Monthly Archives: April 2024

ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: APRIL 23rd

Time for another current events roundup by Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

biden bloodBIDEN REGIME HANDS OVER ONE HUNDRED TEN MILLION DOLLAR MILITARY BASE TO THE JUNTA IN NIGER – WHICH THEN TURNS IT OVER TO PUTIN’S RUSSIA. Joe Biden is a disaster all day every day and this action further demonstrates the idiocy of people who pretend Trump is pro-Putin.

OBAMA SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR ARRESTED FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

SCATHING PIECE TITLED “ILLEGAL ALIENS UNDERSTAND NONE OF THE RULES APPLY TO THEM“. A better title would have pointed out how none of the LAWS apply to them.

DEMOCRAT STATE SENATOR ARRESTED FOR FIRST-DEGREE BURGLARY. Democrats’ latest innovation – branching out from white-collar crime to a more hands-on approach.

mark zuckerbergBIG TECH FASCIST MARK ZUCKERBERG PROCEEDING WITH ELECTION INTERFERENCE BY BANNING TRUMP FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS.

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS AT MCKENZIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND WILMETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY HOSTING SEMINAR FOR CHILDREN CONSIDERING SEX-CHANGE SURGERY. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

BIDEN REGIME’S BORDER DISASTER FREES YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CONVICTED KILLER INTO THE U.S

SUPREME COURT STOPS DEMOCRAT ATTEMPT TO EXPAND THEIR VOTE BY MAIL/ CHEAT BY MAIL SCAM. Wasn’t vote by mail (which is NOT the same as absentee ballots) supposed to go away after covid? Another lie from career politicians.  Continue reading

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TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT: THE MAN WHO SAW TOMORROW (1981)

Randy (right) and Richard way down on Level 31 hosting The Texas 27 Film VaultBefore MST3K there was … The Texas 27 Film Vault (1985-1987)! Before Joel and Mike, lovers of bad movies had Randy and Richard (at right)! Before Pearl and Kinga there was Laurie Savino! Before Devil Dogs, Observers and Deep 13 there came Cellumites, giant rats and Level 31!

In the middle 1980s/ Way down on Level 31 Randy Clower and Richard Malmos, machine-gun toting Film Vault Technicians First Class hosted this often-neglected cult show. Balladeer’s Blog features plenty of posts about The Texas 27 Film Vault and even an exclusive interview with Randy Clower.

the man who saw tomorrow 1981THE MAN WHO SAW TOMORROW (1981) 

ORIGINAL BROADCAST DATE: Saturday November 9th, 1985 from 10:30pm to 1:00am.

SERIAL: None. This time around the pre-movie offering was the 1953 short titled Nostradamus Says So.

HOST SEGMENTS: At one point Randy and Richard read aloud some ridiculously bizarre predictions made in tabloids by “psychics” of the time period.

masc graveyard smallerTHE MOVIE: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow was a hilariously melodramatic and irrational documentary playing along with the silly notion that the 16th Century “seer” Nostradamus’ vague and noncommital quatrains predicted major future events. Orson Welles, in his “anything for money” phase, narrated the film.

This movie was up there with the campy UFO and Bigfoot documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s. Welles, who has to hurriedly pluck his cigar from his mouth at one point so that he can be understood, seems on the verge of laughter most of the time. As usual in anything about Nostradamus meanings are forced into his centuries-old poems that make them seem like he was a “prophet” who foresaw the rise of Napoleon, World War Two, the John F Kennedy assassination and just about anything else that true-believers want to read into the man’s vague scribblings. Continue reading

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WOMEN’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM BALLADEER’S BLOG

mascot chair and bottle picReaders let me know a few years back that they were bored with college baseball so I discontinued my coverage. Let’s give Women’s College Football a shot. Once again, it’s up to you readers if I continue covering this sport, which is Flag Football.

         Right now, Flag Football is an accredited sport only in the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) and NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) as well as a few NCAA colleges. More will launch Flag Football beginning in 2025 and the Olympics are adding it in 2028. 

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hesston college larks“SHOW US YOUR LARK!” – This weekend the HESSTON COLLEGE LARKS – who were the runners-up in last year’s National Championship game – won a pair of games on the road. First up, the Larks delivered a 20-7 smackdown to the BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE (WI) BOBCATS. 

        The second win came against the FORT SCOTT COLLEGE GREYHOUNDS. Hesston College’s women won this game by an even bigger margin. The final tally in this Flag Football clash was 21-6. Continue reading

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JUNE 2021: LOOKING BACK

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

biden the fascistTHE PEOPLE VS JOE BIDEN. And the long list of abuses by this grotesque little man named Biden has grown considerably since this June of 2021 blog post.

JOE BIDEN CLOSES THE OFFICE WHICH TRUMP HAD ESTABLISHED TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF ADDITIONAL CRIMES BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. The early months of the Biden Regime’s policy “Illegal immigrants uber alles!” 

populismESTABLISHMENT FEAR OF POPULISM. From Eugene Debs to Donald Trump, America’s political establishment really hates it when the people push back on their misrule.

democrats vote fraudOVERSEAS READERS REQUESTED CLARIFICATION OF THE ISSUES OVER THE TAINTED AND CORRUPT 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. I went into great detail and also looked at America’s tainted and corrupt 1876 and 2000 presidential elections as well. Joe Biden, George W. Bush and Rutherford B. Hayes were “selected, not elected.” Too many Americans pretend “it can’t happen here.” Input from others HERE. 

… AND YET ANOTHER ITEM THAT TRUMP WAS ACCUSED OF “LYING” ABOUT HAS ENDED WITH HIM BEING PROVEN RIGHT. And this pattern has continued to repeat itself to this very day as the country’s corrupt political establishment continues to persecute him. Continue reading

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SPIDER-MAN: HIS FIRST 1960s STORIES

This weekend’s escapist and light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog will look at the earliest adventures of Spider-Man.

am fan 15AMAZING FANTASY Vol 1 #15 (August 1962)

Title: Spider-Man!

Villain: The Burglar

Synopsis: This hero’s origin is well-known by now. Student Peter Parker gets bitten by a spider that was exposed to radiation and, in typical comic book nonsense, he gains the proportionate strength of a spider, wall-crawling ability, spider-sense and more.

Peter, nerdy and bullied at school, lets himself become an obnoxious jerk in his Spider-Man identity as he cashes in on his powers to become a celebrity. His cocky attitude allows a robber to escape when Spider-Man could have easily stopped him. When that same man burglarizes Peter’s home and kills his Uncle Ben our hero is conscience stricken and realizes what a responsibility his powers are. He catches the burglar for the police.  Continue reading

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APRIL NINETEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

political persecution of trumpFrom the corporate fascist kleptocracy run by career criminal Joe Biden comes another current events roundup by Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. And remember, Biden continues to flout a Supreme Court ruling against him.

tim scottSENATOR TIM SCOTT BLASTS THE KANGAROO TRIALS AND COURTROOM TRAVESTIES AGAINST OPPOSITION LEADER DONALD TRUMP. He also cites how the obvious bias of the judges has helped drive people to Trump. More HERE.

JUDGE IN THE LATEST SHAM TRIAL OF TRUMP IN NEW YORK TAGGED AS A JOE BIDEN DONOR. An honest judge would have recused themselves, but this hack prefers to keep Biden’s opponent Trump off the campaign trail and in a courtroom. He refuses to even let Trump attend his son’s graduation.

        As I’ve often mentioned, America’s political establishment is a cesspool of corruption, and its members will not let the voters select their own candidates and they don’t care how blatant they have to be about it.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND OFFICIAL JOINS THOSE POINTING OUT THAT JOE BIDEN’S OPEN-BORDER POLICY HURTS AMERICAN CITIZENS’ WAGES. But Joe and his fellow one percenters are doing just fine.

the system is evilBIDEN REGIME SURRENDERS TO REASON AND REINSTATES TRUMP’S SANCTIONS. Childishly opposing every action taken by Trump just because it was taken by him has wasted so much time, energy and money. Anti-Trump loons need to grow up.  

HARLEM AUDIENCE CHEERS ON DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING A PERSONAL APPEARANCE. Democrat media outlets will still tell you to ignore the evidence of your own eyes and instead listen to their demonization of Trump.

NEW YORK DEMOCRAT COUNCIL MEMBER ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH FAKING SIGNATURES OF DEAD PEOPLE ON ELECTION PETITION. That’s Democrats – bringing fraud to every aspect of elections, both general and primary!

VOTERS OF COLOR IN PENNSYLVANIA MOCK BIDEN WITH SIGNS SAYING “DONALD TRUMP IS WHO WE WANT.” Video HERE and HERE. “We need Trump back.”

LEGAL SCHOLAR MIKE DAVIS SLAMS UNCONSTITUTIONAL GAG ORDER ON TRUMP. Continue reading

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE MILLTILLIONAIRE (1895)

utopian literatureTHE MILLTILLIONAIRE (1895) – This novel was written by American author Albert Waldo Howard under the pen name M. Auburre Hovorre. A second edition came out in 1898.

The concepts and storyline are all over the place in this minor utopian work from the 1890s. Howard often treats mutually exclusive concepts as if they are interchangeable. He does do a deep dive into the advanced technology of the future as well as the political changes, so that is a positive factor. 

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At some point in the far future, the entire Earth is under one government – the Bardic State. Howard seems at times to be using the reference to bards as if they are his version of Plato’s Philosopher Kings, and at other times as if the term means simply “rulers.” 

A twenty-six-member council called the Alphabets seem to fill a parliamentary role. Sometimes. It’s that kind of book. Half the twenty-six must be male and the other half female. They each hold the title Bard. 

A Bard Regent handles many administrative tasks for the figure above them – the “True Bard” or the “Positive Poet.” The wealthiest person in the world – our title Milltillionaire – is above the Bard Regent and serves as the True Bard.
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TRANSGRESS WITH ME: APRIL 18th

orwell on the party and truthIt’s been a while, so here’s Balladeer’s Blog’s latest installment of Transgress with Me. As usual, it’s only for the courageous and mixes old with new.  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.

*** Increasingly deranged Democrats sanctimoniously pretend they are THE moral models for everyone else, yet that attitude is what they used to bash the religious right for.

*** PEOPLE WITH CLOSED MINDS MISTAKE SUCCESSFUL CENSORSHIP FOR “BEING IN THE RIGHT.” 

*** People who say that teaching is a political act should never be trusted with authority over vulnerable young minds.

*** Reasonable people believe that voters of color are capable of making up their own minds about which political candidates they support, but Democrat fascists insist any voters of color who don’t support their party are “race traitors” and harass them even to the point of violence.

*** JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS COUNTER-INTUITIVE IT DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN IT IS “DEEP” OR “INTELLECTUAL.”

freedom of expression is a human right*** Authoritarian Democrats are only content in environments where they have a captive audience, like in schools or wherever they can use the full force of the government or other higher “authorities” to impose silence on those who disagree with them.

*** Democrats are neither liberal nor progressive and are interested only in furthering the interests of The Party. 

*** THE SUPPOSEDLY “INTOLERANT” DEAD WHITE MALES OF THE PAST RECOGNIZED WHAT THE FASCISTIC POLITICAL LEFT DENIES – THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM TO AMEND THE LAWS ACCORDING TO EVOLVING PHILOSOPHIES AND ATTITUDES. INSTEAD THE LEFT INSISTS THEY HAVE “THE ONE TRUE WORLD VIEW” AND THAT THEIR NARROW-MINDED VALUES ARE ENTIRELY AND ETERNALLY “RIGHT.” NOW AND FOREVER. 

*** Democrats demonize and dehumanize anyone who does not support their every opinion, yet they pretend to be models of “tolerance”. Continue reading

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LIST OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS FOR 2024

With the 2023-2024 college basketball season well behind us, here’s one last shoutout to this year’s champions in the 13 divisions covered here. 

freed hardeman university lionsNAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) 

National Champions – FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY LIONS

Runners-Up – Langston University Lions

2023 Champions – College of Idaho Coyotes

cedarville yellow jacketsNCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) DIVISION ONE

National Champions – CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY YELLOW JACKETS

Runners-Up – Wayland Baptist University Pioneers

2023 Champions – Bethel (IN) University Pilots (riverboat pilots)  Continue reading

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THE VILLON LEGEND PART FOUR

francois villon movie poster 1945This is the fourth part of Balladeer’s Blog’s look at the swashbuckling legends that surround Francois Villon (1431-1463?), remembered as one of France’s greatest poets and a notorious outlaw.

FRANCOIS VILLON PART FOUR – We left off last time with Villon back in Paris, where, in December of 1456, he gathered nine criminal colleagues for one of the most well-known thefts of his life.

Among those in Francois’ ad hoc gang were the usual names like Guy Tabary and Colin de Cayeux as well as a new name, Father Nicolas, the inside man for this robbery. Continue reading

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