Bitcoin high drama

There is clearly supposed to be a comma after the word "exchanges" in the first sentence here:

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=162909

Scrabble fans know the word "gox" well as one of the points-rich three-letter words. Hmmmm, Mt. Gox "was, for a time, the largest-volume Bitcoin exchange" (Wikipedia).

Don't you love it? "Central banks across the globe have begun to crackdown [sic] on the cryptocurrency, instructing financial institutions not to accept bitcoins because they have no legal status or monetary-backing, like state-backed currencies." HAH, like the fiat currency of any country today is lawful or monetary-backed, whatever that means? But wait, it gets better:

"The Russian Central Bank issued a ban on the virtual currency as they see it as a tool for criminals and terrorists to launder money without leaving a trace, as transactions are anonymous. On February 7, the Prosecutor’s General ruled bitcoin cannot be used by Russian citizens or companies." So much for the new Russia under Putin, where there is supposedly a great thaw going on in terms of people's basic liberties!

Russians can't even touch Bitcoin, is that it? And because of "terr'ists", just like here? The fedgov there needs to study up on underground economics. In these days of fiat (i.e. thin-air) everything, black markets are sometimes the cornerstone of an economy, as pot sales were in (and probably still are) California before the very recent pseudo-semi-de-criminalization of the weed.

Governments are, they say, ordained by God. They could show it forth a great deal better by going after real malefactors instead of playing endless Alice-in-Wonderland games on citizens over things like pot use. Today's politicians make Marie Antoinette look like the second Great Lawgiver after Moses.

Food for thought from an actual U.S. Congressman -- remarkable:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-bogus-drug-war-1/why-is-marijuana-a-schedule-1-drug.html

Legalization is, IMHO, the second worst solution to the drug mess, the first being keeping the status quo. That is to say unless the ameriKan people are going to go back to Godly living and thinking overall, it's pick your poison on a variety of major issues like this, with no actual progress in sight. Wish the news were better!

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Mencken's Ghost zings sports mania JUST right!

H.L. Mencken would be proud of this commentator, whoever he may really be:

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/150010-2014-02-05-would-a-true-conservative-watch-the-super-bowl.htm
Would a true conservative watch the Super Bowl?

I thought I was the only one who would ever refuse to spectate on some spectacle on principle, i.e. the grounds that the trend it represents is extremely unhealthy for us all. Athlete and team worship are bad enough, but he's 100% on the mark about the crucial need for sober citizen vigilance over every aspect of everything, how it's being done, by whom, why, how financed, etc...... sports not least!

Doing things the Mencken way would mean such things as (1) people spending infinitely more time doing things than watching them; (2) virtually no mass crass commercialism; citizens rooting for and abetting the most moral side of any great moral conflict, not grooving and betting on and romanticizing sports gangs based on having lived in such and such city themselves or attended this or that school.

In short, if we're going to do this "life" thing right, we'd focus on what really matters every day, and our pleasures would be constructive and ennobling, not brutal and vicarious. As far as I'm concerned that cancels the Olympics, and I suspect the first Mencken was no great fan of them either.

He was of course a major societal skeptic and watchdog for the first half of the twentieth century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

People today love his ironic wit but not its profound meaning or implications for our whole mad, lost society.

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So much IRS news, all of it horrible

There's an old saying -- "when the people fear the government, there's tyranny. When the government fears the people, there's freedom." What to call it when the government has thoroughly terrorized its own populace and many others, and shows mortal dread of its constituency at the same time?

http://benswann.com/irs-needs-ar-15s-for-standoff-capabilities/
IRS Needs AR-15′s For “Standoff Capabilities”?

I'd love to point out a few basics to the "Service":

1. The taxing of wages is unlawful. You are doing it because the country is in hock to its creditors since 1933, but that doesn't give you legitimacy. It simply signalizes a totally ruined, perverted country -- yes, yours! Your country is coming to an end, strictly because of the policies of your agency and the Dr. Frankenstein government that gave you illegitimate birth.

2. No taxation of citizens was ever supposed to be coercive and violent. When it is, it's a sign there's something drastically wrong -- a plague on us all, including yourselves. Government and its creations are supposed to treat the people with unvarying respect and deference unless one of us has committed active, real harm on someone.

3. The notion that you don't have to answer a Congressman's questions because he's not on the IRS oversight committee is shocking. You are not an entity unto yourselves -- Congress created you and is supposed to be your master.

4. Your behavior is vicious, hateful, lawless, arrogant, heartless, satanic, communistic, and SICK. It is emblematic of the vile, rude, insolent, selfish spirit pervading society today. You are not only the mirror of a denatured citizenry but also one of its causes. 

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A fun right-to-travel side issue

Judges and lawmakers are always whistling past the dark in relation to our rights. Travel rights go through many phases with them. They put up red-light cameras to keep people honest and responsible, but then found ticket revenues tanked in response! Some communities therefore took away the cameras. Courts will ban radar detectors, and then in some areas find the machines were similarly actually an overall good and change their minds back again.

Here a fed judge who's liberated another travel right -- excitingly!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/05/federal-judge-rules-drivers-allowed-to-warn-other-motorists-speed-traps/
Federal judge rules drivers allowed to flash headlights to warn of speed traps

Prone as I am to cynicism, I think this ruling is just great and entirely right in intent, as is the help the ACLU gave. The judge supports our rights -- that's the bottom line as far as one can tell. First Amendment meets Privileges and Immunities Clause!

The defendant's last name is Elli, the case hinged in Ellisville. Wonder if there's a connection, Southern-style.

Travel rights are avidly aired at PN meetings and in PN egroups. Come on in, the water's fine!

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Rockwell calls for a second Beatles revolution

The Beatles were such a mixed bag. Four disparate personalities and musical worlds in one, true, but their impact on the world was a two-edged sword. On the one hand they brought us some truly beautiful, fun music and ideas -- on the other, the whole thing was so diabolically subversive it will be a miracle if humanity ever recovers from it. That goes for all the popular music of the period -- the Stones, the Dead, the Beach Boys the Mamas and the Papas, I could develop severe typist's cramp expounding on any along these lines. 

It is notable in any case that one of the world's topmost freedom warriors finds them notable. Mr. Whitehead was an early associate of Dr. Clarkson's and is one of the very few professionals out there carrying forth his mission of using the legal system for the good of the people. Perhaps you've heard his outstanding Freedom Under Fire radio mini-show? It's been freely aired in both regions where I've lived, though I don't happen to know if it's still in production.

www.lewrockwell.com/2014/02/john-w-whitehead/50-years-after-the-beatles/
50 Years After the Beatles: Isn’t It Time for Another Political & Cultural Revolution?

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Nancy Pelosi experiences "liberal" "PROGRESSIVE" rage

And it's yummy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMjhiqIUnMc
Nancy Pelosi Gets Heckled - "You Have Made Your Point" 

Now, enjoy this "liberal" "progressive" TV personality giving her the third degree -- well, maybe the second:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2i9-0PL1o
Highlights from The Blithering Idiot

How about that? This narcissistic bloodsucking politician doesn't seem to know the bill of rights at all! Wikipedia calls her the highest-ranking female politician in American history -- God help us. Note that with socialists like her, the truth is no object -- you just plow on through whatever dialog you don't like with more feelgood BS. And there's no such thing as a bad or undesirable tax increase.

The foolproof old refrain for both gliberal RepubliCONs and gliberal Dummacrats: "I don't remember"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tfkz7-UPDo
Nancy Pelosi: 'I Don't Remember Saying that Everybody in the Country Would Have a Lower Premium' 

How do you like her logic? Obamacare was never alleged to bring everybody a lower premium -- because lots of people are uninsured, and zero is the lowest number in the alphabet. Ta-daaaaaa -- they get a higher premium now, too!!!

Isb't it CUTE and SCHOOLGIRLISH how she in her passion for sensitivity leaves the last consonant off of the end of a sentence of clause -- have you noticed this charming aspect of the Gabber?

Don't you love callow, knock-kneed schoolgirls with eyebrows that WHOOP innocently up like Betty Boop? Her eyebrows are so meaningful, because they proclaim her innocence and charming naivety.

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Certain people do nothing but look for ways to torture us

And you'll always know when you're up against an actual communist by what they want from the IRS.

http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/01/chuck-schumer-defeat-tea-party-using-irs-means-disenfranchise/#rOOBpI4GrV6LyKJo.99
Chuck Schumer: Defeat Tea Party By Using IRS And Other Means To Disenfranchise ThemRead more at

This goon is also a leading gun grabber. We talked about various secession movements at the PN meeting on Saturday -- I move that Zoo York start the procession!

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