DECEMBER 8, 2025

“Advent is the time to listen to the voice of Jesus as he comes to us every day.” 

– Henri Nouwen

Last Friday it s**wed. I had to go to court in Winchester, so I left early, ensuring that I would have plenty of time to navigate the slippery roads. There were no problems on the snow covered roads in rural Clarke County. But as soon as I entered the more urban and plowed streets of Winchester, all hell broke out. The roads were wet, not snow or ice covered. But people were driving like they had never seen snow before. And they were driving like it was a blizzard. Automobile flashers were on, speeds were so slow it seemed like you were traveling backwards. It was a mess. For no good reason. It was like driving in Los Angeles, California when it rains. Sigh. It is going to be a very long Winter.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUSSELL! Russell celebrated his birthday on Saturday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANK! Frank’s birthday is today. But for Frank, every day is a holiday.

Every year the Department of the Interior publishes a list of fee free access days for National Parks. Next year’s dates have been released, and are as follows:

February 16: Washington’s Birthday 

May 25: Memorial Day 

June 14: Flag Day 

July 3-5: Independence Day Weekend 

August 25: 110th Birthday of the National Park Service 

September 17: Constitution Day 

October 27: Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday 

November 11: Veterans’ Day 

Nothing unusual or dismaying in the list, is there? But the Left is ablaze with indignity and outrage over these dates. The dates do not include Martin Luther King, Jr. Day or Juneteenth! Which means that the list is “racist”! Because everything is “racist”. Which means nothing is “racist”. The Left just likes being outraged.

Representative Adelita Grijalva (D. Az.) claimed that ICE agents pepper sprayed her for merely inquiring about something. Representative Grijalva is a liar. She was not pepper sprayed. She was not merely inquiring about something; rather, she was actively interfering physically with an ICE operation as a part of a larger mob. She kept screaming “do you know who I am?”, asserting her Congressional “authority”. And when she refused to retreat in response to an ICE agent’s direction, she may have been–MAY HAVE BEEN–exposed to a cloud of pepper spray directed at another demonstrator.

Who does this woman think she is, interfering with law enforcement? Representative Grijalva went on MS NOW and claimed that ICE agents shot at her. Lie. And just to emphasize the lie, Representative Grijalva posted a video on social media which shows her interfering with the ICE operations, but nothing in that video display her being pepper sprayed or shot at by ICE agents.

Political performative B.S.! The whole point of confronting ICE agents is to make yourself a “victim”. Representative Grijalva has been in Congress all of 5 minutes, and she has achieved her “victim” status. Well, bless her heart!

“The President of the United States is a killer.”

–Representative Maxine Waters (D. Ca.).

The Democrats are more concerned about narco-terrorists than they are about American citizens. Representative Jim Himes (D. Ct.) said that the traffickers were probably shipping “only cocaine”. Only cocaine? Oh, well. Then by all means, let’s give them free passage.

Senators Mark Warner (D. Va.) and Tim Kaine (D. Va.) are worried about the drug pirates’ due process rights, and about the possibility of destabilizing Venezuela’s communist dictatorship. What about Americans? Where is your concern? What about the Venezuelans who voted overwhelmingly against the Maduro government, only to have the election stolen, the results nullified? No, no, no. We have to be concerned about pirates who are smuggling drugs on the high seas, and which kill more than 100,000 Americans annually.

China, Russia, and Iran are financing Venezuela’s drug operations, and using that country to destabilize the United States. We are, and have been, at war. The Democrats just refuse to recognize that fact.

The United States Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling, and held that Texas could use its newly redrawn electoral maps. The correct decision.

Hillary Clinton decried “misinformation”, and “disinformation”, and warned about the dangers of misinformation and disinformation to “our democracy”. Uh, hello? Ever hear of the Steele Dossier, Hillary? How about the Russia! Russia! Russia! hoax?

CNN’s Jake Tapper identified the January 6 pipe bomber as a MAGA loving white guy. Much to the network’s embarrassment, he is not.

The January 6 pipe bomber is a 30 year old black man living in Virginia. He is a radical Leftist involved with ANTIFA, hates Mr. Trump, hates ICE, lives with his mother, and believes the country to be systemically racist. So why did it take the FBI almost 5 years to find him? Oh, wait . . . .

Senator Mark Warner expressed his belief that the FBI did not catch the pipe bomber sooner, because President Trump diverted FBI resources to aiding ICE in deporting illegal aliens. Hmmm. How does he explain that the FBI did not catch the pipe bomber during the 4 years of China Joe? Is not that an interesting question, Senator Warner?

First California banned single use plastic bags at retail establishments. Now California has banned reusable multiple use plastic bags at retail establishments. And to add insult to injury, California mandates that retail establishments charge not less than 10 cents per recycled paper bag (all paper bags must be made of recycled materials). There is an exemption for the minimum 10 cents per recycled paper bag fee if you are on certain food welfare programs.

Tampon Tim’s (D. Mn.) feelings are hurt. It seems that scores of people are driving by his house, yelling “Retard” at him. Tampon Tim does not like this, and is concerned that such rhetoric could “lead to violence”. Poppycock! Maybe Tampon Tim should stop acting like a retard.

Let us review. Tampon Tim ran for Vice-President where he daily called Mr. Trump a “fascist” and a “wannabe dictator”. After Mr. Trump was elected President, Tampon Tim lamented on one occasion that the news did not contain reference to President Trump’s death, but spoke hopefully it would soon be forthcoming. And Tampon Tim told another audience that “[w]e should bully the sh*t out of Trump!”

Pardon us, but we have no sympathy for Tampon Tim, or any other Democrat, who expresses distress for President Trump’s rhetoric. Tampon Tim and the Democrats can dish it out, but cannot take it.

The Somali fraudsters who ripped off taxpayers for more than $1 billion were politically well-connected. The Somali fraudsters gave tens of thousands in political contributions to Attorney General Keith Ellison (D. Mn.), Mr. Ellison’s Minneapolis city councilman son, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D.), and Representative Ilhan Omar (D. Mn.).

There are also pictures taken of Somali fraudsters with Governor Tampon Tim, Attorney General Ellison, Mayor Frey, and Representative Omar. Yet these politicians know nothing about the fraud. Hmmmm.

Carlos Portugal Gouvêa is a Harvard Law School professor who is present in the United States on a visa. Or was. Professor Gouvea is back in Brazil after being arrested for firing a BB gun at a New York City synagogue. Professor Gouvea, who teaches in Boston, explained that he was shooting at rats. In New York City? Around a synagogue? Professor Gouvea was detained by ICE, and quickly agreed to return to his native Brazil. Good choice, anti-Semite.

Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger (D. Va.) has named Stanley Meador to be the next Secretary of Public Safety. Mrs. Spanberger was effusive in her praise of Mr. Meador’s nomination.

Who is Stanley Meador? He is the former FBI agent who directed the FBI’s surveillance of traditional Catholics, claiming that a reverence for The Latin Mass exposed them as domestic radical terrorists.

“Moderate” Abigail Spanberger is not. She is China Joe in heels. And the Commonwealth is in a lot of trouble.

Mr. Meghan Markle went on The Late Show, and mocked the President of the United States. Poor taste, indeed. Time to deport the Markles. I understand that Northern Scotland is lovely this time of year.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts has condemned St. Sussana’s Nativity scene depicting an empty manger with a sign reading “ICE was here”. The Archdiocese demanded that that Nativity scene be removed, and that St. Sussana’s not engage in politically, divisive behavior. Not to mention, un-Christian behavior.

President Trump wants to rename soccer, “football”, and then rename football something else. Terrible idea. Stay in your lane, Mr. President.

Former VPI head football coach Brent Pry has been hired by current VPI head football coach James Franklin as the defensive coordinator. Humiliating for Pry. Stupid for VPI. Dru is destined to be disappointed well into the 2030s.

James Madison University beat Troy to win the Sun Belt Conference football championship. Kennesaw State beat Jacksonville State to win the Conference USA football championship. Boise State downed UNLV to win the Mountain West football championship. And despite Rocky’s hopeful cheering, North Texas State lost to Tulane in the American Conference football championship.

Texas Tech overwhelmed BYU to win the Big 12 football championship. Georgia humiliated Alabama in the SEC football championship game. Duke ruined Virginia’s “magical” season, winning the ACC football championship. Indiana stunned Ohio State, winning the Big 10 football championship.

So now which schools will play in the College Football Playoffs, and which schools are out? Indiana, Georgia, Texas Tech, and Ohio State are the top 4 seeds. Fair enough.

Oregon, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas A&M, Alabama, and Miami are in. Okay.

American Conference champion Tulane and Sun Belt Conference James Madison round out the field. There we have a problem.

ACC champion Duke University was excluded from the CFP field. This is B.S. Duke won its conference championship–a Power 4 Conference–but was excluded.

Neither Tulane nor James Madison could win an ACC football championship. Neither Tulane nor James Madison could successfully play an ACC schedule. But they get in? Give me a break.

My preferred ACC champion was SMU. But SMU failed to get the job done, losing to Cal in the last regular season game. I am not even thinking about making an argument that SMU belongs in the CFP.

The CFP could have excluded ACC member school Miami, and I would not write anything in protest. Nothing.

But excluding the ACC champion seems to contravene the letter and spirit of the CFP. You don’t have to like Duke. You don’t have to believe that Duke is one of the best teams in the nation. They are not.

BUT to pander to the Sun Belt and American Conferences, picking their champions, but excluding the ACC champion is just so much horse hockey.

College football–college sports in general–are a disgraceful mess. And the pursuit of the almighty dollar has created this disgraceful mess. And the prime movers of this pursuit are the Big Ten Conference (which has 18 members, but is apparently mathematically challenged) and the SEC (which schools devour cupcakes in order to pad their win totals).

I dissent.

GFK