Monthly Archives: April 2016

COLLEGE BEACH VOLLEYBALL: FIRST-EVER NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR

college beach volleyballThe NCAA has changed the name of Wo-men’s Sand Volley-ball to Wo-men’s Beach Volley-ball and has named it the 90th colleg-iate sport whose Champ-ion-ship will come under the NCAA aegis.

May 6th to 8th will see the organization’s first ever National Tournament for Beach Volleyball, held at Gulf Shores, AL. An eight-team field will compete for the title in a Double Elimination format.  

Balladeer’s Blog’s Beach Volleyball Rankings are as follows:

Pepperdine Waves NEW*** 1. PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY WAVES    ###    2. FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES     ###    3. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TROJANS     ###      4. STETSON UNIVERSITY HATTERS     ###      5. UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RAINBOW WARRIORS    ###          Continue reading

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PELE AND HI’IAKA: EPIC OF HAWAII PART TWENTY-FOUR

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

PART TWENTY-FOUR  

Hi’iaka, Prince Lohiau and the mortal woman Wahine guided their double-canoe into Kou (modern-day Honolulu). The goddess’ companions were unaware of the passions raging within Hi’iaka now that she knew her sister Pele, the fire and volcano goddess, had unleashed a lava flow on her beloved lehua forest at Puna. That betrayal had convinced Hi’iaka to repay her older sister in kind by yielding to her growing attraction to Prince Lohiau – the intended husband of Pele. Continue reading

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DEMOCRATIC PARTY CALLS FOR CASH INCENTIVES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO COMMIT MURDER

democratic party donkeyThe Democratic Party candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both enthusiastically endorsed the Party’s latest policy: cash incentives for illegal immigrants who murder American citizens.

Sanders vowed to make the cash incentive – called “Dollars for Diversity” – at least a high four-figure sum. Clinton outdid her opponent by insisting the cash incentive be “At least five figures or let there be riots, dammit!” The two figures jockeying for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination this year agreed to compromise – $9,000 would be awarded to the murderous “Diversity Warriors” from American taxpayers, and an additional four-figure amount would be diverted from any life insurance proceeds that would otherwise go to the white oppressors’surviving loved ones.

Any American citizen who objects to losing their dead loved one’s insurance money to the people who murdered them are to be fired from their jobs and lectured about how selfish they are. “That’s not who we are, dude” will be the prevailing sentiment directed at those privileged white oppressors.  

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Mr Joe Johnson of Trenton, NJ expressed public astonishment at the proposed policy and was torn limb from limb by Democratic Party “Love” activists. Barack Obama vowed that bigoted behavior from the likes of the late Joe Johnson just proves how far America still has to go to combat racism.

Obama also announced that this new policy of cash incentives for murderous illegal immigrants is far too important to wait until after the election. He promised to issue an Executive Order diverting funds intended for American Terrorists through so-called V.A. Hospitals and instead offering them directly to anyone who says they were not born in the United States.  

When asked what steps his administration would take against selfish, racist Americans who dared to object to this new policy Obama confidently replied “Americans are such brow-beaten, masochistic pussies that I don’t think they’ll do anything to object. The government could tell them that their children will be required to salute illegal immigrants and American trash would meekly accept it!”

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MUSLIM MARATHON MASSACRE: THREE YEARS LATER

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BREAKING NEWS: Muslim fanatics are STILL the ones behind the Boston Marathon Massacre, despite the way the media tried to blame it on Tea Party members.

Yes it was three years ago that the world got another reminder about the blood-soaked, homophobic and misogynistic savagery called Islam when the Tsarnaev brothers set off explosives at the Boston Marathon and seemed proud of it. As if the attack itself wasn’t repulsive enough the American media made it even worse by once again showing their ugly biases.

Remember how they spent a few days implying that since the attack happened on Tax Day it must have been Tea Party members (the favorite bogeymen of the American left) who set off the explosives? When the culprits turned out to be Muslims those same outlets looked even more foolish than they usually do. Yes, whiny Liberals, I know Fox News Channel and talk radio show conservative bias but all the other news outlets show liberal bias that is at least as blatant. Grow up and deal with it already.

As I pointed out after the attacks were revealed to be Islamic in nature and not tax-related:

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I’d like to offer my condolences to America’s Liberals, who were salivating with the desperate hope that the massacre at the Boston Marathon could be blamed on the Conservatives they hate with such irrational fervor. Democratic Party stations like NPR, CNN and others which are the Liberal versions of Fox News Channel and talk radio were lovingly dwelling on the April 15th date (Tax Day), practically orgasming at the thought that Tea Party activists might have chosen that day to become as violent as Liberals pretend they are. 

Let’s face it, American Liberals HAD to hope it was Conservatives behind the killings that we now know – and which anyone with common sense could have told – were really yet ANOTHER Muslim terrorist attack. They had to hope that because American Conservatives are the ONLY people in the entire world that the hypocritical cowards of American Liberalism will unconditionally criticize. American Liberals are far too spineless to even discuss the homophobia, xenophobia and misogyny of Islam, all while demonizing American Christians for having comparatively mild versions of those qualities. Continue reading

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COLLEGE BASEBALL RANKINGS FROM BALLADEER’S BLOG

georgia gwinnettNAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) 1. GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE GRIZZLIES     ###      2. LEWIS-CLARK STATE WARRIORS     ###    3. BELLEVUE (NE) BRUINS     ###    4. UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN JIMMIES     ###    5. UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND ARTS OF OKLAHOMA DROVERS     ###    

south carolina beaufort sand sharks6. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT BEAUFORT SAND SHARKS     ###      7. OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY STARS     ###      8. FAULKNER UNIVERSITY EAGLES (should be Furies)     ###    9. WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY CRUSADERS     ###    10. SAINT THOMAS UNIVERSITY (FL) BOBCATS     ###       Continue reading

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PELE AND HI’IAKA: EPIC OF HAWAII PART TWENTY-THREE

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

PART TWENTY-THREE

Following Hi’iaka’s triumph over the renegade shark gods named Kua and Kahole’a she decided that since she was already far up Mount Pohakea she would go all the way to the top and soak in the monumental view. In the waters below she saw the double-canoe in which Prince Lohiau and Hi’iaka’s mortal female friend Wahine were sailing along.

In some versions of the story Wahine – like Pele and Hi’iaka – is beginning to fall prey to Lohiau’s charms and begins rubbing noses with him. Causing her voice to be heard far below Hi’iaka warns the pair to cease and desist, since the prince is, after all, the intended husband of Hi’iaka’s sister Pele. Wahine and Lohiau separate and Hi’iaka uses her divine powers to extend her gaze all the way back to the Big Island. What she sees there fills her with alarm, dread and anger.    Continue reading

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LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES AND MUSLIM VIOLENCE

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The symbol of the nonexistent Balladeer Political Party

It’s no secret that American Liberalism has alienated countless former allies with its insane fondness for ONLY the most backward, misogynistic and homophobic elements of Islam. Not only do Liberals pompously dismiss Muslims who embrace the West and the 21st Century as “Western Triumphalists” who have “internalized Western oppression” but Liberals have also become THE biggest obstacle to adult discussions about Muslim violence.  

ALL attempts to discuss Muslim violence get stagnated at the simple-minded pee-pee ca-ca level because American Liberals always think they’re being deep by pointing out the obvious – that not all Muslims go around killing people. Well, not all gun owners go around killing people, either, but you’ll never hear Liberals saying that means we should NEVER discuss mass shootings. But hey, it’s not news that American Liberals are spineless hypocrites.

Even though it’s a given that not all Muslims are terrorists the shallow, preening asses of the American Left STILL act like they are bringing some heavy-duty thinking to the argument by reciting that same tired refrain over and over again. That’s because American Liberals care only about their own egos and their pretensions. In their adolescent drama-queen minds they think they’re fighting battles of the past. Battles whose outcomes are already known.

liberals crying racismIn the deluded minds of American Liberals they are taking on mobs of ignorant people who just don’t understand that not all Muslims use violence. Ironically, the only Muslims who benefit from this refusal to openly discuss Muslim fascism are the violent, reactionary types who perpetuate misogny, homophobia and all of Islam’s other examples of intolerance and savage superstition. (Killing people for drawing pictures? Really?)  

So, while the rest of us adults try to discuss ways of dealing with the fanatical and violent Muslims in the world, American Liberals – always so far behind they think they’re ahead – will continue to retard those conversations by childishly pretending that it is going to be shocking news to us that not all Muslims are terrorists. (Not all Americans owned slaves, either, but Liberals will certainly NEVER claim that it’s wrong to blame all white Americans collectively.) 

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COOL-NAMED TEAM: COLUMBIA (CA) COLLEGE

Columbia (CA) Claim JumpersCOLUMBIA COLLEGE CLAIM JUMPERS

Location: Sonora, CA

Division: CCCAA

Comment: I always love team names that are tied into elements of their region’s history. The California Gold Rush makes the Claim Jumpers a great name for teams from the Golden State.  Continue reading

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THE NIGHT AMERICA TREMBLED (1957): FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

Night America TrembledTHE NIGHT AMERICA TREMBLED (1957) – This is a reasonably enjoyable television movie sponsored by Westinghouse. The Night America Trembled presents what may be the very first dramatic production of the supposed panic caused by the 1938 Mercury Theater radio production of War of the Worlds. I’m always fascinated with accounts of this possibly overblown event, but the actual event – not so much.      

Yes, it all comes down to my love of mythology and the manner in which occurrences get embellished until even the wildest embellishments become accepted into a culture’s shared experience and shared assumptions. But I’m an incredibly boring guy.

Newsman Edward R Murrow hosts the dramatization and as usual looks like he’d love to climb out of the screen and kick the asses of news pussies like Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes. The most entertaining aspect of this production is catching the future stars in supporting roles. Ed Asner, Warren Beatty AND Warren Oates, plus James Coburn, Vincent Gardenia, John Astin and more.      Continue reading

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MILLIONS FEWER AMERICANS HAVE HEALTH CARE THAN BEFORE OBAMACARE DEBACLE

 

obama obamacare jokeThe numbers vary from source to source but all agree that literally MILLIONS fewer have health care now than had it before Obamacare was fraudulently shoved down America’s throat.

Oh, yes, I know financially comfortable American Liberals will remain as callous as ever to the real-world harm that Little Barry’s policies inflict on the working class. They are exactly like the Ronald Reagan Robots in that respect. If their personal world is not affected, they’re indifferent to human suffering.

Before ObamacareAnd please remember, overseas readers, Obamacare was NOT socialized health care. It was the worst of both worlds. But, as Nancy Pelosi told her Democratic Party allies at the time “You have to pass (Obamacare) to see what’s in it!” Spoken like any other bloated rich pig who will be immune to the damage they spread.  Continue reading

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