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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ARIZONA’S RED GHOST (1883-1893)

red gh of arizonaARIZONA’S RED GHOST – From 1883 to 1893 Arizona was the home to multiple sightings of a monstrous four-legged creature with red fur ridden by a skeletal man or ghost. Unlike most legends that center around ghosts or cryptids, this one ends with physical remains and a rational explanation grounded in history.

Let’s start with the first documented encounter with the Red Ghost aka Fantasia Colorado in the spring of 1883. Near Eagle’s Ridge, AZ a pair of men left their ranch house to check on their cattle. Their wives and children were together in one house for safety while they were gone.

One of the wives went out to get water from a nearby spring and soon a blood-curdling scream was heard as well as sounds of physical violence. The second wife looked out a window and saw “a huge, reddish colored beast” ridden by “a devilish looking creature.” She ran outside and found the first wife’s body dead, trampled nearly flat and surrounded by several prints left by what seemed to be cloven hooves.

masc graveyard smallerWhen the two husbands returned, they saw the woman’s remains and followed the tracks until they petered out, finding red fur in bushes and tree branches along the path of whatever had killed the unfortunate wife. The Mohave County Miner newspaper stated that the coroner’s report found that the death had happened by “some manner unknown”.

Mere days later, the beast and its ghastly rider were responsible for rampaging through a miner’s camp late one night. Once again, odd footprints that were too large for a horse and tufts of red fur were left behind. Already, the human tendency toward embellishment was creeping in, as the miners claimed the Red Ghost was thirty feet tall. Continue reading

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African Americans Who Defied Status Quo

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SPACE COMMAND (1953-1954) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

space commandSPACE COMMAND (1953-1954) – Long, long before the recent television series of this name came Canada’s Space Command. James “Scotty” Doohan was Phil Mitchell, Robert Barclay played Frank Anderson, the 20-something young man who was the ostensible star of the show, Harry Geldard portrayed Captain Steve Cassell and Austin Willis was Dr. Fleming.

William Shatner made a guest appearance on one episode, so he worked with James Doohan before Star Trek, just like he did with Leonard Nimoy. Special effects on Space Command were as cheap and unconvincing as they were on any other science fiction program from the time period.  

This series was broadcast live but was kinescoped like various other series back then and episodes were distributed around Canada following the live broadcast from Toronto. Space Command ran from March 13th, 1953 to May 29th, 1954. Out of the program’s supposed 150 episodes, only 1 has been found so far, but the search continues. Continue reading

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MONDAY NEWS ROUNDUP

Time for another Monday roundup of some of the latest news here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

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JOE BIDEN’S CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SCANDAL GETS WORSE BY THE DAY AS MORE AND MORE DOCUMENTS ARE FOUND UNSECURED AT MORE AND MORE LOCATIONS. Karmic justice continues.

AND YET ANOTHER SCANDAL INVOLVING JOE BIDEN AND HIS UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN’s CORRUPT FINANCES. Unbelievable.

SENILE YET CORRUPT JOE BIDEN MARKS MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY BY LYING ABOUT ATTENDING A BLACK CHURCH EVERY DAY. More HERE. Does this moron think that people can’t check out these lies?

biden and docsBIDEN REGIME CALLED OUT AGAIN AND AGAIN FOR JOE’S MONUMENTAL AND UNPRECEDENTED CARELESSNESS WITH CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. Was there any location where Joe Biden did NOT carelessly leave behind classified documents?

INVESTIGATION CONTINUES INTO THE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS GROOMED AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY THE DEMOCRATS OF THE CHICAGO SCHOOL SYSTEM. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

HUNTER BIDEN TRYING TO HAVE THE COURTS BLOCK HIS OWN FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER FROM TAKING THE BIDEN SURNAME. The Biden Crime Family is nothing but trash.  Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S LATEST COLLEGE BASKETBALL RESULTS IN THE USCAA

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bluefield state logoONE HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE – Both teams made the Century Club in this game between the BLUEFIELD STATE BIG BLUES and their guests the JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY (NC) WILDCATS. Defense was not an option, apparently, as the Big Blues led by the unbelievable score of 82-46 at Halftime before going on to win the game 145-106. Malik Lacewell led Bluefield State with 25 points, Malik Tidwell logged 20 points and Khamaury McMillan registered a Double-Double of 12 points and 10 rebounds. 

macu mustangsINSTANT CLASSIC – The MIDATLANTIC CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY MUSTANGS took the court against the VIRGINIA PENINSULA COLLEGE GATORS. At the Half the Mustangs were clinging to a tight 32-30 edge. After the break MACU kept the Gators at arm’s length the rest of the way enroute to a 70-68 victory. Noah Richardson-Keys led the victors with 22 points. Continue reading

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NINETEEN MARTIN LUTHER KING PEOPLE OF COURAGE

For this holiday weekend here are nineteen Martin Luther King People of Courage in this seasonal favorite. Their bravery and fortitude in the face of all the racist hostility and threats they get from Democrats is very inspiring. 

lloyd-marcus-2LLOYD MARCUS – Balladeer’s Blog has previously showcased items by the courageous Lloyd Marcus. Here he is absolutely nailing it when it comes to the rot and sickness which have driven so many of us away from the Democrats. The link is below, but first some excerpts: Continue reading

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HOLYOKE SUPERHEROES

This weekend’s light-hearted and escapist superhero blog post looks at the neglected superheroes of Holyoke Comics.   

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Any of us could stick a drawing pencil up our butt and draw a better picture.

DOCTOR DIAMOND

Secret Identity: Drake Gorden, MD

Origin: While on a passenger ship in the South Seas Dr Drake Gorden was swept overboard during a typhoon. He washed ashore on an uncharted island inhabited only by a monk formerly from Tibet. The monk decreed Doctor Gorden to be worthy of the Egyptian black diamond he guarded. That jewel bestowed super-powers on Gorden, who returned to the U.S. and fought crime as Doctor Diamond. 

First Appearance: Cat-Man Comics # 1 (May 1941). His final Golden Age appearance came in 1942. 

Powers: The black jewel granted Doctor Diamond the strength of fifty men and an impressive degree of invulnerability.  Continue reading

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JANUARY 13th IN HISTORY

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Today is January 13th, which also happens to be a Friday. On past instances of Friday the 13th, Balladeer’s Blog has done posts about the 1907 novel Friday the 13th, about the PRE-Jason Voorhees Friday the 13th horror movie, about one of the 50 Shades of Grey movies hitting theaters on Friday the 13th, and about the airing of Friday the 13th Part 3D on an old movie host show in the 1980s.

For today, I’ll take a look at noteworthy events on other January 13ths, most of which were not Fridays, but what the hell?

888 A.D. – Charles the Fat’s successor, Count Odo of Paris assumes the throne as King of West Francia.

1404 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Multipliers, making it illegal for alchemists to use their abilities to transmute lesser substances into precious metals. The outdated and buffoonish Paul Krugman probably believes that such legislation is still necessary.

1605 – The satirical comedy Eastward Ho!, by Ben Jonson and two co-authors, offends England’s King James, who has two of the authors imprisoned. Here in 2023 it is mostly emotional cripples on social media that want people imprisoned or worse for offending them.    Continue reading

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CHARLEMAGNE: BRADAMANTE VS ATLANTES

These are the legends about Charlemagne and his Paladins, not the actual history, so there will be dragons, monsters and magic. 

FOR MY FIRST CHAPTER ON CHARLEMAGNE’S PALADINS CLICK HERE.

Bradamante BETTERBRADAMANTE VS ATLANTES – We left off in the previous installment with Bradamante, the female Paladin in white armor, waiting at an inn in Bordeaux for her foretold encounter with the clever dwarf Brunello. Presently the day had come when Brunello arrived, but before she could approach him, both of them were swept up in a crowd of bystanders in a panic, pointing to the sky as the enchanter astride the winged horse once again flew overhead.

Bradamante took advantage of this development to pretend to casually inquire of Brunello about the astounding sight. The clever dwarf, whom Bradamante had been warned was an accomplice of the flying enchanter, informed her that it was Atlantes and that he had abducted several men and women recently and imprisoned them in his mountaintop castle.

Charlemagne's empireBrunello pretended not to know what happened to the abductees, but the female Paladin had been told by the priestess Melissa that they were used as companions for her missing beloved, Ruggiero. Atlantes had trained and raised Ruggiero since the latter’s childhood and feared the prophecies that the warrior would one day be led away from Islam by his love for Bradamante.

Playing along as if she was not suspicious of the clever dwarf, the White Paladin raged about how she longed to find the mountaintop refuge of Atlantes and free his prisoners. Brunello had by now realized that this woman warrior was the famous Bradamante herself, and planned to lure her into the clutches of Atlantes as he had done with so many others. Continue reading

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