Jeffrey Nelson (photo, left), 43, a violent police officer in Auburn, Washington, who allegedly sports fascist tattoos, has a history of using excessive force in arrests, and has killed 3 people during his 12-year career, is being prosecuted for murder. Prosecutors argue Nelson has a propensity to u[...]
Archive for November, 2021
November 23rd, 2021 - 8:34 pm § in Politics
Oath Keeper unfit to be legislator, fellow West Pointers say
Alaska state legislator David Eastman is a West Point graduate. He’s also an Oath Keeper, and dozens of his fellow West Pointers aren’t happy. In a letter to an Alaska paper (read it here), they blasted his conduct and demanded he resign, alleging he “discredited” himself and[...]
November 23rd, 2021 - 7:03 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Why newspaper hacks aren’t judges
“THERE SHOULD BE NO BAIL!” “FURY AT JUDGE FOR SETTING $5M BOND FOR XMAS PARADE KILLER” Scream the headlines at the Daily Mail, a sleazy U.K.-based tabloid that is not owned by Rupert Murdoch, which makes it a very rare duck among sleazy tabloids, because he seems to own them [...]
Kellogg’s to hire strikebreakers
“Kellogg’s plans to start hiring permanent replacements for some of its 1,400 striking cereal plant workers after negotiations broke down again,” ABC News reported on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 (story here). Unionized Kellogg’s workers have been striking since early October o[...]
November 23rd, 2021 - 3:49 pm § in Health
7 doctors get Covid-19 at anti-vax conference
“Seven anti-vaccine doctors fell sick after gathering earlier this month for a Florida ‘summit’ at which alternative treatments for Covid-19 were discussed,” the Guardian reported on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 (read story here). “’I have been on ivermectin for 16 mont[...]
Flag desecration
Republicans should be more careful about what they wish for, because this would be illegal under the flag desecration laws they propose. (Note: The Supreme Court has ruled that desecrating the flag is protected by the First Amendment.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
November 22nd, 2021 - 9:44 pm § in Misc.
Arbery trial reeks of racism
Lawyers for the three men accused of murdering black jogger Ahmaud Arbery deliberately excluded black people from the jury. Over the last couple weeks, Kevin Gough (below right), the attorney for defendant William Bryan, repeatedly demanded the judge exclude black pastors from the courtroom. The jud[...]
November 22nd, 2021 - 9:05 pm § in Misc.
15-minute movie: “Kangchenjunga”
This movie is short enough to watch without being tedious, and offers a sense of what it’s like to climb a huge mountain, although film can’t replicate cold, wind, thin air, or the physical labor of slogging through deep snow at high altitude. If you’ve climbed Mt. Rainier, Kangche[...]
November 22nd, 2021 - 6:26 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Maine boatyard
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November 22nd, 2021 - 5:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP wife-beater quits Senate run
Sean Parnell (photo, left), an Army veteran and book author with political ambitions, has given up trying to replace retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) after a court awarded custody of his children to his estranged wife, Laurie Snell, The Hill reported on Monday, November 22, 2021 (read story here). Pa[...]