Washington, Jan 8 – A new survey suggests that Americans do not consider marijuana as dangerous as other legal substances like alcohol and tobacco. The do not consider it as wicked as other illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine, CNN reported. That’s one reason why a CNN/ORC International[...]
Archive for April, 2014
BREAKING NEWS: Armed Russian Tourists Invade Ukraine
“Russian Spring,” the website. (from the Daily Beast) Adventure seekers who dream about reviving the U.S.S.R. can go online to familiarize themselves with the slogan, “Leave for the front! Glory to Russia!” along with rules of behavior for a Russian tourist who wishes to get to “the ter[...]
April 16th, 2014 - 8:57 am § in Uncategorized
Canada Cancels All Home Delivery of Mail
Don’t send Aunt Betty up in Quebec anything by mail next Christmas. By the time she gets around to picking up your fruit cake, it may be mid January. Canada Post is cancelling home delivery of mail! Of course this is happening in a country where blizzards are common and the friendly gove[...]
April 16th, 2014 - 3:24 am § in Misc.
How does WGU teach the nurses to give an online sitz bath?
NURSING DEGREES ON LINE YAY![...]
Saudi Arabia: government deals with witches and jinns.
KSA facing increased cases of witchcraft “Preachers who earn their living by exorcizing spirits should charge affordable fees.” The Saudi government news agency reports that witchcraft is rampant in the Western Province. Makkah and Madinah have recorded the highest number of cases, sourc[...]
April 15th, 2014 - 11:24 am § in Misc.
A $15/hr wages makes all Americans rich!
from Jim Miller at Sound Politics If you are single, then by world standards, probably in the top 5 percent, almost certainly in the top 10 percent. Here’s how I come to that tentative conclusion: A $15 an hour wage gives you a yearly gross income of $30,000, assuming you work 40 h[...]
April 15th, 2014 - 8:58 am § in The Ave Scene
Dr. Phage: Tax Day, 35th Aniverary of JP Sartre’s Death
SARTRE Each year, UNESCO — which apparently doesn’t have a lot to take up its time — celebrates World Philosophy Day. This year, the theme was “Thinking the Anthropocene.” As a public service to the Community of Philosophy, and because we’ve always seen[...]
April 15, How Not to Pay Tax … Join Snowden and give up your passport!
Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June of last year from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008. Why[...]
Why my wife will not eat beans (or rice, or corn) during Pesach
Why Kitniyot Passover Fight Is Literally Full of Beans A take-off from an essay in The Forward. For those who read THE Ave, or just know me, I am (on my father’s side) a Sephard … a descendent of the Jews expelled from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella. My wife, however is a Rush …[...]