“Multiple states [have] received communications from the USPS general counsel … warning secretaries of state” that it can’t “guarantee that mail-in ballots will be received in time to be counted,” CNN reported on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Mail deliveries slowed signi[...]
Archive for August, 2020
August 14th, 2020 - 5:00 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Postal service warns states it can’t meet ballot deadlines
August 14th, 2020 - 4:31 pm § in Misc.
Truck driver who hit school bus helped injured kids before dying
A 25-year-old Florida man driving a rental truck that crashed into a school bus on a highway near Bacon, Georgia, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, helped rescue injured students before being taken to a hospital where he died from his own crash injuries. Read story here. The school bus driver, also injur[...]
August 14th, 2020 - 3:22 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
How Trump could lose and remain president
It’s implausible, and seems unlikely for now, but here’s one way it could happen: “Trump makes unfounded claims that China interfered in the election, the Justice Department investigates, the legislatures of four swing states Biden appeared to win decide to refuse to certify the El[...]
3-Minute Movie: “The Black Hole”
This is a morality tale, the moral being: Don’t mess with forces you don’t understand. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Supreme Court lets states relax mailing voting rules
The Supreme Court turned aside a GOP drive to enforce pre-Covid mail voting restrictions in a ruling that upheld Rhode Island’s relaxation of its witness requirement for mail ballots. The ruling was 6-3. Read story here. Last week, a federal judge ordered New York to count primary ballots lack[...]
August 13th, 2020 - 7:09 pm § in Politics
Dead man tweeting
Herman Cain, who died 2 weeks ago, freaked out Twitter uses by tweeting today (below). I thought, “What’s the big deal?” After all, Dr. Steve Schwartz, founder and proprietor of this blog, left us in March from the GOPlague, but he’s still posting. In fact, he posted here tod[...]
August 13th, 2020 - 4:29 pm § in Misc.
What Cohen’s book alleges
Golden showers Tax fraud Secret back channel to Putin Lying to Melania Wants to be leader for life He also says Trump “colluded with the Russians” to win the 2016 election, but not in the ways people think. I can’t vouch for any of this. I wasn’t there. I haven’t read h[...]
August 13th, 2020 - 3:28 pm § in Politics
Really???
“The first rule of politics has long been to never, ever compare anything to Nazi Germany.” So, instead, Florida’s GOP governor compares reopening schools to killing Osama bin Laden here. Photo: A student drew a suspension, later lifted, for posting this photo on social media (story here).[...]
August 13th, 2020 - 10:36 am § in America
BEYOND KOSHER .. DAMNED PORK!
One Million Moms decried the use of “the d-word” in the ad campaign, One Million Moms has condemned Burger King for use of “profanity” in a commercial. At the 45 second mark, one customer, after sampling Burger King’s Impossible Whopper, the ad says: “Damn, that’s good.” “Burg[...]
August 12th, 2020 - 11:40 pm § in Health
Son physically carries anti-masker dad out of grocery store
Read story here. https://youtu.be/u8JBaqRaFyY[...]