America’s 250th birthday is mere days away and as we honor men and women from long, long ago the current heat wave should remind us that Willis H. Carrier, the inventor of modern air conditioning, is truly the lion of the hour.
In 1902 Carrier invented the first electrical air conditioning unit. Thirteen years later, he founded Carrier Corporation which specialized in heating, ventilation and air conditioning, the HVAC we all take for granted. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, opinion
Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog starts July with this current events roundup.
MOTHER OF DAUGHTER KILLED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DARES DEMOCRATS TO LOOK HER IN THE EYE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY FEEL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN HER LATE DAUGHTER. More HERE. Jessica Gorman also pointed out that President Trump’s political allies are the only ones who care about preventing what happened to her daughter from happening to anyone else, saying “I don’t understand why it is only the Republican side that cares about our American children,”. Yes, the Democrat motto remains “Illegal immigrants uber alles.”
ODDBALL DAY YESTERDAY NEWS-WISE ESPECIALLY WITH BOTH SIDES FEELING SMACKED BY THE SUPREME COURT, SO HERE ARE SOME FLASHBACKS TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD.
Back in 2017 when rational people were first getting fully exposed to the deranged anti-Donald Trump hysteria from Democrats I made a blog post joking about how obsessive their Trump hatred was. When they removed video of Trump in a harmless cameo in Home Alone 2 I facetiously said they would soon “ADD Trump to old media”, as in this scene from M*A*S*H.
RADAR: Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Blake’s plane … was shot down by Donald Trump … over the Sea of Japan … it spun in … there were no survivors.
I also mentioned the new Democrat attempt at a joke book:
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: To get away from Trump.
Q: Why does a fireman wear red suspenders? A: As a clear rebuke to the Trump administration. Continue reading
Start your Monday with a current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.
HAVING DRIVEN MOST REASONABLE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR POLITICAL PARTY, DEMOCRATS NOW BATTLE OVER WHO CAN BE THE MOST HATEFUL TOWARD AMERICAN CITIZENS. Mamdani and his fellow hatemongers are on the march.
EVEN DEMOCRAT JAMES CARVILLE ADMITS IT MAY BE TIME FOR A SCHIZM IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OVER THE UNHINGED MAMDANI WING ACCELERATING THE DEPARTURE OF RATIONAL PEOPLE FROM THE PARTY. He says “I can’t be in the same party” and more.
IN DEMOCRAT-HELD MINNESOTA, A SCHOOL BOARD WORKER CALLS FOR HAVING DOGS URINATE ON THE GRAVES OF WHITE CHRISTIANS. Do you get the feeling that James Carville’s far too late?
DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO HATEMONGER ABOUT CELEBRATING AMERICA’S 250th BIRTHDAY IN TEN STATES. More HERE.
TWO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SENTENCED TO OVER SIX YEARS FOR ATM TARGETING CONSPIRACY TIED TO TREN DE ARAGUA. Yet the top priority for Democrats remains keeping criminals like this in the country.
PRESIDENT TRUMP PRAISED FOR HIS PROGRESS IN ENDING CORRUPTION IN THE BIDDING FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS. Another reason why America’s most corrupt and compromised political figures hate Trump. Continue reading
With America’s 250th birthday fast approaching, Balladeer’s Blog has been looking at national history using 50-year milestones. Previously I did 1826, and 1876, and 1926. This time it’s 1976.
1976
U.S. President: Gerald Ford Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller Speaker of the House: Carl Albert Chief Justice: Warren Burger
Number of Senators: 100 Number of House Representatives: 435 Number of Supreme Court Justices: 9
JANUARY
1st – The ROSE BOWL GAME was played between the UCLA Bruins from the Pacific 8 (Pac 8) Conference and the Ohio State Buckeyes from the Big Ten Conference. A 3-0 Buckeyes lead at Halftime turned into a 23-10 Bruins victory in the end.
Also the 1st – The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia is moved from Independence Hall to its own pavilion to accommodate tourism for America’s 200th Anniversary year.
4th – The musical comedy Home Sweet Homer, an adaptation of The Odyssey, does so poorly it opens AND closes on Broadway this same night. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, opinion
FROM JUNE 7th, 2016:
Obama at his most presidential
Vaclav Klaus once made this remark which nicely captures the weak, inept and crooked little man named Barack Obama as well as the shallow, mindless, unquestioning supporters of this Hollow Man.
That quote: “The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, opinion
Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a Friday current events roundup.
NATO CHIEF MARK RUTTE PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HANDLING OF IRAN SITUATION.
CURRENT IRANIAN REGIME IRATE ABOUT GAY PRIDE SYMBOLS AT SEATTLE WORLD CUP GAME. They want FIFA to ban such symbols at any more games. Democrat hypocrites silent because they support that regime simply because it is hostile to Trump. Cowards.
MAJORITY MUSLIM COUNCIL IN MICHIGAN TOWN BANS THE GAY FLAG FROM PUBLIC PROPERTY. As usual, Democrats were wrong when they claimed that the delicate little darlings would NEVER commit intolerant acts like this and that it was “Islamophobic” to even suggest it. I guess the Muslim majority is making gay people feel “unsafe”, right Democrats?
VIDEO: DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN SETH MOULTON PHYSICALLY ATTACKS REPORTER OVER DEMOCRAT GRAHAM “NAZI TATTOO” PLATNER. This would dominate an entire news cycle if the other political party did it. Will Republicans EVER try to catch up with Democrats in the Media Outlet Arms Race?
DEMOCRAT ANDREW CUOMO COURAGEOUSLY BLASTS HIS PARTY FOR SUPPORTING GRAHAM “NAZI TATTOO” PLATNER.
DEMOCRAT LETITIA JAMES ACCUSES FANATIC DEMOCRAT MAYOR MAMDANI OF “BLOWING UP THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.” Well, Democrats drove away all of us rational Democrats over the years, leaving the Party at the mercy of Mamdani and his ilk. More HERE. Related HERE.
FATHER OF VICTIM MURDERED BY KARMELO ANTHONY CALLS OUT PROPAGANDIST SUNNY HOSTIN FOR TRYING TO MONETIZE HIS SON AUSTIN’S DEATH. Sunny, Whoopi (LOL) and the rest of The View‘s staff are lying hatemongers. Remember when Whoopi (LOL) claimed Trump was going to nullify interracial marriages? Whoopi (LOL) is pathetic and deranged.
PRESIDENT TRUMP HOSTS DINNER FOR AMERICAN FARMERS IN THE WHITE HOUSE ROSE GARDEN.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS FOR THEIR PART IN AN EIGHTY-NINE-MILLION-DOLLAR PAYROLL SCAM. Privileged white male one percenter Bruce Springsteen’s kind of guy!
BOB IGER REVEALS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDIST JIMMY KIMMEL’S SUSPENSION. Yet Kimmel and filth like him were lying about it for months, calling Trump “a dictator.”
GAY TEACHER ADMITS ON CAMERA TO GROOMING CHILDREN. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?. Continue reading
With the 4th of July fast approaching, here’s another item for America’s 250th birthday – a biopic of our nation’s early naval hero.
JOHN PAUL JONES (1959) – Robert Stack stars as the title character, Charles Coburn plays Benjamin Franklin, Bette Davis is Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, Macdonald Carey is Patrick Henry and Thomas Gomez portrays Commodore Esek Hopkins. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would rate John Paul Jones a 6. I wish it could be higher.
This movie looks good enough, but Stack’s performance is a bit too dry and the story rambles on for too long after the logical end point when the Revolutionary War is over. Some brief closing text could have covered John Paul Jones’s career in the Russian Navy from 1787 onward. Just a quick note acknowledging the damage he wrought to the Turkish Navy on Russia’s behalf and bring on the closing credits.
The film also subjects us to far too much of Jones’s younger years as a sailor and Robert Stack’s Forever 31 face at the time is comically distracting. (I Was a Teenage Thirtysomething) I wish more biopics used the terrific approach of Patton (1970) – focus on the most eventful years of the main character’s life with dialogue filling viewers in on their early life. Continue reading
Filed under opinion, Revolutionary War
Here’s a mid-week current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.
A LOOK AT HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP BROUGHT DOWN RENT PRICES. More HERE.
It’s been said over and over that Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor. I know, right?
U.K. – MORE GROOMING GANG INQUIRIES.
VIDEO: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MEMBERS ANNOUNCE HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS AND CRACKDOWNS OVER SIX AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS OF FRAUD IN PROGRAMS. Another reason why America’s cesspool of a political establishment has been trying to destroy the outsider Trump for over a decade. More HERE. And HERE.
DEMOCRAT TERRORIST GROUP ANTIFA MEMBERS GET COLLECTIVE FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY YEAR SENTENCE FOR THEIR NORTH TEXAS ATTACK. More HERE. Remember back during Trump’s first term when his haters – including Republican filth like Paul Ryan – were trying to pretend Antifa didn’t exist and that Trump was lying?
ITEM ABOUT THE CRIMES THAT DIDN’T HAVE TO HAPPEN BUT DO BECAUSE DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO SECURE THE BORDER AND ENFORCE OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS. In fact, Democrats do all they can to obstruct the arrests of illegal immigrants who have committed additional crimes.
NEW YORK SCHOOL DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT ARRESTED FOR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?
ONE LONE DISTRICT JUDGE BLOCKS PRESIDENTIAL ACTION AT FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE NATIONAL PARKS. Judicial overreach continues.
ANOTHER DISTRICT JUDGE BLOCKS MEASURES TO FIGHT VOTE FRAUD. Naturally, she was appointed by Biden.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO WAS “A TEACHER” ARRESTED IN TREN DE ARAGUA MASS SHOOTING.
TWO TRUMP-HATING CANDIDATES – DAN GOLDMAN AND GEORGE CONWAY – CRUSHED IN PRIMARY ELECTION. Continue reading
Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN THE 1850s, CLICK HERE.
PART 69 – Some of the Fool Killer’s targets on both sides of the aisle in the March 1914 edition of James Larkin Pearson’s version of the folk figure:
*** Mining companies that paid their employees in the infamous Company Scrip which wasn’t real money but could only be spent at the Company Store just to let the mine owners get back much of what they paid their miners as those employees had to buy groceries, clothing, etc. at Company Stores since no one else would accept the scrip as payment.
*** Democrat President Woodrow Wilson’s administration for supposedly making the economy so bad that more and more working-class people would be killing themselves with the new coffin-shaped mercury bichloride pills.
NOTE: As I’ve mentioned in earlier Fool Killer installments, I find it fascinating how in the 19-teens and twenties socialists (and Pearson openly called himself one) hated Woodrow Wilson and denounced him as an ally of capitalist tycoons. Today, of course, socialists tend to like Wilson and it’s Republicans who hate him, blaming his policies for supposedly setting the U.S. on what they see as the disastrous route that we are still on today in their eyes.
As another reminder of how one cannot do one-to-one comparisons with political affiliations then and now, bear in mind that Wilson opposed voting rights for women, but Pearson and his Fool Killer supported them.
*** Get-rich-quick authors who were selling books and courses about how to write photoplays (called screenplays today) so that the buyer could make money writing for the ever-growing movie industry. So basically, the Syd Fields of 1914.
*** The Charlotte Observer newspaper, where Pearson used to work, for supposedly having many employees who smoked tobacco and used drugs despite their editorial pages always condemning the “evils” of smoking and drug use. NOTE: Pearson counted alcohol and Coca-Cola as “drugs.” Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, opinion
Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog starts the week with a current events roundup as the racist failure Keir Starmer resigns in the U.K.
MACKY SALL, FORMER PRESIDENT OF SENEGAL AND A LEADING CONTENDER TO BE THE NEXT U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS HE BACKS “PEACE BUILDER TRUMP’S” PUSH FOR REFORMS. He’s got a point – President Trump has ended more conflicts around the world than the U.N. has in years. (And nobody can consistently deal with the deceptive, mad dog Iranian regime due to their irrational behavior. But he tries.)
COLOMBIA IS THE LATEST NATION TO ELECT A TRUMP-ENDORSED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE – ESPRIELLA. Losing candidate blamed Israel for his loss. (?)
IRAN’S REGIME BLAMES ISRAEL FOR ITS LATEST FANATICAL ATTEMPT TO CLOSE THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ.
IRAN’S REGIME SENTENCES FEMALE SINGER TO SEVENTY-FOUR LASHES OF A WHIP FOR PERFORMING WITHOUT WEARING A HIJAB. Privileged white Democrat women who pathetically cosplay in Handmaid’s Tale outfits gutlessly fail to comment.
MINNESOTA’S DEMOCRAT A.G. FACES QUESTIONS OVER THE STATE’S MANY, MANY FRAUD SCANDALS.
ANGEL DADS HONORED FOR FATHER’S DAY.
ANTI-TRUMP VANDALS ARRESTED FOR DAMAGING THE REFLECTING POOL. Trump Derangement Syndrome continues. Continue reading
