Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is sponsoring a bill that would limit U.S. senators to two 6-year terms (read story here). Except him. Under his bill, Cruz, 52, would have to retire in January 2036, when he’s 66. By then, he’ll have served five 6-year terms in the Senate. Term limits are a favorite[...]
Posts Tagged ‘satire’
Flags of our fathers
Jay Collins (photo, right) is an American hero. A career Army sergeant and Green Beret, he returned to duty after losing a leg in combat (see his bio here). Collins, a Republican, was elected to Florida’s state senate in the state’s 2022 “red wave.” The first-termer is among [...]
February 10th, 2023 - 10:53 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Cher remastered (music video)
Okay, so you’re a Republican and don’t think it’s funny. Republicans have no sense of humor, especially when liberals are laughing at their expense. It’s a free country, they can do their own (although Cher might sue them if they do, but I doubt she’ll sue anybody for t[...]
February 10th, 2023 - 6:52 pm § in Humor
From now on, unidentified balloons will be SHOT DOWN!
This guy’s no fool; he’s got his ID with him, in case he gets pulled over by an F-16. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Loren Culp’s crappy police work in child sex case settled for $275,000
A story in the Spokane Spokesman-Review in July 2020 reported (here), “In a long-running lawsuit, a woman accuses police and deputies in Ferry County of failing to properly investigate when she reported a pattern of rape and molestation spanning 12 years of her childhood. Among the defendants[...]
Would you fly on this airline?
Russian regional airlines were bleeding money, so they fired their mechanics. Now Russia’s Transport Ministry wants pilots to maintain their planes themselves (see story here). That could be tricky, as Western sanctions have cut them off from spare parts. But this doesn’t actually chang[...]
Lawyer advertising
I fished this out of a website called “Good Liars,” who basically are a pair of guys who prank people who have it coming (hence the “good” in their moniker). No doubt Rudes won’t like this, but he can’t do anything about it, because he’s a public figure. Als[...]
September 2nd, 2022 - 9:59 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Would you buy a pardon from this man?
Nobody with a brain thinks the rioters who stormed the Capitol, assaulted police, and threatened to kill government leaders on Jan. 6, 2021, are anything but criminals. But Trump, who incited these people, said on Thursday, September 1, 2022, he will “very, very seriously” consider pardo[...]