Glad to hear they all made it out safely, I can't imagine being on a plane that had any sort of engine failure. It could be a traumatic experience considering the alternatives to a safe landing.

Yeah, they have been militarizing police for quite a while now in terms of training and lately they've been given military grade weaponry to use against the citizenry plus you have the DHS with billions of hollow point ammunition. The domestic threat far outpaces anything they can stir up abroad.

There were some republicans that were discussing impeachment and then there were others that knew it was a dead on arrival idea. Even though they control the Congress, you still need 2/3 of the Senate to convict and remove, which they don't have. Furthermore, my main reason to not impeach other than the obvious is that it will just rile certain dormant elements of his base and make martyr status out of Obama.

In case anyone didn't know, Obama purged the military ranks of any General or Admiral that wasn't in lock step with him. And, he invents executive power he doesn't have and bypasses Congress on certain legislative measures including the recent executive amnesty. It would be sickening if it wasn't the norm at this point.

Kelley Paul gets ready for her media blizzard

Kelley Ashby Paul was dressed for the weather as she trudged through the last storm of the Washington, D.C., winter to meet a reporter. Fuzzy woolen hat, complete with earflaps and pompom, on her head. Knee-high waterproof boots with faux fur trim on her feet. Puffy white parka zipped in between.

Her husband, Rand, meanwhile, was home, still dry and warm, in the couple’s tiny Capitol Hill apartment. The junior senator from Kentucky and presumed presidential candidate had nowhere to be on this weekday morning because the federal government, in fact the entire city, was shut down. (No, not by the Tea Party; by the snow.) That Kelley was out in the storm made metaphorical sense, because she isn’t really “of” D.C., and unlike Rand, she doesn’t officially work for the government.

Home, for her, is still Bowling Green, Ky., where she was raising her three sons as a stay-at-home wife of a small-town ophthalmologist in the 20 years before Rand ran for office. Where she lived full-time until this year, when she finally took the next step in the transformation and enrolled her youngest in a D.C. private school. Now her tight circle of hometown friends takes care of her house — dealing, for instance, with the time a bird got inside and “pooped all over the bathroom” and picking her up at the airport when she manages to fly back once a month or so.

Politics, like the clergy and the military, is one of the few fields where it’s assumed that the spouse — particularly the wife — will take on part of the job. It is an anachronism from a time when all wives were defined by the work of their husbands, and it’s an increasingly tough role to navigate now that the political spotlight is brighter and the political pace is faster.

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I used to really like him a lot but that has been steadily eroding as time has went by. The venue he announced at plus the mandatory attendance policy there of which required all students to show up seemed to be quite a shady deception tactic to make it look like he had all these people turn out to support him when they had no choice but to show up. Plus, it's starting to seem like the media is really trying to play up some feud between Cruz and Rand thus creating a ground war among the similar bases of supporters. He either knew it would come to this and is complicit in splitting the anti-establishment vote further or he's an opportunist that is merely trying to get his name out there which is what many of the long shots do to sell books or other related things.

At some point when the new ETF and exchanges start opening up for business and as wealthy onlookers and hedge funds start coming on board, the amount of new money that comes in won't just come in in a small and steady fashion. There'll be massive green candles coming and the price jumps will be huge. And, that's just the diagnosis w/o the remittances, e-commerce, precious metals holders coming in. It's most likely gonna blow the doors off this thing and be an incomprehensible rise that will make history going forward. People are so down in the dumps right now that they either forget what happens during bull markets or are new and can't conceive of such a situation happening.

i love the D& D reference, it is the most fun I've seen lately. I still don't know what they placed in his burger: jalopenos? or just went on with mustard and ketchup?

Stay away from this place, we don't need your outside opinion in this, Mr. Vod. Lots of good things can happen while you're in bed.

Regulation can be state sponsored or from the market itself. Typically, the big shots lobby the govt to get their needs met and that has been the root of all of our problems. But when the Underwriter's Labrotaries,the private market clerk, clarifies their position - markets take a look because of their reputation. Rep runs the free market in case the new folks have no idea.

And approximately .2 nowadays so this is a testament to the newer folks and what this coin can and likely will do going forward in terms of growth. Consider what buying 50 btc was back then and what it is now, go from there in the procedings.

Genius statement, I would say that you have no problem at the moment. I've never had a dub issue on blockchain and, in fact, they have seemed like a wonderful bed and breakfast that serves nothing but steak and eggs, plus prime rib for dinner.

True but paypal will get the drift once it's obvious that the kingmakers are buying and holding, not necessarily this intermediate period of who-knows-what going on. I'm not sure that paypal thinks that adoption leads to more people using them to buy/spend bitcoin, so this is a big problem relying on them in this field. There's lots of info going out, via VCs, that other outlets are better to be used to do your biz in bitcoin w/o the aforementioned. Who needs them at this point? Just sayin

If you look at any other polls including presidential polls at this point you'll see that most are unknowledgable at most and ignorant at best. There's almost no attention being payed to bitcoin or the presidential election or primary at this point.

So basically, the question is asking a bunch of dumbies and yes, I'm from the states and know how things go here. You don't poll derelicts and expect any intelligent responses. I'll stop here for now.

Yep, this latest dump is just clearing out the weaklings and rolling out the red carpet for the hogs to make their way in as the new trading mechanisms are unveiled to make life easier for these folks. I'm of the mind that when this push takes off it will blow everyone's mind. There may be another fart in the wind but the moon is on the horizon. And, when that manifests itself in just a small way, people will be regretful that they didn't buy and/or stock up more buys around this neck of the woods. The bears are out to FUD and scare but this is a good test to thin the herd and separate the men from the boys in terms of who holds and buys more bitcoin. Sit on your hands at your own risk. Last piece of advice: you're insane if you're on the sidelines and don't have at least 10% of your savings in bitcoin, and I'm being ever so ultra-conservative w/ that assessment. The more frisky should up the ante like I have. High risk, high reward.

Interesting, 3rd quarter starting after a week from today. Good to see the hogs getting trading engines to help them feel secure and legit to play in the btc game. This allows them to put both feet in rather than just a toe. Gemini and the ETF will boost this market further.

BAC, since your the guardian ad litem of sorts, are you making the payments or what is going on with that? Is there a pecking order as to where the preference of the payments are going or how is this being meted out? The shareholder link shows who's owed what but perhaps there can be another spreadsheet identifying where the repayment funds are going during each repayment session. Or, just a recap as to whom the .3 btc just went to and by what % the payments were made, perhaps a tx id or plural to prove the payout? thx

It's been a long time but is there a list of the shareholders or a proportion of the total shares to the potential selling price?

Yeah, once they have more trusted trading engines the biggies are gonna really step in the pool with both feet, instead of just dipping a toe in.

Canada’s electronic surveillance agency has secretly developed an arsenal of cyberweapons capable of stealing data and destroying adversaries’ infrastructure, according to newly revealed classified documents.

Communications Security Establishment, or CSE, has also covertly hacked into computers across the world to gather intelligence, breaking into networks in Europe, Mexico, the Middle East and North Africa, the documents show.

The revelations, reported Monday by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept, shine a light for the first time on how Canada has adopted aggressive tactics to attack, sabotage and infiltrate targeted computer systems.

The latest disclosures come as the Canadian government debates whether to hand over more powers to its spies to disrupt threats as part of the controversial anti-terrorism law, Bill C-51.

Christopher Parsons, a surveillance expert at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, told CBC News that the new revelations showed that Canada’s computer networks had already been “turned into a battlefield without any Canadian being asked: Should it be done? How should it be done?”

According to documents obtained by The Intercept from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, CSE has a wide range of powerful tools to perform “computer network exploitation” and “computer network attack” operations. These involve hacking into networks to either gather intelligence or to damage adversaries’ infrastructure, potentially including electricity, transportation or banking systems. The most well-known example of a state-sponsored “attack” operation involved the use of Stuxnet, a computer worm that was reportedly developed by the United States and Israel to sabotage Iranian nuclear facilities.

One document from CSE, dated from 2011, outlines the range of methods the Canadian agency has at its disposal as part of a “cyber activity spectrum” to both defend against hacking attacks and to perpetrate them. CSE says in the document that it can “disable adversary infrastructure,” “control adversary infrastructure,” or “destroy adversary infrastructure” using the attack techniques. It can also insert malware “implants” on computers to steal data.

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https://www.hackread.com/new-snowden-documents-expose-canadas-hidden-cyber-warfare-strength/

Ted Cruz recruits from the Iowa Liberty Movement

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, whose path to the Republican nomination requires a breakout performance in Iowa, has quickly recruited more than a dozen party leaders for his statewide campaign, who are to be announced in coming days, according to people told of the choices.


Most significantly, Mr. Cruz has peeled away three leaders of the Libertarian faction in the state, known as the Liberty movement, who are the base of Senator Rand Paul’s support in Iowa. They included state Senator Jason Shultz, who endorsed Representative Ron Paul for president in 2012; and two former members of the state Republican Party’s central committee, Joel Kurtinitis and Chad Steenhoek.


“The assumption of lot of people has been that the Liberty movement would roll over and support Senator Paul,’’ Mr. Kurtinitis said. “We’re a movement probably more than anything that’s noted for critical thinking and a rebellious streak.’’

He said Mr. Cruz, who announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday, appealed to three important constituencies in Iowa: evangelical Christians, Libertarians and Tea Party activists. His wife, Kelsey Kurtinitis, a board member of Personhood Iowa, an antiabortion group, is also joining the Cruz campaign, as one of 15 or so volunteer leaders who will most likely take the title of state co-chairman and co-chairwomen, Mr. Kurtinitis said.

Mr. Cruz, as of this week, had only a single paid staff member in Iowa, Bryan M. English, a former aide to Representative Steve King. Mr. English was hastily adding dates to the calendar for Mr. Cruz to appear in Iowa, where he has visited less often than other 2016 hopefuls and has done almost no retail campaigning.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/03/24/cruz-recruits-some-rand-paul-supporters-in-iowa/?_r=2