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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR OCTOBER TWENTY-SIXTH

It’s a Monday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

EX-FBI OFFICIALS WHO COVERED UP BIDEN CRIME FAMILY SCANDALS ARRESTED. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR AND FORMER CIA VERMIN ELISSA SLOTKIN CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE FALLOUT FROM HER NAKEDLY PARTISAN THREATS TO GRADUATING CLASS. Ed Martin on where this is all headed HERE. 

MORE ABOUT THE FOUR POLLING OUTFITS RECENTLY EXPOSED FOR FABRICATING DATA. This is a problem that goes far beyond just next month’s elections. Has technology made polling obsolete since virtually everyone can just block pollsters now? More HERE.

THE HAMAS AND ANTIFA DRIVEN RIOTS IN FRANCE, ITALY AND NOW SPAIN CONTINUE IN A PREVIEW OF WHAT DEMOCRATS WANT FOR THE U.S. IN NOVEMBER’S ELECTIONS. More about the Hamas riots in Spain HERE. More HERE. And more Hamas flags waved by rioters attacking the Colosseum in Rome HERE. And more about the rioting HERE. And HERE. Real reasons HERE. Putting a burqa on a statue of Joan of Arc makes it clear.

NICKI MINAJ CAMPAIGNS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP IN MICHIGAN.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON THE MIDTERMS.

KARMA: DEMOCRAT FANI WILLIS FALLS VICTIM TO VOTE FRAUD. More HERE. Continue reading →

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FOOL KILLER PART EIGHTY: DECEMBER 1915

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 80 – As always, it’s fascinating to read the over 100-year-old opinions of James Larkin Pearson (and by extension his Fool Killer), including the opinions that one doesn’t agree with. Here are some of the Fool Killer’s targets in December 1915.

*** Dr. Frank Crane, Methodist clergyman, for his condescending newspaper columns that blamed the poor for their plight by stating they should have saved money. That advice ignored the fact that if someone doesn’t even have enough income to pay for all their necessities then they have no money to put into savings.

*** The two major political parties, whom he lumped together under the term “Redemocans” (he also called them Republicrats). Today we call them the Uniparty. He also bashed people who still voted for either of the two major parties.

*** Charles Taze Russell, leader of what would be called Jehovah’s Witnesses after his death in 1916, for his faulty prediction that 1914 would be the end of the human kingdom and the coming of the Messiah’s Kingdom.  

*** The country’s wealthiest and most powerful, whom he called the House of Mammon. The figures he named this issue were Charles M. Schwab and J.P. Morgan. The Fool Killer criticized the money they were making from War Preparedness and named Democrat President Woodrow Wilson and Republican former President Theodore Roosevelt their servants.  Continue reading →

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OCTOBER TWENTY-THIRD NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a Friday current events roundup from an America where a Democrat governor has just announced he’s using National Guard troops to stand over ballot boxes. Yet, Democrats froth at the mouth when President Trump also wants to make sure the upcoming election is secure. 

DEMOCRAT MEDIA ALLY CALLS FOR PISTOLS TO BE FIRED AT VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE TO PREVENT HIM EVER BECOMING PRESIDENT. Is anyone still wondering why so many of us have left the violent and unhinged Democrat Party? Those rabid hatemongers are so serious about killing people who disagree with them that they’ve already assassinated Charlie Kirk and tried to assassinate President Trump multiple times.  

DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA DEMOCRAT: DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE ABDUL EL-SAYED GETS SERVED A CEASE-AND-DESIST ITEM FOR HIS INCREASINGLY CREEEPY ATTACKS ON OPPONENT MIKE ROGERS’ WIFE. That silence you hear is the hypocrisy of privileged white Democrat women who pretend to fight misogyny.

CHINA, THE WORLD’S WORST POLLUTER, ONCE AGAIN PRETENDS TO CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.

IN DEMOCRAT-HELD CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY CLAIMS TO HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING IF VOTERS ARE ILLEGALS AND JUST TAKES THEIR WORD ABOUT THEIR CITIZENSHIP STATUS. Democrats snivel about plummeting confidence in California elections, but THEY are the reason for that plummeting confidence.

ANOTHER EXAMINATION OF VOTE FRAUD AND CORRUPTION.

A MAJORITY OF THOSE ARRESTED IN MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR SNAP FRAUD RING IN OREGON ARE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Yes, Democrat “sanctuary” locations protect people committing further crimes.

UTAH GROUP OPPOSED TO ICE AND TRUMP-VOTERS DISCUSS KILLING THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN AND SENDING OTHERS TO REEDUCATION CAMPS. The Democrats may pull who knows what in this year’s election. On that subject look at THIS anonymous anti-Trump story the Washington Post is floating to justify whatever violence Democrats may have in mind. 

VIRGINIA DEMOCRAT STATE SENATOR CHARGED WITH DRUG RACKETEERING AND MORE. More HERE. Family members also arrested regarding the ring.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CAUGHT BEHEADING THE IWO JIMA MONUMENT. 

MORE FALLOUT FROM DEMOCRAT SENATOR (AND FORMER CIA VERMIN) ELISSA SLOTKIN’S THREATS AGAINST PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR POLITICAL FIGURES SHE DOESN’T LIKE. “Six ways to Sunday” takes on even uglier meaning. Continue reading →

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST

Wednesday means another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

FLORIDA DEMOCRAT ARRESTED FOR MURDEROUS THREATS AGAINST VOTERS WHO DON’T SUPPORT HIS CANDIDATE. More HERE.

NEWSPAPER THE DETROIT NEWS SUGGESTS NOT VOTING FOR TERRORIST-LINKED ABDUL EL-SAYED.

MICHIGAN SHERIFF REJECTS EL-SAYED TO SUPPORT HIS OPPONENT MIKE ROGERS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP WORKING TO IMPROVE WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUES.

U.K. SENDS FIGHTER JETS TO DEFEND SAUDI ARABIA FROM THE HOUTHIS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP UNITING DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN ELEMENTS FOR THIS REFORM BILL.

DEMOCRAT SENATE CANDIDATE CAUGHT LYING ABOUT NOT TAKING DONATIONS FROM BILLIONAIRES EVEN THOUGH MANY BILLIONAIRES ARE GIVING HIM MONEY.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA EMPLOYEES STILL TRYING TO SPIN THE RIOTS IN FRANCE AND ITALY DESPITE ALL THE RIOTERS’ PALESTINIAN AND COMMUNIST FLAGS. More HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP SEEKS TO MAKE MORE CITIZENS ELIGIBLE FOR TRUMP ACCOUNTS. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

NEW YORK ADULT DAYCARE CENTERS CAUGHT IN SCANDAL OVER MEDICAID FRAUD AND KICKBACKS.  Continue reading →

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COUNTDOWN CANADA (1970) A MOCK NEWS SPECIAL ABOUT CANADA MERGING WITH THE UNITED STATES

COUNTDOWN CANADA (1970) – Here at Balladeer’s Blog I am amazed that this vintage Canadian Television work of speculative fiction hasn’t received renewed fame in 2026. And not one IMDb review as of this writing. 

Countdown Canada uses the approach of the Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast and the later television production Special Bulletin. Throw in other examples like James Burke’s After the Warming if you like.

Though this aired on Canadian television in 1970 the story is set in 1979. The current head of Canada’s government won election on a campaign of holding a referendum on Canada officially joining the United States, and its provinces each becoming new states in the union. All except for Quebec, which in this fictional 1979 achieved independence earlier in the decade.

The referendum to become part of the United States resulted in a victory for the “yeas” and Countdown Canada is set a few years later as all bureaucratic and constitutional red tape has been dealt with and the last day of an independent Canada has arrived. Continue reading →

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OCTOBER NINETEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a Monday current events roundup from an America where 2026 Democrats long to unleash the kinds of destruction going on in France and Italy. The rioters conveniently left Muslim businesses unharmed. The “students” nonsense about the Urban Warfare – in France especially – reminds me of the way corporate media kept calling the terrorists who seized the American embassy in 1979 Teheran “students”, too. 

THINK, VOTE, WIN. J.B. Shurk on voting in the midterm elections. 

FAILED MACRON ABANDONS FRANCE TO VISIT KUWAIT.  He even refuses to accept his Interior Minister’s resignation HERE. 

DEMOCRAT ELISSA SLOTKIN OPENLY ADMITS THE PARTY WILL PERSECUTE POLITICAL OPPONENTS TO MAKE CITIZENS AFRAID TO WORK FOR POLITICAL FIGURES THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO WIPE OUT. More HERE.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN NEVADA CAUGHT TRANSPORTING ENOUGH FENTANYL TO KILL UNTOLD NUMBERS OF PEOPLE.

DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS DOWN FORTY PERCENT UNDER TRUMP.

CITIZENS’ WAGES RISE AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION DECREASES.

FLASHBACK: IT TAKES A VILLAGE IDIOT – HILLARY CLINTON FLUNKED THE BAR EXAM.

WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE STATES HER PRIORITY IS GETTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DRIVERS LICENSES. Continue reading →

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RABID GRANNIES (1988) HALLOWEEN MOVIE REVIEW

RABID GRANNIES (1988) – This review of Rabid Grannies applies ONLY to the original uncut edition, NOT the edited version distributed by the Troma Team. The uncut version is well worth watching but the cut version is awful.

The Troma label on display on recent DVD versions of this movie has made some people dismiss this as the usual Troma goofiness – fun and violent but not much of an actual horror film. Wrong!

This Belgian production is, in certain scenes, up there with Italian cannibal movies for gruesomeness and for unflinching violence and gore. The (very) dark humor adds to the overall feel of the flick but it’s not laid on by the ton like in other indie films picked up for distribution by Troma. Continue reading →

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FLASHBACK: ALIEN AND DUNE FRANCHISES AS ALLEGORIES FOR AMERICA RIGHT NOW

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These were originally posted in 2020.

“We’re a world of 7 billion people, 10 billion blogs and 20 billion political poses” is always the opening line of Balladeer’s Blog’s pieces like this. So, let’s have some fun framing American politics as part of the Alien and Dune franchises. Both political parties are bashed.

Ellen RipleyRIPLEY and the other humans in the Alien films are American VOTERS. As we struggle to survive in this dangerous setting we need to stand together against the common threats. And that applies whether a voter considers themselves Independent or Democrat or Republican. Political labels have become meaningless for US as the Neo-Feudalists view all of us as peasants and cannon fodder, anyway.   Continue reading →

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR OCTOBER SIXTEENTH

A week-ending current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL MOCKS DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET MSNOW OVER ITS PROVEN-FAKE REPORT SAYING HE WAS IN RUSSIA WHEN HE WAS REALLY IN VIRGINIA. More literally Fake News.

IRAN-CONTROLLED HOUTHIS ATTACK SAUDI ARABIAN BUSINESS AND HOLY SITES. More HERE. Iran’s regime is at least as bad as Putin’s Russia but we’re told fighting Iran is a “bad war” but the Ukraine conflict is a “good war.”

PRESIDENT TRUMP AT ARIZONA RALLY WITH FLOYD MAYWEATHER. 

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE WASHINGTON POST’S EDITORIAL BOARD COMES OUT AGAINST MEDICARE FOR ALL.

CORRUPT JACK SMITH’S HIT LIST EXPOSED. He’s an authoritarian menace.

SOMALILAND IN SECOND DAY OF CELEBRATIONS PRAISING PRESIDENT TRUMP VIA AMERICAN FLAGS AND FIREWORKS.

PATRICIA MCCARTHY ON THE UNHINGED DEMOCRAT LEFTISTS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S “TRUMP BUMP” FOR SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS IN 2027 GIVES THEM THE BIGGEST COST OF LIVING INCREASE IN A VERY LONG TIME. I will point out again that Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. Continue reading →

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ABSOLUTE EVIL (1918) HALLOWEEN WEREWOLF STORY

ABSOLUTE EVIL (1918) – This longish short story was written by Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel. The tale features Julian’s tragically overlooked supernatural adventuress Martha Klemm.

For those not familiar with her, she’s the wealthy descendant of Salem witches and, though in her twenties, proudly calls herself “a spinster” because she has no desire to marry any of her throng of suitors. Martha is independent, iconoclastic, athletic and a sure shot with her pistol. Ms. Klemm is like a proto-flapper, though not “proto” by much obviously, given the year. She appeared in two other stories by Julian Hawthorne.

Absolute Evil deals with a werewolf at large on a sandy island near Hatteras. Martha Klemm is among the well-to-do guests on a large yacht owned by the Pleasances, rich Quakers from Philadelphia. The couple and their guests head for Thirteen-Mile Beach, the aforementioned island where they plan to stay a few days and nights.

This collection of the idyl rich spends their time in the expected ways with the bonus activity of seeing if the island really is haunted by a long-ago murderer like the legends say.    Continue reading →

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