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Archive for April, 2022
April 3rd, 2022 - 10:43 pm § in Misc.
Ever consider joining the Foreign Legion? (2 videos)
The real life version: The fictionalized version: Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
April 3rd, 2022 - 9:46 pm § in Politics
GOP Rep. claims Trump caught Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011. Trump was elected president on Nov. 8, 2016, and took office on Jan. 20, 2017. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) told a Trump rally crowd on April 2, 2022, that Trump “caught Osama bin Laden.” No, he didn’t. McClain also told the[...]
April 3rd, 2022 - 3:16 pm § in Misc.
Climbing the Eiger (video)
The Eiger’s imposing and photogenic north face, 5,900 vertical feet of crumbling limestone, is famously the Alps’ most difficult climb, made notorious by the many deaths in early attempts. (These attempts are recounted in Heinrich Harrar‘s book, White Spider, whose title refers to [...]
April 3rd, 2022 - 2:50 pm § in Health
Beware telemedicine fraud (video)
A phone call could cost you thousands of dollars. Watch this segment from the April 1, 2022, NBC Nightly News broadcast to learn how crooks exploit telemedicine to steal your money. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
April 3rd, 2022 - 2:36 pm § in Health
He’s protected against Covid-19 now
An unidentified German man got 90 shots of COVID-19 vaccine to sell vaccination cards, ABC News reported (read story here). “It was not immediately clear what … impact” this has had on his “personal health,” ABC News said. Presumably he either hasn’t gotten Covid-[...]
April 3rd, 2022 - 5:46 am § in Politics
GOP degeneracy
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) is performing a service, albeit not intentionally. He’s revealing how degenerate the Republican Party has become. Let me explain. (And yes, this requires some explaining.) CNN‘s Richard Galant says it better than I can (here) so I’ll just quote him: [...]
April 2nd, 2022 - 7:31 pm § in Misc.
Go east, young man
“Go west, young man,” Horace Greeley, a New York editor and politician, exhorted in the 1800s. Now, the best advice may be the opposite: Get the hell out of the west while you can. Because of climate change, which has brought droughts, increasingly destructive wildfires, with prospects o[...]
April 2nd, 2022 - 2:39 pm § in Misc.
Southern slavery, circa 2022
Slavery still exists in the American south; it’s just not legal anymore, that’s all. Three men who imported farm labor slaves from Central America are going to federal prison. Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr., 24, got 30 years; Aurelio Medina, 42, got 5 years and 4 months; and Yordon Velazquez[...]
April 2nd, 2022 - 2:21 pm § in Politics
“Decertifiers” are defrauding GOP primary voters
I won’t touch fundraising or money issues here. This article is about swindling Republican primary voters out of their votes by promising to repeal the 2020 presidential election. In my book, that’s like eBay seller fraud. For example, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), who’s challenging Georg[...]