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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
American family’s face of
the future is multiracial
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: My husband and I are
I wanted him to come with me to
both Caucasian. Recently, we adopt-
spend the holidays with my family,
ed a beautiful mixed-race baby girl.
but she guilted him into spending
She’s Vietnamese, African-Ameri-
them with her. I hate seeing him go
can and Hispanic. She is not even 4
through this, and I don’t know what I
months old, and already we have ex-
can do about it. I think she is a toxic
perienced some negative comments
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from strangers.
of his life altogether. Advice? — Pro-
Where we live is progressive and
tecting My Guy
Jeanne
open-minded, and I’m not so much Phillips
Dear Protecting: What you think
concerned about our neighborhood or
about his mother isn’t as important
Advice
schools. But I’m no dummy. I know
as what your boyfriend does. From
we’re going to encounter people who
your description, their relationship is
have “questions” or unwarranted “opinions” unhealthy. My advice is to encourage your
(to put it nicely).
boyfriend to discuss this with a licensed men-
I’m not trying to educate those who choose tal health professional. If he does, it may give
to remain ignorant, nor reason with the unrea- him the incentive he needs to distance him-
sonable, or even explain our family and our self from her.
choices. I just want a quick, witty response
P.S. When the next family holidays come
that tells people their not-so-nice comments around, by all means invite him to spend
are unwelcome and, to put it frankly, back them with your family. That way he will have
off. Any suggestion? — Open-Minded In a chance to see how a normal family func-
Pennsylvania
tions.
Dear Open-Minded: According to the
Dear Abby: When my in-laws come for
2010 census, 9 million Americans (2.9 per- dinner, they ask what they can bring. I always
cent of the population) are multiracial. It say “absolutely nothing,” but they bring des-
also showed that the number of people who sert or a bottle of wine, and then take the
reported multiple races grew by a larger per- uneaten dessert or uncorked bottles of wine
centage than those reporting a single race.
home with them. What’s the rule of etiquette
Frankly, I don’t think you should say any- when someone brings items to a party? —
thing “witty” to a bigot. Just smile and say, Wondering In Florida
“It’s the wave of the future. Get used to it.”
Dear Wondering: When guests bring
Dear Abby: For the past year I have been something to their hostess — a bottle of wine
with a man I love dearly. We live together and or dessert — it is considered a gift. For guests
share our lives as independent young adults.
to commandeer the leftovers without them
The problem is his mother. She was cold having been offered is poor manners.
and distant to him when he was a child, and
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu-
her emotional abuse has continued into his ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
adulthood. Holidays are a nightmare, visits founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
a chore, and his phone calls with her often Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
leave him in tears.
or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 6, 1915
Under the direction of Prof. Livingston of
the science department of the high school, the
chemistry students have been making some
interesting experiments along the pure food
line. Some French peas were tested Friday for
copper coloring, and nearly every student in
the class is carrying about some article, as a
key or knife, which has been very effectively
plated with copper taken from the peas, by a
chemical process. This does not speak well
for French peas but it shows the practical side
of chemistry as a school subject. Further ex-
periments will be made along this line later in
the season.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 6, 1965
Michael Roden of Pendleton, who cele-
brated his 90th birthday recently, isn’t ready
to look at the past as he’s too busy planning
for the future. Mike was in the midst of plan-
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in building a fence when friends and relatives
honored him with a birthday party. The active
90-year-old still drives the 1936 car his wife
bought for him the year she died and lives in a
comfortable apartment at the home of his son,
Gene Roden, on Byers Ave. He doesn’t know
to what he should attribute his longevity and
good health. “I don’t drink anymore and never
smoked,” he replied. “I cuss a lot, however.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 6, 1990
“Don’t lose that tune; don’t lose that tune,”
11-year-old Dawn Mackey kept telling her-
self. It had happened suddenly, on the school
playground, the perfect melody for a song
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nal song and her younger brothers Bob and
Pat will do magic tricks among the 15 acts
presented during the West Park Elementary
School Talent Show Thursday. Dawn’s song
was inspired by a story about an African slave
woman her class read last year in school.
Dawn rewrote the song twice, changing it all
around, before deciding it was right. She said
she probably will be writing more songs and
might send this one to a piano-student publi-
cation. Despite being a musical sort, Dawn’s
favorite subject is math.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
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BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 65th day of
2015. There are 300 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On March 6, 1857, the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in
Dred Scott v. Sandford that
Scott, a slave, was not an
American citizen and could
not sue for his freedom in
federal court.
On this date:
In 1834, the city of York
in Upper Canada was incor-
porated as Toronto.
In 1836, the Alamo in San
Antonio, Texas, fell to Mex-
ican forces after a 13-day
siege.
In 1933, a national bank
holiday declared by Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt
aimed at calming panicked
depositors went into effect.
Chicago Mayor Anton Cer-
mak, wounded in an attempt
on Roosevelt’s life the previ-
ous month, died at a Miami
hospital at age 59.
In 1935, retired Supreme
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Court Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr., died in Washing-
ton two days before his 94th
birthday.
In 1944, U.S. heavy
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scale American raid on Ber-
lin during World War II.
In 1953, Georgy Malen-
kov was named premier of
the Soviet Union a day after
the death of Josef Stalin.
In 1965, actress Marga-
ret Dumont, perhaps best
remembered for playing the
foil in Marx Brothers com-
edies, died in Hollywood at
age 82.
In 1967, the daughter of
Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alli-
luyeva, appeared at the U.S.
Embassy in New Delhi and
declared her intention to de-
fect to the West.
In 1970, a bomb being
built inside a Greenwich
Village townhouse by the
radical Weathermen acciden-
tally went off, destroying the
house and killing three group
members.
Today’s Birthdays: For-
mer FBI and CIA director
William Webster is 91. For-
mer Federal Reserve Chair-
man Alan Greenspan is 89.
Former Soviet cosmonaut
Valentina Tereshkova is 78.
Singer Mary Wilson (The
Supremes) is 71. Rock mu-
sician Hugh Grundy (The
Zombies) is 70. Rock sing-
er-musician David Gilmour
(Pink Floyd) is 69. Actor-di-
rector Rob Reiner is 68. Fox
News reporter John Stossel
is 68. Actor Tom Arnold is
56. Actor D.L. Hughley is
51. Former NBA player and
College Basketball Hall of
Famer Shaquille O’Neal is
43. Rapper Bubba Sparxxx
is 38. Rock musician Chris
Tomson (Vampire Weekend)
is 31. Rapper/producer Tyler,
the Creator is 24.
Thought for Today: “Le
sens commun n’est pas si
commun.” (Common sense
is not so common.) — Vol-
taire, French author and phi-
losopher (1694-1778).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE