“An unhinged Delta passenger and his girlfriend jumped out of an airplane door just before it took off from LaGuardia Airport,” the New York Daily News reported on Monday, December 21, 2020. “Antonio Murdock, 31, told Port Authority cops the confined plane space set off his post-tr[...]
Archive for December, 2020
December 22nd, 2020 - 12:02 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
“This is not a drill”
John Berman comments on the White House meetings in which people close to Trump are scheming to overthrow our government. Meanwhile, is Trump cracking under the strain of losing and going off the deep end? Politico speculates on his sanity here; an excerpt: “The probability of something very bad h[...]
December 21st, 2020 - 7:14 pm § in Politics
Oregon capitol building besieged by anti-lockdown rioters
When the Oregon legislature convened on Monday, December 21, 2020, for a special session on Covid-19 and wildfire relief, anti-lockdown protesters trying to break into the building by smashing a door, and also assaulted at least one journalist covering the riot. Read story here. Below are videos fro[...]
Covid-19 whistleblower sues Florida for “swatting” her
This article contains news and liberal commentary. A state data scientist who was fired after accusing Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis (in photo, left) — a Republican who has opposed health measures and aggressively pushed for reopening the economy — of covering up the seriousness of the pand[...]
December 21st, 2020 - 4:17 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Is Trump dangerous or merely delusional?
Trump, who outwardly still shows no willingness to give up power, is turning to “a fringe group of advisers peddling increasingly dubious tactics” to thwart Biden’s election victory, “creating a dire situation” making senior officials and people close to him ner[...]
December 21st, 2020 - 12:21 pm § in Health
Vaccines “not a ticket back to normal”
Vaccines won’t mean an immediate return to life as you knew it, a New York Times article (republished in the Seattle Times here) says. Getting vaccinated against Covid-19 will make you safer, and offer some relief from cabin fever, but there will still be “several reasons for staying masked [...]
December 20th, 2020 - 11:36 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Bolton “appalled” by Flynn’s call for martial law to overturn election (video)
John Bolton (bio here), a notorious Republican warmonger who dodged the Vietnam draft, and years later under G.W. Bush was “the most controversial ambassador ever sent by America to the United Nations,” and more recently signed up to be Trump’s national security adviser and then tr[...]
December 20th, 2020 - 11:02 am § in Racism
Cackling cop brags about driving into protesters (video)
It took months to pry body-cam video from Boston police of a June 1, 2020, protest in which bystanders were injured; they’re now suing the city. In this expletive-laced rant, a Boston cop laughs and brags about running into protesters with an unmarked police car. The incident is now the subjec[...]
Will she get a Nobel Prize for the research that led to Covid-19 vaccines?
It reads like a script for a made-for-TV inspirational drama. Fighting peer rejection, job losses, and at times self-doubt, Katalin Karikó “spent decades researching the therapeutic possibilities of mRNA,” a DNA component, because she was convinced it “could be used for something [...]
PHOTO OF THE DAY
A state trooper pulled over this car in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]