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CORINNE BROWN, DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL REP FROM FLORIDA, SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR RUNNING A FAKE CHARITY AND SPENDING THE MONEY IT RAISED ON HERSELF AND ASSOCIATES. Have I mentioned lately that American political figures are career white-collar criminals?
BRIAN ROSS OF ABC NEWS SUSPENDED FOR FOUR WEEKS WITHOUT PAY OVER HIS FAKE NEWS REPORT ABOUT TRUMP. AND JOY BEHAR FORCED TO WALK BACK HER REMARKS CLAIMING THE NEWS WAS TRUE! Yes, in 2017 the hysterical anti-Trump media outlets still had a shred of integrity left, so some consequences were paid when they lied. Since then, even that shred evaporated.
PRESIDENT TRUMP RESTORES MEALTIME CHOICES TO STUDENTS. And more news …
IN 2017 THE KATE STEINLE CASE GAVE THE COUNTRY A SMALL TASTE OF THE CRIMES THAT DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY CITIES” WOULD UNLEASH ON US. Continue reading
STRAIGHT TO HELL (1987) – For a glib, one sentence review of this movie, how about “Quentin Tarantino minus Quentin Tarantino equals Straight to Hell?” Though this flick came out years before Tarantino’s films it clearly influenced him and to this day it feels like a lost, inferior effort by Quentin. 
Alex threw in some of his stable of regulars from his two earlier films, slapped together a script in three days (co-written by Dick Rude) and used a mere few weeks to make this oddball genre-bender in Spain. 
THE SIXTH OF JUNE – Many sites are marking the larger event of the D-Day Invasion during World War Two on this date, but in keeping with Balladeer’s Blog’s theme of neglected and obscure items I’ll take a look at a forgotten action from America’s Revolutionary War. With the 4th of July less than a month away, similar seasonal posts will follow in the weeks ahead. 
AVENGERS Vol 1 #72 (January 1970) 
This leads to the Avengers learning that Scorpio is not alone – he is a member of 
JACK LONG or The Shot in the Eye (1844) – With the Frontierado Holiday coming up in early August, Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at this Charles Wilkins Webber short story from 1844. 
In 1853, the author added his original, official version of the story to his collection Tales of the Southern Border. It may be impossible to overstate the legacy of Jack Long. This Texas-set story presented virtually Biblical levels of violence during the Shelby County War (1839-1844) and set the standard for tales of gunslinging revenge quests down to the present day. 
AMPHIBIAN MAN (1962) – This “mad scientist creates a man capable of living underwater” movie was made in the Soviet Union but frequently appeared in dubbed English on American television decades ago. 
Many online reviewers accuse the makers of The Shape of Water of ripping off this 1962 movie that is based on a 1928 novel. Arguments can be made for that, but it’s important to remember that all sci-fi stories draw from the same general inheritance of tropes. 
ICHTYANDR SALVATOR (Vladimir Korenev) – A young Argentinean man whose scientist father prevented him from dying of a lung disease in childhood by grafting shark gills on to his body. Ichtyandr has been raised and educated in isolation and his father even designed a comical looking underwater suit for our hero to wear, complete with a shark fin. 
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