Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, here in an America where no matter how insane 2024 has been, NOBODY had “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confesses to dumping a dead bear in Central Park” on their Bingo cards.
CONGRESS’ INVESTIGATION ONGOING IN THE EXPOSED LINK BETWEEN KAMALA HARRIS AND “JUDGE” MERCHAN, THE PARTISAN ANTI-TRUMP PERSECUTOR. Hey, just a candidate from the current administration being involved in kangaroo court proceedings against the other political party’s candidate.
ASSORTED REPUBLICANS FRETTING THAT TRUMP AND VANCE SHOULD BACK AWAY FROM SIMPLY POINTING OUT THE RACEBAITING GAMES PLAYED BY KAMALA HARRIS. Can you imagine the Democrats being told they should “back away” from pushing “Trans” issues to small children, or supporting Hamas, or “sanctuary cities,” or benefitting illegal immigrants with taxpayer money, or eliminating student debt for selected borrowers even though the Supreme Court has struck it down, or any of their other issues? Those issues are just as “divisive” and “off-putting” as anything the opposition party has had to say.
For the umpteenth time I will point out that the Republicans still have no idea how to use their media outlets or increase them. The U.S. needs an opposition party to the insanity pushed by Democrats and too few elected Republicans seem interested in that role. They’d rather let the other side dictate what topics are acceptable during political campaigns.
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DEMOCRATS IN MASSASCHUSETTS PASS BILL TO REMOVE THE “GENDERED” WORDS MOTHER AND FATHER FROM BIRTH CERTIFICATES. Divisive enough to maybe conjure up a fraction of the outrage directed at the populist Donald Trump and his supposedly “weird” running mate?
This type of thing should be brought up EVERY TIME Democrats huff and puff over Kamala’s race games, or Trump correctly pointing out that illegal immigrants take jobs from black people. (Which was what the “black jobs” comment was referring to, as in illegal immigration took “black jobs.”)
VICTIMS OF KAMALA AND HER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS – ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL RAPED AND MURDERED … SEXUAL ASSAULT ON FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL
NEW YORK CITY PROSECUTOR WILLIAM KEMP-NEAL RESIGNS AFTER BEING CAUGHT WITH THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY. Democrats, can you please leave children alone? Continue reading
ANNA AND THE KING (1972) – It’s a shame that so few people remember this 13-episode attempt to make a television series of Margaret Landon’s classic novel Anna and the King of Siam. The producers even scored the coup of signing screen legend Yul Brynner himself to reprise his role as the King of Siam from the novel’s revered musical adaptation The King and I. 
Samantha Eggar was cast as Anna Leonowens, the British governess brought to Siam in 1862 by King Mongkut to provide a more cosmopolitan element to the education of his children, including 12-year-old son and heir Prince Chulalongkorn, played by Brian Tochi. 
“Donald Trump won because the corporate media and the political establishment don’t understand there are tens of millions of people who are not racists, who are not sexists, they’re hurting.”
1997 CHAMPIONS – HOUSTON COMETS 
CAPTAIN BRITAIN Vol 1 #16 (January 26th, 1977) 
Reluctantly, Captain Britain uses some of his super-strength and agility to break free of the cops before they can unmask him. The other police on hand start shooting at C.B. when – out of nowhere – Captain America intervenes. He’s used to authorities in the U.S. often being wrong about superheroes so he offers to fight off the cops while Captain Britain escapes. 
The first Friday of every August marks Frontierado, the holiday devoted to the myth of the old west rather than the grinding reality. For some of us the celebration kicked off Thursday night, for others they wait until the actual day of Frontierado to hold their festivities. 
BUFFALO SOLDIERS – Obviously the historical significance of these African American soldiers begins during the U.S. Civil War and goes far into the 20th Century, but for the purposes of this blog post I’ll be looking only at their involvement in conflicts from 1866-1896. 
BATTLE OF THE SALINE RIVER (August 1867) – In Kansas, Cheyenne warriors led by Tall Wolf attacked and killed a party of railroad workers laying the transcontinental railway. Buffalo Soldiers from Fort Hays were sent out after the Cheyenne, and this resulted in the 8-hour long Battle of the Saline River. Under 100 soldiers from the 10th Cavalry clashed with over 400 Native Americans, inflicting greater casualties on them and making it back to Fort Hays alive. 
May ?, 1875 – Susan B. Anthony delivered a lecture in Sidney advocating for women’s suffrage.
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DEADWOOD DICK – In general, the Dime Novel period of westerns, detective, science fiction and horror tales lasted from 1860 to around 1919 or the early 1920s. Pulp magazines took over from there. Many Dime Novels were very loosely based on real-life figures like Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane and others. Many more were purely fictional, like Deadwood Dick. 
BREAKHEART PASS (1975) – (Frontierado is coming up August 2nd and, as always, it’s about the myth of the Old West, not the grinding reality.) Alistair MacLean may be more closely associated with espionage and crime thrillers like When Eight Bells Toll, The Eagle Has Landed and Puppet on a Chain but his lone Western, Breakheart Pass, is a very solid story which transfers MacLean’s usual themes to the American West. 
Some critics bash this above-average film because they apparently thought Alistair MacLean’s name on the script meant it would be an over-the-top Western Spy actioner along the lines of Robert Conrad’s old Wild Wild West television series crossed with Where Eagles Dare. Instead, Breakheart Pass comes closer to grittiness than slickness and is all the more enjoyable for that. 
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