Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at my top horror movies of the past fifty years. It is NOT a list of my all-time favorite horror films, just the ones that fall within the round number of fifty years.
If the selected movie spawned a franchise I rank the franchise’s top five flicks by titles only. As always, these are just my opinion. We all have our favorites and none of us are right or wrong.
MY LIST: Continue reading
Filed under Halloween Season, opinion
With Dune 2 out there now, here are TWO items as a salute of sorts to the Frank Herbert classic. The first book in the series was serialized beginning in 1963, then released as a novel in 1965.
DUNE: THE OPERA – Previously I wrote about how Philip Wylie’s science fiction novel Gladiator could be done as an opera. Then I looked at how an opera version of the 1966 Spaghetti Western Django could be done and then an opera based on the novel Venus in Furs. If you’re not familiar with the story told in Dune it is set over 20,000 years in the future, when humanity has colonized many Earth-like planets.
LANGUAGE: Spanish. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that most of my fellow English-speakers find English-language operas to be silly. The prosaic nature of the forced rhymes in a language we are well-versed in does seem to rob opera of its mystique and its grandeur.
SINGERS: Two Baritones, two Bass-Baritones, two Sopranos, one Mezzo-Soprano, four Tenors, a contralto and a Bass.
ACTS: FOUR ACTS
STORY: My fellow Dune geeks may get annoyed with this change, but remember, adaptations for staged performances have to be made very tight. I would start out at the Arrakeen Great Hall as the family and court members of House Atreides have just arrived on Arrakis/ Dune, the desert planet. All the scenes that the book covered while the Atreides family were preparing to depart their home on Caladan would instead play out shortly after their arrival on their new planetary fiefdom. Continue reading
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Here’s the latest roundup regarding current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.
BLOOD MONEY – PETER SCHWEIZER’S LATEST INVESTIGATIVE BOOK REGARDING THE CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION RUN BY AMERICA’S CAREER CRIMINALS IN OFFICE – OFFICIALLY COMES OUT TOMORROW. Excerpts have been made available HERE.
JOE BIDEN’S LATEST MURDER-BY-ILLEGAL-ALIEN SCANDAL AGAIN EXPOSES HIS MANY SCANDALS AND FAILURES. More HERE. And HERE. The alleged murderer was arrested and let go in “sanctuary city” New York, thus enabling him. “Illegal Immigrants Uber Alles” remains the Democrat motto.
Nancy Pelosi, whose policies harm the working class and the poor.
NANCY PELOSI INSIDER TRADING SCANDAL SURFACES AGAIN AS THE PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER’S PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER HUSBAND MADE WELL OVER A MILLION DOLLARS IN JUST THREE MONTHS. Hubby has gotten years of government contracts somehow (wink) and he and Nancy still rake in money while her insider trading scandal rolls along. And America lacks a competent opposition party to do anything about it.
BIDEN REGIME FIGHTS FOR IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION FOR ILLEGALS. The regime is even having a U.S. State Department figure advocate AGAINST Texas and FOR illegal immigrants. If only there was an opposition party to work against this.
SENATOR TIM SCOTT RECAPS CAREER CRIMINAL JOE BIDEN’S LIFE OF DESPICABLE BIGOTRY.
A REMINDER OF THIS INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST’S LIST OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE DONALD TRUMP ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN OFFICE. More cold, hard facts that make the slobbering psychopaths who hate Trump 24/7 even crazier than they usually are.
BIDEN UNCONSTITUTIONALLY IGNORES SUPREME COURT RULING AND DECREES THAT OVER A BILLION DOLLARS MORE IN STUDENT LOANS TO DEMOCRATS DON’T HAVE TO BE REPAID. Impeachments have been launched over far less. Just a few years ago, in fact. Meanwhile, the suffering working class and poor face ruin in Biden’s economy.
An arrested drunk? Nope, it’s the alleged judge.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEING ROUTED OUT OF NEW YORK CITY FOLLOWING PARTISAN DEMOCRAT ELECTED JUDGE ARTHUR ENGORON’S GROTESQUE HANDLING OF THE TRUMP TRIAL. Engoron’s miscarriage of justice will likely be overturned, but this is a reminder of why elected judges are so often viewed as corrupt hacks.
MORE ABOUT C.I.S.A.’s ROLE IN CENSORING THE TRUTH ABOUT FRAUD-FRIENDLY VOTE BY MAIL. The 2020 election result was just as corrupt and tainted as the 1876 and year 2000 results. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
From Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy, here’s the latest on current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.
BEYOND THE SPOILS SYSTEM OF OLD: BIDEN FOCUSING HIS ENTIRE REGIME ON VOTING ANTICS. Ignoring Voter I.D. laws is just the tip of the iceberg. And we lack a competent opposition party to fight this.
PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI SCANDALS REGARDING INSIDER TRADING STILL GOING ON AS SHE GETS OBSCENE PROFITS. But our DOJ is too busy pursuing non-crimes to care.
DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET FIRES AND SEIZES THE FILES OF FEMALE REPORTER INVESTIGATING THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY SCANDALS. More HERE. Banana Republic America strikes again, this time against Catherine Herridge!
MAN CHARGED WITH ABUSING HIS STATUS AS AN FBI AGENT TO STEAL DURING HIS PARTICIPATION IN FBI RAIDS. FBI = Fuggeda Bout Integrity.
An arrested drunk? Nope, it’s the alleged judge.
EVEN MORE VOICES RAISED TO DENOUNCE ARTHUR ENGORON’S ABSURD AND UNFOUNDED KANGAROO COURT’S VERDICT AGAINST TRUMP. More HERE.
THE BUSINESSES WHO ARE NOW LEAVING NEW YORK AFTER THE PERVERSE VERDICT AGAINST TRUMP. Who can blame them? The Democrats have made it clear they will use the courts against any and all perceived political dissent.
REPUBLICAN GARBAGE PAUL RYAN AND MIKE PENCE DECLARE WAR ON POPULISM VIA THEIR NEW ORGANIZATION. And just who provided the 20 million dollars to launch this group? Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
Here’s the latest on current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, I come to you from Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy where even our court system is so corrupt that defendants have to wait for the appeals process to play out before true justice is achieved.
DEMOCRAT PARTY
FCC INSIDERS CALL OUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S DOJ REFUSING TO PURSUE THE FRAUD CASE AGAINST A WEALTHY DONOR TO THE DEMOCRATS. If the guy had been a political enemy of the Biden Crime Family, though, we know the DOJ would have found an accommodating judge like political hack Arthur Engoron to try him before. Nobody venue shops like the Democrats to get the verdict The Party wants.
ARTHUR ENGORON’S GROTESQUE MISCONDUCT BROKEN DOWN IN EXCELLENT ARTICLE.
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY’S INVOLVEMENT WITH FAILED HOSPITAL CHAIN CALLED OUT. More HERE. And HERE. Wow. The Bidens are utter filth. Their victims deserve justice but Crooked Joe has been given a pass with the claim that he is mentally unfit. He’s like the Mafia’s Vincent “The Chin” Gigante.
... AND EVEN MORE PROOF ABOUT HOW FRAUD-FRIENDLY “VOTE BY MAIL” IS.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY WINS AGAINST THE BIDEN REGIME’S CENSORSHIP.
MORE FALLOUT FROM AMERICA’S GROTESQUE C.I.A. AND OTHER AGENCIES TARGETING TRUMP BEFORE HE WAS EVEN ELECTED. As I’ve said before, one of the reasons I used to be a Democrat before going Independent was that the Democrats USED TO be outspokenly critical of the ugly conduct of the intelligence agencies. More HERE.
CONNECTICUT ELECTION REDO OVER VOTE FRAUD. Ballot harvesting is illegal in Connecticut (as it should be everywhere) but that didn’t keep their election safe. Ballot harvesting helped the Democrats’ vote fraud in 2020 and 2018 as well.
POLL: DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS AMERICA’S MOST RESPECTED LEADER. Gets twice as many votes as Biden and also leaves Hillary and Obama in the dust.
COURAGEOUS PROTESTERS DELIVER OVER 300 POUNDS OF WASTE MATTER TO THE MANSION OF PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER NANCY PELOSI. An appropriate statement about how things are in San Francisco. By the way, why doesn’t Pelosi open one or two of her mansions to house illegal immigrants? She once told several of them she “wished she could take them all home with her.” So do it, Nancy. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
GEORGE ADAMSKI (April 17th, 1891 – February 26th, 1965) occupied a special place in the history of cults. In 1936 he claimed to represent the Royal Order of Tibet and preached “its teachings” in California (where else).
In the 1940s Adamski became interested in UFO reports and readjusted his Royal Order of Tibet teachings a bit. He then insisted he was in touch with Space Brothers whose philosophy he was revealing to the public. (Imagine if L. Ron Hubbard and this guy had joined forces!)
The readjustments started after George Adamski published Pioneers of Space in 1949, a general look at the infant Flying Saucer phenomenon, and in 1952 he claimed to be in telepathic contact with a being from Venus. Claims of additional contacts followed, including hieroglyphic writings from the Venusian.
Working with Leslie Desmond, Adamski published Flying Saucers Have Landed in 1953. He became a famous lecturer on UFOs and extraterrestrials and established his new following of suckers disciples. Continue reading
Every Presidents Day, Democrat media outlets release their hilariously biased lists ranking the presidents – lists compiled by Democrats who call themselves “historians.” (LMAO) Remember, the past decades have seen Democrats drive most non-Democrats from the “educational” profession.
Democrats like to pretend those prejudiced historians’ opinions carry more weight than the opinions of other people as part of their overall philosophy that everyone must bow to so-called “experts.” Remember, Democrats idiotically think someone has to be a biologist to define what a woman is as another example of their “Only experts who subscribe to The Party’s talking points should be listened to” approach.
I’m presenting my own ranking of the presidents in this blog post, but obviously people are free to disregard it as readily as they disregard all other such lists. These lists are fun conversationally, but none of them – including mine – have any relevance in the real world.
FIRST, I AM DOING WHAT ANY SUCH LIST COMPILER SHOULD DO IF THEY ARE SUPPOSEDLY TRYING TO BE AS OBJECTIVE AS POSSIBLE: I am omitting the most recent presidents because of the way emotion (and hysteria in some cases) can color perceptions of them. Presidential rankings lists which go all the way up to the present year are used simply as partisan political propaganda, not as true assessments.
Here is my ranking of U.S. presidents: Continue reading
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It’s Presidents Day, so here are some sarcastic takes on the more recent presidents, with both political parties shown the irreverence they deserve.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER
Character Type: Well-meaning but befuddled sitcom grandfather.
Military Service: World War One and World War Two
Motto: “FOOORE!” (Remember, the traditional cry as you’re teeing off in golf? Oh, never mind!)
Nickname: Uncle Milty
Pro: Knew enough to distrust Richard Nixon long before it became the national pastime.
Con: Was the first president to pronounce nuclear as “nucular”.
JOHN F KENNEDY
Character Type: Rich playboy who disdained both Liberals and Conservatives and played by his own rules.
Military Service: World War Two
Motto: “Thank God for television!”
Nickname: FDR
Pro: The man was shrewd enough to distrust both liberals and conservatives equally. I can’t praise that attitude highly enough given our present circumstances.
Con: I can’t find out what happened to this guy. Anybody hear anything? Continue reading
Filed under humor, Neglected History, opinion, Presidential Rap Sheets
FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.
JOE BIDEN’S TEXAS POLITICAL DIRECTOR NAMED IN ILLEGAL BALLOT HARVESTING SCAM AND MAIL-IN BALLOT FRAUD. More HERE and HERE. Yet another omen for how badly the Democrats were cheating in the 2020 election. At this point here in 2024 the only people who think that was a fair election are people who think some males menstruate and that men can naturally get pregnant.
DEMOCRAT GRIP ON SOCIAL MEDIA BEING USED TO CENSOR NEWS ABOUT THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY SCANDALS EXPOSED BY HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP. Even more HERE.
CROW INDIAN TRIBE PLUS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS ENDORSE DONALD TRUMP OVER BIDEN. While Joe Biden was hiding in his bunker to prevent any more public incidents revealing how unfit for office he was, Trump was reeling in endorsement after endorsement.
Excerpt from Crow Chairman Alvin Not Afraid Jr: “the “Trump administration has helped the Crow Tribe in amending the Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance” to let the tribe assign and grant permits on THEIR OWN mineral rights, unlike previous presidential administrations.”
Excerpt from Democrat Maurice Davis: “Let me tell you something, the Democrats are full of hate. I have been a democrat all my life, 64 years. The last four years I voted for Hillary Clinton. This year I decided to go with President Trump. I am not a bootlicker, I am not an Uncle Tom.” (He had to add that because Democrats are such disgusting racists they always hurl abuse at voters of color who think for themselves.)
Excerpt from Civil Rights Leader William Owens: “President Trump did something that few other politicians do,” Owens said. “He sought out the opinion of a variety of African American leaders and he listened to what we had to say … This is a president who believes in giving a hand-up, not a hand-out in order to help our community thrive.”
TRUMP BRINGS MIDEAST PEACE AND THE BIGGEST MANUFACTURING BOOM SINCE THE 1970s. More HERE and HERE.
(THEN) DEMOCRAT TULSI GABBARD COURAGEOUSLY POINTED OUT HOW DEMOCRATS COULD USE VOTE BY MAIL AS CHEAT BY MAIL FOR VOTE FRAUD PURPOSES. She tried introducing a bill to stop the vote by mail scams but her fellow Democrats blocked her.
DEMOCRAT BERNADINE KENNEDY KENT ENDORSED TRUMP. Some excerpts: “Kent said in her endorsement that her “values truly align with President Donald J. Trump’s willingness to work with those of differing opinions and perspectives more so than with Joe Biden’s divisive rhetoric, promotion of mass incarceration, and disrespectful, insensitive ideologies.”
“A large part of this success is due to President Trump’s willingness to listen to the ideas of Senator Tim Scott and the concerns of invested citizens from diverse communities in economic distress. This effort produced a groundbreaking solution called ‘Opportunity Zones,’ a way to create jobs and spur investment in disadvantaged communities. We all recognize that gainful employment and economic development is the best deterrent against violence and social unrest, so I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to ensuring the success of the Black community in every way.”
Kennedy-Kent also praised President Trump’s history-making support for HBCUs. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
Here’s the latest on current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. Tech trouble here. Forgive the crudity right now. Working on it.
New Devastating Testimony Reveals Joe Biden’s Involvement in Hunter’s Business.
Inflation Report Destroying Biden’s Claim That It’s ‘Falling’
Most Developed Countries Have Banned Mass Mail-in Voting. The United States Must Do the Same. Isn’t that the truth. The 2020 vote fraud was largely fueled by “cheat by mail”.
Donald Trump Is America’s ‘Most Respected’ Leader (By a Wide Margin)
What Was He THINKING?! Biden Posts Video of Himself Having Dinner With a Black Family and HOO BOY (Watch) Really, Joe? Fried chicken?
Report Says Obama CIA Worked With International Spy Agencies to Get Trump. MORE HERE. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
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