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  • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 1 month ago
    LOL, I see this in the article: "The depths of the misogyny here (not to mention the stunning lack of news judgment): Covering the impeachment of a president by insulting and demeaning the female House Speaker," Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan tweeted."

    So, Margaret, would you have preferred "Swamp Man Pelosi" instead? How about Swamp Jackass? Oh... don't get me started!
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    • Posted by $ nickursis 5 years, 1 month ago
      SwampThing, but that is copyright as a movie from the 80's with Adrienne Barbeau. So they were limited in their options...maybe weneed a picture contest "Label This: Swamp (fillin)....
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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 1 month ago
    I think Fox has changed the link.
    "You don't have permission to access "http://www.foxnews.com/media/nancy-pe..." on this server."
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    • Posted by exceller 5 years, 1 month ago
      That is strange.

      I still can click the link.

      What browser you use?

      Try this:

      https://www.sfgate.com/politics/artic...
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      • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 1 month ago
        Thanks, exceller. 👍
        The Fox link is working again.
        I keyword searched the Fox site earlier using parts of the article title and had zero valid hits. Maybe Fox's search uses Google and it omits anything that is truthful about Pelosi. ;^)
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        • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 1 month ago
          Insidious Google seems to have wormed its way into virtually all the Internet nooks and crannies. I don't know if your browser has it, but Firefox has a rolling list of one liner thread hits on the lower left of its window and I'm surprised to see "Google" hits fly by even when least expected. I have no idea how to stop it. I'm starting to see more Yahoo crap dead-ending things, too, even when I don't use Yahoo for searches. The only time I use Yahoo is when someone here in the Gulch has a link to a Yahoo article.
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          • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 1 month ago
            Vivaldi allows me to set whatever engine I wish as the default search. It also has shortcuts to use the non-defaults if I need to. Of course that has no effect on the search within a web site as on Foxnews.
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          • Posted by exceller 5 years, 1 month ago
            Yes. I found out that Firefox is using Google for its search some time ago. There is no way to stop it. I searched the web but none of the remedies work.

            I have a yahoo email account for my junk mail and I installed an AdBlocker to remove the crap I don't want to see/read. Yahoo is sending me mails regularly asking to remove the Blocker on the excuse that 1) they make their money on ads, and 2) I would not be able to "enjoy" the "features" Yahoo is offering.

            I am quite happy with that, that you.
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            • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 1 month ago
              I'm not sure what's happening, but I can set my Firefox default search engine to Duckduckgo and it works for a few days, then boom, it's back to Yahoo again without me doing anything. Annoying.
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              • Posted by $ nickursis 5 years, 1 month ago
                Normally it's a cookie thing, and if you delete or clean them it resets.
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                • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 1 month ago
                  Thanks, but I haven't fooled with cookie cleanup for a while so I'll rule that out for now. I'm thinking Firefox does an auto update and resets the browser in the process. Maybe Yahoo "donates" to Firefox to do that. When I get a chance I'm thinking of looking into this "Vivaldi" FFA mentioned above.
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                  • Posted by exceller 5 years, 1 month ago
                    Software updates can do that as well.

                    I have Windows 10 and every time MS updates it I brace to fix the errors that follow as a result.

                    Then I do a search to find out what happened and use the fixes posted by users. For a few months now I have to do a cmd reset in order to be able to run websites b/c Edge is not doing it.
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                  • Posted by $ nickursis 5 years, 1 month ago
                    Yes, I need to look into it. I reccomend CCLean, you can get it free, or pay 24.95 for the full version, but I run it when I shut down, and it cleans out all the temp crap, and you can set it to clear cookies (which I don't because all your persistent logins are cookie based, so you have to go though the "we don't recognize your device" on any banks and such). CCLean will do a lot for your system though, it addresses several weakspots in Windows with page files and bloating temp folder that slow everything.
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