SEPTEMBER 2022: A LOOK BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

democrat rat symbolDEMOCRAT POLITICIAN IN PENNSYLVANIA SENTENCED TO THIRTY MONTHS IN PRISON FOR ELECTION FRAUD. There have been countless stories like this over the past several years but the Democrats’ media outlets still love to pretend that vote fraud doesn’t happen.

ANOTHER LOOK AT THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ATTACKS THAT DEMOCRATS MADE AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. Donald Trump, a de facto Third Party President, was the best president for the working class and the poor of all colors during my lifetime. 

when democrats sayWISCONSIN, ONE OF THE STATES AFFECTED BY THE 2020 ELECTION CORRUPTION, TAKES ANOTHER STEP FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY.

ARE TRUMP-HATERS INSANE OR ONLY PRETENDING TO BE? And since 2022 they’ve gotten worse and worse and more unstable by the week.

sasha stoneAND ANOTHER FORMER DEMOCRAT JOINS THE REST OF US IN OUR DISGUST WITH THE PARTY.

POLL: SIXTY-EIGHT PERCENT SAY THE COUNTRY WAS SAFER WITH DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN OFFICE.

DEMOCRATS IN NEW YORK CALLED OUT FOR PREFILLED ABSENTEE BALLOTS. The latest Democrat innovation to their favorite activity – vote fraud. Continue reading

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM AUGUST 24th

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SUNSHINE STATE SHUTOUT – The WEBBER INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY WARRIORS hosted the UNIVERSITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE EAGLES (should be Flamingos). The Warriors achieved defensive perfection against UFL while leading them 7-0, 21-0 and 37-0 in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Quarters respectively. The 4th ended in a 40-0 shutout victory for Webber International University. Continue reading

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CAPTAIN BRITAIN IN THE OTHERWORLD

This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog looks at the adventure in which Marvel’s Captain Britain explored the Otherworld, the mystic realm from which he gained his powers and weapons.

cb 28CAPTAIN BRITAIN Vol 1 #28 (April 20th, 1977)

Title: Night of the Hawk

Villain: Lord Hawk

NOTE: This was still when Captain Britain was published only in the United Kingdom.

Synopsis: Captain Britain nabs a pair of muggers and leaves them for the police. Next, he turns back into Brian Braddock and attends his classes as a grad student at Thames University, where he interacts with his friends and his girlfriend Courtney Ross.

lord hawkA very eccentric old professor, Robert Willard Scott, has retired from the university and lives alone with his hawks. When those birds die, Brian Braddock uses his scientific genius to construct a large hawk-shaped remote-controlled android to keep Professor Scott company.

The older gentleman is actually insane, and upgrades the robo-hawk with high-tech weaponry and begins attacking British factories, even killing some of the employees in the attacks. Captain Britain faces the self-styled Lord Hawk and the weapons of his robo-hawk.  

Comment: This silly villain is like something from the Adam West Batman show. Continue reading

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CHAPARRALS OVER PANTHERS AS THE 2024 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON IS UNDERWAY

THE COLLEGE OF DUPAGE CHAPARRALS VS THE ELLSWORTH COLLEGE PANTHERS – This NJCAA matchup last night kicked off the 2024 college football season in the divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog. On Saturday the NAIA joins the action as additional NJCAA games also kick off. 

In this particular gridiron clash the Chaparrals hosted Ellsworth College. The 1st Quarter ended with the College of DuPage on top of the shell-shocked Panthers 21-0. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST 23rd

DEMOCRATS SADDENED OVER THE FAILURE OF ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE POPULIST HERO DONALD TRUMP. Meanwhile, here’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog

***** NEW! FELLOW BLOGGER HAS BREAKING NEWS ON HAMAS SUPPORTERS’ LATEST CLASH WITH POLICE AND IMPORTANT REMINDERS ABOUT PALESTINIAN HISTORY IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

andy beshearDEMOCRAT ANDY BESHEAR CALLING FOR THE RAPE OF FEMALE MEMBERS OF J.D. VANCE’S FAMILY. Democrats frequently take time out from telling each other how wonderful they consider themselves to be to show the public their true nature.  

GROOMER AT THE DNC. Democrats, can you please leave children alone? 

cackling kamalaKAMALA VOWS TO RAISE TAXES AND UNDO TRUMP’S TAX CUTS. And as a non-millionaire myself, I will point out once again that it is a lie to claim that Trump’s tax cuts only benefitted the wealthy. Unlike the repulsive George W. Bush’s tax cuts, Trump’s tax cuts also helped the working class.

REAL UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES EXPOSED. The Harris-Biden Regime caught in more deception. THIRTY PERCENT LEEWAY allowed for errors. Can you imagine if Trump tried pulling that? Democrats are such hypocrites. 

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GETS FEDERAL FUNDS TO SCAVENGE BLACK WOMAN’S SMALL BUSINESS DREAM. “Black Business woman has a message for Kamala Harris. She sobs after having to sell her food truck which was bought by an illegal immigrant who got free money from the Harris/Biden Administration.” The Democrats still feel “Illegal immigrants uber alles.” 

babylon beeTHE BEE HILARIOUSLY SATIRIZES THE DEMOCRATS FOR CLAIMING THAT PHOTO I.D. FOR VOTING IS “VOTER SUPPRESSION” AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE, YET IF THEY WANTED TO GET INTO THE DEMOCRAT CONVENTION THOSE SAME BLACK PEOPLE NEEDED PHOTO I.D. So Democrats. Were you “suppressing” black attendance at your convention? 

ANOTHER FORMER DEMOCRAT ON WHY HE IS VOTING FOR TRUMP. Powerful video. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S PRESEASON COLLEGE FOOTBALL RANKINGS

Recently I provided my preseason rankings for the NAIA and the NJCAA HERE. Today I’m posting Balladeer’s Blog’s Top Twelve in some of the other divisions I cover.

NCAA DIVISION TWO

1. HARDING UNIVERSITY BISON (Defending Champions)    ###    2. PITTSBURG (KS) STATE GORILLAS    ###    3. UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI MULES    ###   4. FERRIS STATE BULLDOGS    ###   

5. COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES OREDIGGERS    ###    6. VALDOSTA STATE BLAZERS    ###    7. GRAND VALLEY STATE LAKERS    ###    8. KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY GOLDEN BEARS    ###     Continue reading

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BAD MOVIE: THE BIONIC BOY (1977)

bionic boyTHE BIONIC BOY (1977) – This joint production of the Philippines and Hong Kong starred child martial arts champion Johnson Yap from Singapore. It was also released under alternate titles like Superboy, Trionic Warrior and others.

We viewers first meet 10-year-old Sonny Lee (Johnson Yap) on a televised game show hosted by a man who looks like Liberace. I didn’t say he DRESSES like Liberace, just that his face very closely resembles the Candelabra Man.

superboySonny wins the Jackpot on the game show because he’s as intelligent as he is skilled at martial arts. When Not Liberace brings on Sonny’s parents, some gangsters watching the show see that his father is really a former Interpol agent who brought down several of their colleagues and has been living in a Witness Protection Program ever since. (Pretty stupid to let your face get televised to millions then.)

The gangsters add killing the ex-Interpol man to their To-Do List since they are in the middle of muscling in on all export businesses in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and ultimately Australia. Sonny Lee and his parents get even more publicity when Ramirez, a Manila auto magnate, announces he will give the family a new car fresh off his assembly line.  Continue reading

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE CONQUEST OF THE MOON (1887)

conquest of the moonTHE CONQUEST OF THE MOON (1887) – Written by French author Paschal Grousset under the alias Andre Laurie. This work ranges from absurd to fascinating, with – for people looking for science fiction – WAY too much time devoted to the fighting in the Sudan during 1884 and 1885.

In Australia, two German conmen – Ignaz Vogel and Costerus Wagner – team up with an American conman named Peter Gryphis. The trio launch a scheme to bilk scientifically ignorant tycoons by getting them to invest in their company which will supposedly conduct mining operations on the moon.

Hundreds of thousands of pounds are raised from the trio’s victims, who are thoroughly bamboozled until a stockholders’ meeting in Melbourne, Australia. Gryphis, Vogel and Wagner are successfully maintaining their ruse until, from the audience, French astronomer Norbert Mauny speaks up, demanding a detailed explanation of how the conmen plan to reach the moon. Continue reading

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AUGUST TWENTIETH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Some current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, here in an America where the execrable John Sununu and Lindsey Graham, two politicians who made the Republican Party so despised even by their own voters, still dare to attack populist President Donald Trump. With corrupt garbage like Sununu and Graham attacking him, you know Trump continues to rock the white-collar criminal boat of such trash.

           Sununu and Graham apparently forget that Republicans like their repulsive buddies George W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Dick Cheney, Paul Ryan and others were all hated and compared to Hitler LONG before Trump came along. Never-Trumpers need to stop acting like Republican candidates were considered soft, warm and cuddly until recently. Filth like Graham and Sununu are among the reasons why they weren’t.   

CONGRESSIONAL REPORT RELEASED OF JOE BIDEN’S IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES AND HIS CRIME FAMILY’S MULTIPLE RACKETS. Much more HERE. More HERE. Report points out Biden “defrauded the country to enrich himself and his family.” To say the least.

HEAD OF GLOBAL FIRM CALLS OUT KAMALA HARRIS AS AN “ECONOMIC ILLITERATE” AND MORE.

BIDEN’S FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF CALLS KAMALA A FAILURE AS VICE PRESIDENT

VIDEO: TRUMP PLAYS A SUPERCUT OF KAMALA HARRIS’ INANE GIBBERISH.

marie alvarado-gilDEMOCRAT STATE SENATOR MARIE ALVARADO-GIL COURAGEOUSLY LEAVES THE INTOLERANT AND CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY TO BECOME A REPUBLICAN. I’m an Independent Voter myself, but I too left the Democrats in disgust over their increasingly unhinged nature.

           As this California State Senator said “In the past two years that I’ve been working in the Senate, I have not recognized the party that I belong to. The Democratic Party is not the party that I signed up for decades ago.” Many of us former Democrats can relate to that sentiment.

WHITE DEMOCRATS ATTACK BRAVE WOMAN OF COLOR FOR SUPPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP.

COURAGEOUS VOTERS OF COLOR BLAST PRIVILEGED ONE PERCENTER CELEBRITIES WHO SHILL FOR KAMALA. More HERE.

NBA STAR KWAME BROWN JOINS THEM, SAYING “KAMALA’s SKIN COLOR AIN’T GONNA PAY FOR OUR GROCERIES”. Continue reading

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TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN (1974-1976) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

tony orlando and dawnTONY ORLANDO AND DAWN – This musical variety series filled a real need for CBS after Sonny and Cher’s show went off the air in May of 1974 due to their divorce. The network couldn’t believe their luck when Tony Orlando and Dawn, riding near the top of the charts and possessing a non-threatening charm, were then available.

Songs, comedy and celebrity guests filled the hour-long program just like on Sonny & Cher. Again like Sonny & Cher, Tony Orlando and his backup singers Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent – collectively called Dawn – could exchange comical insults to liven things up. 

tony orlando and dawn tv guideObviously, the trio’s singing act is still fairly well known, but I’m often surprised that many people have forgotten about their 56-episode television show. If you’ve never heard of this act, the name “Dawn” was originally the entire group name as a means for Tony Orlando to do a single outside of his current recording contract.

Orlando used an assumed name at first, with varying numbers of all-male performers credited as the other members of Dawn. In fact, so many names were used that there is probably an early incarnation of Dawn that lists ME as a member.

At any rate, the truth needed told when eventually a tour for Dawn was put together with Tony Orlando finessing the use of his own name and with Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent singing with him. The deceptive phone book sized credits for Dawn became a thing of the past. Continue reading

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