It happens every time. Gas prices are cyclical; they go up, come down. Nobody complains about cheap gas; but every time it goes up, Democrats want to slap “excess profit” taxes on oil companies. They talked about this in the 1970s, and now they’re talking about it again (see story [...]
Archive for June 1st, 2022
June 1st, 2022 - 9:15 pm § in Politics
GOP candidate promises to vote “no”
Taking Republican nihilism to a new level, a New Hampshire candidate for U.S. Senate says he’ll vote against everything. Bruce Fenton (photo, left), who made a name for himself by making a killing in Bitcoin, is an adherent of the “Free State Movement” (details here), a libertarian[...]
June 1st, 2022 - 8:49 pm § in Politics
GOP attorney general who killed a man and reported hitting a deer won’t run for re-election
South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg, who reported hitting a deer after killing a pedestrian (details here), won’t run for reelection (see story here). Ravnsborg, a serial traffic scofflaw, escaped serious charges by pleading guilty to 2 misdemeanor traffic offenses and paying $500 fines for each. [...]
June 1st, 2022 - 8:21 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Biden erases all debts of Corinthian students; no application required
For former students of the defunct Corinthian Colleges for-profit schools, student debt payments are a thing of the past. Many of those students were already eligible for debt forgiveness, but had to negotiate an application process. Not anymore. On Wednesday, June 1, 2022, the Biden administration [...]
June 1st, 2022 - 3:20 pm § in Politics
John F. Kennedy Jr. reappears!
I’m not making this up; QAnon freaks are. He uses the handle “Juan O. Savin” now, but his birth name is Wayne Willott. Willott aka Savin is camera-shy (for obvious reasons), but I dug up this photo; judge for yourself if there’s a family resemblance to the Kennedys. But IR[...]
June 1st, 2022 - 1:04 am § in Misc.
Trail camera (video)
This video was recorded in December 2021 (details here). A still frame is below the video. For a fascinating true story about a Siberian tiger that had its bellyful of poachers, literally, go here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]