“Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is not known for his constitutional scholarship,” Huffington Post says (here). That’s an understatement. The former football coach (photo, left; note the deer-in-headlights look) knows less about how government works than is expected of middle-school[...]
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Is Sen. Tuberville dishonest or merely stupid?
I’ll go with stupidity. Duplicity requires more brains than America’s dumbest senator has. When you look him in the eye, they’re empty; nothing’s there (see photo at left). Tuberville, who opposes military aid to Ukraine (and foreign aid in general), was called out in April 2[...]
Full-length movie: The Edge (2010). In Russian with English subtitles. Train chases! Raging rivers! Collapsing bridges!
Railfans will love this movie. Where else can you see steam locomotives race on side-by-side tracks, ending in a PIT maneuver at a switch junction? The bridge scene strains plausibility, but the plot is interesting, the acting is terrific, and the photography is spectacular. Set in a Siberia labor c[...]
What it’s like to live in Russia (video)
A Russian ex-businessman describes what it’s like to live in a country where the political leader imprisons opponents and critics, and people are afraid to speak their minds. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Who’s lying, Putin or Trump?
Trump denies journalist Bob Woodward’s account that he sent Covid-19 tests to Putin early in the pandemic. But the Kremlin says he did. Because those statements contradict each other, they can’t both be true. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Trump declares Ukraine “can’t be rebuilt”
“Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky,” Trump declared on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 (read story here), as he campaigns against the U.S. helping Ukraine defend itself. He assumes Putin is willing t[...]
Watch Russian ammo dump blow up (video)
The fireball and mushroom cloud resemble a nuclear explosion, but it’s actually a Russian missile and artillery arsenal exploding, after a Ukrainian drone attack. The incident occurred at the Russian town of Toropets on September 18, 2024. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Pentagon “concerned” by Chinese-Russian cooperation
China and Russia just wrapped up a week of joint military exercises with hundreds of ships and planes. This was “the latest in a recent slew of military exercises and joint patrols between Russia and China that come on the heels of vows from Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to tighten milit[...]
Kamala Harris didn’t hit-and-run
It’s a bombshell story: “Kamala Harris was involved in a ‘hit and run’ accident in 2011 where she hit a 13-year old” named “Alicia” or “Alisha” Brown and left her paralyzed in a wheelchair. It was posted on a website called “KBSF-San Francisco News[...]
Tesla accessory (video)
No word yet on whether this is a custom job, or will be available as an option, but it’s perfectly suited for Russian road rage. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]