OK you grommets, The Godfather needs some help...

What is TOR and why is an onion involved? I might be to old to understand this much less help.
 
Ican post the log file...

12/31/2014 1:19:10 AM.801 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
12/31/2014 1:19:10 AM.801 [NOTICE] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.595 [NOTICE] Bridge at '109.105.109.163:38980' isn't reachable by our firewall policy. Asking bridge authority instead.
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.595 [NOTICE] While fetching directory info, no running dirservers known. Will try again later. (purpose 6)
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.596 [NOTICE] Bridge at '109.105.109.163:47779' isn't reachable by our firewall policy. Asking bridge authority instead.
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.596 [NOTICE] While fetching directory info, no running dirservers known. Will try again later. (purpose 6)
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.596 [NOTICE] Bridge at '169.229.59.75:46328' isn't reachable by our firewall policy. Asking bridge authority instead.
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.596 [NOTICE] While fetching directory info, no running dirservers known. Will try again later. (purpose 6)
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.597 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 5%: Connecting to directory server
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.601 [NOTICE] Bridge at '169.229.59.74:31493' isn't reachable by our firewall policy. Asking bridge authority instead.
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.601 [NOTICE] While fetching directory info, no running dirservers known. Will try again later. (purpose 6)
12/31/2014 1:19:13 AM.631 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 10%: Finishing handshake with directory server
12/31/2014 1:19:16 AM.265 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 15%: Establishing an encrypted directory connection
12/31/2014 1:19:16 AM.401 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 20%: Asking for networkstatus consensus
12/31/2014 1:19:16 AM.866 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 25%: Loading networkstatus consensus
12/31/2014 1:19:19 AM.487 [NOTICE] We now have enough directory information to build circuits.
12/31/2014 1:19:19 AM.488 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor network
12/31/2014 1:19:19 AM.635 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit
12/31/2014 1:19:20 AM.881 [NOTICE] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working.
12/31/2014 1:19:20 AM.881 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 100%: Done
12/31/2014 1:19:25 AM.500 [NOTICE] Bridge at '109.105.109.163:38980' isn't reachable by our firewall policy. Asking bridge authority instead.
12/31/2014 1:19:25 AM.500 [NOTICE] Bridge at '109.105.109.163:47779' isn't reachable by our firewall policy. Asking bridge authority instead.
12/31/2014 1:19:25 AM.500 [NOTICE] Bridge at '169.229.59.75:46328' isn't reachable by our firewall policy. Asking bridge authority instead.
12/31/2014 1:19:25 AM.500 [NOTICE] Bridge at '169.229.59.74:31493' isn't reachable by our firewall policy. Asking bridge authority instead.
12/31/2014 1:19:28 AM.245 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
12/31/2014 1:21:16 AM.580 [NOTICE] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
 
I used TOR before, I wasn't impressed.
 
hmmm i dont have a firewall that i know of.......

that trasncript you show above keeps saying "isn't reachable by our firewall policy" then tries some "bridge" and fails