Kolob Star System Loyalists Still Consider Russia a Foe

Mormons still regard Russia as a top foe of the U.S.A. for denying the proselytization of Mormonism's extra-solar system teachings of their particular cult. I don't know that I personally would support a war with Russia to open the door for conversions to the planet and star system of Kolob where the martinets of Salt Lake plan their special ops. yet I might consider it if I got drunk sometimes.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865652264/In-our-opinion-Mitt-Romney-was-right-about-Russia-as-a-top-US-foe.html?pg=all

The Past Tense and Present Infinitive of Czech Republic is 'Czach'

The Czech Republic is about to make a grave name change error of using Checia as its slang nomenclature. I can tell them that the right infinitive abbreviation is Czach; for free.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/15/474337369/-my-friends-call-me-czechia-czech-republic-aims-to-rebrand-with-shorter-name

Political Liquidation at Cahokia of Former Chief's Family

The ancient American aboriginal; mega-city of Cahokia in the St. Louis area has evidence of mass execution of men and women-apparently friends and relatives of a deposed Chief that has been the subject of research for decades.

Cahokia suddenly disappeared in the 1600's I recall, before the Rams moved there and left for L.A. later. Modern Americans are not as enlightened as the ancients in some ways. With good draft choices the Rams could have won another Super Bowl at St. Louis.

http://westerndigs.org/victims-of-human-sacrifice-at-cahokia-were-locals-not-captives-study-finds/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_72

Ancient peoples often killed off the family of the former chief to prevent possible efforts to return the family to the job of chief, king etc. That practice was also not unknown in Western royal lines. There may be lessons that voters in the 2016 Presidential election can take from that.

Rather than clubbing, strangling or poisoning the families of former Presidents, Americans can kill off a former chief's relatives at the polls casting a vote for anyone besides. Of course prospects for political patronage and kickbacks always stims a percent of loyalists to suck up to the next candidate from the former chief's clan.

Kasparov News; He'll Play Match With U.S. Chess Championship Top 3

Former world champion Garry Kasparov will play a round-robin blitz chess match against the top three finishers in the U.S. chess championship tournament in progress it was reported during today's coverage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qQt_z-tTo round 1 U.S. Chess championship

There are several super-GMs playing for the 2016 title including three top ten rated players (in the world) with Nakamura, So and Caruana being amidst the aforementioned.

Migs Zip Around Baltic Sea Over U.S. Ships

For some reason this news does not seem like news of much interest. If the Migs were buzzing ships near Boston that would be news. Without bullets in the aircraft or anti-ship missiles it seems, well, a little war gamish. Our boat was probably practicing hypothetical missile shots and solutions at Petersburg and Moscow-who knows?

I recall riding a boat from Denmark to Sweden long ago when some NATO jets buzzed over very low. I get the impression that is how people in the military ordinarily fly around the Baltic instead of way up high where they are presumably easier targets.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-flyby-uss-donald-cook-baltic-sea-alarms-experts-n555921

In the good old days when thrillers were written with Marines landing at Leningrad-Petersburg and nukes went off making the ground snap from blast wave at a distance like a towel breaking legs this sort of incident would hardly have merited notice. Politicians and the 1% media must be desperate for some cold war news.

Drones of the near future will be much larger problems for ships-especially those that can hover on-station over the water yet fly at Mach3.

Majority Views Nepotism and Leverage as Fundamental Qualifiers for President

Apparently Americans view nepotism and insider leverage as essential qualifications for a President. That is, the Washington Post discovered that a majority regard Hillary Clinton as the sole candidate qualified to be President.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/04/14/hillary-clinton-is-the-only-candidate-who-a-majority-of-americans-say-is-qualified-to-be-president/

U.S. Labor Participation Rate Lower Than in 1978

The U.S. labor participation rate has dropped to just 59%. Compare that to the low rate of 62% in 1978. In 2015 when Bloomberg published the article below the U.S. labor participation rate was 62%. According to government labor statistics the participation rate has dropped since. Without good jobs people are retiring, going on disability and/or signing up for federal means tested work programs.


In some respects the U.S. is evolving non-profit status except for the upper 5% or even 1%.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-02/workforce-participation-at-36-year-low-even-as-more-jobs-beckon

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/92594000-americans-not-labor-force-hits-all-time-record-participation

http://prospect.org/article/40-year-slump

The employment-population is at or near a 40-year low while government debt is up.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000 emplopyment-population ratio 2006-2016