- Perhaps coincidently, the day after the German President announced that he would boycott Russia’s Sochi Olympics to retest Putin’s abuse of individual freedoms, the Russina press has leaked that Pussy Riot, Greenpeace activists will be freed under amnesty
December 9th, 2013 - 1:19 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: German President refuses to go to Russian Olympics, Russia issues amnesty
December 9th, 2013 - 1:07 pm § in Misc.
Jimmy Carter to join Barack, Bill, George W at Nelson’s Funeral. WWMD?
WWJMD… what would Mandela do (in Israel/Palestine?) Mr. Carter will, in my opinion, emerge as one of America’s great presidents. He gets dissed by the Repricans as part of their effort to lionize Reagan, to pretend that their senile old man ended the cold war, to ignore the war crimes in[...]
December 9th, 2013 - 12:00 pm § in Misc.
Mandela Hatred
It’s as if the poor bugger now has to bear your entire self-flagellating white post-colonial bien pensant guilt; look! Famous nice black man dies! Let’s re-run the entire history of South Africa. That’s better than watching the country we’re in being flattened by a storm. Rod[...]
December 9th, 2013 - 10:33 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Are we bringing the Walmart Model to the Universities?
Pope Francis has described pay too low to allow workers to better themselves as “wage slavery.” This topic has come up on THE Ave before. Taken to its extreme, Washington State now has “Western Governors University” .. a university with no faculty. at the UW A[...]
December 9th, 2013 - 9:59 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: Who is this?
a. Milton Berle's wife b. Obama's grandmother c. My wife's cousin d. Bibi Netanyahu's mother e. First transsexual Dane[...]
December 9th, 2013 - 4:49 am § in Misc.
NORTH KOREA: Family Feuds Have Consequences
What The Kim Family’s Youngest Brother is Doing to Korea Yesterday THE Ave reported on the internecine family feud between the 30 year old “Dear Leader” and his family. We wrote of the consequences of family feuds for others. Recently Amnesty International reported on satellit[...]
December 9th, 2013 - 4:31 am § in Misc.
Racist States: South Carolina Part 2.
Today the Palmetto State celebrates this heritage. The Daughters of the Confederacy run the Confederate Museum in Charleston and the Confederate flag flies over the state’s capital, it is not really surprising. Organizations like The League of the South call for the independence of the old So[...]