Monthly Archives: August 2023

NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP FOR AUGUST 15th

election electionAnother roundup here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog

never forget thatDISGRACED JANUARY SIXTH COMMITTEE CALLED OUT FOR DESTROYING CRUCIAL EVIDENCE. As if that pathetic exercise in political persecution didn’t already seem illegitimate enough. Pure garbage.

REPORT: UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN’S “BUSINESS PARTNER” (LOL) PROVIDED WAR CRIMINAL VLAD PUTIN WITH ARMORED VEHICLES FOR HIS INVASION OF UKRAINE. Just when you thought the Biden Crime Family couldn’t look any worse.

CALLOUS AND UNCARING JOE BIDEN BASHED OVER HIS HEINOUS REMARK REGARDING THE SUFFERING IN HAWAII AND HIS REGIME’S KATRINA-LEVELS OF FAILURE. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And especially HERE. Joe Biden is filth. 

call me ancientLAW PROFESSOR JONATHAN TURLEY CALLS OUT BIDEN REGIME’S MERRICK GARLAND FOR HIS FAILURES, SCANDALS AND CORRUPTION. Including the pretense of an “investigation” by Biden’s DOJ into his son Hunter’s crimes. Uh. Yeah. Like they’ll really probe their boss’s son.

AFRICAN JOURNALIST SIMON ATEBA SUES BIDEN REGIME OVER THE GROUNDLESS REVOCATION OF HIS PRESS PASS. Biden’s war on journalism continues.

the job ofFDA NOW ADMITS THAT IVERMECTIN HAS ALWAYS BEEN SAFE TO TREAT COVID WITH. Disgusting. Remember how they mocked it as “horse medicine” a few years back, just because Trump called it effective at fighting Covid? Once again, Trump was right and his deranged detractors don’t care how many people die just because they feel obligated to disagree with everything he says. 

MORE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT BROUGHT AGAINST JOE BIDEN. More HERE.

obama brother malikBARACK OBAMA’S BROTHER MALIK SAYS HE WILL AGAIN SUPPORT TRUMP IN THE NEXT ELECTION.

LOVED ONES OF THOSE SLAIN IN JOE BIDEN’S AFGHANISTAN DEBACLE IN 2021 SPEAK OUT.

        Among the remarks: Regarding Biden’s utter callousness toward the families of the slain “You (Joe Biden) tried to interrupt me and give me your own sob story and I had to tell you, ‘This isn’t about you so don’t make it about you!’” Chappell wrote.

        biden blood“You then said you just wanted me to know that you know how I feel and I let you know that you don’t know how I feel and you do not have the right to tell me you know how I feel! You then rolled your f— eyes in your head like you were annoyed with me and I let you know that the only reason I was talking to you was out of respect for my son.” Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S NJCAA FOOTBALL RANKINGS FOR THE PRESEASON

The 2023 college football season will kick off on Thursday, August 24th in the divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog. Here is my preseason Top 12 for the NJCAA.

Iowa Western College*** 1. IOWA WESTERN COLLEGE REIVERS (defending national champions)    ###    2. HUTCHINSON COLLEGE BLUE DRAGONS    ###    3. COFFEYVILLE COLLEGE RED RAVENS    ###    4. NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE RANGERS    ###    Continue reading

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SEPTEMBER 2018: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

tr supporterYET ANOTHER BLACK TRUMP SUPPORTER PRAISES THE WAY TRUMP’S POLICIES ACHIEVED RECORD-HIGH EMPLOYMENT FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS. Some quotes: “I can tell you right now. I saw jobs when Obama was in office, and I saw jobs when Trump’s in office, it’s night and day,” Hughes told Flock. “I couldn’t go out in rural communities and get a job when Obama was president. I can’t keep up with the jobs now that Trump is in office.” … “Not only are black wages and incomes up since the election of Donald Trump – black employment has repeatedly hit historic highs.” It’s HERE.

DE FACTO THIRD-PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP VS AMERICA’S CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION. His enemies have spent decades in politics looting the public treasury and abusing their positions for personal gain. Click HERE.

FACEBOOK’S DEMOCRAT FASCISTS BAN BRANDON STRAKA, THE GAY FOUNDER OF #WALKAWAY. And remember, this was back in 2018. It’s HERE.

don surber bookDON SURBER’S GREAT BOOKS TRUMP THE ESTABLISHMENT, TRUMP THE PRESS AND FAKE NEWS FOLLIES. Click HERE.

MORE ABOUT THE UGLY SIDE OF REPUBLICAN JOHN MCCAIN. It’s HERE.

BIG TECH’S 2018 WAR ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. And it’s gotten so much worse since then. You can read all about it HERE.

milk under attack by DemocratsFACULTY LOUNGE FASCISTS – The September 10th of 2018 edition of “academic” (LMAO) hysteria HERE, including the reason Democrats now say milk is racist. I wish I was just joking.

AMERICAN STEEL WORKERS APPLAUD TRUMP’S TRADE POLICIES. Click HERE. Continue reading

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JANUARY 1975 MARVEL ISSUES

This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog will take a look at the Marvel publications from January of 1975, excluding reprints.

iron fist 20MARVEL PREMIERE Vol 1 #20 (January 1975)

Title: Batroc and Other Assassins

Villains: Batroc and the Cult of Kara-Kai

Comment: Iron Fist got well and truly integrated into the Marvel Comics universe with this battle against Captain America’s frequent supervillain Batroc the Leaper.     

Synopsis: It’s a day after the previous issue. Iron Fist is involved in another battle against four or five members of the Cult of Kara-Kai who have come to try killing Professor Wing yet again so they can steal The Book of Many Things. That mystic tome includes arcane information about how to destroy the enchanted city of K’un-Lun. Our hero defeats all the cultists.

Iron Fist grows annoyed with the Professor’s flippant attitude toward the murder attempts and informs Colleen about how her father claims the Cult has tried to kill him over 40 times in the years since he started trying to translate The Book of Many Things. Colleen tells her father that she has agreed to guard him alone while her partner Misty Knight runs their business herself for a while longer. Continue reading

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THEDA BARA: SILENT FILM STARLET

theda baraBorn Theodosia Goodman in Cincinnati, OH on July 29th, 1885, Theda Bara was the first monumental “man-eating”, femme fatale sex symbol in American cinema. Theda chose – or was assigned – her screen name because it was an anagram for “Arab Death” but the supposed appeal of that has always eluded me.

Bara at first sought success on the stage but managed few roles beyond a brief appearance in Act Two of Ferenc Molnar’s play The Devil on Broadway in 1908. Like many failed stage thespians, she turned to the comparatively new film industry, which in those days was centered on the east coast of the United States.

The future superstar had a walk-on role as a gangster’s moll in Pathe’s production The Stain (1914) and was then signed to a contract by William Fox of iconic Fox Studios. The fact that most of her movies are among the many lost silent films adds to Bara’s enduring mystique. 

a fool there wasA FOOL THERE WAS (1915) – Theda Bara embodied “the Vamp” character as surely as Douglas Fairbanks would later embody the swashbuckler. In this film based on Rudyard Kipling’s 1876 poem The Vampire, Bara portrayed a metaphorical vampire whose erotic appeal drove men wild.

In A Fool There Was, the vamping woman has already left in her wake a long line of ruined men who lost everything in their mad desire to keep her in their lives. The story depicts our starlet luring another wealthy man away from his wife and children, exhausting his money, then moving on to her next conquest.

theda bara picThis film had a Dialogue Board with Bara’s character saying “Kiss me, my fool” to her latest male victim, a line which was mistakenly quoted as “Kiss me, you fool” for decades. Because this movie was made before the 1930 Hays Code, Theda’s seductive and spiteful character was allowed to go unpunished for her actions in the storyline. Continue reading

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AUGUST 10th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

stolen from meThe latest such roundup here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog

BURISMA CHIEF: BOTH JOE AND HUNTER BIDEN WERE INVOLVED IN THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR. Life in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

NEW: BIDEN CRIME FAMILY “BUSINESS” RECEIVED OVER TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS FROM RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND KAZAKHSTAN. And more proof of their Pay to Play capers HERE. Even more proof of their funneled payments from China’s government HERE.

ten headlinesCONGRESS-MAN GREG STEUBE SAYS IT’S PAST TIME TO IMPEACH JOE BIDEN. Unfortunately, the people who run the clueless, outdated and utterly useless Republican Party seem terrified that their own graft money from Ukraine and elsewhere might be exposed. Ukraine’s corrupt company Burisma is the 21st Century Credit Mobilier – so many politicians are in the scandal up to their neck.

Trump in the wayNEW HAMPSHIRE JOURNAL POLL – FIFTY-SEVEN PERCENT WOULD STILL VOTE FOR OPPOSITION LEADER DONALD TRUMP EVEN IF HE IS IMPRISONED BY AMERICA’S CORRUPT POLITICAL SYSTEM. And for overseas readers I will mention once again that long ago Eugene Debs ran for president from prison. There is nothing to stop this and considering the absurd persecution of de facto Third-Party President Donald Trump – America’s Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela combined – you can see why that is so. Democrat and Republican office holders are often the biggest criminals.

EVEN HARVARD TRUMP-HATER JACK GOLDSMITH WARNS AGAINST THE DAMAGE BEING DONE THROUGH THIS POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF TRUMP.

msm reacts toDISTASTEFUL LITTLE TOAD JOE BIDEN CONTINUES TO PUBLICLY LIE THAT HIS SON BEAU WAS KILLED IN THE IRAQ WAR. Well, Joe took what his daughter Ashley described as “inappropriate” showers with her when she was a child, so I guess Joe has sunk even lower during his lifetime.

DISGRACED FBI AGENT INVOLVED IN THE ATTEMPT TO FRAME TRUMP FOR “RUSSIAN COLLUSION” TO PLEAD GUILTY TO THEIR OWN RUSSIAN COLLUSION. Continue reading

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QUINCY COLLEGE: COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAM

Here is another college team staying far away from the overused names like Eagles, Tigers, Bulldogs and Wildcats.

QUINCY COLLEGE Continue reading

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MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (1970) – LEGENDARILY BAD

myra breckenridgeMYRA BRECKINRIDGE (1970) – This film is based on the novel by Gore Vidal, who once called director John Waters “the pope of trash.” Well, Gore, Waters never had anything to do with Myra Breckinridge in any of its forms, so you have no room to talk.

This year in which there is no escaping online arguments over Barbie and cinematic depictions of masculinity, femininity, transexuals, garish camp and so much more, it seemed the perfect time for me to review another of the all-time worst movies ever made: Myra Breckinridge

raquel in mbFirst up, a summary of the plot – Myron Breckinridge, played by THE Rex Reed, the famed film critic, is fascinated with Hollywood and is conflicted about his sexuality AND about societal notions of masculinity. Myron believes that the film industry has distorted and perverted masculinity into what would today be called by certain people a “toxic” stew of rabid machismo.

Myron himself, who wants to be a woman, is more into the Hollywood musicals and romances of a bygone era and blames the film industry for providing what he sees as negative role models for young males. Myron has a sex change operation, going in as Rex Reed and coming out as Raquel Welch. No, I’m not kidding.

Myra targets John Wayne and othersNext, as Myra Breckinridge instead of Myron, the character goes to Hollywood to work at the acting school run by her uncle – former cowboy star Buck Loner … played by JOHN FREAKING HUSTON! Myra’s plan is to change the way male thespians behave and how men are portrayed in film so that she can destroy the very concept of traditional macho movie heroes forever.

It says a lot that Gore Vidal originally conceived all this as satire, because here in 2023 there are big names in Hollywood who really do mouth such inane sentiments with 100% seriousness while they lecture the rest of us about “toxic masculinity”, etc. Continue reading

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A PESTILENT VAPOR (1903) ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

Future washington d.c.A PESTILENT VAPOR (1903) – Written by Alice MacGowan, this neglected story introduced a figure who should have become as famous in his way as H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man. 

The tale is set in “the far future” of 1950. The mad scientist Dr Sylvester assassinates the U.S. President for refusing to grant Sylvester the appointment he wanted to an overseas post where he could continue his bizarre experiments.

The not so good doctor is taken into custody and gets even more spiteful satisfaction out of the way the country is rife with rioting and protests. Dr Sylvester wants to further his plans by exploiting the spreading anarchy and disappears from his prison cell.

Sylvester has discovered a way of transforming his body into a gaseous state. When no one was watching him he turned into a vapor and drifted out of the prison, returning to his human form when he had reached safety. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEME AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP FOR AUGUST 7th

timeline for bidenIndependent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest from Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

blacks for trumpGROUP “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” RALLY AROUND TRUMP DURING THE DEMOCRATS’ RIDICULOUS TRUMP INDICTMENTS. A MUST READ. Their words and the video are inspiring. One of their comments: “(E)verything Jack Smith is charging him with, Biden did it times 300.” Naturally, Democrats use racist slurs against them.  

BIDEN REGIME DROPS ANOTHER CHARGE AGAINST HUGE BIDEN DONOR SAM BANKMAN-FRIED FROM THE FTX SCANDALS. You expected something different?

blacks for trump 2TERRIFIC PIECE ABOUT THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY AND THEIR ACCOMPLICES.

COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. LAUNCHES FREE SPEECH LAWSUIT AGAINST GOOGLE. RFK Jr. is opposed by the same thugs who harass Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard.

NEW YORK TIMES ASKS READERS TO COMPARE JOE BIDEN TO AN ANIMAL – RESPONDENTS RIP BIDEN TO PIECES. “A sloth,” “a snail”, “a turtle” were some answers, plus this one: “A meerkat,” said Milan, a New Hampshire Independent. “Anytime it’s nice out, his head’s up, and then as soon as something goes wrong, he’s just gone again.” 

if they canTHE UGLINESS UNLEASHED BY DEMOCRATS WITH THEIR ABSURD TRUMP INDICTMENTS. American politics sinks to a new low.

BIDEN REGIME AGAIN THREATENS REPORTERS. Under Biden’s predecessor, anything remotely like this was hysterically labeled a “war on journalism”. Continue reading

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