America has a doctor shortage that even qualified medical school graduates can’t fill. That’s partly because of a residency bottleneck. Residency is an essential part of a practicing physician’s training. But in 2021 there only 35,194 first-year residencies available for 42,508 new[...]
Archive for March, 2022
March 25th, 2022 - 8:21 pm § in Law and Courts
WANTED — $15,000 REWARD
BE A HERO! TURN THIS FUGITIVE IN! He’s accused of “punching two officers in the face, kneeing a police officer, dragging an officer down stairs, charging at law enforcement with a flag pole, grabbing an officer’s neck and pinning them to the ground and ramming a police shield into [...]
March 25th, 2022 - 3:31 pm § in Misc.
3 things kids shouldn’t be allowed to do
Below are 3 videos of things I think parents shouldn’t let their kids do. But who am I to question their common sense? You can;’t tell others what to do. Video #1 Video #2 Video #3 Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 25th, 2022 - 1:41 am § in Law and Courts, Misc.
America’s machinegun plague
Auto sears, aka “switches,” are small (see photo), cheap, easy to install, and work frighteningly well. They convert popular handguns like the Glock, and rifles like the AR-15, into machineguns that indiscriminately spray bullets at high rates of fire. Some are imported from China, other[...]
When ice fishing, unhook fish house from snowmobile (video)
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March 24th, 2022 - 10:01 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Texas GOP expands its war against LGBQT kids
Texas AG Ken Paxton, a Republican homophobe, has ordered an Austin school district to stop observing Pride Week. Pride Week, he says, is “sex education” and therefore violates Texas law. That’s nonsense. It’s like saying observing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is “[...]
Trump’s secret plan to end the war
Back in 1968, Nixon had a “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War: More war. He increased bombing and sent U.S. troops into Cambodia. Trump, too, has a secret plan to end the Ukraine war. Actually, two plans: Secret Plan #1 “Put Chinese flags on our F-22 fighter jets [and] bomb the sh[...]
BlackRock declares globalization dead
Globalization, the vast offshoring of manufacturing that shuttered American factories and destroyed blue-collar jobs, was already faltering before Trump came along with his trade wars and tariffs, followed by pandemic disruptions of supply chains that turned out to be more fragile than anyone suspec[...]
March 24th, 2022 - 3:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Russia
Has Putin seen this art lover?
If not personally, his agents may know where he is. John Ruffo (old photo, left; profile here), now 67, is a Brooklyn-born Italian-American con artist who disappeared in 1998 after being sentenced to prison for swindling U.S. banks out of $350 million. Why might he be hiding in Russia? Ruffo is a co[...]
Can Ted Cruz read?
I got my start with Jack and Jill, and over time gradually progressed to reading the stuff I write about on this blog and a lot more. I’m not sure Ted Cruz made it up the hill, but I doubt he’s read Anti-Racist Baby — he either didn’t bother, or can’t. Ted claims the bo[...]