JUNE TWENTIETH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From the land of career criminal Joe “not competent to stand trial” Biden, it’s time for another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

allison hOBAMA’S ALLISON HUYNH SWITCHES TO SUPPORTING TRUMP AND PRAISES HIS POLICIES OVER THE DISASTROUS POLICIES OF THE DEMOCRATS’ BIDEN REGIME. Some excerpts:

“He (Trump) was light and funny and intelligent.”“I was happy with how knowledgeable Trump is about what is going on with the country and the economy,” she continued. “He had the information. He is all there with the things that matter” 

        “I am all for hardworking immigrants, but not for open admission of immigrants. We have to differentiate between legal immigrants who come here and work hard and illegal immigrants who come here and commit crimes,” she said.

cori bushDEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN CORI BUSH MAKES THE DERANGED CLAIM THAT GOD GAVE HER POWERS TO CURE CANCER AND TREAT TUMORS THROUGH MIRACLES. And yes, this REALLY happened. Had a member of the opposition party made this remark the story would rightfully be everywhere and would be brought up in every subsequent news story about them because the Democrats understand how to use their media outlets. The Republicans are so inept with their own media outlets that this incident will be all but forgotten soon.

BIDEN REGIME’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL (PER THE SUPREME COURT) ELIMINATION OF STUDENT LOAN DEBT FOR SELECT DEMOCRATS PRODUCES ANOTHER APPALLING REPORT. Biden still ignoring the Supreme Court’s decision. Impeachments have been launched over far less. Continue reading

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TRADER HORN (1927): PART FIVE

Balladeer’s Blog continues reviewing the 1927 book Trader Horn, the quasi-autobiographical account of the British Trade Agent Alfred Aloysius Horn’s adventures in Africa during the late 1800s. For Part One click HERE.

trader horn cover againPART FIVE – Horn recounted an incredible event he attended in Angola, which was not yet the name of the country, just a populated region. He and his subordinate Trade Agents were guests at a conjo – a performance of traveling entertainers called the Akowas.

Alfred praised the precision routines of the acrobats, sword-dancers, trick shooters and their colleagues. The Akowas displayed excellent stagecraft and made Horn and his men gasp in awe as the performers pretended to shoot each other through with arrows, complete with seeming penetration, only for the finale to present all of them getting up just fine for the audience to see.   

The next day, Trader Horn and his aides were making contracts with the tribe for the trade in wood, large canoes, dried fish and farina. One of Alfred’s indigenous employees was a son of a Camma chief and engaged him in further conversation about the Izoga – the Holy Person hidden from common view several villages back.    Continue reading

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2024 JUNETEENTH – MARKING THE DAY DEMOCRATS LOST THEIR SLAVES

democrats kkkIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog wishes you a happy Juneteenth, marking the day Democrats lost their slaves. (Democrats owned slaves, not Republicans.) 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.

That political party, which I’m ashamed to say I used to belong to years ago, even distorts the Juneteenth holiday. They try fundamentally transforming it into a day when Democrats – the only extant political party which supported slavery and even fought a Civil War over it – can act like they are above reproach while THE REST OF THE COUNTRY shares a guilt The Party pretends to be free from. 

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. (If this post upsets you, tell the Democrats to stop politicizing Juneteenth by pretending they had nothing to do with slavery, or the Ku Klux Klan, or Jim Crow, etc.) Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER: JANUARY OF 1910 WITH JAMES LARKIN PEARSON

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, CLICK HERE   

the fool killerJANUARY 1910 – James Larkin Pearson, poet and newspaper man, carried on the Fool Killer tradition from 1910 to 1917, then again from 1919 into the 1920s. Pearson’s fellow North Carolinian Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans had written the Fool Killer Letters of the 19th Century so it’s appropriate that another Tar Heel continue the lore for so many years of the 20th Century.

fool killer timeless smaller versionPearson’s Fool-Killer was the mascot of the entire publication, which was merely 4-6 pages anyway, not simply the supposed author of letters regarding his body count of “fools.” Think of this Fool Killer (I prefer no hyphen) as the written word equivalent of Puck (1876-1918), the political cartoon mascot of the humor magazine of the same name.

The targets of Pearson’s Fool Killer in this debut issue from January of 1910:

*** A flim-flam artist called Grammar who was selling bogus “eternal youth” treatments via his book Perpetual Life, or Living in the Body Forever.

frederick cook*** Frederick Cook, who, the previous December, had seen his claim to have reached the North Pole ruled invalid and possibly fraudulent by the University of Copenhagen. (The Fool Killer was unable to locate Cook, however.)

*** Notoriously controversial and possibly corrupt Federal Appeals Court Judge Peter S. Grosscup. 

*** A Professor Pickering who wanted to raise 10 million dollars to send a message to the planet Mars. Continue reading

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THE FEARSOME ISLAND (1896) ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

fearsome islandTHE FEARSOME ISLAND (1896) – Written by British author Albert Kinross. An unusual work with a multi-layered narrative. The entire novel was penned by Kinross, but it is one of the countless works of fiction presented as if it is a rediscovered manuscript relating the “true” adventures of Silas Fordred from the 1500s. Kinross adds another layer by explaining the sci-fi devices that Fordred could not comprehend and put down to sorcery and the supernatural. 

For clarity’s sake I will present the entire narrative in order rather than double back with the science fiction rationalizations that Kinross added, as well as his fictional “research” into the mad scientist of the island – Don Diego Rodriguez.

In the late 1400s but definitely before the voyages of Christopher Columbus, Rodriguez was a wealthy but cruel blue-blooded man who gloried in torturing victims during the Inquisition. His mad genius enabled him to invent many devices so far ahead of his time that his fellow Spaniards considered them the work of Satan.  Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: JUNE SEVENTEENTH

It’s time for another current events roundup from the land of Joe “not competent to stand trial” Biden, courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

blue stateANOTHER ONE OF JOE BIDEN’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED – THIS TIME IN MARYLAND – FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF A MOTHER OF FIVE. Maryland sheriff rightfully calls out Biden’s disastrous immigration policies. More HERE

blue city trumpBLACK DETROIT PASTOR BASHES BIDEN AND OBAMA BUT THANKS TRUMP FOR COMING TO THE “HOOD”. More HERE. And HERE

BLACK ICONS PROUDLY SPEAK OF THEIR SUPPORT FOR DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP – “PEOPLE ARE HOPING HE COMES BACK.”

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS FIGHT BUSINESS OWNERS AND POLICE ABOUT TACKLING SKYROCKETING RETAIL CRIME. More HERE. No surprise there. Many Democrats still push to “defund the police.”

joeylynn mesarosYOUNG WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP SUMMIT: BIDEN REGIME STILL PERSECUTING FREE SPEECH HEROINE JOEYLYNN MESAROS YEARS LATER. More HERE. She committed the “blasphemy” of displaying her Trump flags next to the Biden campaign bus. She and her family have been drained of money by the need to employ lawyers against Biden’s lawfare. Joe Biden and his thugs are fascists.   

SENATOR REMINDS THE PUBLIC THAT WAR CRIMINAL VLAD PUTIN ONLY DOES HIS LAND GRABS WHEN DEMOCRATS ARE PRESIDENT. Continue reading

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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY WITH BLACKE’S MAGIC (1986)

blackes magicBLACKE’S MAGIC (1986) – HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, GENTLEMEN! Last Father’s Day I reviewed the neglected television series The Feather and Father Gang. This year I’m taking a look at Blacke’s Magic, which starred Hal Linden and Harry Morgan as a father and son team who solved mysteries. For those looking for my annual Bloom’s Day post click HERE.   

Richard Levinson and William Link, the creators of Columbo, also created the 13-episode series Blacke’s Magic and probably felt they had hit upon another terrific formula. With The Night Stalker‘s John Llewellyn Moxie directing the pilot movie they had another television veteran along for good measure.

blackes magic adHal Linden played Alexander Blacke, a big-name, big-money stage magician. While investigating the seemingly impossible murder of an old friend, Alex gets help from his former conman father Leonard, portrayed by Harry Morgan.

(Coincidentally enough, in The Feather and Father Gang, Stephanie Powers’ character Feather solved mysteries with her former conman father played by Harold Gould.) Continue reading

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WNBA RESULTS: JUNE SIXTEENTH EDITION

indiana feverREQUIEM FOR THE DREAM – CAITLYN CLARK and the INDIANA FEVER (4-10) welcomed the ATLANTA DREAM (5-6) to Gainbridge Fieldhouse in this game.

By Halftime the Fever were leading Atlanta 59-44. From there the 3rd Quarter ended with the Dream nibbling Indiana’s advantage down to 73-62, and the 4th with a 91-84 victory for the Fever. Aliyah Boston led Indiana with a Double Double of 27 points and 13 rebounds. Continue reading

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DAZZLER: HER EARLY STORIES

This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at the early adventures of Marvel’s mutant superheroine Dazzler.

daz 1DAZZLER Vol 1 #1 (March 1981)

Title: So Bright, This Star

Villain: The Enchantress

NOTE: After the popularity of Dazzler (Alison Blaire) following her early role in the X-Men‘s first clash with the Hellfire Club, the character was given her own solo series.

Synopsis: Dazzler, whose mutant power involves converting sound into various forms of light energy – including laser beams and ultra-violet rays – is still a struggling singer at New York City nightclubs. When gangsters who own a record company try to force her to sign with them, she refuses and the criminals sic some of their thugs on her. Spider-Man helps her defeat them and Iron Man gives her a more high-tech version of her roller skates.

Meanwhile, the Avengers’ frequent villain the Enchantress plans to take advantage of a dimensional rift which will be opening soon. By comic book coincidence that rift will be opening at the latest club where Dazzler will be performing. Continue reading

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JUNE FOURTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s time for another current events roundup here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist state.

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DEMOCRAT PARTY

FOUR DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS IN CONNECTICUT ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH ELECTION FRAUD. More HERE. And this is just the latest incident. No matter how many news reports there are on this topic every year, Democrats still insist there’s no evidence of their election fraud scams.

banned mail in votingANOTHER WIN FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY. MICHIGAN JUDGE STRIKES DOWN THE BALLOT-COUNTING CHANGES THAT THE DEMOCRAT SEC OF STATE MADE BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTION, HOPEFULLY HELPING TO AVOID SUCH FRAUD IN FUTURE ELECTIONS. Add this to the pile of other court decisions striking down the Democrat alterations before the 2020 election. Have I mentioned lately that the 2020 presidential election was as tainted and corrupt as in 1876 and 2000?

BIDEN REGIME STILL FIGHTING ELECTION INTEGRITY MEASURES

bloody hands of joe bidenBIDEN CALLED OUT FOR THE WAY HIS BORDER POLICIES HELP ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE MEXICAN CARTELS.

VIDEO OF THE LATEST GIBBERISH FROM JOE “INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL” BIDEN. Hilarious!

PRO-HAMAS DEMOCRATS TARGET THREATS AT THE HOMES OF JEWISH MEMBERS OF THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM’S BOARD. Democrat = Hater of American Jews as if they are representatives of Israel’s government. Such garbage. Continue reading

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