Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog presents a Friday current events roundup.
PRESIDENT TRUMP THE PEACEMAKER THANKED AGAIN BY THE PRESIDENTS OF RWANDA AND DRC FOR THE HISTORIC PEACE DEAL HE BROKERED BETWEEN THEM. More HERE.
DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR BEING INVESTIGATED OVER WHAT SHE MAY KNOW ABOUT MINNESOTA’S BILLION-DOLLAR MEDICAID FRAUD SCANDAL. She joins Gov. Tim Walz on the hot seat.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSWOMAN NANCY MACE INTRODUCES ACT TO WEED OUT FRAUD IN GOVERNMENT FOOD BENEFITS SYSTEM. The Democrat shutdown backfired by highlighting how much fraud they ignore in the system.
A SHARP LOOK AT THE ONGOING ABUSES BY AMERICA’S DESTRUCTIVE CIA AND OTHER THREE-LETTER AGENCIES. It’s like the 1970s hearings and corrective actions regarding the filth who run the CIA never happened.
DHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY TRICIA MCLAUGHLIN BLASTS DEMOCRAT DANIEL GOLDMAN OVER NEW YORK RELEASING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RAPISTS BACK ONTO THE STREET. Democrats try to pretend the U.S. suffers under Trump but the only people they ever fight for are illegal immigrants, especially those who have committed other crimes. It’s still “Illegal immigrants uber alles” with the Party.
VIDEO: PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY LIGHTING THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE.
DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM REFUSES TO TURN OVER TO ICE THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED IN THE HIT-AND-RUN KILLING OF ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD AIDEN ANTONIO TORRES DE PAZ. See my above remark about Democrats and illegal immigrants, their one-and-only constituency apparently.
TAIWAN THANKS PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR HIS RENEWED COMMITMENT TO THEIR U.S. TIES.
TRUMP EFFECT: AT&T PLEDGES TO END THEIR RACIST DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION AND INTOLERANCE POLICIES. Continue reading
UNDERWATER HOUSE (1899) – Written by Frank Bailey Millard, this short story was first published in the March 1899 issue of The Black Cat magazine.
IT’S CHRISTMAS, CAROL! (2012) – Well, to borrow from another holiday, I hold these truths to be self-evident –
All that said, I won’t be able to use my usual format for my reviews of A Christmas Carol since Marley and the Christmas Ghosts are all played by one person. And it’s not a case of a comedian or a chameleon-like thespian so skilled at crafting characters that it’s a showcase for their talents. (Picture Robin Williams doing different personae for the Ghosts, for instance.)
WILDSIDE (1985) – This Forgotten Television item was a short-lived series that had the elite Old West secret agents appeal that
MABEL NORMAND: HER SILENT FILM COMEDIES FROM 1910-1915 – The pioneering comedienne who blazed cinematic trails and had a long collaboration with the iconic Fatty Arbuckle and Mack Sennett.
SUPERHEROES FROM INDIA – Reading superhero stories as a kid served as a gateway to some of my adult passions like mythology and opera, so I will always have a soft spot for them. This blog post looked at some Indian superheroes from the 1960s onward.
BRUCE CAMPBELL AND SAM RAIMI SHORT FILMS: 1974-1982 – Bruce, Sam and the rest of their Michigan Mafia when they were making youthful short films. My reviews of Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter, The Blind Waiter, Holding It, Attack of the Helping Hand and more 




A CHRISTIAN CAROL (2016) – Balladeer’s Blog’s 16th Annual Christmas Carol-A-Thon continues with this look at a religious-themed variation of A Christmas Carol. Directed by Stan Severance and written by Wesley T Highlander, A Christian Carol follows in the footsteps of the 1983 production The Gospel According to Scrooge.

The HILLSDALE COLLEGE CHARGERS will play the UPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY PEACOCKS. 
The WEST TEXAS A&M BUFFALOES will play the ARKANSAS TECH WONDERBOYS.
NERO WOLFE (1959) – This was a failed pilot for a potential series about Rex Stout’s iconic detective – the rotund, snobbish but brilliant Nero Wolfe, portrayed by Kurt Kasznar. William Shatner played Archie Goodwin, the affable leg man for his reclusive boss.
The chemistry between Kasznar and Shatner was remarkable, and at just 26 minutes without commercials, this would have been just the right length for each episode without Wolfe’s egotism and impatience with lesser minds wearing out their welcome with viewers. 


A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2019) – Directed and co-written by Steven Salgado, this adaptation of the 1843 novel sets the story in present-day Miami. Though some may try to pigeon-hole this indy film as “a Hispanic-American Christmas Carol” that would not be quite accurate.