When I play roulette I usually bet on the 2nd and 3rd groups of twelve so your winning chances are two-thirds rather than just 50-50 when betting on black or red. I'd also add a bet on the 19-36 as this would be a way to double down on winning in the higher numbers. I prefer craps though.

Lotsa fapping coming ahead over the next few years and I'm going to enjoy every bit of it. Lord knows we've had our fair share of misery over the last two years so this next wave up is gonna be good for the soul.

Didn't one of the bitcoin big shots give FEE 10k coins during the last peak? That said, I've heard Tucker on Free Talk Live many times over the last few years talk about how wonderful bitcoin is and how it changed his life. I love listening to him speak cause he has that super intellectual tone to his voice.

The owner of thread should be happy with us even tho he's gone. Good times are ahead and many more beyond that.

I heard about bitcoin back in 2011 because a talk show I listened to had blockchain.info as an advertiser at the time. I heard about bitcoin so often and didn't really have any understanding of it that I started to hate it. Then a year or so later after they had talked more about it over time it really started to click for me and that's when I knew I had to start accumulating.

There's big money in selling the markup and shipping of precious metals and usually the clientele of these metals are of a certain ideology that only these are real money. I have metals but have way more money in bitcoin as it's more than just a currency to me.

Getting a decent discount for paying in bitcoin is the only reason that I'd pay with it over fiat/credit cards. Either cut me a break for the benefits of using bitcoin or I'll stick you w/ the 3% transaction fee of the plastic, simple as that.

While I tend to agree w/ you, Obama isn't in charge and is merely a puppet for those that are. First of all, this country has grown weary of wars and especially using our boys and girls as the ground game when it didn't work so well in Iraq and Afghanistan. This ineptness in his leadership is what is driving the people to want a stronger president to lead a tough America once again. It's all by design and this is why I hope Rand Paul starts catching on so his foreign policy of non-interventionism will win the day and make America safer once again and not blowing heaps of money on this crap.

Rand Paul super PAC launches ad buy ahead of Iowa, N.H.

A Rand Paul super PAC, hoping to give the struggling candidate a burst of momentum, is launching what it describes as its opening offensive ahead of the Iowa and New Hampshire nominating contests.

The group, America’s Liberty PAC, is purchasing $500,000 in radio airtime in order to boost the Kentucky senator. America’s Liberty PAC will run five separate flights of advertisements – each flight lasts about 10 days – with the first one beginning this weekend.

The first flight, it says, will consist of two ads. One, focusing on Paul’s faith, will air on Christian-focused stations. Religious voters are expected to play an especially central role in Iowa.

Another, which highlights Paul’s plan to combat the Islamic State, will air on news, sports, country and other stations. “In the face of deadly attacks by ISIS, who will keep us safe? While politicians in both parties push liberal immigration policies that put us at risk, Paul is looking to strengthen our security,” says the ad. (While the commercial does not explicitly mention Paul’s Republican rival Marco Rubio, Paul has accused Rubio of embracing a weak-on-immigration approach that leaves the country vulnerable.)

In total, America’s Liberty PAC plans to produce 10 radio ads to air over the five flights. The group’s strategists say the radio commercials are the “first salvo” in a final march to the Iowa and New Hampshire contests. It also plans to roll out TV ads, direct mail and a digital program in the coming weeks.

...http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/rand-paul-super-pac-ads-iowa-new-hampshire-216213#ixzz3sXCV0OKC

Rand in 5th in Iowa at 5% leading Bush

Donald Trump gets 25 percent of Iowa likely Republican Caucus participants in a too-close-to- call race with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas who is at 23 percent, double his support from four weeks ago, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Dr. Ben Carson has 18 percent, with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 13 percent.

This compares to the results of an October 22 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University showing Carson at 28 percent, with 20 percent for Trump, Rubio at 13 percent and Cruz at 10 percent.

One thing that hasn't changed is the poor showing for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who goes from 5 percent October 22 to 4 percent today.

Today, Sen. Rand Paul is at 5 percent, with Carly Fiorina at 3 percent. No other candidate tops 2 percent, with 2 percent undecided.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/iowa/release-detail?ReleaseID=2305

KY Governor to challenge Rand Paul for Senate seat

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear plans to announce in early January a run for the United States Senate against Rand Paul. The hope appears to be that his shameless profligacy might draw millions of dollars in leftist donations from around the country.

"Beshear gave us billions in new appropriation-supported debt, billions more in pension debt, signed us up for the Common Core fiasco and ObamaCare so he now wants to put on his diaper and a onesie and go to Washington D.C.," Kentucky Progress publisher David Adams said. "It would be a lot cheaper to let him have a pajama party at the Governor's Mansion this weekend with President Obama, Harry Reid and whoever else he wants to have over."

...http://kyprogress.blogspot.com/2015/11/steve-beshear-to-challenge-rand-paul.html

Emails: CNN Reporter Coordinated With Hillary Aide To Smear Rand Paul During 2013 Benghazi Hearing

A CNN reporter who was recently suspended for two weeks for violating the network’s editorial guidelines showed up in a new trove of State Department emails released on Tuesday in which she appears to have coordinated social media posts with a top Hillary Clinton State Department aide during the former secretary of state’s Jan. 23, 2013 Senate testimony about the Benghazi attacks.

The emails, which were released to the website Gawker, show that Elise Labott, a foreign affairs reporter at CNN, took guidance from Clinton aide Philippe Reines by posting a tweet criticizing Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul for asking Clinton tough questions during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks.

Labott also coordinated with Reines to post a favorable quote from Clinton’s testimony, which she gave just a week before she left office.

In the Reines emails, which are the subject of a Gawker lawsuit against the State Department, Labott appears to pick up on a previous conversation she was having with Reines during the Benghazi hearing, asking him: “are you sure rand paul wasn’t at any hearings?”

Five minutes after sending that email, Labott sent Reines another message sharing what she had tweeted about Paul.

Sen Paul most critical on committee of Clinton, but a little late to the #Benghazi game.Not sure he was at many of the 30 previous briefings
Hours later, Labott and Reines were at it again.

"She was great. well done. I hope you are going to have a big drink tonight,” Labott wrote to Reines, complimenting Clinton’s performance.

Reines followed up that compliment by telling Labott that he had “suggested a good Tweet.”

Labott said that she had not received an email concerning another tweet. Reines wrote back “Pin,” an apparent reference to a private messaging system.

Labott wrote back “will get back to you.” Eleven minutes later she sent an email reading, “done.”...

...http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/25/emails-cnn-reporter-coordinated-with-hillary-aide-to-smear-rand-paul-during-2013-benghazi-hearing/

You can find sigs and whatnot in the services subforum, which will help you as a newb. But also, just get a part/full-time job and stay at your folks place for as long as possible so you can earn enough to buy your stake in coinage and then you'll be all set. This next year's halving could manifest itself the year later so you could potentially have another year or so to work and buy at low prices. However, the price could move significantly before you know it, that's just how things can play out in such a year.

Trollypop (lambcrotch) sighting, can't believe you dignified that with a response. The point remains in a different fashion, if you're young and have working capabilities and smarts, you have a lifetime to recoup losses if it went bust. However, that likelihood is quite rare now so upping bitcoin as a percentage of your port could be safely quite higher. Thanks lamb, I'll keep this one off ignore for 24 hours.

I'm sure Bloomberg will make sure and mention this the next time they bring up bitcoin: a wire transfer is better for terrorists to use than the easily trackable bitcoin. Especially since the hactivists just lynched their bitcoin account and stole damn near 10k coins.

The Paul And Cruz Flat Tax Plans Are Best Tax Proposals

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Which brings us to Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. The two of us helped craft their low-rate flat tax plans.

The plans are similar: Paul's rates are 14.5% on business net sales and wages and salaries. Cruz has a 16% business net sales tax and a 10% wage and salary tax.

These would be the lowest tax rates since the income tax was devised 100 years ago. Both are estimated by the Tax Foundation to grow the economy by a gigantic $2 trillion in extra GDP per year after 10 years.

Both eliminate almost all deductions and special-interest carve-outs. (Against our wishes, they retain the tax write-off for charitable organizations and have family deductions that are too big. But no one's perfect.)

They completely kill the corporate tax, the estate tax and the FICA payroll tax.

Yet conservatives are strangely griping. Economists at the Cato Institute have joined with Larry Kudlow to complain that the business tax is a value-added tax (VAT). Such a dreaded tax, they fear, would be a giant new source of revenue and lead to government gone wild, as has happened in Europe.
That's the last thing we want.


Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-brain-trust/112015-781892-paul-and-cruz-flat-tax-proposals-best-candidate-tax-plans.htm#ixzz3sMILqksk

Paul: ‘Dishonest’ officials using Paris to promote surveillance

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul on Sunday warned that the intelligence community is deceitfully using the terror attacks in Paris to promote its surveillance agenda.

“When you have a fearful time or an angry time, the people are coached into giving up their liberty,” said the Kentucky senator on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Paul has long railed against government surveillance, a topic that has been thrust into the spotlight in the wake of the Paris attacks that killed about 130 people.

Many officials and some lawmakers have argued that the incident has shown the need to keep the much-maligned surveillance programs exposed by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.
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He also noted that France’s surveillance programs are “1,000-fold greater than we have.”

“They still didn’t know anything about this,” Paul added.

“You can keep giving up liberties,” he said, “but in the end I don’t think we’ll end up safer.”

...http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/261051-paul-dishonest-officials-using-paris-to-promote-surveillance

9554 Bitcoin Belonging To ISIL Seized By Hactivists

Kopp Online, a German news website, has just published an article which mentioned that Ghost Security Group hactivists have managed to control a bitcoin address related to ISIL and were able to lock out 9554 bitcoins that were going to be used to spread terror all around the world.

Kopp Online, published an interview with “Anonymous”, a group of hactivists who have declared war against ISIL following France’s attacks. Here is a quote from the article that was written in German:

Jetzt feierte die Hacker-Gruppe Ghost Security Group bereits einen ersten Sieg: Sie sperrte ein Konto des IS mit 9554 Bitcoins.
A great fuzz was created last week in the media, when Anonymous declared war on ISIL and also following NewsBTC’s interview with Ghost Security Group. However, according to the article on Kopp Online, there is no evidence that can prove that GSG really seized 9554 bitcoins from ISIL’s BTC addresses, especially that the website didn’t publish any BTC addresses related to GSG’s attack operation on ISIL.

...http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/11/22/9554-bitcoin-belonging-to-isil-seized-by-hactivists/

Interesting, make my day. Looks decent enough at this point.

[Video] Rand Paul on Face the Nation w/ John Dickerson 11/22/15

Rand talks about the latest terrorist attacks and makes some points about Trump and Rubio and their deficiencies to be COIC.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=80JKte-hrwk