Balladeer’s Blog’s latest installment of “Give Them A Shoutout Before They’re Dead” features the band They Might Be Giants.
From Flood it’s their song We Want A Rock which is often referred to as The Prosthetic Forehead Song.
After all, the best songs capture something universal about the human condition and, let’s face it – Everybody DOES want prosthetic foreheads on their real heads!
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Yes, the divisions of college football covered here at Balladeer’s Blog get started this evening! For games that COUNT, check these out:
TONIGHT’s GAMES IN THE NAIA:
The 15th ranked DICKINSON STATE BLUE HAWKS will host their Frontier Conference rivals the ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE BATTLIN’ BEARS.
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The EVANGEL UNIVERSITY CRUSADERS take it on the road against the number 9 team in the nation – the GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY VIKINGS.
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The WARNER UNIVERSITY ROYALS will likewise play Road Warriors as they travel to take on the UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS PATRIOTS.
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Meanwhile THE AG BOWL will pit the number 17 DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY TIGERS against the DAKOTA STATE TROJANS in a North Star Athletic Association matchup.
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And the UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE BEARS will be on the road to take on their familiar foes the CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY TIGERS.
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TONIGHT’s GAMES IN THE NJCAA:
The Defending Champions – the GARDEN CITY COLLEGE BRONCBUSTERS – open the season hosting the ELLSWORTH COLLEGE PANTHERS.
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The HIGHLAND COLLEGE SCOTTIES, meanwhile, will travel to face the DODGE CITY COLLEGE CONQUISTADORS to begin their 2017 campaign.
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The political left around the world proves over and over that they consider ONLY Muslims who hate the Western World to be “authentic voices.” With labels like “Liberal” and “Conservative” becoming more and more meaningless by the day the strange love affair between Left-Wing Archie Bunkers and the most reactionary elements of Islam grows deeper and deeper.
The way American Liberalism has regressed into a faith-based belief system as irrational as any other religion puts it all into perspective:
### Islam is a fascist political philosophy which masquerades as a religion and American Liberalism is a religion which masquerades as a political philosophy.
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Full Title: A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ASTONISHING ADVENTURES OF JOHN DANIEL, A SMITH AT ROYSTON IN HERTFORDSHIRE, FOR A COURSE OF SEVENTY YEARS. (1751) – Written by Ralph Morris, supposedly a pseudonym used by an unknown man.
Around the year 1650 John Daniel, a smith in Royston, is subjected to the relentless advances of his sultry stepmother. To avoid a situation which would hurt his father, John goes off to sea on a ship bound for the Moluccas. Enroute the ship goes under, with the only survivors being John Daniel and a young man who turns out to really be a woman in disguise.
John and this woman – named Ruth – are castaways on an uncharted and uninhabited island somewhere near Java. Food, shelter, fresh water and game animals are in huge supply, so John and Ruth name the place the Isle of Providence. The couple perform a do-it-yourself wedding ceremony and begin having children.
As the years go by our main characters have six sons and five daughters. Any other ships that draw near the island always wreck, leaving no survivors so the family abandons hope of rescue. Five of the sons and five of the daughters are married to each other when they reach their teen years. (All together now: “Eeewww!”)
The unmarried son, Daniel (yes his name is Daniel Daniel) has a knack for inventing things and builds a flying machine. Its general shape is like one of our modern-day airplanes but the wings are leather over metal rod frames and in order to fly the wings must “flap,” which they do, powered by a pump.
John insists on accompanying his son Daniel (I’ll call him “Dan-Dan” from this point on) on the “mechanical eagle’s” test-flight. The flying machine performs even better than Dan-Dan hoped, but is so strong and fast that it winds up taking the inventor and his father to the moon. Continue reading
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FOR PART 1 OF BALLADEER’S BLOG’S EXAMINATION OF MARVEL’S SUPERHEROINE MANTIS CLICK HERE
THE AVENGERS Volume 1, Number 135 ( May 1975) The Torch Is Passed
Avengers Roster: Thor (Donald Blake, MD), Iron Man (Tony Stark), The Scarlet Witch (Wanda Frank), Hawkeye (Clint Barton), The Vision (not applicable), MANTIS (Mantis Brandt) and Moon Dragon (Heather Douglas)
THE TORCH IS PASSED
Synopsis: Given the far more important storyline involving Mantis I’d have gone with the title hinted at in last issue’s cliffhanger ending: THE COMING OF THE CELESTIAL MADONNA. Instead they went with this cutesy play on words regarding how Ultron transformed the Original Human (android) Torch into the Vision.
Anyway, we’ll move along to the universe-shaking events taking place at the Pama Temple in Vietnam in a few minutes. This installment starts off with the Vision and his Synchro-Staff observing long-ago events where we left them.
The laboratory where the “dead” android Human Torch of the World War 2 era is lying on a slab was just broken into by the Avengers’ archenemy Ultron. Back then he was still numbering his iterations so he was technically going by Ultron-5 when he crafted the Vision.
Courtesy of Immortus’ Synchro-Staff, the phantom-like time-traveler called the Vision continues observing how events played out years earlier. When necessary the Synchro-Staff’s robotic Siri voice provides added details for the Vision’s edification.
Ultron examines the slain android form of the Original Torch. He makes it clear that the Mad Thinker was responsible for providing the villain with the information that the Torch’s android body was still lying undisturbed in his (The Mad Thinker’s) abandoned laboratory. Continue reading
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The 2017 college football season for the divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog gets underway this coming Thursday night. To satisfy our pigskin hunger til then here’s another of my Top 20 preseason rankings, this time for NCAA Division 2.
### 1. NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE BEARCATS (Defending Champions going for a Threepeat) ### 2. GRAND VALLEY STATE LAKERS ### 3. SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY RAMS ### 4. UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS COUGARS ### 5. HARDING UNIVERSITY BISON ###
### 6. CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY IN PENNSYLVANIA VULCANS ### 7. FERRIS STATE BULLDOGS ### 8. COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES OREDIGGERS ### 9. EMPORIA STATE HORNETS ### 10. UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI MULES ### Continue reading
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Yesterday The Atlantic ran a ridiculous piece by a black woman who examined the eclipse in terms of black-white relations, as if the eclipse had CHOSEN to not be as visible in states with a large African-American population. FOOLS LIKE THAT DO NOT SPEAK FOR THEIR ENTIRE RACE. NOBODY SPEAKS FOR AN ENTIRE RACE.
Along that line of thought here’s a great piece from the U.K. about how mind-numbingly absurd the political left’s handling of racial issues has gotten all around the world. The link is below but first some excerpts:
“… in recent years, it has seen the Left support similar Islamist stone-agers just because they’re the right (Left) side of beige.”
“Similarly, in Darfur the Left were thrown a curveball when it turned out that the Arab Muslims were terrorising the black Christians. Um, Islam good, Christianity bad – but hang on, Christians darker here! DOES NOT COMPUTE!”
“Writing in Everyday Feminism, one Nico Dacumos suggested that light-skinned people of colour such as himself should ban themselves from political gatherings of dark-skinned BIPOCs (Black, Indigenous and People of Color); … Mr Dacumos signs off as one who ‘instigates non-binary transgender faggotry in Oakland, CA’ ”
” In more recent years, Paint-Chart Politics has been ruining the lives of even more children, though this time exclusively female ones as the police forces of Newcastle, Rotherham, Rochdale and Oxfordshire chose to turn a blind eye to the rape, torture and trafficking of thousands of girls simply because the men doing it were darker-skinned than their victims.”
“As Sarah Champion – driven out of the shadow cabinet this week for daring to state the obvious case that this country has ‘a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls…because people are more afraid to be called a racist than they are afraid to be wrong about calling out child abuse’ – has proved, the messenger will be routinely shot for speaking plainly;
“far better to tie oneself in the knots the media is now entangled in where by fearing accusations of racism by naming the rapists as being of Pakistani origin, they have slandered a whole continent by repeatedly using the weasel word ‘Asian’. As Douglas Murray wrote in this magazine:
… preferring to hide behind ‘Asian’ and thereby showing a willingness to mislead their readers into thinking that organised gangs of Koreans and Japanese have been gang-raping young white girls across Britain over recent years.’”
NOTE FROM BALLADEER: THE BIGGEST REGRET OF MY LIFE IS HAVING BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE DECEITFUL LEFT. YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TRY FOR A BETTER WORLD WITHOUT BEING PREYED ON AND EXPLOITED BY THE HOVERING, CREEPY LEFT-WING ARCHIE BUNKERS OF THE “EDUCATIONAL” (LMFAO) WORLD.
At any rate, back to the article: Continue reading
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With the 2017 college football season kicking off this Thursday in the divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog it’s time for another of my Preseason Top 20 lists.
1. UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR CRUSADERS (Defending National Champions) ### 2. UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION PURPLE RAIDERS ### 3. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT OSHKOSH TITANS ### 4. NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE CARDINALS ### 5. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT WHITEWATER WARHAWKS ###
6. UNIVERSITY OF SAINT THOMAS TOMMIES ### 7. LINFIELD COLLEGE WILDCATS ### 8. JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY BLUE STREAKS ### 9. COE COLLEGE KOHAWKS ### 10. ALFRED UNIVERSITY SAXONS ### Continue reading
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MUSLIM VIOLENCE AWARENESS YEAR CONTINUES.
Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know that I’m an atheist but there is no denying that Islam – the religion founded by the blood-soaked child rapist named Muhammad – is the most homophobic, misogynistic and otherwise intolerant religion in the world right now.
Here are just a few of the latest Muslim fascist attacks.
August 17th: Barcelona, Spain – A Muslim fascist acting on behalf of the Islamic State (Obamastan) used his vehicle as a weapon to kill 14 innocent people and injure over ONE HUNDRED THIRTY more. Coexistence!
August 15th: Mandarari, Nigeria – Muslim fascist suicide bombers killed TWENTY-SEVEN innocent people and injured EIGHTY-THREE more.
August 12th: Quetta, Pakistan – Even in Muslim nations the Islamofascists kill OTHER MUSLIMS for worshiping differently than they do. A suicide bomber killed FIFTEEN innocent people and injured THIRTY-TWO more. IS IT ISLAMOPHOBIA WHEN MUSLIMS KILL OTHER MUSLIMS?
August 13th: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso – Islamofascists attacked a restaurant, shooting EIGHTEEN innocent people to death and injuring 8 more.
August 14th: Timbuktu, Mali – Muslim fascists opened fire on a U.N. office, killing 8 innocent people and injuring 7 more. Continue reading
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A THOUSAND DEATHS (2014) – This 22 minute suspense/ horror piece was directed by Adam Zanzie who also adapted the script from the 1899 short story by Jack London. Last Halloween Season I reviewed that short story HERE
Adam Zanzie’s effort immediately improves on London’s original tale by at least giving the characters NAMES. I’m not kidding, by the way. The 1899 short story was Jack London’s first published work and he neglected to provide names for any character except the mad scientist’s dog, Dan.
Zanzie wisely decided not to retitle this Dan the Dog and Company and instead chose to just make up names for the characters. Ford Fanter portrays the main character Jack (nice little homage on the director’s part) and John Bratkowski plays Jack’s sadistically deranged father, Dr Chaney.
Like Stuart Gordon having to reconfigure Tales of Herbert West, Reanimator for modern sensibilities, Zanzie does an excellent job of “scrumblin’ up” (for Marx Brothers fans) most of the original story’s elements to accommodate pacing AND budget considerations.
Doctor Chaney tests his life-restoring process by using his own son as a guinea pig, killing him over and over in various violent ways. After each unpleasant resurrection he pumps his son for clinical details about how he felt as he experienced each horrific end. All in the name of science, of course. Continue reading
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