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WNBA RESULTS FROM BALLADEER’S BLOG

With the WNBA regular season ending tomorrow night, here are some of the latest results. The playoffs begin on Sunday.

CENTURY CLUB CLASSIC – The INDIANA FEVER (20-19) hosted the DALLAS WINGS (9-30).

Dallas led 34-26 to end the 1st Quarter, but the Fever cut that lead to just 59-57 by Halftime. In the 3rd Quarter Indiana went on top of the Wings 84-83, and the 4th saw each team add 26 points as the Fever won the game 110-109. Caitlin Clark led the victors with her THIRTY-FIVE points and 8 assists. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DREAMING – Up next the ATLANTA DREAM (14-25) took it on the road against the WASHINGTON MYSTICS (13-26).

At the Half, the Dream were on top of Washington 39-32. The 3rd Quarter ended with the Mystics trailing by just 54-53. The 4th ended in a 70-70 tie, and in Overtime Atlanta managed a 76-73 triumph. Tina Charles led the way for the Dream with her Double Double of 20 points and 10 rebounds. Continue reading

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE GERM GROWERS (1892)

germ-growersTHE GERM GROWERS (1892) – Robert Potter wrote this work of “ancient” or vintage science fiction dealing with biological warfare and alien abductions.

The two main characters are two Welsh men named Robert Easterley and Jack Wilbraham. In 1892 Easterley witnesses a stranger being abducted by aliens and carried off in their spacecraft. The extraterrestrial vessel is invisible but does cast a shadow on the ground as it flies past Robert Easterley, convincing him of the reality of what he witnessed.

Anticipating UFO conspiracy kooks by several decades Easterley and his friend Wilbraham speculate that old stories about humans being abducted by “little people” and other supernatural figures may really be accounts of abductions by aliens. Not long afterward the area suffers multiple deaths from a mysterious disease. Continue reading

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ANTI-TRUMPERS CONTINUE THEIR QUEST TO MAKE HIM A MARTYR

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Stop Democrat ViolenceHere at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I want to note that America’s official Hate Group – the Democrats – have apparently moved on from abusing the courts to persecute political enemies to justifying assassination attempts by blaming the victim.

           But as Democrats would no doubt say, they’ve been “mostly peaceful” assassination attempts. (And by the way, those alleged “bomb threats” in Ohio that Democrats were trying to blame on Trump and Vance have been revealed as HOAXES CALLED IN FROM OVERSEAS! More HERE.)

After what I wrote following the first attempt on President Trump’s life, there’s not much new to add. The Democrat hatemongers are just as loud and spiteful as ever with their comparisons of Trump to Hitler and implying he’s a threat to democracy, the Secret Service and FBI are just as steeped in corruption and ineptitude, and worthless one percenter entertainers still think their delicate little feelings over being called cat ladies are somehow equal to the suffering of the poor and working class under policies that Kamala Harris pushes.

           Those entertainers whose own homes stand on stolen land, AND who could easily donate all but three or four million dollars of their obscene fortunes to charity and offer up their extra mansions for housing the poor and needy. Instead they simper about their trivial concerns. So uncaring and callous.

DEMOCRAT DAVE ARONBERG TRIES JUSTIFYING ONLY CHARGING THE ALLEGED WOULD-BE ASSASSIN WITH MINOR GUN CHARGES. I wonder if the thinking goes “Democrats don’t want Trump getting a boost from this second assassination attempt, so let’s all downplay the entire situation.” Plus the FBI man in charge of the investigation is notably anti-Trump. 

THE BABYLON BEE NAILED DEMOCRAT SLIMINESS WITH THEIR MOCK HEADLINEMedia Assures Americans The Real Threat Is The Side That Keeps Getting Shot At” Very accurate!

YES, THE WOULD-BE ASSASSIN IS A DEMOCRAT DARLING – Terrific piece by fellow blogger Madd Medic – read his article HERE. More HERE. Research was done for a similar article by Not the Bee HERE.

VANCE BREAKS DOWN DEMOCRAT ANTI-TRUMP RHETORIC REPEATED BY ALLEGED ATTEMPTED ASSASSIN.  More HERE.

THE CORPORATE MEDIA WON’T STOP UNTIL TRUMP IS MURDERED. Great article. As I’ve often noted, the one-percenters in the corporate media may be the only life-forms lower than America’s CAREER politicians who’ve been in office twenty years or more.

DONALD TRUMP’S HEART WARMING BIRTHDAY NOTE TO A BOY WITH A RARE DISORDER AND WHAT FOLLOWED

COLD-BLOODED KAMALA HARRIS CONTINUES HER MURDEROUS HATRED OF TRUMP Continue reading

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AGATHA ALL ALONG: SOON TO BE FORGOTTEN TELEVISION?

It looks like it will be tomorrow at the earliest that I make my full blog post about the latest attempt on the life of de facto Third Party President Donald Trump. So here’s a much lighter topic.

kathryn hahn winking as agathaAGATHA ALL ALONG SCREWS UP BIG-TIME – Hey, I enjoyed the song Agatha All Along from WandaVision back in 2021 as much as anybody, and I was initially curious about what Kathryn Hahn would do as the star of an Agatha Harkness spinoff show. (For Agatha and the Scarlet Witch fighting Necrodamus click HERE.)

Then came the multiple title changes for the upcoming series as Disney went from Diary of Darkness, Coven of Chaos, House of Harkness and Darkhold Diaries before finally settling on the obvious choice. House of Harkness as a title made me hope that it would be an anthology series with Hahn acting in-character as Agatha camping it up like an old-time Movie Hostess. (Think Vampira, Moona Lisa, Elvira, Stella from Saturday Night Dead, etc.) 

agatha all alongI could see it being used for pilot stories about Marvel’s many horror characters like the Simon Garth Zombie, Ghost Rider, Morbius the Living Vampire, Satana the Devil’s Daughter, the Living Mummy, the vampire Lilith and many more. You know, testing the waters to see if each character proved popular enough for their own series or movie. When the Werewolf by Night project was announced it got my hopes up even more that it might indeed feature Kathryn Hahn as Agatha doing an intro and outro.

Unfortunately, Disney is making Agatha All Along a traditional sequel to WandaVision. AND THEY’VE ALREADY BLOWN WHAT WAS INTENDED AS THE SHOW’S BIG REVEAL! Don’t read any further if you want to watch the series and are among the few people who didn’t catch the way Disney’s promo staff gave away the program’s big surprise before they could try covering it back up.

***NEWS – SEPT 19th- Not only did they already blow the big surprise on IMDb, but it was blown last night by crediting the character I mention below BY NAME IN THE CLOSED CAPTIONS! And that’s WHILE they’re making a big deal of a magic spell not letting Agatha hear clues to who he is. Hilarious! Continue reading

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TRUMP’S ENEMIES AGAIN FAIL TO ASSASSINATE HIM

Democrats, the most hate-filled and divisive people in 2024 America, reacted with their usual emotional instability when de facto Third Party President Donald Trump survived another attempted assassination. Like last time, I will do a full blog post about it in a day or two when the initial fog of inaccuracy passes.

For right now, here is my evergreen comedy post from years ago ridiculing the kind of hatemongers that want Trump dead. With each passing year the Democrats prove these jokes to be ever closer to reality.

DEMOCRAT SLOGANS

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“Many a true word is spoken in jest” as the old saying goes, and that becomes ever more valid by the year regarding Balladeer’s Blog’s handy list of Democrat Slogans. These slogans capture what the Democrats have REALLY become, not the glowing image that they have of themselves.

Back in 2017, when I started compiling this semi-annual post I didn’t realize how hard the Democrats would work to prove how accurate these tongue-in-cheek slogans for them are. (I used to be a Democrat until I turned Independent.)

DEMOCRATS: YOU PEASANTS ARE ALLOWED TO SAY, DO, WRITE OR POST ON THE INTERNET ONLY THOSE THINGS WHICH DON’T UPSET US DEMOCRATS.

DEMOCRATS: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF SIMPLE-MINDED FASCISTS IN LARGE NUMBERS!

DEMOCRATS: WE’RE THE CONFIRMATION BIAS COMMUNITY!

DEMOCRATS: ALL OF OUR OPINIONS SHOULD CARRY THE FORCE OF LAW!

DEMOCRATS: WE OVERUSED THE WORD “RACIST” TO THE POINT OF MEANINGLESSNESS. NOW WE’RE DOING THE SAME WITH “WHITE SUPREMACIST” AND OUR NEW FAVORITE: “TRANSPHOBE!”

DEMOCRATS: WE ARE THE FASCISTS WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!

DEMOCRATS: THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE TRUTH … UNLESS IT’S ONE OF OUR PARTY’S TALKING POINTS.

DEMOCRATS: WE’RE STILL WAGING WAR ON AN AMERICA THAT HASN’T EXISTED FOR DECADES!

DEMOCRATS: WE DICTATE WHAT IS OR IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IN ALL ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS. 

DEMOCRATS: ONLY THOSE NEWS OUTLETS WHICH PANDER TO OUR PREJUDICES AND PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS ARE ACCURATE. ALL OTHERS ARE PROPAGANDA. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG COLLEGE FOOTBALL: SEPTEMBER 15th

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WISCONSIN TEAMS TAKE DOWN DIVISION TWO – The NCAA Division Three UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT WHITEWATER WARHAWKS visited Division Two’s ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY LAKERS and logged a 24-14 victory    ###    And the D3 UW-LACROSSE EAGLES toppled their guests, D2’s NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY WILDCATS 35-21.

Keiser SeahawksKEISER WAS WISER THAN DIVISION TWO – Up in the NAIA the KEISER UNIVERSITY SEAHAWKS traveled to face the NCAA Division 2 NEWBERRY COLLEGE WOLVES. This hard-fought affair ended with the Seahawks defeating the Wolves 42-33 for their 2nd victory in a row over a D2 team. Continue reading

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MICRONAUTS: THE SWORD IN THE STAR

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at one of the further adventures of the Micronauts. (My final Micronauts post.)

mic 29MICRONAUTS Vol 1 #29 (May 1981)

Title: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream

Villain: Nightmare

NOTE: This issue picks up roughly three days after the end of the previous story, which saw Baron Karza’s second fall from power. In the process the planet Spartak was rendered uninhabitable, the Micronaut Biotron was slain, as was Queen Esmer of Kaliklak and Micronaut Arcturus Rann was left in a coma

Synopsis: Colonel Nick Fury delivers the eulogy for the hundreds of dead S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents and hundreds of dead Microverse warriors who perished in the battle at Fantasy World

mic funeralAcroyear’s wife, Cilicia, condemns her husband for using the Worldmind against Karza, thus causing so much damage to Spartak that it is now uninhabitable. Even now, the survivors must be leaving the planet to find another home elsewhere in the Microverse/ Quantum Realm. Cilicia quits the Micronauts in disgust.

Doc Samson, Hulk’s sometime ally and sometime enemy, tells the Micronauts that he can try to bring Commander Rann out of his coma the same way he brought Glenn Talbot out of his coma long ago in Hulk #200.

He will shrink them down to nearly sub-atomic levels and inject them into Rann’s brain so they can restore contact between his brain’s right and left hemispheres. Marionette, Bug and Acroyear enter Arcturus’ brain, while the roboid Microtron guards Rann’s unconscious body. Continue reading

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SEPTEMBER THIRTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where we are in the usual post-presidential debate period in which the flood of stories correcting the lies told by the Democrat candidate have been coming out. Twenty-five of Kamala’s lies HERE. Related HERE. And HERE.

        (But this all could have been avoided by simply refusing to agree to a debate on ABC, where a corporate VP overseeing the “news” is close friends with Kamala Harris. AND ONE OF THE “MODERATORS” LMAO WAS KAMALA’S SORORITY SISTER.)

GREAT ITEM ABOUT HOW HARRIS’ POLICIES HAVE DESTROYED THE POOR AND THE WORKING CLASS.

NEW YORK TIMES/ SIENNA POLL: SIXTY-THREE PERCENT OF LIKELY VOTERS CORRECTLY BLAME KAMALA HARRIS FOR THE ONGOING FLOOD OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

LATEST DEMOCRAT VOTE FRAUD SCAM EXPOSED: ONLY 2.4 MILLION AMERICANS WHO LIVE OVERSEAS HAPPEN TO BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE BUT THE DEMOCRATS ARE USING TAXPAYER MONEY TO LET NINE MILLION OF THEM VOTE THIS YEAR. If only America had a competent opposition party with enough media outlets to make a difference. 

KAMALA’S “MODERATOR” (LMAO) ALLIES EVEN FAILED TO CORRECT KAMALA WHEN SHE LIED ABOUT A TRUMP STATEMENT THAT THEIR OWN NEWS REPORTS HAD STATED IS TRUE.

KAMALA HARRIS CALLED OUT AS UNFIT TO BE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AFTER HER OUTRAGEOUS LIE THAT NO AMERICAN TROOPS ARE IN HARM’S WAY. And God knows her “moderator” (LMAO) allies weren’t going to correct her on the claim during the debate.

“KAMALANOMICS” STILL CAUSING INFLATION THAT’S CRUSHING THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR. More HERE. But Kamala and her one-percenter celebrity friends are doing just fine.

AND KAMALANOMICS IS DRIVING AN INCREASE IN BUSINESS BANKRUPTCIES. But Harris and her one-percenter supporters are safe from any fallout.

COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT MARIANNE WILLIAMSON SLAMS ABC “MODERATORS” (LMAO) AND KAMALA HARRIS FOR PRETENDING THE SPRINGFIELD OHIO REPORT ISN’T BACKED BY PLENTY OF EVIDENCE. Get ready for the usual “They said Trump was lying but actually they were the liars” pattern. AND NOW A HAITIAN VOTE FRAUD SCANDAL IN OHIO, TOO!

KACKLING KAMALA’S CAMPAIGN ADMITS “SHE HELPED BIDEN DO ALL THE THINGS THAT WERE DONE BY HIM. SHE’S PROUD OF THAT.” The suffering poor and working class should tremble at those words. Continue reading

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: A MODERN DAEDALUS (1887)

A Modern DaedalusA MODERN DAEDALUS (1887) – By Tom Greer. No, the title’s not referring to James Joyce’s character Stephen Dedalus (sic) but this tale IS about Ireland. The main character is a young man named Jack O’Halloran, a recent college graduate who returns to his native Ireland.

Jack has dreamed about flying since he was a child and now he uses his genius to create a winged apparatus that can be worn by a single person to take to the skies. Our modern Daedalus flies around at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour with his new invention. Jack is thrilled but complications arise when he shares the news with his father.

Old Man O’Halloran wants to use his son’s winged apparatus to wage aerial warfare against the hated British and thereby win independence for Ireland. Our protagonist doesn’t want his invention used for such a blood-soaked purpose and in the ensuing argument his father throws him out of the house. Continue reading

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JUST LIKE THE 2020 DEBATES SAW THE DEMOCRATS LIE ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP, IN 2024 THEY LIED ABOUT MUCH MORE

Another presidential debate means that the non-Democrat candidate was lied about AND accused of lying by blatantly partisan “moderators” (LMAO). Some of my observations –  

** In the 2020 presidential debates, various anti-Trumpers pushed the now-debunked notion that the Biden Family Scandals exposed on Hunter Biden’s laptop were “Russian disinformation.” This 2024 edition saw the “moderators” (LMAO) jump in to help Kamala Harris AND let her lie about President Trump over twenty times

** The notion that presidential debate moderators are unbiased is utterly ridiculous. The Democrats know that. They pretend otherwise, but you’ll notice the Democrats weren’t foolish enough to let Kamala go on a debate “moderated” by Fox News Channel. By refusing, they prevented Kamala from looking bad and having to contend with fighting her opponent AND the “moderators” (LMAO) at the same time.

** In recent decades, opposition party presidential candidates being foolish enough to agree to Democrat terms for the debates participate in making themselves look like Margaret Dumont getting cut down by Groucho Marx or Dwight getting cut down by Jim on The Office. Stop being so willing to play straight man for the media figures ridiculing you.

** Just as the people who run the Republican Party will apparently never learn their lesson about keeping up with the Democrats in the Media Arms Race, they will apparently never learn their lesson about presidential debates.

** One of those lessons would be that both major political parties deliver ratings for the networks by making their candidates available for these debates. Grow a backbone and demand an equal number of debates on a pro-Democrat channel AND on a pro-opposition party channel. 

           For being one of only two major political parties in the U.S. the clueless Republicans STILL act like they must meekly go along with debating ONLY on outlets biased against their own presidential candidate AND with “moderators” (LMAO) who have been publicly, blatantly biased against their own candidate.

            I had hoped Trump would at last end this no-win debate situation by not showing up, especially after the Democrats overthrew Biden and installed Kamala with no democratic primary process involved. Yes, the Democrats’ media outlets would claim he was “scared” to debate Harris, but is that any worse than showing up just to figuratively get pies thrown in his face during the debate while his opponent AND the “moderators” (LMAO) share laughs about it?

** The obscene way that Kamala and her two moderator-partners in the debate ridiculed the situation in Ohio was just another example of what we have seen over and over again. The propagandists called the media will mock something Trump says, then weeks or months later the corrections finally emerge showing that Trump was right regarding what he said.

           For just one example, remember years ago when Trump referred to illegal immigrants being smuggled across the Mexican border by “coyotes”, the frequently used slang term for the traffickers sneaking the illegals across? For days the media pretended that Trump had said that actual coyotes were carrying illegals across the border. (And by the way for overseas readers, things like THIS are why so many of you seem to default to this “Trump says crazy things” attitude.) Continue reading

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