Monthly Archives: July 2018

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER


Trump National Council for the American WorkerOur de facto Third Party President Donald Trump continues to prove that he’s the new Franklin Roosevelt. Not only has he saved the economy and turned it around but he undid Obamacare’s destructive Individual Mandate, saving countless working class families from economic devastation. All that and much, much more.

For this time around I’ll mention two of his most recent accomplishments: talking pharmaceutical companies out of the devastating price increases they said they were planning AND launching the National Council for the American Worker.

Channel your own inner FDR and check out some of the details HERE and HERE 

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FEMALE MARSHALS IN THE OLD WEST

FRONTIERADO IS COMING UP ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 3rd!

As always, Frontierado is a holiday dedicated to the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality. Here is a look at a handful of ladies who served as gunslinging Marshals.

Ada CarnuttADA CURNUTT

Around 1889 or 1890 Ada Curnutt moved to Oklahoma (formerly Indian Territory) with her sister and her brother-in-law. By some accounts Ada chose to head west to get out from under the influence of her Methodist Minister father and equally devout mother.

When she was 20 years old, Curnutt started working as a Clerk of the Court in Norman, OK. Finding a desk job too dull for her, Ada soon became a Deputy Marshal for United States Marshal William Grimes. Her duties included serving writs and warrants, escorting dangerous prisoners from one jurisdiction to another and, of course, making arrests.   

In 1893 alone, Marshal Curnutt arrested at least 19 criminals wanted for various offenses. In December of that same year the gunslinging heroine traveled to Oklahoma City and dramatically got the drop on a pair of outlaws in the Black & Roger Saloon in front of a large, admiring crowd.     Continue reading

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THE CLONES (1973): MOVIE REVIEW

ClonesTHE CLONES (1973) – This neglected sci-fi item from the 70s was directed by Lamar Card & Paul Hunt, based on Hunt’s story. The Clones falls into that category of films that I always refer to as “X-Movies” because of the way they put one in mind of the paranoid and conspiratorial air of the best X-Files episodes.

Michael Greene, who played Secret Service Agent Jimmy Hart in To Live and Die in L.A, stars as Dr Gerald Appleby. Gerald is a scientist who has been cloned and finds himself vying with his clone for ownership of his life, career and girlfriend when the duplicate begins impersonating him.

clones 2Gregory Sierra, best known to trivia buffs as “And Gregory Sierra” for the number of times he was credited like that in various television shows and movies, plays Nemo, a government agent tasked to keep the clone project a secret and bring in the escapee.

Helping him out is fellow agent Sawyer, portrayed by Otis Young (Blood Beach). Sawyer suffers a crisis of conscience during this coverup assignment.  Continue reading

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MOCK HEADLINES: JULY 22nd

Russia hypocrisy from DemocratsAFTER CALLING FOR THE ELIMINATION OF IMMIGRATIONS AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, DEMOCRATS GO ON TO DEMAND THE DISMANTLING OF FIRE DEPARTMENTS  Nancy Pelosi says “Ever notice those guys always show up every time a fire breaks out? It can’t be just a coincidence!”

MUELLER DEMANDS TO INTERROGATE EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD WHO EVER WATCHED PRESIDENT TRUMP’S REALITY SHOW

DEMOCRATS DEMAND PRESIDENT TRUMP START WORLD WAR III WITH RUSSIA OR THEY WILL IMPEACH HIM

Helsinki StrainPRESIDENT TRUMP STARTS WORLD WAR III – DEMOCRATS MOVE TO IMPEACH HIM

DEMOCRATS INSIST PRESIDENT TRUMP START PUTTING AMERICA FIRST IN OUR DEALINGS WITH RUSSIA

DEMOCRATS BLAST PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR PUTTING AMERICA FIRST

MUELLER SAYS PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HOROSCOPE PROVES HE COLLUDED WITH RUSSIA

CNN REPORTS PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SOLD ALASKA BACK TO RUSSIA FOR $100.00

DEMOCRATS INSIST PRESIDENT TRUMP SAVED THE ECONOMY JUST TO KISS UP TO THE LOWLY WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR Continue reading

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RAVURAVU: FIJIAN GOD

Balladeer’s Blog’s recent look at The Gods of Fiji has been a hit! For another deity from Fiji here is Ravuravu, whom I also went ahead and added to the main article. For more than 20 other gods from Fiji see my blog post HERE

Fiji 2RAVURAVU – One of the evil deities defeated and driven from Skyland by the demigod Tuilakemba.

Ravuravu was the patron god of murderers and after his initial fall from Skyland he assumed human form and lurked in Navukeilagi, where he killed several men and women. Continue reading

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BILLY GET YOUR GUNS FROM YOUNG GUNS II

With Frontierado coming up on Friday August 3rd here’s another song for the season. It’s Jon Bon Jovi with Billy Get Your Guns from the Young Guns II soundtrack. 

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THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN (1977): BRUCE LEE EXPLOITATION

Dragon Lives Again

The Dragon Lives Again

THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN (1977) – CategoryBrucesploitation with an enjoyably absurd twist   

Even for the bizarre sub-genre of Brucesploitation films this movie is out there! The film starts with the recently – deceased Bruce Lee arriving in the afterlife, where the concubines of the King of the Dead gather around to gawk at the bulge in the pants of the late martial arts superstar. (Just in case you thought NO opening could be more tasteless than the one in The Clones Of Bruce Lee ) In a bit of alleged comic relief the bulge turns out to be caused by a weapon, not Lee’s organ. (Corpse schlong jokes! Who doesn’t love them?)

As head-shaking as that bit is at least it’s coherent, unlike virtually everything else that happens from this point on in the movie. And the time-honored tradition of Brucesploitation films having  leading men who don’t even look like Bruce Lee is well-represented in this flick, but at least here they try to explain it away by talking about how a person’s face and body change after death.  Which, of course, makes no sense since this is supposed to be Lee’s soul, not his body. 

Anyway, Bruce somehow persuades the King Of The Dead to grant him a chance to return to the world of the living, and is told he can return if he outfights all the other inhabitants of this odd netherworld. 

You see, this isn’t just any bland version of the afterlife our hero finds himself in. It’s kind of a Valhalla of cult movie characters and Bruce spends the rest of the movie fighting all of them in various combinations. Continue reading

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DEMOCRAT ATROCITIES: RUSSIAGASM EDITION

Russians are comingAnd Democrats wonder why the #WalkAway movement is so popular. Well, actually, it should come as no surprise that HuffPo, the site for HUFFy, POST-menopausal white Democrats, blamed #WalkAway on RUSSIANS! I’m serious.

Just get some psychiatric help, Democrats, and maybe some day all of us will come back to you.

I WILL HAPPILY COMPILE A LONG LIST OF OBAMA’S SUBSERVIENT DEMONSTRATIONS TO HOSTILE WORLD LEADERS AND YOU DERANGED TRUMP-HATERS NEVER SAW FIT TO COMPLAIN, LET ALONE THROW THE FROTHING AT THE MOUTH FITS YOU’VE BEEN THROWING OVER WHATEVER YOUR DISORDERED MINDS ARE MAKING YOU THINK YOU SAW IN THE TRUMP-PUTIN FOOTAGE.

Remember how Little Barry wanted Putin to know that he’d “Have more flexibility after the election.” That smacks more of collusion with the eeeevilll Putin than anything President Trump did or said. I’ve got a whole list of things like that from Obama’s disastrous years if you psychopaths are prepared to explain to me why we didn’t hear a peep out of you nauseating hypocrites about any of them.

And the Democrats’ oft-spoken distrust and distaste for America’s rightfully despised “Intelligence Community” (LMAO) of the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc was one of the reasons I used to be a Democrat. These days Democrats are thrilled at the thought of intelligence agency thugs abusing their powers.

Bush CIAAnd let’s talk about CIA scumbag JOHN BRENNAN! This barely human piece of filth – WHO HAD TO RESIGN OVER CIA SCANDALS ABOUT COVERT OPS AGAINST MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WAY BACK WHEN – has no room to criticize President Trump – or anyone else – about anything. There are drug dealers and child pornographers who can look down their noses at the John Brennans of the world and say “Eeewww.”

John Brennan is Exhibit A regarding why abortion should always be legal. If only his mother had known she had that option the world would have been spared her vile offspring’s lifetime of polluting our planet … But I kid conscienceless trash from the CIA. A CIA which has a history of INTERFERING IN ELECTIONS OF SOVEREIGN NATIONS. 

And most importantly, ANY ALLEGED RUSSIAN HACKING OF THE WAY THE DEMOCRATIC (sic) NATIONAL COMMITTEE SCREWED BERNIE SANDERS OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION AND ALL THE OTHER REAL-LIFE SCANDALS THAT WERE EXPOSED WERE POSITIVES IF THEY HELPED KEEP HILLARY OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. AND THEY WERE ALL PROVEN TRUE, UNLIKE THE RIDICULOUS TRUMP-RUSSIA COLLUSION NONSENSE.   

Exposure of Hillary Clinton’s and the DNC’s corrupt activities was as deserving of public exposure as the Pentagon Papers. Democrats were often accused of being “traitors” and “conspirators” for publishing THOSE documents, which were classified. PSST! DEMOCRATS! You guys were RIGHT about the need to publish the Pentagon Papers and you’re WRONG to get this upset over Hillary’s misdeeds coming to light.  

Hillary reset buttonAnd speaking of Hillary, remember her ridiculous presentation of a “RESET” button to the Russians when she was Secretary of State (LMAO)? If you’re upset over Trump – quite correctly – implying our intelligence services are just as crooked and self-serving as the Russians’ intelligence services then why weren’t you upset at Hillary and Obama basically saying “Now that the scum from the previous administration is gone we cosmopolitan sophisticates can reset our relationship.”

And yes, I consider George W Bush to be vermin, too, I’m just pointing out how similar it was when Hillary and Obama pointed out Bush being pond-scum and Trump pointing out that America’s “Intelligence Community” (LMAO) are pond-scum. It’s too bad Trump went with the “misspoke” explanation because he had it right the first time. Trust me, it’s no secret to ANYBODY in the world that the CIA and its ilk are garbage.

But Democrats apparently feel that when the CIA and others are doing things that help Democrat Party members then it’s okay.    Continue reading

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FLASHMAN IN THE OPIUM WAR: LOST FLASHMAN PAPERS

Flashman cutFor Flashman Down Under click HERE  Balladeer’s Blog moves on to another Harry Flashman adventure referred to but never completed before George MacDonald Fraser’s death.

Projected Title: FLASHMAN IN THE OPIUM WAR

Time Period: Late in the Second Opium War in China (1859- 1860)

The Setup: In Flashman and the Dragon (1985) readers learned that our antihero Colonel Harry Paget Flashman had been serving in Hong Kong and mainland China long enough to become fluent in the language. Flashman in the Opium War would detail Harry’s adventures in the closing period of the Second Opium War up until the start of the Anglo-French military expedition to Peking.

The Second Opium War is still an incredibly controversial conflict from Queen Victoria’s reign. Even at the time passions ran very much against the war AND against the fact that HMG was seen as accommodating the opium trade in Chinese ports.

Hong KongTo the most critical eyes – then and now – the Empire seemed to be facilitating the market in opium so that certain British businessmen could get rich and if the drug’s use had a very negative, epidemic downside for the Far Eastern customers, that was callously perceived to be a fringe benefit.

As I say, that is the most critical view. More sympathetic figures point out that in the 1800s the world did not have the same derogatory view of the drug trade as now and the drug trade was LEGAL in the Far East. If it hadn’t been British merchants making money off the opium trade then any gaps would have been filled by the Chinese merchants who had been dealing in drugs for centuries.

The Story: Continue reading

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ILLEGAL ALIEN KILLS TWO – GETS $280 FINE

Stolen Lives QuiltILLEGAL ALIENS: KILLING LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL THAT AMERICANS WON’T KILL – A mere TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY DOLLAR FINE was all that an Illegal Alien – Roberto Garza Palacios – had to suffer for killing an FBI Agent and a Fire Investigator with his vehicle … AND DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TO APPEAR IN COURT OR DO JAIL TIME.

You see, Maryland keeps making noises about wanting to be a Sanctuary State, and if they had made poor, poor Roberto appear in court then they would have been expected to turn him over to immigration authorities. To callous fans of illegal immigration the loved ones of the two dead men don’t even deserve to get that much justice in their own country’s courts. After all, they’re here LEGALLY, and Sanctuary clowns hate people who are actual citizens. Just ask the mourners of Kate Steinle.   

The Democrats at The Washington Post BURIED Roberto’s illegal status deep in the article, just like his two dead victims are buried in the ground. Immigration authorities had been searching for Roberto for years. If he hadn’t still been in the U.S. his two victims would be alive. Click HERE 

But to Democrats, President Trump is the bad guy for wanting to enforce immigration laws.

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