Monthly Archives: March 2016

GHOSTWATCH (1992): MICRO-REVIEW

Ghostwatch 1992GHOSTWATCH (1992) – This was a British made for t.v. movie that aired on Halloween Night in 1992. Ghostwatch is a nice – albeit boring – little novelty item for the way it anticipated the paranormal “reality” (LMAO) shows of today.

The telefilm also can’t help but put viewers in mind of the Paranormal Activity series and countless other Found Footage horror movies. Ghostwatch involves much older technology of course but for once, since the make-believe t.v. crew is filming their investigation of a haunted house, it MAKES SENSE for people to be filming everything.   Continue reading

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CONTINUING COVERAGE OF MARCH MADNESS

*** NAIA ***

MidAmerica Christian U EvangelsDAY ONE – GAME ONE – This Region’s 4 seeds – the MID-AMERICA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY EVANGELS – played the 5th seeded PARK UNIVERSITY PIRATES. It would be tough to beat this game for tip-off to final buzzer intensity. The game was tied 13 times and the lead was exchanged 8 times as the Evangels eked out a 42-40 lead at Halftime and then went on to win by a final score of 88-86. Bryon Miller led Mid-America Christian in scoring with 26 points.

Talladega College Tornadoes NEWDAY ONE – GAME TWO – The TALLADEGA COLLEGE TORNADOES came in as the 2 seed and faced the 7th seeded WESTMONT COLLEGE WARRIORS. The Tornadoes got almost more than they could handle from the Warriors, who actually led Talladega College 33-31 at the break. In the 2nd Half the Tornadoes came from behind for a tight 63-61 victory led by Nigel Jones’ Double- Double of 20 points and 11 rebounds. Continue reading

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LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Victims of Illegal Immigrants

********************* Remember the victims of illegal immigrants – they and their loved ones are the people who really “live in the shadows.”

Balladeer’s Blog is the only site on the web that equally criticizes American Liberals and Conservatives both. American Liberals like to pretend they are “compassionate” and “caring” but that pretended concern is very selective and goes only one way.

Grieving mother Maureen Maloney was one of the untold thousands of Americans to lose a loved one to people who illegally cross our border with Mexico and then go on to commit other crimes.

Maloney’s 23 year-old son Matthew was hit by a repeat-offending illegal alien drunk driver. Although Matthew survived the initial crash, he died as he was subsequently dragged a quarter of a mile—caught in the wheel well of the illegal alien’s pick up truck— as the alien sought to flee the crime scene. “Witnesses who saw [Matthew] pinned screaming under the truck ran out and pounded on the vehicle, crying out to the driver who kept going…'[Matthew] was alive for a good portion of it,’” wrote a correspondent.

American Liberals, who pretend to be so “caring” always ignore these frequent tragedies. They can’t exploit such events to fit their political narrative, you see, so they turn a blind eye to them. Had an American citizen struck an illegal immigrant and dragged them along, killing them in an attempt to flee, that Mexican’s name would be known worldwide now. 

The Democratic Party (Slogan: “Oppressing others while posing as the oppressed”) would have launched one of its internet and social media memes about the incident. Barack Obama would go in front of the cameras to make political capital out of the death and for his usual drama queen antics.  

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The Party that represents illegal immigrants but NEVER American citizens. That would be so gauche.

American Liberals always practice this philosophy  – “Something bad happened, so do what we say to do or else it means you are a hater.” They never care about people like this young man’s mother. Liberals will launch no hashtags about her son’s pointless death. There will be no Hollywood movies made about the tragedy. Obama loves to whine “If it saves even one life …” about actions the Democrats want done but, trust me, he will NEVER say “If it saves even one life isn’t it worth it to FINALLY secure our southern border?”  

Presidential candidate John Kasich has vowed to grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants. Maureen Maloney’s public response was to ask Kasich to “visit the grave of my murdered child.” That will never happen of course. Instead, callous, comfortable and uncaring American Liberals prefer to accuse the citizens who mourn the dead victims of illegal immigrants of being (yawn) “racists” and “haters.” 

If Maureen’s heart-breaking request for Kasich to visit her son’s grave furthered the narrative of the pro-illegal immigration crowd then, trust me, EVERY SINGLE CANDIDATE would be forced to answer – over and over and over again – questions about what their own feelings are regarding the tragedy.  Continue reading

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PELE AND HI’IAKA: EPIC OF HAWAII PART SIXTEEN

HawaiianislandsBalladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the grand and exciting Hawaiian epic about the goddesses Pele and Hi’iaka. 

PART SIXTEEN

Hi’iaka and her mortal traveling companion the woman Wahine were startled to see the ghost of the dead Prince Lohiau roaming the cliffs above Haena. The ladies hadn’t known that the object of their quest had taken his own life a few weeks ago over his long separation from Pele, the volcano and fire goddess.  Continue reading

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ANOTHER COLLEGE BASKETBALL CHAMPION CROWNED

*** NAIA DIVISION TWO ***

Indiana Wesleyan WildcatsNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The lone remaining 2 seeds – the INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY WILDCATS – fought for the championship against the lone remaining 1 seeds – the UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS (IN) COUGARS. Yes, it was an all Crossroads League title tilt as these two familiar foes fought it out. The Wildcats held a 32-26 lead at Halftime but had to hold off a furious 2nd Half rally by the Cougars for a 69-66 triumph! Bob Peters tossed in 20 points to lead Indiana Wesleyan to its second title in three years.  * THE WILDCATS ARE CHAMPIONS OF NAIA DIVISION TWO *   Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS: THE TELEVANGELISTS OF POLITICS

Hillary Clinton

*** *** *** *** *** ***  The Democratic Party’s Tammy Baker

The 2016 presidentiaI campaign season has been the poster child for why we need Third Parties as salvation from the two rival gangs of white collar criminals called the Democrats and the Republicans. Those organizations have repeatedly ignored the wishes of the voters to pursue disastrous policies, then sanctimoniously lecture the increasingly powerless electorate about how WE are supposedly to blame for the policies none of us wanted in the first place.

The Democrats have become the new version of the Religious Right and hypocritically act like THEY are fit to denounce “hatred” despite pursuing political strategies that operate purely on setting Americans against each other. Uh. Yeah, Democrats. As if YOU are qualified to EVER accuse anyone else of using divisive rhetoric.  

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The symbol of the nonexistent Balladeer Political Party

We’ve all heard you callous, pompous snobs express contempt for the working class. We’ve heard you ridicule the way working class people dress, we’ve heard your vicious mockery of people who shop at Wal-Mart, or live in trailer parks or have been too poor to afford proper dental care. We’ve heard your hate-filled epithets of “redneck” or “cracker” or “hick” and then you piously act like you’re qualified to police the language that the poor use to express their justified contempt for the political class.

Every Democratic Party demagogue resembles nothing so much as the sleazy televangelists like Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, Jimmy Swaggert, Ernest Angley and so many others. Just LISTEN to bloated rich pigs like Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi or even Bernie Sanders. (Yes, overseas readers, Bernie is also a millionaire and his wife’s name has even come up in banking investigations like they were members of the repulsive Bush family) They are nothing but Elmer Gantry’s in political office. Continue reading

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT ACTION

*** NAIA DIVISION TWO ***

Indiana Wesleyan WildcatsFINAL FOUR: FIRST SEMIFINAL – This was a tale of two Halves as the 2 seeds – the INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY WILDCATS – took on their Region’s 1 seeds – the DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY PANTHERS.

The first 20 minutes were all Wildcats as they charged out to a 40-25 lead over the Panthers. After the break Indiana Wesleyan University had to hold on by their fingertips against a Davenport University rally. The Wildcats won the game 66-65 and moved on to the title match. Bob Peters led the scoring for IWU with 17 points.   Continue reading

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LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES AND THE FUTURE

democratic party donkey

*** *** *** *** *** ** “Oppressing people while posing as the oppressed!”

 

My dislike of both Liberals and Conservatives is well known. The slogan of American Liberals has long been “Oppressing people while posing as the oppressed” and since American Liberals are all obedient footsoldiers for the Democratic Party that saying is, by extension, the slogan of the Democratic Party as well.

Anyway, American Liberals are facing an unusual time ahead. It’s begun to dawn on them that Barack Obama will eventually be out of office but they’ve PERMANENTLY driven away so many of us former Liberals. And they did it with all the non-stop lying and covering up for their beloved Hollow Man. A political party, like a nation, is larger than any one figure but the Democratic Party sacrificed any remaining credibility it had with the working class with their cult-like devotion to the weak, inept and crooked little man named Barack Obama. Continue reading

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TOURNAMENT ACTION CONTINUES IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL

*** NCAA DIVISION TWO ***

Stonehill Skyhawks logoROUND TWO RESUMES – Yesterday the 2nd Round continued in D2. The 4th seeded STONEHILL COLLEGE SKYHAWKS did battle with their Region’s 8 seeds – the SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY PENMEN. The Penmen stunned the Skyhawks out of the gate and by Halftime had built up a 37-21 lead. Stonehill College came fighting back in the 2nd Half and forced Overtime with a 65-65 tie to end Regulation. In the extra session the Skyhawks won it by a tight score of 75-74. Adam Bramanti led Stonehill with 21 points.

Lincoln Memorial University RailsplittersRAILSPLITTERS ADVANCE – The LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY RAILSPLITTERS – the 1 seeds in their Region – took the court against the 4th seeded QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE ROYALS. The Railsplitters notched a 43-31 advantage over the Royals by the break. From there Lincoln Memorial University proceeded to blow out Queens U of Charlotte to the tune of 95-67. Gerel Simmons contributed 25 points to lead the Railsplitters in scoring.   Continue reading

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BLOOD OF DRACULA (1957)

I’ve been getting emails requesting that I review this movie, but I already did in 2010. For the folks requesting it, here it is again. And remember, if you want instant gratification for your bad movie fix you can check my Bad Movie page to see if I’ve already reviewed the movie you’re requesting: https://glitternight.com/bad-movies/

BLOOD OF DRACULA (1957) – Category: Bad enough and with a classically weird premise but not fun-bad enough for my highest rating.   Not to be confused with Blood Of Dracula’s Castle, yet another of the roughly 9,712 movies in which John Carradine appeared. No, this little honey is best remembered as the movie that should have been called I Was A Teenage Vampire. It’s from the people who brought us both I Was A Teenage Werewolf and I Was A Teenage   Frankenstein. Not only Continue reading

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