Lisa D. Cook, a Michigan State University economics professor, has been nominated by President Biden for the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. Prof. Cook (bio here; IMF profile here), daughter of a hospital chaplain and college professor, is a very smart woman with degrees from Oxford Univ[...]
Archive for January, 2022
January 29th, 2022 - 10:15 am § in Health
Anti-vax state trooper’s last sign-off
In the video below, veteran Washington State Patrol Trooper Robert LaMay explains on “Fox & Friends” why he quit his job in October 2021 rather than comply with Gov. Jay Inslee’s vaccine mandate (“my family doesn’t do vaccines”). In a selfie video, clearly sta[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Infrastructure
President Biden went to Pittsburgh on Friday, January 28, 2022, to speak about infrastructure and a nearby bridge underscored his visit by collapsing. The car in the foreground looks like it was flipped off the bridge like a fork. Ten people were injured, but no one was killed. Story here. Return to[...]
January 28th, 2022 - 5:40 pm § in Politics
Not even butterfly rescuers are safe from Trumpers
Nobody is safe from these people, not even butterfly refuge workers. The National Butterfly Center (profile here) in Mission, Texas, announced it will be closed to the public during a nearby Trumper rally on the weekend of Jan. 28 – 30, 2022, due to “credible threats” of violence a[...]
January 28th, 2022 - 3:54 pm § in Politics
Need more evidence Republicans will revoke your right to vote?
Well, here it is. In Arizona, a GOP legislator has introduced a bill that would “get rid of almost all absentee and early voting in the state and mandate all votes be HAND-counted within 24 hours of polling sites being closed.” (Read story here.) In other words, votes that election worke[...]
Why do Republicans lie so much?
First let me say lying isn’t a Republican trait, it’s a trait of human nature: People lie when it’s easier than telling the truth (young George Washington excepted). Honesty is something we’re taught when young, and then reinforced by those around us as we go through life, be[...]
January 27th, 2022 - 11:54 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Wanted: White male, age 49 —
So they arrested a 22-year-old black man with a similar name. Read story here. Below: The suspect (left) and the guy they arrested (right) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
How hard is it to get a religious vaccine exemption in the U.S. military?
Recruits and troops in the U.S. armed forces are routinely inoculated against a laundry list of diseases. So, if you sign on the dotted line (nobody is drafted anymore, although the Selective Service law remains on the books for national emergencies), you expect to get jabbed and more than once. (Wh[...]
Things could get ugly for Russian invaders
Ukraine’s military can’t match Russia’s for heavy hardware like ships, aircraft, tanks, and artillery (not to mention tactical nukes). But how do they use that military power against angry Ukrainian civilians with guns, who could make life a bleeding hell for Russian occupiers? And[...]
Amazon candy review
Customer Review Wade 1.0 out of 5 stars The things that happened in the bathroom are not for the faint of heart… Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020 [Product name deleted — Ed.] Verified Purchase I have something of an iron stomach. I could dig out a three month old half-[...]