A Colorado grand jury has indicted a rogue county clerk under state and federal investigation (see article here) for leaking confidential voting machine login codes to QAnon (see article here). Read the latest developments here. Those voting machines can no longer be used, and a judge barred her fro[...]
Archive for March, 2022
March 9th, 2022 - 7:17 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Rogue GOP county clerk indicted for election crimes
Trump’s Russian oil hypocrisy
“We should not be buying Russian energy,” Trump told a Conservative Political Action Conference audience last month. He added, “No president was ever as tough on Russia as I was.” (Cue laughter sound track.) This was “part of an extended effort to rewrite his Vladimir Putin-friendly p[...]
March 9th, 2022 - 5:00 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP calls freeing wrongly convicted people “soft on crime”
“Republicans in the Judiciary Committee have spent months accusing President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees of being ‘soft on crime.’ They’ve … been accusing virtually everyone who comes before the Judiciary Committee of being soft on crime, even when it makes no sense,[...]
March 9th, 2022 - 2:56 am § in Environment, Russia
ART: Extinction
The poor creatures didn’t understand what was happening. Will the next mass-extinction event be caused by fire from the sky? And radioactive ash? Will we know why? One potential reason: “If there is no Russia, why do we need the planet?” — Vladimir Putin (Click on image to en[...]
March 9th, 2022 - 1:05 am § in Russia
Drone’s eye view of firefight in Ukraine (video)
This battle occurred on February 24, 2022, the first day of the war, in Kherson, for control of a highway bridge. The Russians are spread out below the near side of the highway, and the Ukrainians are in the armored vehicles on the highway. The drone was operated by a local resident. The video is [&[...]
“Ukraine is game to you???” (video)
Don’t ask me how I find this stuff. It just pops up. The Google gods have a sense of humor. (Click on “Watch on YouTube” to play video.) https://youtu.be/fzLtF_PxbYw Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, war profiteer
Sure is, and she would know. On Feb. 22, the day before this tweet, she bought Lockheed Martin stock (story here), which is up roughly $65 a share since then. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 8th, 2022 - 3:20 pm § in Russia
PHOTOGRAPHY: End of the road
Sure glad I wasn’t inside when it blew up. It sucks to be a Russian tank soldier these days. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 8th, 2022 - 1:09 pm § in Law and Courts
Guilty plea to threatening senators who certified election
A Pennsylvania lawyer arrested en route to Washington D.C. to kill Democratic senators in retaliation for certifying the 2020 election pleaded guilty to making terroristic threats. Kenelm L. Shirk III (photo), 72, of Akron, Pennsylvania, also threatened to kill his wife. She called police, who issue[...]
March 8th, 2022 - 12:20 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Jury convicts Capitol rioter who threatened his own family
Either prosecutors didn’t offer Guy Reffitt a plea deal, or he didn’t take it when he should have. Reffitt is the first Capitol rioter to be convicted by a jury, found guilty on all counts on March 8, 2022 (read story here). Reffitt, 49, who belongs to a Texas militia group, traveled to [...]