Fox’s talking heads are already inciting election violence. They must want another Jan. 6, 2021. “Twice last week,” MSNBC reported here, Greg Gutfeld (photo, left) told Fox audiences “the public will only believe the 2024 results are legitimate if President Joe Biden loses.” Also las[...]
Archive for June, 2024
June 21st, 2024 - 2:22 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOPer blames election loss on random fire alarms
Milk this cow for all she’s worth, ma! That’s not what you think. Cows from this herd give excuses, not milk. Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), a Freedom Caucus firebrand, is trailing in a primary. Looking for excuses to challenge a close election, he called out three suspicious “fires” [...]
June 21st, 2024 - 1:46 pm § in Law and Courts
Swiss court convicts Britain’s richest family of enslaving servants
Four members of Britain’s richest family are headed for Swiss prisons for enslaving their servants. Instead of paying decent wages to servants at their Swiss villa, they imported illiterate workers, held them in prisoner-like conditions, worked them long hours, and paid them less than they spe[...]
June 20th, 2024 - 4:53 pm § in Politics, Republicans
This Senate candidate is lawless
When you elect someone to public office, you’re choosing more than his party’s policies. You’re also getting his character, experience, and the personal traits he’ll bring to the job of representing constituents. Bernie Moreno, 57, is the GOP nominee in Ohio’s 2024 Sena[...]
June 20th, 2024 - 2:26 am § in Environment
PHOTOGRAPHY: What climate change?
This is just weather and practicing for sea level rise. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 19th, 2024 - 11:05 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Why your car insurance premiums are going up so much
Besides more expensive new and used cars, parts, and labor, people are driving crazier and getting in more accidents. The Seattle area is “seeing an alarming increase in traffic deaths and serious crashes,” KING 5 TV reported on June 19, 2024. “Prosecutors said it’s the most [...]
June 19th, 2024 - 10:41 pm § in Law and Courts
A Washington county wants to send their criminals to you
Some public officials in Mason County, Washington, want to get rid of their petty criminals by sending them to their neighbors. Under a proposed county ordinance, people arrested for crimes like public drunkenness, malicious mischief, and theft would have the charges dropped in exchange for leaving [...]
Poll: Americans support DEI programs
Nationally, 61% of Americans support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, a Washington Post/Ipsos survey conducted in mid-April of 2024 shows (read story here). The survey showed 34% consider DEI programs at companies “a bad thing.” That number roughly conforms with the perce[...]
Trump can’t do fractions
If you ask me who’s most likely to pull out the debates, I wouldn’t pick Biden. That’s because “Trump is already laying the groundwork to complain that the upcoming presidential debate is rigged against him,” Raw Story reported on June 19, 2024, citing the New York Time[...]
June 19th, 2024 - 6:01 pm § in Law and Courts
Why cops shoot suspects in vehicles
There are many examples of police opening fire on vehicles when a suspect tries to flee. It’s not to keep the suspect from escaping. Behind these shootings is the fact cops consider a moving car a deadly weapon. They’ll shoot the driver if a cop is being dragged or threatened with being [...]