NCAA DIVISION THREE
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The TRINE UNIVERSITY THUNDER clashed with the HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE TIGERS for the D3 title.
Both teams played suffocating defense in the 1st Half, with the Tigers clinging to a tight 25-23 edge at the midpoint. After the break the Thunder offense kicked into action, outscoring Hampden-Sydney College 46-36 for a 69-61 victory. Cortez Garland scored 22 points to lead Trine University. Continue reading
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This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero blog post from Balladeer’s Blog will look at several consecutive issues of The Incredible Hulk. Previously I examined his first twenty stories in the 1960s.
HULK Vol 1 #150 (April 1972)
Title: Cry Hulk, Cry Havok
Villains: Havok and Polaris
Synopsis: Hulk once again escapes from Hulkbuster Base despite the efforts of General “Thunderbolt” Ross and his troops to prevent it. Ross gets summoned to Washington D.C. to face a Senate committee regarding continued funding of his base.
In Ross’s absence, Major Glenn Talbot is left in charge. Betty Ross, Bruce Banner’s previous romantic interest, convinces Glenn to continue the base’s search for the Hulk in the American desert southwest. Hulk encounters X-Men member Polaris (Lorna Dane). Her green hair confuses Hulk into mistaking her for his love interest Jarella, who recently returned to the Microverse/ Quantum Realm.
NOTE: Thanks to sorcerers on Jarella’s home planet in the Microverse, Hulk was able to retain Bruce Banner’s mind there even when he was the Hulk, so she technically loved both his personae.
Polaris has come westward to convince her teammate Havok (Alex Summers) to return to the X-Men. He had stormed out after injuring Iceman in a fight over Lorna’s affections. Hulk wants her to come with him because he still thinks she is Jarella.
Havok dons his costume and follows after them. Polaris uses her magnetic powers to free herself from the Hulk’s clutches and Havok manages to blast the Hulk with such intense power blasts that the monster is knocked out. Continue reading
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From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes another current events roundup.
BIDEN REGIME’S DOJ SEEKS PRISON TIME FOR THE WOMAN WHO PROVIDED JOURNALISTS WITH ASHLEY BIDEN’S DIARY IN WHICH ASHLEY WROTE ABOUT HER FATHER JOE TAKING “IMPROPER” SHOWERS WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD. More HERE. Joe’s creepy, touchy-feely way with children has been captured on film plenty of times over the years.
NEBRASKA STATE SENATOR COURAGEOUSLY CHANGES HIS PARTY AFFILIATION FROM DEMOCRAT TO REPUBLICAN. I’d prefer if he became an Independent like me, but anyone leaving the intolerant and hatemongering Democrat Party is a plus.
BIDEN REGIME FINALIZES ITS SLASHING OF MEDICARE ADVANTAGE. I ask again if we can all stop pretending this is the same Democrat Party that it was years ago. Too many voters’ minds are trapped in the past and they default to the formerly accurate assumption that only Republicans do such things.
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE REGGIE WALTON ACCUSED OF JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT OVER HIS BIASED REMARKS ABOUT TRUMP ON CNN. America’s corrupt cesspool of a political system continues to attack the opposition leader.
** WISCONSIN VOTERS APPROVE AMENDMENT TO BAN “ZUCKERBUCKS” AND SIMILAR PROGRAMS USED BY DEMOCRATS AS PART OF THEIR 2020 “CHEAT BY MAIL” VOTE FRAUD. Have I mentioned lately that the 2020 election was as corrupt and tainted as in 1876 and 2000?
REPUBLICANS FOOLISHLY CONTINUE TOYING WITH THE NOTION OF AN ARTICLE FIVE CONVENTION OF THE STATES TO ALTER THE CONSTITUTION. Even though the clueless, outdated and utterly useless Republican establishment think they’ll get the changes they want, we all know what would happen. The Democrats would, as always, outmaneuver and outdo the ineffectual Republicans and America would wind up with a Constitution altered to please only the most fanatical Democrats.
Even if the Democrats did not act according to the rules of such a Convention of the States the Republicans would just impotently whine about it and after a brief period those same Republicans would admonish their constituents to stop discussing the debacle and would say they need to “move on and put the Convention of the States travesty in the rear-view mirror.”
WARNINGS ISSUED ABOUT THE POLITICAL GAMES THAT DEMOCRATS PLAY WITH THE CENSUS AND CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION. And, as I mentioned above, the ineffectual Republicans do nothing but whine about it. America needs Third Parties.
TRUMP COMPASSIONATELY CALLS OUT THE BIDEN REGIME FOR IGNORING THE VICTIMS OF THE ADDITIONAL CRIMES COMMITTED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Uses the Democrats’ pathetic “Say their names” meme against them. DEMOCRATS, MEANWHILE, EXPRESS OUTRAGE OVER DEATH OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CONVICTED OF MURDER. Continue reading
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BY AEROPLANE TO THE SUN (1910) – Written by Donald W. Horner. This British novel features ideas that wouldn’t have been out of place decades earlier but in 1910 it’s astounding to encounter concepts like an alleged scientist believing that the sun is inhabited.
The story is set in the far-off year 2000 A.D. Automobiles run on electricity, wireless video telephones are available and fluorescent lighting is commonplace. The British Parliament is now majority female and women have passed legislation stating that in a Leap Year women may propose to men and the men must accept or be subjected to ruinous fines.
Wealthy astronomer (?) Dick Stevenson fears that his neighbor Cynthia Meadows will propose to him, and in the semi-comical setting of this novel goes so far as to design and construct a spaceship – which he calls an aeroplane. He plans to be off exploring space long enough for Leap Year to be over.
Stevenson decides to mount an expedition to the sun because in the year 2000 we are told that the moon and Mars have been thoroughly explored. The brick-shaped spaceship/ aeroplane is built from the newly discovered metal called zioomium, which is as light as silk but stronger than steel. Continue reading
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This is the second part of Balladeer’s Blog’s look at the swashbuckling legends that surround Francois Villon (1431-1463?), remembered as one of France’s greatest poets.
FRANCOIS VILLON – This part picks up with one of the most infamous incidents from Villon’s career as an outlaw and iconoclast. He graduated from the Sorbonne as a Master of Arts and had acquired such a reputation for youthful rebellion and hard-drinking bad craziness that “Villonerie” had become a catch-all term for disorder and disobedience.
Along the way Francoise had turned out a body of verse attacking and satirizing callous royalty and hypocritical religious leaders. In 1451 Villon and some of his rowdier cohorts targeted an elaborate theft as a prank against one Mademoiselle de Bruyeres, a huffy woman who led a personal crusade against every woman she believed to be a prostitute.
Recently she had harassed the honest young women who worked as linen weavers in the Marche au Fille, her paranoid mind labeling them all as sex workers based on no evidence. Villon and company sought to strike for the honor of those slandered ladies. Continue reading
Filed under Mythology, Neglected History
NCAA DIVISION TWO
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – This clash for the crown pitted the MINNESOTA STATE MAVERICKS against the NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SHARKS.
Come Halftime the Sharks were clinging to a 40-38 edge over Minnesota State. From there the Mavericks managed a comeback, ultimately defeating Nova Southeastern by a final tally of 88-85. Dylan Peeters tossed in 19 points to lead MSU to victory.
NCAA DIVISION THREE Continue reading
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From Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.
DAUGHTER OF JUDGE IN TRUMP CASE INVOLVED IN RAISING NINETY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS FOR DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES BY TOUTING THE LAWFARE AGAINST TRUMP, RAISING NEW CRIES FOR THE JUDGE TO RECUSE HIMSELF. For once it’s not Judge Arthur Engoron, the poster child for why people consider elected judges to be nothing but partisan hacks.
HILARIOUS ARTICLE BY A PRACTICING LAWYER ABOUT THE CURRENT INSANITY IN U.S. COURTROOMS.
DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S TOP ONE HUNDRED ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN OFFICE.
“BIDEN-MART” DEMONSTRATES THE CRUSHING INFLATION CAUSED BY JOE BIDEN’S POLICIES AND HIS WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS & THE POOR. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
GOOD EVENING, MR. TIBBS – As promised, I recently obtained a copy of author John Ball’s final story featuring his iconic African American homicide detective Virgil Tibbs. Yes, THAT Virgil Tibbs, introduced in the 1965 novel and 1966 movie In the Heat of the Night.
Roughly ten days back I reviewed John Ball’s subsequent novels and short stories about the brilliant and coolly professional Virgil Tibbs. This final short story, Good Evening, Mr. Tibbs, followed the 1986 Tibbs novel Singapore.
Unlike that novel, this tale depicts Virgil in his home territory of Pasadena, California. (It was only in the movies that Tibbs worked in Philadelphia and San Francisco.) In the middle of the night a woman’s dead body is found in the center of the street. Circumstances prompt a call to bring in Pasadena’s senior Homicide Detective – our man Virgil. Continue reading
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FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.
AND ANOTHER COURT STRIKES DOWN THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES THAT DEMOCRATS MADE IN 2020 TO ENABLE THEIR “CHEAT BY MAIL” OPERATION. This second such decision was from March, 2021, remember. There have been many more since then. Have I mentioned that the 2020 election was at least as tainted and corrupt as the ones in 1876 and 2000?
EVEN THE DEMOCRATS AT THE WASHINGTON POST ARE FORCED TO ADMIT TRUMP DID NOT ORDER GEORGIA TO FIND VOTE FRAUD. But anti-Trump loons STILL buy into every bizarre anti-Trump rumor no matter how idiotic.
TRANSGRESS WITH ME: MARCH 28th – Among the remarks: “If you want people killed or injured just because they voted differently than you did, then they aren’t the fascists – YOU ARE.”
COURAGEOUS ANDY NGO’S REPORT ON THE FASCISTIC NATURE OF THE MISNAMED FASCISTS OF ANTIFA. And he suffered violence during his reporting on that hate group. Masked, weapon-wielding haters like this often band together to try to make up for what useless, impotent little people they are individually.
Think of the way an army of ants, strictly by virtue of their numbers, can sometimes overwhelm and devour entities far greater than themselves. ANTIFA: Their colors are red and black, just like the insects they so resemble! Continue reading
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NCCAA DIVISION ONE
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The top seeds – the CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY YELLOW JACKETS – took on the 2nd seeded WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY PIONEERS (should be Flying Ws) in this title tilt.
Come Halftime the Yellow Jackets were nursing a 35-31 edge. After the break Cedarville University left the Pioneers further and further behind on their way to an 88-72 triumph. Grant Whisman and Chris Rogers led the Yellow Jackets with 20 points each.
NCCAA DIVISION TWO
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The last two teams standing in this Division were the top seeded CROWN COLLEGE POLAR BEARS and the 3 seeds – the NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY RAMS.
The Polar Bears were on top of their opponents 35-29 at the Half. From there the Rams mounted a furious rally which fell just short as Crown College held on to win the game 75-72. The Polar Bears were led by Tyrus Buckner, who came up just short of a Double Double with his THIRTY points and 9 rebounds. Continue reading
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