FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE
FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: March 19th, 2018 HERE.
POLITICAL CARTOONS: March 26th, 2018 HERE.
TRANSGRESS WITH ME: MARCH 28th, 2018 – Only for the brave and iconoclastic. HERE.
MOCK HEADLINES: March 20th, 2018 HERE. March 14th HERE. March 9th HERE.
JIMMY KIMMEL: THE BALLADEER’S BLOG INTERVIEW: It’s HERE. Continue reading
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Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I got a kick out of the recent Reuters report on their investigation into the slaveholding roots of U.S. politicians. It’s long been known that Joe Biden is from a line of slave owners but – as I’m sure it galled Reuters to have to report – their bete noir Donald Trump was the ONLY living U.S. president NOT descended from slave owners. (Yes, even Barack Obama’s ancestors were slave owners.)
Republican office holders who are descended from slave owners include some of my frequent targets for bashing over present-day corruption like Mitch McConnell, George W. Bush and Lindsey Graham.
Democrats descended from slave owners and who are among my frequent targets for bashing over present-day corruption include Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, infamous for her exposed lies about being Native American (and using that lie to fill minority positions in academia despite being lily-white). Continue reading
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THE MAN FROM PAINTED POST (1917) – Here is another Douglas Fairbanks movie from the years before he became the film world’s premier swashbuckler. Unlike the pure comedy of Fairbanks’ The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, which I reviewed last week, The Man from Painted Post was an action comedy set in the old west.
Doug starred as Fancy Jim Sherwood, a Charles Siringo-style old west private detective whose agency has been hired to investigate and shut down a Wyoming rustling empire run by outlaw chief Bull Madden (Frank Campeau). Fancy Jim sets about his task by showing up in the crime-ridden region undercover in the guise of a clumsy, citified twit from back east.
That allows Fairbanks to show off his athleticism AND talent for comedy through slapstick fakery to make his eastern Dude character seem hilariously inept at roping, riding and shooting. Fancy Jim Sherwood’s masquerade succeeds in making Bull Madden and his gang dismiss him as a non-threatening wimp.
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A look at some of the latest from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.
HUNTER BIDEN PAID FOR $300 PER MONTH INTERNATIONAL PHONE FOR JOE BIDEN. How convenient. Joe’s conversations with Hunter’s “business” partners overseas (LMAO) were on a phone not in Joe’s name. It’s life in the Biden Crime Family’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.
BURISMA WHISTLEBLOWER FOUND DEAD. How convenient for the Biden Crime Family.
BIDENS RECEIVED OVER FIVE MILLION DOLLARS WITHIN DAYS OF THE NOTORIOUS APP MESSAGE. Just a coincidence, right?
CELEBRATED DEMOCRAT LEGISLATOR FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE ARRESTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?
BIDEN’S DOJ BLOCKED ATTEMPTS TO PROSECUTE HUNTER BIDEN. More HERE. But prosecutors abusing their positions by going after Joe Biden’s political enemies go unchecked.
THE DEMOCRATS CALL ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. “A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY” FOR CHALLENGING THE UNFIT JOE BIDEN. See? They will say that about ANYBODY who doesn’t toe The Party line. But for four years fools bought into it when The Party said it about Trump.
DEMOCRATS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES CLAIM ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. IS A “RUSSIAN PUPPET.” The Party is still trying the old “Russia, Russia, Russia!” nonsense.
COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT CALLS FOR RETAKING THE PARTY FROM THE INTOLERANT FASCISTS WHO NOW RUN IT. Continue reading
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FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE
OVERLOOKED NEWS STORIES FROM THAT MONTH – Another scandal from the Obama Administration saw Obama’s top attorney for I.C.E. plead guilty to wire fraud and to forging documents in order to open credit card and bank accounts under stolen identities. The court case had been dragging on for years, as so many do here in the U.S.
All that plus 100,000 more non-citizens were found on the voter rolls, this time in Pennsylvania. Funny how it’s only Democrats who keep claiming such vote fraud isn’t a problem.
SEX, LIES AND POLITICS – This February 2018 item dealt with the disgraced Congressman Adam Schiff actually falling for a scam in which he thought pranksters could provide him with compromising photos of Trump! Plus, Hillary Clinton on marriage.
STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS: 2018 – The nation was flying high.
FISA-GATE CONTINUED – F.B.I. = S.C.U.M.
MOCK HEADLINES ARE BACK – The comedy bit was back with mock headlines like “CNN CLAIMS NO CHILD’S PETS WOULD EVER DIE IF NOT FOR TRUMP” Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog
THANK YOU once again to all of you readers for making Balladeer’s Blog so enjoyable to write. As I always say, the unusual and controversial items I sometimes churn out here mean that readers have to be open-minded and very secure in their own beliefs not to just take offense and leave.
Here are some of my most popular blog posts from the past 12 months.
BAD MOVIES: There was Kong Island (1968), Invasion from Inner Earth (1974), Raiders of Atlantis (1983), Murdercycle (1999), 365 Days (2020), Films with William Shatner’s Wife, Jungle Jim Movies, An American Hippie in Israel (1972), Kommissar X Movies, Andromeda Nebula (1967), The Keep (1983), Hitler – Dead or Alive (1942), My Top H.G. Lewis Movies,
A MERCILESS EXAMINATION OF THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS: One of my most read items of the past 12 months HERE.
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: I reviewed The Artificial Mother (1894), A.D. 2000 (1890), The Sickle of Fire (1896), The Warstock (1898), Bellona’s Husband (1887), Mars Revealed (1880), The Emperor of the Air (1910), The Captivity of the Professor (1901), End of an Epoch (1901).
MORE FOOL KILLER LORE FROM OVER A CENTURY AGO: April 1913, May 1913, July 1913
COMEDIES: MODERN PARODY HALL OF FAME: The full breakdown HERE.
POLITICAL CARTOONS, MEMES AND NEWS ROUNDUPS: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.
PONY EXPRESS RIDERS: Pony Bob, The Man Called Boston, Irish Tommy
THE PEOPLE VS JOE BIDEN: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: Queen of the Black Coast and Amra, and Curse of the Conjurer
NEGLECTED GUNSLINGERS: Dutch Henry, and Buckskin Frank
MEXICO’S MST3K: I reviewed it HERE. There’s also Dark Jungle Theater HERE.
CASIMIR PULASKI: REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO: I took a look at his career HERE. Continue reading
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THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH (1916) – Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog may remember that I’m a geek for Silent Movies. Last week’s look at Douglas Fairbanks’ swashbuckler films from the silent era was so well received that I decided to post a review of Doug’s often overlooked “drug comedy.”
In this roughly 25-minute comedy short, Fairbanks played a detective named Coke Ennyday as a reference to Sherlock Holmes’ addiction to injections of cocaine in his original stories. Yes, I’m serious.
The short’s comedic approach to cocaine, opium and more demonstrates the “anything goes” attitude before film codes were implemented to ban certain content from the big screen. In the pre-internet years, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish was a film that people refused to believe existed until you had them sit down and watch it with you.
The notion of a theatrical comedy about drug use in 1916 seemed utterly impossible to them, and you could win a fair amount of bets with skeptics who insisted there is no way such a film would have been allowed to be made. The fact that it was written by THE Tod Browning shocked them, too.
THE STORY: Continue reading
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THE DON’T MISS EDITION, as Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest:
EVEN MORE ABOUT THE TEN MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS SUSPICIOUSLY FUNNELED INTO BIDEN’S BANK ACCOUNT. It’s life here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.
AUDIO OF BIDEN TELLING POROSHENKO NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THE FBI. And I think we all know why.
BEYOND A BANANA REPUBLIC. “Either you see what’s happening to Trump as being about Trump or you see it being about a weaponized government planning to make any opposition a crime. Only one of those views is correct. You don’t have to be a Trump fan to see it’s the latter.”
STABBING: ANOTHER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER PHYSICALLY ATTACKED. Democrat media outlets yawn. Republican fools STILL lack sufficient media outlets.
THE POLITICAL PERSECUTION TEAM HOUNDING TRUMP GETS CALLED OUT FOR PREVIOUS ILLEGAL ACTS INCLUDING WIRETAPPING. And a witness payoff scheme HERE. Have I mentioned lately that America’s political system is a cesspool of corruption which masquerades as a government?
INTERESTING PIECE TITLED “OUR BROKEN SYSTEM NEEDS DISRUPTION AND TRUMP IS THE DISRUPTOR”.
DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS TARGET COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TO PROTECT THE UNFIT JOE BIDEN. “The Party” will do to RFK Jr. what it did to Tulsi Gabbard in 2020. They’ll do it to Third Party candidates, too HERE.
REPUBLICAN PARTY PUNDITS STILL SNIVELING ABOUT UNFAIR MEDIA TREATMENT RATHER THAN TAKING STEPS TO EXPAND THEIR MEDIA REACH. There is no defense for this ongoing Republican failure at this point.
AND YET ANOTHER MEDIA LIE ABOUT TRUMP GOES DOWN IN FLAMES. The petty spitefulness of the American media is unreal. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog wishes you a happy Juneteenth, commemorating the day Democrats lost their slaves. (Only Democrats owned slaves.) African-Americans continue fighting for their freedom from the Democrats, who today treat people of color like they still own them and that they MUST vote for Democrats and ONLY Democrats. Democrat Joe Biden, embodying the grotesque hypocrisy of that detestable political party, EULOGIZED A KLANSMAN – DEMOCRAT SENATOR ROBERT BYRD – yet Biden thinks he’s fit to give finger-wagging lectures to the rest of us.
And y’know what? I’ve managed to go my whole life without ever knowing a Klansman let alone praising them after their death. But a piece of garbage like Joe Biden – whose racial slurs and other incidents of racist behavior are legion – presumes to elevate himself above the nation at large as if he’s some sort of High Priest of Racial Awareness. I’m neither a Democrat nor a Republican, so I’m not being partisan when I point out that Joe Biden is the herpes sore on the Body Politic.
Hillary Clinton with the Klansman she called one of her “mentors” – fellow Democrat Robert Byrd.
In further commemoration of Juneteenth here’s some more reminders about Democrats: the party of slavery, Dred Scott, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow and so much more. None of us choose the skin color we were born with or what country we were born in but we can certainly choose what political party we are or are not associated with. Do you still choose to belong to the party of the Democrats after all their crimes against humanity? #WALKAWAY and become an Independent Voter . Continue reading
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FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE
DON SURBER ON TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE.
FACEBOOK IS FAKEBOOK. Even in 2018 Facebook’s facade was crumbling.
TRANSGRESS WITH ME: JANUARY 29th. Are you brave enough for this?
“THE PARTY’S” ATROCITY ROUNDUP. Back in 2018 the FBI’s fake Russian Collusion nonsense had already been exposed. Plus vote fraud and more.
BLOCKBUSTER DEVELOPMENTS. A CBS poll showed President Trump’s support among African-American voters more than doubling since he took office. And in the election of 2016 he got more of the African-American vote than any Republican in decades. All that and more.
ONE MAN ALONE AGAINST BOTH CORRUPT POLITICAL PARTIES. Republican trash like Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Chris Christie and all the stuffy white males at National Review continue proving President Trump’s status as a de facto Third Party President. Continue reading
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