MAY EIGHTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog ends this week with another current events roundup from an America where it’s no secret that Democrats have become so idiotic that they believe Donald Trump has caused everything they don’t like about their own self-centered existence. In reality, the only bad thing that has happened to privileged white one-percenter Democrats is that the echo chamber media outlets they restrict themselves to drive them to greater and greater heights of frothing at the mouth insanity just because a man they hate is President.

    Not that they’re much better when one of their candidates is in office because 2026 Democrats apparently cannot sleep at night if even one person somewhere in the country holds an opinion they disagree with.

AND EVEN MORE DISNEY CRUISE SHIP EMPLOYEES ARRESTED IN CHILD PORN STING. Disney is the company of kissing up to China’s concentration camps and child porn rings.

DANIELS POINTS OUT THAT IRAN IS NOT “A WAR OF CHOICE“.

MIKE MCDANIEL’S LATEST ITEM CATALOGUES ANOTHER LONG LIST OF DEMOCRAT MALFEASANCE.

BIDEN-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WANTED FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING TWO ELDERLY WOMEN AT A NURSING HOME IN A DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” COUNTY. Never any sanctuary for the victims under Democrats. Only for the perpetrators.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN NEW JERSEY PLEADS GUILTY IN CASE INVOLVING BILKING MONEY FROM ELDERLY VICTIMS AND LAUNDERING THE FUNDS. If only Democrats could show as much attention to such situations as they do to opposing President Trump’s White House Ballroom project.

ALSO IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” NEW JERSEY, ICE ARRESTS YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WANTED FOR MURDER.

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND STAFF HELP ALABAMA TEEN GET NEW TREATMENT FOR HIS BONE CANCER. Continue reading

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THE FOURTEEN-YEAR POKER GAME

THE FOURTEEN-YEAR POKER GAME – This legendary poker game in all likelihood never really happened but has come to embody the early 20th Century wildness of Thurmond, WV. During America’s coal boom Thurmond attracted the wealthy including mine and railroad tycoons. It became such a hub of gambling, drinking, prostitution and partying that it’s been called the Las Vegas of its era.

The poker game that supposedly lasted for fourteen years was set in Thurmond’s Dun Glen Hotel, also spelled as the Dunglen Hotel. The establishment’s bar and gambling room operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Amounts in some of the individual pots being competed for numbered in the tens of thousands of dollars, which would be equal to hundreds of millions of dollars here in 2026. Continue reading

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A RECIPE FOR SEDUCTION (2020) COMEDY PLAYED STRAIGHT-FACED AS LESLIE NIELSEN

A RECIPE FOR SEDUCTION (2020) – This 15-minute short was put together by KFC and Lifetime Television in what deserves to be recognized for the intentional comedy that it is! Yes, it would be even funnier if it wasn’t trying to be, but too many reviewers apparently miss the point.

I love Bad Movies as much as anybody, so I settled in to finally watch A Recipe for Seduction ready to laugh at it based on reviews implying its ludicrous premise was being played straight. Instead, I wound up laughing at how perfectly this short film/ comedy advertisement parodies Lifetime Television’s steamy romance flicks.

Our characters:

MARIO LOPEZ plays a hunkified COLONEL HARLAN SANDERS of KFC fame. One look at the way he’s made up should have alerted grumpy critics to the fact that this thing is not to be taken seriously! Hell, his makeup is just a few adjustments away from making him a hunkified Orville Redenbacher, but we’ll never get to see THAT parody because of how badly misunderstood A Recipe for Seduction was.

This A.C. Slaterific Colonel Sanders/ Sid Dithers is a master chef at a ritzy restaurant but at heart he wants to use his secret recipe for fried chicken to capture the world’s taste buds and stomachs despite the scorn his ambitions receive from the snobbish rich pigs he works among.    Continue reading

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FORGOTTEN TELEVISION: THE BEST OF THE (SATURDAY EVENING) POST

THE BEST OF THE POST (1960-1961) – This anthology series ran for 26 half-hour episodes, all of them in color and all of them based on short stories published in the Saturday Evening Post. John Conte hosted.

STANDOUT EPISODES:

COMMAND aka CAVALRY COMMAND – In the post-Civil War American southwest a cavalry captain and his young lieutenant clash over issues of command. Meanwhile, a conflict with Native Americans rages. Starring Everett Sloane and Ben Cooper.

THE LITTLE TERROR – A little girl (Patty Ann Gerrity) learns she has the power to make things disappear by whispering the word “oogledeboo.” Though her grandfather (Charles Ruggles) tries to get her to stop using her power she still experiments with it. Hey, maybe the Twilight Zone‘s little kid who wishes people into the cornfield got his start this same way. Also with Robert Quarry himself.

THE MARRIAGE THAT COULDN’T SUCCEED – June Lockhart stars as a blind woman whose marriage to a miner faces various challenges. When he goes off to war and is Missing in Action, she refuses to lose faith that he is still alive.  Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: MAY SIXTH

Here we are with another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES CONTINUE ATTRACTING BLACK VOTERS AWAY FROM THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

JOLTS DATA SHOWS A HEALTHY LABOR MARKET.   ONE HUNDRED NINE THOUSAND JOBS ADDED IN APRIL.

PRO-TRUMP CANDIDATES DOMINATE INDIANA PRIMARIES AND ALSO SUCCEED IN OHIO PRIMARIES. RINO incumbents voted out HERE. Again, I’ll point out that I’m always skeptical about the way the media reads too much into such events, but we all know that if the pro-Trump candidates lost Democrats would hype it as a sign of how the November elections will go.

ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FOR TORTURING DOGS.

ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WANTED FOR RAPING A CHILD AFTER DEMOCRAT “SANCUARY” VIRGINIA RELEASES HIM. “Illegal immigrants uber alles” remains the Democrat motto. 

AND YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KILLS TWO WOMEN IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” NEW YORK. Democrats provided no sanctuary for the dead victims.

DEMOCRAT-RUN TEACHERS UNION IGNORES STUDENTS’ FALLING MATH AND READING SCORES AND FOCUSES ON PRESSURING TARGET TO ATTACK ICE. As always, political stands are all that matter to Democrats.

BORDER PATROL ARRESTS ROUGHLY ONE THOUSAND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS ENTERING FLORIDA IN JUST THE PAST FOUR MONTHS. Future Democrat voters nabbed. Continue reading

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CELTIC MYTHOLOGY: THE FEAST OF BRICRIU

THE FEAST OF BRICRIU (Fled Bricrenn) – The Book of the Dun Cow version of this tale is dated to around the 700s A.D. and is considered the forerunner of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in British legends.

The frequent troublemaker of Irish myths – Bricriu – holds a feast in his new banquet hall at Dun Rudraige. He invites all the nobles of Ulster and, always a jerk, starts a conflict at the party by having three heroes argue over which of them deserves the Curadmir – the champion’s portion of the feast. Continue reading

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THE VAMPIRA SHOW (1954-1955) TOP MOVIES SHOWN

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Vampira and her Movie Host show are still remembered fondly here in the present day. For something a little different in a Bad Movie Host item this time around, I’ll follow up my original post about her from long ago with a look at my favorites from the films shown on The Vampira Show.

Like almost all hosts and hostesses, Vampira (Maila Nurmi) had no control over the movies shown and the station saddled her with a bunch of lame detective and mystery films mixed in with the old horror flicks that the program is remembered for.

Here are what I consider to be the most fitting films from the short run of The Vampira Show.

PREVIEW: DIG ME LATER, VAMPIRA (Apr 30th, 1954) – A special devoted to hyping Vampira’s movie show which would start the next night.

THE FACE OF MARBLE (1946) – John “He’s probably even in the Zapruder Film if you look hard enough” Carradine stars as a mad scientist who is trying to use electrical and chemical treatments to revive the recently deceased. Human and animal test subjects come back to life able to walk through solid objects and are controlled by John’s voodoo-practicing maid. William “One-Shot” Beaudine directed and Willie Best was on hand as the butler. Continue reading

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MAY FOURTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a Monday Current Events roundup.

DEMOCRAT ICON BARNEY FRANK ADDS HIS VOICE TO THOSE WARNING ABOUT HOW OUT OF TOUCH THE PARTY HAS BECOME. More HERE. And HERE.

TAJUL ISLAM CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ABUSING MULTIPLE TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS AT HIS NEW YORK MOSQUE.

HARVARD-HARRIS POLL SAYS SEVENTY-FOUR PERCENT AGREE THE U.S. IS WINNING THE CLASH WITH IRAN. Breakdown shows 60% of Democrats agree and 70 percent of Independents, plus 91% of Republicans.

THE LONE CACTUS PROVIDES A BREAKDOWN ON HOW THE WORLD BENEFITS FROM HOLDING IRAN ACCOUNTABLE.

DEMOCRAT SENATE CANDIDATE ARRESTED FOR BIZARRE THREATS TO GET PRESIDENT TRUMP ASSASSINATED AND HIS OPPONENT’S DAUGHTER AND WIFE’S THROATS SLIT. Yes, even the CANDIDATES from that fascistic political party still do sick things like this. And remember, Virginia’s Democrat AG candidate won despite death threats regarding political opposition.   

NEW JERSEY DEMOCRAT PLEADS GUILTY IN FORGERY AND VOTE FRAUD SCANDAL. He alone accounted for a thousand votes. Vote fraud remains a Democrat specialty.

IN MICHIGAN, ALI NASERDEAN PLEADS GUILTY IN FIVE POINT SIX MILLION DOLLAR MEDICARE FRAUD AND SELLING OXYCODONE TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS.

EVEN MORE IRANIAN-AMERICANS RALLY AGAINST THE CURRENT IRANIAN REGIME.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH MURDERING TWO WOMEN IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” NEW YORK. More HERE. Democrats provide no sanctuary for victims, only for the perpetrators.

AND YET ANOTHER BIDEN-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED FOR MURDERING A PATIENT IN THE HOSPITAL. “If it saves even one life” isn’t it worth it to enforce our immigration laws?

NEW YORK CITY TEACHER SENTENCED FOR CHILD PORN AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH A MINOR. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

JOE BIDEN, ELIZABETH WARREN AND PETE BUTTIGEIG CALLED OUT FOR THEIR ROLES IN DESTROYING SPIRIT AIRLINES. More HERE. And HERE. But watch them try to blame President Trump.

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FLASHBACK: ANTI-TRUMP LIES AND HYSTERIA FROM 2020 CONTINUE

More reminiscing about the frantic overreaction and shrill hysteria that characterizes anti-Trump madness. I did blog posts criticizing what I felt were overreactions to two presidents I despise – Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama – but with Trump-haters EVERYTHING they say and do is an overreaction.

From June 24th, 2020 – AS TRUMP CONTINUES MAKING HEADWAY WITH BLACK VOTERS, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY LEO TERRELL EXPLAINS WHY HE “STOPPED DRINKING THE DEMOCRAT KOOL AID.”

From June 30th, 2020 – DEMOCRAT VOTE FRAUD SCANDALS IN NEW JERSEY AND WISCONSIN.

From June 10th, 2020 – JOURNALISTS – INCLUDING BARI WEISS – CALL OUT THEIR COLLEAGUES FOR THE WAY THEIR ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA HAS ERODED ANY RESPECT THAT WAS LEFT FOR THEIR PROFESSION.

From June 8th, 2020 – EVEN THIS VETERAN TRUMP-HATER HAS NOTICED THAT POLICE BRUTALITY IS THE WORST IN DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES. Thus exposing the lie in all the latest Democrat riots. Continue reading

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