Biden won Georgia in 2020, and was entitled to its 16 electoral votes, but the Trump campaign had other plans. A Trump campaign operative in that state assembled a group of unelected “alternate” electors, arranged for them to meet at the statehouse on December 14, 2020, and issued them t[...]
Archive for June, 2022
June 6th, 2022 - 4:22 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Ex-GOP candidate pleads guilty to using Covid relief funds for his campaign
A Boise restaurant owner who received over $750,000 in Covid relief funds and “used a large portion of the funds for personal expenses like car payments, life insurance and political advertisements” in his 2020 campaign for Congress has pleaded guilty to federal charges, the Idaho States[...]
June 6th, 2022 - 2:18 pm § in Politics
Representative democracy in Texas, mass shootings edition
In a representative democracy, you elect someone to represent you. Not in Texas. Following the 2019 mass shootings in El Paso and Santa Fe, and the 2022 school massacre in Uvalde, the GOP-controlled legislature has decided to study gun violence. The lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, has appointed a [...]
June 6th, 2022 - 9:18 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
What would a GOP-approved children’s book look like?
Republicans are making it a crime to tell black kids they’re discriminated against, though they don’t need to be told, as they see it themselves. Can’t mention LGBQT, either. For a rundown on books Republicans want to ban, go here. So what would pass muster? This would. The Amazon [...]
June 5th, 2022 - 4:27 pm § in Misc.
Why do you need an AR-15?
You don’t. The AR-15 is a civilian version of the M-16 rifle lacking the selector switch to fire automatically (unless it’s been illegally modified with a readily-available kit) and a bayonet lug. I trained on both the M-14 and M-16 in basic, and was married to an M-16 for 13 months in V[...]
Remember when the NRA was for gun control?
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE NRA SUPPORTED GUN CONTROL … when the Black Panthers wanted to exercise Second Amendment rights. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 5th, 2022 - 10:52 am § in Misc.
Soft on crime
Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) says he “would consider supporting former President Trump again if Trump apologies for the Jan 6, 2021 attack at the Capitol,” The Hill reported on Sunday, June 5, 2022 (see story here). Would you let a thug out of prison if he apologized for his crimes? Even if he d[...]
June 5th, 2022 - 1:23 am § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Gasherbrum IV
Cold, remote, Gasherbrum IV (center) is located in the greatest concentration of high peaks in the world — Pakistan’s Karakoram range — and is part of a 6-peak massif that includes two of the world’s 14 eight-thousand-meter peaks. It’s the world’s 17th highest mou[...]
June 4th, 2022 - 11:18 pm § in Misc.
How not to exit from I-5 in downtown Seattle (video)
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June 4th, 2022 - 11:08 pm § in Humor, Law and Courts
The witness (video)
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