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APRIL 2020: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE. 

joe biden is so creepySENILE JOE BIDEN BLITHERS AGAIN – Even Bernie Bros were disgusted with the creepy Joe Biden, who embodied the corruption of career politicians in the U.S. Click HERE.

vernon jones picDEMOCRAT BIGOTS ATTACK COURAGEOUS MAN OF COLOR VERNON JONES FOR REFUSING TO OBEY THEM. Among Jones’ remarks: “A generation of African American families have been devastated by draconian policies that Joe Biden supported and voted for when he served in the U.S. Senate,” Jones said in a statement to CBS 46. “A change was needed and President Trump took action.” “Turn the lights off, I have left the plantation.” Click HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PAYROLL PROTECTION PROGRAM IS HIS LATEST POLICY HELPING THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR – Trump was the best president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. Click HERE.

trump is fdrMORE DEMOCRATS REBEL AGAINST PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE-PERCENTERS LIKE NANCY PELOSI AND CHUCK SCHUMER’S ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FDR-STYLE PAYROLL PROTECTION PROGRAM. Can we stop acting like this is the same Democrat Party that it was long ago? Click HERE.

THE GUARDIAN’S MELANIE PHILIPS: “WHY I LEFT THE LEFT” – Not just in America, but also in the U.K. the political left has become everything it used to pretend to oppose. Click HERE.

karen wCOURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT KAREN WHITSETT PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP – It’s HERE.

LAUGHING AT JOE BIDEN’S IDIOCY IS THE BEST MEDICINE – More video fun regarding Joe Biden’s obvious unfitness – and he has more than lived up to that unfitness. Click HERE.

TWENTY WRY QUOTES – Some needed comic relief. Click HERE. Continue reading

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BEST OF JULY 2023

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues with this look at July’s best.

riverboat coverRIVERBOAT (1959-1961) – My review of this neglected television series about Darren McGavin and a young Burt Reynolds as partners who run a riverboat along the Mississippi and its tributaries during the 1830s and 1840s. Burt and Darren help Texas rebels fight Mexican tyrants, assist historical figures like Zachary Taylor and Abe Lincoln, and clash with river pirates, gunrunners and fugitives. Click HERE.

A MODERN MUSKETEER (1917) – Douglas Fairbanks’ silent action-comedy about a quixotic 20th Century man who longs for the age of chivalrous adventuring. Click HERE

thomasine and bushrod posterTHOMASINE & BUSHROD (1974) – A western about a pair of fictional outlaws who become folk heroes from 1911-1915 as the Wild West is fading away. Vonetta McGee plays Thomasine, a female bounty hunter who winds up robbing banks alongside her true love J.P. Bushrod (Max Julien). The pair give away most of their illegal proceeds to the poor of all colors. This movie is like The Wild Bunch crossed with Bonnie & Clyde, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid and more. Click HERE

NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUPS – July 3rd HERE, July 6th HERE.

black bolt and inhumansJANUARY 1972 MARVEL PUBLICATIONS – Black Bolt and the Inhumans take on Magneto, Spider-Man fights Kraven the Hunter in the Savage Land, Daredevil and the Black Widow face MK-9, Conan the Barbarian meets Omm the Spider-God and much more. Click HERE.

CALIFORNIA JIM – Real-life gunslinger and his forgotten saga. Click HERE.

THADDEUS KOSCIUSZKO: REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO – A brief look. Click HERE.

hurricane nellHURRICANE NELL – One of the first Dime Novel heroines created by Edward L. Wheeler in 1877. This tale follows the daring young lady sharpshooter on her revenge quest against a gang of outlaws. Click HERE.

KINGSBOROUGH COLLEGE – Cool named sports team. Click HERE.

THE LAND OF THE CHANGING SUN (1894) – “Ancient” science fiction about a futuristic underground civilization. Click HERE. Continue reading

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DECEMBER 28th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here is the latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN HENRY CUELLAR SAYS “WE’RE GOING TO LOSE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS BECAUSE BIDEN IGNORED THE BORDER.” Oh, there’s all kinds of reasons that so many of us former Democrats have left the Party to become Independent Voters.  

jack smith picILLEGITIMATE FUNCTIONARY JACK SMITH, LOOKING NOTHING AT ALL LIKE A STALKER AND RAPIST, DEMANDS THAT THE BIDEN REGIME’S TARGET DONALD TRUMP BE PREVENTED FROM CITING EVIDENCE. More HERE. The latest in the Regime’s travesties, fresh off Smith’s latest defeat on expediting the immunity ruling.

YET ANOTHER REPORT INDICATES THE BIDEN REGIME IS DIVERTING VETERANS ADMINISTRATION FUNDS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Not since Warren G. Harding and the Ohio Gang has the country been victimized by such blatant criminals as Joe Biden and his ilk. Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS REMOVE TRUMP FROM A STATE BALLOT LIKE THEY DID WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1860

blocked from ballotIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the latest anti-Trump hysteria here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

abraham lincoln and trumpFor overseas readers, let me be clear that the title of this blog post is no joke. Abraham Lincoln also caused Democrats to froth at the mouth with hatred even more than they usually do and he was removed from multiple state ballots in the 1860 election, which he went on to win.

Obviously, this move by Colorado’s Democrat Supreme Court taking Trump off its ballot for 2024 is unconstitutional, but I’m not as confident as others are that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn the decision. The rival gangs of white-collar criminals called the Democrat and Republican Parties are still a terminal cancer on the body politic and they don’t want outsiders like populist Donald Trump rocking their crooked boat. 

trump and jfkI’ll have more to say on this in the days ahead, but holiday preparations limit my time today. Here are items written by others about this latest anti-Trump travesty:

DEMOCRATS’ ANTI-TRUMP BALLOT STUNT ISN’T GOING AS PLANNED.

ayatolla andCOLORADO DEMOCRATS ON THEIR STATE SUPREME COURT REMOVED TRUMP FROM BALLOT OVER THINGS HE HASN’T EVEN BEEN CHARGED WITH. A mere hearing report was their basis for this unconstitutional decision.

AS I WROTE IN THIS ARTICLE THERE WAS NO “INSURRECTION” ON JANUARY SIXTH AND NOTHING ON THAT DAY WOULD HAVE PUT TRUMP BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Trump in the wayCONGRESSMEN AND A FEW GOVERNORS RESPOND TO COLORADO OVERREACH WITH CALLS TO REMOVE BIDEN FROM THE BALLOT IN TEXAS AND FLORIDA. Hey, why not, since Colorado made it clear they did not base their decision on any actual verdict in any trial anywhere. But we’ll see if Republicans have the backbone to go through with this. I’m betting they don’t.

REACTIONS AND CONDEMNATIONS CONTINUE TO POUR IN OVER COLORADO’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTION AGAINST TRUMP. Continue reading

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BEST OF APRIL 2023

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues, this time with a look at April’s best.

golem 1980GOLEM (1980) – My review of this Polish science fiction film that is sort of a blend of Eraserhead and Patrick McGoohan’s series The Prisoner. An authoritarian dictatorship has risen in the aftermath of a global nuclear war. Click HERE.

NEWS ROUNDUP: APRIL 29th – The New York Times calls out Joe Biden for the explosion of child trafficking at his disaster of a southern border. Plus much more. Click HERE.

cover with nelvanaCANADIAN-MADE SUPERHEROES 1941-1950 – From well-known names like the superheroine Nelvana of the Northern Lights (at left) and the superhero Thunderfist to less celebrated figures like Freelance, Nitro, the Blue Raven and Commander Steel. Plus superheroines like the Wing, Ghost Woman and many more. Thirty-eight characters in all. Click HERE.

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART THREE – The long, action-filled voyage of the hero Mael Duin, an epic myth dated to around the 900s A.D. Click HERE.

pathfinders in space setPATHFINDERS IN SPACE (1960) – The neglected British sci-fi television series. Includes my review of its sequels, Pathfinders to Mars and Pathfinders to Venus. Click HERE.

JESUS: A PASSION PLAY FOR AMERICANS (1969) – Before Jesus Christ Superstar and before Godspell came this rock/ jazz version of the last days before the Crucifixion. Click HERE.

ARK II (1976) – My review of this short-lived American science fiction series about attempts to resettle the Earth after a destructive war hundreds of years in the future. Click HERE.

jla number 124JUSTICE SOCIETY/ JUSTICE LEAGUE TEAM-UPS – 1975-1979 HERE.  1970-1974 HERE.

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART FOUR – The Vision of Adomnan: Centuries before Dante’s Inferno came this Irish myth about an Angel giving Saint Adomnan a tour of Heaven and Hell. Click HERE.

NEWS ROUNDUP – April 10th: Matt Taibbi exposes MSNBC’s fraudulent reporting HERE. 

BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART FIVE – The epic myth of The Expulsion of the Deissi. Think Game of Thrones meets Exodus. Click HERE. Continue reading

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DECEMBER 18th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

shell gameHere is the latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for. 

SOME OF THE CRIMES BEING INVESTI-GATED IN THE BIDEN IMPEACHMENT PROCESS.

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION REVEALS THAT THE FBI HAS BEEN COVERING UP EVIDENCE OF BIDEN FAMILY’S INVOLVEMENT WITH BRIBERY SINCE 2008! FBI = Fuggeda Bout Integrity.

fbi biden kgbFBI SENIOR COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE MAN CHRIS MCGONIGAL, WHO WAS LINKED TO THE ATTEMPT TO FRAME PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FOR COLLUDING WITH RUSSIA, HAS HIMSELF JUST BEEN SENTENCED TO 50 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR HIS OWN ACTUAL COLLUSION WITH PUTIN’S RUSSIA. Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns. More HERE. Someday maybe the people fraudulently going after Trump now will face similar outcomes.

JOE BIDEN’S DAUGHTER ASHLEY IS THE LATEST BIDEN TO BE FOUND OWING BACK TAXES. But it’s difficult not to feel sorry for Ashley given the way her diary revealed that her father Joe took “inappropriate” showers with her when she was a child. The Bidens claimed the diary was stolen, you’ll recall, not that its contents were untrue. More HERE.

biden ordered through the mailJOE BIDEN’S DISASTROUS ECONOMIC POLICIES HAVE DRIVEN HOMELESSNESS NUMBERS BACK TO THE SAME HIGH FIGURES AS UNDER GEORGE W. BUSH. More HERE

A TERRIFIC ARTICLE CALLING OUT THE CLUELESS, OUTDATED AND UTTERLY USELESS PEOPLE WHO RUN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. We need alternate parties.

GERMANY’S FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES THAT VOTING IRREGULARITIES REQUIRE REDOING THE 2021 FEDERAL ELECTIONS IN 455 GERMAN CONSTITUENCIES. Yet many Americans still choose to ignore our own problems with election integrity.  

CNN SHOCKED WHEN DATA REPORTER LAYS OUT HOW HORRIBLE JOE BIDEN’S ECONOMY IS. First, some excerpts: “Enten explained that since Biden took office, the economy has seen a downward spiral of negative growth.” Continue reading

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MARCH 2020: A LOOK BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.   

shakem akhetSHAKEM AKHET BLASTS THE DEMOCRATS FOR DOING NOTHING FOR BLACK VOTERS. He courageously calls out The Party. Click HERE.

JOE BIDEN’S PUBLIC INEPTITUDE AND UNFITNESS ON DISPLAY: MARCH 2020 – It was all obvious VERY early on. But, “By any means necessary” was the slogan of America’s crooked political establishment. Click HERE. In addition, video of Biden’s unfitness on display at his disastrous Virtual Town Hall. Click HERE.

EVEN MORE HILARIOUSLY WRONG PREDICTIONS FROM PSYCHICS – This latest edition of that popular bit kept the laughs coming. Click HERE.

brandon strakaBRANDON STRAKA AND THE #WALKAWAY MOVEMENT WERE STILL ROLLING – A March of 2020 blog post about former Democrats (like myself) leaving the party over its intolerance and growing authoritarianism. Click HERE.

FOOL KILLER: JUNE 1910 – The publication targeted people who wrongly predicted that Halley’s Comet would hit the Earth, Coca Cola Corporation, early nudists, a false Missing Link find, human traffickers, and Speaker of the House Joe Cannon, who was as corrupt as Republican Paul Ryan and Democrat Nancy Pelosi . Click HERE. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP FOR DECEMBER 15th

Here is the latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

joe biden is aCONGRESS TAKES THE IMPEACHMENT PROCEDURES AGAINST JOE BIDEN TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN CAUSES CONTEMPT CHARGES OVER FLOUTING OF SUBPOENA.

breaking bidenONE OF THE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS WHO WERE SCANDALOUSLY TRYING TO HELP HUNTER BIDEN AVOID PROSECUTION LEAVING THE DOJ. About time.

MORNING CONSULT POLL: VOTERS TRUST TRUMP OVER BIDEN ON SAVING THE ECONOMY (AGAIN, IN TRUMP’S CASE) – TRUMP 50%, BIDEN ONLY 32%.

MASTERFUL TAKEDOWN OF THE TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE WORLD.

SLOBBERING ANTI-TRUMP LOONS SPOUT DERANGED NONSENSE ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD SUPPOSEDLY DO BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Their unhinged claims didn’t come true during his first term, but that doesn’t stop them from making even more irrational claims this time around.

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BEST OF MARCH 2023

Here’s another installment of Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective, this one reflecting on March’s best.

floris dvdFLORIS (1969 and 1975) – Rutger Hauer and Paul Verhoeven’s neglected television series starring Rutger as a swashbuckling hero caught up in the Guelders Wars of the Netherlands. Read about it HERE.

BOOK OF THE DUN COW – My examination of each section of Ireland’s Lebor na hUidre, The Book of the Dun Cow. Part One HERE. Part Two HERE. A wealth of mythology.

TWO EARLY GOTHIC HORROR NOVELS – I reviewed The Monk (1796) and The Castle of Otronto (1764) HERE.

hitler dead or alive coverBAD MOVIE REVIEW: HITLER – DEAD OR ALIVE (1943) My review of this bizarre movie HERE.

BLONDE PHANTOM: HER 1940s STORIES – Stan Lee’s 1946-1949 female superhero from his much, much younger years. Click HERE.

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE END OF AN EPOCH (1901) – A bio-engineered disease that wipes out millions upon millions of lives on Earth. Click HERE.

jsa jla 1963JUSTICE SOCIETY AND JUSTICE LEAGUE CROSSOVER STORIES: 1963-1969 – Their first 7 meetings HERE

DEMOCRATS FURTHER CEMENT DONALD TRUMP’S MARTYRDOM. Click HERE.

MY TOP HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS HORROR FILMS – Read it HERE.

GRACE O’MALLEY: THE PIRATE QUEEN OF IRELAND – The real-life female pirate leader of the late 1500s and early 1600s. Click HERE. Continue reading

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DECEMBER 12th NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP

The latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

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UNDER JOE BIDEN’S INFLATION AVERAGE MORTGAGE PAYMENTS HAVE NEARLY DOUBLED. Average new home payments currently stand at $3,322, up from $1,746 at the end of 2020. Biden’s war on the working class and the poor continues.

REPUBLICAN NIKKI HALEY IDIOTICALLY ATTACKS SOCIAL SECURITY. No wonder garbage like George W. Bush, Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney speak highly of her.

CONGRESS NOTES SIX OF THE BIGGEST REVELATIONS ABOUT THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY SO FAR IN THE IMPEACHMENT INVESTIGATION. More HERE. And HERE.

CONGRESSMAN MATT ROSENDALE IS THE LATEST TO ENDORSE TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024.

MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY THREATENING TO KILL REPUBLICAN VIVEK RAMASWAMY AND HIS SUPPORTERS.

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CNN POLL: TRUMP OPENS UP A DOUBLE-DIGIT LEAD OVER BIDEN IN MICHIGAN. As always, I feel that polls this far out from election day are meaningless, but I enjoy noting how Trump withstands all the unhinged and untruthful attacks on him. Continue reading

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