Good Morning, Do! Today is Saturday, November 2 ____________________________________________________ Today, November 2 in  1883 Thomas Edison executed a patent application for an electrical indicator using the Edison effect lamp (Idiot light) More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award: Typical Chicago, Trick-or-treating girl, 7, wearing a bumblebee outfit is shot and critically injured after being hit by stray bullets in Chicago street.  _______________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. --- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945) _______________________________________________ Orators of the Democrat Party ?from the distant past: "One man with courage makes a majority." ~Andrew Jackson "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt "The buck stops here." ~Harry S. Truman "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." ~John F. Kennedy But wait ....There are more Great orators of the Democrat Party MORE RECENT GEMS of wisdom: "It depends what your definition of 'is' is?'' ~William Jefferson Clinton "Those rumors are false. I believe in the sanctity of marriage" ~John Edwards Gorsuch isn't fit to serve because he uses law and not emotions ~Kamala Harris "What difference does it make?" (re: Benghazi) ~Hillary Clinton "I invented the Internet." ~ Al Gore "America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children." ~Barack Obama "I have campaigned in all 57 states." ~Barack Obama (Quoted in 2008) "You don't need God anymore; you have us Democrats." ~ Nancy Pelosi (Quoted in 2006) "Paying taxes is voluntary." ~Sen. Harry Reid Homicide is the leading cause of murder. ~Rep. Sheila Jackson No ordinary American cares about Constitutional rights. ~Joe Biden Having an abortion is no different than having one's tonsils removed. ~Elizabeth Warren Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution. ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (2018) "Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he is." ~Hillary Rodham- Clinton (Quoted in 1998) "You have a business, you didn't build that. Someone else did!" ~Barack Obama (Quoted in 2012) Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. ~Bernie Sanders And the most ridiculous gem of wisdom, from the "Mother Superior of STUPID ": "We just have to pass Obama's Healthcare Bill to see what's in it." ~Nancy Pelosi (Quoted March in 2010) (As one Doctor said: "That is also the perfect definition of a stool sample.") Beyond a doubt, the greatest statement of all was made by the Democrat House Speaker at the first Congressional session after Ted Kennedy was caught, on camera, having sex with one of his aides on the deck of his yacht ?. "Ah see that the good Senatuh from the great state of Massutwoshits has changed his position on off-shore drillin'." ~ Sam Rayburn AND THE LATEST FROM THIS DYSFUNCTIONAL, STUPID BUNCH IS??. "My fear is if North Korea nukes us, Trump is gonna get us into a war." ~ Maxine Waters......2017 "We are all born ignorant, but one must work very hard to remain STUPID!" ~Benjamin Franklin~ (1706-1790) I am adding Nancy Pelosi's most recent quote: You need to vote for the Democrats otherwise the illegal aliens will lose their rights ! ~ Nancy Pelosi......2019 What planet is she from exactly? Amazing what they do to amuse us! ________________________________________________` Thanks to Trish for this picture:   Darawank, NSW, Australia ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Typical Chicago resident Chicago Illinois  Trick-or-treating girl, 7, wearing a bumblebee outfit is shot and critically injured after being hit by stray bullets in Chicago street.  Seven-year-old girl out trick-or-treating with her family was shot in Chicago. She was hit in the neck and chest, and taken to hospital in a critical condition. Police believe the girl to be an unintended victim who was hit by stray bullets in a routine shooting. They said a group of males were chasing a 31-year-old man along the street when someone in the group opened fire. Officials say they have no description of the gunman, and no one is in custody. Normal for Chicago, where only criminals carry guns. A seven-year-old girl out trick-or-treating in a bumblebee costume was critically injured Thursday night after being struck by apparent stray gunfire, Chicago police said. The shooting occurred early Halloween evening as the girl was walking with her family and other trick-or-treaters along a street in the Little Village neighborhood. The girl was shot in the neck and chest area, and was taken to Stroger Hospital in a critical condition, police Sgt. Rocco Alioto said. Police believe the girl was an unintended victim. They said a group of at least three males were chasing another man along the street when someone in the group opened fire. The 31-year-old man who was being chased was shot in the left hand and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition. Police say they have no description of the gunman, and no one was in custody. Just routine background noise in Chicago. 
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Frank Re: Crashed Hard Drive  Dear Webby, I have a Toshiba 750GB HDD which runs as I can feel the vibrations. The indicator lights as well. However, no computer I plug it to finds the data that is on it. I used it for backup. I got a new cable. No joy. I also bought an interface board thinking the one on it had crashed. The one they sent did not physically fit. The connection points to the drive were not in the right locations. The manufacturer gives me no help. Can you? Thanks Frank  Dear Frank Hard drives do not last forever. I had hard drives crash on me every few years ever since the 80s. It is a terrible feeling, as if a loved one had gotten killed. Nowadays there are companies, that will fix and restore and recover hard drives for a reasonable price. It used to be quite outrageous and take a long time to get back a shoe box full of 360 KB floppies. Nowadays they usually just put the data onto another USB drive, and you get it back in a week. Search for "Hard Drive Recovery" to find a service in your area, ideally in driving distance, since you probably would not want to mail the drive. Good Luck! DearWebby Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 A tour guide was showing a tourist around Washington, D. C. The guide pointed out the place where George Washington supposedly threw a dollar across the Potomac River. "That's impossible," said the tourist. "No one could throw a dollar that far!" "You have to remember," answered the guide. "A dollar went a lot further in those days." 
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 This guy says to his buddy, "You'll never believe what happened last night." His buddy says, "Well then, tell me what happened." The guy says, "Last night the doorbell rang, and when I opened the door, there was my ex-mother-in-law on the front porch, asking me, "Can I stay here for a few days?" I said, "Of course, you can stay there," and shut the door." ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com  Quick Paint Touch Ups Did you already clean your paint brushes but notice you missed a spot? Don't dirty a paint brush for a small touch up. Just use a q-tip and toss it when you are finished.  ____________________________________________________  
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ A guy walks into a seafood restaurant with a fish bowl under his arm. He asks "Do you have any fishcakes?" "Yes, of course." The guy motions toward the bowl and says, "Great. It's his birthday!" ___________________________________________________ I was working in a scrap yard during summer vacation at engineering university. I worked repairing construction equipment. One afternoon, I was taking apart a piling hammer that had some very large bolts holding it together. One of the nuts had corroded on to the bolt; to free it I started heating the nut with an oxyacetylene torch. As I was doing this, one of the dimmest apprentices I have ever known came along. He asked me what I was doing. I patiently explained that if I heated the nut it would grow larger and release its grip on the bolt so I could then remove it. "So things get larger when they get hot, do they?" he asked. "Yes," I said, "that's why days are longer in summer and shorter in winter." There was a long pause, then his face cleared. "You know, I always wondered about that," he said. ___________________________________________________ Norrissa was nervous the night her new boyfriend invited her and her three young sons to an upscale restaurant for the first time. He ordered a bottle of wine with the meal. When the server brought it, the children became quiet as she began the ritual uncorking. When the waitress poured a small amount for Norissa to taste and handed her the glass, her six-year-old piped up, "Mom usually drinks a LOT more than that!" __________________________________________________ 
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 Today, November 2 in 1721 Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of Russia, changed his title to emperor. 1776 During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted. 1867 "Harpers Bazaar" magazine was founded. 1883 Thomas Edison executed a patent application for an electrical indicator using the Edison effect lamp (Idiot light) 1895 In Chicago, IL, the first gasoline powered car contest took place in America. 1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine. 1920 The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting. 1921 Margaret Sanger's National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League. 1930 Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia. 1930 The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPrene. 1947 Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into mass production. 1960 In London, the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover," was found not guilty of obscenity. 1962 U.S. President Kennedy announced that the U.S.S.R. was dismantling the missile sites in Cuba. 1963 South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup. 1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the U.S. 1979 Joanna Chesimard, a black militant escaped from a New Jersey prison, where she'd been serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper. 1984 Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962. She had been convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend. 1985 The South African government imposed severe restrictions on television, radio and newspaper coverage of unrest by both local and foreign journalists. 1986 The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" was purchased for $30,800. 1986 American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers. 1989 Carmen Fasanella retired after 68 years and 243 days of taxicab service in Princeton, NJ. 1992 Magic Johnson retired from the NBA again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection. 1993 The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe. 1995 The U.S. expelled Daiwa Bank Ltd. for allegedly covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses. 1998 U.S. President Clinton gave his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network's "BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley." 2001 The computer-animated movie "Monsters, Inc." opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time. 2003 In the U.S., the Episcopal Church diocese consecrated the church's first openly gay bishop. 2019 Do smiled.