I mined last year and prior but that only did so much for me, so buying ensued over time plus this sig campaign and I've gotten what I think is decent and prosperous for the next rally this summer and beyond. If you're new, don't mine at all cuz it's not gonna pay you back enough in btc, just buy and hold. I can't stress enough how simple and reliable that just buying coins is, you can't go wrong unless you know a thing or two about trading to expand your pouch. If you don't know about trading, just chill and buy your stuff and let it ride. I just wish I believed in this message of operation when I was building mine early on.

Oh, I agree and have made some decent increments of btc by pooping around in the flea market coins in the past. I'm just tired of it at this point and am looking for the bear season to come to an official end. The final slaying should net a fine carcass to lay on with a fine woman that any prominent bull has stashed away on the side.

Rand Paul, Ted Cruz sign pledge not to raise taxes

Rand Paul and Ted Cruz on Friday signed a pledge not to raise raise taxes, becoming the first presidential candidates to do so.

The pledge, drawn up by the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, includes a promise directed to the public to "oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes."

"Senator Paul understands that government should be reformed so that it takes and spends less of the taxpayers' money, and will oppose tax increases that paper over and continue the failures of the past," said Grover Norquist, president of the group and long-time anti-tax crusader. Norquist later issued a similar statement for Cruz, who signed the pledge shortly thereafter.

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The other prominent declared candidate on the Republican side, Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, has yet to sign the pledge.

Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor who is planning a campaign, has said that he will not sign Americans for Tax Reform's pledge, or any other group's pledge.

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More...http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-signs-pledge-not-to-raise-taxes/article/2563571

Rand Paul targets Obama, Jeb Bush in NSA rant

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program is “one of the worst parts of the Obama administration,” a jab not only at the current president but also fellow Republican Jeb Bush.

Paul promised to stop the NSA’s surveillance of Americans in a Twitter rant he launched late Friday and continued into Saturday morning.

“As president, I will immediately end all illegal domestic spying programs,” Paul said in one of about a dozen tweets on the subject.

The NSA’s domestic spying program has come under scrutiny since whistleblower Edward Snowden released classified documents about the agency’s operations.

Paul is making the surveillance a campaign talking point that he hopes will help separate him from the Republican pack.

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More...http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/240066-rand-paul-targets-obama-jeb-bush-in-nsa-rant

Why Ron Paul’s big showing in Nevada may have made it harder for Rand Paul to do the same

Republican presidential politics in Nevada -- a key early-voting state -- have been chaotic in recent years, thanks in large part to former congressman and two-time GOP White House contender Ron Paul. Now his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is running for the office -- and the state GOP may be making moves to guarantee the Paul family no longer finds Nevada to be lucky terrain.

Nevada Republicans long generally picked a presidential favorite via primaries. In 2008, they held caucuses instead. Many Ron Paul voters showed up that day -- but even more showed up at the state party's convention months later. Paul's supporters who flooded the gathering, looking to elect their candidate's followers to represent the state at the national GOP convention. The state didn't reschedule another convention, instead opting to choose delegates via conference call.

Paul's supporters pulled a repeat performance in 2012. Even though Mitt Romney overwhelmingly won the Nevada caucuses, Paul -- who finished third -- was able to game the system at the convention, and almost all of the state's delegates to the national GOP convention in Tampa. There, a number of his supporters walked out of the proceedings after a decision to replace some of Paul's delegates.

The 2012 caucuses were "a total disaster the way it was handled. It was an embarrassment for the state," Nevada GOP chair Michael McDonald told The Washington Examiner Friday.

Read more if you aren't hip to how things went down back in '08 and '12...http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/04/25/why-ron-pauls-big-showing-in-nevada-may-have-made-it-harder-for-rand-paul-to-do-the-same/

As you can tell, this isn't exactly a friendly piece but these establishment types never saw it coming where their caucus could be outdone by pure grassroots activism and that's when they played dirty.

Why Rand Paul Gets So Much Bad Press

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Thankfully, Paul has recently started calling out and exposing the media for being particularly hard on him, and not on other candidates. Their “lovefest” as he calls it, with Hillary Clinton, is unfair considering how much they hound him and other GOP candidates on their views.

And boy does the media love covering Clinton! Reporters are so desperate to get coverage of her that they resorted to running after her van like children after an ice cream truck. There were also so many of them at her campaign opening that they even outnumbered the voters! Although she has also recently received much negative coverage, the media can’t seem to cover her enough. Where is all of this media love for Rand Paul?

Rand Paul, and the other candidates outside of the “normal realm” are being targeted because their ideas are new and different, and that scares people. When it comes to politics, big businesses want a candidate that will continue doing the things that have helped them rake in the money, and won’t ever accept a candidate that aims to change this. Even though these ideas are often in the best interest of the consumer, big businesses, and their money, have a lot more pull than the average American consumer.

At one time journalists upheld their duty to deliver objective stories backed by unbiased facts, but those days are long gone. While media darlings like the Clintons and Jeb Bush get loads of coverage, both positive and negative, Rand Paul can’t catch a break. The reporters that aren’t fond of him need to get over their egos, think about what will help Americans as a whole, and work to once again go back to real, unbiased journalistic practices.
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More...http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/why-rand-paul-gets-so-much-bad-press/

“The second wave of Bitcoin companies, like ItBit, aims to have institutional investors as clients, and to create trust. With trust of course comes regulation, as without regulation it's very hard to create this trust. Once regulators come out with proper and pragmatic regulation, we will see an upsurge [in Bitcoin] no doubt.”

Bullish statement that is leaning on the upcoming bitlicense that will be unveiled in May. Once this license comes out there's so many things in this market that are going to flourish and it's right around the corner. Just think about how far we've come since early 2014. Everything has been primed.

This is would be a great intro to bitcoin that you could make the status of your facebook page and get all your friends involved.

My guess is that the everyday type person won't realize they should have bitcoin in their portfolios until the next rally is already in action. By then they'll be lucky enough to muster up funds for a few coins and that's about it.

That's a pretty funny and accurate statement for a lot of what we see across some of the alt communities these days. The interesting factor lies in that so many people get sucked into so many sideshows when all they have to do is play it smart and just lock up their bitcoins and continue putting a portion of their paychecks into it going forward. That is the most simplest thing any new person can do besides following these alts down their rabbit holes and thinking they've done their research on the next best thing to bitcoin. So many lessons have to be learned.

"Once you have paired NetKi with your new or existing HolyTransaction account, you have the option of using one single name for every wallet address you own due to HolyTransaction supporting ten different currencies in one wallet. You can accept payments in the form of multiple digital currencies to that name. Your wallet name will correspond to your username on the HolyTransaction platform."

Yeah, should alleviate some of the initial pain that some new folks must face. Frankly, coinbase's current formula to create a wallet and then buy coins seems simple enough.

Coinbase has always worked fine for me and never had any front-end issues with my bank over using Coinbase. The only downside is that it takes 5 biz days to get your coinage. Buying/selling coins doesn't come any easier.

Rand Paul skips hearing on State funding, hits Clinton on Benghazi

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Funding for the State Department, including requests for funds "that will allow us to improve the safety and security of U.S. citizens, government employees and facilities overseas," according to Heather Higginbottom, deputy secretary of state for management and resources, who testified on Wednesday.

Instead of attending his committee hearing, the 2016 Republican presidential candidate spent his time blasting Clinton as "oblivious" to and denying requests for additional security at the Benghazi consulate. The compound was later attacked by terrorists who killed several diplomats there, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stephens.

"The Benghazi thing is going to be very difficult for (Clinton) to dig out of that hole because people want their president to be someone who will defend American missions, diplomatic missions around the world," Paul, who was in Washington Wednesday, told WVLK radio that morning.


More...http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/22/politics/rand-paul-benghazi-committee-hearing/

Rand Paul Is Right to Demand Reporters Ask Democrats About Late-Term Abortions

It was sort of inevitable that on his first day of campaigning as an announced candidate for president earlier this month, Rand Paul would be asked whether he supported a ban on abortions in cases of rape or incest.

Reporters have been asking Republican candidates that question ever since 2012, when the Missouri Republican Senate candidate said he supported such a ban and added that pregnancies were unlikely in cases of "legitimate rape."


But Paul's reply wasn't what the reporter expected. "Why don't we ask the (Democratic National Committee) is it OK to kill a seven-pound baby in the uterus? You go back and go ask (DNC Chair) Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she's OK with killing a seven-pound baby that's just not born yet.

"Ask her when life begins, and ask Debbie when she's willing to protect life. When you get an answer from Debbie, come back to me."

More...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/24/rand_paul_is_right_to_demand_reporters_ask_democrats_about_late-term_abortions_126380.html

Or when they were involved in 'sending' money down there after the last big earthquake, the money ends up disappearing or some facility that was supposed to offer plenty of jobs to Haitians ends up only doing a fraction of it. Put someone like her in charge of this govt and forget about any fiscal smarts or restraint. There would have to be a padlock on the hangars that house air force one if these folks get in control.

Dude is either a retarded greedy bastard that is flat out stupid, making moves w/ inside knowledge or using play money.

Check out galdur's thread on China and its new AIIB in the politics subforum, it has pretty decent analysis about how this new Bank is attempting to fade away the IMF and the World Bank's influence which is dominated by western interests. Even the UK and Israel joined their launch despite being US allies - which created diplomatic issues w/ the US. That said, there's articles there talking about how China's credit markets (iirc) needing an overhaul. Also, the power of the US is peeking and likely diminishing which will bring inflation back to the US and 86 their citizens' purchasing power. The next five years will likely make the last 5 years look like the roaring twenties.

The OP is right about normal weighted people eating healthy and then they wouldn't become overweight or worse. Tho, someone who is obese needs plenty of exercise to go along w/ a better diet to slim down. Many have to have that gastric bypass surgery to shrink their stomachs which allows the patient to feel fuller, faster and thus not overeating anymore.

The crooks and their progressive minions have put out the official defense talking points about the Foundation for their drones to swallow up: "But The Clinton Foundation helps feed starving children!" but they can't get around the fact that they're taking money from places that have terrible records in terms of how they treat women.

^Yeah, this was so over the top and since I can't remember seeing such an ad on this level I just had to post for sheer ridiculousness of it.