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PEARL'S ASHES: AFRICA

Before getting into Pearl's Ashes on this nostalgia Tuesday, a couple of Trump matters. Federal judges are blocking most of Donald Trump's seemingly unconstitutional edicts. The  White House is looking into impeaching any judge that rules against Trump . The House first impeaches this judge, and the Senate needs to convict. However, two-thirds of Senators need to vote to convict, so this won't happen anytime soon . This has happened 15 times in our history, the most recent, G. Thomas Porteous Jr. in 2010. Trump will keep appealing, leaving it to the Supreme Court to decide.  If this body routinely supports the President, we will have a serious Constitutional Crisis.  Democracy will fall to Dictatorship. If Hamas doesn't return Israeli hostages by Saturday afternoon, "the   ceasefire   will be terminated," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday in a statement following a meeting with his security cabinet. Netanyahu's statement comes after  P...

THE WORLD'S LARGEST POTATO

Most important of all for some ( except Hawaii and most of Arizona in the USA ) is that daylight savings time ends tonight.  At 2AM most of the U.S. will gain back an hour, so you will have an extra hour of sleep.  Perhaps there could be some energy savings, but I think this is an inconvenience that needs to be disposed.   32 states have proposed bills to end this practice .  Half the world has gone ahead to do this ( the light purple color ). A new world's largest potato, but not from Idaho: Just this week in New Zealand, Colin and Donna Craig-Brown dug up in their backyard a 17.4 pound potato and named him Doug: They take him for walks and are getting a lot of attention.  Below was the previous largest, as recognized by  Guinness , only 10 pounds and 14 ounces, from the UK: On this note, the next time it heavily rains, go to  Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas . Here is where in 1924 was found the largest diamond ever discovered in the U....