Where’s the oil?

Posted on April 29, 2022 by On the North River

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Are people really that easily fooled?

Posted on April 28, 2022 by On the North River

“The Biden administration is desperate to get to June when they can start to cycle through the anniversary of the 2021 inflation spike beginning and start to see annual inflation comparisons level off.

The rate of inflation will drop once the statistical year-over-year comparisons reach the same moment in the prior year. The fed will raise interest rates in May and then use the June inflation rate decline as a false talking point to highlight how their policy is working.

They wait for May, because they need to wait for the calendar, nothing else. Inflation is measured as the percentage of change from the prior year. By waiting until the inflation is measured against the first wave of rising prices, it will give the illusion of a decline in inflation.”
– Sundance

[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/22/treasury-secretary-yellen-we-will-have-to-put-up-with-inflation-a-while-longer/]

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Perfect gift for that retired Top Gun.

Posted on April 28, 2022 by On the North River

Drones for Ukraine has a unique fundraising tool: Donate $1,000 or more to their effort to procure modern drones to defend against the Russian invasion, get a genuine piece of aircraft skin from a downed Russian jet fighter.

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“A Little Tin Box?”

Posted on April 27, 2022 by On the North River

Report: Joe Biden Failed to Report More than $5.2 Million in Income He Used to Pay Hunter’s Legal Fees.

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Memes seen last night.

Posted on April 25, 2022 by On the North River

And finally…

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Can you figure out the mystery before the answer is given?

Posted on April 21, 2022 by On the North River

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The smart home company Insteon has vanished.

Posted on April 21, 2022 by On the North River

This is going out of business with flair!

The entire company seems to have abruptly shut down just before the weekend, breaking users’ cloud-dependent smart-home setups without warning. Users say the service has been down for three days now despite the company status page saying, “All Services Online.” The company forums are down, and no one is replying to users on social media.

As Internet of Things reporter Stacey Higginbotham points out, high-ranking Insteon executives, including CEO Rob Lilleness, have scrubbed the company from their LinkedIn accounts. In the time it took to write this article, Lilleness also removed his name and picture from his LinkedIn profile. It seems like that is the most communication longtime Insteon customers are going to get.

I loved the old X-10 tech, had the old house wired with it.  Very dependable.  Never interested in any “Smart-House” system that depended on the internet or the “Cloud”.

All remaining X-10 products are made in China now and are useless, so the new house is ‘dumber’ than the old house.

With its servers down, the Insteon app appears worthless, and users’ automations and schedules have stopped working. Many of Insteon’s wall switches were actual electrical switches, so the worst that will ever happen is that they become dumb switches.

“Dumb Switches” that cost the homeowner $25 apiece instead of $3.

Some company located probably in China will buy out the Insteon network and set their own prices for customers to regain access.  The problem I’ve found with Chinese apps is they all demand you give them access to your home wifi network to function.   If you do that, then strange things can start happening at your house.  I had one wifi security camera,  I set it up to scan outside and the driveway, but every morning when I came down it was pointed 180 degrees and was scanning the interior of the house.

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Tighten your belts.

Posted on April 20, 2022 by On the North River

Price of corn hits 9-year high as surge in commodities continues.

Also: As war in Ukraine threatens global wheat supply, Washington farmers ‘pray for rain’ and good harvest.

And: Rising Fertilizer Costs are Catching up to Rice Farmers, Threatening Supplies.

If elections have consequences, stolen elections have the worst consequences.

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Biden achievement; The Strategic Empty Space.

Posted on April 19, 2022 by On the North River

Biden’s emergency SPR oil release is going to Europe…

Posted by Kane on April 19, 2022 11:55 am

Joe Biden’s decision to release 180 million barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve – one million barrels per day for 180 days, ending just before the midterm elections which the Democrats will lose in an avalanche – was meant to help lower US gasoline prices. Instead, it is heading for Europe.

According to Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter, the Suezmax ship Advantage Spring – sailing for Rotterdam, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg – received emergency SPR sweet crude from Energy Transfer’s Nederland oil facility around April 1 for export.

According to Matt Smith, oil analyst at commodity data firm Kpler, this is the first export of SPR crude since last November. Which means the oil was apportioned from Biden’s shock SPR release.

They will tell you that this doesn’t mean what you think it means, that oil is ‘fungible’, meaning that a million barrels shipped to the EU is the same as sending that oil to an American refinery.
Do you buy that?

The oil is going to Europe because they are pinched for supplies of Russian oil and what oil they can buy from Russia they must agree to buy in the Russian ruble. If the EU starts buying oil in rubles instead of dollars the days of the American dollar reigning supreme will be threatened. This is a problem, a very serious problem, that is new and entirely the fault of the Biden Administration.
In the meantime, to continue operation at the level needed, American refineries are buying on the ‘spot market’ at premium prices.

Don’t hold your breath waiting to hear this story covered or explained by the MSM,

The job of the MSM is to cover stories…
… with a pillow, until they stop breathing.

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Patriots Day.

Posted on April 18, 2022 by On the North River

Tax Day is delayed in Massachusetts.

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Most don’t know why.

We don’t teach History anymore. Today I was at my PT for spinal, I asked the young therapist if she knew why the race in Boston is called the “Marathon”. She didn’t so I talked to her for five minutes about the Persians, the Greeks, and the battlefield of Marathon. And of an Athenian runner named Pheidippides. We were twenty miles south of Boston. Boston, the “Athens of American”.
Patriots Day should mean something more than, no trash collection, delayed one day.

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