Just one week left until Halloween! Balladeer’s Blog continues its month-long celebration.
NOUGHTS AND CROSSES: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES (1891) – Written by “Q” aka Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, this was a collection of his short stories. Those stories:
DOUBLES AND QUITS – This tale dealt with a feuding husband and wife who take their bitterness beyond the grave. After burial their ghosts continue their hate-filled struggle.
THE HAUNTED DRAGOON – A sergeant in the dragoons helps his mistress murder her husband, then sells her out so that she gets all the blame. Her ghost and the ghost of her child begin haunting the man.
THE LADY OF THE SHIP – Lady Alicia of Bohemia is a beautiful witch. Despite the evidence of her dark nature a well-to-do man marries her, convinced he can save her. The tale nears its climax when the Devil arrives in human form to claim the witch’s soul. Continue reading
NAIA 1. MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS ### 2. KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY COYOTES ### 3. GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY VIKINGS ### 4. LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS ### 5. UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS PATRIOTS ### 
6. NORTHWESTERN (IA) COLLEGE RED RAIDERS ### 7. MARIAN UNIVERSITY KNIGHTS ### 8. COLLEGE OF IDAHO COYOTES ### 9. KEISER UNIVERSITY SEAHAWKS ### 10. EVANGEL UNIVERSITY CRUSADERS ### 
Another study has shown that President Trump’s economic policies have led to Latino-owned businesses thriving and growing at a record pace. Both Alfredo Ortiz of the Job Creators Network and Rohit Arora of Biz2Credit have addressed this. Links below but first some excerpts: 
THE WERWOLVES (sic) (1898) – Written by Honore Beaugrand, this story features fairly unique werewolf lore. The tale is not structured in a traditional way but instead expands upon accounts of lycanthropy in campfire tales as if they really, truly happened. 
AMAZING ADVENTURES Vol 2 #29 (March 1975)
The other quisling is known only as the Sacrificer, clad in green and gold. Like Atalon he is ugly but his ugliness is amplified by his metal cybernetic jaw with jagged steel teeth. His amputated right arm has been outfitted with assorted cybernetic blades which can be used as weapons or as surgical tools in the perverse “operations” he performs. 
Halloween Month continues here at Balladeer’s Blog, this time with the definitive horror/ sci-fi/ monster franchise in cinema. 2019 is the 40th anniversary of the original movie Alien and earlier this year six authorized (not fan-made) short films were released to mark the occasion. 
The neither fish nor fowl impeachment “inquiry” continues, violating all precedents and procedures from previous actions regarding Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. 
LA VILLE-VAMPIRE (City of Vampires) 1867 – Written by the accomplished and prolific Paul Feval, it’s Village of Vampires, or City of Vampires or, if you prefer, Vampire City (Wham, bam, thank you ma’am! Va- va- va- Vampire CIT-EEE! … Had to be said.) 
Goetzi turns out to be a vampire who lures Cornelia and Ned deeper and deeper into a trap. Back in England, Ann Ward deduces all this from odd letters that she receives from her friends and from horrific premonitions which come to her in nightmares. 
THAT WAS NUMBER FIIIIVE – In the NAIA the 16th ranked EVANGEL UNIVERSITY CRUSADERS welcomed the number 5 team in the nation – the BENEDICTINE COLLEGE RAVENS. After a slow start the Crusaders made their move, overtaking the Ravens and Upsetting them by a final tally of 35-21. 
DOWN GOES NUMBER SIX – Over in NCAA Division Two the UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY LOPERS took the field against the visiting 6th ranked NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE BEARCATS. A 14-0 1st Quarter lead for the Lopers was unchanged at Halftime. The 3rd Quarter ended with UNK on top 21-14 and the 4th with a 24-17 triumph for the Lopers. 
KNOCKING OFF NUMBER SEVEN – Meanwhile, down in NCAA Division Three the BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE PANTHERS played host to the country’s number 7 team – the BERRY UNIVERSITY VIKINGS. The Panthers put the Vikings on Upset Alert with a 21-6 lead at the Half, then coasted to a 28-15 victory. 
Hillary Clinton continues to make me incredibly embarrassed that I actually supported her from 2008 to 2015. Her inability to cope with her election loss in 2016 has driven her to move on from just accusing Third Party candidate Jill Stein of having been a “Russian Asset” and President Trump of having been a “Russian Asset” to now accusing Democrat Congressional representative Tulsi Gabbard of being a “Russian Asset.” 
But wait, there’s more! Hillary’s fevered mind has worked out a detailed scenario: Gabbard has been bucking the Democrat Party establishment on many issues, even daring to say nice things about the working class and the poor, most recently at the latest Democrat debate where Tulsi stated that when she looks at the country she doesn’t see “deplorables.” 
That remark is likely what stuck in Hillary’s craw, since her legendarily snobbish remark about “deplorables” lost her crucial working class areas which used to vote for the Democrats. Trump won those states and the election. 
Tulsi Gabbard (left), who by the way, has served in the military during the past few decades of Hillary/ Bush Family wars, has replied to Hillary’s deranged rant, calling her “the Queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long … “
Further clarifying the stark contrast between the corrupt Hillary Clinton and herself Gabbard stated “I stand against everything she represents” and “I’m standing up and speaking out strongly against the Hillary Clinton legacy, the warmongering legacy of waging these regime change wars, continuing to escalate these tensions between the United States, nuclear armed countries like Russia, China, this nuclear arms race bringing more profit to the military-industrial complex.” 
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