William Gates III on the left. Alfred E. Newman on the right. French economist Thomas Piketty says the world’s richest man loves everything about his 2014 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, except for the part about how the rich should pay more in taxes. According to the Huff Post: Bill to[...]
Archive for January 4th, 2015
January 4th, 2015 - 11:35 pm § in The Ave Scene
Bill Gates Thinks He Is Too Exceptional to Pay Taxes
January 4th, 2015 - 1:23 pm § in America
NYPD Officers Bring Shame on Themselves
For a second time groups of police officers attending a funeral for Officers Rafael Ramos, left, and Wenjian Liu turned their backs on New York City mayor Bill de Blasio as he read a eulogy for a fallen officer. The officers, a smaller group then at the funeral for Officer Ramos, acted despite a r[...]
Putin’s Future
Silencing Putin’s foes won’t be easy By Lucian Kim Reuters Vladimir Putin’s strategy toward demonstrators has always been to break up any protest, no matter how small, to stop it from snowballing into something uncontrollable. But silencing his chief foe, opposition leader Alexei Na[...]
January 4th, 2015 - 11:27 am § in Misc.
Radical Republicans Pledge to Replace SNAP with SOUP.
One hundred percent of newly elected Republican Senators have agreed to vote to eliminate the food stamps program including; Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike R[...]
January 4th, 2015 - 1:39 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Quotes of the Founders
“We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition… In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man’s religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, no[...]
January 4th, 2015 - 1:39 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: Whose Birthday is 0n 25 December?
A. Isaac Newton B. Simon LePlace C. Marquis de Lafayette D. John Hancock E. Renee Descarte [...]