Some things money can’t buy.

Posted on April 30, 2025 by On the North River

EYE-WATERING MOMENT: Trump’s cabinet erupts in applause for Elon Musk—thanking him for the personal sacrifices he’s made to help save the country. It wasn’t scripted. It wasn’t expected. But it was real—and it said everything that needed to be said.

Elon Musk sat quietly at the table. For months, he’s taken hit after hit: media smears, political attacks, even firebombings at Tesla—all for standing up for the American people and helping the Trump administration deliver on its promises. And in this moment, he finally heard what millions have been wanting to say. President Trump looked him in the eye. “You have been treated unfairly,” he said. “But the vast majority of people in this country really respect and appreciate you.” Heads around the room nodded. “You’ve really been a tremendous help,” Trump added. “You opened up a lot of eyes as to what could be done.” Then came the applause. The room ignited. It wasn’t for a billionaire. It was for an American fighter—someone who’s risked everything not to stay safe, but stand up for his country. Musk sat there humbled by it all. He then said a few words: “It’s also an honor to work with your incredible cabinet,” he said. “Thank you everyone. It’s great to work with you.”

https://x.com/i/status/1917635304300667082

Posted in 2025, DOGE, Elon | 4 Comments

Crash Report released, it’s worse than you thought.

Posted on April 27, 2025 by On the North River

The DC plane crash with the Blackhawk helicopter has now been investigated and the results are horrifying Even the NYT is reporting that the DEI-era pilot was told multiple times to shift altitude and course and she refused

Now 70+ innocent people are dead

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The @nytimes story on the January DC plane crash hides its takeaway until the last sentences: the lady helicopter pilot ignored multiple warnings from her right seat about altitude (and his directly telling her to turn away) and flew straight into a passenger jet.

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Posted in DEI | 3 Comments

Maybe kicking EV’s will make me feel better.

Posted on April 25, 2025 by On the North River

Facilities that collect used lithium EV batteries for disposal / recycling are effectively massive bombs with a fuse that’s waiting to be lit. And it doesn’t even take a spark to light the fuse, just a little instability.

'Explosions' as Kilwinning battery recycling plant next to school engulfed by fire again | STV News

Stories like the following are becoming so common that it is clear that there is no safe way to store used lithium batteries:

Posted in 2025, EV, Green | 6 Comments

Marsha

Posted on April 20, 2025 by On the North River

My girlfriend and partner  of the last ten years passed away today.

I’m bereft and lost.

Posted in 2025, Personal | 5 Comments

All women, “Glam” rocket to … well not that far.

Posted on April 14, 2025 by On the North River

If Neil Armstrong hadn’t been cremated and his ashes scattered at sea, he’d be spinning in his grave now.

They went 62 miles… One way to the moon is over 250,000 miles… not counting orbits.

Posted in 2025, Can't fix Stupid | 6 Comments

NGO’s: The Parallel Government.

Posted on April 14, 2025 by On the North River

How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A ‘parallel government.’

Pure evil.

But as we’ve learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many “non-governmental” entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.

Elon Musk in a black jacket discussing politics and Tesla protests during a news segment on 'The Five'Elon Musk calls for arrest of “fake NGO” leaders affiliated with “uniparty” on “The Five.” FOX News

 

Posted in 2025, All the News not fit to print., DOGE | 1 Comment

Millions of illegals were given SSN by Biden, millions?

Posted on April 9, 2025 by On the North River
Townhall.com
ASTONISHING NUMBERS!
NON-CITIZEN Social Security numbers issued over the past four years:
  • 270,425 in 2021.
  • 590,193 in 2022.
  • 964,163 in 2023.
  • 2,095,247 in 2024.

 “DOGE found that immigration gave a work authorization document to illegals just five months after they filed for asylum. That document allowed them to work while they waited to hear whether their asylum requests were being accepted or denied. So, they could work as an illegal, knowing it would take YEARS before their case was heard.

The immigration department mailed them a social security number. No interview. No proof of identity, just put it in the mail…

…DOGE also discovered that 1.3 million aliens are now receiving Medicaid. MILLIONS received drivers licenses, some registered to vote and DOGE said some actually did vote.”

All of this we were assured would not happen, could not happen… and it happened.

Surprised?

Posted in 2025, All the News not fit to print., Biden Crime Family, DOGE, illegals | 2 Comments

How green is your EV now?

Posted on April 5, 2025 by On the North River

From ACE…

In a pre-emptive response to the latest reciprocal tariffs, China has banned the sale of terbium, erbium, thulium, and thallium to the United States, so-called “rare earth” elements critical to the production of advanced technology such as Nixie tubes and bubble memory. (Tom’s Hardware)

There are a few things to note here:

First, of course, it makes little sense to make a totalitarian fascist dystopia your sole supplier of anything.

Second, rare earth elements are not rare. What they are is messy and annoying to extract and refine, a fact that China used to take over the market. Australia, Brazil, Canada, and, yes, the United States all have significant mineral reserves available. And studies suggest that a square mile of seafloor mud is enough to provide the entire world with these metals for a year.

Third, China of course does this kind of thing all the time, and has restricted or outright banned sales of rare earth elements to other countries before.

Fourth, and perhaps most interesting, China now only produces 10% of its own rare earth resources. The same problem with them being messy and annoying to extract led it to move production to illegal mining camps operating in Burma, bypassing what passes for the government and working with local militias.

Rare Earths really are a filthy business. Nothing more to be said.

Posted in 2025, China, Green | 1 Comment

Fencing was my sport.

Posted on April 3, 2025 by On the North River

The female fencer says the issue has turned her from a lifelong Democrat to a conservative Republican

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Minutes later, the referees dealt Turner a black card, which represents the most severe penalty, leading to expulsion from the tournament or event for serious rule infractions or unsportsmanlike behavior.

Turner said she was then escorted to the bout committee where she had to explain what she did. She says the members then handed her a copy of the association’s transgender policy and made her sign a document acknowledging the black card. Turner said she signed the document under objection.

I imagine that this rot is coming from the college and university level.  I can’t believe that the private clubs and adult fencing organizations are supporting this.  But I don’t really know, it’s been decades since I racked my blades.

How about this mendacious  POS statement issued by USA Fencing.

A USA Fencing spokesperson also told Fox News Digital that Turner was not penalized for her stance against trans inclusion, but simply for refusing to fence.

But Miss Turner was never given advanced warning or a choice to fence or not to fence a male fencer.  Her statement afterwards is clear and true; “Something needs to be done, and there are activists who have embedded themselves in authoritative positions in sports bodies.”

Bingo!  It is the activists who worm their way onto the ruling bodies of sports, doesn’t matter what sport because they don’t care about the sport. Doesn’t matter because they have one interest and one interest only; push the Progressive agenda and make the grotesque “normal“.  People who served on the ruling bodies of most amateur sports mainly used to be retired from that sport and served from a love of that activity or a sense of duty to give their time and efforts back.  My fencing instructor was Ed Richards, fencing champion nationally and in the Pan American games as a young man and later was a member of the governing body of US fencing, many decades ago.  I can’t conceive of him or the men and women like him supporting this insanity.

President Trump is right, the only way to fight these ‘rats in the wall’ is to cut all funding and support until these infected organizations clean themselves up.

Posted in 2025, Deviancy, When Progressives Attack | 11 Comments

I knew RFK was being put in the right place!

Posted on March 27, 2025 by On the North River

RFKJr. Rumored to Be on Verge of Blocking Big Pharma From Advertising on Television
—Ace

MAHA: RFK Jr. is moving to ban Big Pharma advertising on TV, a direct strike at the lifeblood of networks like CNN, MSNBC, & CNBC, where Big Pharma bankrolls the programming generating 75% of ad revenue. The US is 1 of 2 countries that still allow them.

I don’t really care about this issue, to be honest.

But here’s what I do care about:

1, Big Pharma does not advertise on television to influence consumers, who cannot of course just buy the medications themselves. (It can tell consumers to suggest the drug to a doctor, but there are other ways to market to doctors, and of course Big Pharma does that too.)

Big Pharma advertises on television to influence the media, because the media would die without their billions in advertising dollars.

The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox

Why are there so many pharma ads on TV?

HINT: It’s not to sell drugs.

A TV news president admitted to RFK Jr. that any host allowing him to speak negatively about Big Pharma on air would be FIRED because “this is where our advertisers are.”

Jaws dropped when former pharma insider @CalleyMeans
told Tucker Carlson on his show, “The news ad spending from pharma is a public relations lobbying tactic, essentially to BUY OFF the news… The media plays referee because they’re funded by so on all levels.”

There are only two countries that allow pharma ads on TV: one is the United States, and the other is New Zealand. And those pharma ads make up a BIG chunk of money.

RFK Jr. was told by a network executive that “during non-election years, during some months, up to 70% of his news division revenues are coming from pharma.”

During the 1950s and 1960s, when evidence about the dangers of smoking began to emerge, news organizations hesitated to expose Big Tobacco because they depended on the industry for its ad revenue.

Now, the same conflict exists today with the pharmaceutical industry and TV news. This is why the mainstream media is in full-blown PANIC over RFK Jr.’s HHS appointment. They know that once he gets in, he is going to END pharma ads on TV. And that’s going to be a devastating blow to their wallets.

Liz Wheeler says that the media will literally go bankrupt if Big Pharma is banned from advertising. They’re on life support as it is

Posted in 2025, MAGA, World's smallest violin | 6 Comments