Monthly Archives: August 2016

SIXTEEN NEGLECTED SECRETARIES OF STATE

A variety of colorful figures have served as Secretaries of State. Many of them may not be household names here in the 21st Century but they would definitely stand out on any staff. Here is an examination of sixteen such figures in chronological order.  

Timothy Pickering1. TIMOTHY PICKERING (1795-1800)

Served under: Presidents George Washington and John Adams

Noted for: Conspiring with Alexander Hamilton to undermine some of the policies of the Washington and Adams administrations. When Adams discovered this he ordered Pickering to resign, but Pickering refused, forcing Adams to fire him. Pickering remains the only Secretary of State to officially be fired by the President.

2. HENRY CLAY (1825-1829)

Served under: President John Quincy Adams

Noted for: Fighting a duel with Continue reading

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS

The 2016 college football season kicked off last night in the divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog!

Cumberlands_KYUPSET IN THE TOP 20 – The unranked UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS PATRIOTS hosted the number 17 CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY TIGERS. The 1st Quarter ended with the Tigers on top 10-0 but by Halftime the Patriots had come from behind to take a 13-10 edge. After the break UC added 10 more points to the 7 managed by Campbellsville University, resulting in a 23-17 Patriots victory. RB Seph Burke rushed for 144 yds for Cumberlands. Continue reading

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BARACK OBAMA: THE MOST CALLOUS MAN ALIVE!

obama callousBarack Obama truly is garbage. Not only did this squirrely, wormy little man wait until he was DONE with his golfing vacation before visiting flood-ravaged Louisiana but when the delicate-minded child was pressed a little about his callous attitude toward the human suffering he was ignoring all that time this alleged human being ACTUALLY, REALLY said “I’m out in five months.”

What a scumbag! I know he bubbled and gurgled up from the cesspool of Chicago politics but this is a new low even for him. I guess if there’s a crisis on the week before Little Barry leaves office he’ll just shrug and say “That’s the new crook’s worry.”

Hillary CLinton scrunched face

*** *** *** *** *** **** You’d think Hillary Clinton would have sent some of her bribe money to help out, especially after what she did to Haiti.

Yeah, we get it, Barack, you’re even slimier than George W Bush. You have secured the title Worst President In American History. You clinched it long ago. Talk about running up the score. (I figured maybe a sports metaphor might register in the sack of fluids that passes for Obama’s brain.)  

AND … Continue reading

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE 2016 SEASON KICKS OFF TONIGHT

Arizona Christian Univ helmet GOODJust a friendly reminder from Balladeer’s Blog that TONIGHT is the start of the 2016 season, no matter how much the weasels at ESPN try to pretend NEXT weekend is the opening weekend for college football.

Wayland BaptistThe action tonight includes games between the UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN JIMMIES and their hosts, the VALLEY CITY STATE VIKINGS …   The LYON COLLEGE SCOTS and the visiting WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY PIONEERS (should be the Flying W’s as in the cattle brand) … Continue reading

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HILLARY TO BLACK VOTERS: WE DEMOCRATS OWN YOU LIKE WE DID ON OUR PLANTATIONS!

Hillary clinton dough nation

Pictured: Hillary “Bugsy” Clinton greeting foreign dignitaries and bloated rich pigs as Secretary of State

Hillary “No Billionaire Left Behind” Clinton told a nonexistent source here at Balladeer’s Blog that Donald Trump’s appeal to black voters made her very angry. The defiant presidential candidate had this to say:  

“I want black voters to get this through their heads – WE DEMOCRATS OWN YOU! We owned your asses when you were slaves on our plantations and we own your asses now! Not one damn Republican ever owned a plantation so STOP this flirtation with other candidates.

“We Democrats have given the black working class FIVE DECADES of condescension and meaningless slogans and I can promise you five MORE decades of condescension and meaningless slogans! We Democrats have the illegal immigrant vote cornered and with more of those future Democrats pouring across our southern border on a daily basis we won’t NEED you ungrateful super-predators in order to win elections in the near future. You think about that.” Continue reading

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RAGNAR THE TERRIER LOOKS AT FOOTBALL HELMETS

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Ragnar loves his peeps, especially his Mom – my sister Rosemary

Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog are familiar with my sister Rosemary’s dog Ragnar. Since he’s a Terrier he offered to give his expert opinion on the football helmets used by college teams with Terrier names.

wofford terriers helmetSchool: Wofford College 

Team Name: Terriers

Ragnar Says: Wofford hasn’t used this particular helmet design since the late 1980s. They’ve been using incredibly boring BLANK helmets instead. Now what kind of message does that send?  

Highland ScottiesSchool: Highland College

Team Name: Scotties

Ragnar Says: How can you not love this helmet? That handsome fellow is wearing his game face but still conveys what lovable and irresistable scamps we Terriers are. Continue reading

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TV LISTINGS: CONTROVERSY GALORE

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… BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME (Game Show) Liberals and Conservatives try to shame contestants into silence by calling them “babykillers” if they are pro-choice on abortion and calling them “racists” if they are pro-choice on Muhammad cartoons.

ALL AMERICAN HISTORY SHOW (Non-Fiction) America’s Left-Wing Archie Bunkers from the “academic” (LMFAO) world explain how America caused the previous ice age, the Black Plague, the capitalist system, the Crusades ,etc. Reasonable people who call in to point out America didn’t even exist as a nation yet for most of those events will be rudely shouted down.  Continue reading

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BLOOD BEACH (1980) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT

Blood Beach

Blood Beach

In the middle 1980s/ Way down on Level 31 …

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this neglected cult show from the 1980s. 

EPISODE ORIGINALLY BROADCAST: Saturday February 22nd, 1986 from 10:30pm to 1:00am.

SERIAL: Before showing and mocking the movie machine-gun toting Randy Clower and Richard Malmos, as members of the fictional Film Vault Corps (“the few, the proud, the sarcastic”) showed and mocked a chapter of the Republic Serial Radar Men from the Moon (1952).

Texas 27 Film Vault posterFILM VAULT LORE: Our Film Vault Technicians First Class would pull the usual Movie Host duties like providing background info on the films and serials, and would also do comedy sketches centered around their fictional Film Vault Corps before and after commercials. They protected their duty station from menaces like giant rats, cellumites and other threats.

That duty station – Level 31 Core 27 of the Film Vault System was accessed via an industrial park behind KDFI Channel 27’s headquarters off Highway 183 near Dallas. The show was directed by Karl Newman, who often good-naturedly bemoaned Randy and Richard’s tendency to ad-lib. Sometimes in print interviews Newman would joke that if they used a script they would need far too many takes for Clower and Malmos to read their lines right, hence the ad-libbing.

THE MOVIE: Blood Beach (1980) was one of Continue reading

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NAIA BASEBALL PLAYERS DRAFTED BY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

San Diego PadresSAN DIEGO PADRES picks

Chris Mattison – Southeastern University Fire 

Will Solomon – Georgia Gwinnett College Grizzlies

Luis Anguizola – Loyola (LA) University Wolfpack

Benjamin Sheckler – Cornerstone University Golden Eagles Continue reading

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MUHAMMAD JAILED BY GEERT WILDERS: BOSCH FAWSTIN’S LATEST MASTERPIECE

Bosch Fawstin, the famed artist behind various drawings of Muhammad, has produced another piece of artwork that has infuriated Muslim fanatics and caused spineless hypocrites of the political left to once again call for censorship.

Bosch Fawstin art Geert Wilders and jailed MuhammadThis time Fawstin drew Geert Wilders, one of the few politicians courageous enough to criticize Islam’s misogyny, homophobia and overall intolerance, talking to a jailed Muhammad, the blood-soaked child rapist who founded the Muslim fascist system.   Continue reading

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