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Another politically incorrect mascot gets the axe

So, farewell then to The Don [not to be confused with The Donald! Ed.], the mascot of University of San Francisco sports teams for nearly a century. 

What's wrong which The Don? To understand why the pencil-mouistached, green-hat-wearing mscot has gone the way of Chief Wahoo and the Fighting Irishman, you have to know that USF is a privately-owned Jesuit school. So? For the last two decades, the leading religious figure and apostle of wokeism was none other than Jorge Bergoglio, the Jesuit who called himself Pope Francis. See the connection?

But you don't have to take Walt's word for it. Hear USF President Salvador Aceves, who put the institution’s new mascot choice -- a wolf [Seriously? Ed.] in context thus:"With new leadership at USF and in Dons Athletics, we believe the time is right to revitalize our image and embrace a new mascot, one that is known for its intelligence, endurance and ability to work cooperatively in its pack."

Ummm, but he didn't say what was wrong with the Don. The New York Post revealed the real reason for The Don's dethronement. Seems the usual gang of snowflakes, Karens and loony leftists gave "upsetting colonial history" as their reason for the push to end the association. They got barely 400 gullible students to sign a petition demanding the change, the modern "Catholic" school governors caved, and so The Don is gone.

Footnote: The Don's origins go all the way back to 1932 -- some four centuries after the Spanish colonial era -- to Don Francisco de Haro, the first mayor of Yerba Buena, which ultimately became San Francisco. Not exactly your evil conquistador type.

"I love America!" sez El-Sayed. "You lie!" sez McCaughey

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant-governor of New York State. She takes a very dim view of Abdul El-Sayed, the Dimocratic Party candidate for one of the Michigan seats in the United States Senate. So low is her opinion of the would-be senator from Dearborn that she has authored an op-ed piece for publication by the Toronto Sun, warning Michiganders [and Michigeese? Ed.] not to vote for "Doctor" El-Sayed without fact-checking his background and campaign claims. Here's what she wrote. 

"I love America," insists Michigan’s U.S. Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed. Recently, he rallied a crowd in Detroit, interjecting "y'all" frequently as he spoke, putting on an African American accent to suit his audience.

All politicians claim to love America, but when El-Sayed says it, he’s lying. And that’s only one of his lies. His long paper trail of academic writings, before he ran for any political office, shows what he actually believes. 

The consistent theme is that if you're an Arab American, assimilating into American society is dangerous to your health. 

He has a toxic view of white America. Across the U.S., 11 Muslim Americans are running for Congress — overall, a positive sign that one of the fastest-growing immigrant groups is buying into our political values. 

Several of these candidates, such as Arizona's Zuhdi Jasser, are fine people. But El-Sayed is a phoney. As a medical student at Columbia University (he graduated but never completed his residency to qualify to practise), he wrote a string of papers purporting to prove that Arab Americans who blend into American society face numerous risks, from giving birth prematurely to succumbing to suicide. The message is clear: Live in America, but do not become American.

El-Sayed credits virtues of "ethnic density" and Sharia law. 

A 2011 paper of his, published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health , warns of the hazards of "interethnic mating". That is, having a child with a non-Arab. 

Looking at 21,621 births to Arab mothers in Michigan, El-Sayed found Arab women who conceived a child with a non-Arab man had an 18% greater risk of premature births. The article has all the trappings of scientific research, but why research this? Possibly because, under Sharia law, Muslim women are barred from marrying outside the faith.

But assimilation or violating Sharia law isn’t necessarily the culprit. Arab women who had children with non-Arab men tended to be older and more likely to smoke, both differences that could cause higher premature birth rates.

In another study, El-Sayed aimed to prove that living in an all-Muslim community, apart from other Americans, protects Arab women from the discrimination and stress that cause prematurity. He argued that pregnant Arab women in Detroit, living in a dense, ethnically homogeneous enclave, fared better than Arab women in California following 9/11.

Here’s another doozy: A study of suicide among Arab Americans in Michigan. Suicide rates were lower in  Wayne County, where Arabs live in dense enclaves, than in the rest of the state, where the Arab population mixes with other groups. El-Sayed credits the virtues of “ethnic density” and, again, Sharia law. 

Suicide is considered "haram", or forbidden, he argues. Sorry, Doc, but that’s true in most religions, including Roman Catholicism. El-Sayed slyly omitted considering other possible factors, such as the socioeconomic status of suicide victims.

His studies on suicide and premature births are just examples of the pseudoscience he concocted to support Arab Americans living apart in ethnic enclaves rather than joining the American melting pot. This is not thinking Michigan voters should support.

Segregated Muslim enclaves spawn jihadism. In countries like Belgium, France and Sweden, clusters of marginalized Muslim groups have become breeding grounds for radicalism. It’s essential to monitor the threats coming out of these enclaves as far as the U.S. Constitution will allow and to discourage this separatism, not promote it with scientific blather as El-Sayed has done.

Candidate lying on main campaign promise. 

El-Sayed’s been flat-out lying even on his main campaign promise, repeated at every stop: Medicare for All. At a debate on Oct. 8, he was asked if the 210 million Americans with private insurance, mostly through an employer, could keep it. He said, "Yes, absolutely.... If families want to keep their private health insurance, that’s fine by me." False. 

El-Sayed wrote a book about Medicare for All in 2021, explaining that the government would be the only insurer. But as a politician, he finds it hard to tell the truth. El-Sayed still isn’t levelling with seniors, admitting they’d be the biggest losers under Medicare for All. They’d have to compete with younger Americans for access to expensive treatments. With fewer years to benefit, they’ll be told to settle for rationed care. 

Michigan voters need to demand honest answers from the slick-talking, anti-American "Doctor" El-Sayed” before it’s too late.

Longest losing streak in Canadian hockey history (?) ends

Sarnia ON has been mentioned a number of times in our news pages. It's the small city across the river from Port Huron MI, thus the first stop for drug smugglers headed for Toronto. But there's more to Sarnia than that and the infamous Chemical Valley. 

Sarnia boasts two junior hockey teams, the OHL (Ontario Hockey League) Sarnia Sting and the GOHL (Greater Ontario etc) Sarnia Legionnaires. Mark Malone at the Sarnia Observer follows both teams and sent this report to WWW's National Sports (i.e. Hockey) Editor, Poor Len Canayen.

The streak is over! Sarnia Legionnaires celebrate first win after 67 straight losses

The longest losing streak in Greater Ontario Hockey League history is finally over. After 67 consecutive losses, the Sarnia Legionnaires have won a game. Sarnia Sting prospects Evan Bannister and David Healy led them past the Saint Thomas Stars 4-1 yesterday at Pat Stapleton Arena. 

Bannister scored three goals and Healy made 54 saves. Bannister completed his first junior hat trick into an empty net with 20 seconds left. He celebrated by tossing a souvenir over the glass to some Sting buddies, drawing a game misconduct. 

"After I got that third goal, I got very excited and threw my stick over to them," said Bannister, 16, who was picked by the Sarnia Sting in the second round of the 2026 OHL draft pick. "It was worth getting kicked out."

The game drew 379 fans, but they made a huge roar as the final seconds ticked off the clock. "They started cheering and chanting and supporting us even more," Bannister said. "After the game, it was just so loud. I couldn’t even hear anything."

The Legionnaires went 619 days between wins. Their last victory was on 17 February 2025. After ending the 2024-25 season with six straight losses, they endured the first winless season in GOHL history in 2025-26 by going 0-50-0-0. They also lost their first 11 games this season. 

"It’s been a tough road," first-year coach Ryan Foster said. "Our team [with only one holdover from the previus season] hasn't lost 67 games, but we have lost 11. It was a huge relief to get the first win, especially after such a long time for the Sarnia Legionnaires."

The franchise went through three head coaches, three general managers and three ownership groups over the 20-month skid. Said Bannister, "I don't think I've ever heard of a team going on that long of a losing streak before."

Poor Len has been poring through the record books to see whether the longest losing streak in GOHL history may also be the longest losing streak in Canadian hockey history. Whether that is so or not, all of us at WWW send our congrats to the Legionnaires and hope they'll manage at least one more W before the season ends!

Further to yesterday's post...

This is not going to be easy or pleasant...

It's less than a week until Mid-Term Election Day. The pollsters, as usual, are projecting a "blue wave" -- huge gains for the Dimocrats, the Republicans losing control of both the House and the Senate, a day of reckoning for the Donald, yada yada yada. A few are hedging their bets by saying it's going to be close, but mostly the pack "thinking" is that the result is a foregone conclusion. What they really want is for those of us who are MAGA-minded to feel the cause is lost and stay home!

Walt sez... don't do it! Get out and vote! Even if you have to hold your nose, go to the only polls that count, and vote for what you know is right!

Let's be clear here. The mid-term elections are not a referendum on President Trump. This is  not a recall vote. You may be suffering from terminal TDS, but you can't vote to recall him. Senator Schiff (D-CA) can threaten the President with a third impeachment if his party wins control of Congress, but, as the senator should remember, impeachment does not automatically lead to removal from office. DJT will still be in the White House on November 4th, likely until January of 2029.

Make no mistake. This is not an endorsement of President Trump or his policies. Walt is deeply disappointed in what he has done... and not done... since being re-elected a short two years ago. [Seems like much longer, doesn't it? Ed.]

Walt approves of the arrest and "remigration" of illegal and undesirable aliens, especially those who are trying to kill us and destroy our Western(ish) society. We call for more ICE, and believe the Republicans will continue working on that.

Walt condemns President Trump's betrayal of Ukraine and cosying-up to the dictator Putin. We haven't heard the Dimocrats, who are apparently preoccupied with the Iran war to the exclusion of all else, promise to join with the EU and Canada to give Ukraine the support and arms it needs to repel the Russian invaders and put an end to this illegal and unjust war.

President Trump told us there would be no more foreign wars. Now the US of A is embroiled in yet another war in the Mid-East, and DJT seems unable to decide whether to fish [with dynamite! Ed.] or cut bait. The Dimocrats, led by anti-Semites, want to make it all about Israel. Do you really trust them to get America out of that mess?

And how about the Donald's war... trade war... on Canada? How delusional, how insane is that? [Almost as crazy as threatening to invade Greenland! Ed.] But do the Dims, historically the party of protectionism, have any plan for re-establishing free(r) trade with Canada and/or Mexico, without losing control of America's borders?

That last one... the unnecessary trade wars and other fights with our allies and friends... is the one that's costing American taxpayers money. Are you paying too much for gas? Canada has lots of it that they'll sell cheap. All that's needed is more and bigger  pipelines, which the Democrats oppose. Who killed the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office? Comatose Joe Biden, with the stroke of an autopen. Who revived it, four years later? President Trump!

Do you need more potash-based fertilizer to make your corn grow? Who would you rather buy it from, Canada or... who else is there? Does the Trump tariff make sense? And what about a nice shot of Crown Royal? Oh, not available in the US any more. 

This just in! [Sorry to interrupt. Ed.] On Friday, President Trump added tariffs to 100 more Canadian goods, including municipal waste, meaning garbage from households and businesses. MI Senate hopeful Mike Rogers applauded the move, saying Canada’s "trash trucks" have been "a huge problem" for his state. That's a bit rich coming from someone who also says in a campaign video, "Here in Michigan, we know that Canada is not our enemy. We need to end this tariff war now."

The Dimocrats can't promise to fix the tariffs or anything else if they regain control of Congress. What they can do, however, is put pressure on President Trump to reverse or at least modify his disastrous foreign and economic policies. 

But, do you trust the party of AOC, Ilhan Omar, Sen. Schiff and the Prez to genuinely try to fix things? Or do you suspect, as Walt does, that the next Congress will be all about getting even with the Donald for all the wrongs, real and imagined, he's done over the past two years. 

Walt foresees an endless cycle of Democratic bills and Trump vetos, more and more lawsuits over the Constitution crawling their way up to SCOTUS, and the machineries of government grinding to a halt. Don't vote for that! Hold your nose and vote Republican. The alternative is even worse.

Further reading (added 29/10/26): "Newsom Touts California As The Only State Where You Can See A Homeless Man Defecating On A Beach And On A Mountain In The Same Day", from the Babylon Bee (of course),

Real Conservatives alive and WINNING in Canada's la-la-land

The province of British Columbia is to Canada what California is to the US of A. The Sunset Coast is where you'll find retirees from TROC, aged-out hippies (particularly on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, as Walt learned last month), an enclave of "Khalistan" still known by its colonial name, Surrey, and small but whiny minorities of Coast Indians First Nations. 

Coastal BC is, like coastal California (as opposed to the interior), the sort of place where loony liberal ideas originate and spread eastward, and where conservatives are few on the ground. In Canadian federal elections, BC voters can be counted on to send Liberal and NDP members to Parliament, and even one tired and emotional Green Party nut, the inevitable Elizabeth May.

Provincial elections are much the same, with Liberals and socialist Knee-Dippers vying for powers and Conservatives gnashing their teeth far from the Speaker's throne. In the mid-20th century there was a party called Social Credit, which was a populist conservative group not unlike the Tea Party or the MAGA movement in the US of A, which held power in the `50s and `60s but vanished in the early manifestations of liberal wokeism.

Late this summer, the crypto-socialist NDP, led by Premier David Eby, were in power provincially with a slim majority in the Legislature. In the name of "reconciliation", they had caved to First Nations demands for the return of "unceded territory" and (of course) money (and lots of it) as reparations for the evils of colonialism, residential schools, yada yada yada. Moreover, faithful to their anti-business, anti-oil credo, the lefties had declared that they would block any attempt to build new oil/gas pipelines through BC to the tidewaters. 

The Conservative opposition was in disarray. Their latest leader, an inexperienced Karen type named Kerry-Lynne Findlay [Why are so many middle-aged female politicians the angry blonde wokester type? Ed.] had done more to divide her party than to unite it, and was on her way out the door, propelled by the feet of half a dozen Conservative MLAs.

What better time, Premier Eby must have thought, to call a snap election and consolidate his grip on power. That's what he did, and when Walt got to BC in late September the campaign was in full swing and Mr Eby's pretext for going to the well before time was being called "suicidal", which was just how it turned out.

To the surprise of no-one (except perhaps Mr Eby), the British Columbia Conservatives, led perforce by their interim leader Lorne Doerkson, toppled the incumbents to win what can fairly be called a landslide majority. At 0150 PDT, the Conservatives were elected or leading in 64 of the Legislature's 93 ridings. The NDP had 27 and the BC Green Party 2. The Conservatives will not form the provincial government for the first time since 1928!  

The Conservative victory will be talked more than most because of what it portends for the politics of Canuckistan as a hole. As mentioned above, Kerry-Lynne Findlay's resignation left the BC Conservatives in disarray. Some of the MLAs elected under their banner had fled to the fledgling CentreBC party. Lorne Doerkson was vacationing in Africa. Today, Mr Doerkson is the incoming premier, and the New Democrats will have their smallest caucus since the election of 2001.

The decision by the Conservatives to quickly coalesce around Mr Doerkson and pivot their message to focus on the economy and protection of existing land rights will be studied and debated for years. But the bigger focus will be on David Eby’s decision to follow through with a snap election even after Ms Findlay’s resignation. 

The Canadian right badly needed this win. After the 2025 federal election, many Conservatives remain haunted by their unexpected defeat at the hands of the Natural Governing Liberal Party of Canada, led by the Rt.Hon. Marx Carnage. This came after they had already been denied the chance to deliver Justin Trudeau a well-deserved reckoning after he stepped down before facing voters a fourth time. 

At provincial, as well as federal levels, Conservative activists, staffers and volunteers must have wondered whether their efforts would ever be rewarded. There was always another week of knocking on doors, manufacturing hope for a favourable poll and coming up with explanations to cope with the latest setbacks. People can only take so many defeats before it all becomes too much. Not this time, however. 

Experienced organizers -- some of them disgruntled Liberals -- and frustrated federal Tories converged on BC. Former federal Conservative staffers and local veterans helped unite the right. By the end of the campaign, the NDP seemed determined to make enemies wherever they could, rather than campaigning on their record. It paid off in spades for the Conservatives, including a generation that came of age in the post-Stephen Harper decade, an especially bleak period for the right. 

Now, conservatives can walk with true swagger, having decisively defeated a powerful "progressive" government outside the traditional conservative heartland in the prairie provinces. They have learned which quarrels can wait, how a coalition recovers and what happens when the desire to govern finally outranks the desire to police each other.  One hopes this campaign and its excellent result have set an example for true conservatives across Canada... and perhaps even south of the border.