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December 11th, 2020 - 9:01 am § in Jews

A Hannukah Kvetch

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December 10th, 2020 - 3:29 pm § in Humor, Politics

Trump makes your teeth fall out

Rep. Louis Gohmert demonstrates: Rep. Louie Gohmert's (R-TX) gum keeps getting in the way of his address. pic.twitter.com/fTC3lHvayb — The Recount (@therecount) December 8, 2020 Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

December 10th, 2020 - 11:31 am § in Christianity, Jews, Religion

A Hannukah Surprise

Of Hannuka and the Ojibwe It was a treat to open Al Jazeerah this morning and read about Anton Treuer and his fight , very much in the spirit of the Maccabees, to restore his people’s heritage.  I was so excited, I called Anton.  How fine it is on the day of memory of our […][...]

December 10th, 2020 - 7:56 am § in Jews, Misc.

Where did Zionism begin?????

Bat Zion Susskind-Sacks    Well, maybe.  Evidence that the dig is actually at the site of the early Davidic dynasty is argued by many.  There is even a question of whether David existed, though there is good evidence that there were Davidic kings as described in the Tanach. As for Zionism begin[...]

December 10th, 2020 - 7:53 am § in America, Donald Trump, Politics

Does Trump believe he lost?

The question is important, because if he does, then isn’t he conciously trying to overthrow our system of government? Michael D’Antonio, a Pulitzer Prize-winning CNN journalist and a Trump biographer, writes,      “Does he really believe what he says? … he tells his follow[...]

December 10th, 2020 - 7:23 am § in America, Economics

2020 weekly unemployment claims

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December 10th, 2020 - 2:42 am § in Biden, Donald Trump, Politics

Pennsylvania GOP legislative leader is afraid of violent Trump supporters

“The GOP majority leader of Pennsylvania’s state senate suggested … she would be the victim of a violent attack” if she opposed efforts by Trump‘s supporters in her state “to reject the state’s election results,” The Hill reported on Wednesday, Decembe[...]

December 10th, 2020 - 1:45 am § in Misc., UW

When a University of Washington English professor encountered Ernest Hemingway

In 1936, Professor Harry Burns of the University of Washington’s English department “was sitting at a table in a cafe in Key West when an intersting looking person” who turned out to be Ernest Hemingway “took a chair beside him and they struck up a conversation.” Thus b[...]

December 9th, 2020 - 11:32 pm § in Politics

Comments from HorsesAss.org posted on 12/9/20

Herewith pithy examples of liberal thinking posted on HorsesAss.org, a Seattle-based blog, on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. By “RedReformed”: “Sanders on McConnell: ‘When children are going hungry in America, suddenly we don’t have enough money’ “Can our ‘christian[...]

December 9th, 2020 - 11:00 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Want evidence? OK, here’s Trump’s “evidence” the election was “FIXED”

It’s getting more ridiculous by the day. “Trump on Wednesday demanded an “OVERTURN’ of the outcome in a collection of tweets arguing he could only have lost the election if it were ‘FIXED.’ He attempted to support his case by saying odds-makers on election night heavily f[...]