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The purveyors of weather porn have hit the daily double with Sunday’s Steelers-Buffalo Bills playoff game.

In general, weather types — both national and local — love to warn us of threatening weather, to the point of overkill.

If they’re wrong and the promised doom does not arrive, you are expected to forgive and forget their misinformation and just be grateful it wasn’t as bad as promised.

If it is as bad as predicted, then the weather people indulge in orgies of self-congratulation for having warned you.

Now, toss in a playoff football game, with the threat of cold, snow and high winds, and they have a guaranteed audience up to and beyond kickoff.

Perhaps you have heard reports – since discredited – that the Steelers-Bills playoff game would be moved to Cleveland due to the threatening weather.

No doubt you have heard, or read, in-depth analysis of which team benefits more from inhospitable conditions.

The weather emphasis has prompted a search of my mental archives for memorable weather games.

As a young guy rooting for anyone playing the Green Bay Packers, I recall watching the broadcast of the 1967 NFL Championship game, AKA The Ice Bowl. It was played in Green Bay, with temperatures of minus-13 degrees and a minus-36 wind chill.

Both teams struggled to cope with the incredible cold. But, in the end the Packers won, as usual, beating the Dallas Cowboys on a quarterback sneak TD by Bart Starr with 13 seconds remaining.

I was still viewing from afar when the Steelers became the team of the 1970s, with some memorable weather games along the way.

When the Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders in the 1972 Immaculate Reception game, it meant the next week they would host unbeaten Miami in the AFC title game. Although Miami came in at 15-0, the 12-3 Steelers hosted because back then playoff teams were not seeded. Instead, home field was decided on a division rotation system.

It was thought the weather would be a huge edge for the Steelers. But the game-time temperature was an uncharacteristically warm 58 degrees, with no precipitation. The Steelers lost a close one, 21-17.

The Weather Gods were with the Steelers in the 1975 AFC title game vs. the Raiders, although the Raiders saw some less-than-divine intervention. The game began with the temperature at 17 degrees, but the Raiders were more concerned about icy field conditions.

A tarp had been placed over the field, with heaters blowing warm air under it to heat the artificial turf. This was offset by a rip in the tarp overnight that occurred due to windy conditions. It has been written that the tarp also was a touch small, leading to icy conditions being worst near the sidelines.

The teams combined for 12 turnovers, but the Steelers prevailed, 16-10.

Fast-forward to the end of the 1978 season and I was covering the Steelers, who won that AFC championship game against the Houston Oilers, 34-5, in a game played in miserable freezing rain.

The teams combined for 14 turnovers and the whole scene has been immortalized in those NFL Films shots of Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw sliding on the icy, slick turf like he was riding a saucer sled.

Though the years, I’ve covered a Steelers regular season game when it was brutally cold in San Diego, and another when torrential rains in Miami during the second half turned an apparent sure loss into a Steelers win as Merril Hoge proved to be quite the mudder.

Among my memories of weather games at Buffalo were a December 1982 game when Bradshaw completed just 2 of 13 passes for 3 yards in a 13-0 loss. It was a game played on a raw day and Bradshaw was on the verge of hypothermia, having failed to wear a thermal top under his jersey.

Another regular-season game at Buffalo was memorable for the incredible winds. The color guard guy trying to hold the American Flag in pregame ceremonies looked like he’d hooked a marlin.

Buffalo fans seated in stands behind one end zone, perhaps anticipating the massive wind gusts, had brought black garbage bags with them and amused themselves by holding them up to fill them with air, and letting those bags race down the stands, traverse the length of the field and rise out of the stadium at the other end.

Back to Sunday’s game, temperatures are supposed to be in the 20s with wind gusts of 50 miles an hour and perhaps seven inches of snow.

Expect lots of turnovers — by both sides. Expect uneven play. As far as which team will prevail, I wouldn’t want to make a bet, even with your money. But it should provide some memorable images.

The lunacy that is the daily news continues with stories so bizarre they sound as though they are ripped from the satirical pages of The Onion or The Babylon Bee. Alas, they are not.

NEWS: At a time of heightened world tensions, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin went MIA for nearly four days, an absence later explained as him being hospitalized. This does not explain the curious reality that the White House was oblivious to it all until after the fact.

VIEWS: At least Kathleen Hicks, Austin’s deputy, was on the job. Well, she was not exactly on the job. She was vacationing in Puerto Rico. But, according to reports, she did forego long walks on the beach just in case something urgent like World War III erupted and she might be needed to do her job.

NEWS: Chris Christie, who ran his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination by attacking Donald Trump nonstop, finally had a cogent moment when he said Nikki Haley was “going to get smoked” in an election and is “not up to this.”

VIEWS: It was fitting that Christie’s moment of clarity was not intended for public consumption, but instead was one of those hot microphone incidents in which the speaker (Christie) thought he would not be heard. At least Christie has dropped out of the nomination chase, confirming what has been evident since the start, that he had zero chance of getting the nod.

NEWS: The United States has reported a December budget deficit of $129.4 billion, about $40 billion higher than the estimated $87.5 shortfall for the month. Three months into this fiscal year, the U.S. already had added $509 billion to the national debt, on pace for an annual deficit of $2.36 trillion.

VIEWS: If the U.S. were an individual, it would qualify for bankruptcy. But the U.S. can print dollars and require much of the world to use those excess dollars either to repay dollar-denominated debts or to buy commodities such as oil that are priced in dollars. Our enemies in Russia and China are working feverishly behind the scenes to create their dollar-alternative payment systems. If and when that happens, our raging deficits will be a major problem.

NEWS: Reports Thursday night said U.S. and U.K. warplanes were striking Houthi rebel targets in Yemen.

VIEWS: I guess we were waiting for Austin to get out of the hospital since Hicks wasn’t cutting short her vacation.

NEWS: Hunter Biden has entered a not-guilty plea to Federal charges of failing to pay $1.4 million in income taxes. Hunter also is facing trial on federal gun charges and a contempt of Congress charge for refusing to honor a subpoena.

VIEWS: At least Hunter has that lucrative side hustle as an artist, selling pieces reminiscent of zoo fund-raisers in which animals have brushes lashed to their tails or trunks to produce the art. It’s only a coincidence that the buyers of Hunter’s art seem to be big Democratic political donors.

NEWS: Students at a Brooklyn High School were put on remote learning when they were thrown out of that school to make room for illegal migrants to be housed there.

VIEWS: In a bit of irony, those illegal migrants were brought to the facility in school buses.

NEWS: A court filing by a co-defendant of Donald Trump alleges that the Atlanta Fulton County DA, who ran for office on a get-Trump platform and now is trying to follow up on that pledge, engaged in a clandestine affair with the married prosecutor she hired to prosecute Trump.

VIEW: Predictably, those on the left see no ethics conflict and bray “it’s only sex,” sounding a lot like the defenders of Bill “Likes them young” Clinton during that whole Monica Lewinsky business.

I had an interaction today (Tuesday 1-9-24) with a person that I was surprised to hear him say is a follower of my blog

He even suggested I should write about him on it.

Hate to disappoint, but no soup for you today. Maybe some other time.

Michigan is college football’s national champion and I hope it’s an omen of what we might expect in another high-stakes competition much later in 2024.

Allow me to explain.

Michigan’s season coalesced into a crusade epitomized by the rallying cry “Michigan Vs. Everybody.”

It appeared on clothing, signs, and was a centerpiece of interviews. It was the most striking slogan since Make America Great Again.

For those of you not attuned to college football, Michigan had some rules problems that resulted in not one, but two three-game suspensions for coach Jim Harbaugh this season.

The first, served at season’s beginning, was for recruiting violations (technical stuff at worst). Later in the season, Harbaugh had to sit three games because a member of his extended staff did some alleged sign stealing in advance scouting.

Harbaugh said he had no knowledge of this, but still he had to sit another three games. Most notably, even as the NCAA investigated, Harbaugh got the word from the Big Ten that he was suspended without due process while on the way to a late-season showdown game with Penn State.

It was if the Big Ten had it in for Harbaugh and Michigan, sort of like Republican leadership didn’t really want Donald Trump as its 2016 nominee, but then he went on to win the presidency. Fast-forward to 2024 and Trump still gets little love from his own Republican Party leaders.

Harbaugh’s season-end suspension also had a stench similar to Democrats trying to tie up Trump with a series of suspicious legal actions, hoping they would hamstring his campaigning in 2024.

Michigan, despite the Big Ten Friday surprise, dominated Penn State physically, went on to beat up traditional rival Ohio State, and sleepwalked through the Big Ten title game.

But the challenge was only beginning, The folks who run the college football playoffs thought they could sideline Michigan by slipping long-time playoff stalwart Alabama into the final mix, and opposite Michigan in one semifinal.

Michigan won that Rose Bowl game, in overtime, and Monday night crushed Washington, 34-13, in a game not as close as the final would suggest.

It was a physical domination, kept close only because of some curious strategy at times from Michigan.

Neither quarterback was stellar in this championship game. There were plenty of penalties on both sides and other missteps such as dropped passes.

It was a metaphor for a political campaign, with ebbs and flows and, in the end, a result that makes some very unhappy.

Harbaugh likely really rubbed salt in the wounds of his enemies when he characterized the season as a “spiritual journey” and mentioned God as a reason for his strength through it all.

I can only hope that Trump Vs. Everybody succeeds as did Michigan’s effort. Maybe the cherry on top of a Trump win could be a triumph in swing state Michigan, where Trump has a three-point lead over Clueless Joe Biden in a Jan. 4, 2024, Zogby poll.

We can dream, right?

A cornerstone of the modern leftist catechism is hypocrisy to the Nth degree.

Is it OK if one their fellow travelers lies, cheats, steals, commits violent acts or generally indulges in racism, plagiarism and assorted untoward acts?

Absolutely yes.

Is if OK if someone on the political right lies, cheats, steals, commits violent acts or generally indulges in racism, plagiarism and assorted untoward acts?

Absolutely no. How absurd it is even to suggest that. MAGA. MAGA. MAGA. Insurrection. Insurrection. Insurrection.

When the opposing sides have such a basic rift on what is right and wrong, we’re never going to get along. It’s that simple.

Plagiarism, at its root the practice of taking the work and ideas of others and passing them off as your own, is rampant among the left.

A timely example is how the now former Harvard president Claudine Gay has resigned – eventually – when numerous examples of her plagiarism came to light.

Many aspects of this are noteworthy.

First, Gay came into the spotlight after a pathetic performance before Congress in which she was unable to say that Hamas supporters on her campus calling for genocide of Jews violated the school’s code of conduct.

A similar performance in front of Congress by Gay’s Penn counterpart ended up in the Penn person submitting a speedy resignation due to public backlash – read donors saying “No Mas” to sending more money to the school.

But Gay and her supporters, emboldened that she was a DEI poster child being both female and black, thought she was untouchable.

Quickly it came to light that Gay’s academic output borrowed a little too heavily from the work of others, without attribution.

Gay fought hard to stay, but eventually resigned. Note, she kept her $900,000-a-year political science professorship, where she is free to pollute young minds with ideological tripe indefinitely.

And how did LameStream media handle all this? What would you expect from organizations in which 96 percent of reporters identify as being on the political left?

Led by Associated Press, the whole thing was dismissed as a highly partisan hatchet job by the right. To quote from AP, the resignation “highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.”

Allow me to emphasize, the same people who told us all whistleblowers, all snitches, all women claiming past sexual abuse, must be believed and never questioned, now sing a different tune.

Those pointing out Gay’s penchant for “borrowing” ideas are to be dismissed as hateful hatchet people.

This might not surprise you if you recall that Clueless Joe is an admitted plagiarist himself, as confirmed in a Sept. 18, 1987, New York Times article. You can look it up if you care. Joe has “borrowed “ liberally since, too.

Even as this plagiarism passion play has unfolded, your LameStream media has conducted a gotcha campaign against Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

The same thinking that painted black former governor aspirant Larry Elder as “The black face of white supremacy” in a Los Angeles Times article dated Aug. 20, 2021, is attempting to paint (pun intended) Ramaswamy as a white racist. Never mind that, as Ramaswamy has pointed out numerous times, he is the child of Indian immigrants to America.

This stance stands in contrast to another Republican presidential hopeful you may know as Nikki Haley, who was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa to Indian parents. Haley doesn’t hide her heritage, but only seems to completely embrace it when it helps the cause, as in a woman of color running for political office, or getting a job.

Back to Ramaswamy, his great sin is refusing to endorse so-called “reverse racism” in which it is OK to discriminate against current people (mostly whites) to address grievances from two centuries back.

Ramaswamy made this point to a black pastor in Iowa and since has been attacked by white women media types demanding that he disavow “white supremacy.”

Ramaswamy’s response to such race-baiting is that he finds racism of all kinds despicable. That’s enough to trigger the LameStream media types who, as he predicted, rushed to proclaim that he refused to condemn white supremacy, or words to that effect.

This stands in direct contrast to LameStream media types who characterize racism directed toward whites, Asians, Jews, whomever, as just part of historical redress or a function of healthy political protest.

Bigot in chief Biden in the past has called Jan. 6 protesters in Washington, D.C. “a mob of thugs” who would have been treated very differently had they been Black Lives Matter protesters. This from an NBC internet posting dated Jan. 7, 2021.

Biden unintentionally spoke the truth. It’s just that where he was saying BLM types would have been dealt with more harshly, based on history we can say the reverse would be true. BLM protesters would be supported for their supposed cause (Note: That cause presumably not to ensconce higher-ups in luxurious Los Angeles real estate) and not criticized for the violence or damage they committed.

So ends today’s lesson on leftist hypocrisy. Feel free to plagiarize this.

Today we discuss the philosophical chestnut, is it better to be lucky than good?

It almost goes without saying that being both lucky and good would be the ultimate pairing. Alas, such perfection mostly remains elusive in life.

Truth be told, there also are some on the other end of this, being neither lucky nor good.

And yet most of us, as is often the case, reside somewhere in the middle. We’re good at times, lucky at others.

Still, we must consider whether apparent luck merely is the fruit of effort.

There is a quote often attributed to the Roman philosopher Seneca: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Branch Rickey, the late, great baseball general manager, massaged this into “Luck is the residue of design.”

Many others have picked up on this theme, often observing the harder they work, the luckier they get.

We are obliged to concede luck and effort often are intertwined.

Consider the ongoing example of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Good at times, pathetic at others, and blessed with a very easy schedule, the Steelers have yo-yoed their way to season’s end still alive in the playoff chance.

Cynics would observe the entire team is due for a group appointment with the proctologist, the better to have the horseshoes removed from their rectums.

Said horseshoes – luck – help account for how so many items have fallen into place despite the Steelers trying to kill their playoff chances late in the season with back-to-back losses to pathetic Arizona and New England teams.

Other teams – the right teams – have collapsed. Injuries and poor play have combined to crack open the window of opportunity for the Steelers, who have done their part by rediscovering offensive football and winning some games.

The Steelers make the playoffs if they beat Baltimore this weekend and either Buffalo or Jacksonville lose their games. There are other possibilities that involve ties, or not ties, but these are the basic options.

On the face of it, it could be argued the Steelers are unlucky in needing to beat powerful Baltimore in the final game. But how lucky the Steelers are that Baltimore already has the top seed clinched in the AFC and so will sit numerous players, including their runaway leader to be the league’s MVP in quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Simply put, even the Ravens who do play will be more interested in avoiding injury than giving 100 percent to win this meaningless game.

This is a break for the Steelers and to deny this luck, albeit as the residue of the Ravens’ hard work, is to deny reality.

The Steelers still might not win the game, but the circumstances have led the people who do this for a living to install the Steelers as betting favorites, despite their inferior record.

Winning won’t be enough for the Steelers, but in this so-far bewildering NFL season, I wouldn’t like to bet the house on both Buffalo and Jacksonville winning their games.

If, as expected, the Steelers win and Buffalo or Jacksonville loses, that proctologist appointment will be put off a least a week as the horseshoes will be needed for playoff action.

Time is running out on another year, traditionally the signal to make personal resolutions for next year. Around here, we do the resolution bit with a twist: We make resolutions for others. No need to thank us.

• Johnstown’s Myopia 2025 should resolve to end it all a year early, having failed in various behind-the-scene maneuvers, not the least of which was to flood the area with Afghanistan refugees, the better to provide the Myopia elites with a source of relatively cheap labor for their various ventures.

• American citizenry needs to resolve to do more to lock the spinning turnstile that is our southern border before the nation’s identity is lost. Already many European countries are coming to the realization they need to do something to stop mass immigration by people not looking to assimilate, but rather to subjugate the natives.

• Clueless Joe Biden ought to resolve to attempt to go an entire month without doing or saying anything stupid.

• Democrats ought to stop trying to save democracy by legislating away the opportunity of opposing candidates to run for political office.

• Johnstown elites would do well to stop beating the tourism drum and admit publicly that stringing more lights along Main Street and paving Central Park is not the cure for the economic doldrums.

• Penn State football coach James Franklin, fresh off a bowl embarrassment, might want to resolve to start winning some big games. Failing that, stop whining, as he apparently did to the broadcast crew of this year’s bowl fiasco, that he doesn’t have good enough players. Isn’t that the responsibility of the head coach, to recruit the talent? Most teams had players opting not to play in bowl games and, last time I checked, Penn State had no opt-outs vs. Ohio State or Michigan.

• Our Pittsburgh Steelers, who find themselves needing the help of strangers in the final week of NFL play to slink into the playoffs, might resolve to do a better job next season of taking maximum advantage of a weak schedule and winning the apparent gift games.

• The citizenry in general ought to resolve to learn more about current events, politics, world issues and the history of this great land. It’s more important for them to know who their Senators are than to know Taylor Swift’s current boyfriend.

• Along that line, the citizenry might want to resolve to reacquaint itself with the ability to reason critically and stop believing the many absurd and blatant lies being spread by so many LameStream Media outlets.

• Our Clueless Commander in Chief might resolve either to get our forces out of the Middle East (land, sea and air) or to take the shackles off them and allow them to respond with disproportionate force against all the rebel forces currently taking potshots at them. If this leads to action in Iran, so be it.

• I’ll end with a final 2024 resolution for me, that being to buy more gold and silver (in physical or ETF form) as well as more precious metals mining stocks (individual or ETF) to help insulate me from the economic and social upset I see on our doorstep.

Now that Georgia has annihilated Florida State in the Orange Bowl, by an historic 63-3 margin, defenders of the college football playoff selection elites must be doing handstands.

In the words of college football guru Lee Corso, not so fast my friend.

There are many ways to view the Georgia landslide, and some of them continue to paint the selection people in an unfortunate light.

The supporters of these holier-than-thou types would point to the one-sided outcome of the Orange Bowl and congratulate them for correctly excluding unbeaten Florida State from the final four field playing for the national championship.

But, let’s spin the dial 360 degrees. Forget Florida State for the moment. Can these college football geniuses still feel Georgia, another playoff exclusion, is not one of the four best teams in college football?

We’re talking about the two-time defending national champions, whose lone loss in recent memory was a 27-24 setback to Alabama in the SEC title game. By virtue of that, Alabama, which earlier this season got thumped 34-24 by Texas, at home, got the nod for the playoff field.

Who in their right mind could say that Alabama clearly is better than Georgia? They were better by three points on one day in December. The moral of this story is lose early, as Georgia did, and give the aging playoff selectors time to forget.

Now, back to Florida State. We wrote recently about the sad state of the college bowl season, with teams having players simply opt not to play in these suddenly meaningless bowl games outside the national championship playoff.

The players sit for many reasons, including fear of injury ahead of the NFL draft, or because they already have committed to college football free agency – the transfer portal.

Florida State, according to a story on ESPN.com, played without 29 scholarship players vs. Georgia.

For reasons varying from injury, to opt-outs, to we’re not sure why, the Seminoles were without their top two quarterbacks, top two running backs, top two receivers, starting tight end, three defensive linemen, three starting linebackers and three starting defensive backs.

It was obvious that, stripped of the opportunity to play for a national title, these players said the heck with it.

Could Florida State at full-strength have beaten Georgia? Who knows. But congratulations to the selection people for interceding to help determine the degree of defeat, if not the entire outcome. They must be so proud.

My first inclination was to be a Grinch about this college football bowl season.

So much celebration over so little substance.

But, in the spirit of the holidays, I decided to accept it all as just another sign of our times.

Think of it as diversity, equity and inclusion for the sporting world, the sort of thing that gives us sanctimonious Harvard presidents who plagiarized their way to the top.

Football teams are famous for copying the work of others. But this state of the bowls is more a case of the everybody’s-a-winner mentality; trophies for all.

It’s only fitting that this concept should work its way to the top of college football, giving us mediocre teams battling for trophies, in bowls whose names you don’t know, and often in undesirable locales.

Where once bowl games were considered rewards for good seasons, now they have been reduced to rewarding teams still possessing a pulse at season’s end.

The college football playoff system is the curious opposite of all this. That playoff setup annually manages to exclude worthy teams, a lowlight being this year when UNBEATEN ACC CHAMPION FLORIDA STATE, was left on the outside looking in at the lucky four.

There is a fallout of the college playoff system, and that is to further minimize the import of all those other bowl games.

This has produced yet another trend that produces bowl mediocrity.

We often are sold the propaganda of football teams as bands of brothers, with individuals caring as much about teammates as themselves, willing to sacrifice massively for the greater good.

And this is true to a certain extent. But the star players, those aspiring to the more overt play-for-pay ranks, suddenly fear injury and so ‘opt out” of bowl games not part of the title playoff. That is to say they just don’t play in them, but sometimes do deign to show up for cameo sideline appearances.

For every player like the Kansas State red-shirt senior offensive lineman who played despite the “risk” and was giddy in the postgame victory celebration, there are plenty of teams gutted by this phenomenon.

Ohio State, which put on an embarrassing performance against Missouri in the Cotton Bowl, got a double whammy of this.

First off, superstar wide receiver Marvin Harrison, Jr. sat out, avoiding injury and all that despite the junior having yet to declare for the NFL draft.

Also, the Buckeyes were hit by the transfer portal phenomenon — free agency for college players. Think of this the next time you are fed the BS about student-athletes playing for Old State U!

Formerly, transferring players had to sit out a season, which cooled their ardor for pursuit of greener pastures. Now, there is almost tacit NCAA encouragement, the better to fire up offseason publicity for the product and see it contribute to more television bucks and greater public attention.

This meant Ohio State’s starting quarterback was contemplating life at Syracuse instead of playing. His backup started and soon was injured, to be replaced by the third-stringer.

Not surprisingly, Ohio State managed but a field goal, ending a streak of 88 games scoring a touchdown, dating, ironically, to the 2016 Fiesta Bowl.

Missouri won, 14-3, in the video equivalent of Sominex that ensued.

At least we’re finally reaching the point of bowl season where the games have legitimate participants. We just had to suffer through a lot of everybody’s-a-winner preliminaries to get here.

Celebrating Christmas is such a full-time job, I wonder how I ever was able to get it all done before I retired.

Only now, a few days after C-Day, do I have a spare moment or two to scribble up a blog entry.

The only way to attempt to cover the bases is with an installment of News and Views.

NEWS: Various Lamestream media outlets report Democrats are unable to understand how the populace is unhappy with the economy despite the “great” numbers being disgorged almost daily, things like a low unemployment rate, rising GDP (gross domestic product) and moderating inflation. Bidenomics is a win, they proclaim, but the masses are just too stupid to comprehend this.

VIEWS: The answers are simple. First, the relatively low unemployment rate is as much a function of a shrinking number of people seeking jobs as it is robust job growth. Simply put, when you use a percentage against a declining base, the good numbers aren’t necessarily as good as you would think. Regarding GDP, the historic national debts we are running to support our out-of-control spending, as well as Zelenskyy’s Napoleon Complex, buys growth, but at what cost? As for inflation, yes it is going up at a slower rate. But prices still are increasing, up about 17.5 percent on an average basket of goods since Clueless Joe was shoved into the Oval Office. Wages, except for lucky auto workers, are not up that much. People feel poorer and rightly so. Calling them stupid for not buying the talking points is not a winning strategy.

NEWS: Our southern border is an out-of-control mess, leading Democratic mayors of northern sanctuary cities (Chicago, Denver, New York City, among others) to cry out for federal dollars to help them cope with the flood of illegal immigrants. But the federal budget already is paying a steep price for unfettered illegal immigration according to a study from the Center For Immigration Studies, as reported by Epoch Times. That study shows nearly 60 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants suck at the public welfare teat, as compared with 39 percent of households headed by people born in the (dis)United States.

VIEWS: Illegals propagate like rabbits, unfettered by the need to earn money to pay for the kids. But keep the gates open, Clueless One, as a source of more Democrat voters to elect and support additional proponents of leftist idiocy. It continues until enough Americans demand it stop. So far, the silence has been deafening.

NEWS: Pennsylvania’s Senatorial embarrassment, John Fetterman, has taken a break from hospitalizations, for issues both physical and mental, to lash out at long-time Democratic strategist James Carville, telling him just to shut the F up on the subject of Clueless Joe and diminishing re-election prospects. Fetterman, who already has made quite the Senate fashion statement with his hoodies and baggy shorts, rightly figures that since he was “elected” to the Senate while running a campaign in a catatonic state, including one abysmal debate, Clueless Joe is a shoo-in for a second term despite similar failings.

VIEWS: Fetterman probably is right. If Biden won once, I’m sure Democratic “vote enhancement” will get him over the finish line again. Never mind those polls that show Trump crushing Biden in key states. Fair elections in this country have gone the way of the affordable house, with both Fetterman and Biden as stumbling, bumbling evidence. But, it is amusing that Carville, described as looking like the grownup “Deliverance” love child, once got Bill Clinton elected on the mantra: It’s the economy, stupid. Is it still the economy, stupid or just who counts the votes, and how?

NEWS: Beer sales in the United States through the first nine months of 2023 were down 5 percent, the worst performance in the past 25 years. The decline was led by the Anheuser-Busch family of beers, who so famously decided to hitch their Bud Light wagon to a YouTube “trans-influencer.”

VIEWS: Dare we dream this is just one segment of the Get Woke, Go Broke backlash by the average American? Disney et al, take note.