Monthly Archives: January 2026

NEWS ROUNDUP FOR JANUARY FOURTEENTH

Here’s a mid-week current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog. Democrats continue to do what they always do – exploit death to mobilize their pathetic political robots while trying to canonize victims of their own stupidity. Renee Good is not deserving of more sympathy than the victims and loved ones of murders, rapes and more from the illegal immigrants that ICE is arresting.

The rest of us could churn out hagiographies of the countless victims of illegal immigrants and their loved ones, but Democrats care only about political drama and will ruthlessly use their media outlets to lie and call for violence. And the rest of us can’t bring ourselves to exploit human suffering the way Democrats do on a daily basis.

The people feigning outrage over what law enforcement has to do to defend themselves against Democrat animals who feel they are free to get as violent as they like against law enforcement personnel with no consequences are beyond pathetic. I will say again, show me ONE TIME that these drama queens have shown concern about the dead victims of crime. 

The Democrat Political-Media Complex still owns every single ICE-related death because of their grotesque lies and calls for further violence. More HERE. And calls for a government shutdown to defund ICE are nothing more than this election year’s equivalent of the disastrous Democrat calls to “defund the police” years ago.

And we see the usual nauseating pile-on from wormy and weaselly people who figuratively hold up a corpse to pretend they are above reproach.

THE KIND OF CRIMINALS THAT THE RENEE GOODS OF THE WORLD WANT TO PROTECT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT. List of illegal immigrant rapists, murderers, child assailants and traffickers arrested this past weekend despite Democrat mobs trying to hinder the authorities.

DEMOCRATS VS THE REST OF US: THE NATION BRACES ITSELF FOR THE REST OF THE VIOLENCE AND LIES THAT THE PARTY WILL UNLEASH ON US THIS ELECTION YEAR. But The Party’s political robots still live by “My political party, right or wrong.”

ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GANG MEMBER CONVICTED FOR KIDNAPPING, TORTURING AND KILLING A NEW MEXICO MAN. Do people like Renee Good work to protect criminals like this?

AUTO WORKERS IN MICHIGAN CHEER PRESIDENT TRUMP. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

VENEZUELANS CHANT “THANK YOU” TO PRESIDENT TRUMP OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE FOR HIS ACTIONS AGAINST THE DICTATOR MADURO.

DEMOCRAT ILHAN OMAR CONTINUES HER IRRESPONSIBLE LIES AGAINST THE ICE AGENT TO TRY DISTRACTING FROM HER TIES TO THE MINNESOTA SCANDALS. More of her lies HERE.

EYES TURN TO THE SIMILAR SOMALI DAYCARE FRAUD IN WASHINGTON STATE.

DEMOCRAT CITY COUNCILMAN IN NEW YORK CHARGED IN DRUG TRAFFICKING INVESTIGATION. But hey, Democrats, maybe another Darwin Award imbecile will try vehicular assault on an ICE agent and you can launch your forever-ready “protests” to distract from this.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CANCELS BIDEN RULES FORCING BANKS TO LEND TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

DEMOCRAT STATE SENATOR CAUGHT REMOVING PORTRAITS OF FOUNDING AMERICANS FROM NEBRASKA STATE CAPITOL BUILDING. No surprise.

MORE DEMOCRAT MALFEASANCE: AUDIT SHOWS ONE BILLION EIGHT HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS MISSING FROM KING COUNTY. Will another vehicular assault on an ICE officer enable the Democrats to distract from this?

BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON REFUSE TO TESTIFY ABOUT THEIR TIES TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND HIS ACTIONS. What are they trying to hide? Continue reading

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JOHN CARPENTER’S CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: SCRIPT REVIEW FROM 1988

JOHN CARPENTER’S CANCELED 1988 REMAKE OF THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: IN-DEPTH SCRIPT REVIEW – The internet is crawling with all manner of scripts for movies that didn’t get made, but this is the first time I’m mentioning one. That’s because I feel this one could have been a hit. Maybe not a cash cow but a solid hit.

It would have been directed by a John Carpenter still in his relative prime, for one thing. The screenplay gets a detailed break down below, but if you want a quick overview this 1988 Creature from the Black Lagoon would have taken the story in the inevitable direction needed to avoid nothing but quick underwater fights with the title menace. 

At this point the term “Lovecraftian” has been incredibly overused but let’s face it, that atmosphere is needed to breathe new life into this long-dormant franchise. Lovecraft’s tales of Dagon and Innsmouth and the underwater ruins in The Temple would fit this franchise like a glove. 

In addition to a scientific expedition on the Amazon River like in the original film, the script featured  an underwater structure in the Black Lagoon’s depths.

Artwork and hieroglyphics in the pyramid/ temple indicate a prehistoric time when Gill-Men and humans coexisted. Bones of countless sacrificial victims are found by the expedition members as well as multiple fossils of Gill-Men, a species of whom the Creature is the last living representative. Continue reading

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CUCUMBER CASTLE (1970) THE BEE GEES, BLIND FAITH & LULU

CUCUMBER CASTLE (1970) – Eight years before the Bee Gees embarrassed themselves on the big screen with a horrible movie forcing a storyline to the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band they embarrassed themselves on the small screen forcing a storyline to their own album Cucumber Castle.

Well sort of. Mostly they just appropriated the title of their song and album Cucumber Castle and fixated on the word “castle” to provide the premise of this 54-minute film made for British television.

Lulu, Spike Milligan, Vincent Price and many more show up in the supporting cast. Sammy Davis, Jr.’s scenes were cut. Or were removed under threats from Sammy’s pal Frank Sinatra. Not so lucky was Eleanor Bron. I can say no more. (See what I did there?) 

The musical misfire was directed by Hugh Gladwish … the director of THE GHOST GOES GEAR (1966), reviewed last week here at Balladeer’s Blog. Barry and Maurice Gibb are the credited writers, however, so the “comedy” sketches are only sometimes as bad as those in the 1966 theatrical movie. 

Cucumber Castle is so awful that not being in it was presumably brother Robin Gibb’s greatest professional triumph. He had recently left the Bee Gees in a huff to try a solo career, and little Andy Gibb was only twelve years old, so Barry and Maurice, who also produced, were left holding the whoopie cushion bag.

In a fairytale land resembling Elizabethan England, a king (comedian Frankie Howerd) is on his deathbed. Barry Gibb plays Prince Frederick and Maurice plays Prince Marmaduke, the king’s sons.

Not only does Howerd resemble Mel Brooks but his intentionally hammy performance as the dying monarch would fit right into a Brooks comedy. And Peter Blythe’s opening narration contained a couple of reasonably funny jokes, so I briefly dared to hope that this telefilm might be better than its reputation.

That was The First Mistake I Made, to force in the title of a Bee Gees song. Continue reading

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE Nth MAN (1920-1924)

Nth ManTHE Nth MAN (1920 – 1924?) – Written by Homer Eon Flint, who died in 1924. Though this short novel was not published until 1928 many fans of the author argue that it was actually written in 1920.

The story is set in what was then the near future of the 1930s. The Nth Man is an enormous humanoid figure with hardened skin like the shells of certain species of animals. He is supposedly 2 miles tall, but that would make many of the events in the novel impractical if not impossible.

The mysterious giant is at first regarded as half rumor and half Tall Tale as he sets the world talking with some incredible actions. He tears apart some of the Great Wall of China, he removes the head of the Sphinx and places it on top of one of the pyramids and he picks up a ship bound for Australia and carries it for thousands of miles.  

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Showing more cognitive purpose the Nth Man also makes off with an entire building to thwart a plot by anarchists and saves a little girl from drowning. All of the preceding deeds have been accomplished under cover of darkness but now the colossus comes out into the open, emerging from San Francisco Bay to tower over the city.  

The Nth Man walks from coast to coast, easily defeating the aerial and land forces that attempt to stop him. You would think this proto-Kaiju sequence would have inspired a film adaptation long ago. The gigantic figure goes to Washington D.C. and lays down some demands from on high. Continue reading

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JANUARY TWELFTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is back with its latest current events roundup. The Democrats in Minnesota, along with trying to incite riots with their lies, are basically saying “At will, our mindless, violent mobs can undo everything that citizens vote for. The ballot box means nothing to us. Elections will not bring what the voters want because our bloodthirsty mobs will prevent it.” 

Naturally the bloated rich pigs of Hollywood and even the long-forgotten Duran Duran (LMAO) are showing the kind of concern for the dead driver that they have NEVER shown for the victims of illegal immigrant crimes.  And as we have seen, if the ICE agent had been killed or crippled by his assailant’s vehicle Democrats would STILL be praising the driver and making her a cause célèbres to stir up further violence.

CHINA’S REGIME HELPED DOX THE ICE AGENT ATTACKED BY RENEE GOOD WITH HER VEHICLE.

ITEM: LET THE DOXXED ICE AGENT’S DEFAMATION SUITS AGAINST THE MEDIA AND DEMOCRATS BEGIN. Hopefully he could get some Nick Sandmann-level money from the crazed Democrats saying he committed cold-blooded murder and similar unfounded accusations.

ITEM: WISE WORDS FOR PRIVILEGED WHITE LEFTISTS WHO ATTEMPT VEHICULAR ASSAULT AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT – “IF YOU DO FELONIOUS ASSAULTS WITH TWO-TON WEAPONS, EXPECT TO BE SHOT.” Will the animals listen, though? More HERE.

MARGOLIS: YES, RENEE GOOD’S ACTIONS MEET THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM.

ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILD RAPIST PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED. Shambling zombie Neil Young and uninformed Mark Ruffalo hardest hit.   MORE ICE STORIES THAT DEMOCRAT HATEMONGERS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.

“TODAY IN MINNESOTA FRAUD.” The land of 10,000 fraud rings.  DEMOCRATS STALK AND THREATEN TO KILL A JOURNALIST COVERING THE MINNESOTA SITUATIONS. Hey Duran Duran, do a song praising these scumbags, too. 

EVEN CNN’S MOORE COURAGEOUSLY STATES HE CONSIDERS THE MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING “LIKELY LEGALLY JUSTIFIED.” I hope he stays safe against Democrat domestic terrorists.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ECONOMY IS GROWING EVEN FASTER THAN ECONOMISTS PREDICTED. More HERE. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

EVEN ANTI-TRUMP CNBC ADMITS ON-AIR THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS CUT AMERICA’S TRADE DEFICIT BY MORE THAN HALF, TO THE LOWEST LEVEL IN FIFTEEN YEARS. And all while fighting America’s cesspool of political and media corruption.  

ANOTHER HOLLYWOOD COWARD PRETENDS TO BE BRAVE BY CLAIMING WE LIVE IN A DICTATORSHIP UNDER TRUMP, IGNORING THE FACT THAT HE WOULD BE IMPRISONED FOR SAYING THAT UNDER AN ACTUAL DICTATOR. Hey, privileged white one-percenter Apatow, you’re bacteria compared to TRULY courageous people like the protestors in Iran.

TYPICAL ANTI-TRUMP ZEALOT ARRESTED FOR MEETING UP WITH AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD CHILD FOR SEXUAL ACTIVITIES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?  Continue reading

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SIR GRAPEFELLOW AND BARON VON REDBERRY

Time for another look back at a clash of cereal mascots. Previously, Balladeer’s Blog covered the Monster Cereals like Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo-Berry, Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy as well as the rivalry between Quisp and Quake.

General Mills tried replicating their Monster Cereal success with a pair of cartoon World War One flying aces as mascots for two new cereals. Sir Grapefellow was a stiff upper lip British fighter pilot whose cereal featured oats and grape-flavored marshmallows called Starbits. Baron Von Redberry, clearly based on Germany’s Red Baron, represented a cereal with oats and berry-flavored marshmallows/ Starbits.

The rivalry between the two flying aces and their cereals began in 1972, a year after General Mills had kicked off their Monster Cereal line with Count Chocula and Frankenberry as the dueling mascots. (If you’re wondering, Quisp and Quake were Quaker Oats products.) Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: PERPETUAL DEMOCRAT DISHONESTY ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ISSUES

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The past several days have served as another reminder that Democrats NEVER argue in good faith and that their blatant encouragement of violence is responsible for every killing involving ICE. Rabid animals wouldn’t be trying to kill ICE agents with their vehicles if not for the never-ending lies about enforcement of immigration laws. Which people VOTED FOR in the 2024 election.   

FROM MARCH 29th, 2016 came this item in which I looked at the latest cheap Democrat (I mistakenly called them Liberals back then) exploitation and propaganda regarding illegal immigration. 

Recently the perpetual children who call themselves Liberals tried to make cheap political capital out of a (possibly faked) note that the child of an illegal immigrant addressed to their parents. The child was supposedly sad about the possibility of immigration authorities catching the family and sending them home. Being Liberals the repulsive fools acted like this letter was proof of how supposedly “evil” it is for countries to have immigration laws. 

“To counter that here’s a letter written to Heaven by the child of a law enforcement officer killed by an illegal immigrant. It’s just as sad, Democrats. Do you immature drama queens STILL think that heart-breaking letters written by children should form the basis of a country’s immigration policy?

“Oh, I know, Democrats. Only touching letters that further your political goals count. If the letter below helped push your politics the letter and the little girl who wrote it would be world-famous.

“I’m REALLY sick of the way American Liberals exploit emotion to try to make every one of their political opinions carry the force of law. Below is the letter written by the little girl whose father will never be coming home because of an illegal immigrant. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL RESULTS: JAN 10th

The USCAA no longer has football, so I had no coverage of them from Aug-Dec.

USCAA (United States Collegiate Athletic Association) DIVISION ONE

CLOSE CALL FOR NUMBER ONE – The nation’s number one team – the NORTH AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STALLIONS – clashed with the visiting TEXAS A&M AT TEXARKANA EAGLES (should be Texarks). The 1st Half ended with the Stallions on top 37-29 but Texarkana was ready for a comeback. Their rally fell short as NAU held on to win 74-71. Jayden Jackson led the Stallions with 23 points, while teammate Joseph Cormier got a Double Double of 11 points and 12 rebounds.

CENTURY CLUB – Teams scoring 100 or more points in Regulation: The (6) NEWPORT NEWS APPRENTICE SCHOOL BUILDERS (Shipbuilders) obliterated the CENTRAL INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE CARDINALS 121-65   ###   The BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE BEARS won 110-108 at the BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE (Albany) BOBCATS   ###   And the (10) PAUL QUINN COLLEGE TIGERS mauled the WILEY UNIVERSITY WILDCATS 107-53. Continue reading

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MARVEL ISSUES: JULY 1967

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at Marvel’s publications from July 1967.

SPIDER-MAN Vol 1 #50 (Jul 1967)

Title: Spider-Man No More

Villain: Kingpin (FIRST APPEARANCE)

Synopsis: Spider-Man stops the robbery of an armored car and bystanders’ wary reaction to him makes him angry about how thoroughly J. Jonah Jameson’s media lies about him have tainted his image in some people’s minds.

That, combined with Aunt May’s latest turn for the worse health-wise (yawn), makes Peter Parker feel even worse, especially since he hasn’t spent as much time checking on his aunt ever since he moved into Harry Osborn’s plush apartment with him.

The next day at Empire State University Peter fails a biochemistry test, prompting Professor Miles Warren (yes) to express disappointment since Peter is such a brilliant student. Privately, Peter blames every bad thing in his life on being Spider-Man and he decides to never again don the costume.

Over the next few weeks, the crime rate in New York City skyrockets with no Spider-Man getting in the way of villainy and only Daredevil fighting street-level wrongdoing. Our hero’s absence is noted in criminal circles, inspiring the Kingpin to at last operate openly.

He clashes with Spider-Man’s old foe the Big Man in a war over control of New York’s rackets. This makes Peter Parker realize that it’s more important to be doing the right thing even if the media attacks you for it, so he swings back into the fray as Spider-Man. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR JANUARY NINTH

Here’s an end of the week current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog. The Democrats have elevated their war on the rest of us. Every killing involving ICE has been provoked by Democrats and their media outlets lying and encouraging violence. Especially when Democrats need a distraction from the fraud and other scandals engulfing them.

Democrats have made it very clear that not only will they side with the killers of our loved ones if the killers are illegal immigrants, but they will call for violence against those people enforcing immigration laws. Democrats own all of this violence. 

AND REMEMBER – DEMOCRATS NEVER PROTEST LIKE THIS FOLLOWING ANY OF THE MANY CITIZEN DEATHS CAUSED BY ILLEGALS. NOT ONE TIME.

ACCUSED MINNEAPOLIS DOMESTIC TERRORIST SHOT BY ICE. Excerpts – “Good’s death is a tragedy of the left’s making. Their anti-ICE rhetoric convinced people like her that interfering with law enforcement was righteous. It wasn’t.” and “The Democrats own this mess. They’ve spent years demonizing ICE agents as fascists. Governor Tim Walz called ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo” last year.” 

NBC’S VIDEO ANALYSIS SUPPORTS ICE AGENT’S READING OF EVENTS.   Plus – LIFE PARTNER OF THE LATE MN WOMAN BLAMES HERSELF: “IT’S MY FAULT.” 

ITEM: DEMOCRATS GOT MORE BLOOD. IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH FOR THEM.

DEMOCRATS WALZ AND FREY CHOOSE MORE VIOLENCE.     “GOVERNOR WALZ DECLARED “WE ARE AT WAR WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.”  MAYOR JACOB FREY: DIRTY HANDS?.

COURAGEOUS JOURNALIST NICK SHIRLEY – UNLIKE THE ONE PERCENTER POSEURS OF THE CORPORATE MEDIA – EXPOSES EVEN MORE FRAUD VIA SHELL COMPANIES. I will point out again that “reporters” at the major media outlets of both political parties make so much money that they are part of the corruption and are basically paid spokespeople for the political forces harming the country.

BLACKFACE PERFORMER AND DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDIST JIMMY KIMMEL IS SELLING MERCHANDISE EXPLOITING THE MINNESOTA SHOOTING. Do Democrats remember a time when they were capable of basic human decency? Well, okay, privileged white one percenter Kimmel was never capable of it. He’s a vulture, and a scavenger of human misery.

VENEZUELANS WHO SUFFERED UNDER MADURO’S DICTATORSHIP TROLL HIM IN PRISON AND IT’S HILARIOUS

TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBER INVOLVED IN SHOOTOUT WITH IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IN PORTLAND. More HERE. Another Democrat-held stronghold wars on the rest of us.  OREGON DEMOCRATS SIDE WITH THE TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBER

THE TRUMP BOOM CONTINUES: U.S. PRODUCTIVITY SURGES. Highest level in nearly six years.    UNEMPLOYMENT FALLS YET AGAIN.

IRANIAN PROTESTERS ASK PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR PROTECTION FROM THEIR COUNTRY’S TYRANNICAL REGIME.

MARRIOTT FIRES EMPLOYEE FOR DANGEROUSLY DOXXING ICE AGENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. Continue reading

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