Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, is opening “a new front in his anti-woke crusade” by banning Florida pension fund managers “from considering the social impact of their financial decisions,” CNN reported on Wednesday, August 17, 2022 (read story here). &#[...]
Archive for August, 2022
Are Republicans cannibals?
Look, this isn’t my idea, and I didn’t choose that word, nor is this new. Over 15 years ago, in 2007 to be exact, Huffington Post published an essay titled, “Cannibals on the Right: Republicans Eating Their Own.” Sample quote: “Then the Republican ‘you eat me, tha[...]
August 17th, 2022 - 5:25 pm § in Politics
Why you must do due diligence on down-ballot candidates
It isn’t just big political races that matter anymore. Extremists are trying to take over everything from election offices to library and school boards. If they win, the consequences will be unpleasant. It’s essential now to know what you’re voting for in every race for every offic[...]
August 17th, 2022 - 4:38 pm § in Misc.
What happens when QAnon nuts try to arrest real police
This article contains language not suitable for children “A group of QAnon believers over the weekend tried to conduct citizens arrests of police officers in the city of Peterborough, Ontario,” Raw Story reported on Wednesday, August 178, 2022 (read story here). They’re followers [...]
August 17th, 2022 - 2:16 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Missouri Trumper indicted for threatening Arizona election official
A Missouri man who left a veiled death threat in an Arizona election official’s voicemail is looking at federal prison time, and he should be. Walter Lee Hoornstra, 50, of Tecumseh, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury for making an interstate threat and communicating it by an inters[...]
August 17th, 2022 - 12:38 am § in Politics
PHOTOGRAPHY: Border wall
There’s speculation the wind blew them over (see story here). Maybe they needed more ballast? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 16th, 2022 - 10:57 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Should the magistrate recuse himself?
Like any Mafiosi would, Trump wants the search warrant affidavit unsealed, so he can find out who the witnesses were (i.e., the “rat”). It’s possible to be legitimately curious about the details of probable cause — for example, the news media wants to know, too — but in[...]
August 16th, 2022 - 3:38 pm § in Donald Trump, Health
Playing football without a helmet
The late President Gerald Ford grew up when college football was played with leather helmets, and years later critics snidely sniped that’s how he got to be “soft in the head.” Then there’s Richard Aaron York III, who on Sunday, August 15, 2022, smashed a car into a concrete [...]
Why is a girl too young to have an abortion, old enough to be a parent?
Self-contradicting conservative rationalization is playing out in Florida courts, where a circuit judge, then a state appeals court, ruled a pregnant 16-year-old is not “sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.” (See NBC News story here.) Florida law requires minors to g[...]
California Democrat indicted for financial crimes
Terrance “TJ” Cox (photo left, bio here), a Central California ag-sector businessman who served a single term in Congress (2019-2021), has been indicted for wire fraud, money laundering, financial institution fraud, campaign funds fraud, CNN reported on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 (read sto[...]