Lt. Mike Byrd (photo, left), the Capitol Police officer who shot rioter Ashli Babbitt, told NBC News, “I know that day I saved countless lives.” (Read story here.) A Republican congressman who witnessed the shooting agrees. Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) “felt that the Capitol police off[...]
Archive for August, 2021
August 26th, 2021 - 1:37 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Politics
Lindsey Graham’s stupid idea
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) isn’t the dumbest Republican senator. That would be a contest between Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). But Graham is no military strategist. He did serve in the military. After graduating from law school, Graham joined the Air Force and was commissione[...]
August 26th, 2021 - 10:58 am § in Health
Dancing with death and cracking down on anti-vax
Dancing with death wasn’t what Bruce Springsteen had in mind when, under pressure from friend and producer Jon Landau and in a fit of frustration, he sat in a hotel room and wrote “Dancing in the Dark” in a single night. It would become his most popular hit and one of the greatest [...]
August 26th, 2021 - 10:49 am § in Health
Covid-19 delta variant roars through Washington state
“The Covid outbreak is so bad in Washington state that hospitals are running out of intensive care beds,” CNBC reported on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 (read story here). This mirrors the situation in other states, where the surging Delta variant — which now accounts for nearly all U[...]
August 25th, 2021 - 10:55 pm § in Misc.
You’ve never seen a door like this (video)
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August 25th, 2021 - 10:46 pm § in Misc.
What makes world-class athletes different from us (video)
Besides training and years of practice, they don’t quit. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
FDA vaccine approval makes no difference to GOP governor
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order “banning any governmental entity in the state from requiring a COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of its approval status” almost immediately after the FDA “granted full approval” to Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine,” The Hil[...]
August 25th, 2021 - 6:52 pm § in Health
Arkansas doc accused of prescribing cow pills for Covid-19 to jail inmates
“An Arkansas jail has been found to be prescribing an animal parasite medicine to inmates to treat COVID-19,” The Hill reported on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 (read story here; for a local TV station’s report with more detail, go here). Rightwing social media promotion of the drug, [...]
August 25th, 2021 - 6:07 pm § in Law and Courts
Gov. Whitmer plotter gets 6 years
A federal judge has sentenced a member of a Michigan militia group that schemed to kidnap the governor to 6 years in prison, Michigan Live reported on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 (read story here). Ty Garbin, 25, the first of 14 plotters arrested, cooperated with authorities and “is expected to[...]
August 25th, 2021 - 5:04 pm § in Politics
GOP dirty tricksters fined $5 million for robocalls
Last year, GOP dirty tricksters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman (read their rap sheets here and here) originated over 85,000 robocalls to mostly black voters trying to discourage them from voting by falsely warning them that returning mail ballots would reveal personal information which cops would use t[...]