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.
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
STRAIGHT TALK (1992) 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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 FLAME AND THE ARROW (1950) – In 1100s Lombardy, evil Count Ulrich (Frank Allenby) rules on behalf of Emperor Frederick the First. Ulrich abuses his power and even takes the unfaithful wife of Dardo Bartoli (Burt Lancaster) into his own court as one of his mistresses. This drives archer and swordsman Dardo into opposition against him. 
Dardo now goes all out against the Count, leading rebels both high born and low in Robin Hood style banditry against Ulrich from an old Roman fortress in the hills. At one point Dardo and his allies abduct Count Ulrich’s niece Anne (Virginia Mayo) in hopes of exchanging her for Rudi. The Count instead captures Dardo’s father and several other villagers, threatening to kill them all unless the rebel and outlaw surrenders. 
