This week in the GOP: An airhead falls, an impeachment is blocked (for now), and a bigot tries to run a fellow Minnesotan out of Congress......

 It is official. Colorado Misrepresentative Lauren Boebert is on her way out of Washington.

The Associated Press has called the 4th District race in favor of Democrat Eileen Laubacher, ending Boebert's 6 year run in Congress, flipping another seat in the House of Representatives, and adding to the Democratic majority that will be in place come January. MS Now has more:

Earlier this week, a number of Democratic lawmakers no-showed a hearing where Defenseless Secretary Pete Hegseth would've been impeached. Instead, GOPers blocked the resolution brought forward by Thomas Massie. No doubt they'll try again, and preferably before January. Petey Eggs has to go.

Minnesota Misrepresentative Tom Emmer is demanding that fellow Minnesotan Ilhan Omar be stripped of her citizenship, and removed from Congress. There's no evidence (as usual) that I can ascertain that would justify removing the Somali emigre. Again, the issue, first raised by president Trump, is that Omar was granted citizenship under false pretenses. Kind of hard to prove, and we'll leave it at that.

Finally, Trump granted an interview to fellow bloviator Stephen A. Smith on the latter's Sirius XM radio show. In the interview, Trump claimed he could've beaten Barack Obama. The jealousy is strong in the weakest president of all time. Smith acted shocked, but he shouldn't have been.

Give it up, Stephen. Stick to basketball, if you can.

A Modern Classic: PSI Factor: Chronicles of The Paranormal (1996)

 Working on the "Ghostbusters" movies gave Dan Aykroyd (ex-Saturday Night Live) a better understanding of the paranormal & supernatural. In 1996, Aykroyd was tapped to serve as the host of PSI Factor: Chronicles of The Paranormal, a Canadian-American science fiction series that spent 4 years in syndication. Dan's brother, Peter, co-created the series, and served as an executive producer. Doing framing sequences gave Dan enough time to film movies during the series' run (i.e. "Blues Brothers 2000").

Let's take a look at the series opener.

In season 2, Matt Frewer & Michael Moriarty joined the cast, with Frewer in a starring role, and Moriarty recurring. That added some star power to a cast that was short on it in the first season.

Wild West Wednesdays: The series premiere of Fort Laramie (1956)

 Time to shift gears to old time radio with the series opener of Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr & Parley Baer. At the gallop.....full!!

Classic TV: Special Branch (1969)

 50 years ago, Thames television worked a deal with a pair of US channels, one of which was WOR in NYC, for a weeklong program block. In New York, it was Thames on 9, which introduced viewers to British entertainer Benny Hill.

One of the dramas included in this package was Special Branch, which was long out of production by the time it arrived here in 1976, two years after it ended.

In the opener of the final series (season here in the US), the team deals with a rogue photographer......

Yes, the tabloids remain a nuisance even today on both sides of the pond......

This moron should never have gotten a pardon

 The "moron" in question is Jake Lang, who was among the idiots storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and was subsequently pardoned last year by president Trump. Unfortunately, for Mr. Lang, anyway, someone should've taken him to a deprogramming center, because he's back in the news again, and again, doing something stupid.

Lang was in Seattle over the weekend, and he's lucky he's not in jail. Yet.

First, he showed up at a Diwali celebration with a group of protesters, showing his racist side, as the crowd had signs that we won't even quote. Suffice to say, demanding that Hindus should stop "replacing" Christians didn't go over at all. Lang and his crew were ejected from the premises.

The Bible tells us that Christians and Hindus, and people of other religions, too, can get along. You can't explain that to an idiot like Lang, who gave up his brains a few years ago.

File photo courtesy MSN.

Then, on Sunday, Lang crashed the Sea Meow convention, a gathering of cat owners, and raged because of a couple of greeters dressed in cat costumes, mistaking them for "furries". Lang was again ejected.

I'd say this guy is just looking to extend his 15 minutes of infamy, but, like, why bother? He comes across as a lone voice in the wilderness, nearly 6 years after the riot. You know what he's getting.....

Suits him well.

Sports this 'n' that

 The Philadelphia Eagles have officially hit rock bottom.

The Eagles saw their 13 game home winning streak against the Giants come to a crashing end on Sunday, as the NFC East leaders made life miserable for QB Joe Milton III, on his 3rd team in as many years, en route to a 19-11 win, solidifying Big Blue's hold on 1st place in the division. The Giants have a rematch with Washington on Thursday, while the Eagles get to the bye week, hoping to rest their wounded players & egos.

Proving he has learned nothing from the midterms, president Trump suggested hiring UFC frontman and Ram Truck shill Dana White as his new press secretary. White, luckily for us, said no.

Now, there are rumors that Trump had the UFC boss confused with another Dana White, a woman (natch), but now he can correct that mistake. Maybe.

I've ranted about strength of schedule when it comes to high school sports, but it seems that is also a problem with college football rankings.

Fans are up in arms because Alabama was ranked ahead of Tennessee, a team that beat them last month, in last week's rankings, before beating LSU on Saturday, effectively ending the Bayou Tigers' chances of reaching the College Football Playoff. In this writer's opinion, it's a combination of strength of schedule, and political favoritism toward 'Bama, still a favored nation with the SEC and ESPN.

They can promote saving college sports, but take the politics out of it, thanks.

ESPN bloviator Stephen A Smith proved again last week that sometimes he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Smith is suggesting Secretary of State Marco "Polo" Rubio as the GOP Presidential candidate for 2028, claiming that he "doesn't see any Democrat who can beat him", referring to Rubio.

Oh? I think Alex From The Block would like to have a word with you, Stephen.

Insight Sundays: Confrontation (1968)

 A priest (Carl Betz, Judd For The Defense), a college dissenter (Brandon de Wilde), and a social worker (Earl Holliman) join forces to protest the Vietnam War in "Confrontation":

This might've been the first and only time Leonard Stone (Dragnet, ex-Camp Runamuck) played a reporter. I guess the producers thought he looked enough like one of the Kalb brothers, and.......!