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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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Health care worker at Dallas hospital tests positive for Ebola

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Little more than three weeks until US General Election; Midterms.

Is that enough time to get a sufficiently serious pandemic going in the United States that will give the Regime an excuse to postpone or cancel the Mid-Term elections? Otherwise I can’t think of a single reason to explain the … Continue reading →

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Entitlement reaches new heights

‘Why did my uncle die of Ebola while every other patient treated in America has survived?’ Now relatives say Dallas virus victim Eric Thomas Duncan received ‘unfair’ treatment Thomas Eric Duncan died at 7:51am on Wednesday after receiving no potentially … Continue reading →

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Where is the Case for Co-Ed Ground Combat?

Duh! The Obama Administration expects the Marine Corps to find a way to assign women to ground combat units without lowering standards. In the independent view of CMR, quantitative research done so far indicates that these expectations cannot be met. … Continue reading →

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Birth of Laser Tag

12 absurd olympic events: Dueling The event was held twice. Wearing masks, contestants would try and shoot each other in the face with wax bullets. In the 1908 Olympics, where the event itself was actually held in 1906, the impressively … Continue reading →

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Brick Klin Lane in Pembroke; 1966 & 2011.

Found an old photograph (but not the negative, unfortunately) of the remains of the old shipyard launching ramp from 1966 and the same spot in 2011 re-purposed as the Pembroke Town Landing on the North River. In 1966 there is … Continue reading →

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Refreshing in a strange way.

Oddly refreshing, a major fubar here in the land of the free that isn’t Barry Soetoro’s fault… JPMorgan Bracing For ‘Spear Phishing’ Campaign: Sources JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) officials are bracing for a massive spear phishing campaign launched by cyber … Continue reading →

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The Smoking Gun, again.

In 2010, Obama administration scrapped CDC quarantine regulations In October 2014, the first patient on American soil infected with the Ebola virus sits in isolation in a Texas hospital, prompting calls for travel restrictions between the United States and Ebola-stricken … Continue reading →

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I did that.

My father worked at Sears. One day I came into the store to buy something and stopped by his department to say hello.  He was talking with another employee and the store manager, whom he introduced me too.  Then he … Continue reading →

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Quick note on Ebola in Africa: Updated

Three thousand American Military (probably engineers) are beginning to build dozens of hospitals in Africa to hold Ebola patients.  (No questions are being asked about why those nations didn’t build those hospitals with the aid money given for that purpose … Continue reading →

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