FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.
POLL: SIXTY-TWO PERCENT OF VOTERS SAY PUTIN WOULD NOT HAVE INVADED UKRAINE IF TRUMP WAS STILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE. And that was in February of 2022. The number may be much higher now.
DEMOCRATS IN VERMONT FOLLOW NEW YORK’S LEAD IN OPENING UP VOTING TO FOREIGN NATIONALS. Coming soon to a location near you if Democrats get their way.
Weird little man
JOE BIDEN’S INFLATION STILL DRIVING RENTS SKY-HIGH. The Biden Regime’s war on the poor and the working class continues.
DEMOCRATS WHO RUN SCHOOL DISTRICT ALLOW MALES WHO GO BY “NON-MALE PRONOUNS” TO SLEEP IN FIFTH GRADE GIRLS’ CABINS ON THREE DAY TRIP. What is it with Democrats and children? Very creepy.
FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY 6th.
BIDEN’S POLICIES DRIVING BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS HIGHER AND HIGHER. Under his predecessor’s policies black unemployment was at a record low.
COURTS CONTINUE INVALIDATING THE DEMOCRATS’ CHANGES TO VOTING PROCEDURES WHICH ENABLED THEIR “CHEAT BY MAIL” AND OTHER SCAMS IN 2020. More HERE.
AND ANOTHER COURT RULES THAT THE CHEAT BY MAIL CHANGES MADE IN 2020 WERE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. And even more have ruled the same way since February of 2022. But Democrats knew the court cases would take until long after the election was over. Continue reading
FEVER DREAM – From State Farm Arena in Georgia came this game between the INDIANA FEVER (7-10) and their hosts the ATLANTA DREAM (6-8). 
BATTLE IN SIN CITY – The LAS VEGAS ACES (8-6) welcomed the CONNECTICUT SUN (13-2) to Michelob Ultra Arena. 
This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog will look at some of the stories Marvel Comics created around the licensed I.P. of Micronauts toys. 
BARON KARZA – The evil, black-armored Baron Karza was a very impressive villain, despite being one of the most blatant Darth Vader ripoffs this side of Japan’s Swords of the Space Ark movies.
SPACE GLIDER ARCTURUS RANN – The leader of the Micronauts. Rann was the very first Micronaut (the Microverse’s version of Astronauts), who was placed in suspended animation and sent out in a spaceship called The Endeavor on a 1,000-year mission of exploration throughout the Microverse. 
FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Burt Reynolds and Darren McGavin’s western series 
SILENT MOVIES – Since last year I reviewed: 
QUALITY MOVIES – 
PART FIVE – Horn recounted an incredible event he attended in Angola, which was not yet the name of the country, just a populated region. He and his subordinate Trade Agents were guests at a conjo – a performance of traveling entertainers called the Akowas.
JANUARY 1910 – James Larkin Pearson, poet and newspaper man, carried on the Fool Killer tradition from 1910 to 1917, then again from 1919 into the 1920s. Pearson’s fellow North Carolinian Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans had written the Fool Killer Letters of the 19th Century so it’s appropriate that another Tar Heel continue the lore for so many years of the 20th Century.
Pearson’s Fool-Killer was the mascot of the entire publication, which was merely 4-6 pages anyway, not simply the supposed author of letters regarding his body count of “fools.” Think of this Fool Killer (I prefer no hyphen) as the written word equivalent of Puck (1876-1918), the political cartoon mascot of the humor magazine of the same name.
*** Frederick Cook, who, the previous December, had seen his claim to have reached the North Pole ruled invalid and possibly fraudulent by the University of Copenhagen. (The Fool Killer was unable to locate Cook, however.)
THE FEARSOME ISLAND (1896) – Written by British author Albert Kinross. An unusual work with a multi-layered narrative. The entire novel was penned by Kinross, but it is one of the countless works of fiction presented as if it is a rediscovered manuscript relating the “true” adventures of Silas Fordred from the 1500s. Kinross adds another layer by explaining the sci-fi devices that Fordred could not comprehend and put down to sorcery and the supernatural. 
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