NEWS ROUNDUP FOR MAY FIRST

Here’s a week-ending current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

TRUMP EFFECT: JOBLESS CLAIMS DROP TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1969. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

TRUMP POLICIES BRING BEST MONTH FOR STOCKS IN FIVE YEARS.

TRUMP ALLY DR. OZ IS TAKING DOWN CALIFORNIA’S HEALTHCARE FRAUD RINGS.

ICE’S LATEST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTS INCLUDE THOSE GUILTY OF CHILD SEX CRIMES, MURDER AND DRUG DEALING. Bruce Springsteen fans, I guess.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN MILWAUKEE ARRESTED FOR TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER WITH A MACHETE. The latest Democrat hero.

MEGAN RATLIFF’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KILLER SENTENCED TO A MERE TWO YEARS. Did someone mention that the Democrat motto is “Illegal immigrants uber alles?”

IN MAINE, DEMOCRAT SENATE CANDIDATE JANET MILLS SUSPENDS HER CAMPAIGN, HANDING THE DEMOCRAT NOMINATION TO GRAHAM “NAZI TATTOO” PLATNER. The party of fascism and hatemongering remains true to form. More HERE. Continue reading

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COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAM: SNEAD STATE

Balladeer’s Blog is back with another college sports team that goes outside the overused names like Eagles, Tigers, Bulldogs and Wildcats.

SNEAD STATE Continue reading

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LEMMINGS (1973) NATIONAL LAMPOON’S PARODY OF WOODSTOCK AND MORE

LEMMINGS: DEAD IN CONCERT (1973) – This is not a review of the original, legendary National Lampoon stage version of Lemmings from January of 1973. Instead, it’s a review of the filmed special of a live performance of the slightly reworked version of the stage show.

Lemmings: Dead in Concert was originally intended to air on HBO in 1973, and yes, HBO really IS that old but was only available in New York and Pennsylvania at the time. This special wound up not being shown on HBO but instead was released on the college campus film circuit in ’73.

I long assumed that virtually EVERYBODY was familiar with this milestone work from National Lampoon but when I noticed there were only 7 user reviews of the special at the IMDb I decided it must have become so obscure over the decades that it qualified for a Balladeer’s Blog review.   

I’ll start with the basics for those who aren’t familiar with Lemmings in any form. It was a parody of the iconic 1969 Woodstock concert in the state of New York, a major event for the 1960s generation as many musical acts appeared, including many who were not originally scheduled to perform but got caught up in the phenomenon.   

The accompanying documentary about the multi-day event, filmed while it was happening, captured the experience for subsequent generations whether we wanted to see it or not. I’m KIDDING! If you had or have siblings, parents, grandparents, etc. from the 60s generation it’s possible that – like happened to me – they shared the documentary with you so many times you felt like you’d seen Woodstock more often than Charlton Heston’s character in Omega Man.

At any rate, this Lemmings special’s run on college campuses provided the first nationwide exposure for National Lampoon performers like JOHN BELUSHI, CHEVY CHASE, CHRISTOPHER GUEST, RHONDA COULLET and others. Yes, even before Saturday Night Live launched in 1975. Continue reading

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FORGOTTEN TELEVISION: TARGET (1958)

TARGET (1958) – This syndicated 30-minute suspense anthology series was hosted by the one and only Adolphe Menjou. It was a Ziv production and ran for 38-41 episodes, depending on which online source you go by.

STANDOUT EPISODES:

BREAKING POINT – A woman finds that violence is her only recourse against a sinister stalker and her distrustful husband who suspects she is having an affair with the stalker. Features Howard Duff and Maria Riva.   

POLICE DOCTOR – Accident victim Joe Burns (Leo Gordon) freaks out and thinks he’s being held by hostile forces at the hospital. He grabs a cop’s gun and a standoff results. An MD (Gene Barry) tries to talk the man back to reason. Also with Brett Halsey.

EDGE OF TERROR – Handicapped female author Alice Ward (Bonita Granville) slowly realizes the “friendly stranger” she is alone with matches the description of a homicidal maniac at large. Continue reading

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APRIL TWENTY-NINTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog has another current events roundup as Democrats continue their war on the rest of us. After all, those cowards know the rest of us are far too civilized to resort to the violence they can’t get enough of.

LEWIS: LEFTIST FUNDAMENTALS ARE VIOLENCE, HATRED AND LYING. And the human-shaped clumps of bacteria called elected Democrats and their media outlets are proving it in the wake of their side’s latest assassination attempt on Trump and his allies. 

      Y’know, Democrats, NOT defending assassins and their assassination attempts is not a very high bar but their nauseating, intolerant and mindless political party can’t even reach it. NOT calling for more assassination attempts is an even lower bar, but their sewer-dwelling political party finds even that minimum expectation to be unreachable. Gutfeld’s remarks HERE.

COLE ALLEN REFLECTS MAINSTREAM DEMOCRAT RHETORIC. Very true.

CORPORATE SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER FIRED OVER HER POST WISHING THE ASSASSIN HAD SUCCEEDED IN KILLING PRESIDENT TRUMP. Guess which political party she belongs to.

TRUMP EFFECT: CONSUMER CONFIDENCE INDEX FOR APRIL HAS RISEN HIGHER THAN EXPECTED.

BIDEN REGIME PROTECTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO JUST BIT THE FACE OF A CHILD AND BEAT HER MOTHER. People do say the Democrat motto is “Illegal immigrants uber alles.”

FURTHER ACTION TAKEN REGARDING THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR WALZ’S WELFARE FRAUD SCANDALS IN MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA’S IMBECILIC CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR THINKS “WORLD WAR II” MEANS WORLD WAR ELEVEN. So, who’s dumber, her or the people who vote for her?

DEMOCRAT-RUN TEACHERS’ UNIONS POURING MORE THAN ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEIR CAUSES. If only America had a competent opposition party to combat such one-sidedness in our educational-industrial complex. Continue reading

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THE ORPHIC ARGONAUTICA: PART SIX – CONCLUSION

Balladeer’s Blog concludes examining this Orphic variation of the Quest for the Golden Fleece. PART ONE HERE. PART TWO HERE. PART THREE HERE. PART FOUR HERE. PART FIVE HERE.

When we left off last time, Medea’s Aunt Circe had informed her that in order to stop the vendetta the Furies were waging against her, Jason, Orpheus and the rest of the Argonauts Medea must be purified from the taint of betraying her father and killing her brother through rites performed by Orpheus and the Meliae – the ash-tree nymphs who nursed the infant Zagreus (in this Orphic version).

The involvement of the Meliae is necessary to assuage the Furies because both the Meliae and the Furies were peers, having been born from the blood of Uranus.

The ship the Argo sailed past Sardinia and Sicily successfully, but then Charybdis caused the Argonauts to become trapped in its powerful whirlpool in the Strait of Messina. The only thing that saved our heroes was the fact that Thetis, a Nereid nymph, was in love with the future King Peleus of the Argonauts, so she freed the Argo from the whirlpool and the ship went on its way.

Later, Peleus and Thetis would become the parents of Achilles. Continue reading

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BAD MOVIE: ATTACK OF THE BEAST CREATURES (1983)

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attack-of-the-beast-creaturesATTACK OF THE BEAST CREATURES (1983)- Category: A neglected bad movie classic that deserves a Plan 9-sized cult following.      

Some passengers from a Transatlantic liner get shipwrecked and marooned on an uncharted island filled with acidic ponds and streams plus a whole tribe of the titular creatures who all look even sillier than the doll that attacked Karen Black in Trilogy of Terror.

And it’s the 1920s for no reason whatsoever! Nothing in the story has Continue reading

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DR. DEATH: TED KNIGHT PLAYED A MOVIE HOST IN THE 1950s

DR. DEATH (195?-195?) – Ted Knight, famous for his roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Too Close for Comfort is among the surprising names who worked in the American folk art of Movie Hosting. Yes, just as Tim Conway played Ghoulardi’s sidekick and Gary Busey was Mazeppa’s sidekick; just as Pat Sajak wrote for Nashville’s Phantom of the Opry, Bill O’Reilly for Uncle Ted and Tom Snyder for Bob Hersh’s Movie Host the Advisor, Ted Knight is in the mix as well.

Though the other figures mentioned above were in the supporting staff, Knight was the host himself as Dr. Death, a Mad Scientist who was also some form of revenant back from the dead. Most sources describe Ted’s Dr. Death character as a combination of Dr. Phibes and the 1930s Mummy.

I often wonder if it was more a case of Knight basing the concept partially on Humphrey Bogart’s “back from the dead Mad Scientist” in The Return of Dr. X from 1939 rather than on Boris Karloff’s Mummy. Whatever the thought process was, as Dr. Death the future Ted Baxter hosted Milkman Movies (one source says Milkman’s Movies), which aired so late at night/ early in the morning that it ended before the crack of dawn, when milkmen of the past did their rounds. Continue reading

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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?

HATEMONGER BARACK OBAMA PRETENDS NOT TO KNOW THE MOTIVES OF THE WHCD SHOOTER. This article includes a great reminder of former Democrat David Mamet’s words.

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. More HERE. 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.

PRESIDENT TRUMP QUITE CORRECTLY CALLS DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDIST NORAH O’DONNELL AND HER ILK “HORRIBLE PEOPLE“. 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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