UN chief says over 100,000 people killed in Syria UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday raised the death toll in Syria’s civil war to more than 100,000, up from nearly 93,000 just over a month ago. Ban called on the Syrian government and opposition to halt the v[...]
Archive for July, 2013
July 25th, 2013 - 1:19 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Why did A-Rod leave Seattle?
A-Rod Looking At Possible Lifetime Ban...[...]
Memo to Repricans: How is this for a way of lowering Medicare costs?
Brazilian teen auctioning virginity to pay mum’s medical bills, Ed .. but says nothing about whether intravaginal ultrasound counts. A teenage girl from Brazil is selling her virginity to the highest bidder to help cover her mother’s medical expenses. According to reports her mother has pl[...]
July 24th, 2013 - 11:10 am § in America
Double Standards … you can get manslaughter for Killing Someone With A Bike
George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin using a gun. So if Zimmerman killed Trayvon with a bike, the system would have convicted the wannabe cop of manslaughter? San Francisco cyclist guilty of manslaughter in legal first Chris Bucchere pleads guilty after running down 71-year-old Sutchi Hui, in what[...]
Breaking News: Snowden Learning to Eat Borscht
Lawyer: Snowden to stay in Russia for now Russia, land of the free is loetting Edward Snowden join tax didgers like Depardieu and Bardot, as a refugee from the evil west, be settling in for a long stay in Russia, his lawyer indicated Wednesday, saying the National Security Agency leaker plans to s[...]
NAFTA Is NOT The End of the World!
Norm., with all due respect, your post opposing free trade is way over the top. Free trade agreements SHOULD be a liberal cause. NAFTA, by every measure I have seen, has benefited all three countries. Workers in Canada..or Mexico are people too. Protectionism benefits only those wealthy enough to [...]
July 23rd, 2013 - 11:23 pm § in Misc.
Names for The New Brit King
With all respect for history, some names of English Monarchs should return to modern usuauge. Here are our suggestions: Æthelstan Aethelred Cnut Eadred ,,,, THE Ave’s choice Eadwig Harold Harefoot Harthacnut Edgar the Ætheling Sweyn Forkbeard [...]
Commentary by Norm: How much do you know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
The end of life as we know it? If you DO know about TPP, you may not be so sure that line is much exaggerated. And the TPP has a sequel brewing, the TAFTA. MoveOn is starting up a group to battle against this “NAFTA on Steroids” or “Corporate Coup”, as many are calling it[...]
Free Speech Leads to Dismissal of Tenured Faculty at Washington State College
NOTE TO FACULTY: DO NOT — USE YOUR UW EMAIL THE Ave has long suggested that UW faculty use UW email as little as possible. This story makes that point: A recent newsletter of the Society for Human Resources Management: raises disturbing issues of free speech on a Washington state coll[...]
Commentary by Norm: Is Free Trade Good For Us? Pt. 1.
In Response to SMS Defence of Free Trade: Respectfully, do you realize that the TPP and TAFTA would prevent any country from responding to “hot money” by outlawing capital controls — (the only country to escape relatively unscathed from the Asian Tigers meltdown of ’97-’[...]