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JOHN DEREK: HIS SWASHBUCKLER FILMS

Today, actor and director John Derek is remembered mostly because of his wives – Bo Derek, Ursula Andress, Linda Evans and Pati Behrs.

Some film fans remember him for his supporting roles in The Ten Commandments, All the King’s Men, Exodus and Knock on Any Door.

Surprisingly, most people have forgotten that Derek starred in a long list of B-movies, from westerns to war films as well as – for this blog post – a string of swashbuckler movies.

ROGUES OF SHERWOOD FOREST (1950) – John starred as Robin, Earl of Huntington, the son of Robin Hood. When Richard the Lionheart passes away in 1199 A.D. King John (George Macready) returns to his old ways of oppressing and heavily taxing the citizens. He also imports an army of foreign mercenaries faithful only to him, not England.

The villainous king even tries to have Robin, the son of his old enemy, slain during a rigged jousting match. Our hero survives but soon takes to Sherwood Forest to gather many of his father’s former Merry Men around him to rob from the rich and give to the poor. Alan Hale played Little John for the third time in his career, the first in 1922 in the Douglas Fairbanks Robin Hood and again in 1938 in Errol Flynn’s The Adventures of Robin Hood Continue reading

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THE GREAT GARLOO: VINTAGE TOY FROM 1961

The Great Garloo was a two-feet tall remote controlled “monster” toy from Marx. Garloo could be controlled to walk, bend down and pick up things. For adults, boring, but for kids, it must have been the best gift they got that year.

A Son of Garloo followed later. It was smaller and was a wind-up toy. Marx should have cemented Garloo in the public’s consciousness by licensing a kaiju movie or two featuring the figure. The Great Garloo could have stood alongside Godzilla and Gamera.

Below is a vintage television commercial for the Great Garloo. Continue reading

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MAY NINETEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

COURAGEOUS LINDY LI AGAIN SPEAKS OUT ON THE TRAVESTY OF UNFIT AND ILLEGIT JOE BIDEN’S SHAM PRESIDENCY. And if Democrats had their way, Biden would have still been in the White House and they would STILL be lying that Biden is “sharp as a tack.”   Ignore the media sideshows about irrelevancies, THIS should be dominating the headlines and would be if the clueless Republicans knew how to use their media outlets as well as Democrats do.

AMID HUR TAPES REVELATIONS THAT BIDEN WAS TOO UNFIT TO HAVE UNDERSTOOD ANY OF “HIS” LAST-MINUTE PARDONS, CALLS EMERGE TO INVALIDATE THOSE PARDONS. More HERE. In addition to having had a corrupt, addled husk in the Oval Office, we still have no idea who was actually making decisions, including on the atrocious last-minute pardons.

DEMOCRAT OUTLET CNN’S VAN JONES PREDICTS DEMOCRATS WILL PAY FOR COVERING UP JOE BIDEN’S UNFITNESS “FOR A LONG TIME.”  

BIDEN SUBORDINATE LITERALLY SCREAMED AT MEDIA OUTLET NOT TO GO WITH A TRUE STORY REGARDING JOE BIDEN’S UNFITNESS. Again, THIS needs urgent coverage. If not for Donald Trump, the thing called Joe Biden would still be getting paraded out as if he was “president” and the coverup would STILL be going on.

MOODY’S DOWNGRADED THE U.S. UNDER JOE BIDEN AND BARACK OBAMA, TOO. More HERE. But the corporate media only cares if it happens under a certain president who’s only been back in office for four months.

DEMOCRAT JAMES CLYBURN STATES HE STILL BELIEVES JOE BIDEN COULD HAVE SERVED ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. Unreal. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MAY SIXTEENTH

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

SEBASTIAN GORKA OBLITERATES DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET POLITICO’S SHILLING FOR KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA. More HERE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CREDITED WITH RECLAIMING THE MIDDLE EAST.

DISGRACED FORMER FBI HEAD JAMES COMEY DELETES HIS SOCIAL MEDIA CALL FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ASSASSINATION.

RFK JR. AGAIN CALLS OUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S BORDER DISASTER AS THE BIGGEST FACILITATOR FOR CHILD ABUSE IN U.S. HISTORY.

DERANGED WAR CRIMINAL VLAD PUTIN STILL MAKING EXCUSES FOR NOT SHOWING UP IN PERSON TO PEACE TALKS.

PRODUCER PRICE INDEX DEMONSTRATES THAT CONSUMERS ARE NOT DAMAGED BY TRUMP’S TARIFFS. Continue reading

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MAY FOURTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog

REPUBLICAN GEORGE W. BUSH DONOR AND OIL TYCOON IN UTAH CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING OVER THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN MEXICAN CARTEL OIL INTO TEXAS. Unreal.

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, ANNUAL INFLATION RATE HITS NEARLY FIVE-YEAR LOW, GROCERY PRICES HAVE BIGGEST DROP IN FIVE YEARS. Even CNN couldn’t avoid reporting it HERE

OGLES CALLS ON CONGRESS TO GET TO WORK CODIFYING TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS INTO LAW.

SENATOR KATIE BRITT CALLS OUT THE DEMOCRATS FOR BEING ON THE SIDE OF CHILD MOLESTERS AND GANG BANGERS.

ROUNDUP OF GROOMER TEACHERS. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED IN KENTUCKY FOR KIDNAPPING AND RAPING SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD. More HERE.

SIX ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING A WOMAN TO DEATH IN HER CAR. And we all know Democrats won’t be showing up at her funeral like they show up at facilities to stand by violent illegal immigrants all the time.

DNI TULSI GABBARD HEROICALLY STRIKES ANOTHER BLOW AGAINST CIA CORRUPTION. But be careful, Tulsi. Remember what happened to JFK when he wanted to scatter the loathsome CIA to the winds. And see her defend privacy as essential to individual liberty HERE.

THE LATEST ON WISCONSIN’S DEMOCRAT JUDGE WHO HELPED A VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRY TO FLEE ICE.

CORRUPT AOC THREATENS A “PROBLEM” IF MORE DEMOCRATS GET ARRESTED. But gee, the Democrats were saying “No one is above the law” when they arrested Trump. What repulsive hypocrites.

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MAY TWELFTH

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

TRUMP ANNOUNCES THAT AMERICAN HOSTAGE EDAN ALEXANDER, TAKEN BY HAMAS IN OCTOBER OF 2023, HAS BEEN RELEASED AND IS ON HIS WAY HOME. He was the last American hostage in Hamas hands.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUES FIGHTING PRICE-JACKING BY BIG PHARMA. More HERE. Another reminder that Trump is the best president for the working class and the poor of our lifetime. Legislation would have been better, but Congress is too deeply in Big Pharma’s pocket.

ABC’s TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME SUFFERING MARTHA RADDATZ BIZARRELY STATED THIS ABOUT TRUMP AND THE NEW POPE

DEMOCRAT ELECTED OFFICIALS FACING ARREST OVER ASSAULTING FEDERAL OFFICERS AT RIOT IN SUPPORT OF VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

TRUMP GETS NEW TRADE DEAL WITH CHINA. Biden’s deals only ever benefited China and the Biden Crime Family but Trump’s benefits the nation.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REVEALS THAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF “JOBS” ANNOUNCED BY BIDEN WERE FAKE. The Biden Regime was like one big RICO operation.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA “TEACHER OF THE YEAR” SENTENCED FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES. One victim was only eleven years old. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?  

DEMOCRATS CALLED OUT FOR GOING FROM “MEN CAN HAVE BABIES” TO “WE LIKE THE TERRORISTS.”  Continue reading

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MAY NINTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

It’s the latest current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

*** NEW! DEMOCRAT JUDGE ROCHELLE CAMACHO AND FIVE OTHER OFFICIALS CHARGED IN VOTE FRAUD RING. More HERE. The fight for election integrity continues, as does the fight against the rampant corruption among Democrat judges.

DHS SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIME CALL OUT DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR PRITZKER FOR HIS CALLOUS INDIFFERENCE TO THE SUFFERING OF THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES. All just so he can brag about being a “Sanctuary State.” But Democrat “sanctuary” policies never protect victims, just perpetrators.

U.S. FORCES RESCUE CARACAS HOSTAGES. More HERE.

AND YET ANOTHER COURT RULES AGAINST SHOWBOATING DEMOCRAT JUDGES WHO OVERREACH AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP.

ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI ANNOUNCES HISTORIC FENTANYL BUST

SLUSH FUND IS THE LATEST SCANDAL FOR CORRUPT DEMOCRAT LETITIA JAMES. Have I mentioned lately that many American politicians tend to be white-collar criminals?

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN JASMINE CROCKETT AND FAMILY EXPOSED FOR CASHING THEIR DEAD GRANDMOTHER’S SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS SINCE 2004. CROCKETT SAYS SHE “DOESN’T HAVE TO EXPLAIN.” Luckily, DOGE caught this and stopped the checks and is trying to recover the funds. What kind of human being would take part in stealing money meant for their dead grandmother?

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CONGRESSWOMAN CROCKETT ALSO UNDER FIRE FOR ABUSING HER POSITION TO CUT IN AHEAD OF HANDICAPPED PEOPLE WAITING TO BOARD A FLIGHT.

DOGE UNCOVERS YET ANOTHER SKIMMING OPERATION THAT WAS RUNNING AT USAID.

SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY CONTINUES CALLING OUT THE INSIDER TRADING SCANDALS OF THE PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRATS NANCY PELOSI AND HER HUSBAND. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MAY SEVENTH

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

TRUMP’S TARIFF CRACKDOWN ON CHINA GREATLY BENEFITS AMERICAN MANUFACTURING.

TRUMP EFFECT: U.S. SERVICES SECTOR SURGES IN APRIL.

DEMOCRAT TRANSGENDER INDOCTRINATION CAMP TARGETS CHILDREN AGED SIX TO NINE. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET MSNBC’S OWN LEGAL ANALYST EXPLAINS ON-AIR THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT OWED “DUE PROCESS” PROCEDURES. The entire concept does not apply to people in the country illegally.

CAPE COD DAYCARE CLOSED AFTER EXPOSURE FOR HARBORING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WANTED FOR CHILD RAPE. Democrat “sanctuary” policies never protect victims.

HOUTHIS SURRENDER TO TRUMP – AGREE TO END THEIR ATTACKS ON SHIPPING THROUGH THE RED SEA. More HERE. And all nations benefit.

BUSINESS OF DEMOCRAT MEDIA EMPLOYEE NORAH O’DONNELL’S HUSBAND EXPOSED FOR HARBORING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. O’Donnell was bluntly asked “Is this why you have been so hostile to Trump? Because your family profits off exploiting illegal alien labor?”

UNION PRAISES TRUMP’S HOLLYWOOD TARIFFS FOR THEIR BOON TO BLUE COLLAR WORKERS AND THEIR BLOW TO BIG STUDIO OUTSOURCING OF JOBS OVERSEAS. Donald Trump remains the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FREED BY BIDEN ARRESTED FOR KILLING AMERICAN CITIZEN IN HIS WHEELCHAIR. Are Democrats complicit in this crime?

DEMOCRAT MEMBER OF CONGRESS JASMINE CROCKETT MAKES THE IMBECILIC STATEMENT “IT IS NOT A CRIMINAL VIOLATION TO ENTER THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.” Apparently, she doesn’t understand the word “illegally.” Continue reading

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS ANOTHER HOSTAGE – TONY HOLDEN – FREED. THE MAN EXPRESSED HIS DEEP THANKS. – HE WAS TAKEN HOSTAGE IN 2022 UNDER THE BIDEN REGIME.

EVEN THE WASHINGTON POST ADMITS THAT THE STOCK MARKET HAS ALREADY MORE THAN MADE UP ALL THE LOSSES FROM THE MEDIA-INDUCED PANIC OVER TRUMP’S TARIFF ANNOUNCEMENTS IN APRIL. Remember when the media was claiming Trump was starting a depression? LOL Even CNBC admits the stock market is on a “record setting winning streak.”

YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT – THIS ONE IN NEW JERSEY – CHARGED WITH THEFT AND FORGERY OF BALLOTS IN VOTE FRAUD CASE. The fight for election integrity continues. Hopefully an election as corrupt as the one in 2020 can be prevented from recurring.

AND YET ANOTHER HIGHER COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF TRUMP AND OVERRULES SHOWBOATING DEMOCRAT JUDGES WHO OVERREACHED. As predicted. More decisions that anti-Trump loons thought were “victories” for them have been shot down on appeal.

GEORGIA DEMOCRAT WHO RAN FOR OFFICE LAST YEAR ARRESTED IN CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING BUST. It becomes clearer and clearer why Democrats like to pretend child sex trafficking doesn’t happen and is just “a conspiracy theory”.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED FOR RANDOM SHOOTING SPREE ON TENNESSEE HIGHWAY

PRESIDENT TRUMP PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON FAMILIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO WERE KILLED BY DEMOCRAT-IMPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Trump comforts the families of victims while Democrats care only about violent illegals with MS-13 and Tren de Aragua ties. 

TRUMP EFFECT: CHINA EASES FORTY BILLION DOLLARS IN U.S. IMPORTS AS THE START OF NEGOTIATIONS ON TARIFFS

BIDEN REGIME STATE DEPARTMENT ANALYST PLEADS GUILTY IN SIX HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR EMBEZZLEMENT CASE. Did “the Big Guy” Joe Biden get his usual “10 percent”? Yet another reminder that the Biden Regime was one big crime family.

CALIFORNIA’S ALEX VILLANUEVA LEAVES THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AFTER FORTY-FOUR YEARS TO BECOME A REPUBLICAN. He stated “I’m leaving the party of paid protests, purple hair, and pronouns” Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MAY SECOND

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog presents another current events roundup from an America where unhinged anti-Trumpers are pretending that he should have been able to fix everything that Joe Biden destroyed in just a few months. Hilarious!

HUD SECRETARY SCOTT TURNER PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FIRST HUNDRED DAYS FOR THE WAY HE UNDID BIDEN’S POLICIES THAT “CRIPPLED OUR NATION.” He also pointed out how under his leadership HUD will return to its mission “to serve the most vulnerable population of our country, as it pertains to housing affordability, as it pertains to homelessness, disaster recovery, streamlining processes, and being efficient and effective.” (NOTE: Under Biden homelessness increased eighteen percent.)

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN NORTH CAROLINA CHARGED IN HOME INVASION AND KIDNAPPING OF A WOMAN AND HER ELEVEN-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER. Are Democrats accomplices to this crime?

U.S. ADDED 177,000 NEW JOBS IN APRIL, HIGHER THAN PREDICTED.

STATE DEPARTMENT REVEALS THE BIDEN REGIME’S FILES TARGETING AMERICAN CRITICS OF THAT REGIME. Was any department NOT weaponized by Biden? This is at least as bad as the J. Edgar Hoover files that Democrats spent decades hyperventilating about. As usual, they feel when The Party does it, it’s okay.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN TEXAS CHARGED WITH MURDERING A MAN IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY. Are Democrats accomplices to this crime?

KASH PATEL’S FBI ARRESTS TWO ON CHARGES OF OPERATING AN INTERNATIONAL CHILD TRAFFICKING ENTERPRISE. Democrats hardest hit, since they like to pretend that child trafficking doesn’t happen. 

ROBERT F. KENNEDY CALLS OUT JOE BIDEN’S HHS OVER HOW IT BECAME A “COLLABORATOR IN CHILD TRAFFICKING.”

SITE FOR TRACKING ALL THE INVESTMENTS AND MANUFACTURING PRESIDENT TRUMP IS BRINGING TO THE U.S.

FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST: DEMOCRAT TEACHER CALLS FOR THE SECRET SERVICE TO KILL PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS. Among her hate-filled remarks “The Secret Service has the perfect opportunity, if they choose to step up and take it. You are the ones with power. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump’s illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts.”

BODY-CAM FOOTAGE OF DEMOCRAT IDOL KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA DURING PULLOVER INVESTIGATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Democrats, aren’t there any suffering American citizens that you can find who deserve becoming a Cause Celebre instead of this illegal immigrant gangster?

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO DEPOLITICIZE THE FBI AND HAVE IT FOCUS ON FIGHTING CRIME RATHER THAN TARGETING POLITICAL DISSENT.

STEPHEN MILLER BLASTS THE PRIVILEGED ONE-PERCENTERS FROM DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS WHO SHILL FOR MS-13 AND TREN DE ARAGUA. Continue reading

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