Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. And remember, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.
WEAPONS THAT JOE BIDEN LEFT BEHIND IN AFGHANISTAN DURING HIS BOTCHED WITHDRAWAL ARE BEING USED BY HAMAS FOR THEIR TERRORIST ATTACKS. To say nothing of Iran channeling money that Biden gave them and using it to finance Hamas.
Those moneys are fungible, which means holding them in the bank solely for “humanitarian aid” frees up Iran to use existing funds they have on hand for terrorism. So the “Gosh, but those dollars haven’t been used by Iran yet” excuse is silly.
JOE BIDEN’S OTHER BROTHER FRANK CAUGHT UP IN NUDE SELFIE SCANDAL. But, hey, unlike Joe he never took “inappropriate” showers with his own daughter when she was a child, like Joe did with Ashley. Remember, she even wrote about it in the diary that the Bidens acknowledged really was hers.
MARLOW: JOE BIDEN BEARS RESPONSIBILITY FOR HAMAS ATTACKS ON ISRAEL. “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*ck things up,” former President Barack Obama reportedly warned a fellow Democrat during the 2020 primary. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in 2014 that Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
DEMOCRAT ANTONY BLINKEN OUTED AS THE “PATRON SAINT” OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Further proof that the Democrats have become all the things they used to oppose.
MORE ABOUT BIDEN’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT A BORDER WALL. The wall would have been completed by now if not for people like Joe Biden, who now struggles to play catch up. Privileged white Democrats never care about a problem until it affects them personally. Continue reading
Halloween Month continues here at Balladeer’s Blog with this look at three notorious – but not necessarily all that good – horror films from iconic Italian director Lucio Fulci. 
THE BEYOND (1981) – A woman inherits The Seven Doors Hotel, a run-down inn outside New Orleans in the Louisiana countryside. It was once the site of an infamous murder in the 1920s and supernatural activities break out as our heroine Liza Merrill (Katherine MacColl) tries to refurbish the place. 
THE GROOVIE GOOLIES (1970) – This 16-episode cartoon series seemed like an appropriate subject for Halloween Month. In previous years, Balladeer’s Blog reviewed 
Other supporting characters at the castle called Horrible Hall were Mummy the mummy, plus Bone-Apart, the living skeleton in a Napoleon hat and epaulettes. Additional monsters and living pieces of furniture added to the cast and appeared intermittently. 
TOPPLING NUMBER THREE – In NCAA Division Three, the 14th ranked UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT LACROSSE EAGLES visited the number 3 team in the nation – the UW-WHITEWATER WARHAWKS. A 7-7 1st Quarter tie became a 17-14 Eagles advantage by Halftime. Lacrosse extended their lead to 27-17 in the 3rd Quarter, then held on in the 4th for a 37-34 victory. 
NUMBER SIX TAKES A FALL – Up in the NAIA, the number 19 GEORGETOWN (KY) COLLEGE TIGERS took on the home standing 6th ranked BETHEL (NC) WILDCATS. The Tigers parlayed a 21-10 lead at the Half into a 31-16 advantage in the 3rd Quarter, then ended the 4th on top 52-24.
WE WENT TO A FOOTBALL GAME BUT A BASEBALL GAME BROKE OUT – NCAA Division Two’s ARKANSAS TECH WONDERBOYS traveled to face the SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE BULLDOGS. Unyielding defense was the name of the game as the Bulldogs went up 7-0 in the opening Quarter, a score that held up at Halftime and at the end of the 3rd Quarter. In the 4th, the Wonderboys came from behind for a 9-7 triumph. 
Balladeer’s Blog’s month-long look at Halloween continues! In the past, I examined the most Halloweenish covers for Marvel horror figures like 
VAMPIRE TALES Vol 1 #1 (June 1973) 
Synopsis: One night in Los Angeles, Morbius tries to find his lady love Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona in the movie), whom he was separated from shortly after his transformation into vampire form. He encounters Carolyn, a female member of the Children of Satan cult. 
FROM OUT OF THE SILENCE: SEVEN STRANGE STORIES (full title) (1920) – Written by Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor. The stories are: 
WE NEED THIRD PARTIES! 
THE STREET FIGHTER (1974) – Long before the Street Fighter video games there was this ultra-violent cult film from Japan starring the one and only Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba. Long before 
The iconic Chinese superstar Bruce Lee had passed away by this point, and Japan’s Sonny Chiba was hailed as Lee’s true successor in martial arts cinema, albeit with karate, judo and other skills that differed from Lee’s. There is a degree of truth to such claims, but Sonny was a much darker, grittier figure even if he DOES make the same kind of noises that Bruce made. 
A lifetime of fighting in the streets of Japan has molded Terry into a legendarily hardened and ruthless man who is now a high-priced mercenary badass for hire. He’s not quite a “hero” since this film doesn’t have any, he’s just the main character like Michael Corleone in the Godfather movies. 
ASSORTED OVERSEAS READERS HAVE REQUESTED CLARIFICATION OF THE NEW YORK CITY “FRAUD” NONSENSE. It doesn’t matter if you like or hate Donald Trump, you have got to be alarmed at the ongoing courtroom travesties that he is being subjected to. 
Rather than recycle the long list of outrageous claims against Trump let me just point out the most blatantly hypocritical one. Remember all the pressure on Trump to reveal years’ worth of tax returns? He did so and NOTHING BAD WAS FOUND! Yet, no other American politicians were called upon to similarly reveal their tax returns even though the overwhelming majority of people in Congress become literal millionaires during their time in office. Why target just one man? Again, because he’s an outsider and not a “made man” in the white-collar criminal fraternity of elected Democrats and Republicans. 
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