Dinosaurs roamed the earth with other strange life forms for 180 million years while modern humans have been around for 100,000 years.

To put this in perspective, imagine the history of the universe as a “cosmic calendar” spanning all 365 non-leap year days.

Dinosaurs were alive around December 29th and died December 30th.

Modern humans appeared around December 31st 11:54 PM.

Agriculture was discovered 30 seconds to midnight and Christopher Columbus re-discovered the Americas one second to midnight.

Plot first believed it belonged to a Roman war elephant before deciding it belonged to a biblical giant.

It was a century later that Richard Brookes, divining a subtle similarity to a piece of human anatomy, dubbed it Scrotum humanum.

See the resemblance?

As FiveThirtyEight points out, “At this point in past presidential primary campaigns — about six months before any voting is scheduled — it was easy to mostly ignore early polls.”.

Time and time again, candidates have had amazing surges and sunk just as quickly. Think back of the most famous example in recent history, Ross Perot.

The Trump of 1992 was Ross Perot, who briefly led George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton in the polls until he unleashed his inner crazy. But he still got 20% of the popular vote.

Right to Rise, a super PAC supporting Jeb Bush, has on its own raised $103 million in those same six months.

Personally, Jeb Bush has raised $11 million.

Greg Zoeller is running for Indiana’s 9th District House of Representatives.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is at the center of the recent “clean coal” marketing campaign attempting to paint clean coal as “the high-tech, low-emissions fuel of the future”.

The ACCCE has an extensive level of political involvement through political contributions, national advertisements, and lobbying campaigns.

In the 2008 election year, ACCCE spent $40 million on television and radio advertising, profoundly influencing the political attention that coal received. At the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, ACCCE spent $1.7 million on advertising and outreach

They’re estimated to have contributed to 87% of Congress by the Center for Public Integrity:

Political action committees and individuals employed by ACCCE member firms, including many top executives, contributed $15.6 million to federal campaigns in the 2008 election cycle.