Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a Friday current events roundup.
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES RESULTED IN OVER ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND NEW JOBS IN OCTOBER. But Democrats used their overwhelming edge in media outlets to sell too many voters on their false premises about the economy. Just as Franklin Roosevelt JUNIOR once good-naturedly reminded voters who complained about income taxes that “they didn’t have incomes TO tax before my daddy’s policies”, this year was a case of many voters forgetting that without Trump’s jobs they’d have even MORE trouble with prices THAT STILL AREN’T AS HIGH AS THEY WERE WHEN BIDEN WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Apparently, gas-lighting voters about “affordability” is the new thing from Democrats. (By the way, unemployment fell to four point one percent, too.)
JOBLESS CLAIMS FALL TO FIFTY-SEVEN YEAR LOW. “But … but Democrats said Trump was bad.”
ICE TAKES IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF ASSAULT, CHILD MOLESTATION, ATTEMPTED MURDER AND MORE. As usual, the only reason they were still at large is because of Democrat “sanctuary” policies. Never any sanctuary for victims under Democrats, only for perpetrators.
DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET SALON GOES OUT OF BUSINESS.
DEMOCRAT NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN KEN MARTIN SAYS “NO, WOKE IS NOT COMING BACK.” Which will surprise uninformed Democrats who pretend Woke never existed. Continue reading
HERE AT BALLADEER’S BLOG I USED TO RUN THIS ITEM EVERY FEW YEARS. IT’S ABOUT THE WAY BOTH MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES – AND MANY OF THEIR VOTERS – DRASTICALLY OVERREACT TO ELECTION RESULTS. The words below have reflected my effort to cheer up the losing party and temper the gloating of the winning party ever since 2012. Here we go: 
“THE REALITY: The Democrats GAINED congressional seats in the 1996 election and Bill Clinton won a second term by trouncing Republican Bob Dole.
THE MASTER MYSTERY (1918-1919) – The first film footage of Harry Houdini performing his stage act dates to 1907, but it wasn’t until this 15-part serial that he hit the big screen in a series of adventures. Chapter One of The Master Mystery debuted on November 18th, 1918 and starred Houdini as a federal agent named Quentin Locke. 
Every cliffhanger ending for the chapters of the serials involves a deathtrap which Houdini escapes from at the start of the following installment. 
Yes, it’s once again Guy Fawkes Day, the day Balladeer’s Blog celebrates figures who became symbols of the exact opposite things they represented in their actual lives! 
“Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood.” 
Read more of this animal’s own words and you will see what a callous, unfeeling political fanatic this hate-filled scumbag was. He never wanted to overthrow dictatorships to help “the people”, he just wanted to overthrow them to install dictatorships more to his liking.
EVILUN, real name Ruth Sprayberry, played Bad Movie Hostess Evilun the Witch Saturday nights at 10:15 for Double Features on KSLA in Shreveport, Louisiana. She hosted the shows Terror on Saturday Nights! and The Witching Hour from September 7th, 1963 to October 2nd, 1965. 
February 19th, 1965 was when Terror on Saturday Nights! was retitled The Witching Hour for the rest of its run. 
NOTE: Well, another Midterm Election cycle went the usual and expected way. Long time readers of Balladeer’s Blog may recall that – no matter who is in the White House – since 2010 I have been saying that America’s congressional candidates from BOTH parties should stop blaming their midterm losses on whoever the president is and accept responsibility. 
AND A REMINDER FOR ANYONE BLAMING TRUMP ALONE FOR THE “DO-NOTHING” REPUBLICAN LOSSES THIS YEAR. IN BARACK OBAMA’S FINAL MIDTERMS IN 2014 HIS PARTY, THE DEMOCRATS, LOST IN A SWEEP, TOO. They lost SIXTY-THREE SEATS. The Republicans ended up with – you ready for this – 54 seats in the Senate and 247 seats in the House. Almost identical to what this year’s result was for Democrats. So, unless you’re saying that 2014 result meant that the country was rejecting Barack Obama in disgrace, don’t bother saying that about Trump, either. 
PART 81 – As always, it’s fascinating to read the over 100-year-old opinions of James Larkin Pearson (and by extension his Fool Killer), including the opinions that one doesn’t agree with. Here are some of the Fool Killer’s targets in January 1916: 
MID-SUMMER – Future television icon JACKIE COOPER starred as Val Barton, a man who longs to continue performing in vaudeville with his stage partner (Larry Wilde). BARBARA BEL GEDDES – Dallas‘ Miss Ellie Ewing herself – played his wife Lily Barton, who wants him to settle down in a more stable and respectable job as a teacher. 
WALTER KOENIG ON THE STARLOST (1973) – Fair solar winds and following seas to the late Walter Koenig. Since everybody else has been covering his Star Trek role Pavel Chekov or his movie Moon Trap, Balladeer’s Blog will instead review his two episodes as the alien named Oro on the Canadian sci-fi series The Starlost in 1973. 
EPISODE TEN: THE ALIEN ORO (November 3rd, 1973) – Brace yourself for a villainous Walter Koenig speaking without a Russian accent. 
