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It’s that time of year again! Just a note in the spirit of the holiday season to mention my favorite Thanksgiving Eve movie.
Every Wednesday before Thanksgiving I make a point out of watching the musical Oliver!
I know the musical sentimentalizes several characters that Dickens portrayed in a sinister way in the book (especially Fagan and The Artful Dodger) but the finished product has always seemed very holidayish to me. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this epic myth of the Nyanga people.
PART EIGHTEEN
The semidivine Chief Mwindo set out to find and battle Kirimu, the seven-headed monster terrorizing his domain. Mwindo was guided by Nkurongo, the sole remaining Pygmy from the foursome who had encountered the creature while hunting a wild boar for the Chief.
Mwindo carried with him his signature weapon – his conga-scepter, a riding-crop sized staff made of antelope tail. When the Pygmy had led the hero to where Kirimu had slain his comrades the pair saw that the creature was lying in wait in the jungle, ready to strike at anyone who attempted to retrieve the boar slain by the Pygmies. Continue reading
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Many people are still so simple-minded and uninformed that they actually think Islam has only been savagely sneak- attacking the rest of the world since 2001. The self-satisfied dolts find it easy to buy the ridiculous notion that the dead victims of Muslim fascists somehow deserved to be killed.
Muslims have been attacking, killing, enslaving and raping non-Muslims for over a thousand years. And anyone who knows the Muslim World’s history knows that they begin killing other Muslims who disagree with them about dogma if there are no non-Muslims around to victimize. Continue reading
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VICTORY BOWL – This Bowl serves as the National Championship Game in the NCCAA. The SOUTHWESTERN ASSEMBLIES OF GOD UNIVERSITY LIONS took on the UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN (MN) EAGLES. The Lions seized a 10-0 1st Quarter lead but then the defenses took over. Neither team scored again until the Eagles put up 7 points in the 4th Quarter. SAGU won the game by a final count of 10-7.
* NAIA *
FOUR OVERTIME MARATHON – The top ranked MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS got a wakeup call from the ST XAVIER UNIVERSITY COUGARS to start the playoffs. The Mustangs led 33-31 at Halftime but Regulation ended in a 54-54 tie. After a scoreless 1st OT session both teams scored 7 points in the 2nd OT. Both scored 8 in the 3rd OT but in the 4th Morningside shut out the Cougars then got a TD for a 75-69 win. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this epic myth of the Nyanga people.
PART SEVENTEEN
Pygmies
This part of the Mwindo Epic picks up with the semidivine hero having been the chief of the village of Tubondo for an unspecified amount of time. One day he was in the mood for a meal of pork so he sent four of his loyal Pygmies out into the jungle to catch a wild boar for him. They set out with their hunting dogs on leashes.
The four Pygmies traveled far off into the jungle but could not find any wild boars or other large game. They began to suspect some supernatural predator of having whittled down the game population in the area. After a few days of searching fruitlessly for a wild boar the four Pygmies at last spotted and speared a boar.
While the quartet of hunters were slicing off the meat they were attacked by Kirimu, a huge monster with a tough black hide, seven heads with one large eye each, a horn on each head, teeth like a dog and a swollen belly with room for plenty of victims. Continue reading
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With Star Wars Episode Seven coming out soon I figured I would examine the notoriously bad Italian ripoff of Star Wars. I know many people consider Star Crash to be the worst of the Italo-Ripoffs but I’ve always gotten more laughs out of The Humanoid.
The many, many ways this movie steals from Star Wars will become clear as we go along. Let’s deal with first things first:
Richard Kiel plays the title figure. His real name is Golob but the Darth Vaderish bad guy arranges for Golob to be the guinea pig for a treatment that transforms ordinary people into powerful “Humanoids”. As a Humanoid Golob loses his beard for some reason but – even more comically – the beard suddenly reappears when he is returned to normal late in the movie.
Golob in his amped-up Humanoid form has super-strength, is invulnerable to harm and can deflect energy blasts that the Rebel Alliance-style good guys shoot at him. The bad guys plan to use a warhead to expose every man, woman and child on Earth to the bio-treatment, thus creating an instant army of billions of super-powered Humanoids like Richard Kiel. (Good luck controlling them since the treatment will reduce them to mindless animals like Golob.) Continue reading
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ISLAM
The Muslim World is at war with the civilized world and Muslim atrocities are a regular occurrence. Here are just a few of the latest:
November 17th – Yola, Nigeria: Muslims set off a bomb at a fruit and vegetable market, killing 32 non-Muslims and wounding others.
November 18th – Kano, Nigeria: Two Muslim suicide bombers – one of them just 11 years old – kill 15 innocent people at a mobile phone market and injure others. Continue reading
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BULLDOG BOWL (Nov 21st 3pm ET) – The CCCAA incorporates its playoffs into its Bowl structure so I will clarify as we go.
This year the Bulldog Bowl will be one of the semifinal games for the Northern Division and will pit the 2nd seeded CHABOT COLLEGE GLADIATORS against the 3 seeds – the COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO BULLDOGS. Continue reading
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Don’t laugh – Obama probably drew this up himself.
Sharyl Attkisson has broken a story that Little Barry refuses to read intelligence reports on the Islamic State spawned by his premature withdrawal from Iraq. Not surprising. Obama’s main characteristic in office – aside from constant lying – has been shutting out reality and living in his fantasy world.
And if you’ve noticed Barry has maintained his groveling habit of referring to ISIS as “ISIL” instead since it’s the method favored by Muslim fanatics. Absolute coward.
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C’mon now! If drawings of the insane, blood-soaked child rapist who founded Islam can bring Muslims out by the thousands to protest such “insults to Islam” surely the acts of violence that the Islamic State and other Muslim fanatics commit on a daily basis should ALSO prompt Muslims to take to the streets in the thousands to protest. Hmmmmm.
I guess cartoons of the founder of their pack of savage superstitions are more upsetting to them than terrorists who allegedly “distort” Muhammad’s message. Continue reading
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