Be sure to watch before the corporate censors at YouTube take this video down like they have so many others when women try to express their pain over the Muslim RapeFugee epidemic in Europe.
Be sure to watch before the corporate censors at YouTube take this video down like they have so many others when women try to express their pain over the Muslim RapeFugee epidemic in Europe.
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
Welcome back to Balladeer’s Blog! Recently even Democrat Chris Matthews acknowledged that our de facto Third Party President Donald Trump is looking out for “Forgotten American workers.” Meanwhile, President Trump’s opponents keep looking out for illegal immigrants and for Corporate Fascists like Mark “Skippy” Zuckerberg.
At any rate it seemed like a good time for another round of Mock Headlines:
(By the way, I’m neither a liberal nor a conservative. Want proof? CLICK HERE )
HOLLYWOOD INSISTS LOWER RATINGS MEAN THE OSCARS/WEINSTEIN AWARDS WERE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN EVER BEFORE!
MAN EMERGES FROM DEEP COMA; REMEMBERS HE IS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
JERRY BROWN: “THE DEAD VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMES HAVE NOT ISSUED ONE WORD OF COMPLAINT ABOUT THE OAKLAND MAYOR HELPING MURDERERS AND RAPISTS ESCAPE ARREST BY WARNING THEM ABOUT I.C.E. RAIDS”
BLOATED RICH PIG CELEBRITIES CONTINUE TO MISTAKENLY THINK THEY SPEAK FOR THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR
MEDIA FINALLY ADMITS “PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL RATINGS” ARE A MEANINGLESS FARCE AS INACCURATE AS HOROSCOPES
DEMOCRAT DICK DURBIN AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN JENNIFER LAWRENCE’S RECENT HATE-FILLED DIATRIBE AGAINST HIM
ADMITTED RAPIST KOBE BRYANT WINS AN OSCAR/WEINSTEIN AWARD AMID #METOO PREENING CEREMONIES
PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL HATED BY EVERY ENEMY OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR
REASONABLE PEOPLE AGREE: WATCHING ANY AWARDS SHOW IS EVEN WORSE THAN GOING TO CHURCH
AWARDS SHOWS TO BE RE-LABELED “SHOW TRIALS IN WHICH THE VIEWERS ARE ASSUMED GUILTY OF EVERYTHING THE HOSTS HAVE DONE AND ARE TO BE LECTURED BY RICH PIG DEMOCRATS”
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
FOR PART ONE CLICK HERE
THE TRI-STATE TERROR
Real Name: Wilbur Underhill, Jr
Birth – Death: March 16th, 1901 – January 6th, 1934
Lore: Underhill is so overlooked today there are times when it seems like there IS no lore about him. That is good, actually, since rabid criminals like this don’t deserve the romanticized treatment they usually get.
Criminal Career: In 1918 Underhill was convicted of burgling the home of his family’s next-door neighbor in Joplin, MO and was sent to prison. He was released in 1922 and began robbing necking couples who were parked in cars, making him one of many “Lover’s Lane Bandits” across the country.
Underhill, still just a One State Terror at this point, was convicted of armed robbery after police decoys caught him one night in 1923 pulling off a Lover’s Lane holdup. Wilbur was sentenced to five years but was released on parole in 1926. He celebrated Christmas of 1926 by robbing an Oklahoma drug store with “Skeet” Akins and killing a 19 year old customer in the process. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, opinion
With John Dillinger folklore given WAY too much attention, Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the legends versus the ugly reality regarding some of his contemporary gangsters.
TWO-GUN CROWLEY
Real Name: Francis Crowley
Birth – Death: October 31st, 1912 – January 21st, 1932
Lore: Crowley was supposedly born out of wedlock to a German-American woman and a New York police officer who refused to marry Crowley’s mother. This supposedly accounts for his intense hatred of the police.
Reality: Such shallow, Pulp Magazine thinking doesn’t seem likely. The young man was adopted by a family in which Francis grew up alongside a cop-killing older brother named John Crowley. John himself would be killed in a battle with police.
This background seems a more likely explanation for Francis’ issues than some mythical hatred of an unknown father who abandoned him and his mother.
Criminal Career: By age 19, Crowley had a reputation as a competent holdup man and hit & run armed robber who never slipped up enough for a conviction. He might have escaped suspicion entirely if not for his excessively belligerent attitude when questioned by authorities.
On February 21st, 1931 Crowley, packing the omnipresent pair of hand-guns that earned him his nickname, crashed an American Legion dance in the Bronx. Two-Gun was accompanied by a pair of male accomplices, one of whom was believed to be frequent associate Rudolph “Fats” Durringer.
When the Legionnaires attempted to expel the uninvited trio Crowley whipped out his pair of firearms and opened fire, wounding at least two innocent men before fleeing. With charges of attempted murder now hanging over his head, Two-Gun was about to enter the busiest period of his career. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, opinion
Happy Presidents Day! Balladeer’s Blog’s seasonal posts continue with this look at the presidential election of 1912.
I won’t bury this item in unnecessary detail to the point where it becomes boring. My emphasis will be on its three-way battle’s relevance to us in 2018.
DEMOCRAT: Woodrow Wilson, the victor. To this very day many Republicans blame Wilson for starting the country on its path toward all the things they don’t like.
They ignore the fact that their own party’s movers and shakers of the time spitefully ensured Wilson’s victory by refusing to accept the popular Theodore Roosevelt as the Republican candidate.
That drove him to the Third Party called the Progressive Party, thus splitting the anti-Wilson vote in such a way that enabled the Democrat to win.
PROGRESSIVE: Former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt had come out of retirement to run again because he was thoroughly disenchanted with his hand-picked successor, incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft.
The reason? Theodore felt that Taft was undoing the few inroads that he (Theodore) had made against the moneyed rich pig class. Republican tycoons of the time often expressed their feeling that Teddy was a traitor to his class – an accusation that they would REALLY overuse against Theodore’s Democrat cousin Franklin Roosevelt decades later.
This is similar to the way current President Donald Trump is often attacked by today’s bloated rich pigs, both Republican AND Democrat, because of the few inroads that HE has made against his fellows in the moneyed class. Some of the rich pigs of Teddy’s era openly referred to the way they generally carry America’s elected officials around in their pockets by saying “We bought the son of a bitch but he wouldn’t stay bought.”
Let that sink in: Both the brazenness of the public statement AND the notion of people so wealthy they could afford to buy even an Old Money figure like Theodore Roosevelt. This too, shows how dangerous those still-prevalent plutocratic forces are and the uphill fight faced by President Trump, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and John F Kennedy.
REPUBLICAN: William Howard Taft, the incumbent Republican President and a rich pig who was perfectly happy to conform to the desires of the plutocratic forces that his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt had fought.
When you think of Taft, think of today’s Republican trash like Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Mitch McConnell and all the other GOP wimps acceptable to the kind of moneyed pigs who continue to battle President Trump, even though he is nominally a member of their political party.
Virtually no one seriously doubts that Roosevelt would have defeated Woodrow Wilson if the Republicans had let the returning Teddy be their nominee in 1912. Instead, they coordinated Taft’s nomination at their convention because they knew that Theodore – like President Trump today – would have fought them on certain issues.
Roosevelt retaliated by running as the candidate of the Progressive Party aka Bull Moose Party. With Teddy and Taft splitting so much of the anti-Wilson vote, Woodrow went on to win the election, unleashing all those policies which many Republicans feel “started to destroy the country.”
One lesson from all of that is that the one percenters and bloated rich pigs who run the Republican Party have long been more than happy to spitefully enable the victory of a candidate whom their voters opposed just to block a Republican candidate that they don’t own.
So whenever right-wing Republicans go on a tirade against Woodrow Wilson it can take the conversation to interesting new places to point out that Wilson would never have become president in the first place if not for the spiteful behavior of the Republican Establishment.
This, too, is similar to the way that the Republican Party’s Never-Trump fools and the privileged white males at National Review continue to sabotage the Donald even though following his lead might ensure them a much, MUCH larger share of the working class vote and the African-American vote.
As in 1912 the greedy interests of RepubCorp’s bloated rich pigs matter more to them than the voters and the country as a whole. Continue reading