Last week, at least four Supreme Court justices referred to waterboarding as “torture.” I would have missed this tidbit if I hadn’t been perusing a Spokane newspaper looking for something else. What does Spokane have to do with this? Oh, only the fact a key facet of the George W. B[...]
Archive for October, 2021
October 17th, 2021 - 2:22 pm § in Misc.
Bear eats GoPro (video)
“Not so funny when you consider this is the last thing bear victims see,” a comment on YouTube says. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
October 17th, 2021 - 1:56 pm § in Politics
Idaho to audit ballots in all 50 states!
“Ten Idaho legislators … have signed a letter calling for an audit of 2020 election results in all 50 states,” a Spokane newspaper reports here. “The letter was originally written by Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican,” the story says, adding, “Rogers a[...]
October 17th, 2021 - 1:18 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Suddenly school board races are expensive, partisan, and important
School board elections are coming up. You may want to educate yourself about the candidates, because chances are you’ll be voting for or against masks, and you vote for an anti-masker you’re probably also voting against “critical race theory” — a poorly defined term tha[...]
October 16th, 2021 - 11:45 pm § in Health
Vaccine mandates will come to a head soon
On paper, at least, Chicago could lose half its police, and Seattle over 300 cops, within a few days. Spokane is expected to fire 24 of its 318 firefighters on Monday, October 18, the deadline for enforcing Washington Gov. Inslee’s vaccine mandate applicable to public employees. And the state&[...]
October 16th, 2021 - 5:25 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
This killer may not go to prison
Robert Durst, 78, a millionaire real estate heir and convicted murderer, was just sentenced to life without parole but may never see the inside of a prison. Durst, who looked frail in court (photo) and was already in poor health, was admitted last night to a Los Angeles hospital with Covid-19 and re[...]
October 16th, 2021 - 5:09 pm § in Misc.
Ineffective assistance of counsel?
Nicholas Cruz, who as a troubled teen opened fire in Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School three years ago, killing 17 students and teachers, will plead guilty to all the charges against him. It’s not a plea deal. He’ll get nothing in return. The state, which earlier refused to trade a l[...]
71% of Americans say tax the rich
Biden wants to spend lots of money on social programs and pay for it by taxing the rich. A very big chunk of the American electorate loves that idea. A survey conducted October 8-12, 2021, found two-thirds of Americans support Biden’s $3.5 trillion package, which includes things like child ca[...]
October 16th, 2021 - 4:10 pm § in Biden, Christianity, Economics, Law and Courts, Politics, Religion
‘Tis the season to be silly, la-la-la
Politics ought to be about seriously debating important public issues. It’s not. Republicans, it seems, debate nothing and lie about everything. And a lot of what they want wouldn’t, or shouldn’t, be debatable anyway. For example, they want to use public schools to indoctrinate kid[...]
October 16th, 2021 - 1:07 pm § in Health
Physician assistant embroiled in Covid-19 controversies suspended
Washington’s state medical commission has suspended the license of a controversial physician assistant who has used social media to promote opposition to masks and vaccines, and unapproved treatments for Covid-19, the Vancouver Columbian reported on Saturday, October 16, 2021. The suspension, [...]