BALLADEER’S BLOG’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL RESULTS: JANUARY 27th

NCAA DIVISON TWO

Alaska-Anchorage SeawolvesKNOCKING OFF NUMBER TWO – The UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA AT ANCHORAGE SEAWOLVES welcomed the number 2 team in the nation – the ST. MARTIN’S UNIVERSITY SAINTS. The Seawolves put the Saints on Upset Alert by Halftime with their 33-25 lead. After the break SMU rallied, but Alaska-Anchorage held on for a 71-68 victory. Tyson Gilbert logged 28 points to lead the Seawolves.

fsc mocsMARATHON GAME OF THE DAY – The FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE MOCS (Moccasins) visited the PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY SAILFISH yesterday. At the Half the Mocs were up 42-34 but the Sailfish forced OT with a 74-74 tie to end Regulation. The 1st Overtime ended at 80-80, the 2nd at 89-89, the 3rd at 102-102 and the FOURTH OVERTIME saw FSC win out 117-110. Luke Anderson’s Double Double of 31 points and 12 rebounds led the Mocs. Continue reading

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AUGUST 2020: LOOKING BACK

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

Myron LizerNAVAJO NATION VICE-PRESIDENT PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES, SAYS “NATIVE AMERICANS WEREN’T INVITED TO THE AMERICAN DREAM UNTIL DONALD TRUMP WAS ELECTED”.

        An excerpt: “We for years fought past battles with congressmen and senators that were part of a broken system that ignored us. That is until President Trump took office.” Click HERE.

sharyl attkisson smallerJOURNALIST SHARYL ATTKISSON EXPOSES THE DISHONESTY OF SELF-APPOINTED “FACT CHECKERS”. As we’ve all seen, “fact checkers” (LMAO) are anything BUT. Some excerpts: “Fact Checkers serve no purpose except confirmation bias for their target audience.”

        Also- “The fact-checkers are like-minded journalists or often liberal Silicon Valley gatekeepers, who frequently rely on partisan news sources and political activists to control narratives on a wide variety of issues and controversies.” Click HERE

kim klacikKIMBERLY KLACIK EXPOSES DEMOCRAT FAILURES. Click HERE.

EVEN THE DEMOCRATS AT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ADMIT TO OBAMA/ BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SCANDALS. Click HERE. Only imbeciles would believe we have ever had ANY presidential administration that was “scandal free.” Ridiculous!

democrats culture of hateTO DEMOCRATS, FUNERALS ARE NUREMBERG RALLIES – The Party is blasted by Martin Luther King’s niece and others for turning John Lewis’ funeral into an orgy of partisan hatred.

        An excerpt: “Even the most casual observers of the American scene have noticed over the years that Democrats are so dead inside they use high-profile funerals as nothing more than political theater. They contemptuously hide behind the corpse they pretend to be mourning, figuratively holding it up as a shield against criticism and against responses to the deceptive claims they make and the outright lies they tell under the guise of noting someone’s passing.” Click HERE.

DEMOCRATS’ “RIOT WARFARE” ON THE NATION OPENS NEW FRONTS IN KENOSHA AND DENVER. Click HERE. And Democrats lie about the violence and bloodshed being “mostly peaceful”. Continue reading

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MARVEL’S JANUARY 1967 ISSUES

This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog looks at Marvel’s January 1967 publications, excluding reprints.

ff 58FANTASTIC FOUR Vol 1 #58 (January 1967)

Title: The Dismal Dregs of Defeat

Villain: Dr. Doom

Synopsis: Picking up from the previous issue’s cliffhanger ending, the Fantastic Four’s archenemy Dr. Doom, monarch of Latveria, has succeeded in stealing the Power Cosmic from the Silver Surfer. With the drained and helpless former Herald of Galactus lying on the floor, Dr. Doom summons his “surfboard” and flies off on it. 

Doom reaches New York, where he publicly defeats the Fantastic Four with ease. He taunts them about having stolen the Silver Surfer’s incredible power and – in Supervillain Cliche Number 18 – refrains from killing them right now because he wants them to witness his conquest of the Earth and know he’s now too powerful to stop. Continue reading

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FIVE MYTHICAL CREATURES FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE

A few years back Balladeer’s Blog examined some of the folklore surrounding some very menacing cryptids from tall tales around the nation. This time around, the creatures being covered are much milder. 

billdadTHE BILLDAD

Habitat: Boundary Lake in Maine

Lore: The Billdad is said to be roughly the size of a badger, beaver or wolverine. It has hind legs and a torso like a kangaroo, a flat, wide tail like a beaver, a head like a bird of prey, and webbed paws. Their tail slapping the water is often compared to the sound of canoe paddles striking the water.

Billdads feed on fish who venture too near the surface of Boundary Lake. Their powerful hind legs propel them from the shore to the spot of their prey, which they strike dead with their flat tail. They devour the fish then use their webbed paws to swim back to shore. Reproducing asexually, these creatures replenish their numbers from humans or animals foolish enough to kill and eat a Billdad, causing them to morph into another Billdad.  Continue reading

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JANUARY 25th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES, AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog here’s another look at current events here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

biden criminal enterpriseChatter is increasing that Joe Biden may step aside as the Democrats’ candidate and be replaced by Michelle Obama or someone else. Back in 2020 the assumption was that the clearly unfit (and criminal) Biden would step down before 2024 and let Vice President Kamala Harris take office close enough to the election that she would not have time to alienate voters before Election Day 2024.

        Wildly enough, Kamala wound up being SO inept and inarticulate and maniacally giggly that The Party gave up on her as a possibility. It’s tough to imagine how awful she must be when you look at how Joe Biden repeatedly falls, can’t even read his teleprompter correctly, is clearly senile or demented, and has even had involuntary bowel movements in his pants while meeting with people like the Pope. For Kamala to be less fit than Joe is mind-boggling.

biden bribery scandal        Word for months now has been that Michelle Obama or another figure who won’t suffer from direct complicity with the disastrous and hopelessly corrupt Biden Regime will replace Joe. That would probably work since it would give people the excuse to vote for her (or whoever) under the illusion that it would be “a fresh start” even though any Democrat will follow the same destructive policies.

        Regular readers know that I have been saying for years that the clueless, outdated and utterly useless people who run the Republican Party have been so completely outmaneuvered by the Democrats – ESPECIALLY when it comes to the Media Arms Race – that Republicans would lose the presidential race in 2024 no matter who the candidate was. 

biden tax returns        I’ve made no secret of the fact that, though I still support and will vote for de facto Third Party candidate President Donald Trump, I don’t expect a victory. (But hey, I supported him in 2016 despite thinking he wouldn’t win, and he surprised me. I felt the same way in 2020 and I was surprised again that it took the most corrupt and tainted election since 1876 and 2000 to install his opponent in the White House.) I often vote Third Party, so victory or not is not an issue with me since both major parties are disgusting.     

if you won'tCHICAGO’S BLACK DEMOCRAT VOTERS ATTACKING THEIR PARTY’S DISASTROUS COMPLICITY WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. More HERE. They’ve seen what it is doing to their city. DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR OF MA JOINS IN.

TEARING APART THE IDIOTIC POINTS ARGUED BY PEOPLE DELUSIONAL ENOUGH TO STILL BELIEVE THERE WAS AN “INSURRECTION.” (LMAO) 

MORE ISSUES FOR THE ANTI-TRUMP PROSECUTOR IN GEORGIA TO DEAL WITH. More HERE. When the crooks are the prosecutors.

DEMOCRAT ADAM SCHIFF REMINDED OF HOW HE LIED AND CLAIMED HE HAD SEEN “PROOF” OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION DURING THAT ANTI-TRUMP HOAX.

tim scottTIM SCOTT REMINDS VOTERS THAT “TRUMP DID MORE FOR MINORITIES THAN JOE BIDEN WILL EVER DO.” And that is true, but close-minded people still deny the reality about Trump vs the anti-Trump hysteria.  

PRAISE FOR TRUMP AND HIS POPULIST POLICIES. Donald Trump was the greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

IT’S SO CUTE WHEN PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK THE CLUELESS, OUTDATED AND UTTERLY USELESS PEOPLE WHO RUN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL ACTUALLY STEP UP IN THE MEDIA ARMS RACE.

SENATOR KENNEDY ENDORSES TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT.

GRIEVING MOTHER DESTROYS POMPOUS DEMOCRAT DAN GOLDMAN (video). Continue reading

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DESERT CRUSADER (1968-1969) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

thibaud on horsebackDESERT CRUSADER (1968-1969) – This French television series is also known as Thibaud, ou les Croisades, Thibaud, il Cavaliere Bianco, Thibaud, der Weisse Ritter and other variations of those titles. The color series ran two seasons of 13 episodes each, with those episodes lasting around 26 minutes apiece.

The setting for the storylines is the Holy Land and the trails leading pilgrims to and from that Middle East location during the fragile peace in between the First and Second Crusades. Our hero is played by Andre Lawrence and is named Thibaud (pronounced tee-bow, like Tim Tebow’s last name).

thibaud ou les croisadesThibaud and his sidekick Blanchot (Raymond Meunier) are part of the knightly efforts to safeguard people making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He often works alongside the Knights Templar but doesn’t seem to be an official member of their Order. 

Our hero Thibaud is a fascinating departure from the standard full-bore Crusader ready to go to war. He is the son of a French Baron and an Arab Christian woman, so he grew up exposed to elements of both East and West. Most of his and Blanchot’s efforts center around keeping the uneasy peace by gallantly outfighting roving gangs of violent, conniving people with hidden agendas, be they Christian OR Muslim.    Continue reading

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FRIGHTMARE THEATER (2015-2022)

frightmare theaterFRIGHTMARE THEATER (2015-2022) – Over the years, Balladeer’s Blog has examined plenty of Movie Host Shows, old and new. Frightmare Theater is another hostess-themed film show created, written and directed by Joel Stephens, just like Dark Jungle Theater, previously reviewed here.

This effort from Stephens and his team is another of the countless programs saluting the tradition of late-night bad movie shows that presented – and often mocked – some of the worst or campiest horror films ever made. Remember ladies like Vampira, Moona Lisa, Crematia Mortem, Macabra, Elvira, and of course Stella! from Saturday Night Dead?

frightmare theater ladiesFrightmare Theater delivers an entire coven of hostesses, led by Mistress Scarlet (Scarlet Ryan), the red head who rises from her coffin to host the bad movie proceedings. Some of her assistants are Original Cyn (Cyn Renteria), Sister Jane (Jane Victoria Colley) and Sister Monalisa (Monalisa Davinci). Stephens himself appeared as Boris the Butler for a while.

As regular readers know, I’m a sucker for just about any Movie Host Show dedicated to laughing at Psychotronic classics from any decade, but for viewers who may not give all such programs a free pass, I feel obligated to point out a few downsides to Frightmare Theater: Continue reading

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CHUCK NORRIS IN A FORCE OF ONE (1979)

a force of oneA FORCE OF ONE (1979) – Fresh off the success of Good Guys Wear Black, Chuck Norris starred in this action film directed by Paul Aaron in only his second directing effort. The prolific Ernest Tidyman wrote the screenplay.

The Story: In a fictional mid-sized California city, a drug operation is thriving, helped along by bad cops who funnel confiscated drugs right back to the head of the narcotics pushers after pretending to have destroyed the seized goodies per department policy. The drug ring uses a sporting goods store as their front and use an aspiring karate champ as their chief enforcer.

             That enforcer is a deadly human weapon and when cops keep turning up dead at his hands the department hires a local karate dojo master to teach the police better techniques of self-defense. That dojo master falls in love with a lady cop and winds up helping the police to battle the drug ring.   

The Characters:

CHUCK NORRIS is in the role of Matt Logan, a former special forces man from the United States Army. He’s the defending Middleweight Karate Champion and also runs a karate dojo on the side. One of his students is his black adopted son Charlie (Eric Laneuville), whose late mother he had platonically befriended when … oh, don’t worry about it. They might as well have saved time by just having him be one of Matt’s students, PERIOD, since his only purpose is to get killed by the drug dealers, thus giving Logan a personal stake in the crusade to bring them down. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: JANUARY 22nd

stop that auFrom Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

one of the mostBIDEN REGIME CAUGHT USING A “COUNTER-TERRORISM” GRANT AGAINST POLITICAL OPPONENTS. Joe Biden is utter filth.

DOJ ADMITS TO COVERUP IN LYING ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP WHICH EXPOSED BIDEN CRIME FAMILY SCANDALS. For those few people still idiotic enough to pretend the revelations were “Russian disinformation.”

BIDEN REGIME’S FBI DEFIES ANOTHER LEGAL RULING AND REFUSES TO  TURN OVER MORE EVIDENCE IN ANOTHER CASE.  

jack smith picFOUR JUDGES ON DC CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS BLAST PRIOR COURT WHICH LET CORRUPT PROSECUTOR JACK SMITH VIOLATE TRUMP’S RIGHTS IN UNPRECEDENTED WAY. More HERE.

EVEN THIS ANTI-TRUMP COLUMNIST AT THE DEMOCRAT OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES ADMITS TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Some excerpts: “Arguably the single most important geopolitical fact of the century is the mass migration of people from south to north and east to west, causing tectonic demographic, cultural, economic and ultimately political shifts. Trump understood this from the start of his presidential candidacy in 2015 …

        “It said something about the self-deluded state of Western politics when Trump came on the scene that his assertion of the obvious was treated as a moral scandal, at least by the stratum of society that had the least to lose from mass migration. To millions of other Americans, his message, however crudely he may have expressed it, sounded like plain common sense.”

        “Enforcing control at the border — whether through a wall, a fence or some other mechanism — isn’t racism,” Stephens wrote. “It’s a basic requirement of statehood and peoplehood, which any nation has an obligation to protect and cherish.

NEVADA GOVERNOR ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP.

ANTI-TRUMP JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE FOUND TO HAVE DELETED OVER 100 ENCRYPTED FILES BEFORE THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO TURN THEM OVER TO THE INCOMING REPUBLICAN MAJORITY. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL RESULTS FROM JANUARY 20th

NCAA DIVISION THREE

trinity bantamsCLOSE CALL FOR NUMBER FIVE – The number 5 team in the nation – the TRINITY (CT) BANTAMS – took it on the road against the WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY CARDINALS. At Halftime the Cardinals were on top 36-29, but after the break the Bantams forced Overtime by tying things up 70-70 to end Regulation. In the extra session Trinity College prevailed 79-77. Ben Callahan-Gold notched 25 points to lead the Bantams.

christopher newport captains logoCENTURY CLUB – The (25) CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY CAPTAINS welcomed the WARREN WILSON COLLEGE OWLS and proceeded to fold, spindle and mutilate them 111-48   ###   Meanwhile, the THOMAS COLLEGE TERRIERS won 101-67 at the LESLEY UNIVERSITY LYNX   ###   And the MORRISVILLE STATE MUSTANGS routed the CANTON (NY) KANGAROOS 105-71. Continue reading

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