Monthly Archives: September 2024

BALLADEER’S BLOG: WNBA RESULTS

With just over a week left in the WNBA’s regular season, here’s a look at recent results:

EXTRA SESSION – The INDIANA FEVER (19-17) took the court against the visiting ATLANTA DREAM (12-24).

Atlanta was leading 48-44 at Halftime, but from there the Fever forced Overtime with a 90-90 deadlock to end Regulation. In the extra session Indiana defeated the Fever by a final score of 104-100. Aliyah Boston led Indiana with her Double Double of THIRTY points and 13 rebounds, while Caitlin Clark notched her own Double Double of 26 points and 12 assists.

NO ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK – The league leading NEW YORK LIBERTY (30-6) invaded the lair of the DALLAS WINGS (9-27) in this game.

A 28-18 1st Quarter lead for the Liberty became 58-43 by the midpoint. After the break, New York kept the Wings at arm’s length while they glided to a Century Club victory of 105-91. (To qualify for the Century Club 100 points or more must be scored in 4 Qtrs, not OT.) Twenty-seven points from Breanna Stewart led the way for the Liberty, while her teammate Sabrina Ionescu got a Double Double of 14 points and 11 assists. Continue reading

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ALTERNATE SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH PLUS DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN PARTISAN FOOLISHNESS

Here’s Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog‘s semi-annual post regarding the 9-11 tragedy. My thoughts are with the victims and their survivors, of course, but no words are adequate to address their grief or the grief of our nation. This post contemplates an alternate world where the September 11th, 2001 attacks were stopped in time. 

A few decades ago a big deal was made over whether or not the 9-11 attacks could have been prevented by greater coordination between elements of the forever corrupt and often inept intelligence community. Amid the predictable partisan bickering and childish finger- pointing that characterized the 9-11 Commission and its findings an important consideration was overlooked.

That consideration was how events would have unfolded if the attacks had actually been thwarted. Let’s ponder both the Democrat foolishness and the Republican foolishness that would have followed the 9-11 attacks being stopped way back in 2001 with the political parties being as they were then.

THE DEMOCRAT FOOLISHNESS –  Continue reading

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RED SUN (1971) CHARLES BRONSON, ALAIN DELON AND TOSHIRO MIFUNE

red sunRED SUN (1971) – I had originally planned to review this international production during Frontierado Season of 2025, but French superstar Alain Delon’s recent death made me decide to post it now. Red Sun was a French-Italian co-production starring America’s Charles Bronson, France’s Alain Delon and Japan’s Toshiro Mifune in a Spaghetti Western.   

Directing the film was Terence Young, who had helmed Dr. No and From Russia with Love. Ursula Andress and Capucine added to the massive international star power.

Red Sun is set in 1870. The new Japanese Ambassador to the United States, along with his retinue and bodyguards, arrived in California and as the movie opens is traveling via train across the West in order to reach Washington DC. Ambassador Sakaguchi is bringing with him an ancient Japanese sword as a gift for President Ulysses S. Grant.

red sun againThe train also carries a shipment of gold targeted by a gang of outlaws led by a charismatic but cruel man called Gauche (Alain Delon) and his longtime partner in crime Link Stuart (Charles Bronson). The bandits rob the gold as the train passes through the western deserts. Gauche displays his callous ruthlessness by not caring that he has to kill an innocent passenger while gunning down a man trying to play hero.

Despite the best efforts of samurai Kuroda Jubei (Toshiro Mifune) the gunslinging outlaw leader even steals valuables from the Ambassador’s party, including the sword intended for President Grant. This sets in motion the rest of the storyline.          Continue reading

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THE BOURNE IDENTITY (1980) MY SECOND FAVORITE ROBERT LUDLUM NOVEL

FOR BALLADEER’S BLOG’S OTHER TOP SEVEN LUDLUM NOVELS CLICK HERE.

Bourne Identity2. THE BOURNE IDENTITY (1980)

TIME PERIOD: Vietnam War era to the late 1970s.

Robert Ludlum’s most popular fictional creation – Jason Bourne (Real name David Webb) – has become as thoroughly overused, distorted and bastardized as James Bond or Sherlock Holmes. Ludlum himself already watered down the character’s original impact with two additional novels putting the amnesiac figure in increasingly ridiculous situations.

Since then other writers have churned out so many silly Bourne stories (ten at last count) to the point where Jason Bourne In Spaaaaace is the only avenue left unexplored. Or maybe a crossover with All My Sins Remembered. The Matt Damon movies use virtually nothing but the Jason Bourne name.

To me the bulk of the appeal of the original novel The Bourne Identity was that a reader only had to suspend disbelief just enough to accept an amnesiac figure surviving the unique set of circumstances presented in that story.   Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER NINTH

Another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where it’s no secret that Democrat office holders are authoritarian fascists.

BIG TECH FASCISTS AT GOOGLE CAUGHT PROHIBITING ADS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PICTURE. CHANGE THE IMAGE TO KAMALA HARRIS AND THE ADS ARE ACCEPTED. Big Tech grows worse by the year. 

DEMOCRATS’ LATEST ELECTION INTERFERENCE UGLINESS? KICKING GREEN CANDIDATES OFF THE BALLOT IN NEVADA. Getting rid of candidates who might draw votes away from Kamala Harris is the obvious goal. 

ROBERT F. KENNEDY PRAISES THE WAY DONALD TRUMP HAS MADE THE OPPOSITION PARTY THE PARTY OF “WORKING PEOPLE AND THE MIDDLE CLASS.” De facto Third Party President Trump was the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. He also kept us out of any new wars (infuriating the military-industrial complex) and made the U.S. energy-independent, plus so much more.

MEANWHILE, KAMALA HARRIS GETS ENDORSED BY EIGHTY-EIGHT MORE CORPORATE FASCISTS

EVEN THE DEMOCRAT NEWS OUTLET NBC ADMITS THAT THE FLOOD OF FENTANYL DEATHS ARE DRIVING GRIEVING PARENTS FROM THE DEMOCRATS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP. If Democrats stick to their usual playbook, that means their next move will be to insist that the Fentanyl epidemic is a “conspiracy theory” and that “America is the most Fentanyl-free nation in the world according to experts.” 

ANOTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER ARRESTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

KAMALA HARRIS’ ILLEGAL GANGS NOW TERRORIZING APARTMENT COMPLEXES IN DALLAS AND CHICAGO, TOO. Coming soon to an apartment complex near you if Kamala wins. More on the Colorado situation HERE.

NEW YORK CITY DEMOCRATS HANDING OUT AN ADDITIONAL SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. It’s The Party’s usual attitude of “illegal immigrants uber alles.”

DEMOCRATS STILL FIGHTING AGAINST STOPPING NON-CITIZENS FROM VOTING. Even European countries require photo i.d. to vote.

COURAGEOUS GLORIA ROMERO, ANOTHER PROMINENT CALIFORNIA DEMOCRAT, JOINS SO MANY OF US IN LEAVING THE INCREASINGLY UNHINGED DEMOCRAT PARTY. Among her remarks – “I am now another near-life-long Democrat who is joining the growing number of people, including key groups like Latinos, who are leaving the Democratic Party,” Romero said. “This is not the Democratic Party that I once championed. I do not recognize it anymore, and I cannot continue. I changed my voting registration today as the sun was rising, to Republican, which has, under Donald Trump, become the champion of working people.” Continue reading

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM BALLADEER’S BLOG

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FMU CONQUERS D2 – Each year various teams topple opponents who play in higher divisions. Yesterday the NAIA’s FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY LIONS welcomed the EDWARD WATERS UNIVERSITY TIGERS from NCAA Division Two. The Lions led EWU 10-0, 17-0 and 24-14 in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Quarters, respectively. In the 4th FMU won 31-21.

SEAHAWKS CONQUER D2 – Also from the NAIA, the KEISER UNIVERSITY SEAHAWKS traveled to face the NCAA Division Two NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY TRAILBLAZERS. A 7-7 1st Quarter tie became a 14-10 Seahawks edge by Halftime. The 3rd Quarter ended with KU up 17-13 before the Trailblazers forced OT with a 20-20 deadlock in the 4th. The Seahawks won 23-20 in Overtime. Continue reading

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LONGSHOT: ONE OF MARVEL’S WTF? HEROES

This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog will look at Longshot, who has been repeatedly memory-wiped, rebooted, repurposed, retconned and has even been a mutant, then NOT a mutant.

ls 1LONGSHOT Vol 1 #1 (September 1985)

Title: A Man Without a Past

Villains: Mojoverse humanoids and creatures

Synopsis: Readers are dumped into events as this issue opens. A mulleted man we will come to know as Longshot is being pursued through a bizarre alternate dimension which we will come to know as the Mojoverse. His pursuers are menacing humanoids armed with rayguns, and oddly formed creatures, some of whom can talk. 

longshot 5At length, Longshot escapes through a random portal and ends up on Earth. We readers learn he has lost his memory and has two hearts and only three fingers and a thumb on each hand. His first superpower (aside from his incredible agility) is revealed to be incredible “luck” and that luck prevented his pursuers’ blaster fire from actually hitting him and instead hitting everything around him. Continue reading

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SEPTEMBER SIXTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where ONLY EIGHTEEN MINUTES OF THE FORTY-ONE MINUTE CNN PUFF PIECE WITH KAMALA HARRIS WAS COHERENT ENOUGH TO USE. Is she even more unfit than Joe Biden?

EVEN KAMALA SUPPORTER MARK CUBAN ADMITS HER POLICIES WOULD “KILL THE STOCK MARKET.” And thus, Kamala’s war on everyone’s 401K continues, but her one-percenter supporters like Mark Cuban (left) will be just fine.

KAMALANOMICS CALLED OUT AS RECESSION BOMB. I guess Kamala Harris feels that after helping Biden cause one recession she’s entitled to cause one herself.

MORE KAMALANOMICS: AUGUST LAYOFFS HIT RECORD HIGHS. The Harris-Biden Regime still destroying the working class and the poor, unfortunately.

walz family for trumpTIM WALZ’S FAMILY, NOT JUST HIS BROTHER, SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP. And who can blame them? More HERE.

WAR CRIMINAL VLAD PUTIN ENDORSES KAMALA HARRIS. Human bacteria stick together, I guess. RELATED – TWO RUSSIAN NATIONALS INDICTED FOR FUNNELING MONEY TO ANTI-TRUMP MEDIA COMPANY.

“MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN” – PRESIDENT TRUMP LAYS OUT HIS PLANS TO SAVE THE U.S. ECONOMY JUST LIKE HE DID THE FIRST TIME AROUND.

KAMALA HARRIS’ ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONTINUE TO DESTROY LIVES AND MORE. * Harris-Biden DOJ caught covering up the names of illegals linked to terrorism HERE.  * Illegal in Massachusetts charged with five counts of child rape HERE. * Another illegal charged with raping a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint HERE.   * Venezuelan gangs here illegally are moving on other apartment complexes HERE.   * Kamala’s “newcomers” make up 75% of the arrests in midtown Manhattan HERE.

* Another PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED illegal arrested over two children – ages 7 and 9 – found chained up in their Virginia apartment HERE.   * More about the illegal who stabbed a teen girl in Indiana HERE.   * More illegals from Venezuela’s Tren de Agua gang arrested at the Denver apartment complex they’ve been terrorizing HERE.   * More Colorado businesses state they’re being forced to install bullet-proof glass over illegal immigrant crime HERE.  KAMALA IS AN ACCOMPLICE TO ALL THIS. Continue reading

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ELECTRIC VENUS: COMBINING HORROR HOSTESSES WITH YT FILM CRITICS

the electric venusBalladeer’s Blog has covered many, many Movie Hosts over the years. Pioneers from the 1950s like Vampira and Mad Marvin through Moona Lisa, Svengoolie AND Son of Svengoolie, to The Texas 27 Film Vault, Laraine Newman’s Canned Film Festival and Stella from Saturday Night Dead.

electric venusAmong the many others that I’ve examined were big names like Elvira, Joe Bob Briggs, and Joel Hodgson of MST3K. Balladeer’s Blog even covered YT figures who combined movie hosting schtick with online film reviewing like Mr. Plinkett, Decker Shado and The Critical Drinker.

And that brings us to “the glam giallo girlie” herself, Electric Venus, or The Electric Venus as she calls herself. She sprinkles in some humor, but her horror film reviews are also informative. Electric Venus is fond of many Psychotronic movies and genres that the rest of us love, and her youth lets her interest yet another generation in out of the way horror from the silent era to the present day. Continue reading

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A WAR BETWEEN GODS: EPIC FROM VIETNAM

A WAR BETWEEN GODS 

Vietnam mapCANTO ONE – The jungle and mountain god Tan Vien was accompanying the semi-divine Emperor Hung Vuong XVIII on a Royal Hunt. A turn of fate puts them in a position to save the imperiled son of Long Vuong, the chief sea god. CLICK HERE

CANTO TWO – Tan Vien and Thuy Tinh, the god of the monsoon rains, both fall in love with Mi Nuong, the daughter of Emperor Hung Vuong XVIII. Against the backdrop of their growing rivalry, Thuy Tinh’s father Long Vuong honors Tan Vien for saving his son. CLICK HERE 

CANTO THREE – Tan Vien, Thuy Tinh and the patriarch of the Thuc family are among the suitors competing in various contests for the hand of Mi Nuong. CLICK HERE  Continue reading

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