I will have a few things to say about Trump, Biden and the ongoing litigation and legislative hearings, albeit later on.
For now, this Michigan State alum is celebrating a glorious Saturday: MSU's football team defeated No. 8 Northwestern; the MSU hoops team defeated Notre Dame; and even the Spartans hockey team won on the road against a very good Ohio State squad. And the coup de grace: The woeful Detroit Lions fired their horribly inept head coach and general manager (Matt Patricia and Bob Quinn).
Let's start with the football Spartans. This young team surprised fans on Oct. 31 by defeating then No. 15 Michigan in Ann Arbor, 27-24. But then the Iowa Hawkeyes destroyed MSU, 49-7, after which the Indiana Hoosiers shut out the Spartans, 24-0. The Nov. 21 game was cancelled because the opponent, Maryland, had too many COVID-19 cases among its players.
Yesterday, MSU quarterback Rocky Lombardi, who has been wildly inconsistent this season, threw two touchdown passes, including a 75-yard bomb to speedster Jalen Nailor, and also picked up key yardage by running the ball. The Spartan offensive line continuously opened holes for running backs and usually gave good protection to Lombardi.
On defense, Spartan cornerback Shakur Brown had two interceptions, and the D-line put heavy pressure on Wildcats QB Peyton Ramsey. It was because he was often on the run and off balance that he threw two interceptions and completed just 21 of 43 passes.
Like any other young team, the Spartans have had severe growing pains. But, like the budding pro athlete who's only a high school freshman, they've shown plenty of flashes of immense talent. This, combined with a work ethic and growing confidence, bode well for the future.
Meanwhile, on the hardwood, the Spartans basketball team defeated a solid Notre Dame team 80-70 at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. This was a good tuneup for Tuesday night's showdown at Duke. The Blue Devils so far are not the juggernaut Coach Mike Krzyzewski usually has. His squad is ranked No. 9 and Saturday night won an unimpressive victory over Coppin State, 81-71.
Coach K has owned Izzo for the past 20-plus years, going 11-2 since 1998. (Understandably, as Coach K signs as many 5-star recruits in one year as Izzo does in 10 years.) Still, Izzo has the right mix of experience and young talent, and his squad will be formidable once again. This could be a classic, hard-fought battle. Looking forward to it.
In hockey, MSU has been down in recent years after a great run (early 1980s until mid-2000's). The Spartans won their second and third national championships, respectively, in 1986 and 2007. But for most of the past decade, they've been lousy. But these past two years, they've been showing some dramatic improvements, in part because of much better recruiting.
Saturday night, MSU defeated the No. 10 Buckeyes at Columbus, 3-2 in overtime. Ohio State goalie Tommy Nappier was Big Ten Goalie of the Year in the 2019-2020 season. But the Spartans peppered him with an incredible 42 shots, and three of them got through. Coupled with a stingy defense, the green-and-white showed they'll be a force to be reckoned with this season.
And during this wonderful, sunny and mild Saturday in late November, I was at a privately owned, outdoor firing range just south of Lansing with K.N. McBride and two friends. While waiting my turn to take some shots with my Sig Sauer .40 caliber semi-automatic, I was checking scores and news on my iPhone. I was delighted to learn that the Detroit Lions had fired inept Coach Matt Patricia and General Manager Bob Quinn.
Both came from New England, and supposedly would bring that franchise's winning culture to the long-suffering Lie-Downs. No such luck. The Leos have been horribly pathetic. On Nov. 22, the Carolina Panthers defeated the listless Lions, 20-0. It was Detroit's first shutout since 2009. Multi-millionaire quarterback Matthew Stafford played like he just didn't care. The whole team was lifeless and disgraceful. On Thanksgiving, I only spent 10-15 minutes watching this train wreck. I refuse to waste precious time watching garbage. As expected, they lost again -- 41-25. Enough!
The late William Clay Ford owned the team until his passing in March 2014. His wife took over, but stepped down a few months ago and turned the reins over to her daughter, Sheila Ford Hamp. Ms. Hamp did the right thing, and I don't know whether she'll make the right decision on who leads the Lions next. But she couldn't be any worse than the ineptitude that has ruined this woeful franchise for decades. Best of luck, Sheila.
ABRUPT CHANGE OF SUBJECT - I said I'd get to politics, and here I am. It's well-known that lawsuits and requested injunctions filed by President Trump's legal team have been getting slapped down by judges left and right for weeks now. It seems hopeless for Team Orange Julius.
But "NOT SO FAST!" as ESPN analyst Lee Corso loves to say. Attorney Sidney Powell has lined up some of the world's foremost computer experts and mathematicians to testify why the voting machines likely were corrupted, and the results of the ballot tallies are extremely improbable.
This blog at Americanthinker.com provides solid evidence by MIT graduate Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia, who has no doubt in his mind the voting machines were rigged and the presidential election results are bogus. Even the vaunted liberal holy grail the New York Times, wrote a glowing Sunday magazine story about Dr. Keshavarz-Nia a few months ago. (So I doubt the left will immediately tar him as a tin foil hat wearing right-wing crank.)
The piece notes that he performed cybersecurity and technical counterintelligence work for the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and FBI, and received high-level training from the Defense Intelligence Agency CIA, NSA and Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence & Analysis.
There are other heavyweights like him who will be testifying before state legislatures in Michigan, Georgia and other states. Plus hundreds of pages of sworn affidavits of people who witnessed flagrant incidents of voter fraud.
The state legislatures in question -- Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin and possibly others -- may not try to flip electors from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, but they could possibly choose not to send any electors to the Electoral College.
Ultimately, this could end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. But no matter how overwhelming the "kraken" evidence that the Democrats may have cheated like crazy, SCOTUS might chicken out and decide to let that sleeping dog lie. They may fear that any ruling that would snatch back Biden's victory and hand a new four-year term to Trump might be the spark to the gargantuan gasoline tank. The rioting and hellish unrest that would result would make the Summer of 2020 riots really look like peaceful protests in comparison.
Should the SCOTUS choose to not take up the case, or (less likely) take it up and rule in Biden's favor, the widespread civil disobedience by Trump supporters over the next four years just might make the "RESIST!" blowhards look like pikers.
Think about endless gridlock traffic jams in state capitals, thousands of restaurants that open despite fascistic lockdown orders, school districts that teach in person despite their state governors' edicts, sheriffs and police chiefs who refuse to enforce limits on in-home gatherings and restaurant capacity limits. Millions of people may believe the mask has replaced abortion as the holy grail of liberalism. The list goes on.
As incredible as it may seem, 2021 just might be even more dramatic than 2020. I certainly hope and pray the Republicans keep the U.S. Senate under their control, but something tells me that even if the Democrats win both Georgia Senate seats (thus giving VP Kamala Harris the tiebreaker vote), they'll be on a bucking bronco that will toss them so high up in the air, their vertebrae will shatter when they hit the ground.
Be careful what you wish for, as the saying goes.
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