Don’t say Republicans lack imagination. They have very vivid imaginations. You may want to hold your nose at what they imagine, though. A Politico fact-check begins, “President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France …. Not long after h[...]
Archive for June, 2024
June 9th, 2024 - 8:31 pm § in Donald Trump
Campaign Issues 2024: Trump tells rally he’d rather be electrocuted than eaten by sharks
Trump told a Las Vegas rally crowd on Sunday, June 9, 2024, that if he’s on a sinking electric boat he’d rather be electrocuted than eaten by sharks. This video isn’t doctored; he really said this. I checked, and you can, too: Newsmax has the entire speech here; this segment begins[...]
How the Allies lost WW2
“We celebrated the 80th anniversary of D-Day. It was a failure,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Sunday, June 9, 2024 (read story here). Needless to say, this remark invited trolling. Prominent D.C. attorney Bradley Moss said, “Please tell me that’s fake.” Sorry, it&[...]
June 8th, 2024 - 9:49 pm § in Misc.
This technology isn’t there yet (videos)
Part 1: Part 2: Part 3 (NSFW due to language): https://youtu.be/hB5HECodo-k?si=WddUngd1mKvTAvme Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 8th, 2024 - 9:29 pm § in Law and Courts
Pizzeria owner guilty of forced labor
In Boston, the gulag may be as close as the corner pizza shop. Stavros Papantoniadis (photo, left), 48, owner of a pizza chain, was convicted of forced labor on Friday, June 7, 2024 (details here). According to a Boston legal aid office, he hired illegal immigrants and used threats, intimidation, an[...]
June 8th, 2024 - 6:26 pm § in Misc.
Clark passed over for Paris Olympics
College sensation and WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark won’t be invited to play for Team USA at the Paris Olympics this summer, CNN reported on Saturday, June 8, 2024 (read story here). A sports analyst citing unnamed sources told USA Today the team is concerned how Clarkâs fans would react to her [...]
Manhattan D.A. says he’ll testify
Just days after Trump was convicted in a Manhattan court, GOP Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded the prosecutors, Alvin Bragg and Michael Colangelo, show up in Washington D.C. this Thursday, June 13, to testify in a hearing that “will examine actions by state and local prosecutors to engage polit[...]
June 8th, 2024 - 4:22 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Antifa
These guys were the original anti-fascists. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 8th, 2024 - 4:13 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Bicycle rage
This incident happened on Sunday, June 2, 2024, in Wyoming, Michigan, a city of 76,500 people in Kent County (read story here). I’ve encountered aggressive cyclists, probably we all have, and problems are especially likely to arise on foot paths where bicycle and pedestrian traffic mingle. But[...]
Making Trump supporters look bad is too easy
Stupid people don’t know they’re stupid, and ignorant people don’t know they’re ignorant. Typically, they have righteous confidence in their beliefs, and don’t know how to say “I don’t know.” A pearl of wisdom often attributed to Mark Twain (but it pro[...]