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The Week in Pictures: Googleplex Edition

I personally will not willingly use Google as a search engine in retaliation for the number of times they forced included their toolbar into browser downloads several years ago, sometimes even if you checked you didn't want it in custom installations. I've de-installed that toolbar countless times. These are my personal views based on my own past experience of disliking all toolbars.

Something to offend everyone, so if easily triggered don't click the link.

The Week in Pictures: Googleplex Edition

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/08/the-week-in-pictures-googleplex-edition.php

Entry #3,168

Rahm Using Sanctuary City Lawsuit Against Trump To Distract From $55 Million Scandal

Rahm Using Sanctuary City Lawsuit Against Trump To Distract From $55 Million Scandal

"....So don’t be fooled by Rahm’s fake lawsuit against the Department of Justice. Emanuel’s token lawsuit against the DOJ’s sanctuary city funding threat is a just convenient diversion from a $55 million scandal in Chicago that broke last week.

Chicago aldermen and city watchdogs have accused Emanuel of secretly redirecting $55 million in TIF funds earmarked to help a poor, predominantly black ward on Chicago’s South Side. Instead, the diverted property tax funds were poured into a popular tourist attraction in a wealthy area – another vanity project for the Mayor. Chicago taxpayers are on the hook for these funds too – but they’d never know it because it’s not disclosed on their tax bills.

What happens in Chicago – stays in Chicago. ...."

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/07/rahm-using-sanctuary-city-lawsuit-against-trump-to-distract-from-55-million-scandal/?utm_campaign=thedcmainpage&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social

Entry #3,165

Trump - Blumenthal Twitter War Goes Nuclear As Trump Fires Back

Trump - Blumenthal Twitter War Goes Nuclear As Trump Fires Back

Meanwhile, for those who aren't familiar with Blumenthal's loose relationship with the facts concerning his Vietnam military service, the following was exposed by The New York Times in 2010...

At
a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to
soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life.

“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr.
Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And
you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it —
Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional
support.”

 There was one problem: Mr.
Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never
served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from
1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to
war, according to records
.

And, luckily for all of us, it seems the President has some extra time on his hands today to exploit Blumenthal's hazy recollection of his past military service...or lack thereof.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-07/trump-blumenthal-twitter-war-goes-nuclear-trump-responds-again

Entry #3,161