A new Covid-19 strain that “could be up to 70% more transmissible” is raging through S.E. England, forcing that part of the country into lockdown, where reported cases have soared 40% in the last week. “This is early data, and it’s subject to review, but it’s the best that we have[...]
Archive for December, 2020
December 20th, 2020 - 1:41 am § in Foreign Affairs, Health
Fast-spreading new Covid strain forces U.K. into lockdown
December 20th, 2020 - 1:29 am § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations: The Messiah Updated … Singing in a Spacesuit?
(This post was put together by Dr. Steve Schwartz a few weeks before his death from Covid-19 — Ed.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Covid relief imminent, but did Democrats cave to get it?
Pending bill includes $600 per person stimulus checks As Congress moves toward a compromise on more Covid-19 relief, Republicans are bragging they got everything they wanted, and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), who held up the bill, called Democratic concessions “an unqualified victory” for his [...]
December 20th, 2020 - 12:49 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Ohio GOPers want to send fossil fuel protesters to prison
Ohio’s GOP legislature just snuck through a bill on the session’s final day that tries to criminalize protesting near oil, gas, and plastics facilities. It designates those facilities as “critical infrastructure” and reclassifies minor misdemeanors associated with protests, s[...]
December 19th, 2020 - 11:54 pm § in Health
What’s holding up vaccine distribution?
Many states, including Washington (where this blog is based), were told last week their initial allotments of Covid-19 vaccine doses would be cut by up to 40%. Many folks wondered what the heck was going on. Turns out it was quality control. “States were given estimates that turned out to be b[...]
Army brass slap down Flynn’s call for martial law
“The Army chief of staff was forced to issue a statement Friday stating the military has ‘no role’ in determining U.S. elections after Mike Flynn … demanded martial law” and “using military ‘capabilities’ to oversee a rerun of the election in states Tr[...]
December 19th, 2020 - 12:07 am § in Science
A new “WOW!” signal from space?
“Astronomers … are investigating an intriguing radio wave emission … from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun,” the Guardian, a daily newspaper based in Manchester, England, reported on Friday, December 20, 2020. “The narrow beam of radio wave[...]
Biden’s pick of a Native American for Interior Secretary is a sea change
Joe Biden, fresh from his Electoral College victory, and now officially president-elect, named Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM, photo left) as his choice for Interior, the federal agency that oversees federal lands and Native American affairs. Obama’s first interior secretary, Ken Salazar, called her &[...]
December 18th, 2020 - 8:35 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Killer of 2 elderly black shoppers gets life without parole
A mentally ill 53-year-old white man with a history of making racist threats will get treatment for his schizophrenia in prison, but will never be released back into society. On December 15, 2020, the so-called “Kroger store shooter” was sentenced to life without parole. On Wednesday, Oc[...]
Cartoon of the Day
Now, we don’t know whether this is how the “massive Russian hack” (here) happened. It just seems quite plausible, that’s all. But I’ve heard (here) he owes $900 million, not $400 million. Anyway, if you could use a good laugh right now at the expense of a very corrupt p[...]