http://www.salon.com/2016/04/01/karl_rove_courts_convention_chaos_bushs_brain_is_laying_the_groundwork_for_an_establishment_coup_and_its_going_to_get_ugly/

Yesterday Karl Rove admits that the GOP Establishment is planning on depriving GOP primary voters of a choice for the GOP nominee. Romney or Paul Ryan might be parachuted in and the current 3 candidates will be scratched by the establishment. The supporters of Trump and Cruz may not take this lying down...

And therefore...

Cleveland preparing for riots at Republican convention
http://thehornnews.com/14033-2/

And they’re not just buying a few extra shields and billy clubs.

The Cleveland Police Department got a $50 million federal grant for security and they are spending every penny of it.
They’ve ordered 2,000 state-of-the-art riot suits called the “Elite Defender,” which look like something the U.S. Marines might wear. The cops are also getting 26-inch long batons. The average MLB baseball bat, by comparison, is about 34 inches.

The Cleveland PD is also buying hundreds of sets of another type of riot gear to be used by cops on bikes, 25 sets of tactical armor and miles – 3.5 miles to be exact – of barriers that range from 3.5 feet in height to 6.5 feet.



Cleveland prepares for unrest at GOP convention
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/03/19/cleveland-preparing-for-riots-violence-republican-national-convention/Uar9zK4VoKWLr4Gk2u4mSI/story.html

Tensions are escalating as Donald Trump, the leading GOP candidate, warns of “riots” if he is denied the nomination at the July convention. Some city officials and law enforcement officers are accusing Trump of fueling discontent and inciting violence with his rhetoric.

It is a misconception that the universe started someplace.

“Where did the Big Bang happen? It’s a question that Dennis Overbye, The New York Times’s cosmic affairs correspondent, gets a lot."

"Actually: The Big Bang didn’t happen at a place; it happened at a time."
This and other misconceptions, such as the end is near:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/02/science/misconceptions-week.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=thumb&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

http://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-could-block-300000-registered-voters-from-the-polls/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow


Johnny Randle, a 74-year-old African-American resident of Milwaukee, moved to Wisconsin from Mississippi in 2011, the same year the state legislature passed a law requiring a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot. Randle, with the help of his daughter, petitioned the DMV to issue him a free ID for voting because he could not afford to pay for his Mississippi birth certificate.

After a five-month “adjudication process,” the DMV denied his request. His daughter ultimately tracked down his Mississippi birth certificate, but the name listed, Johnnie Marton Randall, did not match the name he’d used his entire life, Johnny Martin Randle. The DMV said that he would either need to correct his name through the Social Security Administration and get a new Social Security card reflecting the name on his birth certificate or go to court to “change” his name and “provide court documents reflecting that your name has legally been changed to read as ‘Johnny M Randle.’” But Randle worried that any change to his Social Security information might interrupt the monthly disability payments he survives on. (This account comes from a new lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s voting restrictions filed by Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, Hillary Clinton’s campaign counsel.)

Interesting graph!

I saw something on PBS the other day about a comet strike that happened or was alleged to have happened 12,900 years ago. That seems to coincide with the Dryas period in the graph.

Here's an article about it. The gist of it was they found these nano diamonds from coast to coast which should mean there was a cataclysmic event. It also marks the end (more or less) of the Clovis peoples in North America.

http://www.space.com/14793-comet-earth-impact-younger-dryas.html

Proof that climate changes all the time and sometimes without warning.

Look I have pretty much been a supporter of dems all of my adult life. But over the years I have seen a lot of changes and not for the better.
So maybe Trump is playing on peoples emotions.
But he is saying what a lot of people are frustrated with.
Trump's rise in popularity is because people are tired of the same BS as usual from both parties.
Those of you who vilify him. The policies of this
country aren't biting you in the ass.
But I have seen the progression and I have to say it sucks.
Its time for a GD change in the way we do things.