Monthly Archives: December 2016

HILLARY CLINTON GETS HUMILIATED BY TRUMP AGAIN!

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Hillary Clinton: President of California

Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know how much I despise both the Democrats AND the Republicans. If you doubt me check out some of my takes on U.S. Presidents HERE

Here’s an appropriate footnote to the 2016 election. Hillary “Bugsy” Clinton and her totalitarian supporters took the unprecedented step of trying to threaten and intimidate the members of the Electoral College into ignoring the REAL election results and overturn the outcome by not casting their State’s votes for Donald Trump.

Once again a boulder that Hillary was trying to drop on Trump wound up squishing HER instead! First she lost the REAL election, then LOST VOTES in the recounts she demanded by way of her sock puppet Jill Stein. Then, after the one percenter actors and singers who support Hillary went all out to deny Trump all of his fairly won Electoral Votes it turned out that MORE ELECTORS DEFECTED FROM HILLARY THAN FROM TRUMP!!

Hillary tired BIGHILARIOUS! An Elector from Hawaii changed his vote from Hillary, making a total of FIVE faithless Electors for that career criminal! Rubbing salt in the wound is the fact that this meant HILLARY LOST THE MOST ELECTORS IN ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR YEARS! And in 1912 it was a VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate who lost them, not the Presidential candidate!

And – funniest of all – he only lost them because he had DIED between the election and the meeting of the Electoral College!

So, Hillary’s candidacy was as “historic” as she and her fascist mob wanted, but in all the WRONG ways! In this cold, violent and cruelly unfair world it is rare to see a public villain get the comeuppance they deserve but happily for us all the loathsome Hillary has been defeated over and over again this year!  Continue reading

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JOHN GRIN’S CHRISTMAS (1986)

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Wealthy John Grin and the Ghost of Christmas Future

JOHN GRIN’S CHRISTMAS (1986) – The 2016 edition of Balladeer’s Blog’s Annual Christmas Carol-A-Thon continues with this obscure item from the 1980s. My copy of John Grin’s Christmas was already barely watchable when I first tracked it down and it looks worse and worse each time I watch it. Still no DVD release, though, so I’ve decided to give up hoping for a clearer copy and will just review it as is.

Regular readers are familiar with the obsessive lengths I go to in order to track down the various out-of-the-way adaptations of A Christmas Carol. I’m afraid this time around the story is kind of dull – I bought John Grin’s Christmas from someone on E-Bay a few years back. They had taped it off television in 1986 and were selling that very faded and gargly-sounding VHS tape.

Renaissance Man Robert Guillaume directed and stars as the Ebenezer Scrooge stand-in John Grin, our title craftsman who makes a variety of collectibles. Many sources claim he only makes toys but that is not true, it’s just that as Christmas approaches most of his sales are toys. And, since the story is set around Christmas time … Continue reading

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SHORT FILMS FOR THE SHORTEST DAY OF THE YEAR

Yes, it’s December 21st once again! This time around Balladeer’s Blog presents a look at assorted short films to go with today’s “shortness” theme.

The United Fund

The United Fund

THE MEANEST MAN IN THE WORLD (1954) – This heavy-handed United Fund short was probably effective in its day. Back then people may have felt they were being too callous by openly laughing at the antics in this public service message.

Our central character, “Jim”, comes home late at night after a marathon work day. He startles his wife, who, in typical 50s fashion sleeps in a separate bed. In fact he startles her SO much you get the impression she had a man on the side who may have left her bed a little too close to Jim’s homecoming for comfort.

Jim’s got even bigger problems, though. Money is tight, so tight that Jim tells his still-paniced wife that this year they won’t be able to afford their usual contribution to the United Fund. Our hero then falls asleep, while the disgusted narrator of this ham-fisted production sneers at his alleged callousness.

Now the real fun begins. This joyously tasteless  production tries to equate being unable to afford a United Fund contribution to monumental acts of deliberate cruelty. Jim’s dream counterpart stalks up to a hospital and viciously KICKS THE CRUTCHES out from under a poor crippled boy, then STANDS THERE LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY while looking down at Continue reading

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DEMOCRAT CLUELESSNESS CALLED OUT BY THE NEW YORK TIMES’ JEREMY PETERS

jeremy-peters-of-the-new-york-timesBalladeer’s Blog presents another figure pointing out what pompous and close-minded asses that American Liberals have become. I throw these in sometimes as a nod to the fact that more and more people have noticed this regression.

This time around the figure is Jeremy Peters from the Democrats’ New York Times – Motto: “All the news that one percenter Carlos Slim wants you to know about and ONLY the news that one percenter Carlos Slim wants you to know about.” Adding insult to injury is the fact that Peters made his remarks on the Democrats’ MSNBC during Morning Joe.  

Peters (rather inelegantly) stated that “Democrats have an utter incapability for self-examination. It’s the Russians’ fault. It’s Comey’s fault. … It’s Obama’s fault. It’s fake news’ fault … but what all of this allows them and the Democratic Party to do is to avoid the tough questions about why they lost, and how they alienated such a large block of voters that they needed to win …” Continue reading

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL RANKINGS: BALLADEER’S BLOG

ius_logoNAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) Division Two – 1. INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST GRENADIERS   ###    2. CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY GOLDEN EAGLES    ###    3. WARNER UNIVERSITY ROYALS    ###    4. INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY WILDCATS (Defending Champions)    ###    5. UNION (KY) BULLDOGS    ###    

Northwest Christian University Beacons6. NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY BEACONS    ###    7. INDIANA UNIVERSITY EAST RED WOLVES    ###    8. BETHEL (IN) PILOTS (Riverboat Pilots)    ###    9. SAINT THOMAS UNIVERSITY BOBCATS    ###    10. COLLEGE OF IDAHO COYOTES    ###  Continue reading

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1969)

Welcome back to Balladeer’s Blog’s Seventh Annual Christmas Carol-A-Thon!

I have several dozen video versions of the Charles Dickens classic and for years now I have filled the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas watching umpteen different adaptations of this epic myth of the Industrial Age. 

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1969) – Air Programs International produced this fun animated version from Australia. There are books out there whose reviewers trash this version of A Christmas Carol but their reviews are so loaded with factual errors about this cartoon that I Continue reading

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HILLARY LOSES AGAIN: DEMOCRAT DEATH-THREATS FAIL TO INTIMIDATE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MEMBERS

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Rejecting Hillary Clinton is the new American Pastime.

The election that never seems to end passed another milestone today as the Electoral College members met to certify Donald Trump as the next president of the United States. Weeks ago Hillary Clinton supporters publicly posted names, addresses, phone numbers and social media information of Electors as part of the massive attempt to intimidate them into ignoring the results of the November 8th election.

Many Electors reported getting death-threats through various media and some even needed police protection today because of the Democrats’ unprecedented attempt at overruling presidential election results via intimidation.

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*** *** *** *** ***   Are death-threats to Electors the wave of the future?

Corporate media outlets have been coyly ignoring much of this and have been downplaying the fact that there is an implied threat in the mere public posting of the Electors’ information. “Everyone knows where you live and how to contact you now” is the message conveyed by ANY contact with the Electors.

OVERSEAS NEWS OUTLETS were MORE RELIABLE sources of information on the death-threats and other attempts at intimidation THAN AMERICAN NETWORKS! And thanks to the Democrats we now face a situation in which presidential elections of the future may well be waged up until the last moment before the Electors meet.  

Because the American Left seem determined to drive away all of us rational people who used to consider ourselves a part of them I am repeating this blog post from Election Day. Hey, if we had to sit through their Drama Queen antics the past several weeks, why not?

HILLARY AND OBAMA ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY

women-for-trumpCAREER CRIMINAL HILLARY CLINTON FAILS IN BID FOR WHITE HOUSE

DEMOCRATS SUDDENLY REALIZE WHY A PRESIDENT’S POWERS NEED REINED IN: And It Ain’t Because of (YAAAAAAWWWN) Racism

WAR WITH RUSSIA AVERTED WHEN MADWOMAN DENIED THE PRESIDENCY

ONE PERCENTERS AND BLOATED RICH PIGS OUTRAGED AT TRUMP WIN

BLOW STRUCK AGAINST AMERICAN LIBERAL COLONIALISM

latinas-for-trumpVOTERS TO OBAMA: DROP DEAD

THE WORKING POOR DEFEAT THE MEDIA-DEMOCRAT MONOLITH

DEMOCRATS BANKED TOO MUCH ON ELDERLY WHITE LIBERALS WHO THINK IT’S 1967

ORANGE LIVES MATTER!

DE FACTO THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE WINS THE PRESIDENCY

DEMOCRATS’ PLANS FOR 2020: ANYTHING WITH A VAGINA!

MICHAEL MOORE ENGINEERS TRUMP VICTORY

NON-DEMOCRAT AND NON-REPUBLICAN BREAKS GLASS CEILING!

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One percenter and bloated rich pig Mark Cuban (actual size)

MARK CUBAN: FROM BEGGING TO BE TRUMP’S VICE PRESIDENT TO SOUR GRAPES CRITIC TO IRRELEVANT BUFFOON IN ONE ELECTION CYCLE!

DEMOCRATS VOW: THE NEXT CRIMINAL WE RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY WILL HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED AND SERVED THEIR TIME

TRUMP ON HOW HE ATTRACTED SO MANY AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTES: “I ASKED FOR THEM” (DEMOCRAT TIP O’NEILL STILL HAS WISDOM FOR US)

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LUNATIC FRINGE CONSISTING OF MORE THAN HALF THE COUNTRY ELECTS DONALD TRUMP AS PRESIDENT

HILLARY INSISTS GETTING MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT VOTES IN CALIFORNIA MEANS SHE WON (Democrats refuse to investigate vote fraud to weed out those illegal votes.)  

BLOATED RICH PIGS WHO OWN HILLARY SAY: WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK!

HILLARY: IF I HAD KNOWN U.S. CITIZENS WERE VOTING I TOTALLY WOULD HAVE PANDERED FOR THEIR VOTES

black-trump-supportersTRUMP DOUBLES GOP’s USUAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTE, PROVING WHAT A RACIST HE IS …?

GEORGE WILL AND BILL KRISTOL TO STAR IN FEATURE-LENGTH VERSION OF MONTY PYTHON’s “UPPER CLASS TWIT” SKETCH

PARTY OF SLAVERY, THE KU KLUX KLAN AND JIM CROW DEFEATED

MEDIA WHICH ASSURED US HILLARY WOULD WIN IN A LANDSLIDE NOW ASSURES US TRUMP WILL BLOW UP WORLD

DEMOCRATS STUNNED TO LEARN THAT ACTUAL VOTERS OUTNUMBER ACTORS AND SINGERS

CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS SUDDENLY IN LOVE WITH THE NOTION OF CONGRESSIONAL OBSTRUCTIONISM Continue reading

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AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS CAROL (1979): REVIEW

An American Christmas Carol 2Christmas Carol-A-Thon 2016 continues!

At the height of Fonzie-mania in the 1970s Henry Winkler had so much pull he could have insisted on a side-deal in which he got to play every D’Ascoyne in a televised remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets if he had wanted to. Mercifully he instead chose to star in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol.   

Eric Till directed this telefilm which sets Dickens’ story in Depression- Era America. Winkler, so heavily made-up he looks like a zombie instead of an old man, portrays Benedict Slade, the Scrooge stand-in and R.H. Thompson plays Slade’s man-bitch Thatcher, the Bob Cratchit counterpart. Kenneth Pogue has the Jacob Marley role as Latham and Susan Hogan barely registers as the forever-irritating Belle stand-in. (Thank you to Garrett Kieran for catching an error – I accidentally listed David Wayne as the Marley stand-in.) 

“I’m not gonna pay a lot for this makeup job!” … Henry Winkler IS a zombie Scrooge in An Undead Christmas Carol.

This version of the Carol pulls the annoying maneuver of pretending the visits from Merrivale and the other ghosts are all a dream. There’s even an in-world reference to the Dickens novel A Christmas Carol.

On the plus side the visits of each of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come are cleverly heralded by time period appropriate music and news broadcasts airing on Slade’s bedside radio. The old tight-wad is especially discomfited by the outre 1970s music blaring from the radio before the arrival of the black Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.   Continue reading

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2016’s BEST BLOG POSTS ABOUT ISLAM

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THIS HAUNTING IMAGE STRIKES RIGHT TO THE CORE OF THE HATRED THAT IS ISLAM.

Enjoy this latest Best Of list for the end of the calendar year. 

“WE ARE ALL MUSLIMS” : HERE

RAHEEL RAZA – MUSLIM HEROINE: HERE 

MUSLIM FANATICS STONE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN GERMANY: HERE

MUSLIMS WHO ASSIMILATE ARE REJECTED BY THE LEFT: HERE

Sun LadiesYAZIDI WOMEN FORM UNIT TO FIGHT ISLAMIC STATE: HERE

HEROIC MUSLIM WOMAN SHAMS BANDAR: HERE

ANN-MARIE WATERS ON MUSLIM RAPE MOBS AND CENSORSHIP: HERE

THE LEFT’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH ISLAM: HERE

FRANCES BARBER SPEAKS OUT ON MUSLIM MISOGYNY: HERE

ANOTHER COURAGEOUS WOMAN TAKES ON ISLAM: HERE

Nonie DarwishNONIE DARWISH – HEROINE VS ISLAM: HERE

BRAVE MUSLIM WOMEN: HERE

ANOTHER BRAVE MUSLIM WOMAN: HERE

MUSLIM VIOLENCE: HERE Continue reading

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TWELVE HUNDRED GHOSTS (2016): CHRISTMAS CAROL-A-THON CONTINUES

Heath – one of Balladeer’s Blog’s long-time readers – has done a Supercut version of A Christmas Carol. The video runs 53 minutes and is sheer genius! Plus the rest of the videos on Heath’s channel are worth checking out as well! This is a great addition to Christmas Carol-A-Thon 2016:

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