“A New Mexico county commissioner who heads Cowboys for Trump was arrested Sunday in Washington, D.C.,” Huffington Post reported on Monday, January 18, 2021. Couy Griffin (photo below), who was wanted on an arrest warrant for storming the Capitol on January 6, drove from his home in New Mexi[...]
Archive for January, 2021
How clueless Democrats lost the white working class to Trump
An essay by Joan C. Williams, a professor at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, published in Harvard Business Review in November 2016 (and cited in the January 19, 2021, issue of Barron’s magazine), became one of the most widely read articles in HBR’s history. Read it here. The wh[...]
Twitter blocks GOP rabblerouser
“Twitter temporarily locked newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene out of her personal account on Sunday afternoon after the QAnon follower sent out a slew of tweets that pushed election disinformation and incited supporters of President Donald Trump,'” Huffington Post reported o[...]
January 17th, 2021 - 2:01 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: When Man Began
Leonard Henderson FACEBOOK Theologians have determined what time that Adam was actually created on the sixth day. According to their research, it was shortly before eve.[...]
January 17th, 2021 - 1:42 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Buddhism
A Buddhist monk approaches a hotdog stand and says, “Make me one with everything.” Avi Ibrahim Balser[...]
It’s NOT the economy, stupid!
Trump’s diehard supporters, some of whom are affluent doctors, lawyers, cops, firefighters, teachers, and other professionals, are motivated by “anxiety over race and social standing, not economic distress,” according to this article. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Man with gun arrested while trying to get through D.C. checkpoint with fake inauguration credentials
Police arrested Wesley Allen Beeler of Front Royal, Virginia, at a checkpoint a mile north of the Capitol Building around 6:30 p.m Friday night (EST) as he tried “as he tried to make his way through security checkpoints in downtown D.C.,” the Daily Mail and USA Today reported on Saturday[...]
David Neiwert: Where the far right may go from here
The following is excerpted from an interview with Huffington Post published on Saturday, January 16, 2021 (here). David Neiwert (bio here) is a freelance journalism specializing in far right extremism. “The thing that I’ve been most assiduously tracking for the last 20 years is the … m[...]
January 16th, 2021 - 1:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The car accident that didn’t happen
Suppose I came to you and said, “You just hit my car. The repairs will cost $3,000. Pay me.” You’re bewildered. You didn’t hit my car. You look at my car, and don’t see any dents, dings, or scratches. There’s nothing wrong with it. But then you notice my glazed ey[...]
The smiling terrorist next door
He looks ordinary. He could be your neighbor. But he’s nuts, armed, and wants you dead. Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. (photo, left), owner of an Atlanta car wash business, may be such a person. His words and actions certainly portray him that way. He didn’t participate in the January 6, [...]