Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up another current events roundup.
DEMOCRAT PARTY RELEASES FAKED A.I. RECORDING USING THE VOICE OF TRUMP’S SON MAKING INFLAMMATORY REMARKS. Atrocious. Maybe next time they’ll try it with President Trump himself. And anti-Trump loons will believe every word of it given how ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable they’ve proven themselves to be.
MAYWEATHER PRAISES DONALD TRUMP AS THE “BEST PRESIDENT WE EVER HAD.”
CORRUPT FBI EMPLOYEES CONTINUE TO FIGHT ATTORNEY GENERAL BONDI BY REFUSING TO RELEASE MORE EPSTEIN FILES. Kash Patel steps in HERE. More HERE. And HERE.
MORE COVERUPS AT THE FBI (FUGGEDA BOUT INTEGRITY).
DEMOCRATS PERSECUTING TEEN GIRL WHO REFUSED TO PLAY AGAINST A TRANS OPPONENT.
FBI STILL HINDERING INVESTIGATION OF THE PA ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON TRUMP. America’s 3-letter agencies continue to be riddled with garbage.
TWENTY ITEMS ABOUT FBI CORRUPTION.
TRUMP GETS UNPRECEDENTED INVITATION FOR A SECOND STATE VISIT TO THE U.K. After all, his first state visit there was marred by Meghan Markle sowing hostility toward Trump among the Royal Family.
DEMOCRATS GET CALLED OUT FOR LYING THAT MEDICAID WAS BEING CUT. Fear-mongering is all they have right now. Continue reading
THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) 
IN THE CLUTCH OF THE WAR-GOD (1911) – Written by Milo Milton Hastings and serialized in the July, August and September 1911 issues of Physical Culture magazine. 
FIRST QUARTERFINAL – The number 1 seed – the GRACE COLLEGE LANCERS – took on the 8th seeded MT. VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY COUGARS. By Halftime the Lancers were up 45-36, and after the break they left the Cougars further and further behind. In the end, Grace College won the game 83-64 led by Ian Scott with 23 points. 
SECOND QUARTERFINAL – Up next the 2nd seeded BETHEL (IN) PILOTS (Riverboat Pilots) played the 7 seeds – the TAYLOR UNIVERSITY TROJANS. The Pilots got more of a fight than expected from Taylor U. and led them by just 39-35 at the Half. From there Bethel University squeezed out some more distance from the Trojans in their 77-69 victory. Trent Edwards tossed in 22 points to lead the Pilots. 
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THE TELEVISION GHOST (1931-1933) – As astonishing at it may seem, there were actually some regularly televised programs on pioneering channels like W2XAB beginning in 1931. Comparatively few people actually had the mechanical television sets of that period when the whole enterprise was highly experimental. Newspaper listings offer most of what little information survives about the broadcasts.
The Television Ghost ran 15 minutes and starred George Kelting as the Ghost with Bill Schudt as an announcer and narrator. The show’s Halloween Episode of 1931 was nicely hyped with a reference to some primitive television special effects magic. 
Watching President Trump cleaning up the cesspool of corruption in our political establishment reminds me of a much larger version of the cleanup in New York City’s police department in the 1970s following Frank Serpico’s revelations. 
For another comparison remember the real-life efforts of prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino as they tried to end organized crime’s control of Sicily’s governmental figures. They were eventually assassinated after years of having the entire corrupt system against them. The non-fiction book Excellent Cadavers is a great way to familiarize yourself with them. 
Even worse, Trump has made some unforced errors and lapsed into foolish distractions like the whole “51st State” nonsense with Canada. He’s still a de facto Third Party President and given the unreliability of A LOT of Congressional Republicans massive betrayal could come at any time. 
MOTOR PIRATES (1906) American release title The Modern Pirates – This British action short was directed by England’s monumentally underrated silent film director Arthur Melbourne Cooper. Motor Pirates clocks in at under 9 minutes but crams quite a bit into that runtime. 
The Motor Pirates drive their vehicle on to a country estate where they employ its front-end “suction feature” to vacuum up several chickens. Four men of the estate come out with guns blazing to stop the crooks, but they shoot down their victims, leaving three dead and one barely clinging to life as they drive off. 
DOWN GOES NUMBER ONE – This game pitted the LSU-SHREVEPORT PILOTS (Riverboat Pilots) against their guests, the nation’s number 1 team – the LSU-ALEXANDRIA GENERALS. The Pilots were up 38-31 at the Half before defeating the Generals by a final count of 101-96. Twenty-seven points from Tahjae Hill led LSU-Shreveport.
NAIL-BITER – The INDIANA UNIVERSITY-EAST RED WOLVES took it on the road against the UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE RED STORM. The Red Storm had eked out a 30-29 edge by Halftime, but an equally hard-fought 2nd Half ended in a 63-62 Red Wolves win. Antuane Allen led Indiana University-East with 24 points. 
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