This is the Open Thread for March of 2021.
Please leave your tips, announcements, or other things below.
Alt-History: Imagine if the election of 1936 had gone differently…
Cool Car: Tesla certainly makes some really cool cars, even if their market cap feels like it lives in nosebleed territory…
Blown Away: For the first time ever, we can hear what a breeze on Mars sounds like…
He Did It: Nine years ago professional bowler Pete Weber celebrated winning the U.S. Open after fighting with a fan who tried to distract him during the game…
I was listening to 92.3 HD 2 (The Saints Channel) today at work and they mentioned Joseph Smith’s campaign for president. Looking at the Wikipedia article is appears that he ran in 1844 affiliated with the Reform Party (using the Wikipedia terminology).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_1844_presidential_campaign
I am not now and never have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints nor have my parents ever been members.
FBI charges a New Hampshire libertarian group with Bitcoin money laundering: https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/free-keene-leaders-arrested-for-money-laundering-in-fbi-raids-illegal-bitcoin-exchange-alleged/article_bc35a1fa-818c-50c4-a91e-717f6e66b929.html
Six people involved with the libertarian Free Keene group are facing charges — including wire fraud and money laundering — related to an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange that federal prosecutors said processed some $10 million since 2016. …
More details here: https://www.nhpr.org/post/libertarian-activists-including-nobody-arrested-nh-cryptocurrency-related-crimes#stream/0
The accused includes a former gubernatorial candidate and libertarian activist who changed his last name to Freeman; a man with a lengthy criminal record who changed his legal name to Nobody; and a transgender woman who identifies as a Satanist who lost a bid for Cheshire county sheriff last year.
So it seems that actual LP members and candidates are among the accused.
Good to see this pushback from the Cedar Rapids Gazette against limiting voter choices!
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/staff-columnist/iowa-election-reform-bill-third-party-ballot-access-bryan-jack-holder-libertarian-20210228
With that YT link in the post, I’m REALLY close to 500 Subs.
If u like the stuff on IPR, u may like this channel
https://youtube.com/c/EPluribusUnumYT
Today is Dr. Don Grundmann’s 69th birthday. Happy Birthday Don!