News-Free Vacation

Have you ever gone the weekend without paying the least attention to the news? Have you ever gone on vacation and not watched the evening news, read a paper, or checked the news feed on your phone even once? The news of the world still happened while you didn't read, listen to, or check it and not knowing the news during these short times likely didn't affect your life negatively at all. In fact, your weekend or vacation was better, it was more enjoyable because your consciousness wasn't impacted by negativity that you have no control over and can do nothing about. You were able to live in the moment of your weekend or vacation with your loved ones and enjoy some quality time.

For example, what would you have done (mid-weekend) if you knew about the fire in Paris? What action would you have taken had you known about the kidnapping of the Algerian ambassador? The fiery argument in Congress would have had an effect on your mood and your psyche but other than that...nothing.

Now imagine taking this news-free weekend and extending it to one month or six months or even indefinitely. Imagine the vacation for your brain, mind and soul. Imagine the improvement in your mood and outlook and possibly even your health!

And not to worry, if you need to know something it will get to you if it is so important. Friends, relatives, or Google will somehow let you know what you need to know. But other than that, life is much better without news, my friends. You can worry about the things that truly impact your life and family, things happening in your neighborhood, at your school or church, in your town. These are the areas where you can have an impact, where you can act and react in love.

Try the news-free vacation (include Twitter and Facebook feeds as well because they are full of "news" you don't need to know) and see if you don't feel better. Not only will you feel better, but you will have more time to do things in your life that you enjoy. Carpe diem!

When a new century or millenium actually begins

 

New centuries, new milleniums...

Once and for all, follow the logic back to day 1.

A century is equal to 100 years, no more or less. Let's work it out below...

year 0 (day 1 to day 365) is 1st year of that century
year 1 (day 366 to day 730) is 2nd year of that century
year 2 is the 3rd year of that century
year 9 is the 10th year of that century
year 10 is the 11th year of that century
year 50 is the 51st year of that century
year 90 is the 91st year of that century
year 99 is the 100th year of that century.

This means that at the completion of the 99th "labeled" year the century (100 years) has been fulfilled and completed and the next year is the beginning of the new century. That is, the moment the year turns to 100 is the beginning of the new century (2nd). In the same vein, the moment that 2000 began was the beginning of a new century and a new millenium (not the year 2001 as some people believe).

year 100 is the 101st year
year 1000 is the 1001st year
year 2000 is the 2001st year
year 2020 is the 2021st year

The new decade starts at the beginning of the n0 year
The new century starts at the beginning of the n00 year
The new millenium starts at the beginning of the n000 year

Hopefully this ends the debate as to when decades, centuries and milleniums begin.

Happy 21st century!

Bitcoin Since 2015 Chart

 

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If anyone is worried about the price of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies in this current bearish atmosphere let this chart reassure you about Bitcoin price direction. The chart looks the same for many other cryptocurrencies as well. Don't let the FUD get you down. The chart removes the intervening highs (volatility) to emphasize price direction. Bitcoin (after rising 18,000 percent since 2015) is still sitting pretty and still works as a longer term investment (not investment advice).

 

And here's Ethereum!

 

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Prices from coinmarketcap.com

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Cryptocurrency Price vs. Usefulness

Bitcoin ($56,000 on 4/7/2021) is an asset more than it is a currency, though it is a currency too, it's just that its high fees and slow transaction times limit its use as a currency (for instance, you wouldn't want to buy coffee with it, but you'd not hesitate to buy a Tesla with it). Because it is an asset and viewed by more and more people as a safe haven asset, it makes sense that its price would be high and track higher (due to limited supply). But if you look at most other cryptocurrencies you'll see that they were not created to be investments, they were created to be useable currencies for one function or another. BAT is a currency used by the Brave browser, LBRY coins are used on the video streaming site LBRY and Odysee, Filecoin is used in the Filecoin distributed storage ecosystem, and there are many more examples. 

Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Monero, Nano, and Digibyte are cryptocurrencies which are meant to enable cheap and fast transactions person to person, they are not intended as investment vehicles and do not need to be priced at hundreds of dollars per coin to work well. As an example, look at Digibyte which is $0.08 per coin today and functions well as a person to person payment option. 

Monero will function just as well as Digibyte as a payment option but the price of one Monero is $267 per coin today. The higher price is a function of the relative scarcity of the coin and the increased amount of usage which Monero has. But, the bottom line is that it will cost you about the same to send $20 with either coin, almost nothing, and transact just as quickly. So as far as usability is concerned, it doesn't matter what the price of a cryptocurrency is, you can still get 20 bucks worth of whatever coin you want to use and send it to your friends.

My point is, don't disregard the usability of a cryptocurrency based on low price and don't give too much regard to a cryptocurrency's usefulness based on a high price. 

 

Check out: The Essential Guide to Bitcoin Mining: A Cryptocurrency Tutorial

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Baseball shoots itself in foot.

And to think I was 5 minutes away from subscribing to MLB Season Pass for 2021. Now it's no baseball at all for 2021.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/former-president-trump-comments-major-league-baseball-pulling-all

Bitcoin = Lambo

 

 

Bitcoin is a Lambo with a 4-cylinder engine. It looks good in my garage, it may hold its value or increase in value, but I'm not going to race it or even drive it. 

 

#increasetheblocksize 🧡🧡🧡🧡

 

How Does Bitcoin Network Difficulty Affect Mining Profits?

Bitcoin network difficulty exists to make it more difficult to solve a block on the Bitcoin network so that the rate of block solving stays at around 10 minutes per block. But network difficulty doesn't just make it more difficult just for you, it makes it more difficult for everyone equally over the network. Over time rising difficulty has had the effect of obsoleting many generations of Bitcoin mining machines. The reason for this obsolescence is not that the machines no longer work but that they become much too expensive to run in terms of energy costs per Bitcoin retrieved. If you had free energy, then any Bitcoin miner can contribute shares to a pool and rake in some free Bitcoin, but not many people have access to free energy.

Bitcoin network difficulty also has the effect, when solo mining, of making it nearly impossible for older Bitcoin mining machines to ever solve a Bitcoin block except in a lottery-like fashion where 1-in-a-billion may do so. Even for the latest generation Bitcoin miners, solo mining a Bitcoin block is difficult because of the hundreds of thousands of late model Bitcoin mining machines competing at the same time to solve a block. But if you hope to solve a block while solo mining for Bitcoin you had better have the latest machines with the latest chips or you are just playing the lottery.

Bitcoin network difficulty affects pool mining a little bit differently. When you are mining in a pool, your Bitcoin mining machines never (!) have to solve a block to get paid, they just have to contribute shares to the mining that is going on at the pool. The more shares your miner contributes, the more share of the reward you get when someone in the mining pool solves the block. So to look at it simplistically, if there are 100 miners in the pool and they are all mining at the same rate, each miner will get paid the same amount when one of the miners solves a block. The network difficulty is not going to lower your share or the payout as long as someone in the pool can still solve a block. An increased network difficulty will make it more difficult to solve a block, yes, but it is more difficult for everyone at EVERY mining pool. Again, this favors (or biases) Bitcoin block production towards the newest, fastest Bitcoin miners. So, if you have a pool with 10,000 terahash of mining power and they are all Antminer S9s and you have a pool with 10,000 terahash of Antminer S19s, the pool with the S19s is going to solve most of the blocks because those are the latest/fastest miners. You can check blockchair.com and see which mining pools are solving the most blocks and assume that they are composed of the latest machines. If you want more frequent payouts you could sign up to mine with that pool. More frequent payouts will probaby result in smaller payouts. More hashpower and more miners on a pool result in smaller payouts.

So in conclusion, Bitcoin network difficulty will result in less chances of solving a block when solo mining but have little effect when you are mining in a pool since everyone is subject to the mining difficulty increase. Also, don't mine at a pool where all the miners are using older equipment because they will find blocks much less frequently.

Happy mining, happy HODLing.

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Rush Passes February 17, 2021

Rush Limbaugh has passed on February 17, 2021 from lung cancer. In the past he had been an avid smoker of cigarettes and cigars, and though he had quit the cigarettes some years ago, he still had the occasional cigar until shortly before his cancer diagnosis. He had been having chemotherapy, which had extended his time with us by many months and for which his listeners are grateful. He was 70 years old.

Thank you, Rush Limbaugh for your words of wisdom over the years and for being a guiding light to me and many others in the conservative movement. You were indeed the voice of conservatism and the right for many years. You will be truly and sorely missed here on Earth but you will be welcomed with much love into your next phase of life. 

 

President Trump's Web Presence

If you want to see a real president's Whitehouse website check out this archived version of the Trump administration's Whitehouse website. It will remind you of his accomplishments and has many pictures and videos as well.

 

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/

The Truth About the COVID-19 Vaccine, Featuring Dr. Simone Gold, of America's Frontline Doctors

The Truth About the Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine, 

Featuring Dr. Simone Gold, of America's Frontline Doctors

 

This video is well worth the time it takes to watch it. The doctor presents plenty of facts, raises questions and especially questions whether healthy women who ever want to have children should take this experimental vaccine due to possible effects on the placenta and whether otherwise healthy individuals want to expose themselves to the potential of a cytokine storm* should they be exposed to COVID-19 after having this experimental vaccine.

*A cytokine storm, also called hypercytokinemia, is a physiological reaction in humans and other animals in which the innate immune system causes an uncontrolled and excessive release of pro-inflammatory signaling molecules called cytokines. Normally, cytokines are part of the body's immune response to infection, but their sudden release in large quantities can cause multisystem organ failure and death. (Wikipedia)

 

 

https://rumble.com/vd3aur-dr-simone-gold-the-truth-about-the-covid-19-vaccine.html 

  

Do you want to fly without being forced to take an experimental vaccine? Do you want to go to your job without being forced to take an experimental vaccine?
Help stop forced experimental vaccines. These are not time-tested flu or measles vaccines. They are still experimental. Sign the petition below.

 

stopmedicaldiscrimination.org 

Hate for President Trump Fails to Convict

On Saturday, February 13, 2021, the United States Senate did not find enough votes to convict President Trump of the alleged charge against him in the farcical impeachment trial which accused him of causing rioters to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. 66 votes "for" would have been required to convict. 

Despite the fact that in this second impeachment there was again no evidence that President Trump did anything wrong, 7 Republicans, 48 Democrats and 2 Independents voted, not based on evidence, but on party affiliation, hate for Trump, or delusion. Forget the fact that the impeachment of a former president is unconstitutional by itself, but these 57 hooligans debased their offices, debased the U.S. Senate, and destroyed the representative trust placed in them by the citizenry of this country by voting to convict someone of wrongdoing when the evidence suggested otherwise. This impeachment was simply founded in hate for a man who was successful in his job where they and others in his position have failed constantly and repeatedly.

Question: Guilty or Not Guilty (Article of Impeachment Against "Former" President Donald John Trump )
Vote Date: February 13, 2021, 03:39 PM

For future reference, I will list here those Senators who voted to convict in the hopes that voters will remember these names and never allow them near the Senate again. 

Mitt Romney of Utah
Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
Ben Sasse Nebraska
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Susan Collins of Maine
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Richard Burr of North Carolina

Trusty RINOs Vote for Impeachment Trial to Move Forward

It is no surprise that all the Democrats would vote the way they did since they are used to acting without regard to the U.S. Constitution, but joining in the disregard for the Constitution were the usual RINO, weak-kneed, anti-patriot, anti-conservative, anti-Trump Republicans who also voted with the Dems that a Senate impeachment trial should move forward. An impeachment which is meant to remove a sitting office-holder from office. Sort of like firing someone from a job that they already quit. But "Let's heal the country."

 

Question: On the Motion (Is Former President Donald John Trump Subject to a Court of Impeachment for Acts Committed While President?)  Vote Date: February 9, 2021, 05:01 PM

 

As if we need any reminder about who these fake Senate Republicans (or fake conservatives) are, I hope that the people listed here will not be forgotten and will be primaried out of office on their next run. 

Susan Collins of Maine 

Bill Cassidy of Louisiana

Joe Manchin of West Virginia (a Dem who pretends to be conservative)

Mitt Romney of Utah and/or Massachusetts

Ben Sasse of Nebraska

Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

RINO = Republican in name only, in case you didn't know

Stolen Elections Have Consequences

 

Central American Caravan of Migrants 2018

Coming soon to a border near you.

Supreme Court Must Not Allow Impeachment Trial

The Supreme Court of the United States needs to step out and say that impeaching a former president (a private citizen) is unconstitutional and put a stop to this constitutional erosion that is taking place. It is their constitutional duty to do this. Additionally, betrayer Mitch McConnell and every other Senator (of any party) should also know that it is unconstitutional and should say so if they care about the U.S. Constitution which they took an oath to preserve and protect.

Unfortunately, the swamp is pervasive in D.C., and the actors there don't mind eroding the Constitution if it can hurt President Trump.

List of Anti-Liberty Companies

The following is a list of corporations who have de-platformed President Trump and many other conservatives or Trump's supporters. Many of these companies have said they won't support candidates who questioned the fraudulent election results. HSBC has stated that you may be debanked if you don't wear a mask in their bank. Remember these companies when you are about to make a purchase and choose a nonbiased company when possible. You and I can grow this list together! Please help by commenting below with the names of other Companies who have shown their political liberalism and/or their intolerance of free speech and liberty.

 

AirBnB

Amazon (anti-free speech vs. Parler)

American Express

Apple

Bank of America

Banks United (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Bed, Bath & Beyond

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Coca Cola (requires law firms who work for it to have certain racial makeup; employee training asks employees to be less white - i.e., racism)

Comcast 

Deutsche Bank (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Disney (fired Gina Carano for a truthful social media post)

Gina Carano

Facebook (anti-free speech, cancelled President Trump's and other conservative accounts)

GoDaddy

Google (influences search algorithm to be pro-Democrat)

Hallmark

HSBC

Instagram (anti-free speech)

Kohls

Loews Hotels

Mailchimp

Marriott

MasterCard

Morgan Stanley

PGA (cancelled President Trump's golf course from having a PGA event)

Professional Bank (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Reddit

Signature Bank (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Simon & Schuster (cancelled Senator Josh Hawley book)

Snapchat 

Spotify

Stripe (cancelled President Trump's accounts)

Square

Twitter (muzzled and cancelled President Trump's accounts)

WhatsApp

YouTube (anti-free speech)

Updated 2/22/2021

List of Republicans Who Have Betrayed MAGA

The following is a list of Republicans who did not side with President Trump for election integrity or who have subsequent to January 6 "stabbed" President Trump in the back. Remember these names when the next election for them arrives or they ask you to buy their book or watch their movie. They will not be welcome in the new Patriot Party (should there be one). You and I can grow this list together! Please help by commenting below with the names of other Republicans who have undercut President Trump and give a source for their betrayal (words or deed) and we will add them to this list. Thanks!

Jaime Herrera Beutler (congresswoman, voted to impeach)

Anthony Gonzalez (congressman, voted to impeach)

John Katko (congressman, voted to impeach)

Adam Kinzinger (congressman, voted to impeach)

Peter Meijer (congressman, voted to impeach)

Dan Newhouse (congressman, voted to impeach)

Tom Rice (congressman, voted to impeach)

Fred Upton (congressman, voted to impeach)

David Valdao (congressman, voted to impeach)   

Senator Mitch McConnell

Senator John Thune

Senator Romney
Senator Mike Lee
Senator Lindsey Graham
Liz Cheney (congresswoman, voted to impeach)
Megan McCain (irrelevant)
VP Mike Pence
ex-senator Kelly Loeffler 

ex-senator David Perdue 

Governor Brian Kemp
Senator Tom Cotton

Congressman Dan Crenshaw
Ben Sasse
Nicki Halley
Senator Lisa Murkowski
ex-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Senator Pat Toomey
ex-Governor Chris Christie
ex-Governor Mike Huckabee 

Senator Marco Rubio

Kevin McCarthy

 

Updated 1/14/2021

Just 7 U.S. Senators Cared About Election Integrity

Senator Hawley, Montana, Senator Hyde-Smith, Missouri, Senator Kennedy, Louisiana, Senator Tuberville, Alabama, Senator Cruz, Texas, and Senator Marshall, Kansas were the only United States senators willing to object to the electors from Arizona on January 6, 2021, even though those electors were certified by Arizona based on fraudulent votes. Every other Republican U.S. senator stabbed President Trump in the back and squashed election integrity. Senator Lummis, Wyoming was added to the vote on Pennsylvania electors.

A big thanks to these senators for fighting for election integrity. You will be welcome in the Patriot Party.

 

A Government Complicit

 

• The United States Legislative branch (Congress; Republicans and Democrats) has punted when presented with clear election fraud. 
• State legislatures had their chance and punted when presented with clear election fraud. Now they want a do-over, but it is too late, at least regarding the 2020 presidential election.
  
• The U.S. Judicial branch (Supreme Court) punted when presented with clear election fraud.
• State supreme courts and lower courts punted when presented with clear election fraud.
• The U.S. Executive branch in the form of the Justice department and FBI has punted when presented with election fraud. 

There has been a concerted effort to ignore the election fraud of the 2020 election by Republicans (most of them) and of course by Democrats (who benefited from or performed the fraud) and the news media. It seems that the entire government (except for some brave individuals) is set on ignoring the election fraud, either to be rid of President Trump or to begin initiating the socialist agenda, global warming agenda, and great reset agenda. There appears to be no interest by Washington DC politicians in ensuring the integrity of elections in the United States. That being said, many many millions, perhaps 80 million people will not have faith in the vote going forward. That leaves patriots with few options. 

1. Don't vote. This would result in increased oppression for conservatives and patriots. But voting is compromised.

2. Continue to vote Republican as if nothing happened for more of the same. Any Republican who did not vote to object to the fraudulent electors should be voted out of office, no matter how good they are on other issues (that is when we can trust the vote again).

3. Create a Patriot party. This is not a quick fix but certainly satisfying.

4. Actually have an insurrection. (Not recommending this, just saying it is an option. It is not even a good option because it doesn't address the root cause of the problem. It is also not a love thy neighbor-type option.) 

5. Leverage as much real estate of the Constitution as it can provide to crowbar fixes to the recent lawlessness of the Left. (lawsuits, impeachments, recalls, etc.)

6. Once some justice has been issued and unconstitutional laws and activity addressed, conservatives need to take back education in the United States because this is where the tide of liberalism/socialism/marxism is coming from today.

One action step to start with is that articles of impeachment must be drawn up and sponsored by many U.S. representatives and U.S. senators. On day one of the Biden administration he must be impeached (the articles of impeachment presented). The House and Senate members should be badgered every day until this happens.

#impeachBiden #illegitimateBiden

#declassify

#PatriotParty

#defundRepublicanParty

#prosecuteDemocrats

Bitcoin Moons Based on Solid Fundamentals

 

Bitcoin currently sits at about $39,666 (for one Bitcoin) at 12:30 pm EST on January 7, 2020. The all-time highs are happening every day (even every hour) recently. None of the crypto prognosticators predicted so much moon so fast. I do believe that the present bull-run for Bitcoin is supported by fundamentals which are 

1. institutional investment, 
2. economic uncertainty (extreme U.S. government debt, extreme dollar printing) so that Bitcoin is viewed as a safe harbor, 
3. limited supply.

However, most other cryptocurrencies which have seen a rise on Bitcoin's coat-tails as well do not have the same fundamentals supporting them and if one wants to apply the labels of "irrational exuberance" or "bubble" to them, the labels would be more appropriate than to Bitcoin. Actually some of the larger market cap altcoins like Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and one or two others have some institutional investment in them as well, so their gains may be sustainable and credible, but if you're seeing lower market cap coins making huge gains, sell on the highs because those altcoins are less likely to hold any recent gains because there aren't any supporting fundamentals, in most cases, to justify large price gains. (Of course you should keep/hold any coin which you believe in, I'm just saying for investment purposes most altcoins will not keep up with the Bitcoin price increases.)

Bitcoin always has price pullbacks and that should be expected, but the trend is always going to be up until we get closer to the last minted/mined Bitcoin in the 2100s.

Check out: The Essential Guide to Bitcoin Mining: A Cryptocurrency Tutorial

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