From an America whose corporate media will offer up the kind of gushingly reverent praise of a dead Iranian official responsible for the imprisonment and torture of untold numbers of people that they will NEVER offer up for any dead opposition party President or official, it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.
DEMOCRAT BIOLOGICAL AGENT ATTACK TARGETED AT TRUMP. I’m not even surprised at this point. Will the Democrats “denounce” this act the way they would demand that Trump denounce any similar action against his opponent? I doubt it.
ANTI-TRUMP PROPAGANDA FILM FABRICATES RAPE OF IVANA BY HER HUSBAND. IVANA PASSIONATELY SAID THAT NEVER HAPPENED. But anti-Trump fascists will use any lies that they want to try to destroy the opposition leader. And their ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable followers will believe – or pretend to believe – whatever The Party orders them to.
VETERAN LEGAL SCHOLAR ALAN DERSHOWITZ AGAIN BLASTS MERCHAN’S OUTRAGEOUS PREJUDICIAL CONDUCT. Another legal scholar weighs in HERE.
OVER FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN GOLD BARS FOUND BY AUTHORITIES AT DEMOCRAT SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ’S HOME. Have I mentioned lately what career criminals America’s elected officials tend to be? Continue reading
Over five years ago Balladeer’s Blog began a detailed look at the neglected folklore surrounding the Fool Killer figure. It’s been a while since I left off and I’m about to dive back in. There are so many new readers here that I’m posting a recap of the very first Fool Killer item from the 1850s. Next time I’ll resume where I left off – in 1913. 
Balladeer’s Blog kicks off a multi-part examination of the neglected 1800s folk figure called the Fool Killer. I will cover the various stories featuring the Fool Killer and the different ways the character was used by the authors. If I ever examine the related character called the Rascal Whaler it will be in a separate series of blog posts. 
However, since Evans was all about the written word, he used the Fool Killer as a much more active figure. Evans’ Fool Killer – claiming Jesse Holmes as his real name – roamed North Carolina and Virginia (which at the time still consisted of what would become West Virginia) looking for fools to kill with a club/ walking stick he always carried with him. The character would then send letters to Editor Evans explaining why he had chosen victims, defending his actions with puckish commentary. 
TRADER HORN (1927) – This book was the quasi-autobiographical account of Alfred Aloysius Horn (1854-1931), a British trader in Africa during the 1800s. Ethelreda Lewis added pertinent commentary to each chapter. 
FRANCOIS VILLON PART SEVEN – We pick up this time in 1460, as Villon’s roaming career as a highwayman and armed burglar among the Coquillards was fast approaching its end, though the poet seems not to have realized it. None of his poetry from 1458 and 1459 has survived, unfortunately.
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