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Limited entries on this blog for now as we can’t get online much of the time

We are told that there are so many people working from home using WI-fi resources that providers can’t meet the demand in our area. Most schools here are virtual adding to the WI-fi overload.

Report: Hezbollah’s hoarded fertilizer blew up Beirut.They planned to use it against Israel in a'Nuclear' Style Attack

A massive explosion devastated Beirut, killing at least 100 and injuring thousands. Lebanese officials said the blast came from a 2750 ton stockpile of ammonium nitrate that was stored in the port.

Hezbollah, the Iran backed terrorist organization that has taken over Lebanon, has a history of stockpiling the chemical in different European locations.

Hezbollah kept three metric tons of ammonium nitrate, the explosive thought to be behind the mega blast in Beirut this week, in a storehouse in London, until MI5 and the London Metropolitan Police found it in 2015.

The Lebanese terrorist group also stored hundreds of kilograms of ammonium nitrate in southern Germany, which were uncovered earlier this year.

The Iran-backed terrorists kept the explosive in thousands of ice packs in four properties in northwest London, according to a report in The Telegraph last year. The ice pack deception tactic was used in Germany, as well.

Instead of killing Israelis with their stored up explosives they killed their own people.

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Republicans have never raised this much money heading into a presidential election

Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel applauded the committee’s fundraising with the 2020 presidential election on the horizon.

According to McDaniel, the RNC reached “an all-time record” by raising $20.6 million for November, saying the committee “has never raised this much money heading into a presidential election.”

“We just reported $20.6 million for November, which is an all-time record. The RNC has never raised this much money heading into a presidential election,” McDaniel told host Stuart Varney. “And in the past 48 hours, Stuart, we’ve raised $10 million between the Trump campaign and RNC. Donors, small-dollar donors — people are enthusiastic about this president and they are so angry about what Democrats are doing and showing it with their pocketbook.”

All the times Facebook’s CEO lied about privacy...

From a report at the link below:

Mark Zuckerberg has spent the past few years pinky swearing that Facebook wouldn’t do exactly what The New York Times discovered that Facebook has been doing: sharing data about users and their friends with third-party device makers without users’ knowledge.

Pants on fire

The Times reported on Monday that a partnership agreement Facebook struck with mobile device makers like Apple, Samsung, and BlackBerry allowed them to access private data about Facebook users’ friends.

In one experiment carried out by the paper, a Blackberry device was able to pull information about 295,000 people tangentially connected to a Times reporter’s on the social media app.

The revelation runs counter to the promises that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given Facebook customers for years—that Facebook users have complete transparency and control over who sees their data.

So when can we trust the words of Mark Zuckerberg? Answer: when he is not talking.

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Google banned 200 publishers enforcing its new fake news policy

Google routinely weeds out “bad ads.” Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.

The company banned the publishers from its AdSense network, an ad placement service that automatically serves text and display ads on participating sites based on its audience. The ban was part of an update to an existing policy that prohibits sites that mislead users with their content.

Google declined to provide a listing of the banned sites.

We had Google AdSense ads on this blog for a few years. They were on the left sidebar and we were paid about $200 every six months or so. Payment was based on the number of ad clicks by our blog readers.

Google dropped us about five years ago because we didn’t have enough traffic for them to bother with.

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The election can’t get here soon enough!

During the 10:00 PM news last night there were six consecutive commercial’s. Four were political ads and the other two were by ‘ambulance chasing’ lawyers reaching out to anyone injured in a motor vehicle crash.

A Denver lawyer (shown at right above) is the author of the most obnoxious personal injury ads in the Colorado TV market.

At least the equally obnoxious political ads will disappear in a few days.

In the meanwhile, we will continue to post reports on political activity we deem obnoxious.

Anyone disagreeing with this policy is invited to start their own blog and post their own point of view.

Incidently, this blog began October 2003 and we have posted to it 18,116 times and has had 1,715,692 page views.

Cable News political programs viewership totals

Cable News political programs

Number of viewers on Thursday, October 15, 2015

Fox News - Bill O’Reilly - 2,820,000
Fox News - Megyn Kelly - 2,101,000
Fox News - Bret Baier - 2,006,000
Fox News - The Five - 1,934,000
Fox News - Greta Van Susteren - 1,670,000
Fox News -Sean Hannity - 1,488,000
MSNBC - Rachel Maddow - 1,031,000
MSNBC - Chris Hayes - 808,000
MSNBC - Chris Matthews - 870,000
MSNBC - O’Donnell - 696,000
CNN - Anderson Cooper - 572,000

Fox News remains on top as CNN continues to falter.

Photo: Quadruple bicycle - four bikes tall with no training wheels

Found this photo on the Internet with no information.

Really cool but how does he mount and dismount? Does he ride it from one flat roof garage top to another?

Andrew Sullivan to quit blogging?

Andrew Sullivan began blogging several years ago as a political conservative but is now viewed by many as politically left even though he claims his political views are “center-right.”

He is a British citizen and has wanted to become a U.S. citizen. However, he was barred for many years from applying for citizenship because he is HIV-positive.

Andrew Sullivan (left) with his husband Aaron Tone

Sullivan, who is openly gay, is a practicing Catholic. He defends his sexual orientation by saying that the Bible forbids same-sex sexual activity only when it is linked to prostitution or pagan ritual.

In one of his blog postings (see link below) he says he is giving up blogging. He says he wants to be able, among other things, to spend more time with his husband.

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He learned why nobody looks at his blog

"Maybe nobody looks at your website because it's all about you"
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