It is time for another musical shoutout from Balladeer’s Blog. This time around it’s the Queen song Need Your Lovin’.
Monthly Archives: September 2017
CCCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS
NUMBER FOUR GETS SHOT DOWN – The storied CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO RAMS traveled to face the number 4 team in the rankings – the AMERICAN RIVER COLLEGE BEAVERS. A 20-6 1st Quarter lead for the Rams became 30-12 at Halftime and 30-26 in the 3rd Quarter. From there CCSF added 10 more points while shutting out the Beavers for a 40-26 wrapup.
WHEN RANKED TEAMS CLASH – The 3rd ranked RIVERSIDE COLLEGE TIGERS found themselves on the road against the number 10 BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE RENEGADES. The Tigers put up 7 points in each of the 4 Quarters and led the Renegades 7-0 in the 1st Quarter, 14-6 at the Half and 21-13 in the 3rd. Bakersfield College nearly came back for a win but fell short as Riverside College won it 28-26.
RUSTLING UP A BLOWOUT – The GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE RUSTLERS welcomed the CHAFFEY COLLEGE PANTHERS. The Rustlers kept the Panthers off the scoreboard until the 4th Quarter while producing 7, 13 and 7 more points in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Quarters respectively. The final tally in this lopsided game was Golden West College 27 Chaffey College 6. Continue reading
Filed under college football
OBAMA’S UNDESERVED NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CRITICIZED EVEN BY NOBEL COMMITTEE REP
Years ago Balladeer’s Blog ran a post examining which Nobel “Peace” Prize winner killed more people: Republican Henry Kissinger or Democrat Barack Obama. It used to be too close to call but Obama’s recent fathering of the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program has since given him the theoretical edge.
President Donald Trump hasn’t killed enough people yet to be in the running for a “Peace” Prize but bloodthirsty figures in America’s Military Business Machine keep trying to pressure him into a higher body count.
Anyway, with blood-soaked figures like Barack, Henry and even Yasser Arafat polluting the list of Nobel Peace Prize winners you can see how that prize has become a meaningless, dark-humored joke.
Add the fact that Obama got his Peace Prize in 2009, when he was so new to the presidency that he had done nothing to deserve it. He didn’t deserve the presidency, either, for that matter. But the media liked the way his shallowness mirrored their own, so there you go.
In virtually UNPRECEDENTED fashion a former rep of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee – Geir Lundestad – admitted in his book that the Committee gave the new president the Peace Prize just to try to boost him politically. No true criteria were used. Who knew they awarded Nobel Prizes “on spec” as it were?
As reported: Continue reading
ROBERT LUDLUM’S TOP SEVEN NOVELS: NUMBER SIX
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6. THE ROAD TO GANDOLFO (1975)
TIME PERIOD: 1970s, Post-Watergate
I have a feeling many Ludlum fans will be ticked off that I ranked this novel – for which Robert used the pseudonym Michael Shepherd – above the seventh novel on my countdown.
HERO: Sam Devereaux, a handsome and brilliant lawyer who works for the United States Army and has risen to the rank of Major. Sam has grown to hate Army life and can’t wait to get out.
In his final days before leaving the service he becomes drawn into the schemes of General “Mac” Hawkins, who establishes grounds for continuing to extort cooperation from Sam even after his return to civilian life.
VILLAIN: General MacKenzie Hawkins, living legend and a cross between George Patton and Peter Falk’s manipulative CIA agent in the original version of The In-Laws.
During World War Two, the 19 year old Hawkins was a decorated hero of the Battle of the Bulge and an instant folk hero. After the war Mac went to West Point, where he became an all-star Running Back for the football team.
During the Korean War, Hawkins moved up in the ranks and – shrewdly reading the emerging geo-political landscape – pursued his further career in the Far East. A General by the height of American involvement in the Vietnam War, MacKenzie eventually gravitated to covert operations, specifically Black Ops.
Exiled to a diplomatic post over his tendency to make waves the General’s hard-drinking Bad Boy behavior caused an international incident between the U.S. and China.
When Major Sam Devereaux’s combination of legal brilliance and street-savvy saves Hawkins from hard time at Leavenworth or in China the General coldly and calculatingly makes the clearly talented Sam an unwilling accomplice in his plot TO KIDNAP THE POPE FOR FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN RANSOM. Continue reading
Filed under opinion, Pulp Heroes
NJCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS
DOWN GOES NUMBER THREE – The 14th ranked BLINN COLLEGE BUCCANEERS welcomed the number 3 team in the nation – the TRINITY VALLEY COLLEGE CARDINALS – on Saturday. The Buccaneers and Cardinals were tied 14-14 in the 1st Quarter but Blinn College grabbed a 24-17 lead by Halftime. A 24-24 tie to end the 3rd Quarter ultimately became a 31-27 triumph for the Buccaneers, who are still unbeaten for 2017.
AND NUMBER FOUR COMES TUMBLING AFTER – The BUTLER (KS) GRIZZLIES battled the 4th ranked IOWA WESTERN COLLEGE REIVERS. A 14-0 1st Quarter lead for the Grizzlies was cut to a mere 14-13 edge by the break. Butler College made it a 21-13 game in the 3rd Quarter, with the Reivers scoring a Touchdown in the 4th but missing the 2-point conversion attempt. The Grizzlies won it 21-19.
HUTCH EDGES THE DEFENDING CHAMPS – The storied HUTCHINSON COLLEGE BLUE DRAGONS took it on the road against the Defending National Champions – the number 11 GARDEN CITY COLLEGE BRONCBUSTERS. The opening Quarter ended in a 7-7 tie with the Blue Dragons on top 14-7 at Halftime. Hutchinson College led the Broncbusters 28-21 to start the 4th Quarter and from there held on for a 31-28 road upset. Continue reading
Filed under college football
TWIN PEAKS IN B-MOVIE TERMS
It’s been just over two weeks since the finale of the 18 episode run of new Twin Peaks chapters on cable. Like many other fans I’m still digesting some of those new episodes in light of the gloriously dark and nightmarish conclusion, so this particular blog post applies ONLY to the original Twin Peaks television series, the 1992 film Fire Walk With Me and its deleted scenes from The Missing Pieces.
Here at Balladeer’s Blog I’m often surprised at the way so many detractors still try to insist that the show and the movie made no sense. And bear in mind I am NOT referring to the various theories over particular symbolism or the lengthy debates to be had over the ethical and philosophical implications of the storyline.
No, I’m referring to the way some people dismiss the entire project as if it’s a bunch of weirdness with no discernible plot or storyline. There IS SO a (very) easily discernible plot and storyline. And I’ll say again I’m NOT talking about deeper meanings which no two people may ever agree upon, but the basic tale. Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies, Forgotten Television, Halloween Season, opinion
BERNIE SANDERS: CURRENT MODEL OF DEMOCRAT PARTY IS NOT WORKING
On Meet The Press on Sunday, Senator Bernie Sanders – the candidate from whom Hillary “No Billionaire Left Behind” Clinton stole the Democrat presidential nomination last year – once again stated the obvious: The current model of the Democratic Party obviously is not working.”
No kidding, Bernie! That’s why you and President Trump were the only possibilities for change last year. You were technically an Independent, not a Democrat and President Trump wasn’t really a Republican. (Just ask Republican trash like Kevin Williamson and other Stuffy White Males at National Review.)
Bernie further stated: “Republicans control the House, the Senate; they control the White House, they control two-thirds of the governors’ offices throughout this country.”
(NOTE FROM BALLADEER: That’s because Democrats have become such irrational and hate-filled fascists. They literally try to destroy people simply for expressing disagreement with them. Nobody likes the Republicans, those political seats are unearned and are about people despising Democrats, not liking Republican garbage like Paul Ryan . The Democrats need to get rid of the clueless Left-Wing Archie Bunkers who have driven so many of us away from the party.)
Bernie expressed even more sentiments frequently voiced here at Balladeer’s Blog, like: Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM SEPTEMBER 16th
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MECHANICS MAKE IT TWO IN A ROW – In the USCAA (United States Collegiate Athletic Association) the WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES MECHANICS followed up last week’s tight victory with a blowout win this week. Yesterday the Mechanics battled the GATTACA COLLEGE NEW JERSEYANS and parlayed a 39-0 Halftime lead into a 45-20 triumph.
SIXTY-ONE – The NAIA’s (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) LYON COLLEGE SCOTS were on the road against the TRINITY BIBLE COLLEGE LIONS from the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association). The Scots achieved defensive perfection while piling on the points for a SIXTY-ONE to NOTHING massacre of the Lions.
TRIPLE OVERTIME – The game between the OTTAWA UNIVERSITY BRAVES and their hosts the FRIENDS UNIVERSITY FALCONS was the Marathon Game of the Day on Saturday. Regulation ended in a 21-21 tie, sending the game into Overtime. Things were still deadlocked after 1 OT session and again after the 2nd OT. It took Triple Overtime before the Braves at last emerged with a 34-28 victory. Continue reading
Filed under college football
DEMOCRAT MAYOR FORCED TO RESIGN OVER FIFTH CHILD SEX ABUSE ALLEGATION: MEDIA ATTACKS DONALD TRUMP, JR
DEMOCRAT ED MURRAY
Yes, Seattle’s DEMOCRAT Mayor Ed Murray has resigned over a FIFTH allegation of child sexual abuse. As always, America’s Democrat media found an Anti-Trump angle to use in their headlines, since Ed Murray was a frequent critic of President Trump.
For starters, in typical fashion the Mayor’s political party is not mentioned in many stories. Here in the U.S. it has been a joke for a long time that if no party is mentioned in reports of a political scandal it automatically means it’s a Democrat. (And remember, my family and I USED TO BE Democrats for several generations but that party has become such trash it has driven us away.)
The Democrats in the media are not only omitting ED MURRAY’S political party whenever possible they are leaving out the word CHILD in their mention of sex abuse. (Even the Democrats’ NPR) This invites readers to think it’s just sex-hating rubes attacking a politician for having a sex life.
Most disgusting of all, many headlines provide ED MURRAY with political cover by making the story about Donald Trump, Jr slamming ED MURRAY over the CHILD SEX ABUSE allegations. Yep. To the Democrats in the media the REAL story is that Donald Trump, Jr made a condemnatory tweet, NOT the fact that a Mayor of a major city had to resign over a FIFTH CHILD SEX ABUSE allegation.
Using the Trump name as a person knocking ED MURRAY is a “dog whistle” (to use one of the Democrats’ favorite clichés) to Democrat zombies: If a Trump is against the Mayor, then you political robots called Democrats know you are supposed to support the Mayor.
People who work in the American media are even lower than American career politicians. I’d write more but here is a nice collection of other people’s takes on the situation:
Donald Trump Jr. has used the resignation of Seattle’s mayor over sex abuse allegations to bash the Democrats https://t.co/3W0XiuazwP pic.twitter.com/MwTEYCEddz
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 16, 2017
Really?
Yes that’s the story here. https://t.co/jf2n6xdkbI
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 16, 2017
It’s the time-honored MSM approach after a controversy surrounds Democrat or Democrats:
“Republicans pounce”. . . Real journalism here!
— Brian O’Kelley (@BrianOKelley1) September 16, 2017
Never fails.
Funny how Newsweek doesn’t ID the mayor or the crime by name, but makes the story about Trump, Jr. https://t.co/JByVj98gku
— Schadenfreudelish (@aggierican) September 16, 2017
Republicans Pounce on News of Pedophile Democrat https://t.co/VfRtx8Xd3f
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) September 16, 2017
“Forget that a democrat abused children, Donald Trump Jr said something mean about Democrats” https://t.co/zP0nw1dmd4
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) September 16, 2017
The story is Dem pedophile sex crimes, not Donald Jr.
— Elisabeth (@grizzlymamabear) September 16, 2017
That’s what you’re writing about. Not the actual Seattle Mayor being a pedo. Idiots. https://t.co/Iju9ASkYHa
— Justin Palumbo (@JPal319) September 16, 2017
Are you really trying to make this about Jr fuck off
And it’s not just sex abuse allegations it’s CHILD sex abuse allegations https://t.co/UDJl5B5mdq— Vareck Bridges (@Gray_Wolfs76) September 16, 2017
Democrat Mayor of Seattle abuses boys. Newsweek, meh.
BUT, BUT, BUT DON JR!!! https://t.co/FxFDinOkdY
— Hank Rearden (@BuyReardenMetal) September 16, 2017
Democrat is literally a pedophile. And still with the ‘overreach’ and ‘pounce’ stuff by GOP https://t.co/e3UIpuHAhO
— Chris Lloyd (@chrisrlloyd) September 16, 2017
Why aren’t you expending this much energy actually covering the Seattle mayor’s sexual abuse allegations? Partisan hack much? https://t.co/AGFA5IolYV
— Teresa Jackson (@RestoreHonor) September 16, 2017
This mayor has FIVE people accusing him of childhood sex abuse & Newsweek thinks it’s about @DonaldJTrumpJr hurting DEMS? Twisted. Callous. https://t.co/L7OVtJ7NPR
— dmduncan (@dmduncan2010) September 16, 2017
Good. Dems have done that to GOP forever. #AintNoFunWhenTheRabbitsGotTheGun https://t.co/SFhRglWIh7
— (((WitCoHE))) (@E__Strobel) September 16, 2017
Oh, like Newsweek did to the entire Republican Party in 2006 over Mark Foley. Check.
— Pissed Pat (@Pissed_Pat) September 16, 2017
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Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
ROBERT LUDLUM: THE TOP SEVEN NOVELS – NUMBER SEVEN
Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the espionage novels of the late Robert Ludlum. I know it’s odd for me to write about a figure as popular as Ludlum but I’m addressing ONLY his novels in terms of my rankings. Even the novels he wrote under other names.
People who know this fun author strictly from the Jason Bourne movies may not be familiar with these works because they are very different in tone and approach from the Matt Damon flicks.
7. THE GEMINI CONTENDERS (1976)
TIME PERIOD: World War Two era through the early 1970s.
I’m sure many Ludlumites will be furious that I have this novel in last place. They’ll likely be even angrier when they see which novel I ranked above it in 6th place.
HERO: WORLD WAR TWO PORTION – Vittorio Fontini-Cristi, the good-timing playboy scion of the moneyed and blue blooded Fontini-Cristi family in Italy. Vittorio’s father opposed Benito Mussolini so the dictator liquidated the family and confiscated their estate.
Vittorio was the sole survivor of the family. Sobered up into a more serious worldview over the massacre of his loved ones, Vittorio became a deep cover intelligence agent sabotaging Mussolini’s war effort. His twin sons are the major characters of the 1970s portion.
VILLAIN: WORLD WAR TWO PORTION – Cardinal Donatti, a religious zealot determined to find and destroy certain ancient documents that were entrusted to the Fontini-Cristi Dynasty.
Those documents, if made public, would supposedly shock the Christian, Jewish and Muslim worlds into potential chaos. If they fall into the wrong hands they could supposedly be used to blackmail the Vatican and other Christian power centers. Continue reading
Filed under opinion, Pulp Heroes
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