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I was on YouTube earlier today, and videos were loading too slowly for me to watch them. I decided it was time to do what I always do when this happens, and I headed to SourceForge to grab WinMTR and get a log to send to Google. Normally they are pretty quick about resolving issues like that after receiving an MTR log, however after running WinMTR for a while and getting my log ready to send, I went to YouTube only to find that the "Report a bug" button at the bottom of every page was missing. After a while of searching YouTube Help and Google, I was still without an answer, so I decided to take a look at the source code for the page. This is what I found:

      <ul id="footer-links-secondary">
        <li><a href="/t/terms">Terms</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/">Privacy</a></li>
        <li><a href="//support.google.com/youtube/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse&amp;hl=en-US">Safety</a></li>
        <li><a href="//www.google.com/tools/feedback/intl/en/error.html" onclick="return yt.www.feedback.start(yt.getConfig('FEEDBACK_LOCALE_LANGUAGE'), yt.getConfig('FEEDBACK_LOCALE_EXTRAS'));" id="reportbug">Report a bug</a></li>
        <li><a href="/testtube">Try something new!</a></li>
      </ul>

Well, there's the link right there in the source code, so why isn't the link in the page like it's supposed to be? I fired up Opera's DragonFly thingy to take a look at the CSS, and guess what I found? After selecting the link so that DragonFly would only display the CSS that was directly applied to that link, I saw the following at the top of the list:

 element.style { 
  display: none;
 }

Not much below that in the list, I also found the following:

 .hid { 
  display: none;
 }

Well, that explained why the link wasn't showing up. Edit: Just to add to the info above, DragonFly reported the HTML for the link as being the following:

<a href="//www.google.com/tools/feedback/intl/en/error.html" onclick="return yt.www.feedback.start(yt.getConfig('FEEDBACK_LOCALE_LANGUAGE'), yt.getConfig('FEEDBACK_LOCALE_EXTRAS'));" id="reportbug" style="" class="hid">Report a bug</a>

I disabled these two lovely little gems I found in the CSS, and suddenly the link appeared on the page! Well, YouTube, I guess I will be reporting a bug today after all.

At colleges and universities around the United States, Ron Paul is drawing crowds in the thousands to hear his message of Liberty. Sadly, this is a fact that the mainstream media has overlooked and ignored.

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This is a user created video that is just short of 5 minutes, and is a rather well-done compilation of other videos.

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This is an excellent video of Senator Rand Paul giving Secretary Chu a hard time once again, and this time it is over issues such as the Department of Energy loan made to Solyndra and other companies that were major contributors to Obama's presidential campaign.

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I got this from Rand Paul's news feed earlier today (source):

In reaction to reports today that Egypt has lifted the travel ban on the remaining Americans being prosecuted for their association with pro-democracy nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Sen. Rand Paul issued the following statement.

"I have worked tirelessly over the past several weeks to bring attention to the unjust actions of the Egyptian government, and I insisted that my colleagues in the Senate debate, consider, and vote on my amendment to deny Egypt any U.S. foreign aid unless they ended their attempt to prosecute these Americans. Now that Egypt has begun to relent, it is clear that the growing pressure on Egypt from the U.S. government - including from Congress - was a factor in their decision," Sen. Paul said. "Egypt must now follow through by allowing these brave Americans to leave, and I look forward to their safe return to U.S. soil."

This is a video of the actual troops marching, and not a new report on it.

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Just got this from Rand Paul's news feed earlier today (source):

During a trip to Paducah Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul traded his political hat for scrubs and a surgical mask and teamed with two local doctors to perform free eye surgeries. An ophthalmologist by trade, the freshman Kentucky senator was forced to close his Bowling Green practice when he was elected in 2010. He said Senate ethics laws prevent him from receiving payment for any job outside Congress. "One thing I've missed since I've been elected is getting to practice as much as I'd like to," Paul said. Paul joined Dr. Barbara Bowers, a Paducah ophthalmologist, and Dr. Laxmaiah Manchikanti, CEO and founder of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Tuesday for four pro bono cataract cases. The surgeries were done at the Ambulatory Surgery Center inside the Pain Management Center Pavilion on Lone Oak Road. Manchikanti oversees operations at the pain management center, and Bowers has her own practice in Paducah. Manchikanti and Bowers said that they were excited that Paul decided to come to Paducah and help with the surgeries and that the patients, who were well aware that the senator would be their doctor, were also very excited. Everything was free for the patients, some of whom Paul said have been waiting for a very long time for the surgeries but could not afford them. "They a lot of times end up being challenging cases because if they don't have insurance they may have been waiting six months or a year or more if they're getting surgery," he said. Because of strict ethics laws, Paul said that he could not even request payment for his insurance or equipment, thus the surgeries rack up some personal out-of-pocket expense. Paul said he has performed several other charitable surgeries since his election and he plans to continue the work to keep up-to-date on his profession, especially if he is not re-elected or decides later not to continue on the political road.

Read more: The Paducah Sun - Senator performs charitable surgery