Forty people are on federal death row. Biden is under pressure to commute their sentences (read story here). I’ll skip over the usual anti-death penalty arguments: Botched executions, racial bias, the danger of executing an innocent person, etc. The best argument for leaving no one on federal [...]
Archive for December, 2024
PHOTOGRAPHY: Celestial Snow Angel
SH 2-106, aka “Celestial Snow Angel,” is a nebula about 2,000 light-years from earth “in a relatively isolated region of Milky Way galaxy.” At its center is a massive young star (story here, more details here). In this picture, you can see why it’s likened to a snow ang[...]
Lara Trump won’t be a senator
Marco Rubio (R-FL; photo, left) is leaving the U.S. senate to become Trump 2.0’s secretary of state. I don’t want to dwell too much on Rubio, because this posting is about Lara Trump, but that doesn’t strike me as a great career move. At age 51, Rubio is young enough to run for pre[...]
December 19th, 2024 - 10:40 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Elon Musk won’t be House speaker (video)
That’s Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s idea (see story here). Won’t happen, folks. Why would Musk want the job? He has companies to run. And he doesn’t have the patience for it; he’s used to giving orders, and that’s not what a speaker does; as this article says, &#[...]
December 19th, 2024 - 8:05 pm § in Law and Courts
Seattle prosecutes grafitti taggers
Seattle, like other cities, is plagued with unwanted and unsightly graffiti. But in Seattle, prosecutors are going after the taggers. On Thursday, December 19, 2024, the county prosecutor charged 17 individuals with felony property destruction (read story and watch video here). Where they cut locks [...]
Can Musk be president and speaker at the same time?
The U.S. is heading toward one-man rule, but not by who you assume. It’s becoming clear the White House will be a “Weekend at Bernie’s” affair, whereby staffers prop up a physically and mentally defunct Trump, but Elon Musk wields power behind on the throne. Musk isn’t [...]
Why smart people are dumber (video)
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Meet Trump’s DNI nominee (video)
Is this who should be Director of National Intelligence? I don’t think so. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
December 18th, 2024 - 9:23 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Who paid for Trump’s 2024 campaign?
A handful of billionaire families did. The day before the election, MSNBC reported (here), “The top seven donors and their families, including Timothy Mellon, Elon Musk and Miriam Adelson, have donated $818 million almost entirely to help Trump. Without this support, Trump’s cash-strapped[...]
December 18th, 2024 - 5:59 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Texas governor and Musk caught lying about D.C. stadium
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott applauded Elon Musk’s commitment to stopping … the federal government from funding … a new football stadium” in Washington D.C. in the omnibus spending deal the House just passed to avert a government shutdown a week before Christmas. “Go[...]