NAIA
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE did battle with the LEWIS-CLARK STATE WARRIORS (should be the Explorers) for the NAIA crown.
After a scoreless 1st Inning the Fire went up 1-0 in the 2nd and made that a 4-0 lead in the 3rd. Neither team scored in the 4th Inning but the 5th ended with the Warriors knotting things up at 5-5. Continue reading
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For Part One of these Iron Man 1970s classics click HERE.
IRON MAN Vol 1 #79 (October 1975)
Title: Midnight on Murder Mountain
Villains: Dr. Kurarkill and her Neo-Apes
NOTE: Before moving on to the conclusion of the long-running Black Lama storyline, Marvel’s editors had to apologize yet AGAIN for the next issue not being ready and a fill-in story having to be run in its place. This one is set AFTER Iron Man’s final run-in with the Black Lama, presented below.
Synopsis: On a rainy night, Tony Stark, clad in his Iron Man armor, is flying back to New York from Cleveland, where he continued refashioning his company now that he will no longer be doing munitions work. Along the way, in western Pennsylvania, he comes to the aid of a man, a woman and their pet cat whose vehicle was pinned under a falling tree. Continue reading
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Before moving on to my usual weekend blog posts of lighter fare, here is a post explaining Liz Cheney, her warmonger father, etc.
Overseas readers have been asking me about the Republican Liz Cheney’s role in the illegitimate January 6th idiocy in Congress. Since Balladeer’s Blog is an Independent Voter site I’ve always made it clear I would be fine if both the Democrats and Republicans splintered into multiple smaller parties because neither one represents the needs of their constituents at this time. That’s why people know they will get a response from me that is NOT motivated by political party bias.
I would love to be able to describe the situation without having to discuss the Donald Trump angle, but our insane media loves to pump up ratings by making EVERYTHING about Trump, so there is no way around it. Links to news items regarding the following remarks are presented below.
To begin with, Liz Cheney is political garbage from the Republican Party. Her father is THE Dick Cheney, Vice President under the repulsive and disastrous George W Bush. (Remember the much lauded movie Vice? That’s her “daddy.”) Her father’s conflicts of interest and blood-soaked ways of making money off the Middle East conflicts that the Bush-Cheney Administration LIED THE COUNTRY INTO are still relevant.
LIZ CHENEY REPRESENTS EVERYTHING AND EVERY POLICY THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD CONDEMNED AMERICA FOR OVER THE COURSE OF NEARLY A DECADE. She and her family are part of the obscenely corrupt and callous Bush Family wing of the Republican Party. The wing of open-ended warfare, of looking for new countries to invade, of contempt for the working class and the poor and so many other abuses.
The Cheney-Bush Republicans have been feuding with Donald Trump over the years for a number of reasons, INCLUDING the way that Trump kept Jeb Bush out of the White House in 2016. The horrific Bush-Cheney wing felt Jeb Bush, part of one of the most corrupt and harmful political families in history, “deserved” the presidency. There is no need to choose sides in this, of course, but don’t believe the way that the Democrats’ media outlets are depicting Liz Cheney like she cares about anything except putting the disgusting Cheney-Bush Republicans back in the driver’s seat.
And remember, even if you hate Donald Trump, another reason the Cheney-Bush Warmongers opposed him is because HE KEPT THE U.S. OUT OF ANY NEW WARS. Even the most anti-Trump media outlets in the U.S. are often willing to concede that point. AND SINCE THE CHENEY-BUSH WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WANTS ALL-WAR, ALL THE TIME, WITH VAGUE OBJECTIVES THAT THEY CAN ALWAYS CLAIM HAVEN’T BEEN MET YET, THAT IS WHY LIZ CHENEY AND HER ILK BASH TRUMP. If you back her, you’re backing open-ended warfare, among other things. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
If anyone is tired of political posts, blame the Democrats because they insist on continuing their lies, their demagoguery and their hatemongering. They are offering up yet another round of lies about de facto Third Party President Donald Trump. Laughably, they are still pretending that the January 6th, 2021 protest at the Capitol Building was an “insurrection” (LMAO), yet still claim that Democrats burning down buildings, looting and trying to kill or blind cops constitute “mostly peaceful” demonstrations.
Despite the attempted assassination of a Supreme Court Justice a few days ago Democrats in the House of Representatives blocked a bill to provide additional protection for the Justices and their innocent family members AND STILL ENCOURAGE DEMONSTRATIONS OUTSIDE THEIR HOMES DESPITE THE FACT THAT SUCH ACTIONS ARE ILLEGAL. Joe Biden’s DOJ simply refuses to enforce that – and certain other – laws if it won’t help The Party. Even children of the Justices have been threatened by Democrat fascists.
And no, cops were NOT killed at the January 6th protest, no matter how many times Democrats and their media outlets lie about it. With Joe Biden’s approval ratings far below Trump’s or any other president’s lowest ratings at this point in their term Democrats are desperate to indulge in a show trial. (Their goal is to try to damage Trump, whose popularity is still such that the candidates he endorsed in this year’s primary elections currently stand at 110 wins and 6 losses.)
Well, that and their fear that de facto Third Party President Donald Trump will return to his office. One of the best things about Trump is how much he terrifies the cesspool of corruption that masquerades as America’s government. He’s NOT a career politician, which automatically puts him above the career criminals in office, he’s rich enough to not be bought and has a thick enough skin to withstand attacks from the bought and paid-for whores from both of our political parties.
And I will point out again that he was the greatest president for the working class and the poor of all colors during my lifetime. In addition he brought America energy independence and was the first president in decades to keep the U.S. out of any new wars.
BIDEN CALLED THESE DEMOCRAT RIOTS MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS
Furthermore, the overwrought propaganda of the Democrats this week has had me laughing VERY hard. They theatrically pretend that the mass trespassing incident of January 6th, 2021 was “worse than the Civil War and the 9-11 attacks.” What disingenuous garbage.
Their monumental and hilarious political hypocrisy has been on full display in Washington DC this week as Democrats engage in political theater while pretending to revere the Capitol Building and its “symbolism.” (LMAO) Before I became an Independent Voter I spent most of my life as a Democrat and believe me, they feel contempt for the Capitol and its “symbolism”, even calling it one of the “institutions of imperialist rule” and “the seat of White Supremacy and systemic racism in America.”
Democrats also despise people who DO revere the Capitol and its symbolism, dismissing them as simple-minded patriotic rednecks.
January 2021 saw a “mostly peaceful protest” (as Democrats described the MONTHS-LONG Antifa riots which terrorized the country) at the Capitol turn into a chaotic mass-trespassing incident with the Democrats of the Capitol Police even killing an unarmed woman. Suddenly, Democrat pretensions that they revered the Capitol poured from the mouths of the demagogues of the Democrat Party.
Hey, let’s rename it “the Demagogue Party”. After all, the Democrat Party is the country’s oldest existing institution which launched a Civil War and fought for slavery, so a name change for that political party is LONG overdue. Okay, so they won’t rename themselves the Demagogue Party, but they should rename it something to distance themselves from the Democrat Party’s horrifically racist past.
Anyway, Democrats felt that their OWN storming of the Capitol was fine back on October 4th, 2018, even though THEY WERE INTERFERING WITH ONE OF THOSE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS WHICH THEY NOW PRETEND SHOULD BE SACROSANCT. Democrats/ the left cheered on that activity. And let’s not forget the way the left literally set off a BOMB in the Capitol on November 7th, 1983. Also HERE. A million dollars (by 1983 standards, so much more today) in damage was done.
Most adults are above the fake tears and the fear-mongering which truly pathetic Democrat members of Congress are indulging in regarding January 6th. The Democrats will probably never lose their competitive edge in phoniness and manufactured emotion, so non-Democrats – as in Independents, Third Party Voters, Republicans and People Who Claim No Political Affiliation, in other words THE REST OF US – will always need to remain highly skeptical of any and all political theater from them.
In May 2020 when the White House was violently attacked for about 24 hours and many secret service agents were seriously injured, Biden and other Democrats said Trump “used tear gas against peaceful protestors” even though it’s been proven that he DIDN’T use tear gas on those “peaceful protestors.” Listen to those Democrat hypocrites today and the draconian measures they now recommend against civil disobedience!
Anti-Trump fascists have sunk lower than ever over the past few years. In 2020 we had MONTHS of Democrat mobs rioting and starting fires and causing literally BILLIONS of dollars of damage and the loss of lives while the media and Democrat political figures cheered them on. Biden’s organization as well as several celebrities even PAID BAIL to get their fascist rioters back out on the streets for more mayhem. (Kamala Harris and 13 Biden staffers even donated money to a bail fund for rioters in Minneapolis and encouraged other people to do so, ballooning the fund up into the millions.)
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
NJCAA DIVISION ONE
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The last two teams standing in NJCAA Division One baseball were the CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE VAQUEROS and the COWLEY COLLEGE TIGERS.
The 1st Inning ended with the Vaqueros on top 2-1 and that became a 3-2 edge in the 2nd. The 3rd Inning saw Central Arizona College squeeze out a little breathing room as they made it a 4-2 game. Continue reading
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Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s time for the latest in the countless news items about Democrats and vote fraud. As always, I make daily visits to Democrat sites like the Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CNN, etc and to Republican sites like Fox News, OAN, Breitbart and Newsmax. If you avoid the opposite party’s media outlets then you’re only getting half the story. That’s why partisan fools pretend the country is “calmer” under career criminal Joe Biden just because their biased news sources pander to their prejudices by not covering Biden’s many disasters. Check out the news from both sides.
And as I always say, readers are welcome here no matter who they vote for. NO Democrat site welcomes people who don’t vote with The Party.
GUILTY PLEA IN YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT VOTE FRAUD/ BALLOT STUFFING SCANDAL IN PENNSYLVANIA. More HERE. Tied to conspiracy with an Election Judge who already pleaded guilty in October of 2021.
AND LET’S NOT FORGET THE LATEST IN A LINE OF GUILTY PLEAS REGARDING VOTE/ BALLOT CHARGES IN ARIZONA. More HERE.
MEANWHILE, 2000 MULES, THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT 2020 VOTE FRAUD IS ALREADY THE TOP-GROSSING DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR! Just like the 1876 and year 2000 elections, it looks like the actual loser in 2020 moved into the White House due to assorted types of corruption. The investigations must continue to try to prevent future recurrences. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
June 7th is National VCR Day! Balladeer’s Blog marks the occasion with some very brief takes on old VHS movies that I’ll probably never find the time to write full-length reviews about.
THE DEADLY SPAWN (1983) – This film is also known as The Alien’s Deadly Spawn. If you’re into less appreciated splatter flicks this is the movie for you! Diminutive creatures (ignore the poster) from outer space terrorize a neighborhood while literally chewing their way through anything in their way, including human bodies. The gore effects are graphic but not extreme, the acting ranges from awful to average and the creature designs may be cheap but the overall package makes this a cult classic. And watch out for that final stinger!
TRIUMPH OF THE CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE (1974) – Another movie in the Campeones Justicieros series from Mexico. Blue Demon, Superzan and the White Phantom are back in action, aided by Elsa Cardenas as Venus. In their usual way, these wrestlers/ pulp heroes/ superheroes are clashing with their foe Black Hand and a group of evil midgets from another planet (or dimension, it’s hard to tell sometimes). And did I mention that for most of the run time the midgets are INVISIBLE while kidnapping Earth women? Lucha Libre the way it was meant to be – hard-hitting, Dutch-angled and barely coherent! Continue reading
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THE PLANET JUGGLER (1908) – Written by J. George Frederick. An early space opera set in an undesignated future year. Absurdly enough, Esperanto has become the global language in a reflection of the high hopes held by Esperanto speakers at the time this book was written.
An alien from the planet Canopus broadcasts a message to the entire Earth, in Esperanto of course. The extraterrestrial demands 500 million tons of gold or else it will send the Earth hurtling into the sun.
The Planet Juggler claims to have monitored Earth people for a decade, thus accounting for their fluency in Esperanto, but world leaders are skeptical that it’s all a hoax perpetrated by someone on our own planet. To disabuse Earthlings of that notion, the alien entity shuts down all of the electricity in and around New York.
Later, to convince any remaining doubters, the Canopian throws the Earth out of its orbit just enough to make their point. World leaders surrender and claim to be mining enough gold to meet the demanded 500 million tons. Secretly, the scientist Elverson and a network of other brilliant minds desperately struggle to devise a solution to this crisis.
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Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes notice of the fact that even the Democrats at the ABC/Ipsos Poll couldn’t help but note that only 28% approved of career criminal Joe Biden’s abysmal performance. Of course they beclowned themselves with the hilariously slanted headline “Three in five Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of economic recovery.”
A corrupt, weak and ineffectual man retreats.
SO, not only did they bury their own poll’s result that only 28% approve of Biden overall by citing only the percent disapproving of Biden’s handling of the economy, but they added the ridiculous editorial touch pretending that there is an economic “recovery” going on. Joe Biden’s disastrous policies are crushing the working class and the poor and are causing out of control inflation PLUS baby formula and other shortages of necessities. But, yes, they pretend there’s a “recovery” going on.
Meanwhile, even the Democrat media outlet the Washington Post could no longer avoid reporting on the Arizona Democrat who just gave a guilty plea to the kind of widespread vote fraud that Democrats lie about by claiming it never happens. More HERE. And HERE.
AND, in Georgia, one of the states whose 2020 presidential election results are forever tainted, a Democrat who supposedly won their primary race was replaced by the REAL winner when a manual investigation showed that THE STATE’S VOTING MACHINES HAD MISCOUNTED THOUSANDS OF VOTES.
Also, after the farce that was 2020 and the widespread Democrat antics that continue to come to light, some voters are FINALLY SUING DEMOCRATS OVER THEIR ILLEGAL 2020 DROP BOXES. More HERE. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
NJCAA DIVISION THREE
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – In a battle of Cinderellas, the 6 seeds – the HERKIMER COLLEGE GENERALS – took on the 5th seeded EASTFIELD COLLEGE HARVESTERS.
By the 3rd Inning the Generals were on top 3-0 but the Harvesters made it a 3-2 game in the 4th Inning before tying things up 3-3 in the 5th. From there Herkimer College clamped down defensively as their bats went white-hot. Continue reading
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