An MSNBC article by Ja’han Jones begins, “I’m old enough to remember when the GOP railed against the purported ‘imperial presidency’ of Barack Obama — how dare that tyrant try to give Americans health care! — so I never miss an opportunity to highlight Republicans�[...]
Archive for December, 2024
December 29th, 2024 - 10:08 pm § in Misc.
Best pills for runny nose
It’s cold and flu season. How do you turn off the faucet? Not with today’s over the counter flu and cold products. Their decongestant ingredient, phenylephrine, doesn’t work (see story here), and the FDA plans to pull those products off the market (see story here). Then what? Where[...]
December 29th, 2024 - 5:48 pm § in Law and Courts
No one oversees Washington jails
Washington has no statewide jail standards or oversight. It’s badly needed. Washington has America’s 4th worst jail death rate. Investigative journalists have found crumbling facilities, untrained or no on-site staff, sexual abuse, suicides, poor nutrition, and absence of medical care. T[...]
Racist Trumper stalks and attacks TV reporter
Trump doesn’t hesitate to incite his supporters against minorities and the news media, and that exploded into violence against a Colorado TV reporter on December 13, 2024. Patrick Thomas Egan (photo, left), 39, spotted a reporter in a TV station car, followed him 40 miles to the station, then [...]
December 27th, 2024 - 10:26 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The huge cost of deportations (video)
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December 27th, 2024 - 8:16 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake says she won’t run again
After Kari Lake lost another election, I suggested she retire from politics (see my posting here). Apparently she’s taking my advice, because on December 21, 2024, she told a conservative crowd she doesn’t want to run for office again (see story here). Her reason for bowing out of electi[...]
December 27th, 2024 - 7:17 pm § in Law and Courts
Guards beat black inmate to death
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) ordered 13 guards and a prison nurse fired for the fatal beating of an inmate (read story here). Robert Brooks, 43, was serving a 12-year sentence for “stabbing his girlfriend multiple times” (see story here). He was being transferred to Marcy Correctional Facili[...]
Musk has it in for Wikipedia
For an utterly shallow, ignorant, stupid reason. Read Newsweek article here and watch video below. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
The unauthorized Elon biography (video)
In this podcast, the co-hosts explain why they think Elon Musk isn’t a genius but rather a weirdo from a family of weirdos. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
December 26th, 2024 - 8:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Trump retaliates (sort of) against former death row inmates
Before leaving office, Biden deprived Trump of whatever grisly enjoyment he might have gotten from presiding over the executions of 37 of the 40 inmates on the Bureau of Prisons death row (see story here). There’s likely a public consensus that he’s welcome to the remaining three: Dzhokh[...]