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Owing to the vagaries of split families, we celebrated our Thanksgiving two weekends back.

The wife made the traditional feast, with a huge turkey as the centerpiece and, somewhere amidst the festive proceedings, granddaughter No. 2 asked me to share things for which I am thankful.

A loving family including the granddaughters, fairly good personal health for me and the family, and relative security financially were among the items that headed my list.

I might have added having Donald Trump as president, living in interesting times, and finally having reliable high-speed internet at my house (thank you, Elon Musk and Starlink) as other notable mentions.

I wish others might take a break from their constant whining to appreciate their blessings on this holiday of thanks.

Already, in recent days, I’ve seen the traditional holiday staple of network and local broadcasts, the person pumping gas and lamenting the high cost of it all.

For some reason, the gripers always seem to be driving massive pickup trucks or SUVs large and powerful enough to pull a house off its foundation, all while carrying six or more passengers.

If the Bing search engine is to be trusted, the average roundtrip mileage for Thanksgiving visits this year is 549 miles. Not 550, mind you, but I’m going to round up to that number to make the math simpler.

Say the behemoth vehicle being driven only gets 10 mpg, that’s going to require 55 gallons of what the Brits call petrol to get there and back. And, if that petrol was $1 a gallon more this year than last (which it isn’t; actually the cost per gallon is lower) that would mean an extra $55 spent.

I’m here to say if $55 ruins your budget, you’ve got problems beyond Thanksgiving travel.

Consider your apparent financial illiteracy and the similar affliction that seems to affect an increasingly large portion of the nation’s populace.

It seems these people expected economic miracles from Trump; true fishes and loaves stuff.

They don’t understand that even if inflation is percolating at under 3 percent on his watch, compared to Clueless Joe Biden’s peak of 9 percent, prices still are going up on average, and from a higher base due to that 9-percent bulge.

The only way to get prices lower is deflation and, trust me, you don’t want that. Try reading about this country’s Great Depression of the 1930s.

Gen Z types lament hopelessness due to their worthless college degrees, being priced out of the housing market and generally feeling excluded from economic good times.

It doesn’t register with them that guzzling $5 cups of coffee, dining out multiple times a week, leasing high-end vehicles they can’t afford to buy, and indulging in multiple exotic vacations each year might help explain their feeling of being so many paupers.

But, I guess I shouldn’t be so harsh on the general population because Tuesday, on Fox Business Channel’s Charles Payne show, there was a financial guy saying the poverty line should be $140,000 a year of income. He wasn’t kidding.

I never made $140,000 a year, but somehow I’ve accumulated six vehicles, a house and some financial assets.

Just lucky, I guess.

I will give the Gen Z types their due regarding housing. The Federal Reserve’s cheap money experiment — until it looked like Trump was going to win — has sent a gush of money into housing, raising prices substantially and now that the mortgage rates have risen again, pricing out a lot of would-be first-time homeowners.

Still, just as the prices of gasoline, eggs, orange juice and lumber have been coming down, so, too, have housing prices – at least beyond the Greater Johnstown area.

A story on CNBC Tuesday cited several sources that reported an increasing supply of homes for sale, extended listing periods and some listings simply being pulled because, despite multiple price reductions, they did not sell.

Zerohedge.com on Wednesday quoted a Zillow news release in a story telling of record average listing price reductions of $25,000 in October. Beyond the usual housing hotspots of California and New York, Pittsburgh was mentioned as having a high average price reduction per property listed.

Curiously, this phenomenon has not fully hit Johnstown. Take it from a guy who spends too much time browsing realtor.com, area listings are selling quickly and price reductions are minimal.

So, for Gen Z types living outside Johnstown, the trends seem to be moving in your favor regarding real estate. Declining prices and the prospect of lower mortgage interest rates just might bring that house within your reach.

No doubt you will find something else to lament. But, just for today, let’s try to be positive and thankful.

Two national guard members were shot in Washington, D.C., Wednesday and are said to be clinging to life, each in critical condition. The gunman reportedly was an Afghan national, in the U.S. illegally, of course.

And I think it could have happened here if our Myopia 2025 people had their way. Recall that shadowy organization, fond of operating in the background (as in never running for office, but pulling a lot of political strings), had tried to slip a bunch of Afghans into Johnstown in late 2021/early 2022, and might have succeeded were it not for the likes of Rep. Frank Burns.

Oh, the platitudes mouthed by the Myopia types. Trying to build up our sagging population and filling jobs begging for workers with Afghans. Blah, blah, blah.

Perhaps there were government grants to be acquired and distributed through their core constituency of nonprofits, charities, foundations and not-for-profits?

Maybe some business owners who are Myopia favorites needed cheap labor?

But, once the public-relations spotlight was put on Myopia, the Afghan plan disappeared.

Readers of this blog might recall me recounting in a September 2024 blog post about some give-and-take with a largely uninformed guy I met at the Cambria County Republican office in Richland. I was there to purchase a Trump yard sign and the Afghan subject came up when I mentioned I also had a Burns sign.

I was told the usual claptrap about the Afghans proposed for settlement here would have been vetted. I pointed out that I recalled “vetted” Afghans were guilty of many incident vs. U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.

The man challenged me for specifics. I went home, researched the topic and wrote a blog post in early September laying it all out for him, even tried to call the office to reach him (he never did give me his name) but said office was closed.

To spare you the need to look up that blog post, there were numerous such incidents in Afghanistan, and some since in the U.S., even before this latest Washington, D.C., abomination. I was right. The know-it-all at the Republican office was wrong.

Such often-wrong, never-in-doubt thinking would stand him in good stead in the Democrat party. The usual suspects rushed to social media Wednesday to blame the D.C. tragedy not on the alleged illegal Afghan shooter, but instead on President Trump for putting National Guard troops in harm’s way.

In harm’s way. In our freaking nation’s capital, you morons?

Do you also pontificate about rape victims asking for it by dressing provocatively, or that battered women brought it on themselves by making their partners – male or female – angry?

This incident is about Trump trying to clean up the illegals/crime mess left by Clueless Joe Biden and abetted by every mayor and liberal puke in the legal system that thinks deporting or jailing scofflaws is unfair, a risk to democracy, or just plain mean-spirited stuff.

The shooting makes Trump’s point that D.C., like most cities run by raging Blue Democrats, are not safe places and need National Guard presence to change that.

There is an outrageous tale making the rounds from Chicago, another hotbed of crime, about an incident Nov. 17 in which a guy with more than 70 arrests was set free by a DEI judge with a hyphenated last name to douse gasoline on an innocent woman riding a train, setting her on fire and sending her to the hospital in critical condition.

But, Chicago is absolutely safe. Stop talking about the hundred or so shootings there every weekend. I can only imagine the carnage of this holiday-elongated weekend.

Democrats are emboldened to stand up for illegal immigrants, criminals in general, and any group that wants to disrupt polite society. They rush to social media to preach hate and urge breaking of the law, even by those in the military.

It’s because these crazed leftist Democrats feel no career risk since their brain-dead electorate keeps voting them back into office.

Until that changes, expect more of the same in D.C., Chicago and other Blue bastions.

We’re going all tri-lingal on you today regarding the week that was.

Quien sabe?” for our Spanish-speaking friends.

Quis scit? is how the ancient Romans would reply in their native Latin to requests for analysis.

And, for those speaking English, the mother tongue of our land, which was not officially designated as such until a March executive order from President Trump, who knows? sums it up.

The week was filled with the incongruous, inexplicable and just simply bizarre.

Let us reflect.

It was a week in which firebrand Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green likened herself to a battered wife as she announced she was quitting her job as of early January 2026 amidst a social media feud with Trump.

Numerous high-profile Democrats took to social media to urge U.S. military members to disobey orders from Trump and apparently foment the insurrection they so publicly abhorred just a few years back.

It was a week during which the U.S. presented a peace demand to Zelenskyy, even as his regime continued to be wracked with reports of yet more corruption.

Also the past week, we saw 98 Democrats vote against a bill condemning socialism, with two gutless types voting present and 27 more simply refusing to vote. Predictably, AOC did vote – against the condemnation of socialism.

We saw more pathetic leftist federal judges look to overrule the will of the people who voted for Trump by throwing national guard troops out of D.C. and forbidding that strings be attached to federal funds.

This was the week we saw mugging Mamdani “The Commie” smile it up with Trump in the Oval Office, 20 pounds of meth found stuffed in frozen meat at our southern border, reports that Somalis are robbing the country via welfare fraud and sending the proceeds to terrorists, and the Cracker Barrel marketing guru who nearly sank the chain with a Woke reboot, resign its job.

It’s enough to make your head spin, and that’s even without some of the speculation to explain these strange occurrences, including that Taylor Green has seen her net worth skyrocket and is resigning in January so as to lock in a pension, but not have to report her finances.

I cannot begin to guess the ins and outs of these various strange stories of last week.

What I do believe – strongly – is that the sheer number of these outrageous happenings provides further evidence that our nation is spiraling out of control and falling ever closer to that shooting Civil War that Democrats seem to want, but might not like if they got their wish.

Were I inclined to dabble on the dark side, I might try bootlegging Pennsylvania state inspection stickers. I understand it’s a lucrative trade, with stickers fetching as much as $800 on the black market.

This knowledge was imparted to me Wednesday while I waited for the diagnosis on the rear driver’s side tire on my wife’s car, which has a slow leak that has haunted her, and by extension me, for months.

When I say slow leak, I’m talking losing about two PSI a day. The good folks at the Westwood Monro found the offending object, a broken, aluminum looking nail or screw, that had impaled the tread.

While I waited for the repair, the guy at the order desk, another patron and I came to discuss inspection stickers.

It didn’t start out about stickers, but instead was a matter of general agreement that the Monro phone answering system, which places an intermediary between you and the store you would like to visit, leaves a lot to be desired.

The conversation then swung to the general subject of inspections and the trade in fake stickers.

Allow me to talk a bit of inspection history. In my youth, cars were required to be inspected twice a year, a biannual cause of consternation for many in my family, who drove cars that were on the far end of their lifespans.

Admittedly, the good news was we didn’t have emissions inspections back then to sideline weak and infirm cars.

But, getting cars checked twice a year for safety was a bit of a pain and this prompted some to pass on it all, taking their chances.

It also gave rise to a class of garage known as “paper hangers” for their willingness to put an inspection sticker on just about anything with four wheels – for a price.

The state frowned on this, as you might expect, and the paper hangers didn’t tend to be around for years at a time.

Along the way, we’ve dropped safety inspections to once a year, but with the added burden of the aforementioned emissions. We’re not yet California on this matter, but we’re headed that way.

I once knew a guy who drew and colored – by hand – a fake inspection sticker, propped it into place on the windshield of his pickup truck using gloves on the dashboard, and drove around merrily.

Alas, it all turned bad when he attracted the attention of the gendarmes for wearing a bulletproof vest (under a black raincoat) into WalMart. When those gendarmes walked him to his truck, they were not amused by the faux sticker and so the vehicle was towed.

If this guy were around today, and in the market, apparently he could get a more realistic bootleg sticker for the aforementioned $800.

The woman patron at Monro today had heard a story of an arrest in Pennsylvania earlier this year and I did some internet research when I got home.

Yes, a story from January 2025 confirmed an interception by the good folks of U.S. Customs and Border Protection of two shipments of fake inspection stickers from Israel and bound for Philadelphia. A value of more than $1.4 million was put on the total of approximately 22,000 stickers.

Drug dealers, eat your hearts out.

Now, if only we could get PennDOT to stop issuing commercial drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.

That, my friends, is a bigger story than scofflaws bootlegging inspection stickers.

Historians debate whether the British army band actually, as oft is written, played “The World Turned Upside Down” during the surrender to the Americans at Yorktown that ended the Revolutionary War. But it might have been so and probably should have been.

Similarly, we hear no requests for “The World Turned Upside Down” regarding current NFL standings, but it would be fitting.

Those standings seem to have been flipped by an unseen hand.

Imagine how eager you’d have been before the season to bet against the Kansas City Swifts and the Baltimore Ravens each being just .500 through 10 games at 5-5, while the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos each would be division leaders at 9-2, tied for the best record in the league.

If you saw that coming, I’d like some of what you are smoking.

On a less stunning scale, your beloved Steelers lead the AFC North, courtesy of a cake schedule and having the only record above .500 in the mostly pedestrian division.

Chicago’s Bears standing atop the NFC North at 7-3 is quite the surprise, as is Jacksonville at 6-4 and in the playoff hunt from the AFC South.

But some things remain NFL constants, including, but not limited to, the Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints and Las Vegas Raiders continuing to stink like month-old fish.

It all provides an abundance of interesting story lines as the NFL prepares to head down the regular season’s homestretch.

The most riveting tale is that of the Swifts, who used to be the Chiefs until the NFL glommed on to the prominent relationship breakup songstress’s ongoing dalliance with a Swifts tight end (his position, not a physical description.)

As betting arrests plague other sports, and questionable officiating continues to dog the NFL, you’d think the football league would be on the hotline to make sure the Swifts don’t miss the playoffs and so take a bite out of ratings as the simpletons who tune in hoping for gratuitous shots of said songstress watching a game from a luxury box go AWOL.

How would the NFL, networks, and advertisers shake off such an absence?

In retrospect, I guess we should have seen the Swifts decline coming, if only for mathematical reasons. Last year, the Swifts won all their one-score games, posting a 10-0 record in such contests, and prompting some unseen hand speculation. This year, they are 0-5 in one-score outcomes.

A story on ESPN.com cited one computer index giving the Swifts nearly a 45-percent chance of missing the playoffs, this after having run off nine consecutive AFC West titles.

Don’t count out the Swifts, if only because of magician quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the aforementioned songstress, and the league’s vested interest in the Swifts making the field.

Regarding other surprises to date, were I a Bears fan, I would not be booking a Super Bowl trip. Same for the Patriots and Broncos fans.

Just enjoy the unexpected success so far, guys and gals and, when the likely playoff disappointment arrives, again, shake it off.

The Philadelphia Eagles are looking like a very strong candidate to challenge for a repeat Super Bowl win and could this be the year Buffalo’s Bills get back to a Super Bowl, and dare their fans dream, actually win one?

As a side note in the bad news, good news vein, my DISH satellite receiver experienced hard drive failure Sunday evening, just as I was viewing the dramatic end to the Seattle-LA Rams game. This failure also deprived me of the chance to watch the Eagles and Detroit Lions later Sunday night on the big-screen TV.

But there is a positive note regarding that DISH woe, which is unlikely to be resolved for six more days. It means I won’t be tempted to indulge in masochism and watch the putrid Monday Night matchup between the sad sack Dallas Cowboys and Raiders.

Talk about silver (and black) linings!

Pitt fans were blue after their football team absorbed a 37-15 beatdown Saturday at the hands of Notre Dame, but presumably Panthers coach Pat Narduzzi was happy.

Recall, it was Narduzzi who peed on the parade in advance of the matchup of ranked opponents, a game which brought the ESPN traveling pregame circus to Pittsburgh, by noting the game was virtually meaningless to Pitt.

Narduzzi went so far as to say he wouldn’t mind losing by 100, as long as Pitt would win its remaining ACC games.

We haven’t heard such tone-deaf commentary since Cackling Kamala told her sycophants on The View – two times – that she could not think of a single thing she’d do differently than Clueless Joe Biden.

The Kamala comparison is fitting. Neither she, nor Narduzzi, has a clue.

When your team is ranked 22^nd nationally, as Narduzzi’s Pitt team was ahead of this game, and the opposition is No. 9, as Notre Dame was, you embrace the opportunity to make a statement.

Cackling Kamala had a chance to indicate she was up to the top job. Narduzzi had a chance to indicate his team had higher aspirations.

Both were found wanting.

When you aim low, you hit low.

Pitt was hoping somehow to compete for an ACC title. That ship almost assuredly has sailed, leaving the bitter taste of a one-sided loss to Notre Dame left on the dock.

It is fitting that even as Pitt was being humbled by Notre Dame, word was circulating that fired Penn State coach “Big Game” James Franklin, he of the $50-million-ish buyout, was being considered to take over Virginia Tech and lose big games there.

Franklin and Narduzzi are peas in an unfortunate pod, able to win games only when the bright lights of national attention are not shining upon them. Under such glare, both come up short consistently.

Penn State’s administration tired of the Franklin act and showed him the door during the season, albeit with a monstrous golden parachute.

Pitt, which long ago ceded any hopes of being a factor on the national scene, likely will continue to be content with Narduzzi and his goal of losing by less than 100 points to quality non-conference opposition.

Ironically, the Steelers seem to have settled into such acceptance of modest coaching success with Mike Tomlin. He won a Super Bowl and never has suffered a losing season as Steelers head coach, his boosters crow.

Tomlin also has a losing record in the playoffs and hasn’t won a playoff game since Rin Tin Tin was a pup.

For those who say the Steelers can’t fire Tomlin because of past success, here’s some historical perspective. Chuck Noll won FOUR SUPER BOWLS as head coach and it can be argued Bill Cowher won another with a Noll-built team.

Technically the Steelers didn’t fire Noll, but they did maneuver him into retiring. After the 1988 season, team owner Dan Rooney forced Noll to fire assistant coaches as penance for the losing record.

Noll bristled, but remained. A bitter cherry on top was having Tom Donahoe installed with the power, among other things, to help Noll hire future assistants.

The Steelers made the playoffs in 1989 and — take note Tomlin — even won a playoff game. But there were no playoff appearances in 1990 or 1991.

Rumors were flying that Rooney again was going to force Noll to change his staff and this time, Noll said I’m outta here.

How ironic it is that Franklin, Narduzzi and Tomlin all have been bitten by the same mediocrity bug. Yet, two of the three remain on the job.

Veterans Day 2025 dawned cold and windy in these parts, as the usual suspects enjoyed yet another day off work or school, without necessarily knowing or appreciating why.

Patriotism is on the wane in this country. A quick census of my block found precious few American Flags flying to honor the day. My house is among the notable exceptions.

The way we honor veterans is a curious thing. Consider the NFL, which had coaching staffs outfitted in camo variations the past weekend. Pregame flyovers from military aircraft are an NFL staple. This from the Woke league that gives us ridiculous on-field messaging and annual Super Bowl halftimes that are more leftist orgies of self-congratulation than odes to this nation.

This year we have anti-ice poster child/rapper Ill-Mannered Hare, or some such made-up name, holding court.

Many have protested the halftime choice. The NFL, whose product has been reduced to hours-long lean sessions such as Monday night’s Philadelphia-Green Bay snorefest, responded to critics with a metaphorical middle finger. Tough luck, traditional Americans. You’ll watch it and like it!

Ah, but what about the camo? Perhaps just an attempt to peddle more merchandise and appear interested?

Many conflate Veterans Day with Memorial Day, ignorance that exists in part because schools no longer bother to teach the nation’s history, unless it is to bastardize it with a leftist rewrite.

Memorial Day honors the veterans no longer with us, including those who died on the job. Veterans Day sprang up out of the end of World War I and celebrates veterans in general.

Fortunately, it is one holiday that has not been shifted to a Monday in order to give people not happy with a single day off, the opportunity to enjoy three-day weekends.

This is similar to how Thanksgiving, a one-day holiday in my youth, has expanded to many getting an entire week away from their jobs.

I guess they give thanks for all the time off, but beyond that, doubtful.

I never served in the armed forces, coming of age at the end of the Vietnam War. But I come from a family of veterans, most of them dead (not in conflict) who served in World Wars I and II, along with Korea and Vietnam.

Having never done research of the family tree, I can only speculate whether we had fighters in the Civil War or other, earlier conflicts.

Memorial Day and Veterans Day were big deals in our family when I was younger.

Two granddaughters are over today, having no school, and I just might give them a chance to roll their eyes as I explain the meaning of the day.

Likely, it won’t make much of an impression on them, but maybe it will. Someone needs to make sure the Flag is flying when I’m gone.

Ancient Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is proving you can’t fool Mother Nature.

There’s a reason pro sports leagues are not full of 40-plus-year-old athletes. Admittedly, Joe Flacco, at the ripe old age of 40, is putting up some good numbers as a quarterback, but even that has not been enough to win multiple games for the Cincinnati Bengals, his latest team.

Flacco’s production more than likely will diminish, too, as the season progresses. Mother Nature rules.

That brings us back to Rodgers, the soon-to-be-42-year-old who has begun to struggle. He threw two interceptions, was sacked three times, and generally looked rattled as the Steelers succumbed to
the LA Chargers by a 25-10 score Sunday night.

Afterward, Rodgers took full responsibility. It was his best call of the night.

On that front, I give Rodgers credit. Perhaps it is because Rodgers has won big in his younger days, realizes that his performance of late has been sub-standard, and is secure enough based on that past success that he is willing to admit to struggles now.

The Steelers and Rodgers have been called out in this space months back as a mirage of a team, likely to have a good record mostly owing to a weak schedule, but not having good prospects in the playoffs. That opinion hasn’t changed and has actually been fortified by play in two of the three most recent games.

In some ways it reminds me of the 1983 Steelers season, another memorable mirage effort by the black and gold.

Terry Bradshaw, the Steelers four-time Super Bowl champion quarterback, missed the first 14 games of the 1983 season due to an elbow injury and unproven Cliff Stoudt, almost miraculously, was behind center as the Steelers were 9-2 after 11 games.

It was fool’s gold. The Steelers then went on a three-game losing streak, including being humbled 45-3 in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day.

That 9-2 record had slipped to 9-5 and all of a sudden the playoffs were looking like less than a certainty.

Stoudt was not holding up well under the pressure, either, blaming others, including his wide receivers, for his failures that included an inability to throw touchdown passes.

Enter the 36-year-old Bradshaw as the Steelers traveled to play the New York Jets in the Jets’ final home game ever at Shea Stadium.

Head coach Chuck Noll decided that Bradshaw, with an ailing right arm, was a better option than Stoudt.

It was magic as Bradshaw, in just over a quarter of play, threw two touchdown passes – one each to Gregg Garrity and Calwin Sweeney – and the Steelers went on to win, 34-7.

Alas, Bradshaw heard a pop in his elbow on the Sweeney pass and his season and career were finished.

The Steelers lost the next game, their regular-season finale vs. Cleveland, but still made the playoffs. Once there, Stoudt continued to struggle and the Los Angeles Raiders won easily, 38-10, to end the Steelers’ campaign.

The Steelers’ struggles this season cannot be blamed entirely on Rodgers. That defense hasn’t played up to its billing, either.

Rodgers is, however, the guy upon whose shoulders will fall the responsibility of invigorating a spotty offense. Just as with Stoudt, the odds are against Rodgers being up to the challenge.

Jose “Joe” Ceballos is a name you should remember.

Jose “Joe” is mayor of a small Kansas town, who currently is being charged with voter infractions because even though Jose “Joe” has been voting and holding office, he is not an American citizen.

No, Jose “Joe” is a Mexican citizen who, like so many others of his ilk, prefers to live in the U.S. At least he’s reported to be a legal resident here, but not a citizen and that is an important distinction when it comes to voting.

Media reaction has been predictable, rushing to the defense of Jose “Joe” and painting those attempting to enforce THE LAW, as vindictive meanies.

I read numerous stories online about Jose “Joe” and nowhere did I find a mention of his political party affiliation. I’m betting it’s Democrat. I could be wrong. Probably not.

But, in those same stories, it often is noted that those who found out about Jose “Joe” and are looking to prosecute him are, gasp, Republicans.

It’s no surprise that the LameStream media, most of which takes its marching orders from the political left, would attempt to spin this as anything other than a man alleged to have broken election law, both by voting and holding office.

Ah, but the stories are full of people defending Jose “Joe,” from his daughter suggesting he just didn’t know, to others saying what a fine guy he is and we should just look the other way that regarding these technicalities of legality.

This is all part of a sickening trend being perpetrated on this country by the left in their efforts to derail a once-great nation.

Think about it, if the black-and-white issues of what is legal and what is not can be blurred, blended and smeared, then it’s an open invitation for more wrongdoing.

In a bit of typical hypocrisy, the political left thinks their opposition should be drawn and quartered for jaywalking or sent into prison for years for spitting on the street.

If a Republican mirrored old Jose “Joe” and voted repeatedly while not being qualified to do so, if he held political office, his fate would be extensive prison time.

Just look at the record regarding Tina Peters, the Colorado election official serving NINE YEARS in prison for allowing an unauthorized individual to access voting machines to check for fraud.

NINE YEARS! Yes, Tina Peters is a Republican, which means when she is convicted of breaking the law, she does hard time.

From the so-called J-6 people, to high-profile sorts such as Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, Republicans routinely find themselves doing time for offenses that don’t even merit a wrist slap when the offenders are Democrats.

And we’re supposed to accept this, just as we are expected to look the other way regarding Jose “Joe.” He’s just one guy, the left argues. But there are thousands if not millions like him, I reply.

That’s why the left is pushing back so hard with corrupt politicians, questionable judges and convenient idiots on the streets, to stop President Trump from deporting illegals and attempting to restore validity to the election rolls.

Also, my friends, this Jose “Joe” example is just another brick in the wall regarding why this country is headed to Civil War.

Another election has come and gone and what have we learned?

Somehow, people with campaign signs for losers were very efficient at clearing those signs, doing so almost as quickly as the results were known, likely in the attempt not to suffer any longer than necessary the stench of losing.

People who had yard signs for winners have been a little slower to pull down their signs, perhaps basking in vicarious glory.

I’m wondering if I deserved hazardous duty pay voting at the Southmont Borough Building, amidst strands of red warning tape and cautionary signs regarding asbestos danger there?

It was nice to see some local election results, with social justice warriors and YouTube heroes failing to win.

It was not so nice to see it reinforced that the electorates in New York City, California, Virginia and New Jersey are just as insane as they have been for decades. Give them proven liars, cheats, purveyors of social media threats, and other miscreants and they will vote for them as long as they are Democrats.

It was predictable to see Democrats engage in orgies of self-congratulation over winning in these blue, or deep-purple jurisdictions. Should Republicans crow so loudly when they prevail in Texas and Florida? How about when a guy named Trump sweeps seven supposedly toss-up swing states, as he did in 2024?

As written here previously, I had come to hope Mandami “The Commie” would become mayor of New York City, just so he could face the daunting challenge of coming through with all the freebies he promised in order to get elected.

New York City voters are going to find out that you pay the piper for bad voting choices. This is nothing new. Think post-World War I Germany, for example.

Johnstown is screwed, and has been screwed for some time due to generations of mismanagement and political corruption. A new mayor won’t cure that, and as often seems to be the case, might just add to the misery.

If, as some pundits have said, the government shutdown hurt the Republicans, that’s just further proof the average voter operates on a mental level a bit short of the typical five-year-old.

Also, along that line, we had the usual crap spewed yet again before the election urging people to perform their civic duty and vote. That conveniently omits the need to educate oneself before voting, so as to make informed decisions and not just vote for the D or R, or for a candidate’s name.