FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.
ANOTHER MARTIN LUTHER KING PERSON OF COURAGE EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP – Deneen Borelli of Black Voices for Trump cited the NPR, Marist and Rasmussen polls which had Trump at 35% approval among black voters, an astronomically high figure compared to the incredibly low approval percentage that garbage like George W. Bush and Mitt Romney had among black voters.
Another excerpt from that article: “It might shock Democrats that support for President Trump is rising with Black Americans but it shouldn’t. Blacks are more prosperous than ever because of President Trump with record-low unemployment and rising paychecks.”
As for why Deneen Borelli called Trump’s rising numbers among voters of color “Democrats’ worst nightmare”, well, even the Democrats themselves admit that they need their usual roughly 90% approval from black voters to win nationwide elections. This is one more way that Trump threatened the status quo of America’s corrupt political parties. Click HERE.
COTTABUS PLAYERS – Balladeer’s Blog’s examination of this ancient Greek comedy from the 420s B.C. and its relevance today. Click HERE.
DEMOCRATS DON’T KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORDS “DEBUNKED” AND “DISCREDITED” – I took a look at how Democrats laughably think that the minute one of their politicians gives their excuses regarding accusations it means that those accusations have been debunked or discredited. Click HERE.
AMERICA’S REJECTED SUPREME COURT NOMINEES – A look at the nominees who were rejected by the Senate, from the 1700s on up through December of 2019. Click HERE.
COURAGEOUS JOURNALIST SHARYL ATTKISSON’S LIST OF OVER ONE HUNDRED (as of December 2019) MISTAKES AND LIES IN CORPORATE MEDIA COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP – And the list has grown substantially since then. Click HERE.
CALLING OUT AMERICA’S DEMOCRATS – They’re NOT liberals and they’re NOT progressives, they’re just partisan Democrat zealots. First an excerpt: “We are long past the time when America’s pompous, pretentious asses called Democrats need to be called out on their ridiculous airs. Let’s dare to blaspheme against the Democrats’ most sacred deities – themselves.” Click HERE.
CONVICTED PEDOPHILE INDICTED FOR FUNNELING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TO HILLARY CLINTON’S 2016 CAMPAIGN – America’s political establishment is a cesspool. To read the full story on this item just click HERE. Continue reading
FANTASTIC FOUR Vol 1 #44 (November 1965) 
Through a comic book coincidence, the Human Torch gets caught in the middle of a fight between the super villainess called Medusa and her fellow Inhuman called Gorgon. 
If it’s the Friday after Thanksgiving, then regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know it’s the day when I kick off my annual Christmas Carol-A-Thon in which I review several versions of A Christmas Carol. I look at movies, television shows, radio shows and books which adapt the Dickens classic. Every year I present new reviews with a few old classics mixed in since newer readers will have missed them. 
THE PASSION OF SCROOGE (2018) – This 62-minute offering which is out on video is one of the opera versions of A Christmas Carol, NOT the x-rated version which is titled The Passions of Carol. I want to avoid any confusion, right off the bat. 
NUMBER NINETY-NINE – Yesterday was the 99th Turkey Day Classic, the annual Thanksgiving Day football game between the NCAA Division Two TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY GOLDEN TIGERS and the home standing NCAA Division One ALABAMA STATE HORNETS. 
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Enjoy this holiday and the hope for peaceful coexistence represented by the possibly mythic meal that it commemorates. The kind of self-righteous killjoys who bash Thanksgiving are the type of sanctimonious idiots that are fun to laugh at since they have no identity outside of their ephemeral political concerns. 
SUPERSONIC SAUCER (1956) – In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday Balladeer’s Blog presents a look at another harmless, all-ages sci-fi turkey, this one from England. Supersonic Saucer was produced by our old friends in Great Britain’s Children’s Film Foundation, the same group behind 
Top-billed actress Marcia Manolescue, an English actress of Asian descent, plays Sumac, one of the students whose family could not pay travel fare home and back. Another such student is Greta (Gillian Harrison) and rounding things out is Adolphus (Andrew Mette-Harrison), the tubby youngest character. 
We viewers know the kids are in the right, and the spaceship/ flying saucer is really a Venusian youngster. That alien entity used its race’s ability to morph from Muppet-like form to amoeboid form to flying saucer form fit for interplanetary travel. 
The goofy looking Venusian resembles a thick, tall worm in a white hijab in its “normal” form but is hilariously rendered as a cartoon flying saucer with eyes for its airborne and spacefaring form. The “special” effect is as laughable as the cartoon spaceships in American movies like Invaders from Mars.
THANKSGIVING IS ALMOST HERE! ONE OF THE GREATEST HOLIDAYS OF THE YEAR! In the midst of the travails that inevitably complicate our lives it’s a great time for taking stock of the positives that we can find. 
METROPOLIS – Volumes have been written about Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent movie sci-fi masterpiece. I love the film myself but rather than write the 9,899,974th glowing review of the 1927 original I will instead take a look at the 1984 re-issue, produced by Giorgio Moroder, who also did soundtracks for movies like Scarface, Midnight Express, and later Top Gun.
Rather than have the usual classical or similar music play as accompaniment to a silent movie, composer Giorgio Moroder wrote a rock and pop music score to attract a generation of filmgoers who might otherwise have never sat through a silent movie in their lives. Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant and Billy Squier were among those performing Moroder’s score.
Not only 1984 audiences but all subsequent generations of viewers which were drawn to silent movies in general thanks to airings of Metropolis (1984) may never have brought the new blood and passion to the early cinematic artform if not for Moroder. 
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