The Supreme Court marshal and her investigators couldn’t find out who leaked Alito’s draft abortion decision. Her report (here) says they don’t believe the IT system was hacked from outside; and besides the justices, 80 court employees had access to an electronic copy and 2 more ha[...]
Archive for January, 2023
January 19th, 2023 - 12:22 am § in Politics, Republicans
Speaker McCarthy’s ridiculous excuse for a lying con man
“The voters of his district have elected him. He is seated. He is part of the Republican conference,” Speaker McCarthy says in this NBC Nightly News segment on January 18, 2023. He’s wrong. The voters didn’t elect this guy. They elected a fictional person fabricated by a liar[...]
Why are there no eggs?
Two words: Bird flu. A few households in my neighborhood have chicken coops, but it doesn’t strike me as a cost-effective way to get eggs. But in a time of egg shortage, at least they have eggs. For more about what’s going on, watch the videos below. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
January 18th, 2023 - 7:47 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Ever heard of the First Amendment?
I don’t know if they’re serious or not, but North Dakota GOP legislators are pushing a bill that would impose a $1,500 fine on anyone “involved in an organization that receives state funding, including public schools,” who uses a pronoun different from their birth gender (see[...]
Airliner of the future
The strut wing design has less drag, making it more fuel-efficient. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Baby with a gun? Lock his dad up!
Prosecutors should go to the mat with Shane Osborne, 45, of Beech Grove, Indiana, whose diaper-clad toddler was seen roaming the halls of an apartment building with a loaded gun and going “pow-pow-pow!” (photo, left). Osborne (photo, right) is an ex-felon who can’t have a gun. Stat[...]
Classified docs: Biden vs. Trump
A CNN op-ed (here) says: “Classified documents were found in an office at Biden’s former think tank and a garage at his Wilmington, Delaware, home, leading Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate, just as he has for Trump. “’Republicans will try t[...]
January 15th, 2023 - 3:00 pm § in Business
Food industry corruption
The world is full of people trying to rip you off, and food manufacturers are no exception. You, like the rest of us, have experienced half-empty packages (their excuse is always “it settled,” but in reality they’re suckering you into paying big-package prices for small-package con[...]
January 15th, 2023 - 3:17 am § in America
Americans are gamblers at heart
They line up to plop down their money on the 320 million-to-1 odds of winning a lottery jackpot. They go online to gamble on “meme” stocks and cryptocurrencies. They love watching risk-takers like Evel Knievel and his son perform (both are now dead); and they jump out of airplanes, bunge[...]