Another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where career criminal Joe Biden acknowledged that the failed assassination of Trump meant he really had no chance against him.
KURT SCHLICHTER’S TERRIFIC TAKE ON JOE BIDEN’S MOST RECENT HUMILIATION. Here are some excerpts – “Alleged President Joe Biden’s cowardly capitulation to the will of the Democrat elite validated the cruel truth that we have always known about him – and that he has always known about himself. He’s a quitter. He’s a loser. He’s weak, and he’s stupid, the Democrat Party’s Fredo given – by default – responsibility beyond running a nightclub out in the boondocks or picking somebody up from the airport and, predictably, botching it.”
“ … But that’s Joe – always wrong, always inept, always blowing it – yet always convinced he’s a prodigy and a visionary. It would be funny if his incompetence had not gotten so many people killed, from our troops to citizens murdered by coddled criminals and illegal aliens he invited on in.”
And “Biden feels no shame; his crime family apparently lacks the necessary genes. … Now history will portray him as what he is, a doddering clown and a grubby, corrupt scumbag who couldn’t even stagger his way through a full term without making a fool of himself.”
… HOWEVER, IT’S NOT A PERFECT TAKE. Schlichter seems convinced that the Democrats will stick with Kamala Harris, the woman that The Party has basically admitted for months was an even worse public face than a graft-grabbing, demented crook like Joe Biden.
FOR OVERSEAS READERS, LET ME EMPHASIZE SOMETHING – Joe stepped down from the political campaign – NOT from the office he’s occupying. Kamala did not get to rise to the presidency. Democrats can publicly “endorse her” and “support her” for the inevitable “New polls show Harris trouncing Trump” stories but they DON’T have to nominate her for president at the joke of a convention that The Party will hold in a little while.
Behind the scenes some of the worst embodiments of what America’s cesspool of a two-party system has to offer will be maneuvering. If Kamala screws up so badly that it proves the Democrats right for not actually giving her the presidency by making Joe step down, then Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, or Gavin Newsome might still get nominated at the farce of a Democrat Convention coming up.
THE DEMOCRATS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES WANT KAMALA HARRIS OUT OF THE RACE. As I noted, the behind the scenes fighting and throat-cutting is still going on.
DEMOCRATS APPARENTLY CONFIDENT THAT THEIR VOTERS ARE UNINFORMED ENOUGH TO FALL FOR GAVIN NEWSOME’S (AND HILLARY’S) NON-BINDING SUPPORT FOR KAMALA HARRIS. Every prominent Party member can praise her to the skies, it STILL doesn’t mean they have to officially nominate her at the convention. If she’s as clearly unfit as Joe, “the need to preserve “Democracy, children’s smiles and puppy dogs” by beating Trump” will be used to justify installing another candidate.
ANOTHER COURT DECISION SAYS THE BIDEN REGIME CANNOT ELIMINATE STUDENT DEBT, BUT JOE KEEPS ON DOING IT ANYWAY. For SELECT people, most of whom are children of Democrat one percenters and don’t NEED it. Continue reading
DOWN TO THE WIRE – The INDIANA FEVER (11-15) took it on the road against the MINNESOTA LYNX (17-8). 
BROOKLYN BATTLE AT BARCLAY’S – In this game the NEW YORK LIBERTY (21-4) welcomed the CONNECTICUT SUN (18-6) to the Barclay’s Center. 
CAPTAIN BRITAIN Vol 1 #1 (October 13th 1976)
Synopsis: British college student Brian Braddock was working as an assistant to Dr. Hugo Travis at the Darkmoor Energy Research Center, a scientific organization probing the supernatural energies and anomalies of the Darkmoor area. 
The Amulet of Right and the mystic Quarterstaff turned Brian into the costumed superhero called Captain Britain. Stragg and his men had not seen Braddock’s face clearly, so his real identity was safe. Using his new powers – flight, a skin-tight force field, enhanced senses and enough strength to lift a couple tons – the hero defeated Stragg’s armed thugs. 
SHOTGUN JOHN COLLINS – This overlooked gunslinger was like a talented session musician whose name isn’t better known to laymen mostly because of his time with assorted big-name rock bands. Shotgun John was born Abraham G. Graham in South Carolina on November 22nd, 1851. His great-grandfather had served under General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, during the Revolutionary War. 
During his teen years Shotgun John was in and out of jail for assorted offenses, but to that point not fatal ones. This time period saw our man forge casual friendships with future notorious figures like Johnny Ringo and John Wesley Hardin.
Okay, not THAT Keith Richards. 
THE JAMES BROTHERS OF MISSOURI (1949) – In this 12-chapter Republic serial the Keithmeister General starred as Jesse James with Robert Bice as his brother Frank. Future Lois Lane Noel Neill played Peg Royer, while B-movie staple Gene Roth was along for the ride in a supporting role. 
THE LIVING CHRIST SERIES (1951) – Keith was At His Satanic Majesty’s Request as Judas in this 12-episode television series about incidents in the life of Jesus Christ. Each episode filled a 30-minute time slot. 
THE FRONTIERADO HOLIDAY IS COMING UP ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 2nd! 
MAVERICK (1994) – Richard Donner directed and Mel Gibson starred in this excellent tribute to the 1950s and 1980s Maverick television series. The original series starred James Garner as slick-talking gambler/ gunslinger Bret Maverick AND, in old-age makeup, as “Pappy” Beauregard Maverick, the gambler and con-man patriarch of that family of rogues. (No relation to the real-life Maverick family of Texas, for whom “maverick” cattle were named.)
Mel Gibson portrays Bret Maverick since by 1994 James Garner was too old for the role. Jodie Foster co-stars as rival gambler Annabelle Bransford and the iconic James Garner provides memorable support as a lawman. 
However, before that was known, 
By the way, the minute it was clear that the REAL perpetrators were 
A FANTASTICAL EXCURSION INTO THE PLANETS (1839) – Written by an unknown author. The anonymous narrator of this novel is taken on a visit to assorted planets and other celestial bodies. The figure who transports him is a winged, rainbow-colored sprite whose face and body constantly change slightly, allowing no lasting impression to be made out. 
