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Twitter is the most entertaining clusterfuck of human achievement to date.
— ScottInSC (@ScottInSC) March 22, 2015
Weasel Zippers gets dropped from Google ads
Weasel Zippers has been using Google Ads for yeas now and out of the blue they have been dropped because they do not comply with Google Adsense guidelines. The guidelines say that you need to post a majority of posts with original content.
HMMM. Almost every blog has some kind of news or contents aggregation on it. Here I post a lot of internet memes and on TMR we have News Links. Right Pins is a news aggregator like Pinterest.
Does this mean that we are not in compliance with Google Adsense Guidelines??
TMR definitely has a lot of original content, but my blog here and Right Pins do not. And this is basically my only income right now, other than a few blog design jobs I have done and may have lined up, and my unemployment check when they do not try and screw me out of that.
Or was this a targeted effort by the left to mess with Weasel Zippers. Like they try and get people banned from Twitter and other social media sites.
As Truth Revolt states:
Instapundit is a conservative aggregator site running AdSense advertising — however unlike Weasel Zippers, it is generating a significant level of income for Google which it wouldn’t want to lose.
So why are they singling out Weasel Zippers?
Along with what Facebook is doing with their calculation for views on posts from Pages , it is looking like they are trying to drive independent media out.
Just my 2 cents
Bundy Ranch Standoff
I have basically stayed out of most of the battle of the Bundy Ranch on here, but have followed it on Twitter and Facebook.
There is a lot of confusion and false information getting posted out there. The Reid Chinese Connection, that the Feds are on the way back in full force and other non sense.
But with that said, I am on no one’s side on this really. The FED GOV is overreaching and crushing the cattle farmers out of existence under the guise of protecting endangered species. Yes there are many creatures that are endangered and need some protection, but in many ways the Environmentalist Whackos go overboard on their protections. But this is also the FED GOV lands and they have the backing a Federal Summary Court Order behind them.
I sympathize with Bundy and think that what the FED GOV is doing this all wrong, and the tactics of coming fully armed to get the cattle was way over the top. They did not need to come in like a military operation. But the Militia also did not help by coming fully armed too. This just escalated the tension and made a bad situation worse.
It was a clusterf**k of insanity on all sides that made it worse.
This is not the way to fight the BLM and the FED GOV. @ExJon at Riccochet posted the right way to go about this:
There was a similar Rancher vs. Tortoise battle in Arizona. Through wise legal maneuvering and scientific savvy, this standoff was a win for both the cowboys and the reptiles. The anti-progress environmentalists and bureaucrats were the only losers.
The way to fight the FED GOV is in the courts using legal tactics against the Environmentalist Whackos. It would be better to set up a defense fund and hire a competent lawyer for Clive Bundy than to show up with guns and snipers against Federal agents.
After all this I hope that there will be a debate and a discussion on how the Federal Lands West of Colorado are run. Far too much of the land is owned by the Federal Government. I can understand why some areas that are cultural and environmentally sensitive should be protected, but owning up towards 90% of a state is a little much.
Hopefully this will be an issue in the up coming elections and can be debated on a way to transfer much of the land back to states and local authorities instead of being managed from DC.
For all the snow conspiracy freaks out there
I have seen the idiots on Facebook talking about how there is something in the snow or some other Illuminati BS conspiracy about torching snow.
Well it is BS:
It is unbelieveable what some people will believe just because it is in the intertubes.
Bird’s Eye View of a Penguin Colony
A striated caracara, intrigued by our spy egg-cam, decides to fly off with our camera but in the process captures the first ever aerial footage of a rockhopper penguin colony shot by a flying bird.
Clip taken from our series Penguins – Spy in the Huddle (Waddle All The Way)
Narrated by David Tennant
Series directed by John Downer
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Boehner: ObamaCare replacement coming
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday predicted that House Republicans would unveil — and possibly vote on — a plan to replace the healthcare law in 2014, fulfilling a long-delayed promise to voters.
An alternative to ObamaCare will be “one of the big issues” the House GOP will discuss at its annual policy retreat at the end of the month, Boehner said.
While the party has repeatedly run on a pledge to “repeal and replace” President Obama’s signature law, GOP lawmakers have never coalesced around a single alternative. Boehner is now facing mounting pressure from conservatives who say the party cannot continue to merely denounce the unpopular ObamaCare as a means of winning elections.
“It’s one of the big issues for conversation in terms of our agenda for this year, and I think you’ll see Republicans come forward with a plan to replace ObamaCare,” Boehner said Thursday, “a plan that will actually reduce costs for the American people and make health insurance more accessible.”
The Speaker signaled he agrees with members who are arguing that the party must run on a robust agenda, but party leaders are waiting until the retreat to decide exactly how aggressive to be in an election year. Party leaders favor a politically safer approach in which the GOP would draft principles on a range of issues, including healthcare, tax reform and immigration, but may not actually hold votes that could be targeted in campaigns.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/195689-boehner-obamacare-replacement-bill-coming#ixzz2qcVhFAnQ
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Twitter Spokesman: “We Own You, B*tch”
via Tech Crunch
testing the Twitter Live Blog plugin. do not mind me
8:39:57 PM: Still testing the TLB plugin
8:43:09 PM: Cool it works Not exactly in real time but it works. This should be fun at times
8:47:48 PM: Anyone want to help me test this plugin out http://stixblog.com/2009/06/17/testing-the-twitter-live-blog-plugin-do-not-mind-me/ is th …
8:47:48 PM: Anyone want to help me test this plugin out http://stixblog.com/2009/06/17/testing-the-twitter-live-blog-plugin-do-not-mind-me/ is th …
8:51:37 PM: let see does it automatically add the tweet???
8:52:56 PM: RT @chibisven: Go green, support democracy in Iran http://helpiranelection.com/ #iranelections
8:55:22 PM: OK now I know how the Live Twitter Blog Plugin works. This should work for some live events
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