Good Morning, Do! Today is Friday, January 14 Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!  ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ Bonehead Award Quote from a recent meeting: "We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done". --- Socratex ____________________________________________________ One night a wife found her husband standing over their newborn baby's crib. Silently she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a mixture of emotions: disbelief, doubt, delight, amazement, enchantment, and skepticism. Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused, with eyes glistening she slipped her arm around her husband. "A penny for your thoughts," she whispered. "It's amazing!" he replied. "I just can't see how anybody can make a nice crib like that for only $49.95." ____________________________________________________   jan_poloni ____________________________________________________ At one game, a lady kept up a steady flow of threats at the umpire. No matter what was happening on the field, she kept yelling, "Kill the umpire!" This went on for an hour. Another patron said, "Lady, the umpire hasn't done anything wrong." The woman said, "He`s my husband and he came home last night with lipstick on his collar. Kill the umpire!!" ____________________________________________________ Reported by Rock An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Alexis Avila, 18, Hobbs, New Mexico, USA  An 18-year-old new mother from New Mexico, has been charged with attempted murder  An 18-year-old new mother from New Mexico, has been charged with attempted murder after police say security camera video captured her throwing her newborn infant into a dumpster and driving off. The video also showed rescuers pulling the baby to safety hours later. Alexis Avila, 18, has been charged with attempted murder and child abuse in connection with the incident, according to city police. She allegedly wrapped the baby in a blood- soaked towel and two garbage bags, then abandoned him in 36- degree weather with his umbilical cord still attached. A woman who picked up the phone at a number listed for her mother, Martha Avila, said it was the wrong number Tuesday. But the elder Avila defended her daughter to a Daily Mail reporter outside her home in the city of Hobbs. "People can preach all they want, they can judge all they want, but we only care about the judgment of one," she told the outlet. She also doubled down on the claim that her daughter didn't know she was pregnant, which police said the young woman told investigators when they brought her in for questioning, and she allegedly admitted to the crime. During that same interview, police said she only referred to the child as "it." As for the baby boy, a group of good Samaritans stumbled across him and rescued him from the dumpster. He is in stable condition at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, and in the "lawful custody" of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (NMCYFD), according to Hobbs Acting Police Chief August Fons. He said he could not release additional details Monday due to confidentiality concerns. The childs father is believed to be a teen from Hobbs, whose identity police did not release because he is under 18. Martha Avila told Hobbs police that she had banned her daughter's ex from visiting their house because he allegedly "battered" her daughter in June, according to a criminal complaint. Imbriale also questioned the Avilas' timeline of events, which included a Jan. 4 doctor visit for prescription pain meds, according to court documents. "If they did that, wouldn't they have done a pregnancy test on a girl that young?" he asked. "There's a lot of holes in her story." Imbriale's surveillance video shows a woman tossing a garbage bag into a dumpster and a group of people finding a baby inside almost six hours later. "She's trying to defend her daughter, why doesn't she stop shouting her mouth off and take ownership of how she raised her daughter," Imbriale told Fox News Digital Tuesday. "Stop trying to protect her now. You screwed up, you raised a terrible daughter. The video showed a woman, alleged to be Avila, pulling up in a white car around 2 p.m. MT Friday, tossing her newborn baby boy from the backseat into the dumpster and driving off. Around 7:45 p.m., Michael Green, Hector Jasso and April Nuttall arrived to scavenge anything of value from the dumpsters. But they heard cries coming from inside a bag and fished it out. The video shows that Nuttall picked the infant out of the garbage bag and cradled him in her arms as Green called 911. In a call center recording, Green told the dispatcher, "We just found a baby in the trash." He was alive, he added. And he was breathing. "Their collective quick response to this emergency, including notification of 911, was absolutely pivotal in saving this babys life," Fons said  ____________________________________________________ If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! ______________________________________________________  From: Elsa Re: Times in other countries Dear Webby I have a friend, who lives far away, but I get confused about what his local time is. Is there a way to look that up? Elsa  Dear Elsa Go to https://24timezones.com Have FUN! DearWebby 
 A Bonehead award goes goes to three Scottish store robbers who, after robbing a store of about $30,000 worth of cash, stamps and phone cards, decided to disable the store's video cameras and who, having trouble seeing what they were doing, removed their masks so they could better see the cameras, according to police who quickly rounded them up using the close-up pictures from the security camera system. Scottish Daily Record 8-Jan ------ That sure reminds me of the days before the net, when I was installing security systems, and the fun I had hiding pin-hole cameras near very visible old Trinitron cameras that had burned out years ago. Somehow, when crooks see oldfashioned, bulky security cameras, they think the system is old- fashioned and 'easy'. They never realize that the old klunkers are just bait and decoys, and that the real cameras are watching them through a tiny nail-hole a few feet away. 
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 _____________________________________________  By chance, John Smith witnessed a mugging in New York. About an hour later, the cops arrived, and the officer in charge asked the witness his name. "John Smith," said Smith. "Cut the funny business," the cop barked sharply. "What's your real name?" "All right," said Smith, "put me down as Albert Einstein." "That's more like it," said the man in blue. "You can't fool ME with that Smith stuff." ______________________________________________ At the company water cooler, the office braggart was boring his fellow workers as usual. His topic of the day was about his children's world travels: one son was teaching in Bolivia, another working in southern Italy. Then he told everyone that his daughter was working on a year's research project in India. "What is it about you," a co-worker finally asked, "that makes your kids want to get so far away from you ?" ______________________________________________ 
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 A man complains to a friend, "I can't take it anymore." "What's wrong?" his concerned friend asks. "It's my wife. Every time we have an argument, she gets historical!" "You mean hysterical," his friend said, chuckling. "No, I mean HISTORICAL," the man insists. "Every argument we have, she'll go "I still remember that time when you said ...." ___________________________________________________  
 Today, January 14, in 1639 Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," was adopted. 1784 The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. 1858 French emperor Napoleon III escaped an attempt on his life. 1873 John Hyatt's 1869 invention Celluloid was registered as a trademark. 1878 Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Britain's Queen Victoria. 1882 The Myopia Hunt Club, in Winchester, MA, became the first country club in the United States. 1907 An earthquake killed over 1,000 people in Kingston, Jamaica. 1939 "Honolulu Bound" was heard on CBS radio for the first time. 1943 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office. He flew from Miami, FL, to French Morocco where he met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss World War II. 1953 Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament. 1954 Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage only lasted nine months. 1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash- Kelvinator. The new company was called the American Motors Corporation. 1969 An explosion aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise off Hawaii killed 25 crew members. 1985 Martina Navratilova won her 100th tournament. She joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments. 1986 "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" arrived at video stores. It broke the record set by "Ghostbusters", for first day orders. 435,000 copies of the video were sold. 1993 The British government pledged to introduce legislation to criminalize invasions of privacy by the press. 1994 U.S. President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed Kremlin accords to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine in exchange for guaranteeing safety for Ukraine. 1996 Jorge Sampaio was elected president of Portugal. 1996 Juan Garcia Abrego was arrested by Mexican agents. The alleged drug lord was handed over to the FBI the next day. 1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees. 1998 In Dallas, researchers report an enzyme that slows the aging process and cell death. 1999 The impeachment trial of U.S. President Clinton began in Washington, DC. 1999 The U.S. proposed the lifting of the U.N. ceilings on the sale of oil in Iraq. The restriction being that the money be used to buy medicine and food for the Iraqi people. 2000 A U.N. tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 massacre of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. 2002 Actor Brad Renfro, 19, was arrested after being stopped on a traffic violation. He was charged with public intoxication and driving without a license. 2004 In St. Louis, a Lewis and Clark Exhibition opened at the Missouri History Museum. The exhibit featured 500 rare and priceless objects used by the Corps of Discovery. 2005 A probe from the Cassini-Huygens mission, sent back pictures during and after landing on Saturn's moon Titan. The mission was launched on October 15, 1997. 2021 Do smiled. 

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