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FOOL KILLER: PART EIGHT – THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER

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 EIGHT: The previous installment dealt with the last surviving Fool Killer Letter by Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, Editor of the Milton Chronicle. That letter was from February of 1879.

This time I’ll go back to look at another Civil War-era reference to the Fool Killer Letters, to an excerpt from an 8th Letter which has not survived and to a publication running their own list of figures they’d like to see the Fool Killer slay.  

Southern Literary MessengerIn 1862 the Southern Literary Messenger quoted from a Milton Chronicle Fool Killer Letter, but without an exact date and without the whole context it’s not sufficient to count it as an 8th surviving letter.

Before I get into the details of Jesse Holmes’ (The Fool Killer’s) murderous activities in this account I will briefly explain that this Southern Literary Messenger article seems to be the source of confusion regarding whether the Fool Killer began his famous Civil War hibernation period in 1861 or 1862.   Continue reading

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MUSLIM BOSTON MARATHON MASSACRE: SIX YEARS LATER

CAIRBREAKING NEWS: Muslim fanatics are STILL the ones behind the Boston Marathon Massacre, despite the way the media tried to blame it on Tea Party members.

Yes it was six years ago that the world got another reminder about the blood-soaked, homophobic and misogynistic elements of Islam when the Tsarnaev brothers set off explosives at the Boston Marathon and seemed proud of it.

As if the attack itself wasn’t repulsive enough the American media made it even worse by once again showing their ugly biases.

Remember how they spent a few days implying that since the attack happened on Tax Day it must have been Tea Party members (the favorite bogeymen of the American left) who set off the explosives?

When the culprits turned out to be Muslims those same outlets looked even more foolish than they usually do. Yes, whiny Liberals, I know Fox News Channel and talk radio show conservative bias but all the other news outlets show liberal bias that is at least as blatant. Grow up and deal with it already.

As I pointed out years ago after the attacks were revealed to be Islamic in nature and not tax-related:

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I’d like to offer my condolences to America’s Liberals, who were salivating with the desperate hope that the massacre at the Boston Marathon could be blamed on the Conservatives they hate with such irrational fervor. Democratic Party stations like NPR, CNN and others which are the Liberal versions of Fox News Channel and talk radio were lovingly dwelling on the April 15th date (Tax Day), practically orgasming at the thought that Tea Party activists might have chosen that day to become as violent as Liberals pretend they are.  Continue reading

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BIGOTED DEMOCRAT TARGETS HISPANIC AMERICAN WOMAN FOR SUPPORTING TRUMP

Paloma for TrumpIt’s no secret that Democrats have become the new Nazis, despite their tendency to project their own fascist feelings onto the people who courageously oppose them. Just one of the latest examples involved a bigoted Democrat attack on Paloma Zuniga at a Post Office in Chula Vista.

Luckily the heroic Ms Zuniga recorded the hate-filled assault on her. Continue reading

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NEW YORK TIMES: TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICY HELPS ATTRACT BLACK VOTERS

Trump black supporters in t-shirtsDe facto Third Party President Donald Trump continues to win black voters away from Democrats, the party of the Ku Klux Klan, slavery, Jim Crow, the Dred Scott Decision and so much more. The New York Times‘ Charles Blow addressed this recently.

The Democrats find themselves caught between their reliance on illegal immigrant voter fraud on the one hand and on the other hand the way that majorities of legal Hispanic immigrants as well as African-American voters OPPOSE illegal immigration.

For the entire New York Times piece  Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER: PART SEVEN – FEBRUARY 13th, 1879

Fool Killer RedBalladeer’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 SEVEN: The seventh surviving Fool Killer Letter. (See Part One for an explanation.)

February 13th of 1879 was the publication date but January 30th was the date of the letter itself. For the location the Fool Killer simply wrote “Mountain Cave” as in his secret cavern lair which was never glimpsed by human eyes.

Many of Jesse Holmes’ activities that he recounts to Editor Charles Evans (the real author of the letters) in this missive happened around Christmas 1878 through New Year’s. That being the case A Very Fool Killer Christmas might be a good title. 

Between Woodsdale and Clarksville the roaming murderer came across a weeping young man driving a wagon full of chickens. It turned out that the figure was crying because he took his girlfriend to a Yuletide party and agreed to let an old bachelor walk her home. The old bachelor convinced her to marry him and they immediately went to a magistrate’s house and were wed.

The Fool Killer administered a non-fatal beating to the young man for his foolishness in letting the bachelor walk his girl home AND for wasting time crying over such an inconstant belle when there were plenty more fish in the sea.

Skull walking stick 3Holmes then set out to snuff the devious old bachelor and also came across another young man who had been played false by the same woman who victimized the wagon driver. This suitor had swum the Hyco River in North Carolina, risking pneumonia at that time of year, just to see the girl. The Fool Killer advised him about the belle’s true nature and gave him a token swat for being suckered in by that designing woman and risking his life for her.

His recent late January antics dispensed with, Jesse moved on to recap his murderous activities from shortly before Christmas Eve to New Year’s Eve. The Fool Killer saved a pious and religious man named Charles Butts from three not-right men pushing a kind of Millerite end of the world belief enroute to a Christmas Party.

Fool Killer garbThe trio tried to persuade Butts into joining them in a suicide pact to show their faith before the imminent end. When Charles refused, the three drunken apocalypticists grew hostile and implied they might take him with them against his will. The Fool Killer intervened with his club/ walking stick/cudgel and his set of Bowie knives and slew the three loons.  

Next our homicidal vigilante set out to deliver punishment and recover the stolen coffin and cadaver of the wealthy Alexander Turney Stewart. Alexander had died in 1876 but in 1878 grave-robbers made off with his casket and corpse from St Mark’s. Continue reading

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MOCK HEADLINES: APRIL 12th

AssangeDEMOCRATS VOW TO RUN CAT FECES-SPREADING JULIAN ASSANGE AS THEIR 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE “He’s saner than anyone else we have running” Nancy Pelosi admits. (Scoop courtesy of Balladeer’s Blog reporter Tamara)

CORRUPT CONGRESSWOMAN “MAD MAXINE” WATERS SHOWS SHE HAD NO IDEA OUR STUDENT LOAN SYSTEM WAS CHANGED YEARS AGO … Waters Sure To Win A 4th Straight “Most Brain-Dead Member of Congress” Award! 

DEMOCRATS ADVISE NETANYAHU’S DEFEATED OPPONENT: “YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE WHAT WE DO – CONVENIENTLY DISCOVER MILLIONS OF ‘UNCOUNTED’ VOTES LONG AFTER ELECTION DAY”

Jack DorseySILICON VALLEY ROBBER BARONS LIKE JACK DORSEY, MARK ZUCKERBERG AND THEIR ILK ADOPT NEW SLOGAN: “WE’RE WHITE, WE’RE RICH, WE CONTROL THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA. AND THERE’S NOTHING YOU PEASANTS CAN DO ABOUT IT!”

WOODY ALLEN TO WORK WITH JULIAN ASSANGE ON A SEQUEL TO “DON’T DRINK THE WATER.” NEW COMEDY TO BE TITLED “DON’T EAT THAT TUNA CASSEROLE!”

DEMOCRATS DECLARE IT A HATE CRIME FOR NON-DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES TO APPEAR ON ANY STATE’S BALLOTS Nancy Pelosi Says “Marginalized people blah blah blah … Nazis.”

CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS AGAIN DENY BEING VERMIN – ADMIT TO BEING LARGE CLUMPS OF BACTERIA SCULPTED INTO HUMAN FORM

Melania TrumpFIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP, WIFE OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, STILL SPEAKS MORE LANGUAGES THAN BOTH OBAMAS COMBINED

DEMOCRAT ILHAN OMAR BLAMES JEWS FOR HER HORRIFIC FASHION SENSE 

DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE THAT ONE OF THEIR CANDIDATES LOSING AN ELECTION – ANY ELECTION – WILL NO LONGER BE AN ACCEPTABLE OUTCOME 

DEMOCRATS DEMAND A FINAL SOLUTION BE FOUND TO “THE JEWISH PROBLEM”

NANCY PELOSI: VETERANS ARE TRASH. WE DEMOCRATS CARE ONLY ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

DEMOCRAT RASHIDA TLAIB INSISTS JEWS BROKE INTO HER HOME AND REPLACED ALL HER FURNISHINGS WITH EXACT DUPLICATES “Come over and see for yourself” she heroically challenged Islamophobic skeptics Continue reading

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FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: APRIL 10th

Education or indoctrination gifTime for another look at how fascist Democrats have distorted the “educational system” (LMAO) and transformed colleges and universities into churches of irrational thought and political intolerance. 

*** PHILIP CARL SALZMAN, who courageously works for educational reform in the face of Democrat intolerance, produced another thought-provoking piece. The link is below but first some excerpts:

“Universities in the 20th century were dedicated to the advancement of knowledge. Scholarship and research were pursued, and diverse opinions were exchanged and argued in the “marketplace of ideas.”

“This is no longer the case. Particularly in the social sciences, humanities, education, social work, and law, a single political ideology has replaced scholarship and research, because the ideology presents fixed answers to all questions. 

” … there is no longer diversity of opinion. Only those committed to the ideology are admitted to academic staff or administration.” (NOTE FROM BALLADEER: Which is why I call colleges and universities “Churches of irrational thought and political intolerance.”)

” … while racism is held to be the highest sin in the West, and slavery the greatest of our historical sins, your children will learn that we are not allowed to criticize contemporary racism and slavery in Africa, the Middle East, and the equivalents in South Asia.”

Voltaire“Postcolonialism posits that all of the problems in societies around the world today are the result of the relatively short Western imperial dominance and colonization. For example, British imperialism is blamed for what are in fact indigenous cultures, such as the South Asian caste system and the African tribal system.”

This ahistorical approach of postcolonialism ignores the hundreds of empires and their colonies throughout history, as well as ignoring contemporary empires, such as the Arab Muslim Empire that conquered all of the central Middle East, North Africa, southern Europe, Persia, Central Asia, and northern India, and occupied them minimally for hundreds of years, but 1400 years in the central Middle East and North Africa, and occupy them today … Postcolonialists have nothing to say about any of this; they wish to condemn exclusively the West.

ALL THIS PLUS MUCH MORE. CLICK HERE

*** AND … on a lighter note, there’s this article about Democrat “teachers” (LMAO) telling their students that the “OK” sign is a symbol of White Supremacy. (How foolish does someone have to be to believe this?)

FOR THIS ITEM CLICK Continue reading

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NEGLECTED DETECTIVES WHO SOLVED REAL-LIFE MYSTERIES

Ellis ParkerTHE SLEUTH: Ellis Parker, Chief of Detectives in Burlington County, NJ. Parker’s professional reputation was such that detectives from other jurisdictions often sought help from him.

TAGLINE: “The county detective with an international reputation.”

THE CRIME: On October 5th of 1920 bank employee David Paul, known to his friends and loved ones as a quiet, prim and devoted family man, disappeared with a courier pouch containing more than $70,000 in cash and $30,000 in negotiable securities. Eleven days later Mr Paul’s corpse was found in a shallow grave.

THE SCENE: David Paul’s clothing was soaking wet but his grave and the surrounding soil were bone dry. Authorities determined that Paul had only been dead for about 2-3 days despite the 11 day absence. The cause of death was a bullet through the head.

SOLVING THE CRIME: Ellis Parker learned that the seemingly quiet David Paul was known for participating in wild orgies at a cottage far outside of town. None of the other participants in the cottage’s wild sex parties admitted to seeing David during the days after the theft but before his dead body was found. Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER: PART SIX – SEPTEMBER 11th, 1877

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 riverboat gambler lookPART SIX: The sixth surviving Fool Killer Letter. (See Part One for an explanation.)

September 11th was the publication date but the “letter” was dated August, 1877. Location: “Sitting on somebody’s gate post, I don’t know where.”

This Fool Killer Letter, one of the precious few to have survived, surfaced in 1975 and had originally been syndicated in 1877 in the Oxford, NC publication called The Torchlight. Previously Balladeer’s Blog covered how the darkly satirical adventures of Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans’ fictional Fool Killer were syndicated not just in Evans’ Milton Chronicle but in other newspapers throughout North Carolina and Virginia at least.

For the first time in the surviving letters the homicidal vigilante has no idea what location he’s writing from in his “correspondence” with Editor Charles Evans. Jesse Holmes (as the wandering murderer claimed to be his real name) was uncharacteristically downbeat in the opening lines. He confessed to being close to despair and contemplated returning to his hidden cave to hibernate again for several years, like he had from roughly 1861/2 to 1870.

Skull walking stick 4The Fool Killer complained that for every fool he slew with his club/ walking stick/ cudgel or his set of Bowie knives (each blade inscribed with the words “Fool Killer”) three more fools sprang up to take their place. He said that fools were as plentiful as grains of sand on the beach.

Jesse especially reviled the idiots who thought themselves intellectually superior to the rest of the citizenry and the deceitful, hypocritical and villainous malefactors who abused their positions as politicians, clergy and teachers. The timelessness of the Fool Killer Letters always makes me wonder why they are so neglected. 

Fool Killer riverboat torsoHolmes’ body count in this letter started off with assorted nouveau riche snobs of the Gilded Age, whom he condemned as would-be aristocrats. The Fool Killer struck down these formerly poor people who became wealthy and then put on airs, snubbing friends and relations who were not as well off and forbidding their daughters to even be seen dancing with “mechanics” (the term used in the actual 1877 letter).  

Our “hero” disparaged the beaver-fur top hats worn by at least one of his nouveau riche victims. Hey, “Fur Kills” even in 1877 I guess!

Moving on to Jesse’s other killings confessed to in this letter: Continue reading

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AS ECONOMIC WARFARE

illegal immigration democrat vote machineJoshua Foxworth recently authored an excellent work about the way that illegal immigration has been used as a form of economic warfare which has been devastating the American working class of all colors. The only misstep I see in the article is the way the author fell into the pro-illegals rhetorical trap of acting like opposing illegal immigration is the same as opposing legal immigration. I added “illegal” parenthetically in the following excerpts.  

The link is below, but first those excerpts:

” … (T)hose who support the policy of (illegal) migration implement the following practices –

*** Place pressure on employers to fire natives openly opposed to (illegal immigration). 

*** Deny platforms to the native population that opposes (illegal immigration) (Payment processors, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, etc)

illegal immigration cartoon*** Write articles condemning (those opposed to illegal immigration) and ensure that anyone who employs them will be targeted as well.”

” … Using these practices the (illegal) immigrant population and their supporters can effectively destroy the ability of any native member to economically support themselves.”

” … First, this is hidden but as their power grows it moves into the open. This can be seen in Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez asserting that immigration laws should not apply to Latinos as this land is rightfully theirs, as well as Senator Kamala Harris asserting that foreign nationals have the right to make laws with respect to U.S. citizens.” Continue reading

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