Monthly Archives: August 2017

A PESTILENT VAPOR (1903): ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

Future washington d.c.A PESTILENT VAPOR (1903) – Written by Alice MacGowan, this neglected story introduced a figure who should have become as famous in his way as H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man. 

The tale is set in “the far future” of 1950. The mad scientist Dr Sylvester assassinates the U.S. President for refusing to grant Sylvester the appointment he wanted to an overseas post where he could continue his bizarre experiments.

The not so good doctor is taken into custody and gets even more spiteful satisfaction out of the way the country is rife with rioting and protests. Dr Sylvester wants to further his plans by exploiting the spreading anarchy and disappears from his prison cell.

Sylvester has discovered a way of transforming his body into a gaseous state. When no one was watching him he turned into a vapor and drifted out of the prison, returning to his human form when he had reached safety. Continue reading

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AN UNINTENTIONAL COMEDY CLASSIC

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DEMOCRATS DO NOT “OWN” BLACK VOTERS, FEMALE VOTERS, GAY VOTERS, THE POOR OR THE WORKING CLASS

democrat ghettosWelcome back to Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. In the past Democrats/ Liberals (really “illiberals”) mostly attacked Republicans or Conservatives, none of whom understood how to fight back effectively. In recent decades DemoKKKrats/ Illiberals have begun hounding the rest of us, trying to browbeat us into agreeing with every idiotic notion that pops into their heads.

That transformed them into a party that attracted all the kind of totalitarian asses who used to gravitate toward religion and therefore the Republican Party. Fortunately religion in general no longer carries the cultural influence it used to, so totalitarian people who thrive on the urge to tell everyone else how to live their lives realized they had to call themselves Democrats and Liberals and Progressives instead.

Hiding behind such increasingly meaningless labels those people pretend to have “moral superiority” (itself an absurd concept) over the rest of us like they did when religion was their excuse for putting on such airs. 

Even worse is the way that DemoKKKrats, Illiberals and Regressives use all the forces of conformity to try to browbeat black people, women, gay people, poor people and the working class into pretending they are ALL good little obedient subjects of their political party.

The good news is that more and more black people, women, gay people, poor people and working class people are throwing off the yoke of the Democrats and their equally intolerant allies.

The chief way the American Left operates is by co-opting selfish make-believe leaders in various “communities” and presenting those people to the public as if they are THE official representatives of black people, gay people, etc.

Malcolm XPeople like Al Sharpton, Linda Sarsour and others have learned that the way to wealth and fame in the Democrat organization is to promote hatred and division non-stop. The Sharptons, Sarsours and their fellow Kapos live well but not so the suffering people they claim to represent. 

Black, female, gay, Muslim, poor or working class people who WANT TO CO-EXIST PEACEFULLY AND FIND COMMON GROUND are attacked by Democrats as  “traitors” to their race, gender group, etc. Needless to say they also DON’T get high-paying demagogue gigs in the Democrat organization. 

And the more black, female, gay, Muslim, poor and working class people that catch on and break away from the Democrats the more and more frantic they become. The 2016 election made it clear to them how many people from the groups they feel they “own” are rebelling against their ugly tactics and authoritarian ways.

That is why they have gone so publicly insane since last November and have been resorting to such violent and criminal behavior. Continue reading

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COOL-NAMED TEAM: BRISTOL COLLEGE

BRISTOL COLLEGE BAYHAWKS

Bristol College Bayhawks

Location: Fall River, MA

Division: NJCAA

Comment: You almost can’t go wrong with any team name that adds the word “hawks” at the end. Continue reading

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WHITE PRIVILEGE, LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES

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Dystopia? You’re living in it!

All around the Western World and for decades now, bloated rich pigs and their bought & paid for flunkies in the political class have been using the rest of us as whipping boys for THEIR failed policies. They and theirs continue to screw up the world and screw the people of the world and every election cycle they preach to us more loudly about how it’s OUR fault, not theirs.

The ultimate irony is that it was the political left that gave the blueprint for modern oppression to the wealthy elites they used to oppose. The ridiculous notion of the Collective Guilt of the Western World was the best thing that ever happened to the rich and the powerful. I’ll buy that the bloated rich pigs and the political class should have borne the guilt and shouldered the blame, but regular citizens?

Uh, yeah, like it’s the Archie Bunkers who ruled the world of the past, not the George Soroses and the Koch Brothers. Wealthy and/or blue-blooded familes like the Bushes and the Pelosis have gotten a pass, sort of like Death Camp administrators who escaped and lived large in South America while German citizens absorbed the anger of the world. (Remember, Godwin’s Law pussies don’t impress me so don’t bother citing it.)

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The symbol of the nonexistent Balladeer Political Party

The Working Class – yes even the white ones, you “White Privilege” fanatics – never had the money or the power to “oppress” anyone. But the Working Class, who suffered under the yoke of bloated rich pigs and politicians EVEN DURING THE TIME PERIOD WHEN WE’RE TOLD WHITE PEOPLE RULED THE WORLD – now CONTINUE to suffer under the yoke of the rich and powerful but also get lectured and talked down to as if they are to blame for the abuses that those elites inflicted on the world in the past and present.

For Working Class white people and Working Class black people to engage in hostility toward each other is a monumental waste of time that will do NOTHING to improve the lot of either of them. How ironic that the wealthy ultimately co-opted Marxism and used it as the latest lash to whip their victims and all it took was the irrational concept that ALL people of the Western World bore collective guilt for colonialism, war, racism and economic inequality. Continue reading

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THE WISEST SONG OF ALL TIME

Whenever I feel a little down or find myself contemplating the myriad contradictory truths of existence I find contentment in one particular song. I think we can all relate to the larger message behind the lyrics.

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MANTIS 26: KANG WAR TWO

FOR PART 1 OF BALLADEER’S BLOG’S EXAMINATION OF MARVEL’S SUPERHEROINE MANTIS CLICK HERE  

Avengers 132 Kang War IIAVENGERS Volume 1, Number 132 (February 1975)  Kang War Two

AVENGERS ROSTER: Thor, Iron Man, The Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, The Vision and MANTIS

We rejoin our heroes right where we left off last time around. Kang the Conqueror launched his second attempt to take the Celestial Madonna – Mantis – so that their offspring can provide him with control over all time and space.

Kang double-crossed his newfound ally Immortus, another old foe of the Avengers from years earlier. Using Immortus’ technology Kang then plucked six supervillains out of the time-stream just a nano-second before their violent deaths. He brought them to Immortus’ realm of Limbo, which exists outside of the time-stream.

Those six villains formed Kang’s Legion of the Unliving. Their motive for serving him: if they don’t help him kill the Avengers then Kang will simply transport them back to the moment he plucked them from and they’ll die.

Do what he commands and he’ll let them live, with no repercussions to the time-stream because of the control of time and space that Kang will have thanks to his and Mantis’ offspring.

Mantis story holcaustKang imprisoned Immortus next to his future self Rama Tut II, then hit the Avengers with one of Immortus’ teleportation rays. That ray abducted our heroes and deposited them in scattered, random locations in the endless catacombs and tunnels beneath Immortus’ castle.

Kang announced himself to the Avengers over the broadcast system in typically melodramatic and operatic fashion:  

KANG: Hear me, Avengers! You have defied my will for the final time! Here, lost and alone in the Labyrinth of Limbo, you will die at my direction and at the hands of the most relentless terrors you have ever faced!

So saying, Kang led his Legion of the Unliving into the catacombs to find Mantis and kill the other Avengers.

Kang War IIKANG WAR TWO

Synopsis: Kang, Baron Zemo, the Ghost (should be the Ghost Mariner), Midnight, the Original Android Version of the Human Torch and Wonder Man march swiftly through the dark maze of stone tunnels and corridors. 

In the rear, the final member of the Legion of the Unliving moves more sluggishly and falls behind. Continue reading

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SOCIAL JUSTICE: WEST VIRGINIA GOVERNOR LEAVES DEMOCRAT PARTY TO JOIN TRUMP

donald-trump-and-flagThe Democrats continue their descent into sheer madness over the fact that President Trump is helping the poor and the working class. They seem willing to start another Civil War like they did when they wanted to keep their slaves.

The sheer insanity of their daily attacks on Trump over imaginary Russian conspiracies and their ever-more apparent hatred of the voters defies belief at this point. West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced his departure from the Democrats over their war on the working class. AND DID IT AT A TRUMP RALLY!

Mascot with demo and repub headsThe only down side is that Jim “Social” Justice felt the need to join the Republicans. He seems more like a Re-TRUMP-lican, just like there are Trump-o-crats instead of Democrats now.

Anyway, Justice made special mention of how the Democrat Party that he left despises the working class and the poor and cares nothing about accomplishing anything positive.

YES, DEMOCRATS HAVE NOW MASTERED THE ART OF LOSING GOVERNORSHIPS EVEN WHEN NO ELECTION IS HELD!

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BOOT HILL: A MINOR VALHALLA

JUST SIXTEEN DAYS UNTIL FRONTIERADO! THE FIRST FRIDAY OF AUGUST HAS ARRIVED, MEANING IT’S FRONTIERADO! NOW CELEBRATED ON SIX CONTINENTS!

The joyous day is here at last so let’s enjoy our meals of buffalo meat, Tumbleweed Pizzas, Southwest Fried Rice, corn on the cob, Cactus Salad, mashed potatoes and Western Spaghetti ! Later we can wash down some Deuces Wilds (Red or Black) and Cactus Jacks while playing Frontierado Poker or watching Silverado.

Boot HillBOOT HILL: The name has survived in much western lore as THE name for graveyards filled with gunslingers, outlaws and other stock figures of the Wild West. Today it serves as a blog post in which I focus on the causes of death for many of the men and women who have shown up in my Frontierado items over the years.

Jack Harris Vaudeville TheatreTEXAS BEN THOMPSON – Shot to death by multiple gunmen at Jack Harris’ Vaudeville Theater in San Antonio, TX on March 11th, 1884. It was a revenge killing that also claimed Thompson’s friend and fellow gunslinger John “King” Fisher.

DOC HOLLIDAY – Died of natural causes on November 8th, 1887 in Glenwood Springs, CO.

SAM SIXKILLER – Shot to death while unarmed on Christmas Eve of 1886 in Muskogee, OK (still called Indian Territory at the time).

“QUEEN” KITTY LEROY – Shot to death by her own husband in Deadwood, SD’s Lone Star Saloon on December 6th, 1877. Her husband then took his own life.

KID CURRY – Either took his own life or was killed by lawmen on June 17th, 1904, at Parachute, CO, supposedly after robbing a train. 

LONG-HAIRED JIM COURTRIGHT – Shot to death in a rare Legend on Legend gunfight with Luke Short in Fort Worth, TX on February 8th, 1887.   Continue reading

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THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY?

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I’m an atheist but I love exploring the mythology behind the world’s various belief systems.

American Liberalism has regressed into a faith-based belief system that’s every bit as irrational as any other religion, but since American Liberals – or “Liberal Fundamentalists” – are such pompous, hypocritical and close-minded fools it’s A LOT of fun to describe their myths as sarcastically as possible.

THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY – The American Liberal version of an afterlife. American Liberals strive to live their lives in such a way that people every bit as pretentious and snobbish as they are will sit around in the future sipping wine and pompously expressing approval of the worldview and political opinions that today’s Liberal Fundamentalists held while alive.

This notion of an afterlife is every bit as flawed and fantastic as any other religion’s tales about what happens after human beings die. No one alive today knows how the people of the future will feel about any of us or about our worldview.

SnobIf anything history has shown that people – ESPECIALLY the self-congratulatory asses called Liberals – take great delight in loudly and repeatedly condemning people of the past for (GASP) having opinions that differ from their own. It takes no courage and little effort to put on an air of moral superiority toward long-dead human beings.

That being said it’s more likely that American Liberals of the future will look down on even the most self-consciously “progressive” Puritans of today as hopelessly misguided or simply ignorant.

Those future Liberal Fundamentalists very well may just sit around sipping wine and reassuring each other that they are morally superior to every Liberal of this era for not having THE EXACT SAME opinions as they do regarding race, gender, etc . Exactly like pompous Liberal Fundamentalists of today do with people of the past. 

The obsessive conformity, status-anxiety and insecurities of American Liberals prevent them from questioning their faith and thereby realizing that their own condemnation of figures from long ago is every bit as much of a shallow, meaningless pose as the attitude that may be shown by Liberal Fundamentalists of the future.

FOR MY LOOK AT THE DEITIES OF AMERICAN LIBERAL MYTHOLOGY CLICK HERE   

OR IF YOU PREFER: Continue reading

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