Monthly Archives: October 2025

October 26, 2025 · 11:03 am

BALLADEER’S BLOG COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS: OCTOBER 26th

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KNOCKING OFF NUMBER SIX – In the NAIA, the CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY PHOENIX welcomed the number 6 team in the nation – the CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY TIGERS. The Phoenix led 3-0 in the 1st Quarter but trailed 10-6 by Halftime. The 4th Quarter started with the Tigers up 27-12 and ended in a magnificent 35-33 comeback win for Cumberland U.

NUMBER EIGHT TAKES A FALL – Over in NCAA Division Two, the WAYNE STATE WILDCATS took the field against the visiting 8th ranked MINNESOTA STATE MAVERICKS. The Wildcats put their opponents on Upset Alert at the Half with their 19-7 advantage, then outscored them 16-13 after the break to win the game 35-20.

AND ANOTHER NUMBER EIGHT COMES TUMBLING AFTER – Down in NCAA Division Three, the 9th ranked UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT WHITEWATER WARHAWKS played host to the number 8 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT PLATTEVILLE PIONEERS. The Warhawks led 14-3 at the midpoint, trailed 19-14 to end the 3rd Quarter, then won 29-19 in the 4th. Continue reading →

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October 25, 2025 · 9:12 pm

FLASHBACK: ROLLING STONE EDITOR BLASTS THE DEMOCRATS’ “PERMANENT COUP ATTEMPT” AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP

FROM OCTOBER 17th, 2019 – 

democrat republican awakeEven if you hate Donald Trump I have no idea how you can possibly think he is worse than the corrupt white-collar criminals arrayed against him.

Given that various Marches for Trump are taking place today across the nation, here are excerpts from Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Matt Taibbi’s perceptive analysis of the ugliness of the Democrats’ slow-motion coup against President Trump … AND WITH JUST OVER A YEAR BEFORE THE ELECTION WHEN THEY COULD VOTE HIM OUT WITHOUT DIVIDING THE NATION.

Link is below. First the excerpts:

“Taibbi’s article comes after he criticized corporate media’s framing of the Deep Stater as a non-partisan “whistleblower,” despite being a registered Democrat who worked with former Vice President Joe Biden in the White House.”

March for TrumpTaibbi also stated “My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.”

“The Trump presidency is the first to reveal a full-blown schism between the intelligence community and the White House. Senior figures in the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies made an open break from their would-be boss before Trump’s inauguration, commencing a public war of leaks that has not stopped.”

“I don’t believe most Americans have thought through what a successful campaign to oust Donald Trump would look like. Most casual news consumers can only think of it in terms of Mike Pence becoming president. The real problem would be the precedent of a de facto intelligence community veto over elections, using the lunatic spookworld brand of politics that has dominated the last three years of anti-Trump agitation.” Continue reading →

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October 25, 2025 · 12:01 am

FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER: MARVEL STYLE

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog looks at the way Marvel incorporated the Frankenstein Monster into their 1970s horror comics.

MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN Vol 1 #1 (Jan 1973)

Title: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Villains: Mutineers

Synopsis: This loose adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic starts out in January of 1898. Readers meet Captain Robert Walton IV, descendant of the Captain Walton who encountered Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the frozen north roughly one hundred years earlier.

This Robert Walton has been searching for any sign of the remains of the Frankenstein Monster sighted by his ancestor. He and his crew at last find the being and carve out the huge ice chunk in which its body is held.   

That chunk is brought on board Walton’s vessel and stored in the hold. While the captain relates to a crew member the tale told to his ancestor about the monster’s creation and history, the rest of the crew plot a mutiny over being kept in the frozen north for so long just to recover a monstrous corpse.

Captain Walton is only partway through his tale about Dr. Frankenstein and his monster when the mutiny erupts and in the fighting a fire starts. The fire starts to melt the ice encasing the Frankenstein Monster. Continue reading →

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October 24, 2025 · 3:21 pm

THE WORST MICHAEL MYERS STYLE SLASHERS FROM BAD MOVIES

masc graveyard newCan you believe it’s just one week until Halloween!

In a nod to So Bad They’re Good slasher films Balladeer’s Blog has examined some of the worst Michael Myers imitators as well as a few forerunners. FOR 13 HEAVY METAL HORROR MOVIES CLICK HERE.

horror-house-on-highway-5BARTHOLOMEW

Movie: Horror House on Highway Five (1985)

Lore: Bartholomew wore a Richard Nixon mask while slicing and dicing his victims. He was a simple-minded man transformed into an unstoppable killer by a Nazi mad scientist … A Nazi mad scientist who, strangely enough, wore a yarmulke. With a swastika on it. (?)

FOR MY FULL-LENGTH REVIEW CLICK HERE

Mr RabbeyMISTER RABBEY

Movie: The Psychopath (1975)

Lore: Mister Rabbey was a child-minded nutcase who hosted a Mister Rogers-type kiddie show. When he discovers that some of the children he visits at the local hospital have been abused by their parents he sets out to kill those abusers. He kills by strangling one victim with his security blanket but also uses weapons like a baseball bat, garden shears and a lawnmower in his deadly crusade.

FOR MY FULL-LENGTH REVIEW CLICK HERE Continue reading →

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October 24, 2025 · 6:20 am

OCTOBER TWENTY-FOURTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup from an America where Democrats are so low they are now pretending renovations to the White House are “destruction” when President Trump does them. A historical timeline of White House renovations HERE.

EVEN TRUMP-HATER MARK CUBAN HAS SEEN THE LIGHT AND WANTS TO JOIN PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PRESCRIPTION PRICE HELP FOR AMERICANS. Have I mentioned lately that Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime?

INDIA AND CHINA CURB RUSSIAN OIL PURCHASES AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP SANCTIONS ROSNEFT AND LUKOIL. More pressure on deranged war criminal Putin.

DEMOCRATS, WHO CALL EVERYONE ELSE NAZIS, ARE DEFENDING THEIR CANDIDATE GRAHAM PLATNER’S NAZI SS TATTOO. More HERE. And HERE. 2025 Democrats are such hypocritical garbage.

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS LAUNCHING HUGE DOXING ATTACKS ON ICE AGENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES. As we’ve seen, the Democrats’ violent hate mobs will take it from there.

UNHINGED DEMOCRAT HAKIM JEFFRIES THREATENS DONORS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM. 

TRUMP EFFECT: WALMART THANKSGIVING MEAL BASKET AT LOWEST PRICE IN YEARS. Have I mentioned lately that Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILD RAPIST IS THE LATEST ILLEGAL EXPOSED FOR RECEIVING MEDICAID BENEFITS. Hey, he epitomizes the people the Democrats shut down the government for. Continue reading →

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October 23, 2025 · 12:58 pm

THE OMEGA FACTOR (1979) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

THE OMEGA FACTOR (1979) – This eerie BBC series combined the best elements of Doomwatch with Department S and injected supernatural scares that anticipated the much later series Twin Peaks and The X Files.

James Hazeldine, remembered as the snarky butler from The Musgrave Ritual episode of Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes, starred as Tom Crane. Tom was a reporter whose untapped psychic abilities bring him into conflict with an Aleister Crowleyesque villain named Edward Drexel (Cyril Luckham) and an organization called Omega.

Crane’s wife is killed through Drexel’s machinations, motivating him to give up journalism and join Department 7, a secret British government agency which researches the supernatural and the paranormal.

Louise Jameson, famous from Tenko and as Leela on Doctor Who, is Dr. Anne Reynolds, a physicist colleague of Tom Crane’s. She was a friend of Tom’s late wife and through her he discovers that he has been under Department 7 surveillance since he was a boy because of his nascent psychic powers. Continue reading →

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October 22, 2025 · 8:13 pm

FIVE AMBROSE BIERCE HALLOWEEN STORIES

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Ambrose Bierce

Halloween Month continues with Balladeer’s Blog’s look at some seasonal stories by the one and only Ambrose Bierce. I think we’re all sick of Owl Creek Bridge so here are a few lesser-known tales from “Bitter Bierce.”

THE SPOOK HOUSE (1889) – In pre-Civil War Kentucky a pair of traveling politicians take shelter in a notoriously haunted house which was once the site of a bloody massacre. The eerie abandoned house features a room from which an unearthly green glow emanates … a room in which lie all the corpses of the missing massacre victims and of all those foolish enough to stay in the house ever since.  Continue reading →

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October 22, 2025 · 11:37 am

NEWS ROUNDUP: OCTOBER TWENTY-SECOND

Time for a mid-week current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE HELPS IN ARREST OF ANTI-TRUMP FASCIST FOR FIRING HIS GUN AT A HOME OVER A TRUMP FLAG ON THEIR VEHICLE. Intolerant animal.

BULLETS INSTEAD OF BALLOTS: THE TARGETING OF VICE PRESIDENT VANCE’S HALF-BROTHER CORY BOWMAN’S CHURCH IN CINCINNATI. “We will not be intimidated or deterred by any obstacles,” Bowman concluded. “Our life’s work is to positively impact the people of Cincinnati, and that commitment remains unwavering.” More HERE.

EVEN DEMOCRAT SHOESHINE BOY JONATHAN STEWART POINTS OUT THAT DEMOCRATS’ OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES JUST MAKE INSURANCE COMPANIES RICH. Jason Smith does, also HERE. The rest of us pointed this out years ago – Obamacare was a unilateral favor to insurance companies that donated large amounts to Democrats.

BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME FEMA EXPOSED FOR TARGETING AND IGNORING NON-DEMOCRATS DURING DISASTER RELIEF. Even more evidence has surfaced. More HERE.

CENSUS BUREAU UNDER BIDEN ADMITTED TO OVERCOUNTING SEVERAL DEMOCRAT STATES AND UNDERCOUNTING SEVERAL REPUBLICAN STATES, RESULTING IN DEMOCRATS CURRENTLY HAVING SIX MORE CONGRESSIONAL SEATS THAN THEY SHOULD REALLY HAVE. President Trump is up against an entire bureaucracy of corrupt and biased administrators.

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DEMOCRAT DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN PHILADELPHIA LET ANOTHER REPEAT OFFENDER LOOSE AND NOW THAT OFFENDER HAS KILLED AN INNOCENT WOMAN. The Democrat war against the rest of us continues.

CHICAGO “TEACHERS” AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS CALL FOR SHOOTING ICE AGENTS AND MORE. 

HEART-WARMING: MEMPHIS CHILD THANKS PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR RESTORING SAFETY TO THE CITY SO HE CAN PLAY OUTSIDE AGAIN.

TRUMP TRIUMPH: GAS PRICES DROP TO LOWEST IN OVER FOUR YEARS. Continue reading →

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October 21, 2025 · 8:12 pm

WAXWORK (1988) HALLOWEEN MOVIE

WAXWORK (1988) – I’m often surprised at how comparatively overlooked Waxwork is when it comes to 1980s horror films. It’s played straight, packs in a variety of menaces, fun Easter Eggs and sufficient scares and gore for that decade of Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Pinhead. A sequel followed in 1992.

The cast includes Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, David Warner, Michelle Johnson, Clare Carey, Eric Brown, Dana Ashbrook, John Rhys-Davies, Patrick Macnee and Miles O’Keefe. As the title indicates, this movie involves a wax museum with deadly exhibits, but far more elaborate ones than similar films feature.

Virtually overnight, a nearly completed Wax Museum appears in a midwestern town. It’s still being prepared and won’t officially open for a few weeks, but David Lincoln, the smooth-talking owner played by the great David Warner, offers several curious teens special free passes to a preview the next night. Continue reading →

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October 21, 2025 · 8:52 am

COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAM: CARTERET COLLEGE

Here’s the latest educational institution to launch sports teams with a nickname much more creative than the overused Eagles, Tigers, Bulldogs and Wildcats.

CARTERET COLLEGE Continue reading →

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