BEST EVER NEWS, MEME AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: JUNE TWENTIETH

burisma bribingso ironicTHE DON’T MISS EDITION, as Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest:

biden fam corrEVEN MORE ABOUT THE TEN MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS SUSPICIOUSLY FUNNELED INTO BIDEN’S BANK ACCOUNT. It’s life here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

AUDIO OF BIDEN TELLING POROSHENKO NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THE FBI. And I think we all know why.

BEYOND A BANANA REPUBLIC. “Either you see what’s happening to Trump as being about Trump or you see it being about a weaponized government planning to make any opposition a crime. Only one of those views is correct. You don’t have to be a Trump fan to see it’s the latter.”

STABBING: ANOTHER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER PHYSICALLY ATTACKED. Democrat media outlets yawn. Republican fools STILL lack sufficient media outlets.

witchfinder generalTHE POLITICAL PERSECUTION TEAM HOUNDING TRUMP GETS CALLED OUT FOR PREVIOUS ILLEGAL ACTS INCLUDING WIRETAPPING. And a witness payoff scheme HERE. Have I mentioned lately that America’s political system is a cesspool of corruption which masquerades as a government?

now do you seeINTERESTING PIECE TITLED “OUR BROKEN SYSTEM NEEDS DISRUPTION AND TRUMP IS THE DISRUPTOR”.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS TARGET COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TO PROTECT THE UNFIT JOE BIDEN. “The Party” will do to RFK Jr. what it did to Tulsi Gabbard in 2020. They’ll do it to Third Party candidates, too HERE.

burisma execs whoREPUBLICAN PARTY PUNDITS STILL SNIVELING ABOUT UNFAIR MEDIA TREATMENT RATHER THAN TAKING STEPS TO EXPAND THEIR MEDIA REACH. There is no defense for this ongoing Republican failure at this point.

AND YET ANOTHER MEDIA LIE ABOUT TRUMP GOES DOWN IN FLAMES. The petty spitefulness of the American media is unreal. Continue reading

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DISCOVERIES IN THE MOON (1835) ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

disc in the moonDISCOVERIES IN THE MOON (1835) – The full title of this work is Discoveries in the Moon Lately Made at the Cape of Good Hope by Sir John Herschel. Originally published as a series of “real” scientific articles in the newspaper the New York Sun, this hoax was the written-word equivalent of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast of a century later. The series of fraudulent articles caused a sensation and increased the newspaper’s circulation exponentially before the Sun revealed it was all a work of fiction.

Richard Adams Locke wrote the two-month series under the name Sir John Herschel, a supposed British astronomer who had constructed at the Cape of Good Hope a seven ton telescope with a lens twenty-four feet in diameter. “Sir John” wrote all about the many species of lunar animal life his enormous telescope had permitted him to observe. Continue reading

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2023 JUNETEENTH – MARKING THE DAY DEMOCRATS LOST THEIR SLAVES

Democrats KKKIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog wishes you a happy Juneteenth, commemorating the day Democrats lost their slaves. (Only Democrats owned slaves.) African-Americans continue fighting for their freedom from the Democrats, who today treat people of color like they still own them and that they MUST vote for Democrats and ONLY Democrats. Democrat Joe Biden, embodying the grotesque hypocrisy of that detestable political party, EULOGIZED A KLANSMAN – DEMOCRAT SENATOR ROBERT BYRD – yet Biden thinks he’s fit to give finger-wagging lectures to the rest of us.

And y’know what? I’ve managed to go my whole life without ever knowing a Klansman let alone praising them after their death. But a piece of garbage like Joe Biden – whose racial slurs and other incidents of racist behavior are legion – presumes to elevate himself above the nation at large as if he’s some sort of High Priest of Racial Awareness. I’m neither a Democrat nor a Republican, so I’m not being partisan when I point out that Joe Biden is the herpes sore on the Body Politic.

Hillary and KKK Robert Byrd

Hillary Clinton with the Klansman she called one of her “mentors” – fellow Democrat Robert Byrd.

In further commemoration of Juneteenth here’s some more reminders about Democrats: the party of slavery, Dred Scott, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow and so much more. None of us choose the skin color we were born with or what country we were born in but we can certainly choose what political party we are or are not associated with. Do you still choose to belong to the party of the Democrats after all their crimes against humanity? #WALKAWAY and become an Independent Voter . Continue reading

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THE FEATHER AND FATHER GANG (1976-1977) FOR FATHER’S DAY

feather and father gangTHE FEATHER AND FATHER GANG (1976-1977) – Happy Father’s Day, gentlemen! Back on Mother’s Day I reviewed Momma the Detective, so in that spirit here is a look at the short-lived detective series The Feather and Father Gang.

This program starred Stefanie Powers as attorney Toni “Feather” Danton and Harold Gould as Harry Danton, her charming, roguish conman father. Trying to keep her rascally dad on the straight and narrow, Feather hired him as a private investigator for her law firm.

stef and harryIn the tradition of Perry Mason and Matlock, Feather’s clients were always victims of frame jobs or bad circumstances, so her incorrigible father Harry inevitably resorted to extra-legal methods of clearing them. Papa Danton recruited some of his old conmen pals to help him in his efforts and dubbed the joint venture “the Feather and Father Gang.”

Harold Gould was clearly trading on his beloved character Kid Twist from The Sting in this role of a grifter with a heart of gold. Stefanie Powers was as capable as could be expected in the thankless role of the devoted daughter forever exasperated with her father’s repeated return to the underhanded tricks of his former trade.  Continue reading

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JANUARY 1971 AT MARVEL

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero blog post will be in the style of the look at all of Marvel’s January 1970 publications. That post was popular enough to inspire this one.

ave 84AVENGERS Vol 1 #84 (January 1971)

Title: The Sword and the Sorceress

Avengers Roster: Thor (Donald Blake MD), the Scarlet Witch (Wanda), the 2nd Goliath (Clint Barton), Black Panther (King T’Challa), Quicksilver (Pietro), the Black Knight (Dane Whitman) and the Vision (not applicable)

Villains: The Enchantress and Arkon

Synopsis: The Black Knight, fearful that his sentient sword the Ebony Blade is infecting him with its bloodlust, uses the mystic brazier at Garrett Castle to find a way of destroying the weapon. This endeavor leads him to Polemachus, the parallel Earth ruled by the Avengers’ old foe Arkon. 

Black KnightWhile searching for the Well at the Center of Time, the only safe place to hide the Ebony Blade, the Black Knight is captured by Arkon and his new consort – the Enchantress, another old foe of the Avengers.

NOTE: The Enchantress actually wound up transported to Polemachus when she seemed to be destroyed during her most recent clash with the Avengers, in which she pitted the team of heroes against Ultron-5’s version of the Masters of Evil. 

The Enchantress mystically sends a dream about the Black Knight’s capture to the Scarlet Witch, whom the villainess blames for thwarting her plans in the previous issue. Next, the sorceress teleports Avengers Mansion to Polemachus so that she and Arkon can kill their mutual enemies.

After a lengthy battle with the two villains, our heroes win out over Arkon and the Enchantress and return Avengers Mansion to Earth. Continue reading

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HAPPY BLOOM’S DAY 2023!

jamesjoyceYes, it’s the 16th of June, better known to James Joyce geeks like me as Bloom’s Day. The day is named in honor of Leopold Bloom, the advertising sales rep and Freemason who is one of the major characters in Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The novel also brings along Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of his earlier novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

For those unfamiliar with this work, Ulysses is Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness novel in which he metaphorically features the events from the Odyssey in a single day – June 16th, 1904, in Dublin. (The day he met Nora Barnacle, the woman he would eventually marry after living together for decades)

Bloom represents Ulysses/Odysseus, Stephen represents Telemachus and Leopold’s wife, Molly Bloom, represents Penelope. Continue reading

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JANUARY 2018

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

trump over media biasDON SURBER ON TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE

FACEBOOK IS FAKEBOOK. Even in 2018 Facebook’s facade was crumbling.

TRANSGRESS WITH ME: JANUARY 29th. Are you brave enough for this?

g men mock cover“THE PARTY’S” ATROCITY ROUNDUP. Back in 2018 the FBI’s fake Russian Collusion nonsense had already been exposed. Plus vote fraud and more.

BLOCKBUSTER DEVELOPMENTS. A CBS poll showed President Trump’s support among African-American voters more than doubling since he took office. And in the election of 2016 he got more of the African-American vote than any Republican in decades. All that and more.

ONE MAN ALONE AGAINST BOTH CORRUPT POLITICAL PARTIES. Republican trash like Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Chris Christie and all the stuffy white males at National Review continue proving President Trump’s status as a de facto Third Party President. Continue reading

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AMERICAN REVOLUTION: JANUARY 8th to 28th, 1776

With the July 4th holiday fast approaching, Balladeer’s Blog offers readers another seasonal post regarding overlooked military actions.

america rebelsJANUARY 8th, 1776 – In Charlestown, Massachusetts, British troops and American Tories were attending a performance of General John Burgoyne’s play The Blockade of Boston. The play was a farce ridiculing the supposed inadequacies of the American rebels. An unknown number of American soldiers carried out a raid on the town, panicking the theater audience, capturing 5 British soldiers and destroying 8 Tory buildings.

JANUARY 12th – At Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, the HMS Glasgow and HMS Sloop Swan landed 250 British soldiers and Marines. The Brits clashed with approximately 50 American men of Richmond’s Regiment and forced them to retreat. Throughout the night the Redcoats pillaged supplies, stole livestock away to the two ships and burned down homes and barns.

JANUARY 13th – After daybreak, Captain William Barton led 60 men from Richmond’s Regiment in an attack on the British. Gunfire was exchanged for over 3 hours, with several men from other Rhode Island units crossing the bay to reinforce their fellow rebels. Ultimately, the Brits were forced to end their pillaging and burning and to retreat to the two warships, having suffered at least 14 dead and an unknown number of injured. Continue reading

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TOP DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MOVIES

Last week’s look at some posters from the silent movie era inspired me to go ahead with this list of what I consider to be the top Douglas Fairbanks films prior to sound. (Talkies are just a fad, I’m tellin’ ya!)

mark of zorroTHE MARK OF ZORRO (1920) – Douglas Fairbanks digs into his comedic AND acrobatic skills in this first screen adaptation of Johnston McCully’s masked hero of 1820s California (The Curse of Capistrano had just been published the year before and Fairbanks bought the film rights for United Artists.)

In my opinion no actor has ever done a better job of drawing such a pronounced distinction between the foppish and timid Don Diego de Vega and his dashing alter ego, the swordsman Zorro. This movie showed all subsequent swashbuckler movies how it’s done and proved that its star could do more than just comedy.

fairbanks as zorroExcellent fight choreography, heroic opposition to tyranny and the rousing, marathon chase and fight scene near the film’s finale make The Mark of Zorro an absolute must-see for anyone curious about silent movies. Nearly every frame of the film is a portrait.

Marguerite De La Motte played the love interest Lolita Pulido, Tote Du Crow portrayed Don Diego’s mute manservant Bernardo, Robert McKim was the villainous Captain Ramon and Walt “Not the Poet” Whitman played Fray Felipe to round out the core characters from the many Zorro tales. Continue reading

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JUNE 13th NEWS, POLITICAL CARTOONS AND MEMES

trump was presAs always, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some current events. 

COURAGEOUS TULSI GABBARD SPEAKS OUT ON HOW THE WAR ON TRUMP ENDANGERS DEMOCRACY.

EVEN MORE EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S BRIBERY SCANDAL AND THE FBI COVERUP. It’s life here in Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

JOE BIDEN’S SECRETARY OF ENERGY ADMITS LYING UNDER OATH, BUT NO CONSEQUENCES. More HERE. Meanwhile, the Democrats pursue convictions on the slightest pretext.

INFLATION OUTRACES WAGES FOR THE TWENTY-SIXTH MONTH IN A ROW UNDER JOE BIDEN’S DISASTROUS ECONOMIC POLICIES. Biden’s war on the working class and the poor continues.

biden unleashed theTHE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY’S TWENTY SHELL COMPANIES.

JIM JORDAN’S PASSIONATE DEFENSE OF TRUMP

VENTRY: ANOTHER SCAM INDICTMENT AGAINST TRUMP.

IT’S BIDEN’S GOONS, NOT TRUMP, VIOLATING CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS.

DEMOCRAT FASCISM ROLLS ALONG.

ANOTHER ITEM ON THE DEMOCRATS ABANDONING THE WORKING CLASS. Continue reading

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