If you’re as bored as I am with the overabundance of college sports teams called Eagles, Tigers, Bulldogs and Wildcats here’s another lesser used team name.
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Monthly Archives: June 2025
NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE THIRTIETH
Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog in an America where Democrats pretend that enforcing laws they don’t like makes this an “authoritarian” administration.
PRESIDENT TRUMP BRINGS PEACE MEASURES TO DECADES-OLD AFRICAN CONFLICT. Incredible achievement. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. CNN humiliated for claiming the agreement hadn’t really been signed HERE. More HERE. Their anti-Trump hysteria sinks to new lows.
STOCKS SOAR TO RECORD HIGH UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES. And Trump is still fighting inflation and being the best president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.
FINALLY, THE SUPREME COURT SMACKS DOWN THE NATIONWIDE INJUNCTION OVERREACH BY PARTISAN DEMOCRAT JUDGES IN LOWER COURTS. More HERE. They simultaneously insulted Ketanji’s inane, flawed reasoning for good measure. (More HERE.) Long overdue steps.
And though Democrats are sniveling now, the ruling will also prevent Republican judges from abusing injunctions against any future Democrat presidents, too. Anti-Trump hysteria is what fueled the Party’s grotesque judicial overreach. More HERE.
ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI SUMMARIZES ALL THE ABUSES OF INJUNCTIONS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP BY PARTISAN DISTRICT JUDGES. Those petty tyrants of the lower courts deserved to be put in their place.
GLOBAL ECONOMIST ADMITS PRESIDENT TRUMP OUTSMARTED EVERYONE WITH HIS TARIFF MANEUVERS.
DEMOCRAT MAMDANI CALLS FOR INCREASING TAXES ON WHITE PEOPLE. Racist hatemongering is in the DNA of the Democrats.
WASHINGTON POST REPORTER CHARGED FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?
DEMOCRAT “EDUCATION” – PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT GRADUATES “WITH HONORS” BUT CANNOT READ OR WRITE. The logical end result of decades of the Democrat war on the educational system. Continue reading
REVOLUTIONARY WAR NEGLECTED BATTLES: APRIL 1777
As the 4th of July approaches, here are some more often overlooked clashes during the Revolutionary War.
APRIL 2nd – Off the coast of Delaware the British frigates HMS Perseus and HMS Roebuck spotted the South Carolina Navy’s schooner the USS Defense, captained by Thomas Pickering. Outnumbered, the Defense fled and the British vessels pursued her from roughly 6:00am to 1:00pm.
At that time the Roebuck and the Perseus caught up with the American ship and both of them opened fire. Ultimately, the Defense surrendered and was towed into New York Harbor by the English.
APRIL 13th – Near Bound Brook in the New Jersey No-Man’s Land, Redcoat General Charles Cornwallis and his 2,000 men caught American General Benjamin Lincoln and his 500 men by surprise. Militia units failed to warn him of the British approach. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, Revolutionary War
FROGS (1972) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT
Before MST3K we had The Texas 27 Film Vault! In the middle 1980s, way down on Level 31 Randy and Richard, machine-gun toting Film Vault Technicians First Class, hosted this neglected cult show which debuted Saturday February 9th, 1985. Balladeer’s Blog continues its celebration of the program’s FORTIETH anniversary year with this schlock film set on the 4th of July.
ORIGINAL BROADCAST DATE: Saturday July 5th, 1986 from 10:30pm to 1:00am. Broadcast throughout Texas and Oklahoma.
SERIAL: Before showing Frogs our members of the Film Vault Corps (“the few, the proud, the sarcastic”) showed an episode of the 1950 Columbia serial Atom Man vs Superman. Kirk Alyn starred as Superman with Lyle Talbot as his archenemy Lex Luthor.
Lex has his own secret identity in this serial – each episode he dons a lead mask and oversees the villainy as “Atom Man”.
HOST SEGMENTS: According to fan Gemini Jim, Randy and Richard’s interview with Sam Elliott, conducted at Ben Johnson’s ranch, was shown. Elliott was also one of the stars of Frogs.
Randy (right) and Richard way down on Level 31 hosting The Texas 27 Film Vault
THE MOVIE: Frogs was another low point in the career of Ray Milland, along with The Thing With Two Heads, shown previously on The Texas 27 Film Vault.
Pollution was to cheap monster movies of the 70s what atomic radiation was to cheap monster movies of the 50s. In other words it was the catch-all explanation for anything and everything. In this movie’s case pollution, which Ray Milland’s corporations are heavily guilty of, is to blame for wild animals (NOT just frogs, despite the movie’s title) going berserk and viciously attacking human beings. Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies, Movie Hosts
MISS LIBERTY: REVOLUTIONARY WAR SUPERHEROINE
This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at DC’s Revolutionary War superheroine Miss Liberty since the 4th of July is coming up.
MISS LIBERTY
Secret Identity: Bess Lynn
First Appearance: Tomahawk #81 (August 1962)
Origin: Nurse Bess Lynn decided she could further help the American Rebel cause in Massachusetts and its department of Maine by employing her other skills in the costumed identity of Miss Liberty. Bess was a blonde but wore a black wig in her costumed form.
Powers: Miss Liberty had secretly trained herself to be the equal of any man in armed or unarmed combat. She was a dead shot with her pistols and often used lit powder horns as makeshift grenades to hurl at Redcoats, their Native American allies and Hessians.
This heroine was also very skilled with a sword and had mastered trick riding on her horses. Continue reading
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JUNE TWENTY-SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS
Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up another current events roundup from an America where ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable anti-Trump fundamentalists still aren’t capable of calmly and rationally discussing their opposition to him. Instead, they still push their hysterical, irrational, “every week is the apocalypse” nonsense like they did during his first term.
ALEX MARLOW’S NEW POLITICAL EXPOSE BREAKING THE LAW, ABOUT DEMOCRAT WARFARE AGAINST POPULIST PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, WILL BE AVAILABLE AUGUST FIFTH. Amazon link HERE.
TYPICALLY COWARDLY CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATOR THUNE SURRENDERS ON BBB. Proving once again how clueless, outdated and useless most elected Republicans continue to be. Hiding behind an unelected partisan is peak conservative gutlessness of the “Gosh, our hands are tied” kind.
This parliamentarian maneuver is no different than judicial overreach and undermines the voters who gave a party the Senate majority. More HERE.
UNSTABLE TRUMP HATER SAYS TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY MADE HER OVEREAT, DRINK AND LEAVE THE COUNTRY. So many anti-Trumpers are emotional cripples.
KAROLINE LEAVITT SMACKS DOWN CNN ACTIVIST OVER THEIR LIES ABOUT THE IRAN STRIKES.
FLAILING JASMINE CROCKETT STILL RABID OVER VOTERS REJECTING KAMALA HARRIS. She should instead be upset that her fellow Democrats were such racists that they kept covering up how unfit Joe Biden was. If they had not done that, Kamala would have succeeded to the presidency without even having to run and would have gained instant gravitas and credibility.
CORPORATE MEDIA STILL IGNORING REPORTER CATHERINE HERRIDGE’S REVELATION THAT HER MEDIA COLLEAGUES KNEW THERE WAS INTERFERENCE IN THE 2020 ELECTION TO INSTALL JOE BIDEN. Democrats went with the obvious lie that the election was “the most secure” ever rather than just go with rational defenses. So typical. THE ANTI-TRUMP FBI COVERED IT UP, TOO. The 2020 election was as corrupt and tainted as were those in 1876 and 2000.
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION ADMITS THEY THINK THE PEOPLE’S CHILDREN ARE THEIR CHILDREN. Unsurprisingly, Democrats who pretend Trump presides over a “dystopia” ignored the grotesque remark. Continue reading
“SALAMANDER” HARADEN: COMMERCE RAIDER AND PRIVATEER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
THE SALAMANDER – The 4th of July is fast approaching! As another seasonal post Balladeer’s Blog examines the Revolutionary War career of Captain Jonathan Haraden, nicknamed the Salamander because of “his ability to withstand fire.”
Haraden’s rise to fame began when he was serving as First Officer under Captain John Fisk on the American commerce raider the Tyrannicide, launched on July 8th, 1776. This ship, crewed by 75 men, was a 14-cannon sloop which preyed on British targets from July of 1776 until August 14th, 1779. After its launch from the Salisbury Naval Shipyard the Tyrannicide made Salem, MA its homeport.
The Tyrannicide wasted no time, battling the HMS Dispatch on July 12th. The Dispatch boasted 20 cannons but after an hour & a half battle fell to Fisk and Haraden’s crew. The commerce raider towed this prize into Salem by July 17th and soon set out for more.
August of 1776 saw the ship working the waters off Cape Sable and Nantucket. During that time three more prizes fell to Tyrannicide – the Glasgow, the Saint John and the Three Brothers. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, Revolutionary War
BLUE LIGHT (1966) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION
BLUE LIGHT (1966) – Goulet … Robert Goulet. Had to be said. The forgotten television series Blue Light ran 17 half-hour episodes from January to May of 1966 and starred singer Robert Goulet of all people. Despite the odd casting, this series was actually a more sophisticated and grittier spy program than television had yet seen.
Blue Light was condemned for its excessive violence and for depicting its main character ruthlessly knifing enemies to death to prevent them from exposing him as a spy. Viewers were apparently too naive to deal with that.
The story is set during World War Two. Robert Goulet plays American reporter David March, one of eighteen U.S. spies who have infiltrated Nazi Germany by posing as Americans so taken with Nazi philosophy that before American involvement in the war they renounced their U.S. citizenship to become citizens of the Reich.
March and the other spies have become hated around the world for this, especially March, who has become a propaganda broadcaster for Hitler’s regime. This lets him hobnob with Nazi authorities while covertly relaying intelligence to enemies of the Third Reich and carrying out sabotage missions. Continue reading
Filed under Forgotten Television
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR (1887)
TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR (1887) – Nearly eighty years before the movie Fantastic Voyage, this work of “ancient” science fiction detailed a party of shrunken heroes on an odyssey through a human being’s body. This cleverly-titled tale was written by Alfred Taylor Schofield under the name Luke T Courteney.
London medical student Luke Theophilus Courteney passes his examinations to be admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons. His uncle, Captain Goodchild, helps the young man celebrate by taking Luke (nicknamed Pill from his middle name) and his younger sister Belinda to Trebizond, Turkey for a brief holiday.
Goodchild kindly takes along Pill’s friend Sutton, who failed the examinations and needs some moral support. Pill’s mastery of anatomy will enable him, Belinda and Sutton to survive their upcoming microscopic adventure.
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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH
Here’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.
BIDEN STAFFER ADMITS THAT NO LEADER BESIDES TRUMP HAD THE RESOLVE AND STRENGTH TO MOVE AGAINST IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. True. The typical Democrat approach would have been to wait until Iran unleashed nuclear weapons, then blame the victims for “their chickens coming home to roost.”
DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN BRAD SCHNEIDER COURAGEOUSLY ADMITS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S IRAN STRIKES MADE THE WORLD SAFER AND LAY THE PATH TO EXPAND TRUMP’S ABRAHAM ACCORDS. Who knows how the notoriously violent Democrats will react to his remarks.
DEMOCRAT JASMINE CROCKETT HUMILIATED BY DEAD LAST FINISH IN COMMITTEE BID.
FTC MERGER AGREEMENT BARS VIEWPOINT DISCRIMINATION.
DOUG ROSS: THE TOP LIES STILL BEING PEDDLED BY DEMOCRATS.
SEVERAL DOZEN CHILDREN RESCUED FROM THE KIND OF TRAFFICKING THAT DEMOCRATS ALWAYS PRETEND DOESN’T EXIST. Largest such rescue operation in U.S. history.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IDENTITY THEFT RING EXPOSED. Continue reading
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