A8 The BulleTin • Friday, January 29, 2021
“We pride ourselves in the name Robinhood because we’re
trying to make more money and be the next people at the
top. You would expect Robinhood to let us do our thing
instead of blocking us and saying it’s for our protection.”
DEAR ABBY
Write to Dear Abby online at dearabby.com
or by mail at P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Dear Abby: I am a middle-
aged divorcee. I recently
took up ballroom dancing,
which has been a long-held
dream, and I’m enjoying my
life. However, there are few
single men my age around.
Most of the available men
are 20 years older or 20 years
younger.
From Day One, I have had
a crush on one of the few
men my age in the dance
group. We eventually became
best friends, spending all our
free time together. I soon
learned that he is married,
but separated and looking
to divorce. However, he has
a crush of his own, and he
talks to me about her con-
stantly. We have so much in
common, but he only has
eyes for her.
I realize it isn’t healthy for
me to pine away for some-
one who doesn’t think of me
the way I think of him. Yet
walking away would mean
losing my dance partner and
best friend and going back to
sitting out dances, watching
from the sidelines, or worse,
sitting alone at home.
Do I maintain the status
quo and suffer in silence over
his rejection? Or would it be
healthier to move on, upend
my life and isolate myself
from him when I have no
other circle of friends to sup-
port me?
— Dancing Away in
Pennsylvania
Dear Dancing: Because of
the pandemic, leave things
as they are — for now. How-
ever, as soon as it’s feasible,
find another dance group —
or two — to join. If you do,
you will establish other rela-
tionships with both women
and men, and have a better
chance of finding what you’re
looking for.
Dear Abby: My ex-wife,
my son’s mother, moved out
a few years back and settled
about six hours from us. We
did halfway trips in the be-
ginning so they could main-
tain a relationship, and I have
even driven the whole way a
few times to help with that.
Over the last two years,
her interest has diminished,
and they haven’t seen each
other at all. I’ve offered the
halfway trip, even offered my
couch if she came the entire
way, especially around holi-
days. She hasn’t taken me up
on it.
Our son is now entering
his teens, and I bought him a
cellphone. She has his num-
ber, but doesn’t call or text.
She even missed his birthday.
My problem is, he has started
to recognize her lack of in-
terest, and I can tell it hurts.
I thought about changing his
number and cutting her off
altogether, like yanking off
a bandage, but I don’t know
what’s best. Please advise.
— Sane Dad in Maryland
Dear Dad: You are a loving
and constant father. As you
have realized, now that your
son is getting older, he is be-
coming increasingly aware
of his mother’s emotional
neglect.
I do not think you should
change his number and cut
her off from him. She’s doing
a good job of doing that her-
self. I DO think it’s import-
ant your son knows he can
talk to you about anything
and get honest answers.
Something is clearly wrong
with his mother. He should
not go through life thinking
her behavior was caused by
anything lacking in himself,
so if and when the subject
comes up, answer his ques-
tions as kindly as you can.
YOUR HOROSCOPE
By Madalyn Aslan
Stars show the kind of day you’ll have
DYNAMIC | POSITIVE | AVERAGE | SO-SO | DIFFICULT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR FRIDAY, JAN. 29, 2021: Compassion-
ate, courageous and fun-loving, you stand up and fight for what you believe
in. You’re provocative only so that others recognize the issues at hand, and
this year, this is how you succeed — brilliantly. If single, it is definitely compli-
cated. You do need your freedom. If attached, your partner gives you securi-
ty, which, despite how radical you seem, you do need. You’re happy this year.
PISCES has it all handled.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Happiness with children and creative breakthroughs are likely
today. Accept imperfections philosophically. Express affection. Tender senti-
ments will be returned. Single Aries, you have to reach out more than before.
Tonight: Attached Aries, a very special date night, with enlightenment.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today there is more focus on your domestic environment. Be
receptive to changing home and family dynamics. It’s a perfect time to repair
and redecorate your home and surroundings. You will feel proud of yourself.
Tonight: The good feeling continues, shared with family.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
You’re worn out by your own nervous energy. And today promises an
even more hectic pace, as you rush to finish everything before the weekend.
It’s a marvelous time to work with computers and other technologies. To-
night: Calls, emails and conversations are most revealing.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
Your birth sign is shared with more bankers and millionaires than
any other. Usually you’re well paid and manage money wisely. COVID has
brought upheaval. Be flexible and don’t invest in risky ventures today. To-
night: Take advice with the proverbial grain of salt.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Expect to be highly visible. Your charisma and appearance directly
impact your success today. There are changes brewing that will affect your
profession and aspirations all year. Get the facts straight, and don’t panic just
because the status quo is threatened. Tonight: Have faith.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
There is a need to act and to meet challenges today. Keep a perspec-
tive, and don’t push yourself too hard in exercise. Controversy surrounds you.
Make constructive efforts at improvement, but use care if too much irritation
is building within or around you. Tonight: Relax.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Cleanliness and efficiency spell your success today. Assuming the
persona best suited to any occasion is second nature to you — but no whim-
sical side. A serious practicality helps you begin this new year successfully.
Tonight: Pride in a job well done.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
There could be a new authority and other challenges affecting your
career. Communication is delicate today. Be cautious if speaking or writing
about controversial topics. A relative is cultivating a new social circle. Be un-
derstanding and accepting. Tonight: Rework your wardrobe.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
— Carlos Amaya, Robinhood investor
GameStop
Continued from A7
Democrats in the House and
Senate are operating as though
they know they are on bor-
rowed time. Senate Majority
Leader Chuck Schumer and
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
are laying the groundwork to
start the go-it-alone approach
as soon as next week.
They are drafting a budget
reconciliation bill that would
start the process to pass the relief
package with a simple 51-vote
Senate majority — rather than
the 60-vote threshold typically
needed in the Senate to advance
legislation. The goal would be
passage by March, when jobless
benefits, housing assistance and
other aid is set to expire.
Senate Republicans warned
their colleagues in a “frank”
conversation late Wednesday
that Biden and Democrats are
making a mistake by loading
up the aid bill with other pri-
orities and jamming it through
Congress without their sup-
port, according to a person
familiar with the matter who
spoke on condition of ano-
nymity to discuss the private
session.
The company has forced
huge, ground-shaking
changes for the brokerage
industry, such as its decision
to charge zero commissions
for customers trading stocks
and exchange-traded funds.
That’s why some users took
Thursday’s actions as an af-
front.
Robinhood investor Car-
los Amaya said the app’s ac-
tion Thursday was a disap-
pointment to users like him
who prided themselves on
being a “different breed of
investors.”
The 28-year-old school
operations manager in
Washington, D.C., said his
parents immigrated from
El Salvador and he was the
first person in his family to
buy stocks when he started
using the app in 2017. He’s
since made several thousand
dollars.
“We pride ourselves in the
name Robinhood because
we’re trying to make more
money and be the next peo-
ple at the top,” he said. “You
would expect Robinhood to
let us do our thing instead
of blocking us and saying it’s
for our protection.”
Investors upset over the
trading portals’ restrictions
are getting some sympa-
thy from some members of
“Friends,” among other cre-
ative locales.
Ellis said on social media
over the weekend that Sanders
called to tell her that “the mit-
ten frenzy” had raised an enor-
mous amount of money for
Vermont charities although she
was not authorized to disclose
the amount, yet.
“But it’s BIG and it’s amaz-
ing! Thank you!! Generosity
brings joy,” she tweeted.
She also said she made three
more pairs of mittens and do-
nated them for fundraising to
Passion 4 Paws Vermont, Out-
right Vermont, and would be
auctioning off a pair on eBay
for her daughter’s college fund.
Sander’ attire has also
sparked other charitable en-
deavors.
A crocheted doll of Sand-
ers in his garb was auctioned
off online and Burton Snow-
boards donated 50 jackets to
the Burlington Department for
Children and Families in Sand-
ers’ name, his office said.
Getty Images confirmed that
it will donate its proceeds as
part of the licensing agreement
to put the photo on the mer-
chandise to Meals on Wheels
of America.
Matt Slocum/AP file
Then President-elect Joe Biden speaks Jan. 14 about the pandemic
during an event at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware.
Aid
Continued from A7
Biden has been appealing
directly to Republican and
Democratic lawmakers while
signaling his priority to press
ahead.
“We’ve got a lot to do, and
the first thing we’ve got to do
is get this COVID package
passed,” Biden said Thursday
in the Oval Office.
The standoff over Biden’s
first legislative priority is turn-
ing the new rescue plan into a
political test — of his new ad-
ministration, of Democratic
control of Congress and of the
role of Republicans in a post-
Trump political landscape.
Success would give Biden a
signature accomplishment in
his first 100 days in office, un-
leashing $400 billion to expand
vaccinations and to reopen
schools, $1,400 direct payments
to households and other pri-
orities, including a gradual in-
crease in the federal minimum
wage to $15 an hour. Failure
would be a high-profile setback
early in his presidency.
Memes
Continued from A7
Sanders’ mittens were made
by Jen Ellis, a Vermont elemen-
tary school teacher who has a
side business making mittens
out of recycled wool. His in-
auguration look, also featur-
ing the winter jacket made by
Burton Snowboards, sparked
countless memes from the
photo taken by Agence France-
Presse: The former presidential
candidate could be found on
social media timelines taking a
seat on the subway, the moon
and the couch with the cast of
Allen C.
Ryman
February 12, 1940
- November 12, 2020
It is with sadness we
announce that Allen Ryman
passed away November 12
2020 at his home in Lake
Oswego. He was born on
February 12, 1940, in Bend,
Oregon. His parents moved
to Bend in 1925 and his
father had a rural postal
route east of Bend during
WWII. His mother was a
nurse at Lumberman’s Hospital unti l it closed. She
then started to work at the old St. Charles Hospital
on the hill and she also worked as a nurse for the
Niswonger family.
Allen was the youngest in the family, with elder
sisters, Mae, Jean, and Chris. Allen att ended H. E.
Allen Elementary School, which was located on the
corner of Franklin and Third Street. All of the Ryman
kids att ended Bend High School, Allen graduated
from the “new” Bend High School building in 1958.
He att ended Central Oregon Community College
for one year, then transferred to the University of
Oregon where he graduated in 1962. He went to
work for the University of Oregon Medical School
in their medical lab, but he got draft ed by the Army
and was stati oned at Fort Ord, California, where he
hoped to become a Medical Tech, but instead he
served 2 years playing clarinet in the band.
You explore new philosophies today and are profoundly affected
by different awakenings. Faraway places and foreign people turn your
thoughts away from the familiar. Daydreams are vivid. You must listen now.
Tonight: Watching a dramatic foreign film or documentary.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
There is a curiosity about death’s mysteries today. There is a mes-
sage of wisdom and comfort from the spirit realm. A sense of deja vu prevails.
Look at repeating patterns to understand the future. Give yourself extra rest.
Tonight: Early beddie-byes and a restful sleep.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
A partner, in love or business, expresses new needs and interests.
Others involve you in their plans. Be cooperative and understanding. Friends
are recovering from difficult times and provide more cheerful companion-
ship today. Tonight: Grateful for the blessings of friendship.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today can bring temporary weariness. Take care of old maladies and
get extra rest when those occur. Avoid those who are ill — you’re especially
vulnerable today. Your overall health is good, but take these precautions for
now. Tonight: Trying to find a hot tub.
Aft er his ti me in the Army, Allen returned to Oregon
and worked for Oregon Health Science University
as a Medical Technologist for 30 years and was
manager of the night lab.
Allen traveled all over the world with family and
friends. He enjoyed running marathons, one was in
N.Y. City, and parti cipated many ti mes in the Hood
to Coast run. He also ran the hills of Lake Oswego.
He was preceded in death by his parents and sister
Jean. He is survived by sisters Mae Boylan and
Chris Mitchell, many nieces and nephews, and dear
friends from childhood.
Congress.
Democratic Sen. Sherrod
Brown of Ohio, who is set to
become chairman of the Sen-
ate Banking Committee, an-
nounced that he will hold a
hearing on the GameStop sit-
uation. Rep. Maxine Waters,
D-Calif., also announced a
hearing in the House Financial
Services Committee.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cor-
tez, D-N,Y., called Robinhood’s
actions “unacceptable,” and said
she would support a hearing to
explore why the online broker-
age is blocking small investors
from buying stocks while hedge
funds “are freely able to trade
the stock as they see fit.”
Kalen Holliday, a spokes-
woman for Interactive Brokers,
said the company’s restrictions
apply both to individual and in-
stitutional investor accounts.
Gregg Gillis McFadden
of Redmond, OR
Dec 11, 1951 - Jan 23,
2021
Arrangements:
Arrangements Entrusted
To: Redmond Memorial
Chapel; 541.548.3219.
Please visit www.redmond-
memorial.com to leave a
thought, memory, or con-
dolence for the family.
Services:
Private Family Services
Contributions may be
made to:
Partners in Care, 141 N.W.
6th Street Suite B, Red-
mond, OR 97756
Colin A. Newman
of Prineville, OR
January 23, 2021
Arrangements:
Spencer, Libby and Powell
Funeral Home in care of
arrangements.
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Gregg Gillis McFadden
1951 - 2021
Our gentle giant,
Gregg Gillis McFadden,
passed through
Heaven’s gates on
Saturday, January 23,
2021. He handled his
fi nal earthly journey
with a positi ve atti tude
and a gracious soul.
With his family by his
side, and the guidance
of his wonderful
caregivers from
Partners in Care, he
wrote his own story to
the end.
Gregg’s whole life was a series of journeys beginning
with his birth in 1951 to Gilbert and Dorothy (Hodge)
McFadden in Redmond, Oregon. This family of four
(older sister, Diane) lost Dorothy in 1952 and Gilbert in
1956. Gregg’s aunt and uncle, Doris and Vern Hassler
and cousin Chris, then welcomed Gregg and Diane
into their hearts and home. With the future births of
Jerry and Vicki, this family eventually became seven.
Aft er Gregg’s primary and secondary educati on in
Redmond, he att ended Oregon State University and
graduated with a business degree in 1974. His journey
then took many turns with various jobs, including
welding at a nuclear plant, driving long haul trucks,
and being a real estate agent, but he always returned
to his love of being a barber. In his free ti me, he loved
to hop in his car and travel near and far, and to golf,
fi sh, and hike.
He is survived by his three sisters and their husbands,
Vicki and Dave Sime, Chris and Mike Slabaugh, Diane
and Richard Springer, and by his nieces Kilah Atkinson
(Raun), Ashley Slabaugh (Michael Huff stutt ler), Dayna
Christi an (Sean), Kelly Dunston (Rod), and his nephew
Rich Springer (Robin). His nine great nieces and
nephews will miss his playful heart.
Contributi ons in Gregg’s name can be made to:
Partners in Care
141 NW 6th Street, Suite B
Redmond, OR 97756