The U.S. Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) is meeting in Hungary, whose strongman is teaching them how to seize power. Read stories here and here Conservatives don’t like social change and want to preserve a way of life they’re comfortable with. But they’re a voting minority, and[...]
Archive for May, 2022
May 21st, 2022 - 5:59 pm § in Law and Courts
Texas cattle rustlers caught
“Lawmen came to remote Loving County, Texas, on Friday to arrest the county judge, a former sheriff’s deputy and two ranch hands on one of Texas’ oldest crimes — cattle theft,” NBC News reported on Saturday, May 21, 2022 (story here). “Judge Skeet Jones, 71, the top elected o[...]
May 21st, 2022 - 5:45 pm § in Misc.
What’s in a horse’s name? (video)
Ironically, a horse named Early Voting won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, May 21, 2022. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 21st, 2022 - 5:12 pm § in Law and Courts
Geoducks are the root of all evil
Jeffrey Olsen, 52, a Seattle-area seafood broker, “bought 2,500 pounds of geoduck from various Alaska divers … mixed together in crates for shipping,” according to a local TV station (see story here). “A day later, before the clams were exported, a diver notified Alaska state[...]
May 21st, 2022 - 3:23 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
PA election: Now for the arcane stuff
As of Friday, May 21, 2022, Dr. Oz leads McCormick by 1,070 votes in the GOP Senate primary. It’s a fragile, razor-thin lead. This election probably will go to an automatic recount, as provided by Pennsylvania law. Recounts are always more accurate, because they pick up ballots that were misco[...]
May 20th, 2022 - 11:07 pm § in Politics
No wonder they call him “Doctor Oz”
This guy wants to be a U.S. senator. Fortunately, Pennsylvania voters have an alternative, a down-to-earth guy named John Fetterman. By the way, did he smoke pot before this interview? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Big Dairy sics FDA on almond milk
Big Dairy wants the term “milk” reserved for the white liquid cows squirt, so they’re pressuring Congress and the FDA to prohibit plant-based alternatives from using that term on their products (see story here). The gist of the story is, doesn’t the FDA have better things to [...]
Update: $10 gas? Not so fast. Here’s the backstory
A KIRO-TV news story (here) on Friday, May 20, 2022, clarified how that viral story about $10 gas in Washington state got loose into the wild. Their story (edited here for length, and to stay within “fair use” guidelines): ” … [T]here are headlines – not quite correct – t[...]
May 20th, 2022 - 4:33 pm § in Misc.
Rare tornado rips through Michigan town
A tornado ripped through a northern Michigan town, extensively damaging the business district (see photo below), on Friday, May 20, 2022 (read story here). Two people were killed and 44 injured. Both fatalities were senior citizens in a mobile home park. Tornados are uncommon in the area. “We [...]
How Democrats lost rural America (video)
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