Captain Video, “Intellectual Froglegs”.

Posted on July 9, 2017 by On the North River

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First Vet on ESPN Body issue

Posted on July 6, 2017 by On the North River

 Wounded Warrior Kirstie Ennis (above) is one of the cover stars, becoming the first veteran to land on the list

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Do Home Depot and Lowes differ?

Posted on July 4, 2017 by On the North River

Which is better?

Jacob Taylor

I have a fresh and steamy story to tell you about which is better.

I have a week off of work and I’ve been bored around the house so I decided to build a fence partitioning my backyard, with one half being a giant garden. This project was going to cost me around $1,500-$2,000 and I was going to get my supplies at the local Home Depot in Puyallup, Wa.

I walk into Home Depot yesterday and locate all the stuff I’ll need. The next step for me is to think about the best logical way for me to transport all of the goods from the store, to my vehicle, to my house as painlessly as possible.

I’m standing infront of the store trying to work out a plan in my head and after I think of something I say out loud to myself, “They probably don’t sell those.” As I say this, an off going manager stops and asks what I’m talking about. I told him about my plan and how it would work best if I used 3 wooden pallets to stack goods in the bed of my truck and then tie them down. He said, “Man, we have a bunch of those. Go to Recieving and ask so-and-so to load a couple on a cart for you and tell her I said it was okay.”

I thanked him and went back to Recieving. I waved down so-and-so and gave her the spiel. Three fantastic employees found me the best pallets, loaded them, and said that I was all good to go.

I finish all of my shopping. Having everything maticulously loaded on the pallets, I go to the register to pay. The cashier is great as she rings my items up….but then the new oncoming manager walks up.

The conversation goes exactly like this:

Manager: “I can’t let you have these pallets.”

Me: “I figured they wouldn’t be free. How much?”

Manager: “I don’t think you understand. These pallets cost $15 but only when something comes on them.”

Me: “Okay, well I’m fine paying the $15 and they’re covered with stuff.”

Manager: “No. Only with things that originally came on the pallets, like cement bags.”

Me: “Nothing was on these pallets, man. Your awesome employees got them from the garbage pile and loaded them onto my cart for me after the other manager gave them the okay.”

ALL THE WHILE the line behind me is huge.

Manager: “I don’t care who loaded them for you or who said it was okay. I’m the manager and I say that you can’t buy these.”

Me: “Look. I’ve loaded about $2,000 of stuff onto these pallets and I’m willing to pay the $15 for them. It was a hassle putting all of this stuff on them. What do you expect me to do?”

Manager: “Unload your items and return the pallets to Recieving.”

Me: (after about 10 seconds of staring into this kid’s soul) “You can kiss my fucking ass.”

And I walked out, vowing never to shop at Home Depot ever again.

Right behind Home Depot is a Lowes, which I’ve never shopped at.

The first thing I see INSTANTLY makes me a lifelong customer there:

So, I park in this amazing spot and ask to see the manager before anything else so I can see if the pallets will be a hassle. She laughs and tells me that she’d be dumb not to GIVE me 3 pallets for all of that stuff and I continue to have an amazing shopping experience. That and what would have cost me $2,000 at Home Depot cost me $1,154.73 at Lowes.

So again, Home Depot can kiss my fucking ass.

John: Home Depot is the company, that about ten years ago, had a CONTRACTOR arrested for shoplifting.  What did he shoplift?  The pencil that he had picked up off the counter to figure out the items and the volume he needed to get for his job.  (about eight thousand dollars worth)  The pencil? About 25 cents.

Stupid, beyond all belief!

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Courage and class

Posted on July 4, 2017 by On the North River

Makenna Greenwald, a young woman from Wyoming found herself in the middle of a social media assault because of her patriotism.

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This! …is the proper post for the 4th!

Posted on July 3, 2017 by On the North River

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Spending the legacy of freedom

“I always compare it to wealthy—children of wealthy family businesses. First generation is the one that makes the money. Next generation kind of knows what the first generation went through, they are conscious of the fact they have to carry these responsibilities forward. But ultimately a generation comes that spends and doesn’t know where it all comes from.”

“We’re living at a time when lots of Westerners are really spending this legacy of freedom and they don’t know…they don’t know what it is not to be free,” Hirsi Ali says.

The whole interview is worth watching, but this bit (which starts about 10 minutes in) seemed especially appropriate as we get ready to celebrate Independence Day.

I really, REALLY suggest you read the whole article.

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Solar isn’t free

Posted on July 2, 2017 by On the North River

Solar panels create 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than do nuclear power plants.

Environmental Progress investigated the problem to see how the problem compared to the much more high-profile issue of nuclear waste.

We found:

  • Solar panels create 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than do nuclear power plants.

  • If solar and nuclear produce the same amount of electricity over the next 25 years that nuclear produced in 2016, and the wastes are stacked on football fields, the nuclear waste would reach the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (52 meters), while the solar waste would reach the height of two Mt. Everests (16 km).

  • In countries like China, India, and Ghana, communities living near e-waste dumps often burn the waste in order to salvage the valuable copper wires for resale. Since this process requires burning off the plastic, the resulting smoke contains toxic fumes that are carcinogenic and teratogenic (birth defect-causing) when inhaled.

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Us vs. Liberals

Posted on June 29, 2017 by On the North River

MARK LEVIN KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE PARK: 12 Ways Progressives and Americans Differ on Public Policy

I paraphrased a few, knowing that some progressives’ heads might explode without a proper warmup:

  • We believe in the Constitution, they believe in centralized government.
  • We believe in individualism, they believe in conformity.
  • We believe in private property, they believe in collective ownership of material goods.
  • We believe in prosperity, they believe in redistributing wealth with them determining who gets ripped off and who gets the drips remaining after they’ve taken their cut.
  • We believe in separation of powers, they believe in a monolithic, all-powerful, administrative state.
  • We believe in eternal truths, they believe in ideologically meandering social engineering.
  • We believe in cultural stability, they believe in never-ending transformation of our society.
  • We believe in real science, they believe in social science (e.g., “environmental justice”).
  • We believe in the rights of man, they believe in the power of centralized government.
  • We believe in the moral order, they believe in situational ethics.
  • We believe in individual liberty, they believe in authoritarianism, with no limits ever defined.
  • We believe in education, they believe in indoctrination.
  • We believe in civil society, they believe in the federal leviathan.
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Anti-Trump Hate Map

Posted on June 27, 2017 by On the North River

We’ve documented nearly 200 attacks on Trump supporters.

The Anti-Trump Hate Map is an ongoing project of American Renaissance that displays criminal incidents in which Trump supporters were targeted for political reasons. Each marker on the map shows the location of an anti-Trump hate crime. Clicking on a marker opens a brief overview of the case. Red markers signify violent crimes; blue markers, property crimes; purple markers, “other” crimes.

You can find additional information about incidents by visiting this page and selecting the “Excel File” tab. By using the blue “Filter” drop-down menu, you can search and sort incidents by such things as location, type of offense, offender and victim race and sex, or in any combination.

We have included the contact information for the police department with jurisdiction over each incident, so if you have any information about a case, we urge you to contact the authorities.

Please share this map with as many people as possible. If you know of a case we missed, or if you have any comments on the map, please contact Westley Parker at empiricalpolitics@gmail.com.

Click here for more information on these attacks.

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Ann Coulter – Prominent liberals repeatedly tell us, with deadly seriousness, that Trump and his supporters are: “Hitler,” “fascists,” “bigots,” “haters,” “racists,” “terrorists,” “criminals” and “white supremacists,” which is then followed by liberals physically attacking conservatives. To talk about “both sides” being guilty of provocative rhetoric is like talking about “both genders” being guilty of rape. In the past year, there have been at least a hundred physical attacks on Trump supporters or presumed Trump supporters. The mainstream media have ignored them all.

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MEGA

Posted on June 26, 2017 by On the North River

Blighty’s first aircraft carrier in six years is set to take to the seas

HMS Queen Elizabeth prepares to sail for the first time

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/06/26/hms_queen_elizabeth_crown_copyright.jpg?x=648&y=348&crop=1

MEGA; Make England Great Again!

Congrats to the 20th Century 2nd place finisher in the Great Carrier Wars!  (Well, as a Tag Team winner).

The piece of this story that I found interesting was this part about how the Brits kept up the rare and perishable skill-set in between times (when they didn’t have an operating carrier).

One can view this as a way of repaying the UK’s debt to the US for nurturing the vital – and highly perishable – skills of operating aircraft carriers at sea, thanks to the various so-called Seedcorn programmes. These involved British personnel being posted to American warships and establishments to learn their trades. Those sailors and airmen, now the ship’s senior crew, will in turn pass their knowledge on to the new generation of British sailors coming up through the ranks.

It’s in their blood.  They are a Warrior Race!

Rule, Britannia!

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My mistake.

Posted on June 21, 2017 by On the North River

As many do in the State of Mass, I received a notice from the RMV that my car registration was expiring.  The notice included a web address at which I could renew online.  (Not go to the RMV and stand in line? Sounds good.)

I quickly typed in the web address into (NOTE!)  the search bar in the browser.  A list of web sites listed out with “Mass RMV registration renewal” at the top, I clicked on that.  A web page came up that looked perfectly normal, the ‘Mass State Shield’, words “Massachusetts Drivers License”…

However after entering in Name, address, phone number and web address; on the left was a payment form entitled “Online Assistance Fee $24.99”.   Now the amount on the registration form I received from the state showed that the fee for renewal was $60.   “Online Assistance Fee”???

That is when I finally woke up and engaged my brain.  I looked up at the web address I was actually on and read; “FormAssistant.org”.  I wasn’t on the Mass RMV site but a ‘phishing’ site.

I cleared the screen and went to the address bar and typed in the same “www.MassRMV.com” address and immediately went to the right site.   There is an important difference between the address bar (or address box) and the search bar.  The search bar CAN show you the correct site you want but it WILL show you many others and these days the order in which the sites are listed will be determined by who is paying the search engine company the most.  Also, an unfortunate recent practice is to put the ‘ADS’ on top. With a small ‘ad’ icon at the bottom.

Don’t be an idiot (like me) and enter personal information and (almost) credit card information before thinking and looking twice.  And if you want to get directly to a specific web page, make sure that you are entering the address onto the Address Bar, not the Search Bar.

Even if I didn’t give them my credit card number, the phishing site does have my name, address and an email@address and home phone.

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