A Bush-appointed (i.e., conservative) federal judge in Texas issued an expected ruling on Friday, July 16, 2021, declaring that the Obama-era DACA program, which shields immigrant minors illegally brought to the U.S. by their parents from deportation, is illegal. However, the judge stayed immediate [...]
Archive for July, 2021
July 16th, 2021 - 6:00 pm § in Law and Courts
A federal judge just ruled DACA is illegal; will it stick?
July 16th, 2021 - 1:07 pm § in Law and Courts
Ex-deputy gets 12½ years for planting drugs
An ex-sheriff’s deputy who racked up drug arrests, apparently in hopes of getting promoted to the narcotics squad, by planting drugs during traffic stops was sentenced to 12½ years in prison by a Florida judge on Thursday, July 15, 2021. See story here and here. Zachary Wester’s wife an[...]
July 16th, 2021 - 2:12 am § in Environment, Science
A brief history of climate disasters that collapsed civilizations
“The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks.” “All of recorded human history … has played out in perhaps the most stable climate window of the past 650,000 years. We have been shielded from the climate’s violence by our short … memory, and … [...]
July 16th, 2021 - 12:56 am § in Misc.
Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 (video)
Background here. Conducted by Estonian-American conductor Paavo Jarvi (bio here); performed by Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (info here), with Georgian concert pianist Khatia Buniatishvili on the grand piano. Running time: 39:50 mins. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 15th, 2021 - 9:04 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: When to call your insurance agent
When you take out an overpass. ‘Cuz that’ll cost a few bucks to replace. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page [...]
July 15th, 2021 - 5:59 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
How to get your bail revoked in one easy step
“An accused Capitol rioter’s bail was revoked by a judge on Thursday after allegedly leaving lewd and rambling voicemails for his probation officer,” The Hill reported on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Read story here. The probation officer testified that Brandon Fellows, 27, who is unde[...]
July 15th, 2021 - 5:22 pm § in Politics
Is Manchin right about voting rights?
As everyone knows, the Democrats don’t have a Senate majority without Joe Manchin, and he’s no rubber-stamp. He doesn’t like their voting rights bill, and if he votes against it, it loses 51-49. This doesn’t mean he can dictate its terms, but it does mean he can limit what it[...]
A brief history of Bigfoot
This photo is probably the best-known image of a “Bigfoot,” a legendary creature believed by some to inhabit the forests of the Pacific Northwest from California to British Columbia. It’s from a grainy home movie shot in the woods of northern California in October 1967. In the movi[...]
Top general likened Trump to Hitler
Comparing with Hitler has long been taboo in American politics, and for good reasons. Nazism, the Holocaust, and World War 2 were uniquely evil. And when the Hitler analogy is used, it’s often misused, sometimes ludicrously as when rightwing provocateur Marjorie Taylor Greene recently [...]
GOP governor forces students to mingle with infected people
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (photo), a Republican, just approved a law prohibiting that state’s public schools and universities from requiring Covid-19 vaccinations (see story here). There’s a case to be made. Making people get vaccinations is intrusive. While that’s not exactly what bus[...]