NEWS ROUNDUP: APRIL 27th

In the wake of yet another Democrat attempt to assassinate President Trump – and this time members of his administration, too – here’s a Monday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

ARTICLE: YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HAS FAILED TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. This is exactly what Democrats openly call for on a regular basis and encourage with their endless lies about Trump and his supporters.

MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER ARRESTED FOR MAKING CHILD PORN AT WORK. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

PRESIDENT TRUMP: POISED AND UNFLAPPABLE AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. Would-be killer is a Democrat donor, No Kings attendee, and “Wide Awakes” member who called Trump the Antichrist – click HERE

HATE-FILLED DEMOCRAT PSYCHOS REVEAL THEIR LACK OF HUMANITY AS USUAL AFTER AN ATTEMPT TO KILL PRESIDENT TRUMP. Secret Service agent shot. How unfeeling do you have to be to still be a Democrat in 2026?

PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS A SEVENTEENTH MAJOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY TO THE CHEAPER PRICES ALLIANCE VIA TRUMP Rx SITE. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

WORLD LEADERS CONDEMN THE LATEST FAR-LEFT ATTEMPT TO KILL PRESIDENT TRUMP

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN SAN ANTONIO CHARGED WITH BITING THE FACE OF A THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL AND BEATING HER MOTHER. Bruce Springsteen’s kind of guy?

MINNESOTA’S DEMOCRAT LEGISLATORS VOTE UNANIMOUSLY AGAINST REMOVING DEAD PEOPLE FROM THE VOTER ROLLS. Unreal. The party of vote fraud strikes again. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: MORE OF 2020’s ANTI-TRUMP LIES AND HYSTERIA

While we wait for more hard information to emerge from the fog of confusion following the latest Democrat violence, I’ll pick up where I left off last week with the idiotic and untrue attacks on President Trump by the slobbering psychopaths who hate him. We’re up to April 2020.

From April 27th, 2020 – DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CONTINUING TO PROP UP THE OBVIOUSLY MENTALLY UNFIT CANDIDATE JOE BIDEN BY COVERING UP FOR HIM. As we all know, it got worse by the year as Biden was paraded before the cameras as a figurehead while still unknown parties wielded presidential power behind the scenes.

From April 18th, 2020 – MORE DEMOCRATS DEFECT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP TO FIGHT PELOSI AND SCHUMER’S ATTEMPT TO STOP THE PRESIDENT’S PAYROLL PROTECTION PROGRAM. Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor since Franklin Roosevelt. The Democrats are now the party of the callous, the comfortable and the uncaring rich.

From April 16th, 2020 – MELANIE PHILIPS FROM THE ANTI-TRUMP MEDIA OUTLET THE GUARDIAN DISCUSSES WHY SHE MOVED AWAY FROM THE INCREASINGLY UNHINGED POLITICAL LEFT.

From April 7th, 2020 – CLEARLY UNFIT JOE BIDEN’S DRIVEL REGARDING COVID – “WE CANNOT LET THIS, WE’VE NEVER ALLOWED ANY CRISIS FROM THE CIVIL WAR STRAIGHT THROUGH TO THE PANDEMIC OF 17, ALL THE WAY AROUND, 16, WE HAVE NEVER, NEVER LET OUR DEMOCRACY SAKES SECOND FIDDLE, WAY THEY, WE CAN BOTH HAVE A DEMOCRACY AND … CORRECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH.” (video)

From May 27th, 2020 – VOTE FRAUD SCANDALS ERUPT IN PHILADELPHIA AND IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, INCLUDING VOTE BY MAIL FRAUD. Continue reading

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – THE SOVEREIGN GUIDE: A TALE OF EDEN (1898)

THE SOVEREIGN GUIDE: A TALE OF EDEN (1898) – Written by American William Amos Miller and published under the title My Sovereign Guide: A Tale of Eden, so I have no idea why everyone now starts the title with The instead of My. Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know that many works of “ancient” science fiction mixed in religious elements with the sci-fi. The Sovereign Guide is one of the most inventive and features angels using advanced technology. Taking the novel section by section: 

PART I: JOURNEY TO ROME – Miller himself serves as our narrator. He has received word that Manethoe, a former household aide who had embezzled money from him long ago, is on his deathbed in Rome.

Miller is filled with such a strong desire to see the man one last time and openly forgive him that an actual angel appears to him and offers to take him to Rome to see Manethoe. The angel – who has neither eyes nor ears but functions perfectly without them – has our narrator fly off with him in his chariot.

High above the Earth they pass by a multitude of angels singing a song which William’s guide joins in. At length the chariot descends toward Rome.   

PART II: A SCENE IN THE CHAMBER OF DEATH – At Menethoe’s bedside, our narrator and the angel behold the Angel of Death waiting to claim the dying man’s soul. Miller sees the Angel of Death studying a high-tech instrument which it has implanted in Menethoe’s heart.

William forgives his former aide and when the device in the dying man’s heart indicates that he has died, Mary, Mother of God appears at the bedside, a vision so dazzling that our narrator faints. He comes to later on his angelic companion’s chariot. The angel informs him that he is taking him to see Eden and what is left of its Garden.

A weakness of the book is that we never get any indication why William Amos Miller is being granted this privileged tour.

PART III: SUBTERRANEAN VOYAGE TO EDEN – The chariot lands at the seashore, where our narrator is accompanied aboard a futuristic submarine crewed by angels. The vessel is egg-shaped but with spires at both ends. Continue reading

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THE BLACK SPIDER (1940-1942): NEGLECTED GOLDEN AGE SUPERHERO

This weekend’s superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at the Black Spider, a neglected Ace Periodicals character from the 40s. FOR MANY MORE ACE CHARACTERS CLICK HERE.

THE BLACK SPIDER

Secret Identity: Ralph Nelson

First Appearance: Super Mystery Comics Vol 1 #3 (Oct 1940)

Origin: District Attorney Ralph Nelson grew disgusted with seeing criminals escape justice through loopholes, so he donned a costume, called himself the Black Spider and set out to take down those malefactors who seemed untouchable by the law.

Powers: The Black Spider was in peak physical condition and exceled at unarmed combat. He was also a skilled investigator and handy with a gun. Luckily, Ralph’s lifelong hobby was the study of spiders, so he used trained tarantulas and black widows from a package on his belt against his foes.

Comment: Nelson’s secretary Peggy Dodge was aware of his dual identity and often aided him on his adventures while wearing a mask herself. I feel she should have gotten her own alias, like Arachne or something. “The Black Spider and Arachne” has a Green Hornet and Kato feel to it.  

SUPER MYSTERY COMICS Vol 1 #3 (Oct 1940)

Title: The Black Spider

Villains: Gangster Sol Risko and his men

Synopsis: We learn that the Black Spider has been active for some time already and is hated by the city’s organized crime chiefs. Peggy Dodge, the D.A.’s secretary, has a crush on him, not yet realizing he is her boss Ralph Nelson.

Peggy is disgusted at Ralph’s seeming lack of gumption when Sol Risko’s men manage a spectacular theft of evidence in the court case against him, jeopardizing any conviction. She dons a mask and trails Harrigan, a politician in Risko’s pocket.

Meanwhile, D.A. Nelson goes to his secret lair – a cave in the woods called the Web, where he keeps his spiders and other items. He becomes the Black Spider and trails Harrigan like Peggy is doing. Our hero arrives in time to save her from Harrigan and a Risko gunman, but she tears off his mask and learns the Black Spider is really Ralph.

She vows to keep his secret and slips away. The Black Spider takes Harrigan to the Web and gets information out of him by threatening to have his spiders bite him. Then, he recovers the stolen evidence from thugs at the Green Moon Cafe and Risko is found guilty. Continue reading

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APRIL TWENTY-FOURTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog ends the week with another current events roundup. As usual, a catch-all headline could be UNHINGED PEOPLE WHO HATE EVERYTHING PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS AND DOES CONTINUE TO DO SO WHILE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT HIM CONTINUE SUPPORTING HIM.   

      For today, I’m not going to waste time pretending that Trump-haters wouldn’t just be psychotically claiming something ELSE was the Apocalypse of the Week if it wasn’t this. We’ve seen it every week for the past ten years.   

COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN CALLS OUT THE PARTY’S IRRATIONAL AND DANGEROUS ALLIANCE WITH IRAN’S MULLAHS. Article also reminds Democrats that KAMALA HARRIS CAMPAIGNED ON USING THE MILITARY AGAINST IRAN TO STOP THEIR NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM.

TRUMP EFFECT: HIRING IS ACCELERATING AND LAYOFFS ARE NEAR HISTORIC LOWS. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

U.S. AND GREECE CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN THEIR RELATIONSHIP.

PAKISTAN PRAISES TRUMP FOR HIS DIPLOMACY IN EXTENDING THE CEASEFIRE AND PRESSURES IRAN TO BE REASONABLE.

EVEN AFGHANISTAN IS BASHING IRAN WHILE DEMOCRATS PROPAGANDIZE FOR THE IRANIAN REGIME.

WALKER EXAMINES THE REAL PRESIDENT TRUMP COMPARED TO THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA’S DEMONIZATION OF HIM.

ANTI-ICE TERRORIST WHO THREATENED TO KILL AGENTS IS A CONVICTED MURDERER FROM 1990. Continue reading

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A FILM SERIES EVEN I WON’T REVIEW? YEP.

THE UNCLE GODDAMN MOVIES – Over the years, several people have asked me if there are any weird films that I won’t review. Believe it or not, there are. First would be the decades-old version of A Christmas Carol performed by a class of mentally challenged students.

The production was filmed so the students and their loved ones could have copies but eventually a copy fell into the hands of some fairly cruel-humored people who made many more copies and packaged it as a movie to watch so you could laugh at what they called “retards” acting out A Christmas Carol.

Over time, that film became one of the products sold by the now-defunct mail order site called Blackest Heart Video. So far, it has been the only version of A Christmas Carol that I’ve neither bought nor reviewed.

Cruel as that video offering was, it was only one movie. There is also an entire video series I won’t review – the infamous Uncle Goddamn shorts (see above pics). WARNING: If you don’t want to read the vicious details, don’t click on “continue reading.” Continue reading

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SON OF THE SHEIK (1926) RUDOLPH VALENTINO’S LAST FILM

THE SON OF THE SHEIK (1926) – Having had more flops than hits in recent years, Valentino jumped at the chance to try reviving his box office mojo by playing both father and son in this sequel to his mammoth hit The Sheik

Agnes Ayres returned as the Sheik’s wife Diane, and in old age makeup she and Rudy reprised their roles from the 1921 film. Via split-screen technology, Valentino’s aged Sheik interacted with his son, also named Ahmed.

The younger Ahmed falls in love with a dancing girl named Yasmin (Vilma Banky), who acts as the honeypot to lure wealthy suckers into her father’s web of con artist scams. The attraction is mutual, and Ahmed and Yasmin begin regular rendezvous at desert ruins near the city of Touggort, where she dances and her father’s gang pulls off their cons. Continue reading

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ALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS FOR 2026

One last acknowledgement of the champions in all 14 divisions of college basketball covered here at Balladeer’s Blog.

NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) 

National Champions – FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY LIONS 

Runners-Up – Langston University Lions

2025 Champions – College of Idaho Coyotes 

NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) DIVISION ONE

National Champions – LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE CHARGERS

Runners-Up – Columbia International University Rams

2025 Champions – Nelson American Indian University Warriors Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: APRIL TWENTY-SECOND

The latest current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

EVEN THE DEMOCRATS AT 60 MINUTES NOW ADMIT IRAN HAD ENRICHED ENOUGH URANIUM FOR TEN NUCLEAR BOMBS BEFORE PRESIDENT TRUMP’S STRIKES TO STOP THEM. More HERE. As usual, the fact that Trump was RIGHT YET AGAIN emerges long after Democrat propagandists’ lies have traveled the globe. 

DEMOCRAT PLAN FOR GERRYMANDERING WINS IN VIRGINIA. Republicans reduced to just ONE district ahead of the November elections. Virginia now sure to be a one-party state like California as Democrats wanted it more.  MEANWHILE, VIRGINIA’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIME WAVE CONTINUES.

“I … HELD MY SON WHILE HE BLED TO DEATH” SAYS MOTHER OF TWELVE-YEAR-OLD WHO WAS KILLED BY AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ALONG WITH HIS NINE-YEAR-OLD FRIEND. Democrats’ love of illegal immigration enables such deaths every single day.

AND YET ANOTHER BIDEN-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED FOR MURDER – THIS TIME BY SLEDGEHAMMER

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PLEADS GUILTY TO INCESTUOUSLY IMPREGNATING TWELVE-YEAR-OLD AFTER REPEATED RAPES. Democrats forever champion such perpetrators.

 

REPUBLICAN BRANDON GILL BLASTS DEMOCRAT HANK JOHNSON (who idiotically was once afraid the island of Guam could “tip over” if you’ll recall) FOR HIS CALLOUSNESS TOWARD LOVED ONES OF THE VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MURDERERS.

LATEST EXPOSE OF HOW THE BIDEN REGIME’S BORDER POLICY AIDED CHILD TRAFFICKING. More of the horrors Biden and Harris enabled HERE.  

CORRUPT DEMOCRAT FUND-RAISING ORGANIZATION ACTBLUE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION AS EMPLOYEES PLEAD THE FIFTH. Probe of illegal contributions and cover-up continues.

SCANDAL-RIDDEN DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK RESIGNS JUST BEFORE THE ETHICS HEARING AGAINST HER CAN BEGIN. Continue reading

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SCARTICIA (1971-1975) BAD MOVIE HOSTESS

SCARTICIA – From 1971 to 1975 Annette Stutzman starred as the witch Scarticia, hostess of Horrible Movie late Saturday nights on WAPT-TV in Jackson, MS.  Stutzman also worked as the personal secretary of the station manager.

Scarticia, the Mistress of the Night, would welcome her viewers every week with the words “Greetings, animals” and close each show by saying “Pleasant nightmares.” The witch’s main sidekick to abuse was her gravedigger Scoop Gravely, played by famous local DJ Ed Hobgood (lower right).

Filling in for Scoop from time to time was Dr. Choke Throttle, a vampire mad scientist played by Marvin Gardens, who also worked on the show’s set, did Scarticia’s makeup and served as cameraman. As usual, the can’t-miss format of Bad Movies presented by a sarcastic host or hostess and their sidekicks became a hit.

Soon, Jackson, MS teens and 20-somethings began holding Horrible Movie viewing parties on Saturday nights. Inevitably, hundreds of fan letters began pouring in every week.

Part of what made Scarticia and company stand out was the way they made many of their Host Segments as parodies of the iconic program Dark Shadows. What comedies like Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Soap were to traditional soap operas, those Horrible Movie sketches were to the Gothic horror soap with Barnabas Collins, etc.    Continue reading

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