Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The question of should we put a former President in prison or not seems to be of great concern to some people. So take a look at history, entire courts have been beheaded by the masses because the royals just could not figure out how to treat people that were not born with a silver spoon. The Czar and his family were killed to free citizens of harsh rule, did not work as the leaders that came after were worse not better.
Jail should be the least that should happen to someone that has betrayed his nation for the sake of personal gain. Look at the evidence and say that the reason he was in office was to promote America, only to the point that he could sell the assets to the highest bidder.
Who is he most friendly with, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Who wants him back in office, the same people because they know he will sell them anything they want.lWe do not need this as our Head of State, maybe his head on a plate.
There are efforts to keep people from voting and to restructure voting districts to give the advantage to Trump. Most of this effort is being pushed by conservative organizations that seem to think they are going to end up with a world that follows their blueprint. It will not happen. The help they get to make this happen and the puppet they put to lead will leave them with little more than coffee grounds in their cups and humiliation on their faces.
All the laws that the conservatives are passing currently and they are so proud of are going to come back to bite them in the ass. Someone under their own roof is going to violate one or more of the laws and some one of these good ole boys is going to try to bend the rules for his darlin and get called out for it. That is when the shit will hit the fan.
We have become intolerant of any view that does not mirror our own and we refuse to even listen to possible alternatives. Call it what you will but the truth is, at your peril refuse to see because you will not look, refuse to hear because you will not listen, and refuse to learn because you refuse to think and you are assured to lose it all by following the pied piper down the rat

Asia Is Bigger Than the Moon

The moon isn’t as big as it looks. It’s around 27% of the size of Earth and has 14.6 million square miles of surface area. Although this seems like a lot, it is significantly less than the total surface area of Asia, which is 17.2 million square miles — making Earth’s biggest continent larger than the moon.

Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

In August 1930, amid the early days of the Great Depression, a Massachusetts chef named Ruth Wakefield took a major risk: She decided to chase her dream of opening an inn and restaurant. It was touch and go at first: In the Toll House Inn’s first month, the money on hand dwindled to just $10, a little more than $180 today. But by the end of the year, the business had grown so popular it needed 12 employees to keep up with demand. By the end of the Depression, against all odds, Wakefield had to expand the inn to serve around 1,000 diners per day. Comfort food with complimentary second helpings along a busy road for auto travelers turned out to be a winning strategy.

Wakefield is widely credited with inventing the chocolate chip cookie, after stumbling on a recipe that proved to be a hit with diners at the Toll House Inn. Originally served not as a stand-alone dish but as an accompaniment to ice cream, the cookie became the restaurant’s most enduring creation, and Wakefield appeared in newspapers and radio shows to talk about the trendy treat. In its early days it was called the “Toll House cookie” or “chocolate crunch cookie”; the “chocolate chip cookie” name came around 1939 because the recipe called for literally chipping the chocolate off the bar.

Speaking of chocolate chipping: After Nestle got Wakefield’s permission to use the recipe, the cookie started appearing in ads, and it was so popular that it started influencing product development. Early on, Nestle released a semisweet chocolate bar scored into 160 pieces, and in 1940, the company debuted its “morsel” chips — the chocolate chips we know today. 

Every year, people in many parts of the world set their clocks forward an hour each spring at the beginning of daylight saving time (DST), and then back an hour in the fall. One of the first people to seriously advocate adjusting the clock seasonally was a British builder named William Willett, who had noticed that few people were out in the early morning light during the summer, and his golf games often ended early when the sky became dark. But his idea worked a little differently than the “spring forward” and “fall back” time changes many observe today.

In his 1907 self-published pamphlet “The Waste of Daylight,” Willett wrote, “The sun shines upon the land for several hours each day while we are asleep, and is rapidly nearing the horizon, having already passed its western limit, when we reach home after the work of the day is over.” To maximize time spent during the daylight hours, he suggested changing the clocks at 2 a.m. on Sundays during the spring and fall — something we still do today. But, unlike today, the transition was to happen 20 minutes at a time over the course of four weeks, twice a year, for a total of eight time changes each year. And rather than an even hour, the time difference would be 80 minutes. Willett’s proposal was considered in the British House of Commons in 1908, but it was met with derision and soundly rejected.

During World War I a decade later, many countries were looking for new ways to save money. Inspired by Willett’s original proposal, which had included estimated savings in electricity costs, Germany and Britain implemented “Summer Time” in 1916, changing the clocks just one hour twice a year. The United States followed suit, first observing daylight saving time on March 31, 1918.

Abraham Lincoln: “People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.”

It’s a very diplomatic phrase, but Lincoln never said it. Quote Investigator traced the expression to 19th century humorist Charles Farrar Browne, also known as Artemus Ward. In 1863, Browne created a series of fake testimonials for some lectures he was performing, including a fictitious blurb from one “O. Abe.” This “Abe” supposedly said: “I have never heard any of your lectures, but from what I can learn I should say that for people who like the kind of lectures you deliver, they are just the kind of lectures such people like.”

The testimonial was reprinted in multiple places, and versions of the saying became associated with Lincoln. Later on, a story arose that Browne had read a lecture to Lincoln, who responded with a version of the phrase. Later still, Browne’s name was dropped from the situation entirely. The writers George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, and Muriel Spark have all used the phrase — but long after it was already circulating.

By the way, other things Lincoln never said include: “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years,” and “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power,” among many other examples.