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February 18th, 2022 - 11:21 pm § in Misc.

Windy landings (video)

British airports were quite a spectator show on Friday, February 18, 2022, as gusty winds raked the British Isles and pilots showed off their stuff. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

February 18th, 2022 - 8:14 pm § in Health

Do Canada’s stricter Covid-19 rules make a difference?

“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]

February 18th, 2022 - 8:06 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

How Trump incites violence and gets away with it

Last week, Trump issued the following statement: “The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to[...]

February 18th, 2022 - 2:09 pm § in Law and Courts

Two years for a life; is it enough?

“Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who mistakenly drew a gun instead of a Taser and fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison,” and she’ll have to serve 16 months behind bars, then 8 months of supervised release, [...]

February 18th, 2022 - 11:53 am § in Politics, Racism

Conservative blogger dies; will anyone miss him?

Jim Hagedorn (bio here), 59, a Republican functionary from Minnesota who was finally elected to Congress in 2018 after several previous failed attempts, died of either liver cancer or Covid-19 (he had both) on Thursday, February 17, 2022 (see story here). Hagedorn was a loyal Trumper; he voted again[...]