Mascot Madness: Franklin And Marshall College To Dispense With Franklin And Marshall

 

Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is looking for a new mascot. Apparently, the old mascots, founding father Benjamin Franklin and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall are no longer considered suitable. Ergo, the private school initiated a Mascot Working Group, whose page recently read in part: "Our goal is to give it a form that is fun, gender-neutral, and full of personality.” (At this point, “gender-neutral” and “fun” may be oxymorons.)

The school has since de-emphasized the gender-neutral aspect of the change and focused on the fun aspect and the desire to “bring renewed energy and enthusiasm to campus and athletic events.”

In reply to a Blaze News query, the school sent the following missive:

Our intention has always been to identify a mascot that reflects the public leadership and spirit of Ben Franklin and John Marshall as our namesakes and to be inspired by our mascot, the Diplomat. The decision to create a new physical form for the mascot is an opportunity to represent our community spirit in a way that will champion F&M on campus, on the athletic field, and beyond. Ben Franklin didn’t reflect the public leadership and spirit of…Ben Franklin?! In addition to being an inventor, printer, and discoverer of electricity, Ben Franklin was America’s first real diplomat, acting as Ambassador to France for seven years.

Franklin and Marshall College, located in Franklin’s home state of Pennsylvania, was founded in 1787, the same year the Constitution was ratified-- the founding document that Franklin signed. The school says it has no plans to change its name, just its mascot(s), which it says should “Take the form of creatures, animals, and figures, which is very typical of mascots for universities and sports teams.” Franklin and Marshall were figures, too, but whatever.

I have the following suggestions for the school’s new mascot and potential logo/nickname:

*A lightning bolt. A nod to Franklin’s shocking discovery that would certainly bring renewed energy to campus athletic events. (See also, Los Angeles Chargers.)

*RuPaul. What’s not to like?

*A peacock. A perfect representation of the school’s virtue signaling and strutting. Go peacocks, go!

*A Quaker.

*A worm. An invertebrate, just like the school’s leaders!

In recent years, universities across the fruited plain have considered changing their mascots and nicknames, and several have done so. You might even call it mascot madness. But what’s in a name anyways, right?

Vatican Apostolic Library Creates Muslim Prayer Room

              Apparently, when Pope Leo isn’t busy blessing a block of ice, he is approving prayer rooms for Muslim scholars visiting the Vatican Apostolic Library. Fr. Giacomo Cardinali, Vice Prefect, told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them.” How very inclusive of them.

Actually, that’s apostasy. But, incredibly, today’s Vatican appears more willing to offend Christians than Muslims and more terrified of engaging in apostasy against the world view of The Left/progressives than of the dictates of their own religion. This is disturbing to say the least. Care to guess how many Christian prayer rooms there are in the rapidly growing number of Mosques around the world? The correct answer is “zero,” because Muslims are mandated by Mohammed to convert, enslave, or kill infidels. It is likely just a matter of time before priests, pastors-- and the Pope himself—start ending statements with “Allahu Akhbar!”

In related news, Muslim jihadist groups have been waging relentless campaigns of violence against Christians in Africa for years now. They have burned villages, destroyed tens of thousands of churches, and wiped out entire communities.

In fact, just since 2009, more than 100,000 Christians have been killed, and at least 18,000 churches destroyed. The Catholic bishops of Nigeria held a meeting last month, after which they stated: “Our nation may collapse if the current situation lingers.” (Maybe these Nigerian Christians failed to offer prayer rooms to Muslims before they were killed and their churches immolated.)

And no one seems to care. The mainstream media can’t be troubled to dedicate precious airtime to the slaughter of a measly 100,000 followers of Christ when there are rascally Republicans to slander and libel. And those rascally Republicans don’t seem to be all that choked up about it, either, mimicking the silence of their Democrat colleagues.

From Front Page Magazine:

What’s happening in Nigeria involves more than just hatred of Christians. There are tribal wars. There is widespread corruption. There is also — and this is something that is necessarily a priority of the bishops — a dabbling in the occult, a lot of which has to do with abysmal education.

Hatred of Christians, tribal wars, widespread corruption, abysmal education—and a dabbling in the occult? Does that sound familiar? That is a dead-on description of what leftists have wrought in America. But, in America, Trump has brought us hope.

Nigerians have hope, too. As Christians, we all do. Thank the Lord.

 

 

Foster Parents Lose License When They Decline To Affirm Lies (A Blogger Exclusive)

 

From Life Site News (lifesitenews.com):

CBS News reported that Lydia and Heath Marvin, who currently have three teens and have fostered eight kids under age four since 2020, lost their license in April when they refused to sign the state Department of Children & Families’ (DCF) LGBTQIA+ Non-Discrimination Policy, which requires of foster families “ability and willingness to support and affirm LGBTQIA+ children placed in their care.” They appealed the judgment but have been denied.

Lydia and Heath refused to affirm that boys can be girls and girls can be boys? What if the Massachusetts couple refused to affirm gravity? Would that make it less real? What if they did affirm that red lights and green lights on traffic signals are actually “fluid” and are “arbitrarily assigned” upon installation? Would that belief be more likely to lead to liberation or chaos and carnage? What if they refused to affirm tax laws? Or that the Earth is round?

You can dismiss reality or embrace it. You can deny the truth or accept it. The choice—and the consequences—are up to you. Reality is reality and the truth is the truth regardless of our wishes.

And there is nothing arbitrary about that.

 

Two Churches Vandalized; One Asked To Be Defaced

 

A church in Alabama was recently vandalized with spray-painted messages reading, "Bryan Dawson serves the Antichrist" and "Beware his falsehoods." Dawson was the keynote speaker for that evening’s Turning Point USA event at the sanctuary.

Lori Adgate, one of the church’s senior pastors, told local affiliate WAFF-TV that she and her husband, the church’s other senior pastor, were shocked but not surprised by the vandalism. Pastor Adgate said, "It doesn't even really make sense to me what the messages are. I honestly wish they would've just contacted us because I would love to hear the heart behind what they're saying."

She is far too tolerant and forgiving in this writer’s opinion. And I do not mean that as a backhanded compliment. The message does make sense, the vandal hates Turning Point USA and everything for which it stands: faith, family, and freedom. “The heart behind” what the vandal was saying is small and black. As always with “progressives,” the message is pure projection. If anyone here serves the Antichrist, it is the vandal, not Dawson.

            By contrast, the Church of England didn’t wait for vile leftist thugs to vandalize its most famous, beautiful and historic cathedral, opting to proactively seek to be debased. It invited “marginalized” groups to deface the sanctuary with colorful graffiti, mocking the Church itself—and God—in the process. The “art exhibit,” titled “Hear Us,” at the U.K.’s Canterbury Cathedral features temporary graffiti questioning God's goodness. According to a press release from the cathedral itself: “This project focuses on partnering with marginalised communities—such as Punjabi, black and brown diaspora, neurodivergent, and LGBTQIA+ groups—to collaboratively create handwritten literature responding to the question, ‘What would you ask God?’"

The Canterbury Cathedral’s dean, the Very Rev. David Monteith, approved the project. That is Very disturbing.

"Are you there?" and "Why did you create hate when love is by far more powerful?" are among the mocking questions the exhibit poses. The entire shameless endeavor is headed up by Alex Vellis, a “poet” who identifies as a queer vegan and uses they/them pronouns. If you ask me, he “identifies” as a poet, too—if you know what I mean.

Other pertinent inane questions include, "Does everything have a soul?" and "Do you regret your creation?" (Personally, I would guess His answer would be “yes” to the first question and “no” to the latter…until I think of Adam Schiff and company, which makes me think there is at least a small chance the answers could be “no” and “yes,” respectively.)

The messages framed as questions abound, and also include, "Is illness sin?"; "Why all the suffering?"; and, "If you made us all in your own form, why the violence killing storm?"

The questions I would ask the Very Rev. are, “Why this exhibit?” and “Why deliberately humiliate your own church?” Unfortunately, however, I believe I know the answers.

God help England. Although at this point I’m not sure why He would.

 

Democrat Representative Lashes Out At Reporter For Asking Questions

 

Elderly Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) recently lashed out at reporter Alison Steinberg outside of the Capitol. Waters was upset that Steinberg pressed her on whether the Democrat Party’s demands placed non-citizens ahead of American citizens and on why Democrats would risk a government shutdown to secure health care for illegal immigrants.

The reporter queried Rep. Waters, asking, “So, you’re good with the government shutdown, even if it means giving health care to people who aren’t Americans?”

Waters replied, “Well, you keep, that’s what you’re pushing on. What you’re trying to do is you’re standing here and you’re trying to make me say that somehow we’re going to put non-citizens over Americans. Quit it. Stop it. This is the kind of journalism we don’t need.”

Au contraire Mad Max, this is precisely the kind of journalism we do need (and it is sadly incredibly rare these days). Actual journalism, not agenda affirmation. The latter isn’t journalism at all, it is misinformation, propaganda, indoctrination. In other words, FAKE NEWS. It is covering for “your guys” when they’re in power, and incessantly and mindlessly trashing the other guys when they are in office. It is pathetic. And dangerous to a purportedly free republic. It is, in fact, part of the reason for the rapid decline of Western Civilization in recent years. That is not hyperbole.

A free society truly does need a free and unbiased press, because a free society can only long exist with an educated and informed people. The press has two jobs: 1) to inform citizens (not indoctrinate them), and 2) when necessary, to hold the feet of the powerful to the fire.

The existing mainstream media, in the U.S. and in far too many nations abroad, is utterly and preposterously agenda-driven and therefore utterly without credibility. It/they distort, ignore, gaslight, highlight, project, or flat out lie to further the power (and corruption) of leftist politicians and to damage the prospects of conservative ones. Nothing else matters to them, least of all veracity and fairness. And so they are able to lavishly praise the exact same actions and thoughts that originate with “their guy” that they mercilessly attack when originated by the other guy (generally a Republican, or anyone to the right of Mao Zedong). And still sleep soundly at night.

The Left’s “long march through the institutions,” incepted in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, has been remarkably successful. But it is finally getting effective pushback. And it disdains that, cannot tolerate that, will not countenance that. So it lashes out. Demonizes. Projects. And worse. Moreover, it ludicrously labels conservatives “intolerant,” “hateful,” “anti-democratic,” “fascistic,” and “authoritarian.” All the things that it so self-evidently is. The Left wants to pack the court, ban the filibuster, get rid of the Electoral College, make the federal city of D.C. a state, weaponize lawfare, rig elections, smear opponents (and possibly assassinate them.) Additionally, it does not much care for the Bill of Rights, particularly the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution, which were explicitly designed by the Founders to protect you and I from government overreach.

I often wonder how we could possibly have gone from Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison to the likes of Waters, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, and Omar. Darwin has some explaining to do.

Disturbed Arsonist Set Bible On Fire Months Before His Actions May Have Caused The Palisades Fire

 

29-year-old Uber driver Jonathan Rinderknecht hiked to a trailhead near Topanga State Park as it neared midnight on December 31^st, 2024. According to investigators, he then used a lighter to ignite the bone-dry brush, causing flames to spread rapidly and race toward nearby homes as Rinderknecht watched.

That fire was extinguished by the Los Angeles Fire Department but apparently continued burning--unseen and undetected-- in root systems underground. According to the San Francisco Chronicle:

It then rekindled on Jan. 7 and grew into the Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, killing 12 people and laying waste to the affluent Los Angeles community that is home to many members of Hollywood royalty. Thousands of people fled the flames.

The Chronicle again:

Months before the Lachman Fire ignited, Rinderknecht confided in a family member that he had burned a Bible, according to the affidavit, written and signed by an investigator with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, whose name was redacted. He was reportedly exhilarated by the experience and confided in ChatGPT: "I literally burnt the Bible that I had. It felt amazing. I felt so liberated."

Just because you gleefully burn a Bible doesn’t mean the truths it contains no longer apply or exist. And, in this case, doing so made many thousands of others go through hell. Rinderknecht needlessly yet deliberately subjected all of these folks to an inferno on Earth. In so doing, he may have sentenced himself to a hellish prison and eternal inferno.

How “liberating” is that?!

 

Danish Government Forced Greenland's Inuit Females To Use Contraception?

 

Per Life Site News (lifesitenews.com):

The Danish government forced contraceptives onto the population of Greenland for decades, an investigation revealed. In the 1960s and ’70s, thousands of Inuit women and girls were fitted with intra-uterine devices (IUDs) by Danish doctors as part of a government program to prevent them from reproducing. A few cases of forced contraception took place after the 1970s as well, and as late as 2018, the BBC reported.

WTH?!

Greenland was Denmark’s bitch a colony of Denmark until 1953, though it has gradually gained more independence over the past several decades. However, it is still an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.

(Greenlanders, I’d suggest you reconsider President Trump’s offer to make you part of the American experiment. Especially because we don’t force our people—indigenous or not—to use contraceptives or have abortions. We’re kinda cool that way. And we believe euthanasia isn’t cool.)

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen did subsequently issue an apology, saying, “We cannot change what has happened. But we can take responsibility.” She added, “On behalf of Denmark, I would like to say sorry.” Sorry?!

Translation: “Frightfully sorry (we got caught). Oops. Hate that when that happens. We never really meant to forcefully sterilize the indigenous peoples. I mean, sometimes things just fall through the cracks.”

Why is no one calling Frederiksen and her ilk Hitlers, nazis, and fascists? “We love our indigenous peoples, it’s just that sometimes we forcefully sterilize them so they cannot reproduce. But, we long ago and unequivocally discontinued that program, I think, except for a relatively brief period in 2018.”

 

Drag Queens, Marxists, Islam, And Western Decline

Drag queen “Aubrey Ghalichi,” whose real name is Michael Browder, was recently pulled from a Pride parade and arrested after he confessed to having sex with a 13-year-old child he met on a dating app. Bowder was charged with two counts of sexual conduct with a minor according to court records that were reviewed by KNXV-TV. During a Sept. 16 interview, Browder reportedly admitted to police that he had, in fact, had sex with the boy, however he claimed to have believed the lad was of legal age. He added that it was so dark in his apartment that it was difficult to ascertain the boy's age. Well then, if a guy can’t tell if someone else is of age or not in a guy’s own really dark apartment, just have at it rather than, say, turning the lights on or exercising even a modicum of judgement, restraint, and decency. Guess drag queens gotta drag queen, right?

And, we have to remember to be “culturally sensitive.” Like Zohran Mamdani, who, through a 77 WABC review of Mamdani’s writings, has revealed that, though he once witnessed a series of brutal rapes and sexual assaults in Egypt, he declined to intervene due to cultural sensitivity, stating that “the last thing Egyptians needed was a well-meaning foreigner’s assistance.” Quite.

Oddly, everyone seems to be pro-Palestine/Gaza/Islam these days. Even Rome is bowing to MECCA. The Vatican is now providing a prayer carpet for Muslims. Moreover, though Christian churches have been vandalized and desecrated throughout much of Europe, many smeared with Islamic expressions such as “Allahu akbar,” the Vatican appears entirely unconcerned if not actually supportive. This has prompted Hans-Georg Maaßen, former head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, to note the consequences of such madness. Maaßen stated: “The Europeans will succumb to Islam. On the one hand, because they are unable to even see this conflict coming, and on the other, because they are incapable of resolving conflicts in a similar fashion. The end result will be the gradual destruction of our European cultures.” These Catholic Quislings are doing for Europe today what Vichy France did for Europe in World War II. Insanity.

But there is a great deal of insanity going around these days. (There is actually a group called “Gays for Palestine.”) Take, for instance, the fact that a July poll showed that 43% of New York City’s Jews-- and 67% of its Jews between 18 and 44-- support mayoral candidate Mamdani, who is a Muslim Marxist that refuses to condemn the statements “globalize the intifada” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Jews for Mamdani! Gays for Gaza! Feminists for Islam!  Craft brewers for prohibition! Hunters & Fishermen for PETA!  Lakeshore Owners for Invasive Species!  Entrepreneurs for Communism! Priests for perversion! Beam me up, Scotty.

But wait, that’s not all! (It never is.) Per Life Site News:

The Niagara Regional Police [force] is facing a Human Rights Tribunal complaint from a transgender-identifying man who is angry that an officer asked for his original male name in order to identify him. He is (predictably) asking to be awarded financial compensation of $30,000 and re-education for the police.

Because “deadnaming” is a form of actual violence. And the man prefers to be called Sabrina Hill. So, remember, it is “violence” to ask a tranny their real name, but it is not violence if you “accidentally” rape a 13-year-old. Or, apparently, if you happen to be a card-carrying (or AK-15-carrying) member of “The Religion of Peace,” even if you deliberately do so.

It is long past time everyone in the West re-learns Judeo-Christian values and its corresponding work ethic and regains the spine to stand up for them. None more so than Jewish and Christian leaders. If we/they do not, we will deserve the dark and bloody fate we have engendered.

 

My Interview With Hillary (Parody)

 

Hilariously, Hillary Clinton recently stated that we have to “stop demonizing” our political opponents and cease pointing the finger at others. Of course, she then promptly began demonizing her political opponents and pointing fingers at them for, basically, being the scum of the earth if not Satan’s spawn.

I had a dream last night that I was granted an exclusive interview with “Her.” It went something like this:

Me: “Welcome, Mrs. Clinton, and thank you for agreeing to this interview.”

Mrs. Clinton: “First off, dipshit, I’m ‘Ms.’ Clinton, not ‘Mrs.’ Secondly, I’m only doing this ‘interview,’ as you call it, to let the world know how tolerant and welcoming I am, even to my political adversaries.”

Me: “Yes, you have recently declared that we must bring the temperature down and not demonize those with whom we disagree.”

Ms. Clinton: “Yes, because I am better than most people. No matter how badly we want to kill everyone who doesn’t agree with us, that’s simply not usually the best solution.”

Me: “That’s very magnanimous of you. How many folks have you had killed when you thought that was the best solution?”

Hillary: “Probably not more than a dozen…or two. Hey, wait a minute, that was a trick question! And not very nice!”

Me: “I’m sorry. Let’s move on to your relationship with your husband. Obviously, you are aware that Bill has repeatedly been unfaithful.”

Hillary: “No shit, Sherlock. Bill would shag a walrus if given the opportunity.”

Me: “And he flew with his buddy to Epstein Island many times.”

Hillary: “Whatever, let’s move on.”

Me: “Back to your comments about not demonizing others. I mean, you have called your political opponents ‘deplorables.’”

Hillary: “That’s because they are. And you are, too. The vast majority of conservatives, Christians, and MAGA types think nothing of demonizing their opponents. And it's not surprising that this is the case, that these deplorable Nazis and fascists go around demonizing their opponents. I mean, these bigoted, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic sh*t-bags don't deserve to live! Maga types are the vilest people on earth. They just aren't tolerant and open minded, because many of them, especially those from rural areas, are inbred. Anyway, these bleeping bastards make me sick. A, you know, silver bullet here and there, now and again, could do some good. Know what I’m sayin’?”

Me: “Quite. I have to ask you what you thought about a Babylon Bee article stating that those with dirt on you and Bill ‘are 843% more likely to commit suicide.’ Your thoughts?”

Hillary: “My thought is that it might be time to ‘Epstein’ you, a**hole!”

Me: “And that’s all the time we have for tonight…”

                                                   [FADE}

Chinese Communist Flag Raised Above Philadelphia City Hall (A Blogger Exclusive)

 

Incredibly, the red flag of communist China was raised above Philadelphia’s City Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 30, to commemorate the CCP’s National Day. The event was co-organized by a group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and was carried out despite protests from some human rights activists and legislators.

The CCP’s National Day commemorates Oct. 1, 1949, when the CCP declared its rule after a lengthy and brutal civil war. The CCP was responsible for tens of millions of deaths in the several decades following its takeover. More deaths, in fact, than occurred as a result of World War I and World War II combined.

This would have been disgusting had it occurred anywhere in the United States, but the fact that it occurred in Philadelphia is truly repugnant. The crack in the Liberty Bell just got bigger, Constitution Hall a little smaller. I guess “Philadelphia Freedom” is no more. Somewhere, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, et. al., weep. The Cradle of Liberty just honored a monstrous tyranny, a bringer of death, destruction, and servitude.

Was it the mass murder, the crackdown on Christianity and other religions, or the ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs and others that prompted Philadelphia authorities to allow the red flag to rise o’er the City of Brotherly Love?

 

Migrant's CDL Reads "No Name Given"

 

It has come to light that the state of New York recently issued a commercial driver’s license to a migrant and didn’t even require him to provide a first (or middle) name. The CDL read “No Name Given” in place of the name(s).

The nearly nameless “identification” was discovered during a raid in Oklahoma that also identified 125 illegal immigrants. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office released a statement reading: “During the operation, OHP (Oklahoma Highway Patrol) encountered numerous commercial truck drivers operating with licenses issued by sanctuary states, including one license listing ‘No Name Given.’”

The statement added: “These individuals posed a public safety risk by operating 80,000-pound commercial vehicles without proper verification.”

The New York Department of Motor Vehicles subsequently confirmed that the license was indeed real. New York DMV spokesman Walter McLure also issued a statement in which he noted, “It is not uncommon for individuals from other countries to have only one name.”

Maybe so. If you’re Beyoncé, Madonna, Sting, Pelé, Prince, or Plato.

And Democrats constantly assert that it is too difficult for even minority citizens to obtain an ID prior to voting in national elections?!

NY DMV employee: “Hello, how can I help you?” (Okay, but let’s just pretend he/she/they were that polite and professional.)

Prospective licensee: “I’d like to apply for driver’s license. Commercial. I want drive big rigs!”

NY DMV employee: “Are you an immigrant?”

Prospective licensee: “Um, well, I…”

NY DMV employee: “Illegal?”

Prospective licensee: “Um, well, I…”

NY DMV employee: “Great! Your name?”

Prospective licensee: “You need my name? Like, actual name…for real?”

NY DMV employee: “Sadly, yes.”

Prospective licensee: “I don’t have one.”

NY DMV employee: "You don’t have a name?”

Prospective licensee: “Last name yes, nothing else. Hee, hee.”

NY DMV employee: “Okay, what is your last name?”

Prospective licensee: “Mohamed.”

NY DMV employee: "Excellent, sir. Step over here and we’ll take your picture and get you your commercial driver’s license!”

Prospective licensee: “No picture!”

NY DMV employee: "Okay, sir, I didn’t mean to offend you. I will just put ‘No Picture Given.’”

So, could citizens obtain a CDL from New York by just giving them their last name of, say, “Smith” or “Johnson?” What do you think?

 

 

The Pope Blesses A Block Of Ice, Disses Conservatives

At something called the “Raising Hope for Climate Justice Conference” that took place October 1^st through 3rd at Castel Gandolfo in Italy, Pope Leo XIV blessed a block of ice. According to the Catholic News Service, the ice came from a glacier in Greenland. In my humble opinion, he would have made better use of his time if he had blessed ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

However, quite to the contrary, when asked about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin for his work helping immigrants, despite his rock-ribbed support for abortion rights, Leo stated: “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion’ but says ‘I am in favor of the death penalty’ is not really pro-life.” He added, “Someone who says that ‘I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,’ I don’t know if that’s pro-life.” The Pontiff also noted that “they are very complex issues and I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them.”

This is highly troubling on multiple levels. Those who are wildly pro-abortion are not only anti-life, but are entitled persons who want no restrictions on their behavior and no consequences for their actions. By contrast, most of those who are in favor of the death penalty for certain hardened criminals are also pro-life, unwilling to ignore the damage done by serial murderers. Those who oppose the death penalty for heinous crimes and who are willing to ignore the carnage, loss of life, and needless yet incomprehensible pain inflicted on others by hardened criminals and mass murders are not, in fact, pro-life…and may just be heartless bastards virtue signaling in a vain attempt to appear holier-than-thou. The same goes for anyone who is for mass illegal immigration of unvetted people from countries who do not share our values, chief among them the respect for life and liberty. (Speaking as they did to audiences of literal communists, I wonder if the past two popes even believe in Judeo-Christian ethics and values.) Moreover, the treatment of immigrants in the United States has been anything but “inhuman” over the years. Ilhan Omar and 17 other members of Congress are testament to that assertion.

Memo to Pope Leo: In blessing a chunk of ice in front of those who are no fans of capitalism, Trump, or America, you have shown yourself to be more of a political functionary than a man of God. I pray that blessing a block of ice is not just the tip of an iceberg of liberal acts. We all would have been better served if you had blessed the countless thousands of families who have had loved ones killed by repeat offenders and violent illegal aliens. You said that you “don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them.” (“In them?”) Well, you of all people should know One who did. Jesus walked on water, not ice. And He is the truth.

 

 

 

Entitled Or Grateful?

 

There are two kinds of people in this world. I am not thinking about rich and poor. Nor “oppressors” and “oppressed.” Neither am I talking about black and white, or male and female, though the distinction between the latter two is black and white…and the most important and fundamental physical difference among humans.

Rather, I am speaking of the entitled as opposed to those filled with gratitude. And this distinction makes all the difference. In personality, success, and, especially, in happiness. It will likely and largely determine if you are devout or secular, Republican or Democrat, content or bitter. It may well be the determining factor as to whether you are generally optimistic or gripped by despair, rioting in the streets or on your knees giving thanks. It will certainly determine whether you are at peace or at war with others—and, deep down—yourself. And one’s circumstances do not determine one’s outlook. Many relatively healthy and wealthy celebrities, for example, are permanently angry and miserable. In fact, there are far too many to name here. (Think Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Rosie O’Donnel, et. al.)

On the other hand, most of us know friends or family members who have lost their jobs and/or dealt with devastating health issues with grace and humor. And there are many more about which we may only read or hear. Some we may see, such as Johnny “Joey” Jones, who lost his legs to an IED while serving in Iraq. Yet, here he is, making jokes about his prosthetic legs, hosting Fox News shows, and writing books. Many more we do not hear about.

For some, the eminently entitled, nothing and no one is ever good enough. Any and everything even remotely bad that happens is the fault of someone else, and probably deliberately meant to take advantage of them. These people can never be happy. Nor do they bring joy to others. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Others are grateful for any and everything they have, each moment, every memory. (Think Charlie Kirk, for example.) Most of these folks are grateful for their gratefulness.

And I am grateful for that.

What a wonderful world it could be.

 

Stabbing Victim Charged, Stabber Freed; Welcome To England In 2025

 

In a few heavily Muslim areas of Western cities, dogs are now unwelcome. The number of pubs in England has fallen dramatically in recent years. In the Houston, Texas area, of all places, Muslim men walked into stores and tried to convince those stores to remove pork products from their shelves. And then there’s the Islamic scholar who recently said that music is a major sin, and that anyone who listens to music is cursed and will be punished by Allah.

So, no puppies, no pork, and no Pavarotti or Pink Floyd. Yeah, sure.

In Jolly Olde England, Moussa Kadri attempted to stab a man who had publicly burned a copy of the Koran. Kadri shouted “I’m going to kill you” as he jabbed at the man, and later told the police that he was just out to “protect my religion.”

This being “England” in 2025, the stabbing victim was charged with the heretofore unheard of crime of “having intent to cause [harm] against the religious institution of Islam.” Given that England now has a Muslim “justice minister,” this crime may soon be commonplace. Feel free to burn a Bible, or drag it through the dirty streets, however, as that is not a punishable offense, and may, in fact, be considered a reasonable response to the ever-dangerous “Christian nationalism.”

Worse yet, Judge Adam Hiddleston let the mad Muslim mauler go with a suspended sentence because, as he told Kadri, “you were clearly deeply offended by a man who was protesting outside the consulate and who as part of his protest had set fire to the holy Quran.” Kadri was freed on bail. The victim of the attack, Hamit Coskun, was locked up, however.

This led me to ponder what I could get away with if I said I was offended. “Misgendering?” Theft? As a non-wealthy person, I was offended at the prices the store was charging. Rape? The woman didn’t want to sleep with me, so damn right I was offended! And hurt! Worse, I felt marginalized and unseen! I think I deserve reparations, recompense! Sure, I raped her, but I am the real victim here! Murder? Yeah, I killed her, but, as you now know, I was offended! In fact, I’m offended that anyone would even think of charging me with a crime. Why, I oughta—

Anyway.

As for “misgendering,” it truly does offend the hell out of me to be expected to lie. But I couldn’t get away with any of these things, because I am not a protected species. I am a white, male, Christian nationalist.

England has fallen. Hitler couldn’t take her, but another Jew-hating entity has. There are no more Churchills. The last lion long-since passed.

And Europe becomes ever darker, thirstier, quieter.

Except for the five-times-a-day Islamic prayers are called.

 

Super Bowl Halftime Show To Feature "Bad Bunny" As NFL Gives Middle Finger To Traditional Americans

 

The National Football League recently announced that its Super Bowl 2026 halftime show will feature an anti-Trump, anti-ICE, cross-dressing Puerto Rican “artist” who doesn’t sing in English. That artist, “Bad Bunny,” said in a statement released by the NFL, Apple Music, and ROC Nation: “This is for my people, my culture and our history.” None of which was referring to Americans or America.

Ironically, the Rotten Rabbit had also recently announced that he would “never” perform in the United States due to President Trump’s deportation policies. However, last I checked, Santa Clara, California was still part of the U.S., if only physically. Money talks. Bunny listens.

Some believe Bunny is a demonic Marxist and are upset that he has been granted the largest possible stage and the greatest audience via this Super Bowl gig. But there is no stopping the NFL in its attempt to expand internationally, and Bad Bunny has a huge foreign fan base. America will be nothing but an afterthought once the NFL becomes an international conglomerate like Google, Amazon, or Apple. For now, despite Bud Lite, Cracker Barrel, et. al., the NFL is trying to use wokeness/DEI to expand its reach. It thinks virtue signaling will help fill its coffers, the only thing it cares about. The league is more rapacious and profit-driven than any other on earth, despite the pathetically trite slogans that adorn the endzones of its arenas and the helmets of its gazillionaire players.

If it mattered, I would call a penalty on the league: “Personal foul, unsportsmanlike conduct.” Unamerican, too.

This is unimaginable hubris, given that there is no doubt that more than half of its fans are non-leftists and at least mildly patriotic. Why not just have Rosie O’Donnell perform? Or maybe name J.B Pritzker the official host of the Halftime Show? Nicolás Maduro?

More importantly, when will principle take hold and fans finally shout “enough!!”?

I sometimes think more people are addicted to the NFL than are addicted to nicotine, alcohol, pot, hard drugs, methamphetamine, and fentanyl combined. Maybe gambling, too. And the NFL couldn’t be happier about it.

Sadly, there are more Americans who couldn’t imagine their Sundays without NFL football than would be at all troubled by the absence of church on the Sabbath. This is not a good sign.

But, Bad Bunny or not, I don’t see that changing anytime soon. If ever.

Game over?

 

Democrats Apparently Believe Constitutional Rights Protect Illegal Aliens But Not American Citizens

 

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts, 54, was recently arrested. Federal officials say the “educator,” who was pulling down a cool $286,000 a year, was living and working in the country illegally, despite holding one of the state’s most prominent and public jobs.

Roberts was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on September 26th after fleeing a traffic stop and abandoning his district-issued vehicle. Authorities found him carrying a loaded handgun and thousands of dollars in cash. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Roberts is a native of Guyana who overstayed a student visa and was ordered deported by an immigration judge in May of 2024.

An ICE Field Office Director Noted, “This should be a wake-up call for our communities,” adding, “How this illegal alien was hired without work authorization, a final order of removal, and a prior weapons charge is beyond comprehension and should alarm the parents of that school district.”

Yet it appears, in pathetically hyper-tolerant fashion, some in the local community are rallying around Roberts, the gun-toting illegal alien with a prior weapons charge and several previous legal entanglements. (Roberts served as superintendent of Millcreek Township School District in Pennsylvania prior to making his way to the Hawkeye State. That school district paid out over $403,000 to resolve complaints tied to administrative decisions Roberts allegedly made during his tenure there, including a couple for gender discrimination.)

Some Democrats, such as Jackie Norris, who oversaw the Des Moines, Iowa School Board for several years while Roberts ran that city’s public schools, have hastened to publicly defend Roberts. (Norris is the former chief of staff for former First Lady Michelle Obama.)

How is it that progressives/Democrats are suddenly rock-ribbed Second Amendment advocates in this case? How could anyone believe that unvetted illegal aliens should be allowed to carry loaded handguns but law-abiding American citizens with permits to carry should not be allowed to do so? Oh, I see, we are not permitted to defend ourselves against unvetted illegal aliens carrying loaded handguns. (Apparently, that is a little-known codicil of The Great Replacement Theory, which is not a theory but an obvious fact.) In the fevered minds of the desperately mentally ill and/or permanently power mad (i.e. Democrats), criminals should have the right to carry guns but long-time law-abiding citizens definitively should not. Beam me up, Scotty. (Here’s a link to this reference for those of you under 60-years-old.)

In related stories, Democrats want to shut down the United States government if Republicans don’t commit to spending a trillion dollars on health care for illegal aliens. And New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has committed to spending more than $100 million on legal defense services for illegal aliens, taken from the pockets of American taxpayers. (Does “legal” services for “illegals” even make sense?)

My God, wake up Americans! Or this won’t be America much longer.

 

Truth And Reconciliation Day In Canada

 

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. Which is odd, since Canada’s leaders avoid the truth as if it were a rotten hunk of back bacon. Actually, they avoid it as if it could turn them into MAGA types, or, gasp, conservative Christians. Which it could. The truth can set you free.

As for reconciliation? If Canada was serious about anything but faux “crises,” it would reconcile with the truth. And reality. And sanity. And America. But it’s too busy pretending men can become women just by donning a string of pearls and pronouncing it so. It is similarly wrapped up in welcoming legions of foreigners, in this case Muslims, into the formerly Great White North. So much for the back bacon. And the Molson. And the Windsor.

Canadian leaders are also still fervently engaged with abusing the Canadian Freedom Truckers. Because they feel the truckers, like the truth, are a threat to their power. They attempt to control social media, bribe the mainstream media, and threaten any and all citizens who they believe have strayed off the reservation.

As a kicker, Canada’s Slime Prime Minister, Mark Carney, recently officially recognized a Palestinian state, a nation that never was. And never should be. Hail to the terrorists! But that is in keeping with recognizing ‘trans’ people, existential man-caused global warming, and that Islam is a Religion of Peace.

Tragically, the leaders of “the deranged dominions,” to quote Mark Steyn, have entirely lost the plot. They have willing ceded their nations’ past…and future…to lies and liberals. And Islam.

Canadian citizens need to reconcile themselves with the fact that the truth could set them free, if only they would recognize it…and act on it. Let’s hope they summon the courage to do so before it’s too late. (After their next federal election?)

Me? I’m not hopeful that they will.

Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation was instituted as a remembrance of the loss of culture, freedom, and self-esteem that many Indigenous children experienced at the hands of the residential schools. The day purportedly reminds us that “Every Child Matters.” (Except, of course, those whose lives were snuffed out by abortions. But few Canadian leaders want to hear that!)

Ironically, Canadians in general already appear to have lost their self-esteem. And, if they don’t quickly recover it, they will soon lose their culture. And freedom.

I wouldn’t care so much, but Canada was once…what it is no more…and should be again.

Democrats Love Illegal Aliens, Criminals; American Citizens Not So Much

 

Unbeknownst to some, Democrats are currently forcing Americans to pay for the healthcare and shelter of many of the millions of illegal aliens the Biden administration let into the country over the past several years.

This is akin to a cheating spouse demanding that their betrothed pay for the food, clothing, and shelter of the person with whom they have been unfaithful. I can’t decide if this is more absurd or evil. And they are determined to keep doing so in perpetuity. They now are threatening to shut down the government if Republicans and the Trump administration don’t agree to a trillion-dollar budget for illegal aliens’ healthcare, among other things.

If Democrats are determined to shut down the government over this, then let them. If the majority of Americans then don't understand who's to blame, there is no hope anyway.

Democrats stand with Ukraine. Democrats stand with hardened criminals. Democrats stand with—and indeed comprise the vast majority of—the liars, fraudsters, and mind-bogglingly corrupt automatons in The Deep State. And Democrats stand with illegal aliens.

It seems like the only people with whom Democrats do not stand are law-abiding American citizens. This is not only strange and immoral, but would logically appear to be a terrible way to go about trying to be elected.

The sad caveat is, as recent history shows us, an ever-larger percentage of Americans are utterly bereft of morals and/or are mentally ill, so it is by no means certain that sanity will prevail. Moreover, a significant percentage of Americans have been brainwashed into believing that “tolerance” and “diversity” are somehow overriding virtues, instead of the Devil’s trojan horse that they so clearly are in the case of today’s Western nations.

Recent Assessment Shows Students Are Getting Dumber

 

The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) results are in! And they are discouraging to say the least. The most recent “Nation’s Report Card” isn’t pretty. Average scores were lower across all three assessments as compared to 2019. (What happened in 2020? Oh yeah, the plandemic.)

The survey revealed that 69% of eighth-graders performed below the level the NAEP considers to indicate proficiency in science.

65% of twelfth-graders were deemed not proficient in reading.

And only a paltry 22% of twelfth-graders performed at or above the NAEP Proficient level in mathematics.

These results, though horrendous at first glance, should not be cause for concern. In fact, they should be cause for joy, as we now know that science, math, and reading are all R-A-C-I-S-T. Better to be an idiot than a racist! How important are science, mathematics, and reading skills anyway?

More importantly, when compared to 2019, students were far more likely to use the “correct” pronouns (she/her) when speaking to a bepenised woman…and to shout “fascist!” at a person whose opinion they didn’t wish to hear…or with whom they disagree! Progress!

Moreover, rumor has it that fully 19% of twelfth-graders knew they were in 12^th grade! This might be the Golden Era of Education!

How dumb is we? Let me count the ways. I mean, as long as there ain’t no more than, like, 10 of them.

The root cause of students’ ignorance is that they are being indoctrinated, not educated. Public education is failing them. It is well past time to insist that everyone responsible for this debacle be held accountable.

 

 

 

Short Takes On A Wacky World (A Blogger Exclusive)

 

Quick Takes On A Wacky World (A Blogger Exclusive)

 

*Just two days before Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking on his college campus tour, Jezebel, a far-left feminist outlet, published an article titled "We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk.” The radical outlet updated the article after Charlie’s death via an editor’s note claiming the piece was satirical and never intended to incite physical harm. Shortly after that, the article was removed from the website entirely. Leftists are back to placing curses on people? Employing witchcraft? I guess it’s no wonder why so many of its women look like crones.

 

*In a few parts of the U.S., where Muslims are a significant percentage of the population, they have made the first probing attempts to restrict the areas where dogs are allowed…and to ban the sale and use of alcohol. Memo to everyone in the world: Jesus turned the water into wine. He did not turn the bread into khat, cocaine, or weed. Nor did He demand that unbelievers be converted, enslaved, or killed. Important distinctions, wouldn’t you say?

*As of now, Canadian health officials will not follow the lead of the United States in recommending pregnant women avoid using acetaminophen, or Tylenol, after a study indicated it is a contributing factor in the autism epidemic. (And even after one pregnant woman nearly died from an overdose of acetaminophen, and is fighting for her—and her baby’s-- life on a ventilator as I write this.) The Canadian health officials probably also recommend washing down the Tylenol with a couple bottles of Molson.

*Democrats are demanding more than $1 trillion in spending for the health care of illegal aliens or they will force a (partial) shutdown of the U.S. government. Because they care less about American citizens, a plurality of whom voted for Trump in the last election, than they do for the unvetted illegal aliens whom they wish would replace them. They would make citizens pay through the nose for health care for those who have entered the country illegally and have no desire to assimilate. Sick. Though Republicans are currently riding high, if they allow Democrats to succeed in this most preposterous of endeavors, they will never win another election of any import. And, in that case, they shouldn’t.

Dearborn, Michigan: America's Canary In A Coal Mine

 

The Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, sports a population of about 100,000 people. It’s the birthplace of Henry Ford and the longtime world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company.

 Per the 2020 census, slightly over half of its population is of North African or Middle Eastern ancestry, the highest percentage of Muslim residents in the United States. Its current mayor, Democrat Abdullah Hammoud, is a Muslim who was born in Dearborn.

As I noted in an earlier piece, a Christian minister named Ted Barham recently showed up at a City Council meeting to protest the renaming of two intersections in honor of Osama Siblani, a local journalist…and supporter of terrorism. Barham cited articles in which Siblani had written that “the blood of the martyrs irrigates the land of Palestine” and opined that everyone should fight within his means, including “with stones, others…with guns, others…with planes, drones, and rockets.” Barham understandably stated: “I feel like having that sign up there is almost like naming a street Hezbollah Street or Hamas Street.”

The Dishonorable Mayor proceeded to call Barham a “bigot,” a “racist,” and an “Islamophobe. He added: “Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this city.”

Hammoud’s new campaign video is subtitled in Arabic. For that matter, so is most of Dearborn.

I find this sadly ironic. Henry Ford invented the assembly line near Dearborn, an innovation which greatly enhanced efficiency and productivity…and directly led to the production of the first car that the middle class could afford. Ford said of his ‘Model T,’ you can have it in any color…as long as it’s black. (And they called him a racist, LOL!) Ford’s invention revolutionized the manufacture of countless items around the world, dramatically reducing the costs of these items to consumers. “Down the line,” the cost of other items was reduced with the improvement in speed and efficiency of shipping brought about by the replacing of horse-drawn wagons with motorized vehicles. Moreover, the frequency of certain illnesses was reduced with the dramatic decrease of horse manure in the streets.

Future Fords bore names such as “Mustang” and “Thunderbird,” a nod to the freedom, physical and spiritual, that they helped usher in. One pictures long blonde hair trailing behind the driver of a convertible as one of these iconic machines rolls down Route 66 or California’s Pacific Coast Highway.

In the Dearborn of the future, that freedom might well be in short supply.

But I’m sure you will be able to choose to belong to any religion…as long as it is Islam.