Hectic personal situation at the moment, so please excuse this quick collection of recent political memes and cartoons.
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Monthly Archives: September 2022
POLITICAL CARTOON AND MEME ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER 16th
Filed under humor, LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
SHANE: THE SERIES (1966) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION
SHANE (1966) – David Carradine starred as the iconic gunslinger Shane in this 1966 television series adapted from the 1953 Alan Ladd movie.
The 1953 film Shane is largely regarded as one of the greatest westerns of its era and is usually on critical lists of the best westerns ever made. The closing cry of “Shane! Come back, Shane!” and variations on it became as much of a cultural catchphrase as “Come with me if you want to live!” would become in the 1980s.
If you’re not familiar with the movie, Shane is a gunfighter who longs to settle down and pursue the non-violent life he would have lived if things had turned out differently for him. He falls in with the Starrett family, who are among the Wyoming homesteaders getting leaned on by dishonest ranchers who want them off “their” land.
When the ranchers hire men to use increasing levels of violence against the homesteaders, Shane sacrifices his desire to live a “normal” life and uses his gunfighting skill to help the husband, wife and young son who took him in. Continue reading
Filed under Forgotten Television, FRONTIERADO
NEWS ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER 14th
Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at current events.
DISASTROUSLY UNFIT JOE BIDEN’S LATEST INCOHERENT RANTS. And HERE.
DEMOCRAT TIM RYAN LITERALLY CALLS TO “KILL” POLITICAL FIGURES THAT HE DECREES ARE NOT “NORMAL“.
DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN SENTENCED TO SERVE 30 MONTHS JAIL TIME ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?
DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ENDS PRIMARY SEASON ENDORSEMENTS WITH 237 WINS AND JUST 17 LOSSES. Yet Trump supporters are not “normal” according to Tim Ryan amid his calls to “kill” them.
MORE EFFORTS TO COMBAT VOTE FRAUD CONDITIONS IN MICHIGAN TO PREVENT A RECURRENCE OF THE TAINTED 2020 ELECTION. And in Arizona, too.
FBI (FUGGEDDA BOUT INTEGRITY) EXPOSED YET AGAIN FOR PAYING RUSSIAN FIGURES FOR FALSE “EVIDENCE” AGAINST TRUMP. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE.
FURTHER ATTEMPTS TO PREVENT THE CHEAT-BY-MAIL FRAUD WHICH AFFLICTED THE CORRUPT 2020 ELECTION. The 2020 presidential election was at least as corrupt and tainted as the 1876 and year 2000 results. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
ROOSTER: SPURS OF DEATH (1977 & 1983)
ROOSTER: SPURS OF DEATH – This cosmically bad and tasteless movie was completed in 1977 but not released until 1983, presumably because there’s never been much demand for films from the ugly subgenre of cockfighting flicks. (Cocksploitation?)
Previously, Balladeer’s Blog reviewed the horrific movie Cockfighter, in which star Warren Oates portrayed a man who trains roosters for cockfights and at one point takes a vow of silence until one of his roosters wins a fight. (Hey, it’s not exactly the Dothraki custom of cutting a man’s hair if he loses a fight, but what can you do?)
Some of my remarks regarding Cockfighter can also be applied to Rooster: Spurs of Death, a Quinn Martin Production. Okay, I’m kidding about the Quinn Martin part, but anyway, R:SOD makes you understand exactly why the cruel activity of cockfighting became so despised. Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies
THE EMPEROR OF THE AIR (1910) ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION
THE EMPEROR OF THE AIR (1910) – Written by George Glendon, this is a story about two visionaries – the German-American tycoon Hans Kreutzer and the Italian inventor Anatole Lonari.
The inventor has been finagled out of profiting from many revolutionary creations and feels very embittered. The tycoon, despite his comfortable existence, has become a dedicated anarchist and longs to lay low the “oppressor nations.”
Kreutzer and Lonari join forces and settle in a remote area of Spain to pursue their dream project. The inventor perfects a very advanced rotary engine while the tycoon/ entrepreneur produces a vacuum-lifted aircraft that requires no helium or hydrogen to rise into the sky.
Throw in solid fuel and futuristic explosives and the two masterminds complete their airship called the Zara. It can fly up to 100 miles per hour and remain airborne for extended periods of time. Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Science Fiction
ARE TRUMP-HATERS REALLY INSANE OR ONLY PRETENDING TO BE?
Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I’ve bashed horrible presidents like George W. Bush (Republican) and Barack Obama (Democrat), yet I’ve also done blog posts ridiculing the more absurd accusations made against those two former presidents that I despise.
However, when it comes to absurd, imbecilic, unquestioning paranoia and uninformed hatred of presidents, NOTHING tops the slobbering insanity of Trump-haters. They idiotically believe ANYTHING, including claims that he tried to kidnap Michigan’s Democrat governor, told people to inject themselves with bleach, colluded with Russia, tried an “insurrection” (LMAO), was secretly running his own nuclear program out of Mar-a-Lago (LMAO) and on and on.
As ever, I don’t mean those people who are capable of rationally discussing their criticisms of de facto Third Party President Donald Trump. I mean the ignorant, clueless psychopaths who spout their deranged hatred of Trump during their every waking moment.
Anti-Trump loons make the worst, dumbest and most absurd statements I have ever encountered. Anti-Trumpers prove to be so uninformed and delusional that they reveal their ignorance about presidents in general every time they type out a remark about him or open their froth-flecked mouths about him.
Due to the ignorance and psychotic incoherence of Trump-haters I made it policy here at Balladeer’s Blog that if anti-Trump fascists want me to take them at all seriously they must first:
*** Begin their comment with a list of 10 things Trump did that they agree with. I can list at least 10 things I agree with that even the presidents I thoroughly despise have done. Trump-haters include an inordinate number of historically illiterate people who don’t comprehend the sheer number of actions taken by every president, so they are incapable of doing that.
If they can’t list at least 10 positive Trump items then they are revealing how uninformed they are, so there is no reason to take their anti-Trump screeds seriously.
*** TRUMP-HATERS MARKED THE SEPTEMBER 11th ANNIVERSARY BY PRETENDING THAT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE WORSE THAN THE TERRORISTS WHO KILLED THOUSANDS ON THAT DAY. More HERE. And HERE.
*** REGARDING THE DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN CHARGED WITH MURDERING THE JOURNALIST CRITICAL OF HIM … TRUMP-HATERS BLAME TRUMP FOR IT. More HERE. And HERE. I’m being very charitable when I describe Trump-haters as slobbering psychopaths. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM SEPTEMBER 10th
HEADLINES
ACU CONQUERS DIVISION TWO – The annual tradition of NAIA college football teams upsetting teams from higher divisions has continued every week so far in 2022. Yesterday the ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FIRESTORM visited NCAA Division Two’s FORT LEWIS COLLEGE SKYHAWKS. The Firestorm stunned the Skyhawks, leading them 28-9 at Halftime before winning the game 52-12.
MINERS TOPPLE DIVISION ONE – In a similar vein, NCAA Division Two’s MISSOURI S&T MINERS traveled to face Division One’s DRAKE UNIVERSITY BULLDOGS. This much tighter game saw a scoreless 1st Quarter followed by a 7-0 Miners edge at the Half. The Bulldogs came back to tie things up 14-14 in the 4th Quarter. In Overtime, Missouri S&T won out 17-14.
NUMBER ONE TAKES A FALL – Down in NCAA Division Three, the 6th ranked UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT WHITEWATER WARHAWKS welcomed the number 1 team in the nation – the UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR CRUSADERS. A 7-7 opening Quarter tie became a 14-10 midpoint lead for the Warhawks. The Crusaders went up 24-21 in the 3rd, but with 13 seconds left in the 4th, UW-Whitewater won the game 28-24. Continue reading
Filed under college football
SHANNA THE SHE-DEVIL: NEGLECTED MARVEL HEROINE
For this weekend’s light-hearted and escapist superhero blog post Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the early adventures of the Marvel Comics character Shanna the She-Devil.
SHANNA THE SHE-DEVIL Vol 1 #1 (December 1972)
Title: And a Jungle Queen is Born
Villains: Ivory Dan Drake and his men
NOTE: Rather than simply revive one of their company’s Golden Age Jungle Queens like Zara or Lorna, Marvel Comics went with a new character whose name made her even MORE of a Sheena rip-off than either Zara OR Lorna! Go figure.
Synopsis: On the Dahomey Reserve in Africa, the infamous ivory poacher Ivory Dan Drake and his men are about to slaughter some elephants for their tusks when they are stopped by the attacking Dr. Shanna O’Hara, now better known as Shanna the She-Devil.
She disarms and subdues the poachers, then she and her two leopards – Ina the Spotted and Biri the Dark – escort the hunting party to the border of the reserve. She orders them to leave the area, then resumes her professional care for the animals of the jungle.
Ivory Dan and his men simply move to another location and resume their poaching expedition. As Shanna spends the rest of the issue battling them, including Ivory Dan’s huge, hulking German thug Zarg, we get flashbacks regarding her origin. Continue reading
Filed under Superheroes
COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM SEPTEMBER 8th
Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at yesterday’s college football results in a few less-covered divisions.
NCAA DIVISION TWO
TAKING DOWN NUMBER TWELVE – The PITTSBURG (KS) STATE GORILLAS traveled to face the 12th ranked UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-KEARNEY LOPERS. A 7-0 Lopers lead in the 1st Quarter became a 21-14 advantage for them by Halftime. The Gorillas went on top 28-14 going into the 4th Quarter, then won the game by a final score of 35-28.
MARATHON MEN – In this game the UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON GOLDEN EAGLES visited the FAIRMONT STATE FALCONS. The Golden Eagles led the Falcons 21-7 at the Half but Fairmont State came back to knot things up 28-28 to end Regulation. The 1st Overtime ended in a 35-35 deadlock and the 2nd with the score 38-38. Neither team mustered points in the 3rd OT, and the University of Charleston won with a Safety, 40-38, in the FOURTH OVERTIME. Continue reading
Filed under college football
TRANSGRESS WITH ME: SEPTEMBER 8th
With ANOTHER Democrat getting arrested – this time on suspicion of murdering an investigative reporter (more HERE) – it seemed like time for another round of Balladeer’s Blog’s recurring feature Transgress with Me. As I’ve often mentioned in the past, I used to be a Democrat before their increasing intolerance and fascism drove me to leave the party and become an Independent Voter.
*** Democrat dishonesty has become even worse and is spiraling out of control. The number of lies they try to force the rest of us to believe is always growing, especially the Democrat insistence that some males menstruate and some men can naturally get pregnant.
*** People who say that teaching is a political act should never be trusted with authority over vulnerable young minds.
*** DEMOCRATS ARE NOT LIBERALS – THEY ARE VERY ILLIBERAL.
*** DEMOCRATS ARE NOT PROGRESSIVES – THEY ARE VERY REGRESSIVE.
*** There was no “insurrection” (LMAO) on January 6th, 2021, and only the most far-gone anti-Trump fascists pretend there was. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, opinion
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