The bizarre anti-Donald Trump hysteria continues to be as absurd as the 1980s “Satanic Panic” was. As does anti-Trump psychopaths’ willingness to root for the Iranian regime despite it being at least as bad as deranged war criminal Vlad Putin is.
From January 14th, 202o – EVEN HUFFINGTON POST’S AND NEW YORK MAGAZINE’S YASHAR ALI POINTS OUT “DEMOCRATS ARE SIDING WITH IRAN’S MULLAHS AGAINST FREEDOM-FIGHTING IRANIANS OUT OF SPITE”. Just like they’re doing here in 2026.
From January 9th, 2020 – MAAJID NAWAZ BLASTS DEMOCRATS AND OTHERS FOR SIDING WITH QASSEM SOLEIMANI AND IGNORING HIS ATROCITIES. From January 6th, 2020 – AMERICA’S DEMOCRATS MOURN QASSEM SOLEIMANI. If a Democrat president had killed him and not Trump, Democrats would be praising the strike on him.
From February 3rd, 2020 – UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR AGAIN SPEAKS OUT ON HOW THEN-VICE-PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN GOT HIM FIRED FOR INVESTIGATING HIS SON HUNTER BIDEN’S INFLUENCE-PEDDLING SCHEME IN UKRAINE. If you recall, Trump’s investigating Biden Crime Family corruption in Ukraine was why panicked Democrats tried impeaching Trump during his first term.
From March 23rd, 2020 – DEMOCRATS BLOCK CORONAVIRUS RELIEF PACKAGE TO SPITE TRUMP WHILE IGNORING SUFFERERS. Yes, Democrats even hindered anti-Covid efforts just because Trump was in the White House. Continue reading
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The defending champs – the NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE EAGLES – squared off against the STONE CHILD COLLEGE BEAR PAWS. NWIC may be establishing a dynasty. The Eagles dominated thoroughly on both sides of the ball from start to finish and when the dust finally settled, they had defeated the Bear Paws 90-64.
FIRST SEMIFINAL – The COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO GOLDEN EAGLES played the GULF COAST STATE COMMODORES in this game. The Golden Eagles clung to a 38-36 edge come Halftime. After the break, CSI outscored the Commodores 44-34 to win out 82-70. Jalen Lyn led Southern Idaho with 24 points. 
SHOWCASE Vol 1 #6 (Feb 1957) 
America’s 250th birthday is coming up in July, so over the next few months Balladeer’s Blog will take a look at the anniversary years 1826, 1876, 1926 and 1976.
U.S. President: John Quincy Adams Vice President: John C. Calhoun Speaker of the House: John W. Taylor Chief Justice: John Marshall 
THE CITY OF SPIDERS (1926) – Short story by H. Warner Munn. This quasi-Creature Feature type tale featured biologist Jabez Pentreat. 
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – Fighting it out for the crown were the PARKLAND COLLEGE COBRAS and the ELLSWORTH COLLEGE PANTHERS. The Cobras had mustered a 35-28 advantage going into the locker room. After the break, Parkland College eked out a bit more separation from the favored Panthers as they won the game 76-68. Jaiden Martin’s THIRTY-FOUR points led the Cobras. 
ELITE EIGHT: FIRST BERTH – The GULF COAST STATE COMMODORES played the INDIAN HILLS COLLEGE WARRIORS in this game. The Commodores put Indian Hills College on Upset Alert at Halftime with their 41-35 lead. From there, the Warriors rallied but fell just short as Gulf Coast State prevailed 72-70. The Commodores were led by Devontes Cobbs with 17 points. 
MAZEPPA – No relation to Tchaikovsky’s opera Mazeppa, this blog post refers to comedian, artist and actor Gailard Sartain, who got his start playing the wizard Mazeppa (center left) while hosting Tulsa, Oklahoma’s late Saturday night Bad Movie show called The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting. 
In between films came old educational shorts, black & white sci-fi shows, weird cartoons, you name it. It was like a countrified forerunner of Night Flight from later decades. 
And let’s quickly address the nice coincidence of Mazeppa and Busey’s character Teddy Jack Eddy hosting campy rock and roll movies like Don’t Knock the Rock, Untamed Youth or Shake, Rattle and Rock only for Busey to go on to play Buddy Holly and Sartain to play the Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story. 
BORDER PATROL (1959) – Based on actual case files of the United States Border Patrol, this half-hour series ran for 39 episodes and starred Richard Webb of Captain Midnight fame. Webb played Don Jagger, Deputy Chief of the Border Patrol, yet oddly he took part in individual cases. Why not just make him an agent or officer? I guess the creative team felt Deputy Chief sounded cooler. 
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