Where's the silver lining?

The markets have opened and the numbers flashing across the screen are surprsingly green. Perhaps there's a sense that, business-wise, the nation will go back to normal under Dimocrats. Walt wouldn't bet on it.

Meanwhile, White House staff are cleaning up the debris from the watch party. Republican politicos and operatives are running as fast as they can away from ground centre. Work on the triumphal arch has ceased. And so on. 

There's no point in my giving you the latest seat or vote counts. You know what happened. What's harder to know is why. I'll give you a quick thought on that, as well as a guess as to what will happen next. There's got to be a silver lining somewhere in these very dark clouds. 

Throughout the mid-term elections campaign, President Trump kept telling American voters, "I'm not on the ballot," then urging him to vote as if he were on the ballot. And that's what they did. The usual gang of Dimocrats, leftist loonies and TDS sufferers (including more than a few Republicans) voted against him.

Meanwhile, disaffected Republicans and conservatives (not necessarily the same people) failed to heed Walt's advice to hold their noses and vote the straight GOP line. They simply stayed home.

So now we're left with a Democrat-controlled Congress. [Notice he didn't say "Democratic". Ed.] And the proverbial "lame duck" President. 

We have two months, more or less, before the most vicious political war since Reconstruction begins. In that time, both parties will be plotting strategies -- revenge for the Dimocrats and survival for the Republicans -- and, in the case of the Republicans, building bunkers. 

Expect a flurry of pre-emptive pardons, for which the lickspittle meeja will vilify President Trump, overlooking the fact that he will be doing nothing more than Demented Joe Biden (or his autopen) did two years ago. Heads will roll at RNC HQ, and it's not impossible that a cabinet member or two will feel an unpleasant chopping sensation at the back of their necks. (Hello, Pete Hegseth! The Iran war was your idea, wasn't it?)

Speaking of Mr Hegseth, once the new Congress starts "work" in January, the first thing to expect is a flurry of investigations into alleged corruption and malfeasance in every corner of the Trump administration. You think we didn't have enough investigations in the first two years of the second Trump presidency? Just wait! Revenge is the name of the game, and, since another attempt to impeach the President is likely to fail, all the minions and super-minions become targets.

Next will come a flood of attempts to legislate the undoing of most of the things that President Trump or intends to do using his executive powers. The Trump tariffs will come under attack, and rightly so, but that doesn't mean that America will suddenly embrace free trade with Mexico and/or Canada or any other country. Going back to the days of FDR, the Dimocrats can be just as protectionist as the so-called party of big business. The one glimmer of silver lining is that Canadian booze might be available again in US bars and liquor stores.

The problem for the Dimocrats (and for the country) is that any bills that make it through Congress can and will be vetoes by President Trump is he doesn't like them. Breitbart News reported on Monday that if the Democrats captured the majority in both houses, "I guess I'll become Mister Veto." He went on to say, "And then at some point, we’ll probably make deals. That's what’s happened. I mean, this...wouldn't be the first time you’ll have a president, and he won’t have the House or the Senate. They’ll be sending stuff up. You veto it, and eventually, after a month or two of getting all vetoed, you know...they come over, and you make a deal."

Last night, a White House official said the mood there was "defiant". In a statement to BN, the official added, "A final note here: regardless of how today plays out, President Trump's resolve to stop the Radical Left is only going to become stronger. Buckle up!"

Indeed. The next two years is going to be a rough ride for the politicians of both parties, and consequently rough for ordinary Americans who will be the meat in the political sandwich. The silver lining is that the "meat" -- folks like you and me -- will realize what a horrible mistake they made yesterday, and elect, as successor to DJT, another Republican. Lifetime pct .987,

If you'd rather not live in Cuba, Venezuela, Palestine or the Islamic States of Europe...

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),