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COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
While wife’s sex drive races,
husband is stuck in neutral
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’ve been married
has posted half-naked pictures,
almost four years. My husband and I
talked about all the drinks she was
are both barely 40, still quite young,
consuming, and said that if she didn’t
but we have sex only once or twice a
have a child, she’d be gone. The
month. Our relationship is great, and
language she used would make a
we love each other. I just wish we had
sailor blush.
sex more often. I’ve told him I would
I baby-sit for her, and I was
like more, but it stays the same.
shocked, to say the least. I foolishly
When we talked about past
posted a shocked cat on Facebook,
Jeanne
relationships, he mentioned women Phillips stating that “this is me reading your
hounding him to have sex, so I don’t
Twitter account.”
Advice
think it’s me. I don’t want to cheat,
My son is now upset with me that
but I’m afraid I eventually will if my
I read her Twitter posts. I am not
needs are not met. I don’t want to leave him, sure he had seen them. I saved them on my
but I don’t want an almost sexless marriage.
computer, which he picked up when he was
He’s a very masculine man, so I don’t here and ran through my history.
know how to ask him to go to the doctor
I know I didn’t handle this the right way,
to get something to increase his sex drive. but she was saying she starts drinking at 7
Should I do that? Or should I get things to a.m., and that “moonshine wasn’t working
supplement our sex, like toys? — Needs anymore.” I am truly concerned about the
baby. What can I do to repair this situation?
More In Florida
Dear Needs More: You appear to have — Shocked In Kentucky
married a very masculine man who has a
Dear Shocked: If that post was public,
very low sex drive or who may be borderline then anyone could see it. Your son may be
asexual. If marital aids would help you, by embarrassed that you saw how dysfunctional
all means get some. You should also have a his marriage is, and that’s why he is misdi-
frank talk with your husband and suggest he recting his anger toward you rather than
consult his physician about the discrepancy where it belongs.
in your sex drives.
If your daughter-in-law is drinking from
Marriage counseling might help to the moment she wakes up, she’s in no condi-
improve your level of communication, but tion to be caring for a baby. If she is using
if none of the above work, you will have to something stronger, you need to remind your
decide if you are prepared to live with the son that the child’s welfare must come first.
situation as it is.
If your statement is ignored, you will have
Dear Abby: I just stumbled upon my to decide whether to involve child protective
daughter-in-law’s Twitter account. She services.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
BLONDIE
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
their plane crashed 10 miles west of Gardena,
Idaho, Monday afternoon were 26-year-old
John Skoro, Emmett, an instructor at Treasure
Valley Community College in Ontario, and
TVCC students Larence Helfert, 18, Helena,
Mont., and George White, 16, Milton-Free-
water. The three were rescued some four
hours after they crashed. Helfert, the least
injured, hiked seven miles for help. They
had been on a training flight which started in
Ontario.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 26, 1992
Two volunteer police cadets in Boardman
brought home silver medals for outstanding
field interview techniques displayed at the
Blue Mountain Law Enforcement Explorers
Challenge in Richland last weekend. Daniel
Duitsman, 17, and John McDonough, 19,
took second place in the field interview and
radio procedures competition, scoring 98
out of 100 points. They competed against
76 other teams of cadets, which represented
federal, state, county and city police agencies
from all over Washington, La Grande and The
Dalles.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 26, 1917
Dell Blancett, one of the best known
cowboys in the west, has offered to raise
a squadron of rough riders in eastern and
southern Oregon. He made the formal offer in
a letter to Adjutant General George A. White
last night.
Blancett does not ask to be made an
officer of any such organization, expressing
his willingness to serve in whatever capacity
directed, but he believes that his wide
acquaintance with the cowboys would enable
him to quickly organize four troops with full
war strength of 100 each. He has referred
Adjutant General White to members of the
Round-Up board and other prominent Pend-
letonians as to his ability as a cowboy and to
his standing among the western riders.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 26, 1967
Three men were listed in satisfactory
condition in a hospital in Emmett, Idaho,
Tuesday after they were injured in a light plane
crash in rugged Idaho country. Injured when
Today is the 116th day of
2017. There are 249 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On April 26, 1777,
according to a widely
accepted account from the
American
Revolutionary
War, 16-year-old Sybil
Ludington, the eldest child
of Col. Henry Ludington,
a militia commander in
Dutchess County, New York,
rode her horse into the night
to alert her father’s men of the
approach of British regular
troops who were sacking
Danbury,
Connecticut.
(Ludington,
sometimes
referred to as “the female
Paul Revere,” was said to
have covered 40 miles, more
than twice the distance of the
Boston silversmith’s ride.)
On this date:
In 1607, English colonists
went ashore at present-day
Cape Henry, Virginia, on
an expedition to establish
the first permanent English
settlement in the Western
Hemisphere.
In 1865, John Wilkes
Booth, the assassin of Pres-
ident Abraham Lincoln, was
surrounded by federal troops
near Port Royal, Virginia,
and killed.
In 1986, an explosion and
fire at the Chernobyl nuclear
power plant in Ukraine (then
part of the Soviet Union)
caused radioactive fallout
to begin spewing into the
atmosphere.
In 1994, voting began in
South Africa’s first all-race
elections, resulting in victory
for the African National
Congress and the inaugura-
tion of Nelson Mandela as
president.
In 2000, Vermont Gov.
Howard Dean signed the
nation’s first bill allowing
same-sex couples to form
civil unions.
Ten years ago: The
Senate joined the House,
51-46, in clearing legislation
calling for the withdrawal
of U.S. troops from Iraq to
begin by Oct. 1, 2007, with
a goal of a complete pullout
six months later (President
George W. Bush later vetoed
the measure).
Five years ago: Former
Liberian President Charles
Taylor became the first
head of state since World
War II to be convicted by
an international war crimes
court as he was found guilty
of arming Sierra Leone
rebels in exchange for “blood
diamonds” mined by slave
laborers and smuggled across
the border.
One year ago: Repub-
lican Donald Trump roared
to victory in Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut,
Delaware and Rhode Island
while Democrat Hillary
Clinton prevailed in four of
those states, ceding Rhode
Island to Bernie Sanders.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Architect I.M. Pei is 100.
Actress-comedian
Carol
Burnett is 84. Singer Bobby
Rydell is 75. Actor-comedian
Kevin James is 52. First
lady Melania Trump is 47.
Actor Channing Tatum is 37.
Actress Emily Wickersham
is 33.
Thought for Today:
“Friends may come and go,
but enemies accumulate.”
— Dr. Thomas F. Jones, Jr.,
American college official
(1916-1981).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE