“On June 26, 2020, a Loveland, Colorado cop violently arrested a frail, elderly, confused woman, breaking her bones,” I previously posted on April 17, 2021, here. “Karen Garner, 73, who suffers from dementia, had wandered away from her family to a nearby Walmart store, picked up $1[...]
Archive for May, 2021
May 19th, 2021 - 8:54 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Update: Ex-cops charged in brutal arrest of confused elderly woman
Idaho annexes Oregon!
Well, not yet, but Oregon’s Trumpers are trying. “Voters in five rural Oregon counties approved measures on Tuesday to consider joining the state of Idaho,” because they don’t like being governed by Democrats, The HIll reported on May 19, 2021. In which case, why stop with a [...]
Aldous Huxley was right
Scientists have figured out how LSD works, and Aldous Huxley nailed it when he wrote in 1954 that “psychedelic lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life.” While Huxley was writing about mescaline, LSD works similarly, and The Guardi[...]
May 19th, 2021 - 2:45 am § in Misc.
Darwin’s Arch is gone
“One of the most famous rock formations in the Galapagos Islands has collapsed into the sea,” Reuters sadly reported on Tuesday, May 19, 2021. “The top of Darwin’s Arch, located in the northern part of the archipelago, fell as ‘a consequence of natural erosion,’ a[...]
Republicans want to sweep Jan. 6 under the rug
“Sen. Johnson questions Dems’ focus on Jan. 6 Capitol riot amid debate over independent commission” That’s the headline above an AOL News story on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 that begins, “At a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing Tuesday, Sen. [...]
What Capitol Riot shaman’s lawyer thinks of him isn’t pretty
“A lawyer for the QAnon Shaman who claims his client was following President Trump’s invitation when he stormed the US Capitol says a lot of the MAGA rioters are ‘f***ing retarded’ and on the ‘goddamn spectrum’,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reporte[...]
May 18th, 2021 - 2:43 pm § in Misc.
Racism in real estate
“A housing discrimination complaint filed by a Black Indianapolis homeowner alleges that appraisers’ valuations of her home more than doubled after she removed items that identified her race and asked a white male friend to be there during an appraisal,” ABC News reported on Tuesda[...]
May 18th, 2021 - 1:55 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
What a “normal tourist day” looks like
To Republicans: To the rest of us: Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
UFOs: Our government doesn’t know what’s up there
There’s a popular belief the U.S. government is hiding alien bodies and crashed space ships in storage at Roswell, New Mexico (and possibly other secret locations), and is keeping the public in the dark about earth-shaking news: The earth is receiving alien visitors. The reality is worse: Neit[...]
May 17th, 2021 - 11:24 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP’s sham Arizona ballot “audit” implodes
A PLATFORM FOR SPREADING MORE LIES — read here IGNITED FEUDING WITHIN THE GOP — read here FUNDED BY DARK MONEY — read here AND COWBOY HATS — read here Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]