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DEMOCRATS VS THE REST OF US: APRIL 11th

democrats hate free speechLong ago I was, I’m ashamed to say, a member of the increasingly deranged and hate-filled Democrat party before I left it to become an Independent Voter. Anyone mindlessly feeling “My political party, right or wrong” is not worth listening to on any issue.

MORE ABOUT THE INTERMINGLED FINANCES OF CROOKED JOE BIDEN AND HIS UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN. More HERE. More HERE. And HERE.

PUTIN’S RUSSIA WILL MAKE BILLIONS THANKS TO CORRUPT JOE BIDEN’S DEAL WITH IRAN. More HERE. The thuggish Biden still talks tough about Putin while funneling money to the war criminal in reality.

DEMOCRATS AT THE WASHINGTON POST BLUNTLY CALLING TO USE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO CUT WORKING CLASS WAGES. So does this mean they’re finally abandoning their frequent lie that illegal immigration doesn’t hurt wages for citizens? Typical Democrat pattern – lie and lie for years, then when your lie is exposed, pretend the thing you claimed wasn’t happening is really a good thing!

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DEMOCRAT PARTY

THE DEMOCRATS’ FBI EXPOSED IN COURT FOR THEIR ABSURD FABLE ABOUT A PLANNED ABDUCTION OF GOVERNOR WHITMER IN MICHIGAN. More HERE. Remember when anti-Trump loons believed the lies that Trump was part of the plan to abduct her? Trump-haters are foolish enough to believe anything.

BIDEN REGIME FIGURE ADMITS SHARING INTEL WITH CHINA WAS WRONG. Buying Joe Biden was the best investment the Chinese government ever made.

YET ANOTHER EXPOSE ABOUT VOTE FRAUD IN FIVE SWING STATES IN 2020. The 2020 presidential election was as corrupt and tainted as the 1876 and year 2000 presidential elections. Continue reading

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HAMMETT (1982) – MOVIE REVIEW

HammettHAMMETT (1982) – Directed by Wim Wenders and produced by Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios, Hammett is a criminally neglected valentine to Hard-Boiled Detective Stories and Film Noir. The flick is based on the novel by Joe Gores. 

The stories about the behind the scenes chaos and conflicts surrounding the production of this movie are legion. Pre-production work began in 1975 and by the time it was released in 1982 multiple cast and story changes had taken place and Coppola himself re-shot more than a third of the film.

In the way that Time After Time presented a whimsical “what if” adventure featuring H.G. Wells having a real time machine, Hammett serves up iconic detective novelist Dashiell Hammett getting caught up in solving a real-life mystery.

The timing is excellent, with the story being set in the late 1920s, after Hammett was no longer working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency but before he became a successful author. The tale begins with our hero – played by Frederic Forrest – typing out one of his penny-a-word Pulp stories for Black Mask Magazine, which was to detective fiction what Weird Tales was to horror and sci-fi.

hammett 2Booze and coughing fits figure prominently in the movie, as you would expect given a protagonist who was an alcoholic with tuberculosis. For the sake of convenience the story that Hammett just finished before blacking out was one featuring his character the Continental Op (as in an operative for the fictional Continental Detective Agency).  

Hammett awakens to find his most recent work being read by Jimmy Ryan (Peter Boyle), his old mentor from his Pinkerton days. Ryan jokes with “Sam” (Samuel Dashiell Hammett was his full name if you’re new to all things Hammett) that the “man with no name” in the story seems to be based on him (Ryan) and the way he operates.

Eventually Jimmy gets to the point: he saved Hammett’s life when our hero was new at detective work, and Ryan is finally calling in the debt that Sam owes him for that. The former colleague thus lures Hammett back into detective work for one last case. Continue reading

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DEMOCRAT ATROCITY ROUNDUP: APRIL 6th

democrat republican otherIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes to you from the Biden Crime Family’s corporate fascist kleptocracy, where Democrats try to dictate what the rest of us are allowed to say, wear, post on the internet, etc. Many of their oppressive actions would not be possible without the utter worthlessness of elected Republicans, whose apparent motto continues to be “Screw our constituents! As long as we remain wealthy enough to survive what the Democrats unleash, that’s all that matters!”

BIDEN’S INFLATION HAS CAUSED RENTS TO SKYROCKET – ONE BEDROOM APARTMENTS HAVE GONE UP 98%, TWO BEDROOM APARTMENTS HAVE GONE UP 100%. The Biden Regime’s war on the working class and the poor continues unabated.

ANOTHER REPORT ABOUT UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN FUNNELING MONEY. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And remember, all of this was exposed before the forever tainted 2020 presidential election, but Democrat media and social media outlets banned the information to protect the Biden Campaign.

democrat platform hatredCORRUPT YET SENILE JOE BIDEN CALLED OUT FOR HAVING “DONE NOTHING BUT EMPOWER AND EMBOLDEN PUTIN.”

DEMOCRATS AT CBS STEP UP THEIR POLITICAL LITMUS TESTS TO WORK THERE. Not a member of The Party? They don’t want you there!

FIFTEEN DEMOCRAT MEDIA FIGURES CAUGHT IN ANOTHER ANTI-TRUMP HOAX. More HERE. And HERE. There IS NO seven-hour gap. This lie about Trump fell apart even quicker than all the other media lies about him.

CROOKED JOE BIDEN CONTINUES TO BLOW UP AND LASH OUT IN ANGER WHEN HIS REGIME’S CORRUPTION IS QUESTIONED. The Democrats’ media outlets pretended Biden’s predecessor was “dangerous” for far less explosive reactions to much greater provocation.

HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN EVEN FURTHER IMPLICATED IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES AGAINST TRUMP. More HERE. And HERE.

BIDEN REGIME SICS ITS POLITICIZED DOJ ON STATES THAT TRY PROTECTING SMALL CHILDREN FROM THE DEMOCRATS’ “TRANS” OBSESSION. More HERE. And HERE. Democrats, can you please leave children alone? Continue reading

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TRANSGRESS WITH ME

voltaire quote on educationTime for another round of Balladeer’s Blog’s recurring feature Transgress with Me. As I’ve often mentioned in the past, I used to be a Democrat before their increasing intolerance and fascism drove me to leave the party and become an Independent Voter.

*** Democrat dishonesty has become even worse and is spiraling out of control. The number of lies they try to force the rest of us to believe is always growing.

*** People who say that teaching is a political act should never be trusted with authority over vulnerable young minds.

*** REMEMBER, HILLARY CLINTON AND HER ORGANIZATION WERE RECENTLY FINED SIX FIGURES FOR THEIR ROLE IN THE “RUSSIAN COLLUSION” HOAX THAT THEY MANUFACTURED AGAINST DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT TRUMP. 

*** DEMOCRATS ARE NOT LIBERALS – THEY ARE VERY ILLIBERAL.

*** DEMOCRATS ARE NOT PROGRESSIVES – THEY ARE VERY REGRESSIVE.

orwell on the party and truth*** RACHEL LEVINE AND LIA THOMAS ARE MEN, NO MATTER HOW MUCH DEMOCRATS (“THE PARTY”) ORDER THE REST OF US TO PRETEND OTHERWISE.

*** THE JANUARY 6TH PROTEST WAS NOT AN “INSURRECTION.” NOT EVEN CLOSE. 

*** THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY SCANDALS EXPOSED BY HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP WERE REAL, NOT “DISINFORMATION” LIKE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR MEDIA OUTLETS DISHONESTLY PRETENDED.

*** THE CORPORATE MEDIA HAS LIED TO US SO MANY TIMES THEY SHOULD ALWAYS BE REGARDED WITH SKEPTICISM.

*** WHEN POMPOUS DEMOCRATS PUT UP THOSE RIDICULOUS “HATE HAS NO HOME HERE” SIGNS THEY REALLY MEAN “HATE HAS NO HOME HERE, EXCEPT FOR OUR PERFECTLY RIGHTEOUS HATRED OF EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ANY OF OUR POLITICAL OPINIONS.”

*** THE BIDEN REGIME IS A CORPORATE FASCIST KLEPTOCRACY. Continue reading

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CALIFORNIA LADY: FRANK LARRABEE’S NEGLECTED BUT VERY CATCHY SONG

frank larrabeeRegular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know that all – or at least most – roads lead to bad movies with me. Since 1976 the movie Track of the Moon Beast has been a cult hit for the Psychotronic-minded and for those people who were lucky enough to catch it at various drive-ins during their heyday.

Hidden away inside that piece of 1970s schlock was the song California Lady, a catchy and fun song written and performed by Frank Larrabee. In the way that the song Recipe for Romance is associated with the movie Bloody New Year (aka Time Trap) and the song More is associated with Mondo Cane, California Lady has been bound to Track of the Moon Beast.

frank larrabee on stageFrustratingly, the song was not quite complete and had a few interruptions by dialogue from the film. For decades clearer versions of California Lady were incredibly rare. Mike Wolfer found and has uploaded two versions of the song at his YT Channel (subscribe HERE).

FRANK LARRABEE EPThe first was the studio recording of the song (below) and the second was the entire EP from Frank Larrabee. California Lady is at the 10:03 mark and is a much smoother, less worn recording of the song and is MUCH MORE LIKE THE PERFORMANCE IN THE MOVIE. No interruptions in either case, so you can enjoy this cult item the way it was meant to be heard.

Click HERE for the EP with the song at 10:03 and HERE for the version below. FOR THE GClephMusique REMASTER, with California Lady as the first song click HERE.   

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BIDEN CRIME FAMILY: JOE BIDEN’S FBI ADMITS IT HAS LOST THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP – AND WITH IT GOES ANY LEGITIMACY

biden and hunter drugsIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog couldn’t help but note what is basically an admission on the part of the Biden Regime that they are unfit and not legit. An admission that they are criminals in the pocket of many overseas entities including the Chinese government. That virtual admission? THE BIDEN FBI – HIS PERSONAL GESTAPO – HAS ADMITTED IN CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY THAT THEY HAVE LOST THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP AND ITS WEALTH OF EVIDENCE REGARDING THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY’S COUNTLESS SCANDALS AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. 

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Blustering demagogue

Luckily, Congressman Matt Gaetz and others had previously copied some of the files on that laptop and just introduced those copies into the Congressional Record. This will thwart some of the Biden Regime’s attempts to destroy the evidence against them. Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley indicated that they will be bringing forth even more evidence against the Biden Crime Family.

Just one of the recent pieces of evidence against the Biden Crime Family was proof of a $100,000.00 payment funneled to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son and Underboss, by parties in China. Just another drop in the ocean of Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling efforts.

Not since Warren G Harding and the Ohio Gang has the United States been run by a more transparently criminal outfit. By “losing” the laptop the Biden Regime has forfeited ANY benefit of the doubt on ANY of the scandals currently engulfing them.

*** AND REMEMBER – WAY BACK WHEN THE LAPTOP WAS TURNED OVER TO THE FBI, PLENTY OF PEOPLE EXPRESSED THE OPINION THAT THEY WOULD CONVENIENTLY LOSE IT, GIVEN THE ROT AT THE FBI. THOSE PEOPLE WERE DISMISSED AS “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS” YET “LOSING” THE LAPTOP IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED.

biden the fascistThe installed Joe Biden runs a corporate fascist state and virtual kleptocracy. He could not have achieved that without a complicit Democrat Party apparatus including the Democrats’ many media outlets – including the Big Tech fascists who protect Biden as Big Brother online. And who interfered in the 2020 presidential election by banning references to the scandals exposed by the Hunter Biden laptop (among other things). Continue reading

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FIVE MORE ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES VIEWED THROUGH A MODERN LENS

Balladeer’s Blog’s previous look at Seven Ancient Greek Comedies with Themes That Are Still Relevant went over pretty well, so here are five more.

aristophanes picTHE BANQUETERS – By Aristophanes. This was the very first comedy from the Athenian whose name is synonymous with ancient Greek comedies, especially political satires. The nineteen-year-old presented a landowner from Athens whose two sons were being introduced to his phratry brothers at a banquet dedicated to Herakles. 

The sons were on opposite ends of what we would today call the political left & the political right. Following an argument between the two of them they switch friend groups to see who can handle the other’s daily life better. Jokes abound about values, hair styles, tastes in music and more. Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS VS THE REST OF US: MARCH 28th

democrat republican otherIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at America’s desperate need for viable alternate political parties.

MACRON, TRYING TO AVOID WORLD WAR 3, HAS TO CLARIFY BIDEN’S LATEST GAFFE. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Joe Biden is dangerously unfit, as was plain from his non-campaign in 2020.

MORE REVELATIONS ABOUT BURISMA AND THE INFLUENCE PEDDLING SCAMS OF JOE BIDEN AND HIS SON HUNTER, THE UNDERBOSS OF THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. All of the Democrats’ phony “fact checkers” (LMAO) lied. Click HERE.

NBC NEWS POLL: SEVENTY-ONE PERCENT SAY JOE BIDEN HAS THE COUNTRY GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. And no wonder. He is an absolute disaster.

AN EXCELLENT BREAKDOWN ON HUNTER BIDEN’S CORRUPTION AND THE WAY DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS COVERED IT ALL UP. More legal probes into Hunter HERE.

Senile Joe BidenCORRUPT YET SENILE JOE BIDEN ANGRILY BABBLES SECRET INFO IN BRUSSELS.

BIDEN REGIME’S DEALINGS WITH IRAN FINANCING RUSSIA. Playing on both sides of an ongoing war while benefiting a hostile nation. 

HOW NANCY PELOSI AND HER HUSBAND GET RICHER AND RICHER UNDER OUR CORRUPT SYSTEM. More HERE. No wonder Pelosi votes against ending Congressional members benefitting from Insider Trading. And no wonder virtually all members of Congress become millionaires while in office.

HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP CONTAINED DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ENCRYPTION CODES. Remember, when Democrats and their media outlets claim a story has been “debunked” or “discredited” it actually means the story is true. Continue reading

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POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: MARCH 24th

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents another look at some recent political cartoons that genuinely speak truth to power, especially to Joe “D’OH!” Biden, the hopelessly corrupt and blood-soaked career criminal. 

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SEVEN ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES WITH THEMES THAT ARE STILL RELEVANT

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The satirical comedies written and performed during the glory years of the ancient Athenian Democracy still pack a punch after more than 2,400 years. Athens faced many of the same issues and dilemmas we Americans face. Part of the reason for that is the fact that our founding fathers were great students of ancient Greek democracy and modeled some of our own institutions on the Athenian model.

The comedies are also much more sophisticated than modern audiences expect, featuring political views, sexual material and metatheatrical humor that seem several centuries ahead of their time. Breaking the fourth wall is not a postmodern concept like some people have convinced themselves – it was a convention established in these ancient works of comedy.

Irreverence toward any and all subjects – including the gods they worshipped – was permitted by the Athenians in the “anything goes” arena of the Theatre of Dionysus, where the comedies competed with each other at festivals, chiefly the Dionysia and the Lenaea.

For more details click here: https://glitternight.com/2011/09/22/at-long-last-my-ancient-greek-comedy-posts-begin/   

plutoiWEALTH GODS (PLUTOI) – By Cratinus. In this satirical comedy the Titans are depicted overthrowing Zeus in a metaphor for the fall of the political leader Pericles. This was a reference either to his actual death or to the loss of his position as Strategos  (Commander in Chief) depending on which year you go with for the comedy.

With Zeus/Pericles out of the way, Cratinus depicted the Titans returning Earth to the Golden Age when they ruled and all wealth was shared equally. The comedy presented various Athenian tycoons being put on trial by the Titans, who would confiscate  wealth acquired in an “unjust” way and give it to others. But just WHO gets to decide what qualifies as an “unjust” way of acquiring wealth? Continue reading

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