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I am passionately interested in college sports, ancient Greek comedies, bad/weird movies, mythology, the American Revolution, Puck Magazine, World War I, U.S. Presidential history, silent movies, the English Civil War, epic, lyric and comic poetry, U.S. Supreme Court history, the Revolutions of 1848, the Philippine War and old pulp heroes like The Moon Man, Pilot G8, Silver John and The Rio Kid.

JOE BIDEN: CALLOUSNESS AND CORRUPTION COMBINED IN ONE LOATHSOME PACKAGE

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We need Third Parties, as I often point out here at Balladeer’s Blog. At any rate, here’s a Monday quick take on the corrupt yet senile career criminal Joe Biden, who is possibly the most loathsome little man in American politics, and his gang of white-collar criminals.

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BIDEN’S MINISTER OF PROPER THOUGHT – NUTTY NAZI NINA JANCOWICZ – LINKED TO GROUP SUBVERTING WESTERN DEMOCRACIES WITH DISINFORMATION

BIDEN REGIME CALLOUSLY UNRESPONSIVE TO THE BABY FORMULA SHORTAGE CAUSED BY CROOKED JOE’S DISASTROUS POLICIES. More HERE.

DEMOCRAT BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEMBER IN PENNSYLVANIA INDICTED ON EIGHTY-TWO – YES, EIGHTY-TWO – FELONY COUNTS IN VOTE FRAUD SCANDAL. Democrats and vote fraud still go together like Joe Biden and incoherent babbling.  Continue reading

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5 HARD-TO-FIND FILMS

Here at Balladeer’s Blog I review a lot of very obscure movies. This is a look at some of the films I have thus far not been able to find. Any help anyone could offer would be appreciated.

michel auder cleopatraMICHEL AUDER’S CLEOPATRA (1970) – It’s weirdness squared in this overlooked flick which Michel Auders directed utilizing assorted Andy Warhol menagerie figures in the cast. Auder himself played Caesar, with modern-day Rome as the seat of his empire. Viva portrayed Cleopatra with her domain of Egypt being set in the modern-day state of New York with snowmobiles as horses. Yes, it’s one of THOSE kinds of films.

The cast members improvised their way through the storyline, so I will say again “Yes, it’s one of THOSE kinds of films”. Among the cast were Nico, Ultra Violet, Ondine, Louis Waldon and Taylor Mead. Keep your eyes peeled for the one and only Christopher Walken.      Continue reading

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TOP MYTHOLOGICAL PANTHEONS COVERED HERE AT BALLADEER’S BLOG

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Balladeer’s Blog’s examinations of pantheons of deities outside of the frequently-covered Greco-Roman, Egyptian and Norse have been very popular and well-received. To make sure all mythology buffs who visit here are aware of how many belief systems I’ve looked at here’s a convenient overview.

FuchiAINU  

Sampling of Deities: Shiramba the vegetation god, Hashinau-Uk the goddess of the hunt, Okikurmi the culture god and monster-slayer, Wakka-Ush the water goddess and Kando-Koro the sky god and ruler of the land of the gods.

Top Deity on List: Fuchi the fire goddess. 

Comment: This is one of the most popular of the out of the way pantheons I’ve covered.

FULL LIST CLICK HERE: https://glitternight.com/2014/11/20/the-top-gods-in-ainu-mythology/

Tupari live near the Rio BrancoTUPARI

Sampling of Deities: Mulher the Earth goddess, Arkoanyo the bird god, Karam the sun goddess, Valedjad the storm god and Aunyaina the wild boar god.

Top Deity on List: Patobkia, the god who rules over the afterlife and the series of trials each soul undergoes.

Comment: With only thousands of the Tupari people left this is a sadly neglected pantheon of deities.

FULL LIST CLICK HERE: https://glitternight.com/2013/04/02/the-top-ten-deities-in-tupari-mythology/ Continue reading

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IRON MAN: 1970s CLASSICS 7 – THE MANDARIN, BLACK LAMA AND SUNFIRE

For Part One of these Iron Man 1970s classics click HERE.

im 68IRON MAN Vol 1 #68 (June 1974)

Title: Night of the Rising Sun

Villains: The Mandarin, Sunfire and Unicorn

Synopsis: We pick up months after our previous installment. Tony Stark has been spending most of his time in the Far East managing the reorganization of the Stark Regional offices there now that his company no longer handles weapons manufacturing. All of that is just the excuse to justify frequently loaning out his “bodyguard” Iron Man to Roxie Gilbert’s combined humanitarian mission and hunt for Eddie March’s M.I.A. brother Marty.

mandarin pictureAs this issue opens, Iron Man is using his repulsor rays to blast a path through the jungle for Roxie, U.N. escorts and North Vietnamese escorts plus the joint armed forces and aid workers. The communist army officer is especially hostile, making it clear he’s not fond of having Americans like Roxie Gilbert and Iron Man on hand. He also vows to retake Saigon some day.

NOTE: This story is set after the last American troops withdrew but before Saigon had fallen and been renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Marvel’s editors must have been scrambling to keep their comic book stories in synch with real-world events. Continue reading

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THURSDAY NEWS ROUNDUP

democrat republican otherIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes to you once again from the Joe Biden regime’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. We need Third Parties! (Full disclosure: I used to be a Democrat back when there were still some sane, non-fascist people in the party. Now I’m an Independent Voter.)

GROCERY PRICES UP 10.8% – AT HIGHEST RATE IN 42 YEARS. Joe Biden and the Democrats continue warring on the working class and the poor.

BIDEN REGIME’S WAR ON SMALL BUSINESSES ROLLS ALONG. One percenters love Biden’s policies. The 99% not so much.

DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN WORKER IN MINNESOTA CONVICTED IN PROBE INTO VOTE FRAUD. So what else is new?

CORRUPT YET SENILE JOE BIDEN SENDS GAS PRICES EVEN HIGHER. More HERE. Under Biden’s predecessor Trump America had achieved energy independence.

biden bloodJOE BIDEN’S UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN HAD TWO MILLION DOLLARS’ WORTH OF HIS TAXES PAID FOR BY OUTSIDE SOURCE. The Biden Crime Family exploit every angle.

MISSOURI TAKING STEPS TO BAN EVEN MORE OF THE VOTE FRAUD MEASURES THAT WERE USED IN THE 2020 ELECTION. Have I mentioned that the 2020 election was at least as corrupt and tainted as the 1876 and year 2000 elections?

NEW EVIDENCE ABOUT CAREER CRIMINAL JOE BIDEN GETTING MUCH MORE THAN THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED “TEN PERCENT FOR THE BIG GUY.” 

TRUMP-ENDORSED CANDIDATES ARE NOW 58-1 IN PRIMARIES IN 2022 ALONE. But the Democrats’ media outlets are running with the notion that the one loss means Trump is fading. More HERE. Continue reading

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FOR ALL MY FELLOW DOG LOVERS

A terrific video from this past Mother’s Day. 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1523271500870082560

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STAR MAIDENS (1975-1976) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

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star maidens dvdSTAR MAIDENS (1975-1976) – This obscure (only 3 reviews to date on IMDb) British-German television series from the 1970s has the same kind of campy visual appeal as U.F.O., Space: 1999 and every other Gerry & Sylvia Anderson series in history.

A few years back, Balladeer’s Blog reviewed All That Glitters, the 1977 Norman Lear follow-up to Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. All That Glitters was a five night per week soap opera parody set on a parallel Earth where women were in charge of everything and men were second-class citizens. Star Maidens was an earlier, 13-episode Euroseries that had cranked such a premise up to eleven AND treated it as serious science fiction.

star maidens picThe futuristic planet called Medusa was ruled by women with an iron fist, with men relegated to the roles of domestic servants or laborers in mines and factories, etc. Men were outrightly owned by women and the “Men’s Liberation Movement” was outlawed and hounded. Gareth Thomas of all people starred as one of two rebellious men who escape Medusa in a stolen spaceship and head for 1970s Earth. Continue reading

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DR. CUNLIFFE, INVESTIGATOR (1913) – ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

dr cunliffe bookDR. CUNLIFFE, INVESTIGATOR (1913) – Written by Harold Frankish. This book was a collection of short stories centered around Frankish’s fictional “scientific detective” Dr. Theodore Cunliffe.

A brilliant man, the British Cunliffe has granted himself enough strength to lift just over a ton and he is such a man of action that he wrestles with an ape in one story. A definite forerunner of later Pulp heroes, Dr. Cunliffe is a physician, scientist and criminologist who is often called in by Scotland Yard. Theodore is also a cosmopolitan world traveler and is well-versed in a variety of esoteric subjects.

The stories featuring his adventures:

THE ADVENTURE OF THE ATOMIC RAYS – The Adonis-like Dr. Cunliffe is called in by Scotland Yard when high-profile scientists begin to disappear. Cunliffe traces the disappearances to the mad scientist Dr. Burton, who has created a disintegration weapon powered by atomic rays. Our hero must prove Burton’s culpability in the evidence-free disintegration deaths of the missing scientists while making sure that he himself survives. Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS VS THE REST OF US: MAY 9th

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at just a few of the latest dispatches from the front lines of the Democrats’ war on the rest us.

vernon jones picCOURAGEOUS VERNON JONES BLASTS THE DIVISIVE JOE BIDEN FOR HIS HATEMONGERING RHETORIC. More HERE

CORRUPT YET SENILE JOE BIDEN AND HIS REGIME’S BENEFITS TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND DRUG TRAFFICKING.

CONGRESS CALLING OUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S CORRUPT IRAN DEAL.

DEMOCRAT TEACHERS FINALLY ADMIT THE FAILINGS OF THEIR REMOTE “LEARNING” (LMAO) FIASCO.

wesley huntWESLEY HUNT AND OTHER REPUBLICANS IN RACIALLY MIXED MARRIAGES CALL OUT THE DEMOCRAT FEARMONGERING THAT INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES MAY BE BANNED. Look, I blast Republicans AND Democrats, but can we at least move beyond the absurd notions that Republicans are racist and “stupid.” It’s pretty clear BOTH major parties have plenty of racism and stupidity to go around among individual members. 

ANOTHER LOOK AT WHY REPUBLICAN OFFICE-HOLDERS NEED TO GROW BACKBONES AND STOP IGNORING VOTER OUTRAGE. People can multi-task, y’know. Issues don’t have an expiration date after which you have to stop talking about them just because the Democrats’ media outlets say so.

DEMOCRATS OF BIG TECH – FACEBOOK IN THIS CASE – CALLED OUT FOR INTERFERENCE IN AUSTRALIAN ELECTION BY BLOCKING NEWS AND CAUSING CHAOS WITH HOSPITAL FB PAGES.

BIDEN’S CENSORSHIP THUGS, RUN BY NUTTY NINA, BLASTED AGAIN. Continue reading

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THE SOLARNAUTS (1967) – FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

SolarnautsTHE SOLARNAUTS (1967) – It’s kind of a shame that this pilot for a science fiction series didn’t get picked up. The Solarnauts combined some of the best (and worst) elements of Star Trek and Doctor Who plus Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s countless “Supermarionation” programs like Thunderbirds, Supercar, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, etc. 

This program featured a Star Fleet type organization of the future and its light, fluffy adventures – adventures that wouldn’t have been out of place on 1950s television so the show has a nice “retro” feel. Continue reading

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