Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up another current events roundup.
TRUMP’S TARIFF CRACKDOWN ON CHINA GREATLY BENEFITS AMERICAN MANUFACTURING.
TRUMP EFFECT: U.S. SERVICES SECTOR SURGES IN APRIL.
DEMOCRAT TRANSGENDER INDOCTRINATION CAMP TARGETS CHILDREN AGED SIX TO NINE. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?
DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET MSNBC’S OWN LEGAL ANALYST EXPLAINS ON-AIR THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT OWED “DUE PROCESS” PROCEDURES. The entire concept does not apply to people in the country illegally.
CAPE COD DAYCARE CLOSED AFTER EXPOSURE FOR HARBORING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WANTED FOR CHILD RAPE. Democrat “sanctuary” policies never protect victims.
HOUTHIS SURRENDER TO TRUMP – AGREE TO END THEIR ATTACKS ON SHIPPING THROUGH THE RED SEA. More HERE. And all nations benefit.
BUSINESS OF DEMOCRAT MEDIA EMPLOYEE NORAH O’DONNELL’S HUSBAND EXPOSED FOR HARBORING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. O’Donnell was bluntly asked “Is this why you have been so hostile to Trump? Because your family profits off exploiting illegal alien labor?”
UNION PRAISES TRUMP’S HOLLYWOOD TARIFFS FOR THEIR BOON TO BLUE COLLAR WORKERS AND THEIR BLOW TO BIG STUDIO OUTSOURCING OF JOBS OVERSEAS. Donald Trump remains the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FREED BY BIDEN ARRESTED FOR KILLING AMERICAN CITIZEN IN HIS WHEELCHAIR. Are Democrats complicit in this crime?
DEMOCRAT MEMBER OF CONGRESS JASMINE CROCKETT MAKES THE IMBECILIC STATEMENT “IT IS NOT A CRIMINAL VIOLATION TO ENTER THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.” Apparently, she doesn’t understand the word “illegally.” Continue reading
For some prep as I at last get back into reviewing the surviving fragments of ancient Greek comedy every now and then, here’s my 2011 review of Demoi by Eupolis. Along with Aristophanes and Cratinus, Eupolis was one of the Big Three of Attic Old Comedy. Background info is 
THE PRISON ON DEVIL’S ISLAND – Near the mouth of the Orinoco River in French Guyana a huge deposit of diamonds has been discovered. Inmates of the notoriously hellish prison on nearby Devil’s Island have been making frenzied attempts at escape to go diamond hunting. 
TOGETHER WE STAND (1986-1987) – With the new attention being paid to Ke Huy Quan/ Short Round in recent years, I decided to take a look at the sitcom he co-starred in with Elliott Gould, Dee Wallace Stone and others. 
The first episode unrealistically dealt with a social worker leaning on the Randalls to adopt two more children, Sam (Quan) and an African American girl named Sally (Natasha Bobo). But hey, My Mother the Car and The Flying Nun proved long ago that realism isn’t necessary. 
In the middle 1980s/ Way down on Level 31 … 
SERIAL: Radar Men from the Moon was the current serial being shown. This episode of The Texas 27 Film Vault featured Chapter Nine titled Battle in the Stratosphere. During the 12-week run of this serial one of the behind-the-scenes crew (no one remembers who at this point) would dress as Commando Cody, the hero of the serial, and occasionally interact with Randy and Richard during the comedy sketches. 
FILM VAULT LORE: This was supposedly the favorite episode of the Film Vault Corp’s effects man Joe Riley, which is why he used the title The Hypnotic Eye for his post-T27FV television show, episodes of which are online.
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Alice Guy-Blache (1873-1968) was a French film pioneer and was also the first woman to direct movies. Alice worked for the Gaumont Film Company and from 1896 to 1906 was Gaumont’s Head of Production. 
PIERRETTE’S ESCAPADES (1900) – A woman changes from a pink dress to a green dancing outfit. She proceeds to dance alone and soon finds the stock clown character Pierrot dancing with her. The clown tries kissing her but is rebuffed. Next, the stock character Harlequin dances with her, impresses her and the two share a kiss as the 2-minute production comes to a close. Some frames were hand-tinted. 
ESMERALDA (1905) – The oldest known movie version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Alice had been shepherding Gaumont’s movies away from mere visual spectacle and on to narrative filmmaking. 
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