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About On the North River

Forty years toiled in the Tel-com industry, married for 36 years widowed at sixty-one. Ten years in a relationship with a woman until her death. Was a Tea Party supporter. Today a follower of the Last American President to be honestly elected, Donald J. Trump. Recently had Ancestry.com tell me I'm Swedish, not Danish. I may need to change my avatar.

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Ivanka emerges as Trump’s jobs czar, focus on ‘forgotten men and women.’ Ivanka Trump never planned to become her father’s jobs czar. But as she traveled on his winning 2016 presidential campaign that stopped in many once-thriving industrial cities, she … Continue reading

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Snopes rates Babylon Bee, World’s most accurate News Source.

Snopes Rates Babylon Bee World’s Most Accurate News Source September 1, 2017 U.S.—As part of a detailed review of prominent online news outlets, a large team of fact-checkers at Snopes.com unanimously voted The Babylon Bee as the world’s most accurate news source, … Continue reading

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Yeager responds.

OUCH! Chuck Yeager ‘pulls no punches’ about Hollywood’s depiction of Neil Armstrong & omission of iconic American moment Details of other depictions in the movie remain to be seen, but Yeager responded to those questions in a couple of tweets: … Continue reading

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(Sick) QOTD: Hollywood “Star” sticks foot in mouth.

Business Insider‏Verified account @businessinsider Neil Armstrong movie ‘First Man’ omits the American flag being planted on the moon, and star Ryan Gosling defended the decision: ‘I don’t think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero’ Scratch my plans to go … Continue reading

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Inexplicable. Another case file of the Famous But Incompetent agency.

New Mexico DA vows to ‘pursue prosecution’ in Muslim compound case despite dropped charges from the comments… 1) The FBI knew for months about these (mujahedin) terrorists who had kidnapped a toddler, and did nothing. 2) Local law enforcement barged … Continue reading

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Google is evil, part Deux.

Google ‘paid millions to Mastercard to track credit card spending’ to find out whether people are being successfully influenced by its online adverts Multi-million dollar agreement between the firms took four years to negotiate Google can link purchases of Mastercard … Continue reading

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The Smoking Gun.

Chinese company reportedly hacked Clinton’s server, got copy of every email in real-time A Chinese state-owned company reportedly hacked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server in 2015, then inserted code that forwarded them a copy of virtually every email … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day: A hard man is hard to find.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, acknowledging the fraught relationship between the two Republican politicians, said, “Some men will carry a grudge against another man until his rival is in the grave. President Trump doesn’t give up that easy.”

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Found Ya!

Where 99% of ‘diversity is a strength’ tweets come from

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QOTD: The internet.

The internet used to be an amazing thing, up until Gore invented it, then it started going downhill. Ghostsniper.

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