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SAMURAI MOVIES: THE SON OF THE BLACK MASS SERIES

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Raizo Ichikawa as the red-haired Samurai Kyoshiro Nemuri, the Son of the Black Mass.

Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of various Samurai films from Japan. In keeping with my blog’s overall theme I won’t be covering the uber-popular Samurai flicks like Yojimbo, The Seven Magnificent Samurai or the Musashi Miyamoto Trilogy. Regular readers who are familiar with my contempt for organized religion will not be at all surprised that I’ll be starting out with the Son of the Black Mass series of films starring Raizo Ichikawa, often called “the James Dean of Japan.”

In addition to the twelve Ichikawa movies I will also cover the two entries in the series made after Raizo’s untimely death from cancer. After that, to be a fully comprehensive look, I will also examine the original novels as well as the three Son of the Black Mass movies made in the 1950’s, even though they did not have the cinematic impact of the films starring Raizo Ichikawa.

Raizo Ichikawa headshotThe odd title of the movie series comes from the fact that the title character, former Samurai turned Ronin Kyoshiro Nemuri, is the child of a Japanese woman and the crazed Portugese Christian missionary who raped her. The insane missionary was dabbling in Satanism and Nemuri was conceived during a Black Mass ritual, hence the series title. The deadly swordsman inherited his hated father’s red hair and when a heavy rain washed out the black dye Nemuri was disguising it with, his exposure as a half-breed led to his shunning and his fallen status. Continue reading

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POMPOUS LEFT-WING ARCHIE BUNKERS STRIKE BACK

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*** *** *** *** *** 1960s Democrats: They’re so HIP!

The Left-Wing Archie Bunkers of the “academic” (LMFAO) world are so hilariously pretentious that it’s always fun to ridicule them, especially because they are as easily offended as the worst Christian Conservatives used to be.

Anyway, there is so much to make fun of them about that I forgot an item yesterday. (Sorry about all the political posts recently but it’s an election year here so it’s impossible to avoid this nonsense.)  

That item regards their pompous belief that they are High Priests and Priestesses of Racial Awareness sitting in judgment on everyone else. Trust me, you self-important fools, out in the REAL world – not the prolonged adolescence of the “academic” (LMFAO) world that you hide in – we adults of different races and different religions have been getting along peacefully for quite a long time.  

None of us have ever sat around saying to ourselves “Boy, I’ll bet the pretentious asses of the academic world would be just ever so proud of all of us for getting along like we do!” We don’t fixate on race like you hatemongers do. In workplaces unafflicted by large numbers of hypersensitive fools we treat each other as HUMAN BEINGS, a foreign concept to you secular clergy members.

IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE LEFT-WING ARCHIE BUNKERS AND THAT DOESN’T ADDRESS YOUR CONCERN I PROBABLY COVERED IT IN THIS ITEM  Continue reading

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LEFT-WING ARCHIE BUNKERS: SOME FAQ’s

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*** *** *** *** *** *** ** *  1960s leftist who still considers himself a young rebel with new ideas.

Apparently the fact that I’m clearly not a Conservative causes America’s Left-Wing Archie Bunkers to get REALLY upset over my criticism of them. They’re used to pretending that only right-wingers criticize them and fall to pieces when  confronted with reality. Rather than waste time replying to them all one by one I’ve compiled this FAQ with me paraphrasing the questions that Left-Wing Archie Bunkers ask.  

Q: We 1960s generation left-wingers who have spent our lives in the prolonged adolescence of the academic world consider ourselves to be all-wise people who know more than anyone else does. Why do you call us Left-Wing Archie Bunkers?

A: Because you are relics of a time when the Western World was long past due for some collective introspection and reevaluation. FIVE DECADES have passed since then, however, and we are now in a period when the Muslim World is long past due for some collective introspection and reevaluation. Your generation refuses to EVER consider the possibility that people outside of the Western World could be in the wrong on any given issue.

Like the fictional Archie Bunker you dinosaurs reflexively lapse into the attitudes of your younger years and fail to face the realities of a changing world. 

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*** ** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** **  1960s Archie Bunker: Back in MYYYY DAYYYYYY you were automatically considered right as long as you took sides against the democracies of the Western World!

Q: But if all that is true then how come a lot of people in their teens and twenties agree with us … well, at least until they grow up.  

A: Because of the way that the members of your generation who gravitated to the educational field abused – and continue to abuse – their teaching positions to inflict their stagnant and increasingly outdated worldview on their students. Then those students went on to do the same, even repeating the 60s generation’s ugly belief that the role of a teacher is to browbeat their pupils with what they consider to be “the proper political opinions.”

This distorted the educational system, which needs to be an arena for young minds to be guided toward a multitude of ideas. Like the worst political regimes in history you Left-Wing Archie Bunkers have instead made it a realm of conformity and mindless dogma.

You repeatedly snivel about how supposedly close-minded the generation before yours was but the truth is IF they had been as close-minded and intolerant in the educational field as YOUR generation and your students have turned out to be your political notions would have been suffocated in the 60s. Too bad you pompous hypocrites refuse to show the same courtesy to younger generations. Instead you want all new ideas to die still-born if they challenge your prejudices.     

Muslim oppression 2Just as your generation distorted the educational system you also distorted Liberalism into a political philosophy that is critical ONLY of the Western World. Every victim of the ever-bolder Muslim fascist movements around the globe can be partially laid at your door because of the way you Left-Wing Archie Bunkers and your younger 1960s wannabe’s insist on crippling any effort to criticize Muslim intolerance. This is why so many of us have stopped calling ourselves Liberals. We do not want to be associated with you gutless hypocrites in any way, shape or form. It does NOT make us Conservatives.

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COOL-NAMED TEAM: VANCE-GRANVILLE COLLEGE

Vance Granville VanguardsVANCE-GRANVILLE COLLEGE VANGUARDS

Location: Henderson, NC

Division: NJCAA

Comment: Kudos to the folks at this institution for showing some creativity with the name of their sports teams! The Vanguards definitely stand out and their logo is very, very eye-catching! Continue reading

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SALLY SKULL: NEGLECTED GUNSLINGER

Frontierado is Friday, August 5th! 

Sally SkullSALLY SKULL – Sara Jane Newman, the future Sally Skull, was born in Illinois in 1817. In 1823 her family moved to Fayette County in Texas, which was then part of the area that Mexico had seized from Native Americans. 

Like all the other ranch families in the area, whether from Mexico or the U.S., Sally and her family lived a rough life managing their land and surviving periodic assaults from the American Indians in the area. Sally killed her first man – an attacking Indian, when she was 11, using a rifle. At age 12 Sally was proficient with all firearms and provided plenty of food for the family table by hunting. 

In 1831 Sally’s father died and she began running the ranch for her grieving mother, even registering her father’s old brand in her own name. 1833 saw the 16 year old married to a Texas Ranger named Jess Robinson and settled in Gonzalez, TX, still part of Mexico.   

Over the next 10 years, as Texans rebelled against the tyrannical Mexican government and broke away to form their own Republic, Sally and Jess had 2 children who survived – a son and daughter. In 1843 the couple divorced and 11 days later Sally married a gunsmith named George Skull (or Scull), whose last name she would keep throughout all her future marriages.  Continue reading

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ANOTHER MUSLIM SAVAGE STRIKES IN FRANCE

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More victims of Muslim savagery

** ENTERED REMOTELY – FAMILY TRAGEDY

Condolences to the Nice victims and their loved ones. 

MOHAMED Lahouaiej Bouhlel was the latest Muslim to indulge in the Muslim fanatic sacraments of killing and killing and killing. It’s no secret that Islam is the most blood-soaked and intolerant religion in the world right now. It’s also no secret that the political left in the Western World shoulders most of the blame for the failure to adequately address the ongoing conflict.    

Democrats in America, the Labour Party in the U.K. and other political parties run by left-wing Archie Bunkers STILL persist in their delusion that the Muslim World was never violent until that supreme ass George W Bush came along. Far too many have died to soothe the vanity of dinosaurs from the 1960s who haven’t allowed an original thought to enter their increasingly senile minds for FIVE DECADES.

Mohamed from the Nice attack

Wow, who could have guessed the killer’s name would be Mohamed?

And far too many of us have had the misfortune of having instructors who either ARE or WERE TAUGHT BY those same pretentious asses from the 1960s. The best of the 60s generation moved on to the real world. The most narrow-minded of them stayed in the “academic” (LMFAO) world and inflicted their political prejudices on impressionable young minds.

Barack Obama, who STILL cannot face reality, was TAUGHT BY 1960s generation Archie Bunkers. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry ARE 1960s generation Archie Bunkers. In the smug, impenetrable minds of these backward fools seems to lie the belief that everything will unfold the exact same way it did when they were younger. I swear these self-infatuated jackasses still believe that it will all turn out that Muslim fanatics are just misunderstood and that we’ll all one day realize that the people of the Western World are the REAL villains.

Obama Islam

… And he certainly has, hasn’t he?

Muslim Violence Awareness Year continues, with left-wing Archie Bunkers around the world clinging to their backward and outdated worldview in which ANYONE who hates the West MUST be in the right. These cowardly hypocrites will go on enabling and empowering only those Muslims who preach violence while ignoring those Muslims who want to live in the 21st Century and live in peace.

To the pompous egotists of the political left peaceful Muslims are only peaceful because they’ve “internalized Western Oppression.” And the left is willing to let countless OTHER people die in the name of their delusions and their pathetic desire to forever relive their youth. Continue reading

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FOOLKILLER 19: NEW SOLO SERIES ISSUE TWO

** THIS WAS ENTERED REMOTELY – FAMILY TRAGEDY

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A Foolkiller action figure, complete with Purification Gun

With superhero-mania surging, Balladeer’s Blog’s “Script Doctoring” of Marvel’s handling of Foolkiller (Greg Salinger) continues with Part Nineteen. 

FOR PART ONE CLICK  HERE 

Foolkiller issue two continues the antihero’s battle with the obscure Marvel villain the Monster Maker, who is using patients in his insane asylum as human guinea pigs to create monstrous abominations.   Continue reading

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BARACK OBAMA APOLOGIZES FOR SETTING BACK RACE RELATIONS

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Barack Obama feeling ashamed for encouraging violence against police and for setting back race relations

* ENTERED REMOTELY – FAMILY TRAGEDY 

Barack Obama delivered his latest apology. 

“I apologize for ever having encouraged an environment of violence toward the police. In every case involving a shooting I have jumped to conclusions and made undiplomatic remarks that have made tense situations worse. Too late I came to realize that Black Lives Matter – a hate-group comparable to the Ku Klux Klan – was founded on the lies about what happened in Ferguson, MO.  

“In the most recent cases, too, we have all since learned that the African-Americans BOTH had guns and were NOT unarmed, as first rumored. Again I have fanned the flames of race hatred and I am so very ashamed and so very sorry. Even one of my own White House Staff left after shooting at a police officer. I know we all remember her name.

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Obama weeping over what a failure he has been

“I also apologize for hijacking the memorial service for the Texas law enforcement personnel who were gunned down during that Nuremberg Rally of Color that the Black Lives Matter bigots mounted. I apologize for pompously and patronizingly saying that ‘it hurts’ when hate groups like Black Lives Matter get criticized.

“I should have realized THAT IT MUST ALSO HURT TO BE WHITE AMERICANS WHO HAVE NEVER WRONGED ANY AFRICAN-AMERICANS YET STILL BE SUBJECTED TO NON-STOP HARANGUES ABOUT RACISM. I apologize. I humbly, deeply apologize. 

“I apologize on behalf of the entire Democratic Party for our endless racebaiting. The truth is, FIVE DECADES of condescending gibberish from the Democratic Party has done NOTHING to improve life for working class people – BOTH BLACK AND WHITE. Therefore, we felt we had no choice but to stoke up hatred among blacks and whites before the working class of both colors united against the Democratic Party.  

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Barack Obama feeling sad about getting such horrible grades in college and for being the worst U.S. President in history.

“Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it,but I’m begging all of you. I apologize for spouting divisive nonsense at the memorial service and not taking into account the feelings of the loved ones of the slain officers. That memorial service was meant to honor the service and sacrifice of those brave officers, yet I fundamentally transformed it into another excuse to spread race-hatred. Continue reading

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KID RUSSELL: GUNSLINGER TURNED ARTIST

** I’M IN THE MIDDLE OF A CRISIS INVOLVING A LOVED ONE. THIS BLOG POST WAS PRE-WRITTEN. 

Kid Russell

Self-portrait by Kid Russell

Frontierado is Friday, August 5th! My most popular Frontierado articles over the years have been the ones about neglected gunslingers of the American West. Here is another neglected western figure whose life was at least as interesting as those of the bigger names.

KID RUSSELL – How cool is it that an authentic, acclaimed international artist spent some of his younger years wandering the Wild West, even earning the nickname Kid Russell? Charles Marion “Kid” Russell was born in 1864 in St Louis, Missouri. As with Klondike Kate Rockwell, most of this figure’s life story is outside the purview of this article.

Since Frontierado is about the myth of the Old West I’ll focus on the legends about Kid Russell’s wild, wandering younger years full of guns, ranches, saloons, cattle drives, bordellos and sketches drawn on any nearby flat surface, sketches that showed the nascent talent that would one day make Russell world-famous.  

Charles Marion RussellWhen he was age 16 Charles’ well-to-do parents gave up trying to force him to continue his schooling and let him move to Montana, where, clad in a brand-new buckskin outfit, he worked on a friend’s sheep ranch north of Helena. It took skill with a gun and a true survival instinct to live through encounters with rustlers, hostile cattlemen and their hired gunmen but Charles, already being called Kid Russell, thrived and felt more at home in this rough and tumble lifestyle than among his family’s hoity-toity friends in St Louis high society.     Continue reading

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PHYLLIS CHESLER ON HOW CRITICISM OF ISLAM IS CENSORED

Phyllis Chesler

Dr Phyllis Chesler

Phyllis Chesler’s name will be familiar to regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog. She’s a member of the real-life League of Extraordinary Women who courageously tackle Islam’s misogyny, homophobia and overall intolerance.

Chesler discusses censorship of legitimate criticism of Muslim oppression HERE

And I’ll remind newcomers that I voraciously read BOTH left-wing AND right-wing sites, so narrow-minded people who hide from websites that challenge their preconceived notions take note. Continue reading

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