Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s time for another roundup of political cartoons, news and memes.
MONMOUTH POLL: SEVENTY-TWO PERCENT SAY JOE BIDEN HAS THE COUNTRY GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY TRYING TO STONEWALL INVESTIGATIONS. White-collar criminals are gonna white-collar criminal.
MEXICAN MILITARY SEIZES ASSETS OF AMERICAN COMPANY. If only we had a president the way other countries do. Y’know?
DONALD TRUMP AND J6 CHOIR HAVE NUMBER ONE HIT ON BILLBOARD CHARTS. Courageous dissenters let their voices be heard here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. More HERE.
JOE BIDEN NOMINEEE TO FEDERAL JUDGESHIP HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING BIDEN CORRUPTION. Is this a quid pro quo to get him to stop investigating? Presidential impeachments have been launched over far less.
LOANS TO SILICON VALLEY BANK INSIDERS REPORTEDLY TRIPLED AS THE COLLAPSE APPROACHED. They apparently knew a bailout was coming. Continue reading
FLORIS (1969 and 1975) – Actor Rutger Hauer and director Paul Verhoeven first worked together for this adventure series set during the very early 1500s. The program aired on Netherlands television in 1969, then was remade – again with Hauer in the swashbuckling title role – in 1975 for German television and ran for even more episodes than the original series. 
Around the year 1502, word finally caught up with our wandering hero that his father and two older brothers had died. Floris returned home, accompanied by his adventuring sidekick Sindala (Jos Bergman), an Indian Fakir. (Floris and the Fakir was originally going to be the title of the series.) 
Floris and Sindala fought their way out of the hands of the enemy and wound up allied with Wolter van Oldenstein and his men at Castle Oldenstein. I often wonder if the 1991 film Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves took partial inspiration from the premise of Floris, with a returning nobleman fighting oppression alongside a nonwhite comrade from his overseas adventures. 
THE MONK (1796) – Written by Matthew G. Lewis. Though The Monk was preceded by other works of Gothic Horror like The Castle of Otranto (1764) and The Necromancer (1794), Lewis’ novel cranked up the supernatural elements a great deal. It also painted the Catholic clergy in extremely unflattering terms, at least in the initial edition. 
GENTLEMAN JEKYLL AND DRIVER HYDE (1950) – Educational short films are often hilarious snapshots of their era. Driver’s Ed shorts are especially vulnerable to seeming outdated given how quickly car designs can change in certain decades. 
NAIA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – Fighting it out for the National Championship in the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) were the COLLEGE OF IDAHO COYOTES and the INDIANA TECH WARRIORS (should be Hoplites). 
NCCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The BETHEL (IN) PILOTS (riverboat pilots) faced the CLINTON COLLEGE GOLDEN BEARS for the National Championship of the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) Division One. 
SKULL THE SLAYER Vol 1 #1 (August 1975) 
It is not truly the Earth of millions of years ago, because it is anachronistically populated by dinosaurs and primates that were never alive during the same time periods. The only survivors of the plane crash are Scully, a young Native American man named Jeff Turner, an African American physician named Raymond Corey, and Corey’s young research assistant Ann Reynolds. 
GRACE O’MALLEY (1530-1603) – Balladeer’s Blog takes a Saint Patrick’s Day look at Ireland’s notorious Grace O’Malley aka Grainne O’Malley aka Grania or Granuaile O’Malley. This woman was the head of the O’Malley faction in West Ireland and became legendary through her real and embellished career leading pirate crews against her enemies. 
FINAL FOUR: SECOND BERTH – Up next the INDIANA TECH WARRIORS (should be the Hoplites) played the ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FIRESTORM. 
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