FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST REPORTS THAT THE BIDEN FAMILY HAS RECEIVED 31 MILLION DOLLARS FROM INDIVIDUALS IN CHINA’S INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. More HERE. And HERE.
NBC NEWS POLL: SEVENTY-TWO PERCENT SAY JOE BIDEN HAS THE COUNTRY GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.
PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTERS DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI AND HUSBAND GROW EVEN WEALTHIER FROM CHINA. And what about Nancy’s insider trading scandals, too?
BIDEN POLICY WILL MAKE MONTHLY HEALTH CARE COSTS SKYROCKET.
COURAGEOUS TULSI GABBARD POINTS OUT THAT JOE BIDEN IS DOING ALL HE CAN TO DIVIDE US.
DEMOCRAT ATROCITY ROUNDUP: JANUARY 28th.
BIDEN’S MISOGYNY: HE CONTEMPTUOUSLY TELLS A FEMALE REPORTER SHE ASKED A “STUPID QUESTION” AND HIS HANDLERS PREVENT THE PRESS FROM FOLLOWING UP. More HERE. Under Biden’s predecessor, this would have been treated as “the Apocalypse of the Week” by Democrat media outlets and declared a “war on the free press.” Continue reading
AFTER LONDON aka WILD ENGLAND (1885) – Written by Richard Jefferies. A post-apocalypse saga in which the shifting of the Earth’s axis has reduced the British Isles to a medieval level with feral animals and pockets of toxic wasteland. There are scattered “kingdoms” and roving bands of marauders but no contact with the world outside the area. 
The Thames and Severn Rivers have backed up, forming a large central lake in England. What was once London is a toxic marsh so deadly to human life that its gases and vapors, when carried by the winds, kill or drive mad humans exposed to them. 
THURSDAY’S GAME (1972, 1974) – Completed in 1972 and intended for theaters, this film sat on the shelf and was ultimately reedited as a made for tv movie complete with those fades to black going into commercial breaks. Thursday’s Game isn’t bad, but it will work best for viewers of a certain age or young trivia buffs who will appreciate all the incredible tv stars from the time period. 
Gene Wilder and Bob Newhart star as Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison, respectively. Harry is the producer of a poorly rated daytime gameshow, while Marvin is a clothier needing a hot new fashion idea to save his company. 
INDIANA WANTS THEM – The INDIANA FEVER (3-9) took it on the road against the WASHINGTON MYSTICS (0-11).
This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at licensed I.P. Rom the Spaceknight’s crossovers with Marvel Comics characters. 
ROM Vol 1 #5 (April 1980) 
PART FOUR – We pick up this time with Trader Horn’s reflection on how the British and German firms in Africa dominated the European trade in ivory and rubber, while France was a distant third. There were whispers that the French (whom Horn referred to far more insultingly than he ever referred to the indigenous Africans) were strategizing about using their Colonial Governments to limit the success of Great Britain and the German Empire wherever they could. 
These two works were written by Lucian, the Greek philosopher and satirist who lived in the 2nd century A.D. Lucian was noted not just for his philosophical observations but also for two works that defied definition by his contemporaries but would easily fall into the category of science fiction today. Both works are from roughly 150 A.D. and feature trips to the moon by pseudo-scientific means. 
He discovered that the moon (on which he could breathe just like on Earth) was populated by the souls of the deceased (roughly twelve hundred years before Dante’s Paradiso). From the moon Menippus made the astonishing observation that the Earth was round and not flat, in a wry addition to the then-ongoing philosophical debate about the subject. 
THE MANCHU EAGLE MURDER CAPER MYSTERY (1973, 1975) – This film was made in 1973 but not released until 1975. Where to begin with this bizarre detective “comedy” that starred Gabriel Dell long after his days with the Dead-End Kids/ Bowery Boys/ Little Tough Guys. For starters, fans of that series of films that ran from the 1930s onward will enjoy the fact that Dell gets to share a few scenes with his fellow veteran of those movies – Huntz Hall. 
