Another roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.
GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT ENDORSED DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT. More HERE. And HERE. Per Newsweek, right-wing pass-around Ann Coulter is outraged at Abbott, and it’s always good when Coulter is upset.
AT LONG LAST ALL THE JANUARY 6th VIDEO IS RELEASED, NOT JUST THE DEMOCRAT CHERRY-PICKING – CLAIMS OF “INSURRECTION” ARE SHOWN TO BE EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. More HERE. And HERE. I think people who have lived in countries that underwent REAL insurrections would like to set straight pampered white American Democrats who pretend January 6th was one. Even more HERE.
ANOTHER LOOK AT JOE BIDEN’S FAILURES AND DISASTERS.
SMALL BUSINESSES SUPPORT TRUMP OVER BIDEN 61% TO 21%. And I will say again that Trump was the greatest president of my lifetime for the working class and the poor.
DERANGED BIDEN ADMINISTRATION EXPRESSES WORRY THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS MIGHT GET “MISGENDERED.” What an unhinged pack of hacks. Continue reading
THANKSGIVING IS ALMOST HERE! ONE OF THE GREATEST HOLIDAYS OF THE YEAR! In the midst of the travails that inevitably complicate our lives it’s a great time for taking stock of the positives that we can find.
METROPOLIS – Volumes have been written about Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent movie sci-fi masterpiece. I love the film myself but rather than write the 9,899,974th glowing review of the 1927 original I will instead take a look at the 1984 re-issue, produced by Giorgio Moroder, who also did soundtracks for movies like Scarface, Midnight Express, and later Top Gun.
Rather than have the usual classical or similar music play as accompaniment to a silent movie, composer Giorgio Moroder wrote a rock and pop music score to attract a generation of filmgoers who might otherwise have never sat through a silent movie in their lives. Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant and Billy Squier were among those performing Moroder’s score.
Not only 1984 audiences but all subsequent generations of viewers which were drawn to silent movies in general thanks to airings of Metropolis (1984) may never have brought the new blood and passion to the early cinematic artform if not for Moroder. 



ROUND ONE: GAME ONE – The DICKINSON STATE BLUE HAWKS took it on the road against the MONTANA TECH OREDIGGERS. This tightest game of the day was knotted up at 21-21 come Halftime. In the 3rd Quarter the Blue Hawks went up 28-21 and in the 4th each team added another Touchdown as Dickinson State beat the Orediggers 35-28.
ROUND ONE: GAME TWO – This game pitted the DORDT UNIVERSITY DEFENDERS against the visiting OTTAWA UNIVERSITY BRAVES. Though the 1st Quarter ended in a 7-7 tie, the Defenders shut out the Braves the rest of the way. All the while, Dordt University added 14 points before the break and 14 more in the 2nd Half for a 35-7 beatdown.
ALL STAR COMICS Vol 1 #70 (February 1978)
Those villains are helmeted criminals known by numbers instead of names and led by the mysterious Number 1. Strike Force has over a score of members, and they wield high-tech weaponry and equipment. 

LASKARINA BOUBOULINA (1771-1825) – Often hailed as history’s first female admiral, Laskarina developed a passion for sailing in her youth and was permitted to pursue that passion thanks to her stepfather’s open-mindedness regarding women’s behavior and education.
Our heroine poured her inheritance into the cause of Greek Independence and personally took command of her small fleet of four ships (some sources say eight ships) which had been constructed and outfitted in defiance of Ottoman regulations on Greek battleships. She even designed her own flag.
For Balladeer’s Blog’s new readers, especially from overseas, this may clarify my reasons for so openly despising both of the rival gangs of white-collar criminals called the Democrat and Republican Parties. That contempt applies to the people who run those two gangs, not the general voters. 