JANUARY 26th NEWS, MEMES AND CARTOONS

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at some of the latest news, memes and political cartoons.

biden crime family picHUNTER BIDEN INVESTIGATION LOOKS INTO HIS POTENTIAL TURNING OVER OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS AS PART OF HIS HIGH-PAY “JOBS” WITH OVERSEAS COMPANIES. Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy rolls along. China Connections HERE.

BUSINESS OWNERS BEG THE DEMOCRATS WHO RUN SEATTLE TO LET POLICE ENFORCE THE LAWS.  

BIDEN REGIME CAUGHT IN LIE THAT CLAIMED THERE WERE NO RECORDS OF WHO VISITED SITES OF JOE’s CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT STASHES. More HERE. And HERE.

biden think tankBIDEN COVERUP STILL BEING PROBED. More HERE. And HERE.

TRUMP COURAGEOUSLY WARNS REPUBLICANS NOT TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE. Still a brave, de facto Third Party president. 

biden corruption shadowPRIVILEGED WHITE ANTIFA THUGS EXTEND THEIR LATEST RIOTS. The Democrat hate squad rages on. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

WAR CRIMINAL PUTIN TRYING TO BUY THE MILTARY EQUIPMENT THAT THE BIDEN REGIME ABANDONED IN AFGHANISTAN. And the Taliban is willing to strike a deal with him.

JOE BIDEN MENACES ANOTHER REPORTER JUST DOING HER JOB.  Continue reading

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ANDROMEDA NEBULA (1967) FILM REVIEW

andromeda nebulaANDROMEDA NEBULA (1967) – This movie was adapted from the 1957 novel Andromeda: A Space Age Tale by Ivan Yefremov. Unusual for sci-fi writers in the Soviet Union under Stalin, Yefremov courageously defied some of the political limitations that the blood-soaked dictator and his regime placed on fiction. Ivan is credited for, among other things, breaking free of the Soviet policy that limited futuristic tales to just a few years in the future. He continued that trailblazing in his works after Stalin died.

andromeda nebula picAnd that brings us back to Andromeda Nebula. The story is set over a millenium in the future, when an Age of World Unification (under a Soviet system, of course) was followed by the establishment of the Ring aka the Great Circle. The Ring is a loosely affiliated assortment of planets who exchange scientific and cultural information and try to facilitate each other’s efforts to colonize space.

In the universe of Andromeda Nebula, faster than light travel does not yet exist, so communication between planets takes between decades and centuries. This imposes certain limits that similar fictional planetary alliances don’t have to deal with, and the movie focuses on the dramas that could unfold within those confines. Continue reading

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ALAN MOORE: STILL WRONG

alan moore picAlan Moore, the overrated and over-praised person who writes – but does not DRAW – comic books, has had multiple wrong takes on his profession’s affect on the real world. Recently, there was another reminder regarding how hilariously off-base and clueless Moore is.

In this particular case, it involves Alan’s idiotic take not so long ago in which he claimed that comic book superheroes can enhance right-wing tendencies toward violence. As I mentioned at the time, that take was incredibly foolish and very easy to rip apart, especially in the present day. 

antifa is that youLook, I repeatedly distance myself from the fanatics of both the left and the right, but let’s see … who in the real world TODAY tends to wear masks in large numbers and then inflict violence on countless numbers of victims? In recent years, that would be the misnamed Antifa, who are really KLAN-tifa. But at any rate, the privileged white people of Antifa embody the concept of masking up and going to look for political foes to beat down. Continue reading

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1967 EPISODES OF N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE: FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

Balladeer’s Blog’s look at this example of Forgotten Television continues with N.E.T. Playhouse‘s episodes from 1967. For the opening look at the 1966 episodes click HERE.

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amorous fleaTHE AMOROUS FLEA (January 6th) – Majestic Productions put together this operatic comedy adaptation of Moliere’s play School for Wives. A young woman raised in virtual isolation is competed over by her much older patron and the son of that patron’s best friend. Lew Parker starred in this 90-minute presentation, repeating his stage role as the older suitor Arnolphe.

COMEDY OF ERRORS (January 13th) – This was first aired on British television’s show Festival in 1964. It’s a production of Shakespeare’s comedy, which was itself based on Plautus’ play Menaechmi. Diana Rigg, Donald Sinden, Ian Richardson and others starred. Though many reference sites claim this ran just an hour the actual U.K. site says it’s 90 minutes, having first aired from 9:25PM to 10:55PM. 

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LA MAMA PLAYWRIGHTS aka THREE FROM LA MAMA  (January 20th) – In this 1 hour & 45 minute episode, New York’s experimental La Mama Theater Club presented three short plays: Pavane by Jean-Claude van Italie, in which social customs are lampooned … Sam Shepard’s Fourteen Hundred Thousand about generation gaps and incompatible visions of “community” … and The Recluse by Paul Foster, about two older women who live together in mutual hostility. The 1st section was performed in a studio, the latter 2 were shot at New York City locations. James Coco and others starred. Continue reading

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TWO MORE OF 2022’s MOST REPULSIVE REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS.

democrat republican or awakeIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents Part Three in this look at some of the Democrats and Republicans whose activities in 2022 made them deserving of nothing but contempt at best.

For Part One of this list click HERE

joe biden slovenly messJOE BIDEN

Gang Affiliation: Democrat

Comment: With some Karmic Justice being served up to the senile yet corrupt Joe Biden in the form of his ongoing scandal over classified documents that he has left lying around from his time as a Senator and Vice President years ago, this time around I’ll just present a holistic look at this career white-collar criminal and the sluglike trail he has left behind him throughout his corrupt existence. More HERE, and HERE, and HERE, and HERE   

JOE BIDEN COMES FROM A SLAVE-OWNING FAMILY – Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know that I bash all presidents who horrifically claimed to “own” other human beings, so there is no reason to exclude the forever-racebaiting Joe Biden from such criticism. Joe’s ancestors were apparently as sleazy as he is himself.

Senile Joe BidenBIDEN CRIME FAMILY – There is overwhelming evidence that Joe and his Underboss Hunter Biden have long run an influence-peddling operation which has diverted millions upon millions of dollars to the Bidens over the years. Hunter’s “no-show” jobs with assorted overseas corporations have proven to be just the tip of the iceberg in the Biden Crime Family’s cesspool of corruption. From refusing to name figures who bought Hunter’s “artwork” (LMAO) for six-figure amounts through the countless additional stories of Joe Biden being in the pocket of China’s government, Crooked Joe embodies political graft-grabbing.   

WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR – After four years of his predecessor’s fantastic policies which helped the working class and the poor, Joe Biden’s disastrous policies have devastated those same people. This, too, has been painstakingly covered in countless articles over the years. In addition, Biden blundered away the energy independence brought by his predecessor, thus causing skyrocketing costs for gasoline. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S NJCAA COLLEGE BASKETBALL RESULTS

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tallahassee college eagesKNOCKING OFF NUMBER ONE – The TALLAHASSSEE COLLEGE EAGLES (should be the Laddies) hosted the number 1 team in the nation – the CHIPOLA COLLEGE INDIANS. At Halftime the score was knotted up at 24-24 but after the break the Eagles made their move, ultimately toppling the Indians 62-54. Tallahassee’s Addison Patterson led the victors with 13 points. 

arizona western college matadors logoCENTURY CLUB – Teams notching 100 or more points in Regulation: The ARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE MATADORS downed the PHOENIX COLLEGE BEARS 109-80   ###   Meanwhile, the LEE COLLEGE REBELS won 111-78 at the JACKSONVILLE COLLEGE JAGUARS   ###   And the INDIAN RIVER STATE PIONEERS routed their hosts the STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA MANATEES 103-69. Continue reading

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AVENGERS: THE KREE-SKRULL WAR

This weekend’s light-hearted and escapist superhero blog post here at Balladeer’s Blog will examine the first three installments of the 9-part Avengers classic tale The Kree-Skrull War (1971-1972). 

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THE AVENGERS Volume One, Number 89 (June 1971)

The Only Good Alien … Is A Dead Alien

SETTING: The Kree race and the Skrull race are a pair of alien races who have been at war for untold thousands of years. Both races were introduced in the pages of the The Fantastic Four in the 1960s and became staples in the Marvel Comics Universe, which I will once again praise for being as enjoyably detailed as the Star Trek or Doctor Who universes.

Synopsis: The story opens up in Miami, where a trio of Avengers – the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and the Vision – track down and engage in a battle with the Kree superhero called Captain Marvel.  (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL MARVEL COMICS CHARACTER CAPTAIN MARVEL, A MAN.) 

NOTE: There is often confusion between the Marvel Comics figure called Captain Marvel and the Fawcett Comics figure of the same name. The Fawcett Comics figure dated back to the Golden Age and was one of the victims of DC Comics’ legal attacks on ANY superhero that they felt was too similar to their character Superman.

Fawcett Comics eventually went under and nearly all their characters were bought by DC. DC doesn’t mind an alleged Superman ripoff as long as they OWN the character so the Golden Age Captain Marvel is still being published but because Marvel Comics over the years acquired the rights to the character NAME Captain Marvel the original Captain Marvel now goes by Shazam.

Captain MarvelAnyway, the Marvel Comics Captain Marvel, who debuted in the 1960s, was an alien Captain of the Kree Starfleet ships sent to conquer the Earth for the Kree Empire. His real name is conveniently Mar-Vell so when he identified himself in his early adventures the media mistook “Captain Mar-Vell” for Captain Marvel, hence his superhero moniker.

Like many other aliens in pop fiction the good Captain came to feel grudging sympathy for us Earthlings and tried to save us primitive schlubs from conquest by the Kree Empire. He thus became labeled a traitor to his own people but was also distrusted by Earthlings because of his alien nature, hence his old Marvel Comics tagline “The Man Without A World.” Continue reading

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N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (1966-1972) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

net playhouse logoN.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (1966-1972) – This anthology series from National Educational Television presented dramas, comedies, fantasies and musicals. Many were produced by N.E.T. themselves, others were produced overseas and a very few were movies theatrically released before being shown on N.E.T. Playhouse.

Below is a representative example of the program’s offerings, which could run from one hour to three and a half hours. An incredible range of productions were broadcast during the six-year run of this excellent program. I will examine N.E.T. Playhouse one year at a time.

1966

ten blocks camino realTEN BLOCKS ON THE CAMINO REAL (October 7th) – Martin Sheen starred as the downtrodden ex-boxer Kilroy in this 90-minute episode adapted from the play by Tennessee Williams. Janet Margolin, Albert Dekker and Lotte Lenya also starred.

THE JOURNEY OF THE FIFTH HORSE (October 14th) – This 2 1/2 hour production was based on the play by Ronald Ribman which was itself based on Ivan Turgenev’s novel The Diary of a Superfluous Man. Dustin Hoffman starred as Zoditch, with a supporting cast which included Michael Tolan, Charlotte Rae, Susan Anspach and Susan Lipton.

THE STAR WAGON (October 21st) – Another 2 1/2 hour production, this one based on Maxwell Anderson’s play about an inventor who devises a time machine then goes to the past to try to change the course of his life. Once again Dustin Hoffman starred, playing Hanus Wicks. In support were Eileen Brennan, Orson Bean, Richard Castellano and others.

L’AVVENTURA (October 28th) – This was a broadcast of the 1961 film from Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti. It occupied a 3 1/2 hour time slot. Continue reading

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COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY

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College: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY  Continue reading

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POLITICAL CARTOONS, MEMES AND NEWS: JANUARY 18th

biden documents for chinaIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at current events here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

BIDEN’S DISASTROUS HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS GOES BACK EVEN FURTHER THAN FIRST THOUGHT. More HERE. Even Obama’s former ethics chief blasts Biden over this latest scandal.

biden fake time coverAND STILL MORE BREAKDOWNS ON WHY BIDEN’S CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SCANDAL IS THE WORST FOR ANY PRESIDENT TO DATE. Not least because Joe’s Underboss Hunter Biden also had access to some of the locales where Crooked Joe left his long, long trail of classified docs. More HERE.

BIDEN LOSES HIS TEMPER AGAIN WHEN BEING ASKED TOUGH QUESTIONS BY REPORTER. When Biden’s predecessor did such things it was hyped for weeks as “a war on journalism” and a lack of “presidential temperament.” More weirdness with Biden and reporters HERE.

PLURALITY OF YOUNG U.S. VOTERS ARE REGISTERING AS INDEPENDENTS. Obviously, that makes me happy, since I despise both the Democrats and the Republicans. 

biden docsBIDEN REGIME UNABLE TO PRODUCE VISITORS’ LOGS FOR THE SITES WHERE CROOKED JOE LEFT CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS LYING AROUND. This is like when career criminal Hillary Clinton claimed to have conveniently “lost” the visitors’ logs from when she was Secretary of State. Logs which could have been used to match up her visitors to “donations” (LMAO) to her corrupt Clinton Foundation. As in a “pay for play” scam. Continue reading

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