Monthly Archives: November 2021

JOE BIDEN: A FAILURE AND AN EMBARRASSMENT

biden magic showIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes to you from the land where senile yet corrupt Joe Biden, a career criminal, accused rapist and KKK eulogist continues to wage war on the working class and the poor. (More HERE.)

ANOTHER ANTI-BIDEN BANNER FLIES OVER ANOTHER COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME. Courageous defiance continues to be shown to the Biden Regime.

YET ANOTHER VIDEO EXAMPLE OF JOE BIDEN BLITHERING LIKE AN IDIOT

PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER AND BIG TECH FASCIST MARK ZUCKERBERG ONCE AGAIN LINKED TO USING MILLIONS TO TAINT 2020 ELECTION OUTCOME

ZUCKERBERG MENTOR CALLS FOR CRIMINAL PROBE OF FACEBOOK. Big Tech’s practices are nothing less than corporate fascism.

Biden is creepyCREEPY JOE: BIDEN REGIME STRUGGLING TO RECOVER ASHLEY BIDEN’S (NOT PICTURED) DIARY AFTER INCREASING ATTENTION IS PAID TO THE DIARY’S ACCOUNTS OF  JOE BIDEN TAKING “NOT APPROPRIATE” SHOWERS WITH HIS DAUGHTER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD. Claims are now being made that the diary was “stolen” even though a journalist offered to return it to the Biden family last year. More on the story HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

          “Ashley Biden herself reported the diary was stolen, though a whistleblower who obtained it claims she left it in a room at a drug rehab center where she stayed. The diary discusses the author’s sexual addiction, drug abuse, and other traumatic life events.”

          ““Was I molested. I think so — I can’t remember specifics but I do remember trauma,” the author wrote at one point. She also mentions taking “probably not appropriate” showers with her father when she was a child.” (NOTE FROM BALLADEER: Not so shocking to anyone observing Creepy Joe Biden’s overly handsy interactions with children over the decades. As so many women say, “Biden gives ya the creeps.”)  

COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT TULSI GABBARD AGAIN CALLS OUT HER POLITICAL PARTY ON ITS INCESSANT STRATEGY OF RACE HATRED.

LAST TUESDAY’S ELECTIONS: TRUMP-ENDORSED CANDIDATES WENT 4-0, BIDEN-ENDORSED CANDIDATES WENT 0-4. More HERE.

BIDEN DEALS ANOTHER SEVERE BLOW TO VETERANS. Continue reading

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM NOVEMBER 6th

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Morningside MustangsTHREE OVER TWO – In the NAIA the number 3 team in the nation – the MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS – traveled to face the 2nd ranked NORTHWESTERN (IA) COLLEGE RED RAIDERS. The Mustangs led 14-10 in the 1st Quarter but the Red Raiders went up 26-24 by Halftime. Morningside College went back on top 34-33 to end the 3rd Quarter before cementing the Upset in the 4th with a 55-49 win.

Central Methodist University Eagles helmet NEWNUMBER FIVE TAKES A FALL – Staying in the NAIA for a moment, the CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY EAGLES welcomed America’s 5th ranked BAKER UNIVERSITY WILDCATS. The Eagles put the Wildcats on Upset Alert at the break with a 7-6 edge, then led 14-12 in the 3rd Quarter and won out in the end 21-19.  

Southeastern Oklahoma Savage StormDOWN GOES NUMBER SIX – Over in NCAA Division Two the SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE SAVAGE STORM visited the country’s number 6 team – the OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY TIGERS. The Savage Storm parlayed a 7-0 opening Quarter lead into a 28-7 advantage at the Half. After the break SOSU held off the Tigers to win the game 35-21.

Lake Forest ForestersEIGHTY-FOUR – Down in NCAA Division Three the LAKE FOREST COLLEGE FORESTERS played host to the BELOIT COLLEGE BUCCANEERS yesterday. By the midpoint of the game the Foresters held an amazing 56-3 lead. They never looked back from there, ultimately triumphing by a final score of EIGHTY-FOUR to THREE. Continue reading

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SPIDER-MAN: 1970s CLASSICS 10 – MINDWORM, HERCULES AND THE CITY-STEALERS

Here’s Part Ten of Spider-Man 1970s Classics. For Part One click HERE

spider man 138SPIDER-MAN Vol 1 #138 (November 1974)

Title: Madness Means the Mindworm

Villain: Mindworm (First Appearance)

Synopsis: The morning after Harry Osborn was taken away by the authorities in the previous issue, Spider-Man sits, mask off, amid the wreckage of what had been his and Harry’s apartment. NOTE: The apartment was demolished by the bomb Harry set hoping to kill Peter a few issues back. 

He switches to Peter Parker before Mr Templeton, the landlord, enters for an inspection of the damage. He angrily mentions all the destruction to the floors above and below Peter’s apartment as well, tears up the lease and orders Peter to vacate the premises by the next day.  

peter in apartmentThe following morning, Peter gathers what few belongings he was able to salvage from the destruction and stops by the adjoining building’s rooftop to retrieve the spare Spider-Man costume, web fluid cartridges and web shooters that he tossed there days ago to prevent them being found in his apartment after the bomb went off. 

To Peter’s shock, they are all gone. Alarmed, he suspects that maybe Harry found them and made off with them during his brief period as the new Green Goblin. He adds replacing those stolen items to his list of things to do.

NOTE: Our hero is not yet aware that the Jackal, who had been keeping Peter and Harry’s apartment under video surveillance, saw Peter toss out the bundle of Spider-gear on the day of the explosion and has taken the items for his ongoing vendetta against Spider-Man.  

An hour later, at a pay phone, Peter has nearly exhausted all the names in his contact book but no one has room for another roommate at present. The only name left in the book is Flash Thompson, his old enemy since high school.

With nothing to lose he tries Flash anyway, only to be surprised that Flash heard about how Harry blew up their apartment and volunteers to let Peter stay with him until he finds a new place. Peter is pleasantly surprised. He hails a cab, loads his things and rides it to the Far Rockaway apartment building in which Flash Thompson lives.   Continue reading

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IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994)

Some of Balladeer’s Blog’s readers have let me know that they feel I did not do as many blog posts about horror as I usually do during October. I’m all about you readers, so here’s a horror film review to help make up for it.

in the mouth of madnessIN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994) – Directed by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca, this movie was an unabashed valentine to H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King’s imitations of Lovecraft, and The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers. The King in Yellow, of course, is the 1895 book previously reviewed here at Balladeer’s Blog, and which Lovecraft admitted was an influence on his own works.

The story is about the title “king”, or more precisely about a stage play about that monarch. Everyone who reads the play The King in Yellow goes insane, causing worldwide chaos. Some of the King’s minions enter into our dimension to do his evil bidding, but unlike Lovecraft’s tentacled, enormous Old Ones, the monstrous servitors of the King in Yellow are humanoid in size and form.

That out of the way, let’s take it from the top. My LEAST favorite element of this otherwise excellent movie is the way it opens up. We are shown a crazed John Trent (Sam Neill) being committed to an insane asylum. Dialogue makes it clear that he’s just one of many people going mad in a worldwide epidemic of violent insanity. Even some of the staff at the insane asylum seem like they’re not all there anymore.

in the mouth of madness picSoon, Trent is visited in his padded cell, where he has used a black crayon to cover his body and the padded walls with crucifixes for protection. His visitor is Dr Wrenn, played by David Warner, the panicked, crucifix-surrounded man from The Omen, now talking to the panicked, crucifix-surrounded Sam Neill in this film. (I admit that’s a sly touch in keeping with the style of the movie. It even has echoes of the victim in Equinox fixating on his protective crucifix.)   Continue reading

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THE AUTOMATIC BRIDGET (1889): ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

female robotTHE AUTOMATIC BRIDGET (1889) – Written by Howard Fielding (pen name of Charles Witherle Hooke). This was an early short story about a robot run amok.

A roving con man has been driven out of town after being exposed as a phony psychic. He hits a new town and poses as a wealthy New York City entrepreneur. While running this scam he cultivates a “friendship” with a farmer who confides in him that his late brother Jotham had invented a machine in the form of a woman. Continue reading

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YES, CANCEL CULTURE IS AN ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Muslim oppression 3Free Speech has been under assault by both Liberals and Conservatives in recent decades, but mostly by Liberals in the past twenty years via Political Correctness and Cancel Culture. There was a time when Liberals actively supported freedom of expression because they understood it was THE primary freedom from which all other freedoms flowed. The early figures from my own country’s history protected speech with the FIRST Amendment to the Constitution because they knew all too well that ideas that are considered taboo and offensive today might be considered essential truths by future generations.

The forever-hypocritical 1960s generation of American Liberals were all about Free Speech when THEIR ideas were the ones offending people. Once they considered themselves to be comfortably in the cultural, educational and political driver’s seat by the early 1990s they decided they wanted their own already outdated worldview enshrined in stone and presented as THE one true set of values.

Free speech is a civil rightThey became the Political Correctness Police and anyone who offended their 1960s attitudes had to be silenced because – as they knew so well from their own experience – when controversial ideas are given the room to breathe they can often thrive. The totalitarian asses of the 1960s left can’t bear the fact that younger people might have opinions that offend THEM as much as their opinions offended their parents’ generation. 

And it’s not just in America. All around the world similar assaults on Freedom of Expression are being made by white, one percenter fascists like Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg and their ilk. When hypersensitive fools around the world want material banned as “offensive” to their closed minds, too many people still cave to their shrill demands. Considering that the more easily offended someone is the less intelligent they tend to be I find it amazing that Politically Correct censorship has thrived the way it has.

Free Speech 2Keep in mind Spinoza’s wonderful line “Every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.” That still rings true because no matter what the hypersensitive fools who want to censor the rest of us find offensive NONE of them has the right to try to extinguish one single product of the human mind. Continue reading

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THE NIGHT AMERICA TREMBLED (1957) – FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

Night America TrembledTHE NIGHT AMERICA TREMBLED (1957) – This is a reasonably enjoyable television movie sponsored by Westinghouse. The Night America Trembled presents what may be the very first dramatic production of the supposed panic caused by the 1938 Mercury Theater radio production of War of the Worlds. I’m always fascinated with accounts of this possibly overblown event, but the actual event – not so much.      

Yes, it all comes down to my love of mythology and the manner in which occurrences get embellished until even the wildest embellishments become accepted into a culture’s shared experience and shared assumptions. But I’m an incredibly boring guy.

Newsman Edward R Murrow hosts the dramatization and as usual looks like he’d love to climb out of the screen and kick the asses of news pussies like Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes. The most entertaining aspect of this production is catching the future stars in supporting roles. Ed Asner, Warren Beatty AND Warren Oates, plus James Coburn, Vincent Gardenia, John Astin and more.      Continue reading

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NCAA AND NJCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL RANKINGS FROM BALLADEER’S BLOG

helmetmaryhardinbaylorNCAA DIVISION THREE – 1. UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR CRUSADERS    ###     2. NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE CARDINALS (defending champions)   ###    3. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT WHITEWATER WARHAWKS    ###    4. SAINT JOHN’S UNIVERSITY JOHNNIES    ###   

Mount Union Purple Raiders5. UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION PURPLE RAIDERS    ###    6. LINFIELD COLLEGE WILDCATS    ###    7. CORTLAND STATE RED DRAGONS    ###    8. WHEATON (IL) COLLEGE THUNDER    ###    Continue reading

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JOE BIDEN AND DEMOCRAT DISASTERS PILE UP

biden psaki impeachmentIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at the ongoing disaster that is the Biden Regime and its enablers.  

BIDEN REGIME POLICIES DELIVER RECORD LOW GDP.

LATEST FIGURE IS 439 AMERICAN HOSTAGES ARE STILL IN AFGHANISTAN, HAVING BEEN ABANDONED BY THE BIDEN REGIME.

NBC POLL: 71% BELIEVE THE U.S. IS ON THE WRONG TRACK.

WISCONSIN VOTE FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS ROLL ALONG. Law enforcement says election laws “not just broken but shattered”. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Including calls to DECERTIFY WISCONSIN’S RESULTS FROM LAST YEAR BY RECLAIMING ITS TEN ELECTORAL VOTES. The 2020 election was at least as corrupt as the 1876 and year 2000 elections.

biden blood on handsAUSTRALIAN NEWS: THE WORLD SEES BIDEN FOR WHAT HE IS. More HERE. Says he needs a rest home HERE.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN STILL TRYING TO THWART MEASURES TO PREVENT A RECURRENCE OF THE WIDESPREAD VOTE FRAUD FROM THE 2020 ELECTION. It’s always just one of our two corrupt political parties opposing measures to curtail vote fraud. 

LET’S GO BRANDON RAPPER HITS #1 ON BILLBOARD’S EMERGING ARTISTS CHART. Courageous defiance of the Biden Crime Family and of Democrat media outlets continues. More HERE.

FOUR OF THE ITUNES TOP TEN ARE VARIATIONS ON THE ANTI-BIDEN “LET’S GO BRANDON!“.

biden soiled himselfMULTIPLE SOURCES REPORT JOE BIDEN SOILED HIS PANTS WHILE MEETING WITH THE POPE AND HAD TO BE RUSHED TO THE BATHROOM. MORE HERE. And HERE. After the damage this white collar criminal has inflicted on the working class and the poor he does not deserve any sort of consideration. He has ruined countless lives. And he’s an accused rapist. Biden also made a tasteless Mussolini reference. Such a remark would have been the media’s Apocalypse of the Week under his predecessor.

BIDEN CAUGHT FALLING ASLEEP AT THE CLIMATE SUMMIT. An aide had to wake him up. Again, this would have been the media’s Apocalypse of the Week under his predecessor. “When the Continentals met the incontinent” is a good description of imbecilic Joe’s trip. 

“LET’S GO BRANDON” NOW HAS ITS OWN DANCE. Continue reading

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