Myth: The Declaration of Independence Was Signed on July 4

Every year, Americans celebrate Independence Day on the Fourth of July, and it’s commonly believed that July 4, 1776, marks the date the Declaration of Independence was signed. In reality, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence on July 2, and the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted two days later on July 4. (John Adams even predicted that July 2 would be celebrated as a national holiday for centuries to come.) The signing of the document, meanwhile, didn’t begin for another month; John Hancock was the first founding father to sign the declaration, on August 2, 1776. 

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The speaker of the House is in no hurry to recall anyone to get money approved to help the folk that are going to get hit with a second hurricane. Isn’t he precious? We will be back after the election, and wouldn’t he feel stupid if the election took all of the republican candidates off the rolls of elected. If they lose the majority he will not be speaker anymore. Maybe he is counting on that for a couple of reasons. One is so they can blame the democrats for failing to do their job and the other is that he is just too stupid to know what to do.
This is the type of situation that needs to have a backup plan as to how to handle it. Logic and common sense as well as the knowledge that people are in need of support should be all the reasons needed to come do your job.
We are, of course, forgetting that the republican party and the heritage foundation are hoping that they will win in Nov and then they can destroy the government altogether. Make it small enough to take it in the bathroom and drown it in the tub.
Careful for what you wish for. The French nobility thought they could run the country by having lavish parties and ignoring everything else. They literally lost their heads over that decision. Our rather arrogant 1% think that money will insure their place in the world. They too could lose their heads with project 2025 as the citizens will turn on them just as the French did.
Our various state legislators that have gone out of their way to put into law some very dragonian rules will end up paying a price for that as well. When there are some shake ups in the courts that make it easier to do so I would predict some wrongful death suits that will cost these ignorant bastards dearly. Even the federal courts need to be taken to task and be put on notice that laws are passed for the good of the populace not just a select group of individuals. The basic rule should be to do no harm, that is hardly the case with the abortion rules, bump stocks and some of the other crap that has been dumped on our society.
Term limits need to be put in place at all levels of elected and or appointed officials. If a candidate lies during a confirmation hearing, as in says they will not do something and then goes and does it, they should be removed and prosecuted like anyone else that lies under oath. The oath needs to be to uphold and protect the Constitution, never mind the bible, your faith is your business not the law of the land.
We need to roll back some laws that put the common citizen at a disadvantage. When it comes to running for office or holding office, intelligence, common sense, and decency should be the traits we look for, not how much money they have. The lack of integrity is aptly demonstrated by how many of our elected representatives become very wealthy in a short period of time, whether it is called a bribe, a gift, or a tip is meaningless, it still indicates bought and paid for.
Government has for a long time had a very bad reputation and that is because far too many of those that have managed to get elected are the ones with only self serving motivation as their goal, not doing what they were elected to do. They have given themselves golden parachutes so that if they lose and election they are set for life. The person on the street has no way to censure these people once they are in the system and that needs to change. Hopefully the next few years will see positive administrative goals not the death and destruction of our nation.

Calvin and Hobbes Were Named After Historical Figures

Calvin and Hobbes were both named afterheavyweight historical figures. Calvin was named after John Calvin, the 16th-century theologian and Protestant reformer who was a principal proponent of the idea of predestination. Hobbes, meanwhile, got his name from Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher who didn’t have the highest regard for human beings — he famously describedhuman life without governance as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Watterson was very deliberate in naming his two protagonists, with both monikers reflecting the more complex and philosophical side of Calvin and Hobbes. 

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

An issue that really needs attention is the situation of having people put in place ahead of the election that are there to stop the certification of the results. This is simply having two or three people on the panel of electors to refuse to accept the results so that nothing can move forward. If there is truly a problem then it makes sense, like in a very close race to ask for a recount. However, when the results are huge and overwhelming in favor of one over the other this interference is there just to keep the count from being sent forward.
This should be dealt with in a very expeditious way. If you have a greater than say 12% margin then no denier should be able to block the result without facing charges of obstruction. The people that are on these panels should be vetted so that any bias is removed before they are seated. Nice idea but maybe impossible to accomplish. Ideally people will be on that panel that will honorably fulfill the duties of the position. The fact that one man’s fragile ego gets in the way is just too damned bad. He should not be elected in the first place.
Another issue that goes with this very type of confused disservice is the way people are sworn in for giving testimony or being sworn in for service jobs such as the President. If we are going to separate church and state why do we use a bible and swear with our hand on the bible and before god. It should be an oath to the Constitution and holding a copy of the Constitution or a copy of the Bill of Rights.
This nation was not founded on any particular religious faith and claiming that we should all practice one faith or another is sheer lunacy. The founders were concerned that men believed in something bigger than themselves, as they were all Masons, but they did not say christian or jewish or any other faith.
One of the indications for a christian faith belief is the fact that a bible is used to swear in for office or to testify in court and swear to God. Now if we had developed the habit of swearing to the Constitution while holding a copy of the Bill of Rights it might be different. That idea makes so much more sense as it really does convey the commitment to the union not to a deity. The white christian nationalist are working hard to make the country dance to the tune they want to play and if you do not then you face your fate.
When it comes to this idea that somehow the color of one’s skin is a determination of hierarchy is easily disproved. The fact that one of the tactics of war is to rape and the power to own a slave is the power to rape, and the rights of a husband over his wife is to have sex, all of these actions can produce the ultimate result, another life. So we say one act was through LOVE and the others through LUST, either way an erection was necessary and all were achieved in the same manner. A stiff penis has no brain and yet more men are led by the actions of their penis than by their brains, and the penis works best in the dark and does not care what color is on the outside of the target, or victim

Zachary Taylor never voted until his own presidential election.

U.S. HISTORY

In the 1848 U.S. presidential election, Major General Zachary Taylor — a political newcomer representing the Whig Party — faced off against Democratic Senator Lewis Cass. Taylor was so new to the world of politics that he had never even voted before his own presidential election. A lifelong military man and hero of the Mexican-American War, he was unexpectedly drafted as the Whig Party candidate in 1848 — a move that came as a surprise even to Taylor himself. He wasn’t present at the Whig National Convention, and didn’t find out about his nomination until weeks later, as he initially refused to pay postage on a letter sent his way alerting him of the news. After accepting the nomination, Taylor refused to actively campaign in the race, so supporters hit the trail on his behalf instead. 

On Election Day, Taylor defeated Cass as well as former president and third-party candidate Martin Van Buren, earning the votes of 1,360,099 Americans en route to the presidency. Taylor’s time in office was brief, however; he served only 16 months before his untimely death in July 1850. His presidency was largely unmemorable, though he was a vocal supporter of California statehood, which became a reality two months after his death. Despite this minimal impact on the world of politics, Taylor holds the distinction of being the last person elected to the presidency who was unaffiliated with either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. His successor, Millard Fillmore, was also a member of the Whig Party, but Fillmore never actually won a presidential election.

Honey made from rhododendrons can be hallucinogenic.

The U.S. has more than 300 types of honey, but there’s one you won’t find among store shelves: mad honey. Upon visual inspection, mad honey offers up a clue that it’s a bit different. Created when bees feast almost exclusively on nectar and pollen from flowering rhododendron bushes, the natural sweetener often has a reddish hue. It also has a slightly bitter taste, though another unusual characteristic that appears shortly after consumption is what gives mad honey its name: It causes hallucinations. 

Mad honey is a rarity, found mostly among high-altitude honeycombs in the mountains of Turkey and Nepal. Harvesting it can be dangerous — Himalayan giant honeybees tend to create hives among cliffs and rugged outcrops — and consumption can be, too. Pollen and nectar from several species of rhododendrons in these areas contain grayanotoxins, a poison that helps the plants ward off hungry herbivores. While small doses of grayanotoxins can cause euphoria and lightheadedness in humans, larger doses can cause hallucinations, vomiting, temporary paralysis, and even death.  

Those sometimes-disastrous reactions haven’t stopped humans from seeking out the sticky substance, though. Some practitioners of folk medicine have long believed that small doses of the toxin-laced honey can be beneficial for human healing. Microdoses of mad honey have been used to treat high blood pressure, diabetes, and arthritis — don’t try this at home — but researchers are unsure how beneficial the stuff is for anyone other than its original creators (bees).

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID! That is the real problem with some of the elected officials in this country. The Governor of Florida is near the top of the list. Refuses federal aid because there is a Democrat in the White House, and we can’t accept anything from them. The Speaker of the House refused to bring people back to appropriate funds to help with disaster relief. Members of Congress voting against funding of FEMA for ???????.
YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!!!
For those living in the affected areas of hurricane damage it is hoped that hopes and prayers
are enough to fix your problems, just like that is the answer for when a school gets shot up. Oh well, the Republican Party and it’s leader are just too busy and too important to worry about your little problems. Time to grab those boot straps and start pulling, hopefully you will be lifted.
This is another example of using others misfortune to support our position. In almost every case the party denying or blocking help is telling everyone it is someone else’s fault. The last 10 years have been a field day for blaming the democrats while the republicans continue to block positive actions with filibusters and any other thing they can do to delay or deny assistance.
The Oregon voters put in a referendum that has now been put into law and 10 of the representatives in the state house can no longer be reelected. It is time to put that as a national standard. Don’t do your job or don’t show up when you are required to and you lose your right to reelection. This should also include any golden parachute that you thought you had. If that were the case just look at the number of people that would be going home with their tail between their legs. Somehow we must find a way to make the government work for us not just the rich or ultra entitled stupid.
One of the issues that is so contentious is immigration. The immigrant that is sticking his nose in and petitioning to get laws changed is not a person of color, he is just a person with an ego to match DJT’s and a belief that he is somehow privileged because of money. Maybe we should send him home and let them put up with his crap.
As stated before another of the problem people is running media platforms. He has been sued for lying about voting machines and yet he is still lying and keeps on making money. The effort to stop this person did not go far enough. Everything he has should have been the amount that was sought. We keep hearing where is the media, when it is time to report facts, and they are all trying to hold on to their jobs so there are no more Walter Cronkites to be had.



Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

   Tis the season of the donation. Every cause you can think of has a hand out asking for money. There are causes and causes but most of us do not have pockets that are so full that we can give it all away without it biting us in the ass. 

    One major issue is the damage done by the hurricane from Florida to North Carolina. So what is being done to help? The lies about help or no help based on political issues is as ridiculous as the idiot making the comments. Both candidates have visited the states that are in shambles and has it helped? 

    If they want to assist the victims why are they not putting their money into helping? The donation of one day’s take would make a big difference. If Elon can give 45 million to Trump why can he not give that much to help? Sounds like silly questions, but the simple fact is that actions speak louder than words. 

     At such times the way someone votes is far from a consideration of whether they get help or not. The storm, created in nature as all such storms are, doesn’t give a damn about your politics, the color of your skin or anything  else, it just kicks ass and lets it go at that.

     As to what happens next in regards to storms it is possible that another is going to happen, that would be normal. The response by the candidates, future leaders of the nation, should be that all that need the help get it. That help has to be dispensed equally based on need. Past performance tells us that one candidate is not capable of doing that as he withheld help from areas with major fires because they were not of his party. 

    Childish, vindictive behavior is not what is needed to become the leader of the United States. If nothing else can change your view of Donald J Trump his attitude and remarks about this devastation should. He may be very supportive of these states as they primarily vote republican but he is looking to get sent to prison for crimes in Georgia, so that state may not get a positive resolution.