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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Gamer kicked out of house
shames dad on social media
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 23-year-old son
in jail as a result of a botched rob-
bery. (It was very out-of-character
does not want to work and spends
for him, by the way.) He had a dis-
all his time playing video games.
honorable discharge. After all that,
He’s obsessed with them. He disre-
spects my house — and me — by
he started a new life and became an
not cleaning his room.
ideal father until his 40s when he
I don’t know what to do. He’s my
decided to divorce his wife of many
years.
son, but he is a user and feels he’s
Jeanne
The letters reveal a lot about him.
entitled to live here. He pays no bills
and blows all his money on gaming. Phillips I thought his children might like
Advice
this insight to their father, but my
He quits every job he has. I love him
younger brother thinks it would be a
and kicked him out once, but he got
on Facebook and told people what bad par- bad idea. If this was my father, I would like
ents we are.
to have these personal letters. What do you
All he says is he wants to be happy. I think? — Unknown In The Midwest
Dear Unknown: I’m glad you asked.
think he’s out of touch with reality. He has
no place to go if I kick him out. What do I Your brother’s children are all adults now.
Tell them you found the letters and ask them
do? — Dad Who’s Had It In Ohio
Dear Dad: Your son is an adult, even if if they would like you to share them. I’m
he doesn’t act like one. Give him a deadline betting the answer will be yes.
Dear Readers: Tomorrow is Thanksgiv-
to find another place to crash — perhaps
with a roommate — and be out of there. If ing, and no Thanksgiving would be com-
he says he has no money, remember that he plete without sharing the traditional prayer
penned by my dear late mother:
comes up with money to “blow.”
Oh, Heavenly Father,
It will take backbone to stand your
We thank Thee for food and remember
ground, but you must not make your deci-
sions and live your life based on what your the hungry.
We thank Thee for health and remember
son will post about you on Facebook. Peo-
ple often vent and exaggerate on social the sick.
We thank Thee for friends and remember
media. Your son is living in an altered real-
ity because you have allowed it. If he isn’t the friendless.
forced to stand on his own two feet, he
We thank Thee for freedom and remem-
ber the enslaved.
never will.
May these remembrances stir us to
Dear Abby: After my father died, I
found a box of letters my late brother sent service.
That Thy gifts to us may be used for
to the family when he was in the U.S. Air
Force. He would have been in his 20s at the others.
Amen.
time.
Have a safe and happy celebration,
The letters mention girlfriends, the
woman he did marry and the time spent everyone! — Love, Abby
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 21, 1918
In a statement issued today by the exec-
utive committee of the Patriotic Service
League, censure is given those who humil-
iated persons of German birth or descent
on the day of the victory celebration. Irre-
spective of the loyalty or disloyalty of those
mistreated it is pointed out by the commit-
tee that the behavior was un-American. It is
suggested that whenever people have evi-
dence of disloyalty or lack of patriotism
that they be reported to the Patriotic Ser-
vice League. It is also pointed out to the
victims of mob violence that the courts are
open for their protection and that the league
here is ready to protect people against unfair
charges as well as to bring the erring to time.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 21, 1968
Wallace McCrae, president of Blue
Mountain Community College, was key-
note speaker, and Ernest J. Haney, rancher
at LeMar Gulch, was honored for his work
as a member of the Weston Chamber at
Weston’s 30th annual Chamber of Com-
merce Turkey Feed Wednesday night. The
Rev. Mark Carmichael, pastor of the Church
of the Brethren in Weston and president of
the Weston Chamber, introduced Haney,
presented him with a plaque in honor of
his years of service to the community and
said that arrangements were being com-
pleted to designate a marker for Haney on
the Weston-Elgin highway, which he helped
spearhead.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 21, 1993
A television reenactment of the mur-
der of Naomi Marie McMahill has led to
the arrest of a 51-year-old man near Sac-
ramento. David Connell Cox was arrested
on suspicion of murder at 6:20 p.m. Friday
at a private residence, Oregon State Police
Sgt. Mike McCullough said. McMahill was
a 14-year-old runaway whose body was dis-
covered 12 years ago along Highway 74
southeast of Pilot Rock. A 10-minute seg-
ment on the crime aired Tuesday on the
FOX network’s “America’s Most Wanted.”
Friday’s arrest came on information devel-
oped by OSP, the Multnomah County Sher-
iff’s Office, Oregon Department of Justice,
Sacramento Police, Nevada Department of
Justice and FBI.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Nov. 21, 1980, 87
people died in a fire at the
MGM Grand Hotel in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
In 1789, North Carolina
became the 12th state to rat-
ify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1927, picketing strik-
ers at the Columbine Mine
in northern Colorado were
fired on by state police; six
miners were killed.
In 1931, the Univer-
sal horror film “Franken-
stein,” starring Boris Karl-
off as the monster and Colin
Clive as his creator, was first
released.
In 1979, a mob attacked
the U-S Embassy in Islam-
abad, Pakistan, killing two
Americans.
In 1992, a three-day tor-
nado outbreak that struck
13 states began in the Hous-
ton area before spreading
to the Midwest and east-
ern U.S.; 26 people were
killed. Sen. Bob Packwood,
R-Ore., issued an apol-
ogy but refused to discuss
allegations that he’d made
unwelcome sexual advances
toward 10 women over the
years. (Faced with a threat of
expulsion, Packwood ended
up resigning from the Senate
in 1995.)
In 1997, U.N. arms
inspectors returned to Iraq
after Saddam Hussein’s
three-week standoff with
the United Nations over the
presence of Americans on
the team.
In 2001, Ottilie Lund-
gren, a 94-year-old resi-
dent of Oxford, Conn., died
of inhalation anthrax; she
was the apparent last vic-
tim of a series of anthrax
attacks carried out through
the mail system.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Marlo Thomas is
81. Actor Rick Lenz is 79.
Singer Dr. John is 78. Actress
Juliet Mills is 77. Basketball
Hall of Famer Earl Monroe
is 74. Gospel singer Steven
Curtis Chapman is 56. Sing-
er-actress Bjork is 53. Pro
and College Football Hall of
Famer Troy Aikman is 52.
Rock musician Alex James
(Blur) is 50. Baseball Hall of
Famer Ken Griffey Jr. is 49.
Football player-turned-TV
personality Michael Strahan
is 47. Country singer Kelsi
Osborn (SHeDAISY) is 44.
Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen
is 33.
Thought for Today:
“Never confuse motion with
action.” — Ernest Hem-
ingway, American author
(1899-1961).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE