Dusty Rhodes was definitely one of my favorite personalities in the wrestling world, even though I wasn't a huge fan of the whole industry. Rowdy Roddy Piper, The Ultimate Warrior, Kane, Hogan and Rhodes were some of the best there were.

Well, if nothing else we got a full dollar bump out of the anticipation of the so-called announcement. Either way, lots of positive news piling up that should pay off sooner or later. Keep adding to your stash, folks.

Yep, shorting at this point is suicide, just don't do it. Recalibrate it and go forward.

Klye is doing a great job and should be commended accordingly about it. Many good thoughts towards him! Very happy about what he's doing.

That's what I thought the OP was trying to speculate on. So, this is where we are atm.

The adoption in these countries is very low so any uptick is gonna figure a 50% or more increase number at this point. Yet, if this increase was pandemic, we'd see 10s or 100s of thousands of increase %s or more in these country's increases in bitcoin adoption. The problem is that even though those that realize what is going on w/ their money supply is checking out bitcoin, it's very low crossing the whole population. Otherwise, it would be: Boom!

Going the making a quick buck route only is possible when the we're at the end of a bear market and you're lucky enough to time it right which is not possible in reality but being disciplined at this point could help. Typically, you're lucky having thought about bitcoin now and getting your stash set at this point.

Answers 1,3 and 4 are decent responses but the rest are garbage. Sending money and leaving the traditional banking services are the best.

Intellectuals have long been glorified as champions of truth and defenders of society’s highest values. But in Washington, they serve as Leviathan‘s Praetorian Guard. Intellectuals are thriving in DC thanks in large part to the ruinous policy advice they proffer.

The District of Columbia has 120 times more political scientists per capita than the rest of the nation. But rather than producing “good governance,” the 3,200 political scientists and legions of other would-be Brain Trusters provide endless excuses to further extend the federal sway. Intellectuals usually come to Washington to help politicians leash other Americans, not to leash the government. And since they presume their preferred policies are better than freedom, intellectuals propel government programs to force their inferiors to “take their medicine.”

Washington think tanks have proliferated at the same time federal policies have become far more intrusive and harebrained. There are now roughly 400 think tanks in the Washington area, some of which are little more than “cash machines for power” for politicians. Clifford May, the president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, commented in 2005: “It is the job of think tanks to create political capital. It is the job of politicians to spend it.” May’s think tank extols politicians who advocate bombing Muslim nations. Journalist Ken Silverstein, in an excellent report last year on think tank corruption, noted, “The Lexington Institute, a Virginia-based think tank, has never met a weapons program it didn’t like. That is not surprising since a good chunk of its funding — about $2.5 million in 2010 — comes from defense giants like Boeing, Lockheed and Northrop Grumman.”

Some think tanks are fronts for political operatives. Jack Abramoff, the most powerful lobbyist in Washington, placed an aging beach lifeguard at the head of American International Center, a think tank he created to funnel money to himself and his favorite causes. The scam was fruitful until Abramoff’s other machinations won him admission to federal prison. Newt Gingrich’s boutique think tank, the Center for Health Transformation, pocketed $37 million from health care corporations and industry groups before going bankrupt in 2012 after Gingrich’s presidential campaign floundered. Gingrich used his op-eds and speeches to tout positions favored by his think tank donors and omitted mentioning who was bankrolling his operation.

More...http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/june/08/the-washington-intellectual-gravy-train/

The families of an anti-Al-Qaeda cleric and a police officer killed in a US drone strike in Yemen in 2012, have filed a lawsuit in Washington, DC, seeking an official apology and acknowledgement that innocent civilians were mistakenly killed.

Faisal Ali Jaber, an engineer, who lost a brother-in-law Salem and his nephew Waleed in a drone strike, has filed the lawsuit. He is asking the District Court to declare the attack by the unmanned aircraft unlawful. The international human rights group Reprieve is giving Ali Jaber assistance.

The plaintiffs said they are seeking to break the secrecy surrounding drones strikes and have the court impose some public accountability for the program.

“Since the awful day when I lost two of my loved ones, my family and I have been asking the US government to admit their error and say sorry. Our pleas has been ignored. No one will publicly admit that an American drone killed Salem and Waleed, even though we all know it. This is unjust,” said Ali Jaber.

Faisal’s brother-in-law Salem Ahmed bin Ali Jaber, was a cleric who had delivered an anti-Al-Qaeda speech just days before the strike. Three young men had driven to the village with the intention of trying to find Salem and asked to speak to him several times. Salem finally agreed to meet with them with Waleed as protection. As the five men talked, four Hellfire missiles killed them, as villagers watched on August 29, 2012 in eastern Yemen.

“The bodies of all five men were blown apart,” according to the complaint. “Salem and Waleed could be identified only be people who knew them well and could recognize body parts – such as distinctive hair on portions of the heads of Salem and Waleed found in the blast area.”

Salem is survived by a widow and seven children and Waleed, 26, had a wife and child.

More...http://rt.com/usa/265885-yemeni-families-sue-drone-strikes/

Similarly,
US to announce plans to deploy more troops and add military base in Iraq

This is what you call: Mission creep...

The Obama administration is planning to send several hundred more troops to Iraq to expand training of Iraqi forces, a move that’s intended to help them retake the provincial capital of Ramadi from the self-described Islamic State.

The plan reportedly involves increasing the number of US training sites in Iraq from four to five by establishing a new military base in Anbar Province. The US would send 400 to 500 additional troops to recruit and train Iraqis – largely Sunni tribal volunteers – to join the fight against IS.
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A formal announcement could come as early as today. Reuters also cites a US official as confirming the additional troop deployment.
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Obama has ruled out sending ground combat forces to Iraq, reports The Associated Press. There are currently about 3,000 US military personnel, including trainers and advisers, in Iraq.

The Times reports that the number of trained and equipped Iraqi tribal fighters in Anbar would need to rise from about 5,500 to as many as 10,000 for them to retake Ramadi. On Monday, Obama urged Iraq's Shiite-led government to allow more of the nation's Sunnis to join the fight.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/terrorism-security/2015/0610/US-to-announce-plans-to-deploy-more-troops-and-add-military-base-in-Iraq

Poll: Jeb Bush now at 21 percent in New Hampshire, ahead of the field by eight points

A leftover from yesterday via Howie Carr and Gravis Marketing. We all knew the great sighing falling-in-line for Bush 8.0 would come eventually. We just didn’t know it would happen this soon.

Nah, I’m just kidding. This is an outlier. Isn’t it?

Carly Fiorina ahead of Chris Christie and Ted Cruz in New Hampshire? C’mon, I … can totally believe that, actually, given the state’s fondness for outsiders and “mavericks.” In fact, for a supposed outlier, the only number in this poll that’s strikingly out of sync with other recent polls of New Hampshire is Jeb’s. He’s fully 10 points higher than he was in Bloomberg’s poll of the state last month. Maybe not coincidentally, the other noticeable gainer is Donald Trump, who was at five points two months ago in a WMUR poll, then at eight points in Bloomberg’s poll in May, and now at 12 points, good for fourth place right behind Scott Walker and Rand Paul. What Jeb and Trump have in common is brand-name recognition: It may be that some New Hampshire Republicans are finally just tuning into the race, are barely familiar with any of the candidates, and are seizing on the names they know when pollsters dial them up to ask who they’re supporting. That’s the only theory I can come up with (apart from the outlier theory) to explain how a guy like Bush, who’s run a dismal non-campaign for the past six months, might be seeing his support in New Hampshire grow regardless.

Speaking of which, riddle me this: What problem with Jeb’s campaign was yesterday’s shake-up at the top supposed to address? As far as I can tell, there’s no problem with the Bush 2016 effort writ large. They’re raising truckloads of cash, they’re touring the early states, they’re doing plenty of interviews, etc. The problem with Bush 2016 is Bush. How does a new campaign manager solve that? Or is this a case, as in sports, where you can’t fire the players when they underperform so you’re forced to fire the manager instead?

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/09/poll-jeb-bush-now-at-21-percent-in-new-hampshire-ahead-of-the-field-by-eight-points/

Bush enjoying the Romney lead in NH of 2012 by the establishment types according to this poll.

Bachelor Lindsey Graham promises a 'rotating first lady'

Unmarried creep Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says that if he becomes president, he will have a “rotating first lady.”

“Well, I’ve got a sister. She could play that role if necessary,” the 59-year-old South Carolinian presidential hopeful told Daily Mail Online in an interview published Tuesday. “I’ve got a lot of friends. We’ll have a rotating first lady,” he added.

His sister, Darline Graham Nordone, resides in South Carolina with her husband and two daughters from previous marriages, suggesting that she would not be able to be in Washington all the time.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/lindsey-graham-rotating-first-lady-bachelor-president-118783.html#ixzz3cb7HIysb

Neocon dude has a problem if he can't nail down another broad being a senior US Senator unless he's putts from the rough. Many of us have long thought this about this warmongering dipshit, nothing against respectable alternative lifers that aren't prone to promoting violence.

The officer(s) involved should be embarrassed but they can sleep easy at night since this didn't involve actual harm besides the fine. However, the community should back these young gals and offer to patronize them in their back yard or some such thing. I can't recommend these young gals going full civil disobedience as they aren't old enough to know better nor take the risk to right this wrong on behalf of the state.

Interesting perspective as you dated yourself from the past. Since there are no questions here but this is more of a statement, I'll just acknowledge it as that and leave it as is.

Roads, education and police/fire/ems can all be payed privately by contractual services outside of the realm of government. However, if those were the bare bones of what government serviced, many folks would be ok w/ that and that would result in severely low taxes rather than what people pay as it is. If you're talking the USA where the spending is outrageous by fairy tale standards, the entitlements and vast offense spending is the bulk of the spending and debt.

So, back to the basics in the US, these can all be payed or contracted at a local level and DC can be sliced w/ a meat cleaver w/o the rest of the crap which could also be done and payed for, in another fashion w/o corruption. As an example: roads can be taken care of by either contracting communally in a private fashion or each person on the block can take care of their share of the road manually; education can be payed for by homeschooling their own kids or pooling them with other like-minded folks in the area; and policing/fire/ems can be payed for per diem, thru insurance or private dispute resolution organizations which is like insurance in another way.

So, governmentally we can do things in a more efficient way or privately things can be dealt with similarly. National, state or local defense can be handled similarly. Welfare can be handled by local charities in a true free market where only the truly disabled would be cared for by charity and the rest would be expected to work in some way for a helping hand.

Rand Paul leads Hillary 44-41 in Ohio, no other republican (except Kasich - present OH Governor) beats her

Kasich is pretty universally popular with Republican voters in the state- 72% approve of the job he's doing to only 17% who disapprove. But he still performs unspectacularly with voters on the right in the primary- among 'very conservative' voters he manages just a tie for third place with Marco Rubio at 12%, behind Ben Carson's 19% and Scott Walker's 17%. But he leads the field among the more centrist ideological groups within the Republican electorate. Among 'somewhat conservative' voters he gets 24%to 14% for Rubio, 11% for Carson, and 10% each for Walker and Rand Paul. And among moderates he ties Jeb Bush for the top spot at 23% with Walker at 11% and Rubio at 10% also in double digits.

Rubio has the highest favorability rating among GOP voters in Ohio, as we have found to be the case many places lately, at 58/16. Ohio makes yet another state where Christie is outwardly disliked by GOP voters- his favorability is 34/44- to put into perspective how poor that is the next least popular Republican we tested- Jeb Bush- is still at +16 at 48/32.

Hillary Clinton remains as dominant as ever on the Democratic side- she polls at 61% to 13% for Bernie Sanders, 7% for Michael Bloomberg, 2% each for Lincoln Chafee and Martin O'Malley, and 1% for Jim Webb.
We threw in Bloomberg because of the fascination of the New York media with a potential bid from him. We found that 1) Bloomberg isn't actually that well known- 54% of primary voters have no opinion about him and 2) he is not that well liked- only 22% of Democrats have a favorable opinion of him to 24% with a negative one.

PPP's new Ohio poll finds that John Kasich would be the first choice of Republican primary voters in his home state- more than a lot of the other GOP hopefuls can say in theirs. Kasich polls at 19% to 13% for Ben Carson and Scott Walker, 12% for Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, 9% for Rand Paul, 6% for Mike Huckabee, 5% for Ted Cruz, and 4% for Chris Christie.

This is the first poll we've conducted since O'Malley and Chafee formally got into the race and their 2% showing suggests neither has gotten much of an initial bump from his announcement. Neither has a positive favorability rating among Democratic primary voters in the state either.

Clinton is polling over 70% with African Americans, over 60% with liberals, women, and seniors, and over 50% with moderates, men, and younger voters. There's no major demographic group within the Democratic electorate she fails to receive majority support from.

The general election match ups in Ohio are generally close with one exception- Kasich leads Clinton 47/40 in a hypothetical contest. Kasich boasts a solid 49/35 approval rating following his resounding reelection victory last year. The key to Kasich's advantage is that 89% of Republicans support him, compared to 75% of Democrats for Clinton.

The only other Republican who Clinton trails in Ohio is Rand Paul at 44/41. She also ties Marco Rubio at 44. She has small advantages over the rest of the GOP field- it's 44/43 over Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and Scott Walker, 45/43 over Jeb Bush, 44/41 over Chris Christie, and 45/42 over Mike Huckabee.

Clinton may not be polling great against the Republicans in Ohio but there's still a huge gap between how she fares and how any other Democrat does in a general election match up. In match ups against Scott Walker, Bloomberg trails 40/32, Sanders 40/30, O'Malley 41/26, Chafee 39/24, and Webb 41/25.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/06/kasich-leads-field-in-ohio.html

Rand Paul: ‘White Kids Don’t Get the Same Justice’ as Minorities

Senator Rand Paul spoke out today on the suicide of 22-year-old Kalief Browder. Browder was 16 years old when he was arrested and was thrown in Rikers for three years without being once convicted of a crime. He was released in 2013 when the charges were dropped.

Paul, who’s recently been very vocal on criminal justice issues (especially racial disparities in arrests and convictions), was in Baltimore last night, and according to Al Jazeera, he spoke at some length about Browder and criminal justice.
Paul said he’s been talking about Browder’s case for a while now, and asked incredulously, “Are we going to let people be raped and murdered and pillaged in a prison because they’re convicted?”
He told the Baltimore audience that he understands the anger that African-Americans have, even invoking racial targeting in Ferguson:
“Am I saying they did nothing wrong and it’s all racism? No. What I am telling you is that white kids don’t get the same justice.”
Paul has spoken in many forums before about minorities being targeted by racially-charged drug laws.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/rand-paul-white-kids-dont-get-the-same-justice-as-minorities/

Rand Paul in Baltimore: Kalief Browder shows why urban communities are angry

It was a familiar story, a regular part of his stump speech, but Rand Paul paused before he told it.

"I've been telling this story for about a year and a half, two years now," the Kentucky senator and presidential candidate told Baltimore County Republicans, who had filled a reception hall west of the city. "It makes me sad. I thought about not telling the story again. But I think this young man's memory should help us to try to change things. He died this weekend. He committed suicide. His name was Kalief Browder. He was a 16-year-old teenager from the Bronx. He was arrested, accused of a crime, and sent to Rikers."

As hundreds of Republicans listened—voters, donors, elected officials—Paul retold the Browder story that had become infamous after a profile in the New Yorker. It was more gruesome than the version he usually told, because he was building to something.

"Are we going to let you be raped and murdered and pillaged before you've been convicted?" Paul asked. "He wasn't even convicted! So when I see people angry and upset, I'm not here to excuse violence in the cities, but I see people angry I see where some of the anger is coming from."

More...http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-10/rand-paul-on-kalief-browder-it-makes-me-sad-

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