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I'm not sure what to think about this imminent $317 forecast but it's nice too see that we've pretty much recovered from that 5k fart on Finex.
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Mark Cuban is the type of guy that should be legit on this whole heap of cards. Can I get some help?
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Yes, it's time to buy and hold or just hold if you got the goods at this point. The down side is minute and the upside is immense. Holy crap, this bull market that is unveiling itself in recent times is sweet.
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You don't have a national ID card or citizen card in the USA?
All states are different, every state sends a driver's license to all people that want to drive and pay for the privilege which should be a right aka no license/permit yada yada.. AFAIK, there's no national ID card that has to be carried by any citizen/resident of any state right now anywhere in the USA. Point being, according to the article there was a push from the mid 2000s to get a nat'l id trending across the country by establishment republicans but has been rebuffed in many states, including NH. NH, being the freedom vehicle that it is, has shut down this National ID stroke into the future and doesn't want anything to do with it. It takes the most advanced activists to shoot something down and in NH it comes down to the Free State Project being the vehicle that drives libertarians to come there to straighten out the state. In addition to this, they shot down the seatbelt law, via an $8 million bribe via the Feds, back in 2010. Is that realistic in you life? If not, consider https://freestateproject.org/ |
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Thanks but I'm all set on pushing the envelope in a freaking balloon of all things. If you're in the market to spend that kind of money to breach the atmosphere on the way out, you might as well just convert to bitcoin and go the Virgin route.
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I can't comprehend having any errors whatsoever when on a plane. I'm so glad there were only 24 non-threatening injuries over the alternative. Considering the weather, it probably would've been smart to just ground the entire fleet.
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Quinnipiac March 2015 Walker, Bush Lead (Rand 5th) REPUBLICANS/REPUBLICAN LEANERS...................... Wht POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Tea BrnAgn CONSERVATIVE Mod/ Tot Party Evang Very Smwht Lib Men Wom Bush 16% 5% 15% 10% 19% 19% 14% 18% Carson 7 10 9 10 7 5 7 7 Christie 8 4 5 3 9 12 8 7 Cruz 6 12 7 8 6 5 7 6 Graham 1 - - 1 1 - - 1 Huckabee 8 14 12 10 7 7 7 9 Jindal 2 1 2 1 1 5 1 3 Kasich 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 Paul 6 9 4 5 6 6 8 3 Fart Perry 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 Rubio 5 4 4 3 5 6 5 5 Santorum 2 - - 1 2 2 1 2 Walker 18 26 18 34 15 5 22 14 More... http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2172If you're not satisfied with this then plan on what you're going to do to help the situation. It's early of course.
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Rand was going to be on NBC's Parks and Rec but backed out at the last minuteSen. Rand Paul was apparently set to appear on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” for its recent episode filmed in Washington, but one of the show’s co-creators says the Kentucky Republican backed out at the last minute. Responding to a question about which dream guests he had hoped to land over the course of the show’s seven-season run, Michael Schur told HitFix that the show’s plot and timeline also prevented the show’s producers from asking a certain Democratic presidential front-runner to appear. “Hillary Clinton, but that became impossible once we jumped to 2017, because we would’ve had to have answered a question that she probably wouldn’t have wanted us to even pose at this point,” Schur said. A February episode featured appearances from a bipartisan crowd of politicos, including Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Cory Booker of New Jersey; GOP Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah and John McCain of Arizona; and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. But at least one senator turned down the chance to rub elbows with Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler). “We also wanted Rand Paul to be in the Washington episode, and he agreed, but then bailed at the eleventh hour. I think he thought we were making fun of him or something, which we were not, at all,” Schur said, adding that it was meant to be a flattering comparison to the show’s Ron Swanson character (Nick Offerman). ”I get the sense that maybe interpreting writing and humor is not his strong suit,” he said. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/rand-paul-hillary-clinton-parks-and-recreation-115785.htmlWhat a nasty and passive-agressive way to voice their displeasure at this. Surely they should have understood that since he's planning to run for president, he's not offered absolute freedom in where he chooses to appear in the media?
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I'm glad to see this being flushed out of the system once and for all. Never knew about this scam until recently but I certainly wish people will learn like we all have and allow this entire market to mature from the depths of bullcrap. I can't believe these people fell for this crap-show on this sideshow of crypto.
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I bet the Draper guy gets his share and wouldn't be surprised if he came out on top for the whole slate of them. He's probably got some healthy competition which is great as there's many competing interests to scoop this slot of coins on this upswing. Good times ahead even if there's a yo-yo setting in the mean time.
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For some reason, I didn't know Draper was of billionaire status and no wonder that his purchase at one of the earlier auctions at a much higher price was no big deal. From his comments here, he went to town at this auction and likely made sure he got all the goods. And if that is the case, he likely won't dump but scooped them all up because he's foreseeing and epic turn-around that will flip the entire script on everyone - bullish/moon.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Port Authority officials said a runway had been plowed shortly before a Delta flight skidded and crashed through a fence as it landed Thursday morning at LaGuardia Airport Thursday morning. It happened just after 11 a.m. on Runway 13 as Delta Flight 1086 was coming in from Atlanta. The plane was landing at about 100 mph when it skidded out of control. While it was snowing at the time, two other planes had landed safely in the snow earlier, CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported. Photos and video from the scene showed the MD88 aircraft sitting in the snow with its nose through a fence near the water. Passengers could be seen exiting the plane off the wing and trudging through the snow. Video and more... http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/03/05/plane-skids-off-runway-at-laguardia-airport/ |
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It's been 25 years since Maria Gonzales left her family's four-acre farm in Mexico to make a life in the United States. Even as she worked and raised a family in Los Angeles, she dreamed of one day returning to that small plot of land in Jalisco where her father planted corn and wildflowers grew. But after her parents died, she got word that a stranger had taken hold of the land. Local officials told relatives that her family no longer had a claim to it. Gonzales, 56, who is living in the U.S. without permission, didn't want to risk going back to Mexico to resolve the dispute herself. "They're taking advantage because we can't be there," said her husband, Ezequiel Becerril, 56, who is also in the country illegally. Last week, Gonzales took the first step to reclaim the land with the help of a Mexican government program that assists immigrants in the U.S. who are having problems with their property back home. Large numbers of Mexicans have land rights because of a series of agrarian reforms enacted after the Mexican Revolution, when many peasants were granted privileges to farm parcels of communal land known as ejidos. More... http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-land-rights-20150305-story.html |
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What a week for Mark Cuban. Fresh off being tapped for the role of the president alongside Ann Coulter in the upcoming blockbuster “Sharknado 3,” the brash billionaire’s bearish forecast has landed him a spot in MarketWatch’s call of the day. “If we thought it was stupid to invest in public Internet websites that had no chance of succeeding back then, it’s worse today,” he wrote in a blog post detailing the risks facing the current crop of angel investors and crowdfunders (more on that below). He’s not alone in his fear-mongering. While retail investors are all-in, equity-wise, as are corporations, prophets of doom are counting the moments until the cards fall in the public markets, as well. The thing is, they’ve been counting them for years now. Check out the chart of the day for how long it’s been since we’ve felt a serious pullback. Spoiler alert: almost three years. More... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mark-cuban-this-tech-bubble-is-far-worse-than-back-in-2000-2015-03-05 |
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North Korea media calls attack on U.S. ambassador 'deserved punishment'   SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's official KCNA news agency called Thursday's knife attack on the U.S. ambassador to South Korea "deserved punishment" for U.S. military exercises with South Korea, calling the assault "the knife of justice". Ambassador Mark Lippert suffered deep wounds to his face and arm, requiring surgery, after a South Korean nationalist slashed him with a fruit knife at a breakfast forum in Seoul. The injuries were not life-threatening and Lippert was in stable condition. He is expected to be in the hospital for three or four days. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/north-korea-media-calls-attack-u-ambassador-deserved-094431321.html
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President Barack Obama’s November amnesty will give $1.7 billion in taxpayers’ cash to illegal immigrants, according to a congressional study. The news emerged two days after top Republican leaders overcame GOP opposition to a 2015 budget bill that allows Obama to fund his unpopular amnesty for roughly 5 million illegals. “The program could cost taxpayers $1.7 billion over 10 years, almost all of it in the first five years,” according to a report by the McClatchy Washington Bureau. The rebates are allowed by the IRS’ interpretation of existing laws governing the Earned Income Tax Credit program, which was designed to subsidize low-wage employment in the United States. http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/05/obama-amnesty-to-grant-1-7-billion-in-taxpayer-cash-to-illegals/ |
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Austin, Texas – In a bold piece of legislation, Rep. David Simpson (R) filed a bill that would delete any mention of marijuana from state law. It would completely deregulate it and treat it as any common crop.
In a press release, Simpson said he supported regulating marijuana like the state regulates “tomatoes, jalapeños or coffee.”
“Everything that God made is good, even marijuana” said state Rep. Simpson. “The conservative thought is that government doesn’t need to fix something that God made good.”A recent poll by Pew Research has shown that 63 percent of Republicans under the age of 34 support legalization of marijuana (vs. 77 percent of Democrats of the same age.) This information indicates that both major parties are coming around to the realization that the drug war has done significant damage to the social fabric of U.S. society, and a systemic change is necessary. According to the Houston Chronicle, Simpson said that may of his Republican colleagues were in support of repealing prohibition and also considered the War on Drugs to be an “abysmal failure.” Currently, the U.S. has more non-violent drug offenders incarcerated than any other country on earth. A staggering 25 percent of all people incarcerated worldwide, are being held in a U.S. jail or prison. This fact becomes even more disturbing when combined with the knowledge that the U.S. represents only 5 percent of the world population. In a break from the approach of taxation and regulation, taken in all of the numerous other states that have reformed their marijuana laws, the Texas bill would offer no regulation or taxation. Simpson told KETK that he would like to “reframe the current marijuana discussion” by focusing on prohibition repeal in terms of conservative values such as deregulation and less government. The issue was hotly contested at the Texas Republican Party convention in Fort Worth. Numerous delegates supported legalization but ultimately voted to oppose legalization in the official party platform. .... More... http://thefreethoughtproject.com/texas-bill-treat-marijuana-common-crop-100-deregulated-untaxed/#ODUOQfCVWqQ783vU.99 |
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New Hampshire liberty activists like Katherine Albrecht, the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, the New Hampshire Libertarian Party, and the New Hampshire Constitution Party started the national anti-REAL ID movement. The movement is still going strong, even this week in New Hampshire. The hook REAL ID uses in seeking to dragoon states into compliance is the threat that TSA agents will refuse IDs from non-complying states at our nation’s airports. The threat is an empty one. Consistently over years, every time a DHS-created compliance deadline has come around, state leaders with spines have backed the Department of Homeland Security down. I detailed the years-long saga of pushed-back deadlines last year in the Cato Policy Analysis, “REAL ID: A State-by-State Update.”
DHS has stopped publishing deadline changes in the Federal Register–perhaps the endless retreats were getting embarrassing–and now it has simply said on its website that TSA enforcement will begin sometime in 2016. But it’s evidently back-channeling threats to state officials. Those folks–unaware that REAL ID doesn’t work, and disinterested in the allocation of state and federal power–are lobbying their state legislatures to get on board with the national ID program.
New Hampshire is one state where this has occurred. Worries about New Hampshirites ability to travel by air recently caused the Department of Public Safety (which houses New Hampshire’ motor vehicle bureau) to seek legislation that would move the state toward REAL ID compliance.
New Hampshire is special because it’s where the first volley in the REAL ID rebellion was thrown. In 2006, after a bill to reject REAL ID got a head of steam in New Hampshire, states across the country rejected the national ID law.
In testimony I delivered to the New Hampshire Senate Transportation Committee yesterday, I detailed this history, telling the story of how DHS has repeatedly backed off its threat to inconvenience travelers when states have rejected this unfunded federal surveillance mandate. The circumstances today are unchanged: If the TSA starts refusing IDs, the TSA, the DHS, and their supporters in Congress will take the blame. The DHS knows this, which is why they always back down before push comes to shove. States should have no fear of TSA interfering with their residents’ travels because of REAL ID.
Rejecting REAL ID is good security, too. If the nation were to spend billions of dollars on REAL ID compliance, undercutting all our privacy and autonomy a little more by putting us into a national identity system, we’d get nothing remotely comparable in security gains. Proponents of this national ID program have never shown how it would provide cost-effective security.
My testimony may have helped. The strong presence of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance showed the committee that this was not a business-as-usual bill. And I think really excellent, persuasive testimony from New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Devon Chafee carried the day. The committee voted unanimously to reject the REAL ID compliance bill. Once they knew that the DHS is brandishing empty threats to inconvenience travelers at TSA checkpoints, they ended their state’s brief flirtation with REAL ID compliance.
This is information legislators across the country need. A number of states could emulate New Hampshire’s rejection of REAL ID. There are still many places where legislators labor under the impression that REAL ID imposes obligations on them, including South Dakota, California , New Mexico , Hawaii , Idaho, Oklahoma , Arizona , Rhode Island , Illinois, Iowa, New York, and Florida. http://www.cato.org/blog/new-hampshire-ends-brief-flirtation-national-id-compliance |
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The battlefield of the future recently came a step closer, as a Lockheed Martin laser weapon took out a truck in a field test. The 30-kW fiber laser weapon system was fired at a small truck mounted on a test platform, the laser beam disabled the running engine and drivetrain within seconds. The recent field test used Lockheed's Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) ground-based prototype, single-mode laser, which is based on the company's Area Defense Anti-Munitions (ADAM) laser weapon system. It incorporates the 30-kW Accelerated Laser Demonstration Initiative (ALADIN) fiber laser developed by Lockheed. ATHENA uses a process that the company calls Spectrum Beam Combining. Though laser weapons have been successfully tested in the past, Lockheed says that even though such systems could acquire, track, and destroy targets, they lack practicality as a tactical weapon because the inefficient nature of the lasers resulted in them being too large, needing too much power, and being difficult to cool. More... http://www.gizmag.com/lockheed-martin-laser-truck/36377/ |
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Et tu, Rick? Gov. Perry Has Own Private Email TrailWhile Rick Perry has joined Republicans casting stones at Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account while she was secretary of state, it seems the former governor is not without sin. Perry was among the first potential 2016 presidential candidates to chime in on revelations that Clinton conducted government business entirely on a personal email account. On Tuesday morning, Perry said the findings add to a “pattern ... of non-transparency” surrounding Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president in 2016. “It’s an ethical issue that’s going to have to be addressed,” Perry said during an interview on Fox News, tying the issue to other revelations about theClinton Foundation takingmoney from foreign countries while she was the United States’ top diplomat. However, Perry is no stranger to using a personal email account to discuss state business, according to two lawmakers familiar with email exchanges involving the governor that surfaced two years ago. The extent to which Perry used his personal account over the years in unclear, but legislators and open-government advocates said it seriously undercuts his criticism of Clinton. “In reviewing non-confidential documents related to the UT Board of Regents investigation and reviewing public testimony by Regent [Brenda] Pejovich of the UT Board of Regents, it’s clear to me based on that review that then-Gov. Perry was using a private email account to communicate with members of the Board of Regents,” said state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, who sits on a special House panel on transparency in state government. http://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/04/perry-faces-transparency-questions-after-clinton-r/Oops
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