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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.

EVERYTHING ZEN: MUSICAL SHOUTOUT

Balladeer’s Blog’s feature “Give Them A Shoutout Before They’re Dead” strikes again! This time around “there’s no sex in your violence” as we listen to Everything Zen from Bush. As in the musical act, NOT the family of bloated rich pigs.

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MUSLIM FASCIST ATROCITY ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER 1st

Islam no democracy just IslamThe Muslim Fascist attack in New York served as another reminder of what our unresponsive Political Caste continues inflicting on all of us. They’ll probably call for even MORE unvetted Muslim immigration after this.

Here at Balladeer’s Blog I devote a lot of space to those courageous Muslims who take on both the fanatics in their own faith AND the condescending white Westerners who think that ONLY Muslims who hate the Western World are “authentic.”

For the flip side of that here’s another look at JUST A FEW recent attacks by Muslim fascists empowered by Democrats in the U.S. and by Labour in the U.K. and by  “educators” (LMAO) everywhere.

October 28th: Mogadishu, Somalia – Another reminder that even in majority Muslim nations Muslim fascists will always go on killing other Muslims who don’t worship in the exact same way that the Muslim fascists want them to. A Muslim fascist suicide bomber killed TWENTY-NINE innocent people and injured over THIRTY more.

October 16th: Nkiedonwhro, Nigeria – Fulani Muslims – the local affiliate of the Global Muslim Fascist Murder Machine – massacred TWENTY-NINE innocent people and injured 3 more for being Christian instead of Muslim. Coexistence! 

Islam againOctober 29th: Gouderi, Cameroon – Boko Haram, the local affiliate of the Global Muslim Fascist Murder Machine – killed ELEVEN innocent people.

October 31st: New York City, New York – A Muslim fascist who is only in the U.S. through one of the programs President Trump seeks to end used a vehicle to kill EIGHT innocent people and injure over TWELVE more. Democrats vow they will STILL oppose President Trump on stopping this program. No surprise there.

(Whatever happened to Democrats pretending that if something “saves even ONE life it’s worth it”? Not when their fetish for ONLY violent Muslims is concerned.)

October 24th: Sasawa, Nigeria – Jihadists raided the town and killed SIXTEEN innocent people. Continue reading

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HARRY TRUMAN: HIS WORLD WAR ONE SERVICE

Harry Truman World War One

Harry Truman in World War One

Veterans Day is approaching so Balladeer’s Blog is presenting another look at World War One since November 11th marks the date that war ended.

HARRY S TRUMAN, CAPTAIN OF BATTERY D – This future Democratic Party Senator, future Vice President and future President is credited with one of my favorite quotes: “There’s nothing new in the world except the history you don’t know.”

That Show-Me State Seneca was in charge of Artillery Battery D, a hard-fighting unit that was often deployed well forward, in the heart of the action. During the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918 Truman’s Battery D provided fire in support of the young George Patton’s tank brigade. “Captain Harry’s” boys engaged German field guns, eliminating and forcing the abandonment of enemy batteries at a noteworthy rate. Continue reading

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HILLARY’S FLUNKY PODESTA FALLS AMID CLINTON’S OWN RUSSIAN SCANDAL

Hillary Clinton Russian Probe backfireIn the spirit of “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha” the irrational buffoons called Democrats (DemCorp) have been whining “Russia, Russia, Russia” ever since America’s de facto Third Party President Donald Trump humiliated Hillary Clinton last November.

Their obsession with alleged knavish activity on the part of the Russians is hysterically hypocritical given Hillary’s absurd “Reset Button” nonsense and Obama’s pathetic message for Medvedev to be relayed to Putin. Remember, Barack wanted Vlad Putin to know he’d “have more flexibility” after the 2012 election to cooperate with Putin.

You know – the same Vlad Putin that Obama, Hillary and the rest of the Democrats have been denouncing as a global menace worse than the Islamic State (Obamastan) and North Korea rolled into one. The Democrats’ paranoia about Russia is such that their new slogan should be: DEMOCRATS: THINK OF US AS JOHN BIRCHERS IN CHE GUEVARA T-SHIRTS!

Mueller 3Funniest of all is how ALL OF THIS HAS BACKFIRED ON CROOKED HILLARY ONCE AGAIN! All of us rational people in the U.S. are laughing like hell at the way Democrat Party media outlets are acting like Manafort is a big deal. Not only was the man Trump’s campaign manager for barely a few months but the charges he’s been indicted for GO BACK BEFORE HE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH TRUMP OR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN!

Meanwhile, Tony Podesta, one of Hillary Clinton’s dirty deeds thugs for what seems like forever, has been forced to step down! And the emerging dirt on the URANIUM ONE deal is making Hillary and her fake charity look even more crooked than before! And I didn’t think that was possible! 

To say nothing of the emerging details about Hillary and the Democrats’ role in the National Enquirer-level Steele Dossier aka For More Laughs Only.

### Here’s a man with a HILARIOUS and accurate breakdown of the shoddiness of the anti-Trump propaganda that masquerades as an “intelligence dossier.” The link is below but first some excerpts:

Hillary and the Trump Dossier“By “Russian hacking” of the election, they (the Democrats) mean that some Internet trolls from halfway round the world bought a few fake Facebook ads, half of which weren’t seen until after election day. For purposes of comparison, the one hundred grand these trolls spent to “interfere” in the US election works out at less than two per cent of what Hillary paid a high-ranking spy of a foreign power to interfere in the US election …and post-election.

“It started in April 2016, when it became clear that Trump was going to win the Republican nomination. The Hillary campaign and the DNC gave millions of dollars to Marc Elias, a Clinton lawyer, who in turn hired Fusion GPS, who in turn hired former MI6 agent Christopher Steele. Why use Mr Elias as a cutout? Because Hillary and the DNC could then itemize the expense as “legal services” rather than list payments to Mr Steele, which would be in breach of federal law.

Yep, as always Hillary and the DNC – which had already sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ campaign to assure that Hapless Hillary could pretend she “won” the Democrat nomination – behave like organized crime circles.

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COFFIN JOE HORROR FILMS: HALLOWEEN 2017 DRAWS TO A CLOSE

Coffin JoeHere at Balladeer’s Blog we wring down the curtain on Halloween 2017 by revisiting our old friend Jose “Mojica” Marins, Brazil’s notorious King of Horror.

Marins’ most famous character is Ze do Caixao aka Coffin Joe, a figure who belongs alongside Dracula, Freddy Krueger, La Llorona and other horror icons from around the world.

Noteworthy movies include :

At Midnight I'll Steal Your SoulAt Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1963) – Brazil’s first-ever home-grown horror film was also the very first appearance of Coffin Joe, an undertaker who relishes exploiting and mocking the religious beliefs of the community.

The transgressive, hypnotic figure lords it over those he considers to be ignorant peasants and lesser beings. Ze’s reign of terror sees him inflict physical and psychological torture on his victims, including gouging their eyes out with his incredibly long fingernails.

The vile but charismatic monster is searching for a superior woman to mate with while killing off male rivals as well as women who don’t meet his expectations.  

This Night I will possess your corpseThis Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967) – In this sequel Coffin Joe is even more powerful and depraved as he subjects Sao Paulo to another reign of terror. Ze is still searching for the perfect woman to bear his child and inflicting all manner of torture on his victims but this time around the viewer is treated to even more of the villain’s bizarre philosophy, which seems to be composed of equal parts Nietzsche and de Sade with a healthy sprinkling of Aleister Crowley tossed in. 

This film is black & white like the original but features the acclaimed color portion featuring a trip to a Hell ruled by Coffin Joe himself.  Continue reading

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ALL HALLOWS (1926): HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

All Hallows CathedralALL HALLOWS (1926) – Written by Walter de la Mare. In recent decades Walter de la Mare’s horror stories have begun to get as much attention as his poetry. This particular tale is about a haunted cathedral but there is also a blatant subtext.

Our narrator has walked for several miles to reach remote All Hallows Cathedral. The once-prominent place has fallen into disrepair and has become so rarely used for religious services that it has become more of a curious tourist attraction than “holy” site.

All Hallows Cathedral 2Appropriately for a horror story our protagonist has arrived as the sun is going down. The odd, perhaps half-crazed Verger (Anglican Church Caretaker)  impatiently  leads the new arrival on a tour of the degenerating interior. Almost like a Halloween Funhouse host the Verger emphasizes the creepy lore about All Hallows.

Nightfall is well along by the time he tells the narrator about the temporary disappearance of the previous chief clergyman, who was later found in a dark corner. The Holy Man was weeping and crazed and never recovered his sanity.     Continue reading

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HALLOWEEN SONG: HOT PATOOTIE – BLESS MY SOUL

Obviously I’m proceeding from the assumption that just about ANY song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show qualifies as a Halloween Song. Here we go:

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NEVER ACCEPT CENSORSHIP

NEVER ACCEPT CENSORSHIP

Sticks and stones

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DEMOCRATS FOR TRUMP’S IRMA HINOJOSA

Latinos for TrumpIrma Hinojosa of Democrats for Trump and Latinos for Trump is yet another member of the real-world League of Extraordinary Women.

She is also one of the most vocal figures when it comes to the way Democrats have alienated so many of us by betraying everything they used to stand for. 

Irma is always in the front lines taking on the fascist animals of Antifa and similar hate groups. She shines at puncturing the pomposity of shallow, uninformed and emotionally unstable celebrities, too.

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ROSAURA (1817): NEGLECTED HORROR

Friedrich FouqueROSAURA (1817) – Written by Friedrich Fouque. Halloween Month 2017 is dying quickly. Here is another neglected story from the late Gothic Horror period. Rosaura has a fairly unique supernatural premise so that alone should have earned it a wider following by now.

No vampires or ghosts or werewolves feature in this tale, but instead a more offbeat kind of supernatural horror. Count von Wildeck packs up his guns and wears his finest clothing for a visit to the castle of Colonel von Haldenbach, whose niece Rosaura he wants to romance.

After an amiable first day of the visit, Count von Wildeck is warned by his host the Colonel to lock himself very securely in his bedroom. The Colonel seems tempted to explain things more clearly to Von Wildeck but is too frightened. Continue reading

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