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EASTER SUNDAY: SILENT FILMS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST

HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY! jesus speakingYes, Happy Easter, ladies and gentlemen! Balladeer’s Blog helps celebrate by combining the holiday with my passion for silent films. I’m providing the following list of silent movies – both shorts and feature films – about Jesus Christ.

Here they are in no particular order:   

ChristusCHRISTUS (1916) – Directed by Giulio Cesare Antamoro, this is a fascinating look at Jesus, from the Angel visiting Mary through his Resurrection and subsequent visit with his Apostles. Christus runs 88 minutes and features some inventive variations on Biblical tableaux. The Star of Bethlehem is depicted as a comet; when Mary finds young Jesus preaching to his teachers His shadow appears as a cross; and Judas gets three visions of the Devil – first urging him on to betray Jesus, then taunting him when he regrets that betrayal, and finally welcoming him into Hell, which opens up under Judas’ swinging corpse.  Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL EIGHTEENTH

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog presents another current events roundup.

NOTE: Anti-Donald Trump fascists are so dishonest and propagandistic they’ve been lying about illegal immigrant and MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Democrats and their media outlets have been pretending he was just a “Maryland father” who was scooped up by ICE for no reason. Taking their lies to the next level, anti-Trump loons have even been hysterically pretending that Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s situation meant Trump might “disappear” people at will. More HERE.

These grotesque lies have been proven to be as wrong as the previous claims that Trump put a bounty on the heads of U.S. soldiers in the field or was preparing a nuclear program at Mar-a-Lago or plotted to kidnap Michigan’s Governor Whitmer or any of the other deranged bits of propaganda that anti-Trump people here and abroad are foolish enough to fall for EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.   2025 Democrats are garbage who are trying their hardest to provoke violence and more just because of their hatred for one man.   

EVERYTHING THAT DEMOCRAT FASCISTS DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT THE CRIMINAL KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA. Democrats and other anti-Trumpers are such lying filth. More HERE. And HERE. Is there ANY point at which anti-Trump imbeciles will learn to question the bizarre propaganda that gets spread against him?   

MORE LIES EXPOSED ABOUT DEMOCRATS’ FAVORITE GANG MEMBER. More HERE. And HERE.  

MOTHERS OF SLAIN VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BLAST DEMOCRAT CHRIS VAN HOLLEN FOR HIS CRUSADE FOR KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA. But they’re wasting their time if they think any Democrat will give a damn about dead victims of illegal immigrants – who are STILL the only people Democrats work for. Illegals are Democrats’ sole reason for being at this point. Insane.

By the way, I know Democrats are talking about impeaching Trump over this illegal immigrant situation for “ignoring a court’s orders.” Yet Joe Biden repeatedly ignored multiple SUPREME COURT rulings that presidents do not have the authority to make the taxpayers pay off other people’s student loans. The Republicans weren’t capable of the insane behavior that Democrats are, so they didn’t raise that to the level of impeachment proceedings.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS IGNORE MOTHER SPEAKING ABOUT HER CHILD’S HORRIFIC DEATH AT THE HANDS OF AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.  (Or “Democrat in training” I guess we should call them.) She begged them to start covering illegal immigrant crimes

DNI TULSI GABBARD DECLASSIFIES AND EXPOSES JOE BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROGRAM FOR AUTHORITARIAN TREATMENT OF AMERICAN CITIZENS. Hey anti-Trump lunatics in other countries, how about covering this with the same breathless anxiety you bring to every disproven rumor about Trump’s conduct?  Continue reading

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WINK MARTINDALE: RIP – HE DID MORE THAN JUST GAME SHOWS

Wink Martindale passed away yesterday at the age of 91. Most tributes are acknowledging his career as a game show icon so Balladeer’s Blog will look at his roles outside of that sphere.

MARS PATROL (1953-1955) – At age 19 – and already smiling like somebody just broke his jaw – the go-getting Winston Conrad “Wink” Martindale was the star of 514 episodes of Memphis’ weekday show Mars Patrol. (Ignore the incorrect IMDb entry which lists him as the star of just 1 episode. Memphis newspapers and Martindale himself recount how he starred in the entire series.) 

Wink starred as Mars Patrol Captain Martindale and with six Mars Guard children aged 6 to 10 he would blast off in his cheap-looking spaceship. After he and the kids did their live ad for Bosco, that is.

Martindale and the diminutive Mars Guard members wielded ray-guns in their adventures and also hosted episodes of old Flash Gordon and other space serials of the past, making Wink a kind of movie host variant as well. The young fans of Mars Patrol could write in and join the show’s Star Dodgers Club, complete with Captain Martindale photos and other merchandise. Continue reading

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APRIL SIXTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

It’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RELEASED BY COURT IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY CITY” NOW ARRESTED FOR TWENTY CHILD SEX CRIMES. Democrats and their media outlets will never do stories about the victims but will do countless stories ennobling illegal immigrants (think convicted criminal Kilmar Abrego-Garcia) and demanding they stay. It’s still the Democrat Party against the rest of us.

MAN ARRESTED FOR SETTING FIRE TO PA GOV SHAPIRO’S RESIDENCE ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF PASSOVER IS A HAMAS SUPPORTER. Is anyone surprised?

TRUMP EFFECT: NVIDIA JOINS THE GROWING LIST OF COMPANIES THAT WILL BEGIN MANUFACTURING IN THE UNITED STATES AND WILL INVEST FIVE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. More HERE. Even more jobs created with this, but anti-Trump fascists are still busy pretending they understand what tariffs are and how they work.

MORE TRUMP EFFECT: AMD TO NOW MANUFACTURE PROCESSING CHIPS IN THE U.S. FOR FIRST TIME EVER. Trump is the best president for the working class and the poor since Franklin Roosevelt. And as with Roosevelt, ugly forces attack his visionary moves.

POLL FROM APRIL TENTH TO FOURTEENTH: PRESIDENT TRUMP SOARS TO HIS HIGHEST APPROVAL RATING SINCE INAUGURATION. Looks like the “Tariff Madness” hysteria should join Reefer Madness in the bin of ineffective propaganda.

DEMOCRAT LETITIA “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW” JAMES GETS REFERRED FOR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR MORTGAGE FRAUD. Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL FIGHTING TO SAVE AMERICAN RETAIL.

BOSTON’S DEMOCRAT MAYOR IN NEW SCANDAL OVER BEING FUNDED BY A CHINA INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE. No surprise for a Democrat “sanctuary city.”

DEMOCRAT-RUN SCHOOL VIOLATED PARENTS’ OPT-OUT REQUEST IN SEX AND GENDER IDENTITY ACTIVITY. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FOUND GUILTY OF RAPING AND MURDERING MARYLAND MOTHER OF FIVE. Will he be the latest Democrat hero? Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL FOURTEENTH

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup from an America where supporters of political corruption continue to hate President Donald Trump.

LATEST DEMOCRAT HERO: FBI SAYS ARRESTED WISCONSINER KILLED HIS PARENTS IN PURSUIT OF THE “FINANCIAL MEANS AND AUTONOMY” TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT TRUMP. Like Democrats’ beloved Luigi Mangione he’s charged with murder and more. 

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HERO: THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD PENNSYLVANIA MAN ARRESTED FOR THREATS TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT TRUMP AND CALLS TO KILL ALL HIS APPOINTEES. More HERE. Democrats always tell us that “silence is consent” so unless they condemn all this it means they consent to it by their own standards.

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DEMOCRAT JASMINE CROCKETT UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING VIOLATIONS. Maybe she feels suddenly becoming loudly anti-Trump will see her through this scandal.

BOSTON DEMOCRAT CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTY ON CORRUPTION CHARGES. More HERE. Have I mentioned lately that America’s politicians tend to be white-collar criminals?

ALSO IN MASSACHUSETTS, DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN CHARGED WITH FIVE COUNTS OF WIRE FRAUD AND FALSIFICATION OF RECORDS. See above item.

HHS SECRETARY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. CALLS OUT THE DEEP STATE AND CALLS THE FDA A “SOCK PUPPET” FOR THE PHARMA COMPANIES IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE REGULATING. More about Kennedy and the forces opposed to him HERE.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION STRIPS FUNDS THAT JOE BIDEN GRANTED TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ON THE TERROR WATCH LIST. More HERE. “Illegal immigrants uber alles” becomes “illegal immigrants on the terror watch list uber alles” as the Democrat motto.  Continue reading

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FROM THE ALVAREZ GALLOSO BLOG – “LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS; ANONYMOUS”

A terrific item cited by lifelong freedom fighter Roberto Alvarez Galloso.

“To whomever wrote this- Well said!!
When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing!
When they abandoned millions of dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, you said nothing!
When they flaunted a two tier justice system, one for them and one for everyone else, you said nothing!
When they covered up the Hunter Biden laptop, you said nothing!

READ THE REST HERE.

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APRIL ELEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog. The monumental clash between anti-corruption President Donald Trump and the cesspool which masquerades as America’s political establishment continues.

DANIELLE CARTER-WALTERS BRAVELY BASHES DEMOCRATS FOR “LIVING IN GATED COMMUNITIES” SAFELY PROTECTED FROM THEIR OWN DISASTROUS POLICIES UNDER WHICH THEIR CONSTITUENTS SUFFER. Exactly! 2025 Democrats make the callous French aristocracy before their Revolution look in touch with the citizens by comparison.

TRUMP POLICIES RESULT IN INFLATION DROPPING FOR SECOND MONTH IN A ROW. And he’s only been back in office for less than three months! 

NEW SWISS INVESTMENT OF TWENTY-THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN THE U.S. ANNOUNCED. Again, reasonable people have known that Trump’s tariff maneuvers were meant to bring people to the negotiating table and they have.

SENATOR KENNEDY PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THE WAY HE HAS ATTRACTED SO MANY NATIONS TO MAKE DEALS.

ECONOMIST/ YOUGOV POLL: ONLY THIRTY-ONE PERCENT HAVE A FAVORABLE VIEW OF THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS.

TRUMP HAS DHS SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM REOPEN OFFICE FOR CITIZEN VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIME. Families whose loved ones have suffered were on hand for the move. Joe Biden had shut down that office.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TAKES FOUR ACTIONS TO BOLSTER AMERICA’S COAL INDUSTRY. Mine workers cheer the measures taken by hero of the working class Trump.

TRUMP SECURES RELEASE OF BALLERINA WRONGFULLY JAILED BY UNHINGED WAR CRIMINAL VLAD PUTIN.

STOCKS SOAR FOLLOWING BOND ACTION AND TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS. Trump hailed for outmaneuvering despotic China and the plutocratic Wall Street vultures. Democrats ignore Chinese slavery, concentration camps and sweatshops HERE

DOGE EXPOSES MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS MILKING MEDICAID. MANY MORE ON VOTING ROLLS AND ILLEGALLY VOTING. Have I mentioned lately how corrupt America’s political establishment is? Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: APRIL NINTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog offers up another current events roundup.

PARTISAN HACK JAMES BOASBERG SMACKED DOWN BY THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH RULED – AS WE ALL KNEW – THAT AS A MERE DISTRICT JUDGE HE DID NOT HAVE JURISDICTION TO BLOCK TRUMP ACTIONS.

           Remember several days ago when I mentioned that the higher courts would once again overrule the unconstitutional overreach by showboating anti-Trump judges?

Here are some more of the newest instances – HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE. Yet anti-Trump loons are still celebrating what they thought were wins because they lack the attention spans to follow these cases all the way through.  

SENATOR SCHMITT CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION REGARDING THE CORRUPTION INVOLVED IN BOASBERG’S OBSCENE ANTICS. Such biased “judges” need reined in for the sake of whoever is president from whichever political party.

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THREE MORE DEMOCRAT OFFICIALS IN PENNSYLVANIA PLEAD GUILTY TO ELECTION FRAUD IN YEARS-OLD CASE. The fight against election fraud is crucial and must continue so that hopefully a fraudulent election like 2020’s cannot happen again.

TWO MEN PRETENDING TO BE WOMEN PLAY FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN A WOMEN’S COMPETITION. Democrats should just cut to the chase and make “May the best man win” the official motto of all women’s athletics and other competitions.

PRO-TRUMP CONGRESSMAN JOHN JAMES ANNOUNCES RUN TO BECOME MICHIGAN’S GOVERNOR.

TRUMP SAYS HE’S PROUD TO BE THE PRESIDENT FOR WORKERS AND THE MIDDLE CLASS. He’s been the best president for them during my lifetime.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING RISES YET AGAIN DESPITE THE USUAL PERFORMATIVE OUTRAGE FROM HIS IRRATIONAL HATERS Continue reading

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

Mascot sword and pistolA change of pace blog post for Tuesday. 

“Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.” – Nicolas Chamfort 

“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” – Albert Camus

“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.” – Norman Douglas

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.” – George Santayana

“A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.” – Honore de Balzac Continue reading

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APRIL SEVENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Kicking off the week with a current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog, as anti-Trump hysteria moves from “Russia, Russia, Russia” to “tariffs, tariffs, tariffs” and from “Trump’s going to start World War Three” to “Trump’s going to start a Depression.”

DEMOCRATS AT THE AP UPSET THAT THE MARCH JOBS REPORT WAS SUCH A SPECTACULAR TRUMP SUCCESS. Democrats still root against the working class and the poor apparently.

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS SKILLFULLY CORRECTS CNN REGARDING TARIFFS. The strong, intelligent woman exposed weak, uninformed Jake Tapper’s spin. More HERE. More on tariffs HERE. And HERE

OVER FIFTY NATIONS HAVE ALREADY SOUGHT OUT NEW DEALS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP TO STOP GOUGING THE U.S. WITH THEIR OUTRAGEOUS TARIFFS. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Getting nations to come to the table for talks was obviously the goal and such talks are taking place. NOTE: I wish various news outlets would stop wording headlines on this to mean that other countries are “caving” or “bending the knee.” Such wording is counterproductive at best.

COURAGEOUS ROLE MODEL TULSI GABBARD MOVING TO REVEAL ALL OF THE BIDEN REGIME’S AUTHORITARIAN DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE AND CENSORSHIP PROGRAMS.

PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN (AND BILLIONAIRE) MOVES TO DEFUND DOGE, UNAWARE THAT DOGE DOESN’T GET ANY MONEY. Shouldn’t a member of Congress be able to understand such things? Even one from California?  

ALLEGED “JUDGE” BOASBERG CAUGHT IN TRANSCRIPT OVER CONSPIRACY AGAINST TRUMP AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. Honest judges recuse themselves when they are this biased. But I wonder if anyone has ever accused James Boasberg of being an honest judge. 

PARTISAN HACK JAMES “JEB” BOASBERG’S BROTHER WAS INVOLVED IN HIRING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

FASCIST DEMOCRAT MOBS SWARM BORDER CHIEF TOM HOMAN’S RESIDENCE

CORPORATE FASCIST BILL GATES’ ORGANIZATION MAY LOSE TAX-EXEMPT STATUS OVER RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACCUSATIONS. Continue reading

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