Monthly Archives: August 2021

EVEN DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS ARE CRUSHING JOE BIDEN OVER AFGHANISTAN

biden dazed and confusedHere at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I’ve been getting a lot of comments and emails asking why I haven’t been weighing in on Joe Biden’s utterly disastrous handling of Afghanistan.

Well, I haven’t been because for once even some Democrat media outlets were bashing the corrupt, mentally failing buffoon over one of his many failures. For just a few examples:

From the Democrats at the New York Times – “FINAL FAILURE IN AFGHANISTAN IS BIDEN’S TO OWN.”

Senate Votes to Pass Bipartisan Infrastructure BillFrom the Democrats at The Atlantic – “BIDEN’S BETRAYAL OF AFGHANS WILL LIVE IN INFAMY.”

Even the Democrats at USA Today weighed in.

Democrat Congressman Vicente Gonzalez had the courage to say on social media that “the situation in Afghanistan is another shame” on the Biden administration and there is now “no way to hide it.”  Continue reading

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NERDROTIC AT THE LAS VEGAS MEETUP

Balladeer’s Blog gives a shoutout to the show livestreamed from the Las Vegas Meetup this past week from Wednesday on. Here’s a nice short video sample of what Gary and countless others were up to while partying out there in Vegas.

I know a lot of people badmouth Gary and his ugly behavior, but I don’t know him personally, so I don’t know if what everyone says is true. However, it was good to see people getting together out in public again. Obviously, a better person than Gary would have been preferrable as a host but what can you do?

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12 BEST “WHAT IF?” STORIES (1977-1984)

Readers want more Marvel more of the time! With their What If? cartoon series off to a widely-panned start (I didn’t watch it) let’s take a look at some of the best What If? stories from its original run.

what if 1WHAT IF? Vol 1 #1 (February 1977)

Title: WHAT IF SPIDER-MAN HAD JOINED THE FANTASTIC FOUR?

Pivotal Event: In Spider-Man #1 the web-slinger tried to join the Fantastic Four but was turned down. But what if they had let him join the team?

Synopsis: Uatu the Watcher, from his headquarters in the ancient city in the Blue Area of Earth’s moon, ponders the multitude of alternate time-lines which branched off from the main (Earth 616) Marvel Universe.

With Spider-Man a member of the popular Fantastic Four/ Five, he never becomes an enemy of J Jonah Jameson and is therefore never deceptively painted as a villain to the public at large.

Having a powerful and capable new member like Spider-Man on the team makes Reed Richards (Mr Fantastic) comfortable enough to act on his overly-protective attitude toward Sue Storm (Invisible Girl). In their next mission (Fantastic 4 #13), against the Soviet supervillains the Red Ghost and his Super-Apes on the moon, Reed makes Sue stay behind on the Earth to “monitor” the group’s lunar expedition.

In this divergent reality, since Invisible Girl did not go to the moon with her teammates, she is lured away from the Baxter Building by the Sub-Mariner, whom she was infatuated with after the team’s first few battles with him. In the original reality, this could not happen until the Fantastic 4 got back from the moon. Here it happens earlier since she is by herself and is resentful that Mr Fantastic made her stay behind. Continue reading

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JOE BIDEN ATROCITY ROUNDUP: AUGUST 13th

Senile Joe BidenJoe Biden has been part of every American policy which the rest of the world has disapproved of for nearly 50 years now. Joe Biden has utterly destroyed all the help given to the working class and the poor over the preceding 4 years. Joe Biden has wiped out untold numbers of jobs for Americans and destroyed America’s energy independence that was formed over the preceding 4 years.

While pretending to be “green” by slamming down U.S. oil production Biden is actually willing to keep the oil industry in other nations churning out even more oil to make up for what we are no longer producing. Joe Biden’s inflation is shrinking real income for American workers by the day. Joe Biden, a career criminal and accused rapist, allows bribes to flow into the Biden Crime Family via his pathetic son Hunter’s “art sales.”

Under Joe Biden, Washington DC corruption has returned in full force. After 4 preceding years of no new wars, conflicts are flaring all across the world thanks to Joe Biden’s ineptitude and/or corruption.      

DISASTROUS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION STILL PLANS TO DO NOTHING ABOUT THE FLOOD OF COVID-POSITIVE ILLEGALS INTO THE U.S.  MORE HERE. AND HERE. Continue reading

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KUNG FAUX (2003) – FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

kung fauxKUNG FAUX (2003) – Created and crafted by Mic Neumann, this half-hour comedy series was basically a hip hop version of old movies and television shows that overdubbed non-comedies with comedic dialogue, music and sound effects. In Kung Faux‘s case it featured re-edited and highly stylized martial arts films from the 1970s overdubbed with contemporary music and a hip hop comedic sensibility.  

kung faux 2Though Kung Faux brands this treatment as “dubtitling” as a nod to dubbed and subtitled dialogue, the approach debuted on vintage television shows like Fractured Flickers (1963), in which celebrities would dub improvised comedic dialogue over old silent movies.

The theatrical release What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Woody Allen’s overdubbing of a Japanese spy movie to make it a battle over an egg salad recipe, is still the best known of these ventures. Not even serials were exempt from such treatment, with my favorite example being Firesign Theater’s production Hot Shorts (1984) featuring items like Sperm Bank Bandits in which the comedy team inserted comical dialogue over old serials like Canadian Mounties vs Atomic Invaders. Continue reading

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ANDREW CUOMO’S EMMY AWARD WINNING RUN OF HARASSMENT AND KILLING THE ELDERLY COMES TO AN END

andrew cuomo fallsAl Capone had to be brought down over his taxes even though he was guilty of far worse. Democrat Andrew Cuomo had to be brought down over his sexual harassment of women after the Biden regime shut down investigations about Cuomo’s alleged role in the deaths of thousands of elderly people in New York nursing homes.

The Democrat media outlet CNN is facing questions about the way their newsreader Chris Cuomo – Andrew’s brother – was allowed to do tongue-bath, softball “interviews” with Andrew during his many scandals. The New York Attorney General’s office had made mentions of looking into Chris’ strategy sessions with Andrew, in which the governor had allegedly made Chris privy to sensitive information about his brother’s accusers.

Needless to say, career criminal and accused rapist Joe Biden idiotically claimed that Andrew Cuomo did ” a hell of a job.” Continue reading

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PELE AND HI’IAKA – EPIC OF HAWAII

The Hawaiian epic myth about the fire & volcano goddess Pele and her sister Hi’iaka is a masterpiece of storytelling.

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PART ONE

On the Big Island of Hawaii the fire and volcano goddess Pele was relaxing with her younger sister Hi’iaka, the goddess of pathways and wayfarers. Hi’iaka was watching two Hawaiian women performing a Hula dance dedicated to Laka, the goddess of love, beauty and fertility and the deity who had invented Hula dancing. 

Despite Hi’iaka’s excited praising of the dancing girls’ talents Pele found herself bored by the proceedings and fell asleep. Laka, enjoying the dance and the traditional post-dance offerings to her, felt disrespected by Pele’s inattention. Using her powers as the goddess of love she sent a dream to the sleeping Pela – a dream that would have far-reaching consequences and forever change the relationship between the fire goddess and her sister Hi’iaka. Continue reading

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ANOTHER SHOUTOUT TO SOS-CUBA

cuban prisoners defendersBalladeer’s Blog once again gives a shoutout to Alvarez Galloso’s SOSCuba, one of the best Cuba Libre-themed tags. Among his latest:

Cuba reaches the figure of 272 more political prisoners in just 20 days

Message from the churches of Cuba.

Brutal treatment of two protesting sisters.

And on the U.S. end let me add: Continue reading

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AUGUST 10th, 2003: FIRST MAN MARRIED IN SPACE

wedding in spaceHow has a movie NOT been made about this event yet? On August 10th of 2003 Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, stationed on board the International Space Station, was married in a long-distance ceremony via satellite hookup to Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was physically at the Johnson Space Center in Texas.

Ekaterina was in a traditional wedding gown as she walked down the aisle to a life-sized cardboard cutout of Yuri adorned with a bow tie. In orbit, Malenchenko was wearing an identical bow tie on his space suit. A fellow ISS member served as Best Man and played the Wedding March on a keyboard. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S PRE-SEASON COLLEGE FOOTBALL RANKINGS: NAIA

Obviously this is all subject to change, but as of right now the NAIA college football season is scheduled to kick off on August 28th. Here’s a look at Balladeer’s Blog’s preseason Top 20.

Lindsey_Wilson_KY*** 1. LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS (Defending Champions)    ###    2. MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS    ###     3. NORTHWESTERN (IA) COLLEGE RED RAIDERS    ###    4. REINHARDT UNIVERSITY EAGLES (should be the Rottweilers)    ###   

Benedictine Ravens5. BENEDICTINE COLLEGE RAVENS    ###    6. MARIAN UNIVERSITY KNIGHTS     ###     7. KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY COYOTES     ###     8. KEISER UNIVERSITY SEAHAWKS     ### Continue reading

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