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APRIL 2021: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

brandon tatum picBRANDON TATUM, A MARTIN LUTHER KING MAN OF COURAGE, SETS STRAIGHT A WHITE BBC REPORTER OVER HIS FALSE ASSUMPTIONS – Well done, too. 

AUSTRALIAN NEWS SAYS “JOE BIDEN’S STUPIDITY IS NOW A THREAT TO THE WEST.” Video.

TRUMP VINDICATED AS YET ANOTHER FALSE MEDIA STORY IS EXPOSED – And since April of 2021 several other false narratives against Trump have been exposed as lies, too.

antifa is that youANTIFA HATE GROUP SETS FIRE TO PORTLAND FEDERAL BUILDING WITH EMPLOYEES INSIDE – Animals.

AMERICA’S MEDIA: EVEN LOWER THAN OUR CAREER POLITICIANS? – Yes.

CORPORATE FASCISM – A step by step look.  Continue reading

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APRIL FIFTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes another current events roundup.

ashley biden diary quoteBIDEN REGIME’S DOJ SEEKS PRISON TIME FOR THE WOMAN WHO PROVIDED JOURNALISTS WITH ASHLEY BIDEN’S DIARY IN WHICH ASHLEY WROTE ABOUT HER FATHER JOE TAKING “IMPROPER” SHOWERS WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD. More HERE. Joe’s creepy, touchy-feely way with children has been captured on film plenty of times over the years.

NEBRASKA STATE SENATOR COURAGEOUSLY CHANGES HIS PARTY AFFILIATION FROM DEMOCRAT TO REPUBLICAN. I’d prefer if he became an Independent like me, but anyone leaving the intolerant and hatemongering Democrat Party is a plus.

bloody hands of joe bidenBIDEN REGIME FINALIZES ITS SLASHING OF MEDICARE ADVANTAGE. I ask again if we can all stop pretending this is the same Democrat Party that it was years ago. Too many voters’ minds are trapped in the past and they default to the formerly accurate assumption that only Republicans do such things.   

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE REGGIE WALTON ACCUSED OF JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT OVER HIS BIASED REMARKS ABOUT TRUMP ON CNN. America’s corrupt cesspool of a political system continues to attack the opposition leader.

** WISCONSIN VOTERS APPROVE AMENDMENT TO BAN “ZUCKERBUCKS” AND SIMILAR PROGRAMS USED BY DEMOCRATS AS PART OF THEIR 2020 “CHEAT BY MAIL” VOTE FRAUD. Have I mentioned lately that the 2020 election was as corrupt and tainted as in 1876 and 2000? 

democrat republican or awakeREPUBLICANS FOOLISHLY CONTINUE TOYING WITH THE NOTION OF AN ARTICLE FIVE CONVENTION OF THE STATES TO ALTER THE CONSTITUTION. Even though the clueless, outdated and utterly useless Republican establishment think they’ll get the changes they want, we all know what would happen. The Democrats would, as always, outmaneuver and outdo the ineffectual Republicans and America would wind up with a Constitution altered to please only the most fanatical Democrats.

        Even if the Democrats did not act according to the rules of such a Convention of the States the Republicans would just impotently whine about it and after a brief period those same Republicans would admonish their constituents to stop discussing the debacle and would say they need to “move on and put the Convention of the States travesty in the rear-view mirror.”

WARNINGS ISSUED ABOUT THE POLITICAL GAMES THAT DEMOCRATS PLAY WITH THE CENSUS AND CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION. And, as I mentioned above, the ineffectual Republicans do nothing but whine about it. America needs Third Parties.

TRUMP COMPASSIONATELY CALLS OUT THE BIDEN REGIME FOR IGNORING THE VICTIMS OF THE ADDITIONAL CRIMES COMMITTED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Uses the Democrats’ pathetic “Say their names” meme against them.    DEMOCRATS, MEANWHILE, EXPRESS OUTRAGE OVER DEATH OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CONVICTED OF MURDER. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: APRIL 2nd

From Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

kangaroo courtDAUGHTER OF JUDGE IN TRUMP CASE INVOLVED IN RAISING NINETY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS FOR DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES BY TOUTING THE LAWFARE AGAINST TRUMP, RAISING NEW CRIES FOR THE JUDGE TO RECUSE HIMSELF. For once it’s not Judge Arthur Engoron, the poster child for why people consider elected judges to be nothing but partisan hacks.   

HILARIOUS ARTICLE BY A PRACTICING LAWYER ABOUT THE CURRENT INSANITY IN U.S. COURTROOMS.

president trumpDE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S TOP ONE HUNDRED ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN OFFICE.

“BIDEN-MART” DEMONSTRATES THE CRUSHING INFLATION CAUSED BY JOE BIDEN’S POLICIES AND HIS WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS & THE POOR. Continue reading

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GOOD EVENING, MR. TIBBS (1987) – THE FINAL VIRGIL TIBBS STORY

virgil tibbs standingGOOD EVENING, MR. TIBBS – As promised, I recently obtained a copy of author John Ball’s final story featuring his iconic African American homicide detective Virgil Tibbs. Yes, THAT Virgil Tibbs, introduced in the 1965 novel and 1966 movie In the Heat of the Night.

Roughly ten days back I reviewed John Ball’s subsequent novels and short stories about the brilliant and coolly professional Virgil Tibbs. This final short story, Good Evening, Mr. Tibbs, followed the 1986 Tibbs novel Singapore.   

Unlike that novel, this tale depicts Virgil in his home territory of Pasadena, California. (It was only in the movies that Tibbs worked in Philadelphia and San Francisco.) In the middle of the night a woman’s dead body is found in the center of the street. Circumstances prompt a call to bring in Pasadena’s senior Homicide Detective – our man Virgil. Continue reading

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MARCH 2021: A LOOK BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

banned mail in votingAND ANOTHER COURT STRIKES DOWN THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES THAT DEMOCRATS MADE IN 2020 TO ENABLE THEIR “CHEAT BY MAIL” OPERATION. This second such decision was from March, 2021, remember. There have been many more since then. Have I mentioned that the 2020 election was at least as tainted and corrupt as the ones in 1876 and 2000? 

EVEN THE DEMOCRATS AT THE WASHINGTON POST ARE FORCED TO ADMIT TRUMP DID NOT ORDER GEORGIA TO FIND VOTE FRAUD.  But anti-Trump loons STILL buy into every bizarre anti-Trump rumor no matter how idiotic.

TRANSGRESS WITH ME: MARCH 28th – Among the remarks: “If you want people killed or injured just because they voted differently than you did, then they aren’t the fascists – YOU ARE.

the fascists of the future willCOURAGEOUS ANDY NGO’S REPORT ON THE FASCISTIC NATURE OF THE MISNAMED FASCISTS OF ANTIFA. And he suffered violence during his reporting on that hate group. Masked, weapon-wielding haters like this often band together to try to make up for what useless, impotent little people they are individually. 

Think of the way an army of ants, strictly by virtue of their numbers, can sometimes overwhelm and devour entities far greater than themselves.  ANTIFA: Their colors are red and black, just like the insects they so resemble! Continue reading

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MORE SILENT FILMS ABOUT THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS

jesus speakingHAPPY EASTER, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! The good response to my blog post about one of the silent films depicting Jesus Christ and the Crucifixion has prompted me to provide the following list of more such silent movies – both shorts and feature films.

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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MARCH 29th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

corruptionIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents another current events roundup from Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

biden the fascistBIDEN REGIME’S DOJ DROPS LAWSUIT AGAINST DISH NETWORK AFTER THEY DONATE TO THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN. Impeachments have been launched over less. This is life here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

ANOTHER BIDEN REGIME SCANDAL: TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN “IMPROPER PAYMENTS” IN 2023. Have I mentioned that America is Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy?

BIDEN REGIME SPENDS THREE HUNDRED TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS ON BORDER WALLS FOR OMAN, LEBANON, TUNISIA, EGYPT AND JORDAN. But nothing on our forever-unsecured southern border.

biden corruptUNDER BIDEN POLICIES AMERICA’S WEALTHIEST ONE PERCENT SET RECORD PERSONAL WEALTH WITH FORTY-FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS WHILE THE WORKING CLASS LIVES PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK. Can people stop pretending the Democrat Party is still what it was decades ago? Trump may be wealthy, too, but at least his policies helped the working class and the poor, like FDR before him.

        Even Trump’s tax cuts benefitted everybody, despite what Trump-haters claim. Everyone I know and interact with benefitted from those tax cuts and I sure as hell don’t hang around with millionaires. Trump-haters’ minds are trapped in the 1980s and early 2000s when tax cuts really did just benefit the wealthy. Trump broke that mold.   

democrats vote fraudAND YET ANOTHER FEDERAL COURT RULES THAT CHEAT-BY-MAIL/ VOTE-BY-MAIL BALLOTS CANNOT BE COUNTED WHEN THEY HAVE NO POSTMARK OR SIGNATURE. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Another victory toward preventing a recurrence of the vote fraud in 2020. That presidential election was as forever tainted and corrupt as in 1876 and 2000. Remember how Trump was leading, then various states abruptly stopped counting votes at the same time (like the tainted election in Mexico in 1988 and years later in Kenya) and a mysterious flood of Biden ballots came in during the wee hours. After the fact, the Democrats at Time Magazine ran their infamous article acting like the tampering/ “fortifying” of the election was a good thing, remember? Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MARCH 26th

that thing theyTime for another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

LATEST VOTE FRAUD SCANDAL: DEMOCRATS ONCE AGAIN MAGICALLY DISCOVER “UNCOUNTED VOTES” FOR THEIR PREFERRED CANDIDATE. More HERE. Even at the primary level, give Democrats enough time and they’ll manufacture enough votes for their preferred candidate to win. Business as usual. Remember how the DNC cheated Bernie Sanders in 2016 and Tulsi Gabbard in 2020?

this is illegal voter importationFEDERAL JUDGE RULES THAT NON-CITIZENS CAN VOTE AND HOLD OFFICE. This makes how many juris-dictions now where Democrats have made this possible? I’ve lost count. And as usual they pretend that “the non-citizens can only vote on municipal issues” but we know the Democrat playbook – ANY attempt to enforce even that aspect of the law will result in cries of “racism” and “suppressing voters.” It will all be done on “the honor system.”

        Over and over again Democrats have proven there is NO commonsense threshold for whatever insane policy they want to push on the rest of us.

BIDEN REGIME’S GARLAND THREATENED WITH CONTEMPT CHARGES OVER HIS ONGOING REFUSAL TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE IN BIDEN INVESTIGATIONS. It’s so cute when the clueless, outdated and utterly useless Republicans in Congress pretend they’re going to actually do something.

rfk jr at micROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. FIGHTS BACK AGAINST DEMOCRATS IN NEVADA STILL TRYING TO KEEP HIM OFF THE BALLOT. Democrats have made U.S. elections – even during the primaries – nothing but a joke

THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD DEMOCRAT STREAMER EXPOSED FOR HOW LITTLE THEY KNOW ABOUT HISTORY AND CURRENT EVENTS. Yet people like him pretentiously act like they’re “intellectual.” LMAO.

EVEN GEORGETOWN RESIDENTS ADMIT THAT DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DEALT WITH THEM BETTER THAN THE BIDEN REGIME WHICH “SLAMMED THE DOOR IN THEIR FACES.

DON SURBER’S TERRIFIC PIECE ABOUT JAMES CARVILLE SUDDENLY REALIZING THE WAY PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRATS SNOBBISHLY ALIENATE PEOPLE.    Continue reading

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FEBRUARY 2021: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

biden kids in cagesWITH BIDEN INSTALLED, ALL THOSE “KIDS IN CAGES” ARE NOW CALLED “CHILDREN IN SHELTERS” BY DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS. We all knew that Democrats never really cared about those kids. They just used them for propaganda purposes.

MARK MORGAN BLASTS JOE BIDEN FOR HIS CRUEL, INHUMANE AND MONSTROUS HYPOCRISY AS HE IGNORES THE KIDS IN CAGES HE PRETENDED TO CARE ABOUT. It’s almost like the real problem is the unsecured southern border and Democrats knew all along there are limited choices about how to deal with all those children pouring across that border, but the Biden Regime just ignores the problem while making it worse.

BORDER PATROL UNION CALLS OUT JOE BIDEN FOR NOW ILLEGALLY IMPRISONING UNACCOMPANIED MINORS, TOO. The people who screamed about “kids in cages” are silent about this, of course, since Biden has a (D) after his name. Had Trump done this the usual “Apocalypse of the Week” media treatment would have resulted. 

biden not legitBIDEN INTENSIFIES HIS WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR.

CIRCUIT JUDGE RULES THAT DEMOCRATS ILLEGALLY AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY COUNTED MAIL-IN BALLOTS WITH NO POSTMARKS AND WHICH ARRIVED DAYS LATER. And since this February of 2021 decision several more courts across the U.S. issued such decisions. The 2020 election was as tainted and corrupt as the ones in 1876 and 2000. It truly was “Cheat by mail.”

AUSTRALIAN MEDIA POINTS OUT BIDEN’S BIZARRE UNFITNESS FOR OFFICE. And this was back in 2021. Career criminal Joe has gotten much worse since then. Continue reading

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VIRGIL TIBBS: THE FORGOTTEN NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES

Author John Dudley Ball, Jr. created the iconic African American detective Virgil Tibbs in his 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night. Sidney Poitier brought Virgil to life on the big screen in the classic film version in 1966. Poitier reprised the role in They Call Me Mister Tibbs (1970) and The Organization (1971).

cool cottontailBalladeer’s Blog takes a look at the forgotten (or at least neglected) novels and short stories which John Dudley Ball wrote about his fictional detective. I am amazed that no one adapted the other Virgil Tibbs novels in the 70s, 80s or 90s. He is up there with other American detectives like Sam Spade, Nero Wolfe, Moses Wine and more.   

THE COOL COTTONTAIL (1966) – After winning the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel for In the Heat of the Night, John Ball wrote this follow-up novel about Virgil Tibbs. If you’re only familiar with the big screen Tibbs let me point out that The Cool Cottontail is set in Pasadena, CA, where the literary Virgil Tibbs was a homicide detective. In movies Virgil worked in Philadelphia and San Francisco while the In the Heat of the Night tv series stranded him down south.  Continue reading

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