Trip to Cuba

Posted on August 16, 2011 by On the North River

sonia-bel: Trip to Cuba

This is a very strange girl, naked pictures of herself on her blog, anti-communist and democrat. Loves Obama, hated George Bush.

But this post is good and very interesting.

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Wednesday News

Posted on August 16, 2011 by On the North River

The Bronte’s and the London riots

You couldn’t get further away from the England of the Brontes if you traveled to the Moon.

More, I’m afraid.

Find the scooter looters: Thieving riot thugs caught on camera ambushing biker

Teenager, 16, ‘killed kindly OAP with single punch’ during riots

Two Facebook users who urged people to join in riots online are jailed for FOUR years

Oxford law graduate ‘threw bricks at police’ and sons of a evangelist minister ‘stole from supermarket’ during looting

‘Say sorry to your victims and clean up in an orange jumpsuit’: Clegg promises pay-back for rioters

Back in America, Bad News for Mitt.

Oh my: Perry up 11 points over Romney in new Rasmussen

poll

Thank God.

The fight deepens over the Carbon Tax in Australia

“During the ice ages of the last three million years, the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere got as low as one hundred and seventy-two parts per million.  Plant growth shuts down at one hundred and fifty parts per million.  Life above sea level was almost snuffed out due to a lack of carbon dioxide.  We were only twenty-two parts per million from extinction.  We came so close to dying out due to a lack of carbon dioxide.  And, for those amongst us who like plants and animals, they would have died out too.”

The more we can increase the carbon dioxide level of the atmosphere, the safer life on this planet will be.

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Tuesday News

Posted on August 16, 2011 by On the North River

Report: Pakistan Granted China Access to U.S.’s Top-Secret Bin Laden Raid Chopper

Neither Pakistan or China is our friend, Pakistan merely hates us, China is spending every penny from their profits in their trade with us to build a war machine to destroy us.

Mild Radiation From Japan Reached US

“The levels we recorded aren’t a concern for human health. In fact, it took sensitive instruments, measuring radioactive decay for hours after lengthy collection of the particles to precisely measure the amount of radiation,” said Thiemens.

A Better Browser? Firefox 6 Is Out, 7 and 8 Are Coming

Firefox is the browser of choice for this blog.

‘Veterans in Defense of Liberty’ Rises Up to Give Veterans a New Voice in the American Conversation

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

Paul Krugman’s Suggestion to End the Economic Slump: Mobilize for a Space Alien Attack

Alien Invasion: How to Defend Earth

Fight it out boys.

Dutch Scientists Make Bulletproof Human Skin. Sort Of.

Spider silk genetically bonded to your epidermis, not a look for super models but great for the worker drones/soldier cyborgs in our future. No more road rash?! (comment on another blog: Astronauts of the future will have skin able to survive zero pressure without a space suit)

California’s ‘Amazon Tax’ Already Proving a Bust

law of unintended consequences strikes again.

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“In Britain, everything is policed except crime.”

Posted on August 15, 2011 by On the North River

Lessons for us from London in flames

“Within living memory, the city in flames on our TV screens every night governed a fifth of the Earth’s surface and a quarter of its population. When you’re imperialists on that scale, there are bound to be a few mishaps along the way. But nothing the British Empire did to its subject peoples has been as total and catastrophic as what a post-great Britain did to its own.”

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Monday News (back before I started to write, you know descriptive titles)

Posted on August 15, 2011 by On the North River

Advice from Curtis & Leroy:

Limit all US politicians to two terms..
One in office
One in prison……
Illinois already does this and it appears it’s starting to work for them.

That’s what I am, far right.

I always wondered what that meant.

Mom and her daughters, not me I’m perfect ;-}

Next, if the stock market tanks. Why would we care?

So maybe the top ten could take the money out of the market and start some new companies, and hire a whole lot of people, and bring back some manufacturing to the USA so their next toilet lasts longer than their last marriage…but no. Until we get rid of Barry and his gang, hide the money.

finally, for Chuck, and Jim.

‘GIs Of Comedy’ Serving America….Jokes

Sums it up

The Cornered Cat: A Woman’s Guide to Concealed Carry

The answer to liberals that think its better to find a woman raped and dead in a alley then alive, unharmed and discussing bullet placement with the police officer.

Gun crimes drop at Virginia bars and restaurants

After a new concealed carry law goes into effect. So now the Ladies and Gentlemen can discuss the finer points of shooting over a fine Bordeaux.

Obama Job Approval

Approve 39%  -3

Disapprove 54%  +3

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August. If your not out on the water now, you never will be.

Posted on August 14, 2011 by On the North River

I love a co-operative subject.

This group was the “Paul Johnson Paddle” if I got the sign right as I drove up. If not please someone correct me.

River flowers are beautiful in August.

Got there at slack water. By the time the tide gets to Old Washington Street Bridge its about three hours behind the mouth of the river in Scituate. Example, yesterday at Damons point the tide was high at 12:06pm, the ebb of the tide and the slack water started about 2:45pm and the turn of the tide under the bridge was around 3:12pm.

On the northwest side of the bridge, during the last repair work,  this wide and level grade to the street was created. The trees and brush have been removed and access to the water is made easy. Is it deliberate? What is the town and abutters attitude about parking for long periods? Anyone know these answers, comment please.

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Sunday News

Posted on August 14, 2011 by On the North River

Telecom Italia sells unit to Burlington firm

I still have an interest in these things.

Orion spaceship

The comments at the Herald website were the usual whining about wasting money in space. Let me say this very slowly,”You can’t spend money in space, there are no ATM’s in space nor Ferengi space traders. And if you space a lobbyist in space, you can’t hear him scream.” All the wealth in the universe lies just a few feet beyond our horizons but if we don’t fund the technology we will need to grasp it, it will be forever out of our reach. 

More likely, we’ll be buying it from the Chinese at their prices.

Tom & Ray Magliozzi / Car Talk

I love these guys.

Suicide gunmen storm home of Karzai ally

Taliban have succeeded in three other assassinations of Karzai’s allies and family within the last month. I’m calling my predication that NATO and The US will run out of money and the will to continue before the Taliban run out of suicide assassination teams.

  I’m afraid that Afghanistan will have barbarism for another hundred years.

Syrian president defies US and sends in the tanks

With Obama it’s the smart bet.

 

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Saturday News

Posted on August 13, 2011 by On the North River

The North River Great Race_July 30.  Photos!

Meant to try it this year, but I was busy falling off a paddleboard in Hingham Harbor taking a class in SOT paddleboarding.

So, how bad do they think the riots and lawlessness in Britain are going to get…

That bad.

 

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Mention at 11, thank you so much.

Posted on August 13, 2011 by On the North River

Veteran fears patriotism, his faith at odds at Mass

By Joe Fitzgerald

Bob sounded defensive at the beginning of his call.

“Look, I’m not a guy who normally picks up the phone to call someone like you.”

He identified himself as a former Marine, 60, intensely proud that one of his sons, a Marine sergeant, has completed two tours in Iraq.

Patriotism means a lot to him, and so does his faith.

“I want to be a good American,” he said. “And I want to be a good Catholic. But I feel I’m being told, ‘Make up your mind, Bob; which do you want to be?’ Lately I’ve been walking out of Mass so frustrated, and last Sunday was the worst. Continue reading →

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The South River in Scituate and Marshfield

Posted on August 12, 2011 by On the North River

One hundred and thirteen years ago there was a single entrance to the Atlantic for two separate rivers, the North River which ran from Hanover to Scituate and the South River that ran through Marshfield. One storm, in one night, moved that entrance roughly a mile further north, isolating the southern part of Scituate known as Humarock . (briefly there were two openings to the sea, but the original southern one silted up and became part of the sand dunes.) On the same night the same storm drove a storm surge up the river, raising the high tide mark by many feet and drowning hundreds of Market Hunters, who provided fresh wild ducks and geese to the markets in Boston.

Wow, thats a lot of history! Can you tell I didn’t get into the water today? But I do have photos.

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I grew up in this area (No thats a lie, I never grew up.) I am familiar with this area having done a lot of swimming and boating around here in my youth. Even a few years ago the parking and access problem wasn’t as bad. Today, every spot I tried was posted.  One spot, a lovely dead end road with a tarred turn-around close to the river with a easy launch from the bank of a particularly nice scenic spot on the South River is adorned with a NO PARKING ANY TIME sign.

Nice spot.

Travel to Hawaii some day, while you’re there notice the public access areas in between every hotel. Each public beach access facility has parking, showers and a nice strip of beach that no one can chase you off of. Hawaiians don’t believe in private ownership of the beaches. The Yankees got there to late and were never able to change their minds.

God-Damn Yankees!!

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