NEWS ROUNDUP: AUGUST FIFTH

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

EXCELLENT COMPILATION OF THE LIES TOLD BY FILTHY FAUCI AND OTHER FAUX “EXPERTS” DURING COVID. More HERE. Also included is Fauci’s statement “Now is the time to do as you’re told.”

ELIZABETH NICKSON ON ANTHONY FAUCI: “THE DELICIOUS HUMILIATION OF THE MAN WHO POISONED THE WORLD.”

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE IN HAWAII ARRESTED OVER VIOLENT CONFRONTATION AT PUBLIC BEACH.

HIRING INCREASES UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES. Stocks soar a thousand points HERE. Young voters very optimistic about President Trump’s economic policies HERE.

TRUMP-ENDORSED CANDIDATE TY MASTERSON WINS KANSAS GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY.

IN PENNSYLVANIA, CLEANING OUT THE VOTER ROLLS OF NON-CITIZENS AND DEAD PEOPLE CAUSES THE DEMOCRATS TO LOSE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INELIGIBLE “VOTERS” IN JUST ONE WEEK. No wonder Democrats always fight so hard against honest elections.

CONGRESSMAN TOM TIFFANY INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO STOP CORRUPT POLITICIANS LIKE DEMOCRAT ILHAN OMAR FROM FUNNELING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THEIR SPOUSES.

ICE AGENTS ARREST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF MURDER, CHILD RAPE, KIDNAPPING AND MORE. And as always, they would not have still been at large if not for Democrat “sanctuary” policies.

BIDEN-RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH RAPING TWO WOMEN IN UTAH.

FORTY-THREE FIRMS IN CHINA STRUCK FOR THEIR USE OF SLAVE LABOR. Continue reading

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FORGOTTEN TELEVISION: THE OREGON TRAIL (1976-1977)

THE OREGON TRAIL (1976-1977) – Another seasonal post for Frontierado, which celebrates the myth of the Old West and not the grinding reality. The Oregon Trail was basically a 1970s attempt to imitate the classic western series Wagon Train. In the 1840s a recent widower played by Rod Taylor and his children join a wagon train headed to the Pacific Northwest.

The California Gold Rush had not yet started, hence Oregon as the destination instead. A 2-hour pilot movie in 1976 was followed by a tryout set of episodes but a full series never came to be.

THE OREGON TRAIL (Jan 10th, 1976) – Pilot Movie. The story opens in 1842 on the wedding day of widowed Illinois farmer Evan Thorpe and his second wife Jessica (Blair Brown). The next day, they and Evan’s children join a wagon train headed for America’s Pacific Northwest.

The three children were Andrew (Andrew Stevens), Rachel (Gina Hummer) and William (Tony Becker). Evan’s widowed father Eli (Douglas Fowley) joined the family for their westward trek. Other guest stars in this pilot film were David Huddleston, G.D. Spradlin, Eddie Little Sky, J.D. Cannon, Jerry Hardin, Linda Purl and Hoke “Crapout” Howell. Continue reading

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VINCENT PASTORE: RIP – BLACK ROSES (1988)

Black Roses 1BLACK ROSES (1988) – This legendarily laughable attempt at a horror film belongs to quite a few niche sub-genres. It’s a Canadian horror movie, it’s one of the wonderfully campy Heavy Metal Horror productions of the 1980s and most importantly for trivia lovers Black Roses is one of the Big Three Canadian turkeys to feature Frank Dietz in a supporting role. (The other two are Rock’N’Roll Nightmare and Zombie Nightmare. ) 

Dietz looked too young to be a police detective in Zombie Nightmare and he looks too OLD to be a high school student in Black Roses. But that’s part of his – and the movie’s – charm. He also plays one of the Black Roses in monster form during the film.

You want more kitsch-casting? How about Julie Adams of Creature from the Black Lagoon playing an elderly frump outraged over Heavy Metal’s supposed “Satanic” element?

How about noted musician Carmine Appice as Vinny Apache, one of the demonic members of the band Black Roses?

How about Vincent Pastore from The Sopranos as a Heavy Metal-hating parent who pays for that by getting mauled by a $1.49 spider-puppet AND getting sucked into a speaker playing Black Roses songs?  Continue reading

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THE RULES OF FRONTIERADO POKER

With the Frontierado Holiday coming up on Friday the 7th, how about a reminder of the rules of Frontierado Poker? 

“You’re not goin’ nowhere, ya bottom-dealin’ Hombre,” the gambler-gunfighter exclaimed, “We’ve got us a few apparent paradoxes and their effect upon contemporary religious thought to discuss!”

Here’s a refresher on the rules for Frontierado Poker, the game that is strictly my own invention, to be played on Frontierado (the first Friday of every August).

1. Remove all face cards from the deck. The game is played with a 40-card deck.

2. Every player antes up. (I’m not advocating gambling. You can decide for yourselves what you play for.)

3. Each player is dealt 4 cards (the deal rotates like in many conventional poker games). Continue reading

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BEAR RIVER TOM: NEGLECTED GUNSLINGER

The Frontierado holiday is coming up this Friday, August 7th. As the holiday approaches and we are all making our preparations enjoy another seasonal post. 

Bear River Tom

BEAR RIVER TOM – That’s our neglected gunslinger in the photo to your left. One of the few actual gunmen to wear a fancy two-gun holster, Bear River Tom Smith’s tale begins with his birth in 1838 in New York City. He either did or did not serve in the Union Army in 1861 (accounts vary) but was definitely part of the NYC police force by 1862. By 1867 he headed west, working as a laborer laying track for the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska.

By 1868 the crew he was with had reached Wyoming, where the Hell On Wheels town of Bear River sprang up around their work camp. Bear River was to wild, lawless railroad towns what Dodge City, Kansas was to wild, lawless cattletowns.

Bear River Tom put his guns, fists and law enforcement experience to work protecting the town’s citizens from the drunken excesses of the railroad workers and the railroad workers from the Vigilante mobs the Bear River inhabitants had formed to curb the lawlessness.  Continue reading

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AUGUST THIRD NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog kicks off the week with this current events roundup from an America where Democrats are trying to hide from the fact that Joe Biden was letting illegal immigrants flood across the southern border without any medical screening while crushing citizens during COVID aka Fauci Fever.

GEORGE SOROS AND THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVASION OF SPAIN. Another Soros-connected outrage. The Camp of the Saints is still as relevant as Orwell’s 1984.

IN THE U.K. TWO THOUSAND MORE ILLEGALS ARRIVE IN FIRST TWO WEEKS UNDER P.M. BURNHAM.

LOUISIANA JOINS FLORIDA IN PURSUING ITS OWN INVESTIGATION OF ANTHONY FAUCI’S ATROCITIES

ROBERT F. KENNEDY REMINDS DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CNN THAT ANTHONY FAUCI WAS “LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING.” More HERE.

VIRGINIA’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR MAKES SIXTY-SIX THOUSAND FELONS ABLE TO VOTE AGAIN. Look for more Democrat governors to do this type of thing to make up for all the illegal immigrant voters they’re losing. And if this fails, they’ll resume trying to lower the voting age, I’m sure.

“AN EVIL LITTLE MAN NAMED ANTHONY FAUCI.” KEVIN DOWNEY JR. RECAPS FAUCI’S LIES AND THOSE OF HIS DEMOCRAT MEDIA ACCOMPLICES TO AT LEAST SEVEN MILLION DEATHS.

DEMOCRAT SHELDON WHITEHOUSE STILL BELONGS TO A CLUB THAT WON’T ALLOW MINORITIES TO JOIN, YET HE ACCUSES OTHERS OF “WHITE SUPREMACY.

ICE DEPORTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF CHILD SEX CRIMES, ARMED ASSAULT, KIDNAPPING, COCAINE SMUGGLING AND MORE. If Democrats had their way these people would still be in the U.S.  

SENATOR RICK SCOTT POINTS OUT THAT ANTHONY FAUCI KILLED WITH HIS LIES.

DISTRICT JUDGE IGNORES RECENT SUPREME COURT RULING AND NOW FACES IMPEACHMENT.

ANOTHER REMINDER ABOUT A BLATANTLY INACCURATE FAUCI REMARK ABOUT AIDS. Never forget that Fauci was mishandling public health at least as far back as his involvement in the AIDS crisis. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: ANIMAL TORTURER ANTHONY FAUCI SATIRIZED IN PETA PORTRAIT OF HIM

FROM FEBRUARY NINETEENTH OF 2022: 

Fauci and animal torture mosaic

real anthony fauci bookWhenever I hear AIDS, I think of Anthony Fauci’s poor handling of it. When I hear Covid-19, I think of Anthony Fauci’s disastrous handling of it and his stream of contradictory statements. When I hear “lysenkoism” I think of Anthony Fauci and that clod’s bizarre attempt to equate himself with science.

When I hear “animal torture” I think of Anthony Fauci and his group’s horrifically sadistic treatment of animals like beagles and monkeys in unspeakable experiments. And when I hear “narcissism” I think of Anthony Fauci and the shrine to himself that he has in his home.

“In a Wednesday press release, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) described its recently created image as a “fitting” portrait for White House Chief Medical Advisor and NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “home office tribute to himself.” 

“No one likes Anthony Fauci more than Anthony Fauci,” the group stated, claiming that proof of it could be seen in a “recent peek inside the world headquarters of the Anthony Fauci Fan Club—his home office.”

rfk jr on fauciPETA was referencing footage of Fauci’s office that appeared in the Disney+ feature documentary in October, and which drew criticism recently after stills began circulating online pointing to the various items depicting Fauci himself. Personally, I find that weird and creepy.

fauci picAt any rate, PETA made an appropriate image of Fauci using multiple pics of the kind of animals tortured as mentioned above.

“If Anthony Fauci is going to surround himself with images of himself, they may as well be accurate,” said PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “Fauci has overseen the torment and death of countless animals in colossally ridiculous, wasteful experiments that help no one but kill animals by the score.”

“He should be reminded of that constantly,” she added. Continue reading

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FRONTIERADO’S TOP THREE FILMS

Here at Frontierado Headquarters we’re doing a mini-marathon of the holiday’s Top Three films for today. Below are my reviews of those three which are perfect for Frontierado (August 7th this year.):

NUMBER ONE

Top Frontierado Movie

Top Frontierado Movie

SILVERADO (1985) – I’ve never made any secret about how Silverado is, to me, THE official movie of the Frontierado holiday. The film has all the high spirits and family appeal of Star Wars plus the well-choreographed action scenes of Raiders of the Lost Ark. On top of that Silverado features all the  highly stylized gunplay of the best Spaghetti Westerns but NOT the mud, blood, sweat and brutality of that genre.

This movie is pure escapism and features the kind of preternaturally accurate gunslingers that I jokingly  describe as “Jedi Knights in the Olllld West”. These guys (as well as most of the villains) can literally shoot the needles off a cactus, simultaneously draw and shoot with pin-point accuracy and can just “sense” when some low-down hombre might be pulling a gun on them, even with their backs turned and from half a room away.   Continue reading

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THONGOR! WARRIOR OF LOST LEMURIA (1973-1974)

This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at the Marvel Comics adaptation of Lin Carter’s sword and sorcery hero Thongor.

CREATURES ON THE LOOSE Vol 1 #22 (Mar 1973)

Title: Thongor! Warrior of Lost Lemuria

Villain: The Demon of Zangabal

NOTE: Pop fiction writer Lin Carter started writing stories about his character Thongor in the 1960s. He was like a cross between two Robert E. Howard creations – Conan the Barbarian and Kull the Conqueror, whose adventures were set on the ancient continent of Atlantis before it sank beneath the waves. Thongor was a sword and sorcery barbarian of sorts whose adventurers were set on ancient Lemuria, the Pacific Ocean version of Atlantis, before it sank.   

Synopsis: Thongor (at right), as always wielding his father’s god-forged sword Sarkozan, is working as a thief in the city-state of Zangabal. During one caper Thongor comes close to being captured by the authorities but is given shelter by Kaman Thuu, a Priest of the Seven Gods of Zangabal.

Kaman Thuu is a fallen priest who wants the ancient relic called the Black Mirror of Zaffar, which is currently owned by the sorcerer Athmar Phong. Zangabal’s Thieves Guild is too frightened to steal it from Athmar Phong so Kaman Thuu hires Thongor to steal it. Continue reading

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AH TOY: A TRUE CRIME FRONTIERADO ITEM

We are just one week away from Frontierado 2026, so let me squeeze in this darker blog post well in advance.

AH TOY – This Chinese American woman rose to notoriety in the San Francisco sex trade of the 1800s. Yes, Frontierado is about the myth of the Old West, not the grinding reality but I’ve never done a blog post specifically about a Madame of the time period. It’s a fine line to walk and I want to make it clear that this item is more of a True Crime story than anything like an adventure.

Ah Toy rose from “working girl” to runner of her own sex industry franchise, often outmaneuvering white gangsters and Tong Lords alike when they tried muscling in on her operation.

In the end, it took corrupt politicians working in conjunction with organized crime to pass new legislation that stopped Ah Toy cold and also furthered injustices against Chinese Americans of the 1800s. Continue reading

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