An angry Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL), who’s Jewish, says posters of Israeli hostages were ripped off the wall outside his Capitol Hill office (photo, left; story here). No, no, no! No to pulling up other people’s yard signs, too. The right-and-wrong isn’t about whose views are right[...]
Archive for July, 2024
July 5th, 2024 - 3:03 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Politics
Leave other people’s posters and signs alone
GOP’s Project 2025 slashes veterans benefits
Project 2025 (details here), a brainwave of the rightwing Heritage Foundation (profiled here), is a blueprint for sweeping changes to the federal government. Raw Story, a progressive news website, says it would “plunder” veterans benefits (read story here). The original source material ([...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Political sign
This is a screen grab from a TV news video here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 4th, 2024 - 11:05 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Since when do states get to define U.S. citizenship?
Since never. I’ll get to that below, but story first. David O’Connor, 77, a U.S. Navy veteran and retired truck driver, moved to Tennessee in 2016, a culture-war red state that doesn’t let furriners drive (see license requirements here). Now, 8 years later, the state has canceled [...]
Is the Supreme Court sowing political violence?
It has happened before. Some historians believe the 1857 Dred Scott decision, “the worst decision in Supreme Court history,” precipitated the Civil War (see Wikipedia article here). It certainly would be hard to outdo that one for inflaming passions, or identify an issue more likely to p[...]
July 4th, 2024 - 5:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Girl, 13, shot to death by teen at Alderwood Mall
She wasn’t the intended victim. When an argument erupted between two groups of kids, and a 16-year-old boy pulled a gun and fired at someone, the bullet hit her instead and now her family has to bury her. The shooting happened at Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, Washington, on July 3, 2024 (read st[...]
July 4th, 2024 - 4:56 pm § in Environment, Science
10 earthquakes in 2 days near Vancouver Island
Is the Cascadian fault shifting? There have been “10 earthquakes of at least 4.0 magnitude in the waters west of Puget Sound in the past 24 hours,” including a 4.4 quake yesterday and a 5.7 quake this morning, a Seattle TV station reported on Thursday, July 4, 2024 (read story here). All[...]
July 4th, 2024 - 3:23 pm § in Law and Courts
Who’s on trial in the Karen Read case?
The “famously corrupt” Boston police are. With their “long history of bribery, fraud, and racial bias,” Boston’s police are distrusted by the community they serve. That likely influenced at least some of the jurors in Karen Read’s murder trial (read article here),[...]
Who brings you Whidbey Island Ice Cream?
The Freeland, Washington, boutique maker of highly rated ice cream was started in 2008 by Ron Hecker but he retired and sold the business to the Rosens (pictured at left) in 2017 (article here), who were already involved in pizza and sushi businesses. At six bucks a pint in local groceries, their [...]
July 3rd, 2024 - 7:14 pm § in Donald Trump
Sounds like Trump didn’t pay his water bill
Trump’s complaining about low water pressure at Mar-a-Lago (see story here). “You turn on the water and it goes drip, drip,” he said. “You can’t get [the soap] off your hand. So you keep it running for about 10 times longer.” He also complained about how long it takes to wash his hai[...]