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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, December 13, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife can no longer endure
vicious tales man’s ex tells
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have been with
years. My husband and I have a
my husband for five years, and
great marriage, but last week my
father was diagnosed with stage
we have two children together.
4 cancer, and I’m having trouble
It’s my husband’s second marriage
processing it. My husband is super
and my first. He and his first wife,
supportive and has had my back
“Gretchen,” had no kids, but they
100 percent. But yesterday I woke
did have a long and messy divorce.
up and a friend of mine wanted to
She and her family live in the same
meet with me and we ended up
small town as we do. Her favorite
J eanne
P hilliPs
having sex.
pastime is telling anyone who will
ADVICE
What’s wrong with me? I have
listen that my husband physically
never cheated before. I have been
abused and raped her.
cheated on in the past, and I know
I know my husband. In our
how much it hurt, so I vowed never to do it.
five years together he has never so much
But it just happened. I regret what I did, and
as raised his voice to me or our children.
I feel gross. Why would I do this? Is it my
I don’t presume to know what happened
way of coping with Dad’s illness? I need to
between him and Gretchen during their
understand what the hell happened. Please
marriage, but I know in my heart it never
help. — Off the Rails
got physical. I have spent five years listen-
ing to this garbage and hearing her put him
Dear Off: I, too, suspect that your infi-
delity may be related to trying to deal with
down and say nasty things about me. I have
your father’s diagnosis. It is not as unusual
reached my limit. Should I confront her or
as you may think for people to react to
just keep refusing to acknowledge her? —
grief, trauma or death by doing something
Drama With His Ex
uncharacteristic. However, if this becomes
Dear Drama: You know that what your
your default coping mechanism, discuss
husband’s ex is saying isn’t true because
it with a licensed psychotherapist so it
you have been with your husband long
doesn’t destroy your marriage.
enough to see the kind of person he is. Con-
P.S. Unplanned sexual encounters can
tinue to ignore and avoid her. If someone
have unplanned consequences. To make
repeats her stories, tell them that in your
sure this one hasn’t, contact your doc-
experience what she’s saying couldn’t be
tor about being checked for an STD. And
further from the truth. People who know
consider coming clean to your husband,
you will understand what Gretchen’s say-
ing for what it is — unhappiness and
because it would be disastrous if your
vindictiveness.
friend let the truth slip out accidentally.
Dear Abby: I’m at a loss and need some
(And, of course, if you’ve developed an
STD, tell your husband right away.)
outside advice. I’m a man, married for two
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 13, 1918
On November 10, just one day before
the end of the war, Frank Sheldon Ulrich,
the first Pendleton-born boy to be killed in
action, made the supreme sacrifice on the
battlefields of France, according to a tele-
gram received from the war office last
night by his father, Franck Ulrich, of this
city. Ulrich, who enlisted last summer as
a member of the United States Marines,
immediately after his graduation in the class
of 1917 from the Pendleton high school,
would have been 21 years of age next Sun-
day, December 15, He left here with Clell
Brown, Pendleton boy who was wounded
in France, and the two were together at
Mare Island and Quantico, Virginia, and
went to France on the same transport.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 13, 1968
City police lost little time in solving one
of the Christmas tree lighting thefts and
vandalism Wednesday when they appre-
hended a 16-year-old boy and then learned
he had been accompanied by a 13-year-old
and a 17-year-old boy. The three, who were
involved in the theft of outdoor lights from
the Carl Duchek place earlier in the week,
were turned over the juvenile authorities.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 13, 1993
A 23-year-old man awaiting sentencing
on robbery, assault and menacing convic-
tions broke his ankle in a bungled escape
attempt Sunday morning when he jumped
from the roof of the Umatilla County Jail.
Beacher F. Noble of Milton-Freewater cut
his way through the southeast corner of a
fenced recreation area atop the jail, then
dropped off the south end of the court-
house roof to a lower level. From there
he attempted a leap into a tree. It’s not
known when Noble broke his ankle during
the attempted escape that started at about
9:10 a.m. Sunday. Noble was apprehended
shortly after his escape at the Hachler
Building at Southeast Fourth and Dorion
Avenue.
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
Today is the 347th day of
2018. There are 18 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Dec. 13, 2003,
Saddam Hussein was cap-
tured by U.S. forces while
hiding in a hole under a
farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq,
near his hometown of Tikrit.
On this date:
In
1918,
President
Woodrow Wilson arrived
in France, becoming the
first chief executive to visit
Europe while in office.
In 1944, during World
War II, the light cruiser USS
Nashville was badly dam-
aged in a Japanese kamikaze
attack off Negros Island in
the Philippines that claimed
133 lives.
In 1978, the Philadel-
phia Mint began stamping
the Susan B. Anthony dol-
lar, which went into circula-
tion the following July.
In 1981, authorities in
Poland imposed martial law
in a crackdown on the Sol-
idarity labor movement.
(Martial law formally ended
in 1983.)
In 2000, Republican
George W. Bush claimed
the presidency a day after
the U.S. Supreme Court
shut down further recounts
of disputed ballots in Flor-
ida; Democrat Al Gore con-
ceded, delivering a call for
national unity.
In 2002, Cardinal Ber-
nard Law resigned as Bos-
ton archbishop because of
the priest sex abuse scandal.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Secretary of State
George P. Shultz is 98.
Actor-comedian Dick Van
Dyke is 93. Music/film
producer Lou Adler is 85.
Singer John Davidson is
77. Actress Kathy Garver
(TV: “Family Affair”) is
73. Singer Ted Nugent is
70. Actor Robert Lindsay
is 69. Country singer-mu-
sician Randy Owen is 69.
Actress Wendie Malick is
68. Former Agriculture Sec-
retary Tom Vilsack is 68.
Singer-actor Morris Day
is 62. Actor Steve Bus-
cemi is 61. Actress-reality
TV star NeNe Leakes is 52.
Actor-comedian Jamie Foxx
is 51. Actor Bart Johnson is
48. Actor Jeffrey Pierce is
47. TV personality Debbie
Matenopoulos is 44. Rock
singer-musician
Thomas
Delonge is 43. Rock singer
Amy Lee (Evanescence) is
37. Actor Michael Socha
is 31. Neo-soul musician
Wesley Watkins (Nathaniel
Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
is 31. Singer Taylor Swift is
29.
Thought for Today: “To
know how to say what oth-
ers only know how to think
is what makes men poets
or sages; and to dare to say
what others only dare to
think makes men martyrs
or reformers — or both.” —
Elizabeth Charles, British
writer (1828-1896).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE