Gee, no two star reviews allowed on Amazon?

Posted on September 5, 2018 by On the North River

I got this when I attempted to add a review to Amazon’s page for “Avengers: The Infinity War”.

This product currently has limitations on submitting reviews. There can be a number of reasons for this, including unusual reviewing activity.

Well, that will be my last attempt to add a review on anything on Amazon.  If I can’t review something when I want then I won’t play that game when it suits Amazon.

So, since I have my own blog and hence my own soapbox; Ta Da!  My review of “Avengers: The Infinity War”. 

Two stars,  One star now because I’m ticked.

It starts from (I assume) some other previous Marvel movie left off.  The opening scene is the end of a battle, Thor, the Thunder God, has been given a haircut and lost an eye.  Thanos (The Big Bad) is strutting and gloating and I didn’t have any idea what was going on.  Then over two hours later the whole movie ends with a cliffhanger. And the (intended to be) ominous, “Thanos will be back” message on the screen.   So apparently the entire movie you just watched is meaningless.

Fill in the rest with random characters wandering in and out of scenes set (literally) at opposite ends of the universe.  Except for one actresses character who ‘Wanda’s’  in and out of scenes. CGI and Cinematography are amazing and should be since that is most of the two hundred million dollar production cost of this POS.  There is zero explanation about the identity, powers or  names of most of the twenty or thirty heroes and villains striding/flying/jumping/transporting in and out of the action.  I guess if you haven’t been taking notes during the twenty previous Marvel Superhero movies then you are SOL.

It was a another hot, humid day and I sat back for two and a half hours with a couple of beers but frankly it was a waste of time.  If the AC at my gym wasn’t broken I’d rather have been doing that.

Hollywood really is broken.   Oh! I almost forgot.  They seem to have redesigned Captain America’s costume.  No American Flag motif.  That figures.

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Master of the deal.

Posted on September 5, 2018 by On the North River

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Buzz responds.

Posted on September 4, 2018 by On the North River

Buzz Aldrin, the man that landed on the Moon with Neal Armstrong.  Responds to the comments made by that Canadian actor about Neil Armstrong and the importance of the American Flag being placed on the surface of the Moon in 1969.

The ultimate Selfie-Selfie…thank you for sharing the wonderful photo and your incredible journey .

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    Thank you, Buzz Aldrin, for speaking up. Our hero… That seems like a intentional snub to our flag and America. I will not be going to see this movie. Ryan Gosling can go back to Canada.

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    Thank you for speaking up, Mr. Aldrin. No one’s viewpoint of this insult to America could be more meaningful than yours. I stand with you. Hopefully the guilty will feel the sting of our rebuke.

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    Go Buzz!! Go USA – lead the way!! 🇺🇸

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    I am proud to stand with you sir. I will not see the movie. Its an affront to whay you guys did, and to history!

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    Thank you for reminding everyone that landing on the moon was an AMERICAN achievement. We should be proud and encourage more such accomplishments.

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Don’t worry.

Posted on September 4, 2018 by On the North River

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 heard first hand about the plight of “forgotten” workers who saw hope in Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.

“She would meet moms who wanted to support their family but didn’t either have a skill set or wanted to go back into the workforce and weren’t sure how, weren’t sure how to find a job. She met dads who wanted to earn wages where they could support their family but didn’t have the right skills,” said a senior administration official.

The first daughter also heard from highly educated friends in the same boat. She recently cited pals who graduated from Princeton University with “no skills to actually compete in the workforce.”

And as the economy has boomed, she also heard from companies seeking skilled workers.

In a way, the role she now has in leading the administration’s effort to boost jobs training for preschoolers to retirees picked her.

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

Posted on September 3, 2018 by On the North River

Snopes Rates Babylon Bee World’s Most Accurate News Source

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, Snopes editors revealed Friday.

After reviewing over 1,200 of the Bee’s articles, opinion pieces, and exclusive news stories published over the site’s eighteen months of existence, the Snopes team all agreed that the Bee was “far more accurate” than competing news sources.

“It’s not even close,” Snopes writer Kim LaCapria wrote as part of the announcement. “Whereas sites like CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC are constantly dropping the ball, The Babylon Bee has never gotten a single fact wrong.”

“They are the one true news source, the pinnacle of trustworthy journalism,” she added reverently.

 

Continue reading →

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Yeager responds.

Posted on September 1, 2018 by On the North River

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:

Chuck Yeager

✔@GenChuckYeager

Replying to @ClarenceSwirly

That’s not the Neil Armstrong I knew

Chuck Yeager

✔@GenChuckYeager

Replying to @bob_savas and 2 others

More Hollywood make-believe

Ouch! Looks like liberal Hollywood’s spin on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong just crashed & burned.
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(Sick) QOTD: Hollywood “Star” sticks foot in mouth.

Posted on August 31, 2018 by On the North River

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 and see this movie.

Early life and career (Britannica)

Neil Armstrong was the eldest of three children born to Viola Louise Engel and Stephen Koenig Armstrong, a state auditor. Neil’s passion for aviation and flight was kindled when he took his first airplane ride at age 6. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America and earned the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank attainable. He became a licensed pilot on his 16th birthday and a naval air cadet in 1947. His studies in aeronautical engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, were interrupted in 1950 by his service in the Korean War, during which he was shot down once and was awarded three Air Medals. He completed his degree in 1955 and immediately became a civilian research pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), later the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He flew more than 1,100 hours, testing various supersonic fighters as well as the X-15 rocket plane.

In 1962 Armstrong joined the space program with its second group of astronauts. On March 16, 1966, Armstrong, as command pilot of Gemini 8, and David R. Scott rendezvoused with an unmanned Agena rocket and completed the first manual space docking maneuver. After the docking, a rocket thruster malfunction sent the spacecraft into an uncontrolled spin and forced them to separate from the Agena. Armstrong then regained control of the Gemini craft and made an emergency splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

related:

Nasa: Neil Armstrong, First Man to walk on the Moon. (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012)

 

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

Posted on August 31, 2018 by On the North River

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 in and made arrests without support from the Feds, because they knew about the kidnapped toddler.

3) Shortly after the arrests, the terrorists’ compound was bulldozed and all evidence not already seized by local law enforcement was destroyed.

4) The suspects were all released on nominal bail. 5) Now the prosecutors have failed to file charges by a deadline that they have known about since the case began, so the judge has released three of the suspects. Really? Did they have something more important to do?

Number three, the compound was bulldozed and all evidence in the hands of the FBI was destroyed, if true (and the compound is gone) indicates that the FBI had a hand the activities here and may be an accessory after the fact in the death of a child.

Another nail in the coffin of the FBI as a agency of the US Government?

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Google is evil, part Deux.

Posted on August 31, 2018 by On the North River

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 customers to their email addresses
  • These addresses are used to track the online activity of those credit card users 
  • This information allows Google to tell if you look at an online advertisement in your web browser or app, then later buy the product in a physical store  

Adblocker stops this.  That is why so many sites have become aggressive towards visitors that use it.  These companies have no morals, no morals at all.

I use both Adblocker and Block Site.  When a site blanks the screen and demands I whitelist them or disable Adblocker, I block the site.  Then I won’t be directed there by a blind link.

 

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The Smoking Gun.

Posted on August 29, 2018 by On the North River

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 she sent or received after that — a revelation President Trump is demanding be investigated.

Hillary’s carelessness and criminal actions may have led to the deaths of 20 CIA operatives in China.

Business Insider reported:

China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling U.S. spying operations in a massive intelligence breach whose origin has not been identified, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

Investigators remain divided over whether there was a spy within the Central Intelligence Agency who betrayed the sources or whether the Chinese hacked the CIA’s covert communications system, the newspaper reported, citing current and former U.S. officials.

The Chinese killed at least a dozen people providing information to the CIA from 2010 through 2012, dismantling a network that was years in the making, the newspaper reported.

One was shot and killed in front of a government building in China, three officials told the Times, saying that was designed as a message to others about working with Washington.

The breach was considered particularly damaging, with the number of assets lost rivaling those in the Soviet Union and Russia who perished after information passed to Moscow by spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, the report said. Ames was active as a spy in the 1980s and Hanssen from 1979 to 2001.

The CIA declined to comment when asked about the Times report on Saturday.

Hillary was responsible, Comey excused it,  Mueller is ignoring it.  And that’s the truth.

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