "my mother-in-law is doing some heavy house-cleaning tomorrow, and my wife wants me to go help with the attic and the garage, moving and hauling stuff." "We're short-handed, Smith," the boss replied. "I can't give you the day off." "Thanks, boss," Smith wrote back, "I knew I could count on you!" ____________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Jimmy Keonhothy, Fresno, California, USA  Dopey driver sentenced for murder of unborn baby in Fresno  A life sentence is awaiting the Fresno man who got high on meth, got in a high-speed police chase, and killed an unborn baby in a crash last year. By the time Fresno police pulled their weapons on Jimmy Keonhothy, it was too late. Body camera video showed him speeding away from officers, running two stop signs and eventually crashing his Honda Pilot into a car on Olive. The crash badly injured Aura Ayala Escalante and killed her unborn child. "These events were extremely disturbing and the tragedy that occurred thereafter is certainly something that not just Mr. Keonhothy by serving his sentence will be living with, but the mother-to-be will always remember the way her pregnancy ended," said Judge Houry Sanderson as she prepared to sentence Keonhothy. Ayala was 42 years old, 25 weeks pregnant, and on her way home from a pregnancy checkup with her OB/GYN. Doctors performed an emergency c-section later the same day, but they couldn't save the baby and they say Ayala herself suffered some cognitive damage. Keonhothy admitted he was on meth at the time and a blood draw that was also recorded on body camera video confirmed it. A jury convicted him of second-degree murder and other charges in May. Prosecutors made the case for murder by arguing he acted with malice because of a prior conviction for auto theft. That time, he also ran from police, accelerated through a residential neighborhood, blasted past a stop sign, and narrowly avoided a crash. A judge warned him about the risk involved in high-speed chases, but he did it again. This time, he won't be driving again for a long time. "You have now caused the ultimate price to someone else: the loss of a loved one, a future child, somebody that person was looking forward to having in their life and you've caused yourself to spend a substantial amount of your life in prison all because you are unable to make good decisions," Judge Sanderson said. Keonhothy will have to serve 15 years to life for the murder plus an extra seven for evading police and causing an injury and death.  
 DearWebby's tech support pits from: Janet re: Slow W10 Dear Webby My W10 is getting slower than I can toerate. Yeah, I know, you told me two hundred times, or more, to resist the brainwash and to just clean up my act. Well, I am on W10, and it is now slower than my W7 ever was. Now what? Janet  Dear Janet Bloatware and trialware refer to PC manufacturers' habit of loading crippled versions of commercial software on a new computer in the hope that some will upgrade to paid editions, and earn them a commission. Most of that is totally useless crap. Quite possibly you also have some programs that you or your spouse or kids wanted to try and see if they were any good, and have promptly forgotten about. Download SHOULD I REMOVE IT. https://en.softonic.com/download/should-i-remove-it/windows/post-download It is free. it will list all the stuff you got, and tell you if you really need it. Some stuff you can remove right there, other stuff you have to open your REVO Uninstaller. Between those two programs you can clean up your machine like it should have been when you bought it. It still won't be as fast as W7, but a lot faster than it is now. One word of caution: EDGE If you are using the Microsoft EDGE browser, which is usually slithered in with W10, you CAN remove it. However, before removing it, install Chrome or FireFox. Otherwise you will be out in nthe cold, without ANY browser. Have FUN! DearWebby 
 An English soldier, an American solider and a Russian soldier found themselves sharing a table in a Bosnian restaurant, and the conver sation turned towards how well fed each of them was. "In the Russian army we have 2000 calories of food a day" said the Russian. "Well", said the Englishman, "In the British army we are given 4000 calories of food a day." "That's nothing", said the American, "in the US army we have 8000 calories of food a day". At this the Russian got very annoyed. "Nonsense", he said, "how could one man eat that much cabbage!!!." 
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 "Mr Cohen, don't leave it too late. I have exactly the one you need. You only have to say the word and you'll meet and be married in no time!" says the Matchmaker. "Don't bother," replies Mr Cohen, "I've two sisters at home, who look after all my needs." "That's all well and good, but all the sisters in the world cannot fill the role of a wife." "I said 'two sisters'. I didn't say they were MY sisters!" ____________________________________________ The reporter met the plane that brought back soldiers from their year in Kosovo. He wanted to write a human interest story, and asked one soldier, "What's the first thing you'll do when you get home?" The soldier immediately replied, "Spend an hour in bed with my wife." The reporter realized he'd never get that printed, and asked, "Oh. Well, and what will you do after that ?" "Take off these stupid combat boots!" ____________________________________________ MacTavish's little boy was being questioned by the teacher during an arithmetic lesson. "If you had five pounds," said the teacher, "and I asked you for the loan of three pounds, how many would you have left?" "Five," said young MacTavish firmly. "Five?" the teacher said "How do you make it five?" "Well," replied young MacTavish "You can ask for a loan of three pounds, but that doesn't mean you will get it." ______________________________________________ 
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 Today, July 9, in 0118 - Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city. 0455 - Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, became Emperor of the West. 1540 - England's King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled. 1609 - In a letter to the crown, the emperor Rudolf II granted Bohemia freedom of worship. 1755 - General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded when French and Indian troops ambushed his force of British regulars and colonial militia. He died on July 13. 1776 - The American Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York. 1789 - In Versailles, the French National Assembly declared itself the Constituent Assembly and began to prepare a French constitution. 1790 - The Swedish navy captured one third of the Russian fleet at the naval battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea. 1808 - The leather-splitting machine was patented by Samuel Parker. 1816 - Argentina declared independence from Spain. 1847 - A 10-hour work day was established for workers in the state of New Hampshire. 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel. 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company. 1878 - The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe. 1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia was established by an act of the British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government. 1922 - Johnny Weissmuller became the first person to swim the 100 meters freestyle in less than a minute. 1943 - American and British forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily. 1947 - The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced. 1951 - U.S. President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany. 1953 - New York Airways began the first commuter passenger service by helicopter. 1971 - The United States turned over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units. 1997 - Mike Tyson was banned from the boxing ring and fined $3 million for biting the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield. 2005 - Danny Way, a daredevil skateboarder, rolled down a large ramp and jumped across the Great Wall of China. He was the first person to clear the wall without motorized aid. 2015 - The South Carolina House of Representatives approved taking down the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds. The flag was removed the next day and taken to a state military museum. 2021 Do smiled. 
 
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