NEWS ROUNDUP FOR NOVEMBER TWENTY-EIGHTH

Another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog, from an America where Democrat members of Congress now demonize National Guard members to the point where they get shot right in Washington D.C. And by the way, if the trial is located in D.C. the Democrat jury members will not find the killer guilty and we all know it.

***** NEW! THE DEMOCRAT LIES ABOUT KAROLINE LEAVITT’S ALLEGED “RELATIVE” BEING DETAINED BY ICE

A REMINDER THAT AS PART OF THE WAY DEMOCRATS PUT A TARGET ON THE BACKS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD, DEMOCRAT SENATOR (AND FORMER CIA EMPLOYEE) ELISSA SLOTKIN IRRESPONSIBLY CLAIMED NATONAL GUARDSMEN WERE GOING TO START SHOOTING AT AMERICAN CIVILIANS. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE

IN RESPONSE TO THE LATEST DEMOCRAT-FUELED KILLING, CONGRESSMAN TIM BURCHETT POINTED OUT “AS THE DEMOCRATS PROMOTE VIOLENCE TOWARDS OUR MILITARY AND THE LEFT IDOLIZES THEM WE CAN EXPECT MORE KILLING.”

DEMOCRATS RIGHTFULLY BLASTED FOR PLACING TARGETS ON THE BACKS OF NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS THE SAME WAY THEY DID WITH ICE AND CHARLIE KIRK.

DEMOCRATS CAN BARELY CONTAIN THEIR GLEE OVER THE SHOOTING OF NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS IN WASHINGTON D.C. More HERE. They’re celebrating almost as much as when Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September. Continue reading

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2025!

happy t givingHAPPY THANKSGIVING! Enjoy this holiday and the hope for peaceful coexistence represented by the possibly mythic meal that it commemorates. The kind of self-righteous killjoys who bash Thanksgiving are the type of sanctimonious idiots that are fun to laugh at since they have no identity outside of their ephemeral political concerns.

Whether you consider the tale of the first Thanksgiving to be literal or aspirational, enjoy yourselves! Be thankful that you’re not one of those heartless people who try to pollute every happy gathering with divisiveness and turn it into a showcase for the simple-minded, ankle-biting political remarks that those people laughably think are Really Deep.

How sad is it that every year they circulate those articles about which brainless talking points they should use to harass the adults at the Thanksgiving Day table?   

PREVIOUS THANKSGIVING DAY POSTS:

JAMES BATMAN (1966) – A THANKSGIVING TURKEY HERE.

THANKSGIVING TURKEY: AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL (1972) HERE.
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TOM TURKEY TRILOGY: THE WASHINGTON AFFAIR (1977)

This wraps up my look at three of Tom Selleck’s early starring roles in turkeys.

Unlike The Chinese Typewriter and The Gypsy Warriors, both of which were tv pilot movies for shows that did not get picked up as a series, The Washington Affair was a theatrical film made in 1977 but was so bad it didn’t get released until the 1980s, after Selleck became a big star.

THE WASHINGTON AFFAIR (1977) – Also released as A Very Intimate Washington Affair, and for all I know as A Very Brady Washington Affair, this movie was a remake of director Victor Stoloff’s own 1966 film Intimacy. Neither version was very successful, but trivia buffs remember the original and the remake for Barry Sullivan playing the exact same character in both.

Sullivan portrayed dishonest businessman Walter Nicholson. In 1977 Tom Selleck costarred as Jim Hawley, a hunky engineer in charge of deciding what company gets a lucrative government contract – Nicholson’s or one of his competitors.

The 1966 flick at least had the advantage of shocking audiences of the time with its depiction of corrupt government figures, dirty businessmen and bribery – both monetary and sexual. Not so for 1977’s The Washington Affair.

By ’77 even the production’s attempt to cash in on Watergate and other government scandals was a bit too late and the sexual angle would barely disturb a contemporary grandma. Add the facts that the script sucks, there are literally only two sets for the entire film, and the central camera gimmick is absurd.    Continue reading

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NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog provides a mid-week current events roundup.

A BREAKDOWN OF THE MONEY THAT THE SOMALI MEDICAID FRAUD SCANDAL IN MINNESOTA RIPPED OFF. Democrat Governor Tim Walz still under scrutiny.

MORE JUDICIAL OVERREACH AS “JUDGES” COME TO THE DEMOCRATS’ RESCUE BY OVERTURNING ONE OF THE FRAUD CONVICTIONS. More HERE. And as we’ve seen before, Democrats will now use the judge’s reasoning to overturn more of the Medicaid fraud convictions. Judges are nothing but politicans and deserve to be treated as such.

REMEMBER, DEMOCRAT SENATOR ELISSA SLOTKIN, ONE OF THE PUSHERS OF THE “ILLEGAL ORDERS” LIES, WORKED FOR THE REPULSIVE CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION THE CIA. More HERE. And the detestable CIA has abused the world for far too long. And a reasonable person might wonder if anyone is EVER truly “former CIA.” 

TAIBBI CALLS OUT THE DEMOCRATS’ LUDICROUS LIES IMPLYING PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVES ILLEGAL ORDERS TO THE MILITARY. Democrat hysteria about Trump never ends. Not so long ago the White House Ballroom was their Apocalypse of the Week, and there was the Qatar jet nonsense and so many other Apocalypses of the Week.        More on this latest fiasco HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE.    

DEMOCRAT SENATOR RUBEN GALLEGO USES BIZARRE DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN DELAURO AS ONE OF MANY WAYS HIS PARTY IS OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE PEOPLE.  

ICE ARRESTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH SEX CRIME HISTORY WHO WAS TEACHING AS A PROFESSOR AT FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY. Democrat control of higher education permits situations like this because they think background checks and immigration laws are “racist.” Continue reading

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ANOTHER TOM TURKEY: THE GYPSY WARRIORS (1978) – BAD MOVIE REVIEW

For Thanksgiving week, here’s another Turkey from the years before Tom Selleck broke through to tv stardom.

THE GYPSY WARRIORS (1978) – Yesterday I reviewed the godawful 1979 telefilm The Chinese Typewriter, an obscure disaster from Stephen J. Cannell starring Tom Selleck and James Whitmore, Jr. Today I’m keeping the theme going with this look at an even earlier telefilm that Cannell wrote and executive-produced for his new darlings Selleck and Whitmore.

Like The Chinese Typewriter, The Gypsy Warriors was a pilot movie for a potential series to star Tom and James. Overall, it’s even worse than the 1979 effort, but at least that one was fun-bad. The Gypsy Warriors spends too much time mired in boring-bad territory, so I consider it much less enjoyable.

This 1978 tv-movie starts out by turning “show, don’t tell” on its ear. As bad as the opening of The Chinese Typewriter was, the opening to this World War Two snoozer is even worse. The beginning devotes FOURTEEN entire minutes of the 76-minute runtime to a portentous announcer merely narrating as we see mismatched footage of hands, arms and the backs of heads plus second unit film of buildings, airplanes and vehicles.

The vehicles don’t fit the 1940 setting and neither does the darkened New York City skyline being passed off as a European port city even though the World Trade Center Towers are visible. That’s a special level of not giving a damn.   

But wait, there’s MORE! Continue reading

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THANKSGIVING STORY FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

truro-massTwo thousand fishermen from Cape Cod had gone off to enlist in the Continental Army, and in their absence the British had repeatedly landed raiding parties to harass the citizens.

Every man, woman and child on the Cape hated the soldiers and sailors of King George and would do anything to work them harm. When the Somerset was wrecked off Truro in 1778 the crew were helped ashore, but they were immediately marched to prison.

It was now November 1779 – the night before Thanksgiving Day in fact – and ugly weather caused a British three-decker warship to yaw wildly and drift toward land with a broken tiller. No warning signal was raised on the bluffs; not a hand was stirred to rescue. The New Englanders who saw the accident watched with sullen satisfaction.

Ezekiel and Josiah Breeze – father and son – stood at the door of their cottage and watched the warship’s peril until three lights twinkling faintly through the gray of driving snow were all that showed where the enemy lay, straining at her cables and tossing on a wrathful sea.

They stood long in silence, but at last the boy Josiah said “I’m going to help the ship.”

“If you stir from here to help King George’s men, you’re no son of mine,” said Ezekiel. Continue reading

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TOM (SELLECK) TURKEY: THE CHINESE TYPEWRITER (1979) – BAD MOVIE REVIEW

In honor of Thanksgiving Week, here’s a genuine turkey from Tom Selleck’s up-and-coming years.

THE CHINESE TYPEWRITER (1979) – It’s tough to remember the time before Tom Selleck was a tv megastar. His looks made him stand out and he had “future success” written all over him. He even showed he had a knack for comedy when he made two appearances on The Rockford Files as the annoyingly perfect and cliche-ridden detective Lance White. (“I’m okay, Jim. It’s just a flesh wound.”)

Television giant Stephen J. Cannell even used Tom’s second Rockford Files episode as a backdoor pilot for a potential series starring Selleck and James Whitmore, Jr. That didn’t work out, but Cannell still had faith in Tom and his unexpected chemistry with Whitmore.

And that brings us to The Chinese Typewriter, a 90-minute (with commercials) pilot movie for a different series to star Selleck and Whitmore. Stephen J. Cannell wrote and executive-produced the telefilm and tv veteran Lou Antonio directed.

With those writing and directing pedigrees behind the project you should have been able to smell several seasons, big money and some Emmy Awards in the offing. 

Instead, it was the most embarrassing production I’ve ever seen either Cannell or Antonio be connected with. The whole thing seems slapped together like the pair were told they had ten minutes to put together ideas for the tv-movie and fifteen minutes to start filming. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH

Here’s a Monday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR SLOTKIN ADMITS PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS NOT GIVEN ILLEGAL ORDERS TO THE MILITARY. Yet anti-Trump imbeciles STILL fall for every absurd lie that Democrats tell about him, even though the lies have gone down in flames over the past ten years. Anti-Trump fundamentalists remain the most ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable people I’ve ever seen.

TRUMP EFFECT: THANKSGIVING EXPENSES DROP TO THEIR LOWEST IN FOUR YEARS. Have I mentioned that Donald Trump is the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime? *** 

FACULTY LOUNGE FASCISTS: VIRGINIA ASSISTANT SCHOOL PRINCIPAL ARRESTED FOR PLOTTING TO ASSASSINATE ICE AGENTS. Democrat control of school systems has brought us to this point.

FURTHER FALLOUT FROM THE DEATH THREATS A NEW JERSEY LEFTIST MADE TO A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER. More HERE.

THE DEMOCRAT ORGANIZATION CALLED THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION CRITICIZED OVER LATEST “INSTRUCTIONAL” MATERIALS FOR TRAINING “TEACHERS” TO LABEL PARENTS AND OTHER CRITICS “VILLAINS.” More HERE. To head off anyone sniveling about why I point out that teachers’ unions are democrat organizations just look up their political donations.

ANOTHER REMINDER ABOUT HOW JOE BIDEN ALLIES COORDINATED THE LIES CLAIMING THAT BIDEN FAMILY SCANDALS REVEALED BY HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP WERE “RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION.” And just in time to help Biden in a 2020 debate with Trump.

THE LATEST ON THE DEMOCRAT SCANDAL IN MINNESOTA ABOUT MEDICAID FRAUD BEING USED TO FUND THE TERRORIST GROUP AL-SHABAAB. Another angle HERE. Trump takes action HERE

SENATOR BERNIE MORENO POINTS OUT HOW DEMOCRATS HAVE “GUTTED THE WORKING CLASS“. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: AND YET ANOTHER FORMER DEMOCRAT WEIGHS IN

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FROM APRIL 18th, 2016 – Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know I used to be a Democrat before leaving the Party to become an Independent Voter because of how unhinged and intolerant Democrats have become. 

“Michael Faraday is another in the long line of people that the increasingly demented political left has driven away. So here are some more reflections from somebody else who became disgusted with the complacent and self-infatuated left – especially the close-minded classroom liberals of the 1960s generation that Faraday came from. His remarks – 

For the millions raised as leftists, it is not an ideology; it is a culture. Since childhood, they have lived and breathed it every day in the home. They know nothing else. Like any culture, it is a way of speaking, thinking and acting, with its own narratives and rituals. Narratives are held sacred, repeated, reinforced and, over time, added to. That which challenges sacred narratives, even reality itself, is met with confusion and hostility.”

Leftists combine child-like naïveté and paranoid aggression in all of their narratives. It is a remarkable and very damaging pairing. The child-like naïveté protects the narrative from facts while the paranoid aggression protects the mind from doubt.”

It (21st century leftism) harnesses together childish emotions and paranoid thought processes. Its narratives are a filter that reality has to try to struggle through, often failing. The child-like thinking solves all problems without pesky details and facts interfering, leading to delusions of intellectual brilliance.” (Balladeer: Especially true of American Democrats Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG COLLEGE FOOTBALL POSTSEASON RESULTS: NOV 23rd

NAIA PLAYOFFS

ROUND ONE: GAME ONE – The SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE welcomed the REINHARDT UNIVERSITY EAGLES (should be Rottweilers). The Fire led 14-7 in the opening Quarter and 21-10 by Halftime. Neither team scored in the 3rd Quarter, but Reinhardt University mounted a fierce rally in the 4th. Southeastern University held on for a 24-22 victory.

ROUND ONE: GAME TWO – A more lopsided affair was to be had in Oskaloosa, IA as the WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY STATESMEN played host to the TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY RAMS. The 1st Half ended with the Statesmen out in front 21-3. After the break, William Penn U. outscored the Rams 17-6 to win the game 38-9.

ROUND ONE: GAME THREE – The UNIVERSITY OF ST. FRANCIS (IN) COUGARS took the field against the visiting EVANGEL UNIVERSITY VALOR. A 7-0 opening Quarter advantage for the Valor became a mere 10-7 edge come Halftime. The 3rd Quarter ended with the Cougars within 12-10, then in the 4th they came from behind for a 13-12 triumph. Continue reading

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