Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

You cannot love your country only when you win.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Republicans in disarray!

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

“woke” is the new caravan.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

The lights are all blinking red.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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  4. 4.

    shera

    Thank goodness – I thought there was something specifically wrong with MY computer. Didn’t notice until about 10 minutes ago, though, so I don’t know if it’s a recent problem. I can navigate directly to sites in my Bookmarks without any warning, though.

  6. 6.

    Jim D.

    Yeah, same thing here – it’s the new Google Diagnostic service. Soon they’ll be offering a similar service but for human and animal health care – you’ll just have to put whatever body part needs to be scanned up to your monitor . . .

  7. 7.

    Dan Gicker

    I thought it was mine also. I cleared the cache but still got ‘this site may harm your computer.’

  10. 10.

    Tattoosydney

    Teh Google has been taken over by Republicans who have reprogrammed its search engine to think that every single page on the internets is written by black gay drug pusher pedophiles…

  11. 11.

    Krista

    Yeah. When you do a search on Google for "Google", and it comes back saying that Google itself may harm your computer, there’s something squirrelly going on there.

  13. 13.

    KDP

    Yup, teh google Web searches return the ‘the site may be harm your computer.’ In addition, the last two times I tried to click through to the diagnostic pages, Google returned a server error. The Google Webmaster Blog spot also returns a 502 error.

    The warning does not seem to appear on News, Images, Shopping, or other search channels.

    Remember though: "All your base are belong to us."

  18. 18.

    Walker

    Sounds like a failed roll-out to me.

    Someone’s job security at Google just got a bit more tenuous.

  19. 19.

    Ryan Hanks

    I think google got hacked. I logged into my gmail and all my emails were gone. EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!

  20. 20.

    Ryan Hanks

    I think google got hacked. I logged into my gmail and all my emails were gone. EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!

  23. 23.

    KDP

    Google Webmaster Forums have these posts up on this topic this morning.

    List of posts growing as posters don’t bother to look for a post on the particular topic, but just add another thread saying every search returns a warning. Feh!

    Amused by one of the more recent posts titled "No more threads about Malware and Google with content:

    This is a prime example of posters not reading thread before they post their question. It had been reported that Google results are receiving the Malware message that the site may be harmful. Posting this over and over will not do any good. Vent in this thread if you like so the thread of people who have other issues will not be lost in the sea of Malware threads.

    Didn’t work though, poster got on snippy response that if Google fixed the problem, the posts wouldn’t be there. So there!

    I’ll be interested to read Google’s explanation of the issue.

  24. 24.

    Pighunter

    Hah!! its not only me then! phewww… and i thought i gotta spend the night fixing my friend’s pc.. what a relief.. dumb ass google..

  25. 25.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    EVERYTHING seems to be marked "This site may harm your computer". Including Balloon Juice.

    Yeah, some peon is losing a finger today.

  26. 26.

    Tim F.

    I thought you must be some kind of deranged perv who only looks asian+teen+tentacle and such rot, so I tried searching for skull+fuck+kittens.

    Sure enough BJ is still hits one through three, but Google won’t let me navigate here. Until Google finds the hamster in their server farm I suggest the competition.

  33. 33.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    Looks like it’s properly filtering, not just turned off. If you refresh your search results for any innocuous site, there’s no alert, but a site that was infested last week and is still being cleaned up does show the alert. Nice job, Google.

  37. 37.

    Ben

    It seems to be coming and going. Obviously someone is on the problem, but it’s definitely not fixed yet.

  38. 38.

    dan robinson

    Is it Google Gears?

    I turned that on for one computer and I get that message on that computer. I’m using a different computer right now and I don’t get that message.

  40. 40.

    burnspbesq

    No issues here. Searched on "Compass Records," "al jazeera," and "FA Cup", got the list of links I expected, and was able to click through.

    Maybe this thing, whatever it is, is platform- or browser-specific. I am on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.5 and using the current version of Firefox.

  41. 41.

    The Other Steve

    I broke the google.

    I was up until 3am last night. Moved two of my domains to google apps hosting for email and small website.

  44. 44.

    John Cole

    @Ed Marshall: Shrug. I will just throw other ads up.

    Not sure what all the fuss is about. For me, it was always just an ad portal. When it started, I thought they would do some original reporting, but other than some columns every day, that never materialized.

    For my part, all it has ever been was an advertising portal, so I will just move on to another way to advertise. And if no one wants to advertise, I guess I can use the side columns to post pet pics.

    I see some people flaming Roger Simon, but I don’t understand that at all. The folks at PJ Media always kept their word to me. I signed a contract through the end of march, and when it is up, they are opting to not renew my contract. That sort of thing happens thousands of time every single day all over the country. Not sure why to some it is such a big deal.

    I suppose I will write a post about it at some point, but why bother- “HEY FOLKS, ADS WILL BE CHANGING IN APRIL.” That is about the sum of it.

  46. 46.

    Laura W

    @burnspbesq: Hey…I listened to Moss for the first time yesterday driving in the beautiful mountains. Only got to the 6th track, will finish today as I have more driving to do.
    So far my very fave song has been #4, There Alone Go I.
    It’s very reminiscent of Manhattan Transfer, which I lurf.
    Thanks for the tip.

    Edit: "I am on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.5 and using the current version of Firefox."
    Same but OSX 10.4.11
    No issues all morning.

  48. 48.

    RoonieRoo

    Thank goodness I came to Balloon-Juice! I’m starting to use my brand new laptop and freaked for a second when I saw that on a Google Search. So, I refreshed a couple of times and it went away. I’m so glad to find out it wasn’t me or my spankin’ brand new laptop. Whew.

  49. 49.

    gex

    This is one of the things that really worries me about Google. The scope of their reach on the Internet means that when they have a problem, the whole net has a problem. When Google analytics is on the fritz, it basically horks up the entire net. No matter what page you try to pull up, it takes forever trying to contact google analytics.

  50. 50.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    That google street view shit gives me the willies. I don’t like people being able to google my address and then look at my house, as I google other people’s addresses and look at their houses.

    At least they got a good pic in the summer with the hosta in full bloom and the maple trees with full canopies.

  54. 54.

    burnspbesq

    @Laura W:

    Glad you’re enjoying it. My 15-year-old kid usually projectile-vomits when he has to listen to my music in the car (I admit it – I have been known to employ the Opera Torture), but even he likes Moss.

  57. 57.

    boggled

    Apparently, I have to post a comment for the website to render correctly on my computer. Since I’m a lurker, I thought I’d do it on an old, dead thread.

    edited to add: or maybe not; it worked on my home computer.

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