It's impossible for Bitcoin to fail at this point.

If everyone in the world stopped using it right now it was still a successful experiment. That's all it was started as anyway.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Describing a nation "in a full-blown spiritual crisis," leading Republicans on Friday vowed to fight against abortion rights and protect the role of faith in public life as they courted religious conservatives with an eye on the 2016 presidential contest.

"I will stand up for unborn children as long as I'm privileged to be in office," Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul declared while addressing the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group led by longtime Christian activist Ralph Reed hosting its annual conference in Washington.

"America is in a full-blown spiritual crisis," the tea party favorite continued. "What America needs is a revival."

Paul led a parade of ambitious Republicans on a Friday speaking program — including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum — that featured aggressive defenses of social conservative priorities, including opposition to abortion, gay marriage and funding for Planned Parenthood. The gathering highlights the delicate balancing act Republican leaders face as they work to bridge divisions within the party and improve the GOP's image.

Organizers said more than 1,000 evangelical Christian leaders were attending the conference, designed to mobilize religious conservative voters in advance of the upcoming midterm elections and the 2016 presidential contest. While polls suggest that social conservatives are losing their fight against gay marriage, Republican officials across the political spectrum concede that evangelical Christian voters continue to play a critical role in Republican politics.

"You can ignore them, but you do so at your own peril," said Republican operative Hogan Gidley, who worked for Santorum and for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee during his 2008 campaign for the presidential nomination.

I didn't follow in '11/'12 after Ron dropped (actually, I followed and participated in the Libertarian Party until they nominated Barr over Ruwart). If you asked me in early-mid '12, though, I may've said McCain was running against Obama. What kind of libertarian ideals do you think the Kochs have? Selective tax breaks?

Paul led a parade of ambitious Republicans on a Friday speaking program — including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum — that featured aggressive defenses of social conservative priorities, including opposition to abortion, gay marriage and funding for Planned Parenthood. The gathering highlights the delicate balancing act Republican leaders face as they work to bridge divisions within the party and improve the GOP's image.

Kochs are arguably libertarians, but I'd disagree. Maybe they were at some point, like Alan Greenspan allegedly was. There's a pretty decent and comical book going over almost all the libertarian factions - "Radicals for Capitalism." It covers everyone from the Kochs to Ayn, to my personal favorite, Robert Anton Wilson. It obviously has some libertarian bias, but it's a fun, detailed book no matter your political orientation. If I didn't lose the book in a warehouse I lived in for a while, I'd offer to ship it to you at no charge.

I'd take you up on the bet, but I'm financially strapped at the moment. How about reverse bragging rights based on the party which wins the '16 GE? I'll be sure to remind you when I win either way.

I'd argue Rand's biggest opponent in 2016, especially if he gets to the GE, is going to be the Kochtopus association, which is about as popular as Dick Cheney (at least in MI, where pretty much the only TV political ads have been bashing Terri Land for months over her alleged Koch connections). Democrats, though, I really doubt have any chance of a '16 pres. victory unless maybe they do a Hail Mary with someone like Warren. A good part of Rand winning the GOP primary, I think, will be reaching out to Dems and suggesting they should switch parties in undemocratic states where you need to "pre-affiliate" yourself with a party to vote in their primary, while the chance of this happening greatly increases if traditional Dem affiliates buy the premise premise that Dems have bleak '16 odds and they need to settle with a lesser of evils within the GOP. It's going to be a very interesting year, I think.

Cap the number of users and get rid of all the Newbies with their shitposts instead. I can understand capping the posts a little, but this is pretty drastic. I guess we need another pay-per-post deal to come along and offer some competition. I blame Ritz. This is all his fault for dropping out  .

This also reduced the max payout to 0.48 for Hero Members.

Well, the title was also changed from "Earn up to 2.4 BTC/Month by Posting"

Check the OP. I thought he was trolling at first but seems not.


That's a drastic cut back. No idea why he didn't do an update post to tell us all of this.

Yes, put your faith in the system.  See how far it gets you.



The trillion dollar health industry cares for you so much.  Without your suffering and demise, they wouldn't be trillionaires!

It depends on the country indeed. I don't know about Bolivia, but not in all countries the banks are the most powerful;
 

Thank you.  "False beliefs" - I do not believe in negativity, only love, only truth.  Nor do I experience auditory or visual hallucinations, confused or unclear thinking, inactivity, reduced social engagement or emotional expression.  I recognize what is real, and what is real a good part of population fails to see, for we have been brainwashed with negativity and delusions since youth.

I was diagnosed with it by an ignorant, corrupt doctor that didn't give a damn about his patients and only AFTER he said I could leave.  I had bags in hand ready to leave and he said "Oh wait, you have to take this 'medicine' first" and I was held down by 8 people and molested by a needle.  Those 'antipsychotics' make you way more psychotic then before you take them, they literally damage your brain.

The last time I was in a psych ward, again for doing nothing to anybody but using my free speech, I was not diagnosed as schizophrenic.  It just goes to show that A) we do not have free speech, and B) psychiatry has no scientific basis, it is subjective solely to the discretion of the practitioners.  There is not any evidence that psychiatric drugs have ever helped, let alone cure, patients from their 'illness'.

The nazi's did the same thing during WWII, wake up people.

Banks are not countries. Banks are not states.

Bolivia did not ban bitcoins. Bolivia's banks did.

Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, etc.  are not warning against using bitcoins. Their banks are.



Saying that a country bans bitcoins when their main banks ban them is like saying that a country has banned Whoppers because McDonalds in that country has banned all Whopper sales in their restaurants.


News alert, banks do not transfer bitcoins. Banks do not hold bitcoins in their accounts. Banning their use in their banks is meaningless.