BALLADEER’S BLOG’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM NOVEMBER ELEVENTH

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Concordia_MINUMBER THREE TAKES A FALL – In the NAIA the CONCORDIA (MI) CARDINALS hosted the number 3 team in the nation, the INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY WILDCATS. A 7-0 1st Quarter lead for the Cardinals became 14-3 by Halftime. After a scoreless 3rd Quarter, the teams exchanged a Touchdown apiece in the 4th as Concordia University toppled the Wildcats 21-10.

Kutztown Golden Bears helmet“THAT WAS NUMBER FIIIVE!” – Over in NCAA Division Two, the KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY GOLDEN BEARS took the field against the visiting 5th ranked SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY ROCK. The Golden Bears kept the forever-overrated Rock off the scoreboard until the 4th Quarter in a 31-7 Upset.

Southern Oregon RaidersAND ANOTHER NUMBER FIVE FALLS – Back in the NAIA, the SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY RAIDERS (should be Sea Gulls) went up against their guests, the number 5 COLLEGE OF IDAHO COYOTES. SOU put the Coyotes on Upset Alert by the Half, leading them 14-7, then carried through by winning the game 31-16.  Continue reading

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OCTOBER 2019: LOOKING BACK

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

THE “RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY” NONSENSE – People believing they are on “the right side of history” are as plentiful as people who believe they have “God on their side.” A look at the pomposity of idiots who claim they are on said right side of history. Click HERE.

john brennanC.I.A. DIRECTORS – THE MEN FROM S.C.U.M. – A reminder of what absolute garbage the people who have run America’s C.I.A. are. One of the reasons I used to be a Democrat before leaving that party of fascists to become an Independent Voter was because Democrats USED TO openly bash abuses by the C.I.A., F.B.I., N.S.A. and others.

        Unfortunately, in the past several years, Democrats have decided that as long as the dirty activities of those agencies benefit their political party, they are fine with them. Click HERE. More reminders about C.I.A. trash HERE.

matt taibbiROLLING STONE EDITOR MATT TAIBBI COURAGEOUSLY BASHES INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND POLITICAL PARTISANS FOR THE DANGERS POSED BY THEIR UNHINGED OBSESSION WITH TRUMP – Links below, but first some excerpts: “My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump.” 

        “The Trump presidency is the first to reveal a full-blown schism between the intelligence community and the White House. Senior figures in the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies made an open break from their would-be boss before Trump’s inauguration, commencing a public war of leaks that has not stopped.” And the war against Trump by America’s cesspool of a political establishment continues to this day. Click HERE and HERE for Taibbi’s piece. 

lftJCN/ B2C STUDY: TRUMP’S ECONOMIC POLICIES ARE HELPING HISPANIC BUSINESSES THRIVE – Links below, but first some excerpts: Alfredo Ortiz said “The fact is that Hispanics are flourishing in the Trump economy. Democrats asserting the contrary is a mere partisan talking point to try to deny Trump the Hispanic support he has earned”.

        “Rohit Arora noted that “Latino business owners are enjoying a 46 percent jump in revenue this year, which will bolster the nation’s thriving economy.” For the full OCTOBER OF 2019 studies click HERE and HERE.

hillary clinton shame signHILLARY CLINTON ACCUSES COURAGEOUS TULSI GABBARD OF BEING (YAWN) “A RUSSIAN ASSET.” – All that plus more HERE

DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP PRAISED BY KAYLA MUELLER’S PARENTS – The link is below but first some excerpts: “President Donald Trump received praise from the parents of Kayla Mueller, the international humanitarian worker raped and killed by Islamic State officials when Obama was in office.

        pray for kayla“They praised the president for the recent raid in which Abu bakr al Baghdadi, current head of ISIS and one of Mueller’s rapists, was killed. Al Baghdadi’s likely replacement was also killed over the weekend.”

        “The Democrat media outlet the Washington Post (Motto: Democracy dies at our hands) eulogized Abu bakr al Baghdadi as ‘an austere religious scholar’ who ‘dies at 48.’ Sounds like the way the Washington Post carries Hamas’ water here in 2023.

       Marsha Mueller expressed gratitude that their daughter and the others who were tortured and killed by ISIS have not been forgotten. “I still say Kayla should be here, and if Obama had been as decisive as President Trump, maybe she would have been,” Marsha Mueller said. Click HERE.

MOTHER JONES: TRUMP IS THE NEW ABRAHAM LINCOLN – Click HERE.

NPR-PBS POLL: MORE PEOPLE TRUST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THAN TRUST THE MEDIA – Well, of course, given the corporate media’s hysterical distortion of everything Trump says and does. Click HERE. Continue reading

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NICK FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog will take a Veterans Day theme with this look at some of the early stories about Marvel’s Nick Fury during his pre-eyepatch World War Two service. For some of my more serious Veterans Day posts click HERE.

sgt f 1SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS Vol 1 #1 (May 1963)

Title: Seven Against the Nazis

Roster: Captain Sam Sawyer, Sgt. Nick Fury, and Commandos Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jonathan “Junior” Juniper, Reb Ralston, Dino Manelli and Izzy Cohen. 

NOTE: A few years before Marvel Comics created S.H.I.E.L.D. their Nick Fury character led this World War Two series. The characters were the same basic walking cliches that many B-Movie actioners rehashed in war story after war story.

        Nick was the tough-talking New Yorker, Dugan was the mouthy Irishman, Juniper was the naive Ivy Leaguer, Gabe Jones was “the black guy”, Reb Ralston was the Southerner, Izzy Cohen was the sardonic Jewish guy and Dino Manelli was the ladies’ man movie star who enlisted after Pearl Harbor.

Synopsis: Our title heroes, a special missions force, were sent to France to exfiltrate a French Underground leader who possessed vital secrets.  Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER 10th

this entireIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog once again takes a look at some of the latest. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

RAMASWAMY LEADS CALL FOR REPEATED LOSER RONNA ROMNEY MCDANIEL TO STEP DOWN AS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEAD AFTER YET ANOTHER BOTCHED ELECTION CYCLE. More HERE

trump avenue signHIALEAH’S CUBAN-AMERICAN MAYOR ESTEBAN BOVO ANNOUNCES PLAN TO DESIGNATE AN AVENUE AS PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP AVENUE.   

GOVERNOR SARAH H. SANDERS ENDORSES DE FACTO THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024 RACE.

CNN REPORTS THAT MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT REJECTS ATTEMPT BY BIDEN REGIME ALLIES TO KEEP OPPOSITION LEADER DONALD TRUMP OFF OF THE MINNESOTA BALLOT IN 2024. Yet Trump’s unhinged foes continue trying to throw out the baby with the bathwater in their unconstitutional attacks on him.  Continue reading

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: PLANET AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1821)

voyage toVOYAGE TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH aka Planet at the Center of the Earth aka “Journey to the Centre of the Earth, or Various Adventures of Clairancy and His Companions, to Spitsbergen, to the North Pole, and to Unknown Countries, translated from the English of Hormidas Peath by M. Jacques Saint-Albin”.

Jacques Collin de Plancy, who is more noted for his writings on occult subjects, authored this work. Odd, considering how occultism and superstition are ridiculed in parts of the story.

Decades before Jules Verne’s better-known story about subterranean exploration came several other “ancient” science fiction works about strange worlds inside of a hollow planet Earth. Some of them have already been reviewed here at Balladeer’s Blog.

plancyThis particular story centers around the fictional seaman Hormidas Peath and his crew who became shipwrecked in the icy Arctic Sea in 1806. They were shocked to discover that temperatures got warmer the further north they went, so they kept following the warmer air until they reached the Iron Mountains.

That mountain range was perfectly circular and the North Pole at its center was really the opening to the Inner Earth planet called Pluto after the Roman god (The dwarf planet Pluto was not discovered until 1930.) Peath and his companions explored that much smaller planet inside of the Earth, which was kept rotating by magnetic forces.  Continue reading

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HOME (1968) BY MEGAN TERRY – FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

home or future soapHOME aka Future Soap (1968) – This science fiction drama set hundreds of years in the future first aired on January 19th, 1968 on American Public Broadcasting’s N.E.T. Playhouse. Home is a 90-minute piece about the threat of overpopulation – and the excuses that threat gives the government to impose authoritarian conditions on the populace – set among a honeycomb of claustrophobic rooms in which citizens of the future must spend their lives due to the dictates of the government.

They are born in, live in and work in these small chambers, own nothing and are forbidden to travel.

megan terry picFood is in pill form, rituals praising the government are required and “happy drugs” must be consumed daily in order to keep the populace in line. When a couple is able to obtain permission to have a child they must wait until someone in their communal room dies. 

The work was written by Megan Terry (at right), a founding member of the Open Theater in 1963, who was also noted for her 1966 anti-war musical Viet Rock. That production is by many considered to be the first true rock musical made for the stage. Continue reading

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NOVEMBER EIGHTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From Joe Biden’s sub-Banana Republic, corporate fascist kleptocracy, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

joe biden is aJOE BIDEN EXPOSED AGAIN OVER LIES ABOUT INVOLVEMENT IN UNDERBOSS HUNTER’S INFLUENCE PEDDLING ACTIVITIES.

BIDEN REGIME SICS HIS POLITICIZED FBI ON DEMOCRAT NEW YORK MAYOR ERIC ADAMS FOR DARING TO CALL OUT BIDEN’S FAILED BORDER POLICY.  

engoron partisan hackMAD DOG PARTISAN JUDGE ARTHUR ENGORON IS EVERYTHING WRONG WITH NEW YORK’S “JUDICIAL SYSTEM.” More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Another “end of the innocence” moment for the forever-naive American public about how their institutions are rotten to the core.   

joe biden launderedFURTHER LIES AND CORRUPTION EXPOSED IN THE POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF AMERICA’S OPPOSITION LEADER TRUMP. More HERE. Trump’s foes continue to make him a martyr and folk hero.

SHAM TRIAL WITH PREDETERMINED OUTCOME. More HERE

THREE OF THE LATEST VOTE AND ELECTION FRAUD SCANDALS FOR THE DEMOCRATS. Funny how the political party that keeps getting caught is the one that keeps pretending that such fraud doesn’t exist. Americans need to grow up and accept the fact that their country is not immune to such misconduct.

ANTI-TRUMP GOVERNMENT FIGURES OUTED FOR RUNNING STANFORD GROUP WHICH WAS CENSORING NEWS ABOUT BIDEN SCANDALS AND WAS PUSHING DISINFORMATION AS THE 2020 ELECTION NEARED. More HERE. Then the Biden Regime covered up 2020 election interference HERE.    Sometimes even someone as cynical as I am can’t help but be surprised by what is being exposed.

CBS-YOUGOV POLL SHOWS VOTERS TRUST TRUMP OVER BIDEN TO FIX THE ECONOMY (AGAIN) AND KEEP AMERICA OUT OF WAR (AGAIN). And all that with an all-out media blitz and political persecution raging against him. Trump was and is a de facto Third Party President.
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WORLD WAR ONE: SOME BRIEF COMPARISONS WITH WORLD WAR TWO

With Veterans Day/ Armistice Day approaching, here is Balladeer’s Blog’s handy guide to some differences and key players between World War One and World War Two.

American Dough Boys WW I – Lasted from 1914 to 1918  *** WW II – Lasted from 1939 to 1945 

WW I – America entered the war in April, 1917 *** WW II – America entered the war in December, 1941

WW I – Italy and Japan fought on the side of the Allied Powers *** WW II – Italy and Japan fought on the side of the Axis Powers

WW I – Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm, led the Central Powers *** WW II- Germany, under Adolf Hitler, led the Axis Powers

WW I – Sinking of the Lusitania *** WW II – Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

WW I – The Allied disaster at Gallipoli *** WW II – The Allied disaster Operation: Market Garden

gallipoliWW I – Douglas MacArthur is an American Commander in charge of the Rainbow Division in Europe *** WW II – Douglas MacArthur is Commander in Chief of the entire Pacific Theater of Operations

WW I – George S Patton is an American Cavalry Officer who eventually becomes a tank commander *** WW II – George S Patton is an American Army commander leading troops in North Africa, Italy and France Continue reading

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, COLLEGE FOOTBALL!

Northeastern_Oklahoma_AMIt was on November 6th, 1869 that Rutgers and Princeton played the very first college football game “on the banks of the Raritan” as the Rutgers fight song says.

taylor swiftOne of the things I love about college football is how far back its history goes. It feels odd to think that Ulysses S Grant was in the White House when that game was played.

And per new legislation, the Taylor Swift Act of 2023, all football items MUST be accompanied by footage of Taylor Swift. Here’s to 154 years of college football! 

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SEPTEMBER 2019: A LOOK BACK

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

isaiah washingtonPERSON OF COURAGE ISAIAH WASHINGTON JOINS THOSE WALKING AWAY FROM THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. Washington cited his disillusionment with the Democrats’ empty lip service to the African-American community, lip service which they abandon after election day. Click HERE. And HERE.

        Another excerpt: “A recent study found that Democrats represent the worst congressional districts in the country when it comes to black Americans falling behind whites. Robert Johnson, America’s first black billionaire, gave President Donald Trump an “A+” on the economy.”

president trumpREUTERS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY PRAISE TRUMP’S POLICIES FOR HELPING THE DISABLED GET IDEAL JOBS. Trump’s policies cited for letting the disabled enter the American work force IN RECORD NUMBERS. Read HERE and HERE.

           But too many people’s minds were fixated on the corporate media and corrupt Democrat and Republican attacks on Trump to pay attention to what he was actually accomplishing. He was the best president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. I’m not going to pretend otherwise.   

democrat republican or awakePOLL: NINETY-FIVE PERCENT DISTRUST THE MEDIA. And no wonder. Click HERE. And HERE.

LATINOS FOR TRUMP EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR HIM ON THE ECONOMY AND MORE. Click HERE. And HERE. And HERE. An excerpt: “Ernie Salazar weighed in: “Hispanic unemployment is at a historical low,” he said. “African American unemployment is at a historic low. He’s (Trump’s) taking care of people of color. If you look in a box of crayons, you’ll see a white crayon, too.”

MY REVIEW OF POLEIS, THE ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY. You can read it HERE.

trump not racistMARTIN LUTHER KING’S NIECE ALVEDA AGAIN DEFENDS TRUMP FROM FALSE ACCUSATIONS OF RACISM. Just click HERE.

TRANSGRESS WITH ME: September 23rd, 2019 – Not for the spineless. It’s HERE. Just an excerpt: “Financially comfortable Democrats are every bit as callous toward the needs of the working class and the poor as the most bloated rich pig Republicans are. (Think of trash like the Bush Family, Cheney Family, Mitt Romney, etc)” Continue reading

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