“Ode to the Manatee” or “Look at all that Weed, Man!”

Posted on September 29, 2011 by On the North River

Wasn’t yesterday a great day? Happy Birthday, again, to the happy paddler with the Bud-Lite.

Now folks I’d like to consider the Manatee.

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From Maggies Farm, 2012 Speak Up!

Posted on September 29, 2011 by On the North River

The Morning Meeting at MSM Headquarters 9/29

Dr. Mercury

 

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Last Week in September, end of Summer or begining of Fall

Posted on September 27, 2011 by On the North River

As with much in life, and on this blog, it depends on your point of view.

Serfs in Warrenville

In this country, is there any private property? Elizabeth Warren seems to think that all wealth flows from the government and consequently all goods derived from that, our own labor, must be at the disposal of that government. Stalin thought the same thing. To justify this wealth redistribution she blabbers on about “a Social Contract”.  This, in her mind, trumps individual rights. Well, nowhere in this country does anyone pledge allegiance to the social contract and the income redistribution for which it stands.

The Real Price of Made in China   Just found this bloggers site and I’m adding it to my blogroll, excellent.

After the fire, we re-built and of course had to re-stock and furnish the new house. With a lot of insurance money in hand we went shopping. Six years later, over a third of the “made in China” dishes, pans, chairs and whatever have broke or are looking very shoddy. Another third looks like we purchased from the clearance sale of the old East India Company. Makes you yearn for the fine workmanship and dedication to craftsmanship of Mexico. I’ve paid over eighty thousand dollars for the right to say this,“There is no price, no price what-so-ever, at which “Made in China” is worth it.” – John the River.

Jury Sees Rope, Pantyhose Used to Tie Up Girls in Deadly Connecticut Home Invasion

Also, a audio-taped confession of details of the youngest daughters rape and murder. Plus, the killers took pictures of their victims on a cellphone stolen from the family. The phone with the pictures was found on the defendant when he was arrested. Remember that in twenty years when these pieces of filth are finally executed and the liberal media start throwing mud on the “unfair” and “biased” trial held back in 2011.

Get a gun, get a gun for your children’s sake, get a gun to protect yourself and your family and never give it up. Don’t give it up to threats of attackers. Don’t give it up to threats of the police. Don’t give it up to the threats of politicians. Don’t talk about your gun, don’t tell anyone about your gun you don’t have to. Vote against any politician who wants to curtail your right to self-defense, IN ANY WAY.

Posted by John the River.

Greek Parliament Passes New Property Tax Bill

Greek property tax a band-aid, no long term cure

“Economists said taxing private property worth an estimated 400 billion euros by an average 4 euros per square meter is expected to weigh on the economy, deepening the recession by up to half a percentage point.”

Still don’t know if the tax is for just the structure or the land. If for the house and if my house was in Greece (I’d sell the snow thrower) then I would get a charge of 744 euros on my electric bill. The Greek government is slapping the tax on the electric bill because the federal tax system is so corrupt and inefficient.  If you don’t pay, you lose your power.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RE-ENACTOR SAYS U.S. CAPITOL POLICE TREAD ON ME

“violated several laws that prohibit possessing or carrying dangerous weapons and explosives.”

It is supposed to be generally understood that gunpowder, an explosive, is considered ammunition when carried in a powder flask or such. Less than a pound of gunpowder is not (unfortunately) going to blow up the White House Red Shed.

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Schools, Polictics and Cons

Posted on September 26, 2011 by On the North River

Schools put money, reputation over student safety

Why the MA Child safety law has no teeth. Is, in fact, un-enforceable.

Faking Your Caller ID

Special alert to my industry friends, check this out, wow! And on a web page no less.

“However, services have popped up online that push this to the limit whereby they specify the Caller ID to be shown on each phone call on a call by call basis.”

 In fact, you can see how it works right here for free:

www.SpoofCard.com (I’d recommend that you DO NOT click, and DEFINITELY do not use the free trail)

Simply enter in the number you are calling from (say your home or cell number), the number you are calling (say, your friend’s number), and the Caller ID number you want to have displayed on your friend’s phone when your call comes through. The system will call you, and then you will hear silence while the system then calls your friend (while displaying the Caller ID you just entered in the form.

Verizon charges a minium of $9.95 a month for Caller ID, if this kind of thing can be done, why waste your money?

Maine Woman Seeks Way To Vote Straight Republican And Still Go To Cocktail Parties

Be a Unenrolled Voter!!

Obama announces debt plan built on taxes on the rich.

Village Voice’s Michael Feingold: “Kill the Billionaires!”

“Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs”, does that ring a bell?

OK, kill the Billionaires and take their money, that relieves the pressure for a while. What do you do for a encore?

Who wants to step up to the plate and be the next crop of sheep to the slaughter. Who is going to invest in, run, and grow the new industries and businesses that produce the wealth you are going to need to steal next year to keep going?

Got it, next we go after the millionaires, then the “hundred-thousandaires”, then the, the, the… Hey! What are you looking at me for?

On Facebook, Rich Galen reminds us: “4 yrs ago the GOP leaders were Giuliani (28%) & Thompson (23). Dems were Hillary (47) & Obama (26).”

Which means, in 2008, the Democrats won the race to the bottom. (Talking about McCain, not Sarah).

Color me Stunned. In California, of all places, common sense in high office. When you read the name at the end you won’t believe your eyes.

To the Members of the California State Senate:

I am returning Senate Bill 105 without my signature.

This measure would impose criminal penalties on a child under the age of 18 and his or her parents if the child skis or snowboards without a helmet.

While I appreciate the value of wearing a ski helmet, I am concerned about the continuing and seemingly inexorable transfer of authority from parents to the state. Not every human problem deserves a law.

I believe parents have the ability and responsibility to make good choices for their children.

Sincerely, Edmund J. Brown

(That’s Gov. Jerry Brown, Governor Moonbeam)

 

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Mid-Weekend browsing

Posted on September 25, 2011 by On the North River

According to Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler, you do not have a fundamental right to consume the food you grow or own or raise.

Old saying that gets truer every year day,“It doesn’t matter if you have no interest in politics, Politics is interested in you”.

The Revolt of the Greek Tax Slaves

When the few that still produce in Greece refuse to pay the new taxes, instead are willing to fight and/or go to prison then its time to call it a revolution.

Self-employed workers like Angelos Belitsakos have had enough of rising taxes and have begun to revolt.

Our revolution is coming. Arm yourselves.

Five myths about millionaires

Interesting that even The Washington Post is beginning to get it.

Quote: There’s a reason why beta males have stopped holding open doors for women. Chivalry requires gratitude.

Chateau Law #3: In the state of nature, men are expendable.

Sheriffs ditch Gov., get tough on immigrants

And in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, believe it or not!

Fixed

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From totally not adrian

A “Social Contract” Is Not A Constitution

“[Elizabeth Warren’s] supporters are enthusiastic because she is in essence pleading natural law in defense of Obama’s tax policies. It’s pretty good natural law, too. Parts of it sound conservative. She appeals to “the social contract” as opposed to the libertarian precept. She says that capitalists are greedy, which they are, and that they ought to have more sympathy for the rest of us who built the social order that allows them to get rich. Time to give some back. What’s wrong with that?

“Well, to start with, social contracts aren’t Constitutions. They Social Contract is a convenient fiction, but in fact there isn’t one, and to the extent that there is anything like one, Thomas Hobbes comes a lot closer to the agreement that creates a state than Rousseau or even Thomas Aquinas. Social Contracts sound great, but you can’t sit down and read the Social Contract. Constitutions are specific….

“Constitutions try to limit government. Social contracts may be seen as a limit of government power or as an empowerment, depending on your point of view.” — Social Contract and Constitutions | Jerry Pournelle

Contagion

“We’ve got a lot of sad people walking around who like to engage in a belief that individual effort is futile, that individual success is an impossibility and a nullity. They don’t want to face up to the fact that somebody else did something better than they did. They’d rather engage in a systemic belief that there is no prosperity, there is only a state of being “rich” which means you must’ve ripped someone off.

“That’s what makes them so incredibly dangerous. They are not trying to foment revolution of any kind. Revolutions can fail. They aren’t in the midst of a revolution, they’re in the midst of a sickness. They’re using narcissism to self-medicate their sickness, reaching for it, just like an alcoholic reaches for the next shot of bourbon.” — House of Eratosthenes

Posted by Vanderleun at September 23, 2011 6:15 AM

Last Word:

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Rainy day bloging.

Posted on September 24, 2011 by On the North River

Return of the real Obama

quote: To impose a tax that actually impoverishes our communal bank account (the U.S. Treasury) is ridiculous. It is nothing but punitive. It benefits no one — not the rich, not the poor, not the government. For Obama, however, it brings fairness, which is priceless.

Perry on In-State Tuition Foes: ‘I Don’t Think You Have a Heart.’

Stupid, stupid, stupid…why would a republican candidate want to sound like a democrat? If another republican disagrees with the Texas policy of offering low tuition rates to the children of illegals then its OK to defend that policy but don’t attack them as racist or heartless. Because that is what a Democrat would do.

Plenty of us happen to disagree with Perry.  Public money is like sugar, spread it around and draw the ants. Or in this case the illegal immigrants. We don’t want more reasons for them to cross the boarder we want fewer reasons for them to do so. In my state, at one point we were handing out free automobiles and gas (Yes we did). Since we can’t seem to find the balls to defend the border, cut out the things that illegals come here for. The free healthcare, the free housing, the free necessaries of life (EBT), and the free or even reduced education. If they are here llegally, take it away.

Problem solved.

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Spontaneous, weird and Big Brother

Posted on September 23, 2011 by On the North River

Irish pensioner ‘died of spontaneous human combustion’

A pensioner whose body was found totally burned died of spontaneous human combustion, a coroner has ruled.

No, not from the National Enquirer.

OnStar Tracks Your Car Even When You Cancel Service

Then they sell the information (speed,location, etc.). Remember, those units include microphones, think about that before you lend your car to your son for his hot date.

I love this cartoon…

I expected something like it was coming when I saw this…(not Photoshopped)

Barack Obama waves during a photo-op for the Open Government Partnership at the United Nations. (The face he’s blocking is delegate from Mongolia).

Remember, it’s really all about him.

On the northern front, so-called writer Joe McGinniss is pushing the bounds of what can be published in the USA without being sued for libel. His own words seem to indict him, that he was unable to find any verifiable dirt on the Palin family, just spitful slander. But he published it anyway…

On the lighter side…

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For an on-line friend

Posted on September 22, 2011 by On the North River

My Father Asks For Nothing

I believe the B-24 he’s writing about is the Collins Foundation traveling exhibit. I’ve been up in the B-17 they operate. We flew out of Plymouth, I got to help “walk” the propellers around, preflight.

I lost the original photos in the ’04 house fire, I scanned this from a framed survivor saved from the house. I took this image while we were in the air over the South Shore, but I don’t think thats what he is looking at.

Sipp’s father passed away on March 1st, 2009. God bless them all, all the old warriors.

My wife also died in March.

March is the cruelest month.

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Thoughts from the great void

Posted on September 22, 2011 by On the North River

Airing Anti-Palin Bilge at NBC

This “writer” is the jerk who rented the house next door to the Palins in Alaska and stared at them until Todd built a taller fence.

Three Worst States to Conduct Business: California, New York, Illinois

Survey here.

  • Illinois, New York, and California all have Democratic governors.
  • Illinois, New York, and California all have governors beholden to public unions.
  • Illinois, New York, and California are not right to work states.
  • Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina are all right-to-work states.
  • Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina do not have governors beholden to public unions.

Massachusetts came in sixth.

Speaking of bad business climate, this is from Australia.

For clear business thinking there is Coyote Blog, this is on Solyndra…

And lets not forget…

LightSquared: Obama’s Dangerous Broadband Boondoggle

Own any GPS devices? Will you miss them?

My nice-guy but leftist minister abused the church email privileges again, sending out a missive begging everyone to phone or write their congress critter about the “shameful” planned execution of Troy Davis. You know, the cop killer who deliberately shot and killed a wounded officer in full view of 34 witnesses 22 years ago. Until I saw his email I hadn’t been aware that Troy Davis was black, but if my minister is fired up about it, then he must be black.

He was.

I shouldn’t have his murderers photo up without remembering his victim.

I hadn’t paid much attention to the case until then so in the course of putting together the daily post I did some checking (checking is a journalistic technique that involves fact checking coupled with logical analysis…not usually encountered from the Media or leftists)  I found that Al Sharpton, Jimmy Carter, and Bishop TuTu all support Troy Davis.

Bastard MUST BE as guilty as Hell. (That’s my logical analysis) Here are two good links, with good follow-up comments (something I wish I could get)…

A short note on the Troy Davis execution

Mumia’s The Word

And the last word for today, a liberal activist threw a pink, woman’s slip at WI Rep. Vos (R) during a political rally. The slip is being auctioned on Ebay and the proceeds will be donated to the GOP of WI. Notice how the Dems never go for funny, just with anything mean spirited?

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The next hundred posts, getting started.

Posted on September 20, 2011 by On the North River

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Controversially Made in China

Roger Ferch with the National Steel Bridge Alliance says “I saw one estimate of the fabrication man hours, the labor to construct this bridge in the fabrication shop of more than a million man hours. That’s a million man hours of work that should have been done in the US.”

And each job, Ferch, says, has a multiplier effect “because not only do you lose the fabrication jobs, you lose those people paying taxes, those people buying groceries, those people buying clothing, and the list goes on.”

Fired but still working

Fired by the state of Illinois for cause, caught taking bribes, and other actionable behavior and still drawing pay and benefits due to a IL law that protects political appointees. This was Barry’s master class in how to run a government.

IMF warns of double-dip recession risk as UK growth forecast cut

IMF says global economy has entered “a dangerous new phase”, as it reduces growth estimates for Britain from 1.5pc to 1.1pc.

Is Barack Obama the American Neil Kinnock?

Who is Neil Kinnock? Read the story.

Reagan did it right

And Bird Dog puts it straight and clear.

The Day I Left the Left

I liked this quote.

“I was not prejudiced, which implies passing judgment before reviewing the evidence. I was now postjudiced—I had reviewed the evidence and concluded that many people simply weren’t worth saving.”

 

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