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FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: JUNE 6th

Hitler like Democrats on educationTime for another Faculty Lounge Fascist Roundup. In America “educators” (LMAO) have become known as secular clergy for the Democrats, forcing narrow-minded political conformity and fascist political tactics on their students.

It’s important to remember that “educators” and their Democrat colleagues in Admin are the ULTIMATE Capitalists, despite their lip service to socialism and “wealth redistribution.” The Democrats who run the educational system and the Teacher’s Unions at every level are as selfish as the worst Nineteenth Century Robber Barons.

Stalin

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ~ Joseph Stalin

Those “educators” (LMAO) bitterly cling to their money and privileges, especially their benefits packages, which are grotesquely huge and out of proportion to other professions. BENEFIT EQUITY needs to be addressed.

Maybe those Democrat clergy members should stop being such hypocrites. If it helps state or local governments to provide better social programs for the needy, then surely the Teacher’s Unions should be willing to do what they constantly tell everyone else to do: Give up some of their own financial privileges to help the vulnerable and the marginalized. Especially undocumented immigrants. Right, “educators?” You don’t want to be greedy capitalists by refusing to redistribute your wealth, do you? Even your wealth that comes in the form of your bloated benefits packages which you greedily horde from other government programs?

NOW LET’S MOVE ON TO THIS EDITION’S ROUNDUP:

Speech First logo*** SPEECH FIRST – The courageous activists at SPEECH FIRST are suing oppressive fascists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign over FOUR anti-speech policies. CLICK HERE  and HERE 

*** PROFESSOR ACCUSED OF “HOSTILE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT” FOR ASSIGNING MALE AUTHORS AS PART OF THE READING – All that, plus the fascist thugs called “Bias Response Units” (LMAO). The article includes multiple other absurd complaints acted upon by those Campus Gestapo Units. CLICK HERE 

*** SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY BLOCKS YAF CHAPTER ON GROUNDS IT MAY CAUSE “EMOTIONAL HARM” TO PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH THE GROUP’S VIEWS – Another example of why I often refer to “the emotional cripples who pretend to be college students in America.” CLICK HERE and HERE

*** FEMALE PROFESSOR FROM BRAZIL AGAIN STANDS UP TO DEMOCRAT MOBS ON CAMPUS – Biology Professor Luana Maroja is once again standing up to anti-science Democrats on campus AND is speaking out in an op-ed titled Self-Censorship on Campus is Bad for Science. CLICK HERE and HERE Continue reading

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THE LAST DAYS OF PATTON (1986)

Last days of pattonTHE LAST DAYS OF PATTON (1986) – George C Scott SINGS! Yes, an ENTIRE SONG while camping it up like he’s in a vaudeville revue! Blood and Guts Song and dance man George S Patton belches belts out Lilly From Picadilly in a WTF moment from this otherwise reasonable made-for-tv movie which SHOULD have been titled AfterP*A*T*T*O*N.

Nearly two decades after George C Scott played Patton on the big screen he returned to the role to depict the final days of the controversial military icon. The above-referenced strange interlude in which the General sang on-stage was a mere aberration but you just knew that as weird as I am I would start out my review with it.  

The Scottsploitation angle is the best thing The Last Days of Patton has going for it, because without the novelty appeal of the charismatic actor in the lead role this telefilm would be hopelessly soap-operatic. We’re told the General had an affair with a younger woman but his stoic wife (Eva Marie Saint) tolerated it even though she did not approve. We also get lots of medical drama after Patton is paralyzed following a car accident in Germany the day before he was to leave for America.  

Last Days of Patton 2Roughly half of the movie is spent with the great George C Scott in a hospital bed, like we’re watching Whose Life Is It Anyway, Ya Pusillanimous Sons of Bitches? Scott is always watchable, and really shines here, but the other actors have no room. With such a gigantic figure – real-life Elmer Fudd voice aside – it may have been like that in reality, too. Sharing any stage with the likes of George S Patton must have been suffocating for one’s own ego.  Continue reading

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FLASHMAN’S GUIANA: LOST FLASHMAN PAPERS

Flashman faceFor Flashman Down Under, Flashman in the Opium War & Flashman and the Kings click HERE   For Flashman on the Gold Coast click HERE  For Flashman of Arabia click HERE 

Balladeer’s Blog now moves on to another Harry Flashman adventure never completed before George MacDonald Fraser’s death.

Lee Horsley Flashman

IF HE WAS BRITISH, LEE HORSLEY WOULD HAVE MADE A PERFECT HARRY FLASHMAN.

Projected Title: FLASHMAN’S GUIANA

Time Period: 1876-1877

NOTE: The title Flashman’s Guiana is a play on “Booker’s Guiana,” as the colony of British Guiana (19th century spelling) was often sardonically referred to in the 1800s. That reference came about from the way the Booker business empire virtually ran the colony. From a 21st Century standpoint we might look on it in a sinister Weyland-Yutani way.

… Strictly for storytelling purposes, of course, if you’re a lawyer representing the Booker Group. Honest. Really. (Although after this latest merger I don’t know if anybody would still care.) Anyway, as you readers have requested, this time I’ll establish the action then go back to detail the setup.

crossed sabresThe Action: Sir Harry Flashman and his wife Elspeth visit British Guiana right after their American Tour ended in August, 1876. A combination of Her Majesty’s Government’s interests and Flashman’s own hunger for large amounts of filthy luchre to sustain his and Elspeth’s grand new lifestyle wind up launching the British blackguard into his latest adventure.

Sword and pistols in hand, Harry leaves Elspeth back in the capital city of Georgetown while he takes part in a covert search for gold in the jungle region disputed by Great Britain and Venezuela. Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER PART TWENTY-THREE: FEBRUARY, 1920

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, CLICK HERE

Fool Killer 1920sPART TWENTY-THREE: Here is a look at some of the Fool Killer’s targets from James L Pearson’s February of 1920 issue.

*** People supporting Prohibition.

*** The Fool Killer crashed and slammed a Protestant conference in Boston. The Protestant Preachers were discussing the time period’s shortage of young men willing to become Preachers, a shortage the Fool Killer often took “credit” for since he claimed it was fear of meeting his (the Fool Killer’s) wrath that helped scare a lot of men away from the pulpit. (The fictional vigilante went after Elmer Gantry-like corrupt Preachers long before Sinclair Lewis’ novel Elmer Gantry had been published.)

              This conference was endorsing the use of phonograph records as “canned” sermons and – since J.L. Pearson’s version of the Fool Killer had an unfortunate preoccupation with religion – this use of such canned sermons found the homicidal fellow unleashing some non-fatal wrath on congregations around the country IF they lazily used the pre-recorded sermons. (Remember, in the 1800s part of the Fool Killer’s Bogey Man aspect was that he would supposedly kill fools who fell asleep during mass.)

*** Supporters of the Red Scare being pushed by Democrat Woodrow Wilson’s Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer (as in the Palmer Raids).

*** Supporters of Republican General Leonard Wood.

*** “Spiritualist” con artists who took money from people for pretending to put them in contact with their dead loved ones in the Afterlife. Sometimes the Fool Killer also preyed upon the foolish victims of the con artists, depending on his ever-changing moods.  Continue reading

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PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLS FOR GLOBAL DECRIMINALIZATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY

LGBTs for Trump PICTURE NINETYDe facto Third Party President Donald Trump, still standing and smiling despite the ugly attempts to bring him down by the career criminals called Democrats and Republicans, marked LGBT Pride Month. It was a nice reminder that Trump – since he’s NOT a real Republican – has attracted high levels of support from LGBT voters as well as voters of color for an (R). This is why Republican trash like the Bush Family, Mitt Romney, Justin Amash and the clueless white guys at National Review hate Trump.

Trump smiling very bigly(WE NEED THIRD PARTIES.) I don’t trust the polls, especially after how wrong they were in 2016 and most recently in Australia’s elections, but America’s Democrats eat, sleep and breathe nothing but polls so it is HILARIOUS that those polls are showing Trump at two-year highs for approval rating, also showing Trump ABOVE OBAMA IN ESTIMATION OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL CONDUCT (Now THAT’s gotta hurt delusional Obama worshippers) AND showing Trump higher than Obama’s presidency in terms of “Caring about the issues that impact my life.”

Remember, my view is that polls have become meaningless with so many people not answering their phones for unfamiliar phone numbers, but Democrats LIVE by polls … well, as long as the polls say what they want to hear. Otherwise they froth at the mouth and snivel about how “stupid” they think everyone is. LMAO! 

Pelosi coverup frameBY THE WAY, ANTI-TRUMP FASCISTS – There are lessons to be learned regarding Trump supporters and growing acceptance of public LGBT issues. Just as many people have LGBT folks in their family or circle of friends and THAT made them come to resent openly-expressed hostility toward those family members or friends, so too do many people have Trump supporters in their family or circle of friends and THAT has made them come to resent openly-expressed hostility toward Trump and his supporters from the pretentious asses of the American Left.  

Donald Trump never called racist till running against DemocratsSpeaking for myself, too, even if I didn’t support Trump I would have grown to despise the non-stop hostility toward his supporters from Democrat fascists, politically biased “educators” (LMAO), brain-dead professional athletes and shallow, uninformed, emotionally unstable entertainers.

If forced to choose between loved ones and friends or the increasingly violent and irrational anti-Trump loons I will ALWAYS side with loved ones and friends against the Trump-haters. And that would be true no matter if I had ever liked Trump or not. Democrats, having absolutely no identity outside of their political opinions, may be incapable of understanding that.  

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FOOL KILLER: PART TWENTY-TWO – JANUARY 1920

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, CLICK HERE

Fool Killer 1920sPART TWENTY-TWO: After a two-part examination of the newest Fool Killer Letter (CLICK HERE ) and the revelation of the vigilante’s activities in Texas in December of 1899 it’s back to looking at the 1919-1929 Fool-Killer presented by THE James Larkin Pearson.

The targets of the Fool Killer (I prefer no hyphen) in the January, 1920 issue:

*** Major newspapers which chided American Labor for bringing attention to the unscrupulous activities of the bloated rich pigs who ran the management side of America’s industries.

              It’s reminiscent of today’s battles with the Robber Barons of Silicon Valley, like Mark “Skippy” Zuckerberg, Jack “White Male Privilege” Dorsey and their fellow corporate fascists at Google and elsewhere. (And check out the documentary The Creepy Line which exposes Silicon Valley fascists at their worst.)

*** Ever since aircraft were proven to be workable the fictional Fool Killer seemed to have moderated his instinctive assumptions that people trumpeting scientific breakthroughs were fools and/or liars. By 1920 if an inventor or tinkerer boasted about their amazing discoveries or devices the homicidal vigilante had shifted to a policy of investigating the claimant and their scientific breakthrough.

              If the claims held up to the Fool Killer’s scrutiny he took no action. But if the claims seemed ridiculously wrong OR like a con or scam to trick people out of their money the folk figure unleashed his weaponry on the “fool” …

*** The Fool Killer investigated a recent claim from “a young feller up north in New York” (no name given) that he invented a “gas vaporizer” to replace carburetors. The young inventor claimed that his device would let your car get “ninety miles per gallon.” Since no such device ever hit the market it would seem the claimant was a con artist and was subjected to the Fool Killer’s usual brand of summary “justice.”

*** In Kansas City the roaming vigilante looked into another inventor’s claim that he had invented “an all-new type of engine” that was “sixty percent more efficient” than the engines currently in use. This, too, seems to have been a scam and the self-proclaimed inventor was dealt with.    Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER: PART TWENTY-ONE: FOLLY, TEXAS – DECEMBER 31st, 1899

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, CLICK HERE

Fool Killer picPART TWENTY-ONE: I’ll return to my look at the 1910-1917 and 1919-1929 version of the Fool Killer next time around. For this segment I’ll conclude the new Fool Killer Letter received here at Balladeer’s Blog from THE actual, supernatural entity himself. (SEE HERE ) This second part of that letter clarifies some of the Fool Killer’s hibernation periods AND details a heretofore UNKNOWN 1899 escapade of the supernatural vigilante.

(cont’d) Anyway, Mr Wozniak or Eddie or Balladeer or whatever you prefer to go by, that was how I came to be. And like I said, you’re no Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans or James Larkin Pearson but I’ve been a mighty long time without a confidant so you’ll do.

As you guessed, my ability to hibernate for years in my hidden cavern home, then emerge dressed in up to date men’s fashions is another unearthly characteristic I inherited from my Daddy, whatever he may really have been, damn him. While I sleep it’s like the changes in the world come to me as dreams, so I’m always aware of the alterations in the zeitgeist.

You probably noticed I never need to eat and the only thing I ever drink is alcohol. I don’t NEED to drink, but maybe my Mama’s heritage shines through with that, because one thing I truly love to slam down is good old American liquor. Preferably bourbon.

I had to smile at your feeble speculations regarding when exactly I returned to my cave to hibernate over the decades. Since you’re so all-fired obsessed with whens and wheres and hows, I’ll throw you a few crumbs here.

Sartana as Fool Killer 5After I drove my Daddy out of the Tennessee Hills I spent the rest of the 1830s and the early 1840s killing off any fools who tried mining or stealing the hidden gold of the Melungeons. During that same period the fools in Washington, DC started sending men into the mountains of Tennsessee, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina to stop the Melungeons from minting their own gold coins, so I took to exterminating those federal agents, too. “Counterfeiting” my ass!

But times changed, and the feds persevered in claiming the government in Washington were the only ones who could mint coins. I saw I’d only be bringing a war down on the heads of my Mama’s people the Melungeons if I kept killing federales so I let up on that. 

By the late 1840s I had decided to make a home out of the remote, now-abandoned cave where my Daddy used to ply his blacksmithing and other mystic trades. I moved in and settled down for my very first period of hibernation. I woke up just a bit short of 1850 and befriended Mr Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans at the Milton Chronicle in North Carolina.

After corresponding with him about my fool-killing vocation for over a decade I took my second nap in the summer of 1861 after telling Evans that I damned the fools of both the North and the South for bringing on that Civil War. As you know from the surviving letters I sent to Mr Evans I emerged from that hibernation in the late 1860s.

For several years I kept busy slaying, among others, Ku Klux Klan fools AND the Carpetbaggers from the North during Reconstruction. My walking stick – forged in my Daddy’s eldritch smithy and with its grinning skull headpiece made of fine Melungeon gold – killed plenty and my set of Bowie Knives drank the blood of many a fool as well.

cowboy gunsAnyway, you don’t need every damn detail, boy. Suffice it to say that around 1880 or ’81 I hibernated again, then pursued my new mission among the Melungeons, this time adding guns and rifles to my arsenal. After several years of that I slept again, then upon awakening I was drawn westward.

One day I’ll tell you all about the many fools I snuffed out in the old west. It’s a wonder I didn’t depopulate the entire region. For right now, however, I’ll recount an adventure that happened right before my next period of slumber.

Sartana as Fool KillerIn late December of 1899 I was traveling through west Texas, riding along in that wagon I had taken to using during my 1880s activities back among the Melungeons. In the summer of ’99 I had taken a brief return trip to the East and on my way back out west I had that run-in with the sinister, Infernal fair along the Old Pike Road in Alabama. The tale that George Ade wrote about.         

My destination was Folly, Texas. You can’t find it or what’s left of it now but back then it was southwest of Lubbock and almost right at the border of Texas and New Mexico. Texans of the time said nothing thrived in that part of the Lone Star State except cacti. Continue reading

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TRUMP CARDS: MAY 28th

Trump is SerpicoWE NEED THIRD PARTIES is my frequent refrain here at Balladeer’s Blog. In the meantime we DO get to have de facto Third Party President Donald Trump shaking up the career criminals called Democrats and Republicans. America’s career politicians will never forgive President Trump for saving the economy and for looking out for the working class and the poor OF ALL COLORS.

Their absurd “Russian Collusion” and make-believe “obstruction” nonsense has been thwarted on every level and now Trump is poised to get in a few counter-attacks against our Mafia-like political class. If you’ve ever researched (as opposed to just being vaguely aware of) the Watergate Scandal and what it revealed about America’s cesspool of corruption which masquerades as a government you’ll recognize all the same indicators. And for right now they’re operating in Trump’s favor.

Trump in the wayHere are links to some great pieces written about these topics:

TIME TO PAY THE PIPER – click HERE 

THE DE FACTO COUP ATTEMPT AGAINST TRUMP WAS LAUNCHED LARGELY TO COVER UP OBAMA’S GESTAPO-LIKE USE OF THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES (Watergate Redux for you 70s nostalgia buffs!) – click HERE

TOKYO CROWDS SHOUT “WE LOVE TRUMP!” PRESIDENT TRUMP INFLUENCED THE RECENT POLITICAL CHANGES IN AUSTRALIA AND EUROPE … IS JAPAN NEXT? (Even if it’s not, it’s fun watching irrational Trump haters blow a gasket.) – click HERE

THE POSITIVELY TRUMPIAN RESULTS IN THE U.K. – E.U. ELECTIONS – ESPECIALLY THE BLOW IT STRUCK TO THEIR OWN TWO MAJOR PARTIES – IS EXAMINED – click HERE

MUELLERGATE IS UNRAVELING – Including a bit on how a woman falsely accused by the Democrats of being a Russian spy/ operative is suing – click HERE Continue reading

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIME TALLY: MAY 16th – 22nd

Pelosi Ugly

IS PELOSI EVER SOBER?

WHITE, PRIVILEGED ONE-PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI AND EVERY OTHER MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO HINDERS BORDER SECURITY IS AN ACCOMPLICE TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE CRIMES.

Before we get to the main list of additional crimes committed by illegal immigrants I’ll post another reminder of the way illegal immigrants can spread disease since they bypass screenings for such diseases – which could be spotted and treated IF we had a secured southern border.

Kelli BallardJournalist and strong female role model Kelli Ballard courageously continues to compile as comprehensive as possible a breakdown of the additional crimes committed by people in the country illegally.

The victims of illegal immigrant crimes and the loved ones of those victims deserve at least as much care and compassion as the corporate media and the Democrats heap upon every criminal alien who commits murders and rapes.

The message has long been clear: Democrats care only about illegal immigrants and never the victims of illegal immigrant crime. And never about the diseases on the uptick in areas with a heavy illegal immigrant presence.

FOR KELLI’S MAY 16th – 22nd ROUNDUP OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS’ ADDITIONAL CRIMES CLICK HERE

Victims of Illegal Immigrants

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CONCLUSION: AMERICA’S QUASI-NAVAL WAR WITH FRANCE (1798-1801)

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! Ending this holiday weekend’s dose of seasonal posts is this concluding part of Balladeer’s Blog’s look at America’s undeclared naval war with France from 1798 to 1801. FOR PART ONE CLICK HERE  . 

Enterprise

MAY ?, 1800: (Some sources place this action in late April) The USS Boston, commanded by “the American Horatio Nelson” himself, Captain George Little, was in the Bight of Leogane, where it fought and sank a force of six French-allied ships in the navy of Hyacinth Rigaud. (Rigaud’s infamy was covered in Part One)

MAY ??, 1800: The Adams recaptured an unidentified vessel which had previously been taken by the French and converted for its navy’s use.

MAY ??, 1800: The Insurgent and the Adams teamed up to liberate an unidentified British privateer ship from the French craft which had captured it.

MAY ??, 1800: The Adams recaptured the Nancy (one of many vessels with that name), a ship previously seized by the French for their own navy.

MAY ??, 1800: The Adams defeated and captured the French ship Grinder

MAY ??, 1800: A very busy month for the Adams came to an end as the feisty vessel overcame three to one odds to defeat and capture the French ships the Dove, the Renommee and a third ship whose name has not come down to us.   

MAY 31st, 1800: The John Adams (separate vessel from the Adams) recaptured the American brig Olive from the French.  

JUNE 6th, 1800: The Merrimack battled the French vessel L’Hazard in order to free the French ship’s latest capture – the American Ceres.  The Merrimack succeeded in liberating the Ceres. Continue reading

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