Good Morning, Do! Today is Wednesday, March 11 ___________________________________________________ Today, March 11 in  537 The Goths began their siege on Rome  ______________________________________________________ How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. --- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) 
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Today's Bonehead Award: California Identity thief nailed with face recognition camera at Walmart  __________________________________________  A group of 31 women formed a screeching topless human chain in London to protest against climate change on International Womens Day. Members of the climate change alarmist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) took off their shirts on Waterloo Bridge, blocking traffic in a protest against the supposedly disparate impact that climate change has on women. The protestors painted slogans on their chests such as climate rape and climate murder. They briefly screeched for the photographers, but left before the cops arrived. __________________________________________ Thanks to Tamara for sending this picture:   A Pike jumped out of the water likely chasing prey and got stuck in a branch and died. Now, a bird has made a nest in its mouth. One of the most interesting things I've seen. __________________________________________ A woman very much enjoys singing, but she has a voice that would send even alley cats running. In fact, when she practices while her husband is home, he leaves the house and stands on the sidewalk in front. Curious, one day she asks him why, every time she sings, he takes up his position on the sidewalk. Well, my dear, he says, I just want to make sure the neighbors dont think that Im beating you. ___________________________________________________   An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Lucas Dos Reis Laurindo, 26, in jail Florida 
 Illegal Alien Issued Ticket for Careless Driving After Killing Mother, Two Children and Grandmother Near Walt Disney World 
 An illegal alien was cited with a ticket for careless driving after he rear-ended a van and nearly killed an entire family spanning three generations near Disney in Florida. The driver of a truck that killed a mother, two of her children and the grandmother was in the US illegally, according to authorities. Two other children, their father and grandfather who were also in the minivan survived. But after killing 4 people, Lucas Dos Reis Laurindo was only cited with a ticket, the strongest charge that could be made under Florida law. After being issued the ticket, the Brazil national made arrangements to return home.  DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Alice Re: What is Mint?  Dear Webby, What is Linux Mint? Alice  Dear Alice Unlike Windows, which is limited to Microsoft, Linux is free. The original "Red Had", like a MAGA hat, but it says LINUX, is still available. It is the official, Deluxe, Linux, and has support included. Pretty well the same, but without Support, is Cent-OS. You have probably seen pictures of server farms with rows upon rows of water cooled cabinets housing Millions of computers. They all run CentOS. We use CentOS on the Webby Servers. Then there are countless versions, that are customized for consumers. Some, like the MINT, that Ginger uses and loves, use a user interface like Windows XP, but with all the modern security features. Ginger's computer is an old VISTA machine, that handles MINT quite nicely. Microsoft-DELL-HP-ACER hates that, of course. That is why W10 sandbags your W7 computer and sabotages it, so that you will toss it out and buy a brand new W10 machine. Instead, you could run Linux MINT on it, or any of the other versions of Linux. There are about as many flavors availaable, as there a re cars. Ask around in your area and find a Penguin (Linux user), and ask what they like. Most of them are like recent religious converts, and will love to convert you. Instant friends! As far as I am concerned, it makes little difference which flavor of Linux you use. Just use whatever feels comfortable. Have FUN! DearWebby 

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Monkeys in a Zoo Can Sharpen Stones to Break the Glass  
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 There was the husband, for example, who was finishing breakfast when his wife said, "I bet you don't know what day this is." "Of course I do," he answered indignantly, going out the door to the office. At 10 a.m., the doorbell rang, and when the woman opened the door, she was handed a box containing a dozen long- stemmed red roses. At 1 p.m., a foil-wrapped, two-pound box of her favorite chocolates arrived. Later, a boutique delivered a designer dress. The woman couldn't wait for her husband to come home. "First the flowers, then the chocolates, and then the dress!" she exclaimed. "I've never had a more wonderful Groundhog Day in my life!" _____________________________________________ After she wakes up one morning, a woman tells her husband: "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's Day. What do you think it means?" "You'll know tonight," the husband replies. That evening, he comes home with a package and gives it to his wife. Delighted, she rips off the wrapping paper and opens the box. Inside she finds a book: "The Meaning of Dreams." ____________________________________________ A reclusive rancher looking for a way to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary is looking for advice. Enjoying breakfast in a northern Arizona cafe, he and a longtime friend turn to how things used to be in "the good old days." "But about this 50th anniversary, Roy," his friend says. "Are you really gonna do something special?" "Yup, we sure are," Roy replies. "For our 25th anniversary, I took Bea to Tucson. For our 50th, I'll go down there and get her. ____________________________________________ 
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 Today March 11 in 537 The Goths began their siege on Rome. 1302 The characters Romeo and Juliet were married this day according to William Shakespeare. 1649 The peace of Rueil was signed between the Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government. 1665 A new legal code was approved for the Dutch and English towns, guaranteeing religious observances unhindered. 1702 The Daily Courant, the first regular English newspaper was published. 1791 Samuel Mulliken became the first person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office. 1810 The Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. 1824 The U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Seneca Indian Ely Parker became the first Indian to lead the Bureau. 1845 Seven hundred Maoris led by their chief, Hone-Heke, burned the small town of Kororareka. The act was in protest to the settlement of Maoriland by Europeans, which was a breach of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. 1861 A Confederate Convention was held in Montgomery, Alabama, where a new constitution was adopted. 1865 Union General William Sherman and his forces occupied Fayetteville, NC. 1867 In Hawaii, the volcano Great Mauna Loa erupted. 1882 The Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association was formed in Princeton, NJ. 1888 The "Blizzard of '88" began along the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard shutting down communication and transportation lines. More than 400 people died. 1900 British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury rejected the peace overtures offered from the Boer leader Paul Kruger. 1901 Britain rejected an amended treaty to the canal agreement with Nicaragua. 1901 U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steel Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the world's richest man. 1904 After 30 years of drilling, the north tunnel under the Hudson River was holed through. The link was between Jersey City, NJ, and New York, NY. 1905 The Parisian subway was officially inaugurated. 1907 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt induced California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation. 1907 In Bulgaria, Premier Nicolas Petkov was killed by an anarchist. 1935 The German Air Force became an official department of the Reich. 1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the Lend-Lease Act, which authorized the act of providing war supplies to the Allies. 1946 Communists and Nationalists began fighting as the Soviets pulled out of Mukden, Manchuria. 1946 Pravda denounced Winston Churchill as anti-Soviet and a warmonger. 1965 The American navy began inspecting Vietnamese junks in an effort to end arms smuggling to the South. 1969 Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans. 1978 Bobby Hull (Winnipeg Jets) joined Gordie Howe by getting his 1,000th career goal. 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev was named the new chairman of the Soviet Communist Party. 1986 Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a one-stick model. 1988 A cease-fire was declared in the war between Iran and Iraq. 1990 Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union. It was the first Soviet republic to break away from Communist control. 1992 Former U.S. President Nixon said that the Bush administration was not giving enough economic aid to Russia. 1993 Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the first female attorney general. 1993 North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty refusing to open sites for inspection. 1994 In Chile, Eduardo Frei was sworn in as President. It was the first peaceful transfer of power in Chile since 1970. 1997 An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant caused 35 workers to be exposed to low levels of radioactivity. The incident was the worst in Japan's history. 1998 The International Astronomical Union issued an alert that said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26, 2028. The next day NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth. 2002 Two columns of light were pointed skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. 2020 Do smiled. 
 

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