Good Morning, Do! Today is Wednesday, April 14 ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________  Man arrested after SoCal chase is person of interest in homicide  ___________________________________________________ Today, April 14 in 1981 America's first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after a three-day test flight. The shuttle orbited the Earth 36 times during the mission. ____________________________________________________ Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. --- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. --- Warren Beatty (1937 - ) ____________________________________________________ A young boy came to Sunday School late. His teacher knew that he was usually very prompt and asked him if anything was wrong. The boy replied no, nothing was wrong, that he was going fishing but his dad told him that he needed to go to church. The teacher was very impressed and asked the boy if his dad had explained to him why it was more important to go to church than to go fishing. The boy replied: "Yes he did. Dad said he didn't have enough bait for both of us." ____________________________________________________ A surgeon came to see his patient on the morning after her operation. The young woman asked him, somewhat hesitantly, how long it would be before she could resume her sex life. "I really haven't thought about it," gulped the stunned surgeon. "You're the first patient who's asked me that question after cosmetic surgery on the nose!" ____________________________________________________   Next month! ____________________________________________________ During their silver anniversary, a wife reminded her husband, "Do you remember when you proposed to me, I was so overwhelmed that I didn't talk for an hour?" The hubby replied, "Yes, honey, that was the happiest hour of my life." ____________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Michael Caleb Reed, 35, Oildale, California, USA  Man arrested after SoCal chase is person of interest in homicide  The Kern County Sheriffs Office has confirmed a man arrested following a wild chase through Southern California is a person of interest in a deadly Oildale shooting. Michael Caleb Reed, who was recently featured on Golden Empire Most Wanted for a separate incident, was arrested after crashing into a semi-truck at an intersection in Pomona Tuesday night, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. The California Highway Patrol had told NBC affiliate KNBC that Reed was a murder suspect during the pursuit. The Riverside County Sheriffs Department said it would release more information about the chase. KCSO describes Reed as a subject of interest for the death of 40-year-old Michael Lewis in March, meaning detectives want to speak with him about the case, however there are currently no plans to bring him to Kern County following his arrest. Lewis friends and family had taken to social media to accuse Reed in the slaying, where Lewis was shot at a home on Harrison Drive on March 28. The US Marshals had profiled Reed earlier this month during an installment of Golden Empire Most Wanted and had confirmed to 17 News that he had been arrested in Pomona after the crash. Days before his arrest, Reed commented on the Facebook post about the story to deny the murder accusations before the Kern County Sheriffs Office had publicly identified him as a person of interest. Lewis family started a GoFundMe page asking for donations to help with his funeral costs, which can be found at this link. Reed has a lengthy criminal history and has had past arrests for rape, burglary, possession of a firearm, and DUI. Last year Reed was arrested following a pursuit in Northern California where a Eureka police officer crashed a patrol car and was injured.  
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Buzzy Re: Chinese spammers  Dear Webby BUZZY: You may find this humorous. My users and I were getting bombarded with spam from an open relay in China at IP number 202.96.14.1. I put the following in my spam block and made their spam bounce back at them with this message: "Thank you, fellow freedom fighter, for your message to the FREE Taiwan Initative." Btw., Look who owns that IP number ! China National Nuclear Corporation country: CN admin-c: GW13-AP tech-c: GW13-AP changed: ZHYX@publicf.bta.net.cn 970226 source: APNIC Kinda scary if the network computers of the China National Nuclear Corporation can be taken over and used by 2-bit spammers. ======Tech Support Pits=====  Dear Buzzy Thanks for that! Have FUN! DearWebby 
 I was just visiting some friends who have a farm. I was watching this one rooster chasing after this hen, when the friend's wife came out to feed them. The rooster stopped chasing the hen at once and ran over to begin eating. I just stood there thinking to myself, "I hope I never get THAT hungry." 
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 Poor Ole was having trouble getting his neighbor to keep his chickens fenced in. The neighbor kept telling him the chickens had the right to go where they wanted. But the birds were ruining Ole's prize-winning flowerbeds. Two weeks later, a friend visited Ole and noticed his flowerbeds were doing great. The flowers were even beginning to bloom! The friend asked, "How did you make your neighbor keep his hens in his own yard?" Ole replied, "Easy! One night I hid a dozen eggs under a bush by my flower bed, and the next day I let my neighbor see me gather them. I haven't been bothered since." ____________________________________________ Bob went to a psychiatrist. "Doc," he said, "I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under ... you gotta help me, I'm going crazy!" "Just put yourself in my hands for two years," said the shrink. "Come to me three times a week, and I'll cure your fears." "How much do you charge?" "A hundred dollars per visit." "I'll sleep on it," said Bob. Six months later the doctor met Bob on the street. "Why didn't you ever come to see me again?" asked the psychiatrist. "For a hundred buck's a visit? Three times a week for two years ? I may be crazy but I am not stupid. A bartender cured me for ten dollars." "Is that so! And just how, if I may ask?" "He told me to cut the legs off the bed!" ____________________________________________ You're getting old when... The mail lady/man gets you so excited that your pacemaker opens the garage door across the street. ____________________________________________ 
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 Today, April 14 in 1775 The first abolitionist society in U.S. was organized in Philadelphia with Ben Franklin as president. 1793 A royalist rebellion in Santo Domingo was crushed by French republican troops. 1828 The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary was published under the name "American Dictionary of the English Language." 1860 The first Pony Express rider arrived in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, MO. 1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning. 1889 The first international Conference of American States began in Washington, DC. 1894 First public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope took place. 1902 James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store in Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store. 1912 The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived. 1918 The U.S. First Aero Squadron engaged in America's first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft over Toul, France. 1931 King Alfonso XIII of Spain went into exile and the Spanish Republic was proclaimed. 1939 The John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" was first published. 1946 The civil war between Communists and nationalist resumed in China. 1953 Viet Minh invaded Laos with 40,00 troops. 1956 Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA, demonstrated the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture. 1981 America's first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after a three-day test flight. The shuttle orbited the Earth 36 times during the mission. 1984 The Texas Board of Education began requiring that the state's public school textbooks describe the evolution of human beings as "theory rather than fact". 1985 The Russian paper "Pravda" called U.S. President Reagan's planned visit to Bitburg to visit the Nazi cemetery an "act of blasphemy". 1986 U.S. President Reagan announced the U.S. air raid on military and terrorist related targets in Libya. 1987 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed banning all missiles from Europe. 1988 Representatives from the U.S.S.R., Pakistan, Afghanistan and the U.S. signed an agreement that called for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan starting on May 15. The last Soviet troop left Afghanistan on February 15, 1989. 1988 In New York, real estate tycoons Harry and Leona Helmsley were indicted for income tax evasion. 1994 Two American F-15 warplanes inadvertently shot down two U.S. helicopters over northern Iraq. 26 people were killed including 15 Americans. 1999 Pakistan test-fired a ballistic missile that was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching its rival neighbor India. 2000 After five years of deadlock, Russia approved the START II treaty that calls for the scrapping of U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads. The Russian government warned it would abandon all arms-control pacts if Washington continued with an anti-missile system. 2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being arrested by his country's military. 2008 Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced they were combining. 2021 Do smiled. 
 
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