In the wee hours of the morning, May 22, 2015, the site Popular Liberty went down for a brief while for site maintenance. It went mostly unnoticed by most people, and even those who may have seen the outage just registered it as a minor inconvenience. All was well by the morning. But for me, it was a triggering event which ended up changing my (and as it turns out, all of our) ability to advertise for PopularLiberty using Google Adwords.

Here is a record of what happened to me over the past three weeks in dealing with Google. I am forced to mention Charles Swindoll who said I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. Keep this handy.

May 22, 2015. 6:30am
I woke to find an email from Google Adwords support: Ads not running due to AdWords Advertising Policies. Here's the message: