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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR AUGUST TWENTY-EIGHTH

Here’s a Friday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

DEMOCRAT PARTY

NEW YORK TIMES CALLED OUT FOR BLOCKING A NEWS STORY ABOUT DEMOCRAT FUND-RAISERS FINANCIALLY SCAMMING THE ELDERLY. Bear this in mind the next time they try to pretend they’re not a Democrat Party Media Outlet.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO CAUGHT LYING ABOUT TWO DEATHS BY MEASLES IN HIS STATE. More HERE.

IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” CITY PORTLAND, NEARLY EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE FENTANYL ARRESTS ARE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

MORE ABOUT BIDEN’S AFGHANISTAN DISASTERS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP “TRUMPS” OVER-REACHING JUDGE.

IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” STATE VIRGINIA, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED ON OVER TWENTY CHILD PORNOGRAPHY COUNTS. Why are Democrats so obsessed with protecting child predators?

CROWDER LOOKS AT MORE TRUMP WINS.

TWENTY DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES OF THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION. Continue reading →

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TYRONE POWER’S SWASHBUCKLER FILMS

Tyrone Power was one of Hollywood’s top level heart-throbs and came from an acting family which had performed onstage since the 1700s. Here are his swashbuckler movies.

THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940) – Tyrone Power starred in this semi-remake of the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks classic. To me, nothing can top the Fairbanks version, but this Power effort comes a close second.

We all know the basics – Don Diego de Vega (Power) returns to 1820s California following his higher education in Spain. His father’s letters while he was away have made him pose as a meek and foppish aristocrat; the better to covertly fight California’s oppressors as the masked and costumed el Zorro – “the Fox.” 

Not even Diego’s father knows about his son’s dual identity, so he is just as contemptuous of the cowardly, buffoonish figure he pretends to be as everyone else. Eligible ladies of California look down on Diego, too, despite his family’s wealth. They all have the hots for the dashing Zorro who strikes the oppressors with his sword, pistols and whip, then vanishes into the night. 

Ultimately, Zorro gains enough popular support to topple the villains, led by Basil Rathbone. Linda Darnell plays Lolita, Gale Sondergaard is Inez and Eugene Pallette portrays Frey Felipe. 94 minutes. Continue reading →

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FOOL KILLER PART SEVENTY-FOUR: OCTOBER 1914

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 74 – Some of the Fool Killer’s targets on both sides of the aisle in the October of 1914 edition of the folk figure. The World War is in full swing.

*** Dr. William F. Snow of the American Hygiene Association. The Fool Killer targeted Snow over his crusade against the unhygienic nature of kissing. Dr. Snow had just patented his weird Sanitary Kiss invention. That invention involved the pair of kissers using sanitized tissue paper over their mouths with a hole in the middle, looking for all the world like the kind of tissue paper we now place over toilets in public restrooms.

*** The editors of the Greensboro Daily News, who called for “less nonsensical” war songs compared to the past. The U.S. had not yet entered the war, so the country’s coverage of it was less than gripping at first.

*** President Woodrow Wilson, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi for blaming the war for everything that the voters were holding them responsible for.

*** High Society Fashionistas for the way they seemed lost now that the war had prevented the release of the New Fall Line from Paris.

*** The “Redemocans”, one of the Fool Killer’s words for what we today call the Uniparty. He also called them Republicrats, a word we still use today. This month he depicted the Republicrat Devil driving honest outsiders out of politics by “setting all the political dogs on them and tearing them to pieces.” Continue reading →

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AUGUST TWENTY-SIXTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with another current events roundup.

TRUMP-ENDORSED DARLINE GRAHAM WINS SENATE PRIMARY RUNOFF ELECTION. More HERE.

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL MOVES TO FIGHT VOTE FRAUD VIA MAIL-IN (“CHEAT BY MAIL”) BALLOTS. The tainted and corrupt 2020 presidential election should never be allowed to happen again. Democrat strategy now will likely be to flagrantly violate election laws and when Trump enforces those laws to force violence and pretend Trump is being a “dictator” by stopping their violations of the laws.

MORE ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

A LOOK AT SOME OF CNN’S MANY, MANY LIES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT THEY’VE BEEN EXPOSED FOR.

NORTH MACEDONIA’S PRIME MINISTER POINTS OUT THE MANY WAYS THAT HE AND HIS CITIZENS SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE U.S. It’s the European country where Trump is most popular at present. 

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN GOTTHEIMER COURAGEOUSLY CALLS OUT EL-SAYED FOR NOT DISAVOWING HATEMONGER HASAN PIKER FOR ENCOURAGING VIOLENCE AGAINST AMERICAN JEWS.

REPUBLICAN TIM SCOTT EXPERTLY DOWNS DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET NBC’S WELKER FOR INSISTING THEY “PRETEND SENATE CANDIDATE EL-SAYED’S TERRORISM TIES DON’T COUNT”. 

RAHAL DEBUNKS ADAM SCHIFF’S LIES BY POINTING OUT THAT THE FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX WAS PRIVATELY FUNDED, NOT TAXPAYER FUNDED. And yet another anti-Trump lie goes down in flames. Continue reading →

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DOLLY PARTON R.I.P. – STRAIGHT TALK (1992)

Unfortunately, Dolly Parton, singer and movie starlet, has passed away. Here’s my review of her film with James Woods. 

STRAIGHT TALK (1992)

Dolly’s Role: Shirlee Kenyon

James’s Role: Jack Russell 

Comment: James Woods as the leading man in a romantic comedy? With Dolly Parton as his love interest? Believe it or not this Lady of Many Talents and the Man of a Thousand Personae even pull off THIS!  Continue reading →

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR AUGUST TWENTY-FOURTH

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

ICE’S LATEST ACTIVITIES DEAL WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS – MANY OF THEM GANG MEMBERS – CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER, BURGLARY AND MORE. And remember, the only reason they were still at large was because of Democrat “sanctuary” policies. 

ICE AGENTS ARREST PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO KILLED BUT WAS RELEASED THREE TIMES BY “SANCTUARY” POLICIES IN DEMOCRAT-HELD MASSACHUSETTS. As always, Democrats provide no sanctuary for the victims, only for the perpetrators. 

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH POURING HOT WAX ON HER CHILD AND WITH STARTING A FIRE. She did it in a TikTok video. Privileged white one-percenter Bruce Springsteen should be asked about this.

REPULSIVE DEMOCRAT SING-ALONG MOCKING FREE SPEECH MARTYR CHARLIE KIRK’S ASSASSINATION AS THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY APPROACHES. More HERE.

CALIFORNIA’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM SIGNS LAW STOPPING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS FROM REPORTING ON CORRUPTION AND FRAUD IN THE STATE GOVERNMENT. Unreal. Can you IMAGINE the shrieking from Democrats if the opposing political party did this? Continue reading →

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JOHNNY COOL (1963) UNDERRATED GANGSTER FILM

JOHNNY COOL (1963) – Okay, this weekend I once again met someone who never heard of this film, so I resolved to do what little I could to spread the word about it by reviewing it here on Balladeer’s Blog. 

Even among cult films, Johnny Cool has a certain prestige. It was released in October 1963 – the month before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Peter Lawford, JFK’s brother-in-law and Rat Pack member was a co-producer and got fellow Rat Pack figures Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop to appear in the movie.

Sammy was still wearing his pre-glass eye eyepatch in the film and also sang the movie’s title song. There’s a boatload more kitsch casting in Johnny Cool, which I’ll cover as we go along.

Our story begins in Italy, where aspiring young Sicilian hoodlum Salvatore Giordano (THE Henry Silva) is rescued from the police by former American Mafia bigwig Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrence himself). Like the real-life gangster boss Lucky Luciano, Colini was arrested and deported to Sicily after getting sold out by his organized crime rivals and allies back in the States.   

Colini mentors the violent diamond-in-the-rough Giordano and grooms him into an instrument of revenge for himself against his enemies in America. When the homicidal prodigy is polished and ready, Colini rechristens him Johnny Cool and sends him to the U.S. to settle accounts.  Continue reading →

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TRANSGRESS WITH ME: AUGUST TWENTY-THIRD

It has literally been almost a year since Balladeer’s Blog did a post in my Transgress with Me series, so here we go. For newbies, I’m an Independent Voter who used to be a Democrat until they became such intolerant fascists.

*** At present, it’s the Democrats who are the worst authoritarians and hatemongers, but I have bashed figures from both major political parties here.

*** All “news” outlets are biased, but at present Democrat outlets still far outnumber those for the opposition party, and that has resulted in a false impression of a national consensus on various issues and topics. (But it’s the fault of the Republican Party that they are still so far behind in the Media Arms Race.) 

*** Democrats mistakenly believe that successfully censoring dissenting opinions means they are “in the right.” 

*** When pompous Democrats put up those nauseating signs that say “Hate has no home here” what they really mean is “Hate has no home here, except for our perfectly righteous hatred of everyone who disagrees with any of our political opinions.”

*** Democrats are only content in environments where they have a captive audience, like in schools or H.R. “classes” or wherever they can use the full force of the government or other higher “authorities” to impose silence on those who disagree with them.

*** If you want people killed or injured just because they voted differently than you did, then they aren’t the fascists – YOU ARE.

*** Democrats are still at war with a version of America which hasn’t existed in decades.

*** There are still imbeciles who think President Trump told people to drink or inject themselves with bleach.

*** Democrats are not liberals – they’re illiberal. Democrats are not progressives – they’re regressive.

*** Yes, Ashley Biden’s oft-mentioned diary has entries in which she says her father Joe Biden took “inappropriate” showers with her when she was a child. She also said she was “probably” abused.  Continue reading →

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AUGUST TWENTY-FIRST NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a current events roundup from an America where Democrats spent over a decade claiming “wokeness” wasn’t a thing – and even pretended that people who used the word couldn’t define it because, they claimed, “it didn’t exist.” Now Democrat loon AOC openly admits “Woke One was crazy and is over” and that “Woke Two” is here.

           NEVER believe Democrats when they claim something they’re guilty of isn’t real or isn’t happening. Inevitably, they will be forced to admit that it exists and is happening. (Same with Vote Fraud, Political Bias in Education, etc.)

DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE ROY COOPER SCANDAL OVER PAY-TO-PLAY SCAM WHEN HE WAS GOVERNOR. He became a wealthy man while in office.

DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE PLEADS GUILTY TO WIRE FRAUD. The R.I.C.O. party strikes again.

IRAN’S MAD-DOG REGIME CAUSES UNITED ARAB EMIRATES TO SUSPEND ALL TRADE WITH IRAN OVER THEIR LATEST VIOLENCE. Fighting Iran’s current rulers is as necessary as fighting war criminal Vlad Putin.

DON SURBER ON WHO WAS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY RUNNING THE COUNTRY WHILE UNFIT JOE BIDEN WAS BEING PARADED BEFORE THE CAMERAS.

LATEST EXPOSE: THE BIDEN REGIME FBI MISCLASSIFIED INFO TO HIDE BIDEN FAMILY CRIMES. Took a while to find, but here it is.

FLASHBACK: DANIEL CAMERON TELLS DEMOCRATS “IT’S TIME TO STOP TELLING BLACK AMERICANS WHAT WE’RE ALLOWED TO BELIEVE.“

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS STILL LOWERING HEALTH CARE COSTS AND HAS LOWERED MEDICAID PRICES BY THREE POINT FIVE PERCENT. Continue reading →

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MONSIEUR LECOQ (1865-1868) A NEGLECTED PRE-SHERLOCK HOLMES DETECTIVE

MONSIEUR LECOQ – This French detective, who worked for the Surete, was created by France’s Emile Gaboriau, a former secretary of THE Paul Feval, the famed writer. The Gaboriau novels featuring Lecoq (whose first name was never revealed, like Columbo) all came out in the 1860s, making him one of the western world’s Big Three fictional detectives who came BEFORE Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes in 1887.

The other two, of course, are Auguste Dupin (1841) and Nick Carter (1886). Like Monsieur Lecoq, Dupin and Carter were among the figures depicted in individual episodes of Les Grands Detectives (1975) on French television. Here are the novels that Emile Gaboriau wrote featuring this brilliant procedural detective.

L’AFFAIRE LEROUGE (serialized in 1865, novelized in 1866) – This novel, set in 1862, depicted Lecoq as an assistant detective who was refining his trade with the help of another Gaboriau detective named Tabaret. In this story alone, Lecoq is a figurative Archie Goodwin to the less mobile Tabaret’s Nero Wolfe.  

The widow Claudine Lerouge is found murdered in her home but the killer is not known. Tabaret and his supporting detective Lecoq investigate and must sift through clues regarding Lerouge’s mysterious past involving false identities and illegal child swapping. Continue reading →

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