Time once again for an edition of Balladeer’s Blog’s recurring feature Faculty Lounge Fascist Roundup.
DETROIT SCHOOL DISTRICT REMOVES BEN CARSON’S NAME FROM HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE HE DARES TO NOT BE A DEMOCRAT. Long after the Democrats’ plantations were shut down in the Civil War, that political party STILL thinks it “owns” African-Americans. Democrats feel people of color are only permitted to belong to their party.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY’S NEW LIST OF BANNED WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS IS ABSURD. More HERE.
SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INVOLVE FOURTH GRADERS IN GENDER TRANSITIONING CLASSROOM ASSIGNMENTS REGARDING A TRANS CHILD WHO ALLEGEDLY “KNEW” HE WAS A GIRL AT AGE TWO. Democrats, can you please leave children alone? Continue reading
THE SECRET OF THE MUMMY (1982) – One of Brazil’s giants of horror – Ivan “the Terrible” Cardoso – directed this movie set in the 1950s. Jose “Mojica” Marins, Coffin Joe himself, has a brief appearance as an occultist in this production from his former assistant director Cardoso. A mummy is reanimated in Brazil and goes on a rampage. Full review 
STAR MAIDENS (1975-1976) – From my Forgotten Television category came this look at a British Sci-Fi series about the planet Medusa, on which women rule and men are nothing but household servants or laborers. Click 
THE FIRST PONY EXPRESS RIDERS – A look at Sailor Billy Richardson, Johnny Fry and other Expressmen from the 1860 launch of the storied service. Click 
FIVE HARD TO FIND FILMS – Michel Auder’s Cleopatra (1970) – with Christopher Walken, A Yank in Vietnam (1964), filmed on location and under fire in early 1960s Vietnam and three more obscure movies. Read the blog post 
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The NORTHWESTERN (IA) COLLEGE RED RAIDERS and the KEISER UNIVERSITY SEAHAWKS battled it out for the NAIA title on Saturday. After a scoreless 1st Quarter, Halftime arrived with things knotted up at 7-7. The Red Raiders went on top 21-17 in the 3rd Quarter, and an action-packed 4th saw Northwestern College defeat the Seahawks 35-25. * THE RED RAIDERS ARE NAIA CHAMPIONS * 
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1997) – This musical cartoon version of the Dickens classic was produced by DIC, the animators known for the early Real Ghostbusters and Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons. The animation quality is adequate but nothing outstanding. However, I will say I find this version’s animation superior to that in the 1982 Australian cartoon A Christmas Carol. 
VORTEX (1982) – Lydia Lunch and James Russo star in this science fiction detective story. Lydia plays private investigator Angel Powers, who gets caught up in a case involving murders, blackmail and industrial espionage in the near future. The clues lead to James Russo and a heinous plan regarding behavior modification among humans. My full review is 
A FLIGHT TO THE MOON (1813) – This work of ancient science fiction dealt with a bold young man named Randalthus encountering a female alien who flies him to the moon. Once there, he and the lunar inhabitants learn a lot from each other. Click 
THE SECRET OF THE LOCH (1934) – British-made quasi-kaiju film from the 1930s. Loch Ness is the site of a media frenzy after multiple people are devoured by something in the Loch. The Loch Ness Monster attacks divers and ultimately emerges from the waters for the grand finale. My full review is 
Recently, Balladeer’s Blog examined 
EPISODE ONE: MAN KILLER 
EPISODE THREE: TREASURE OF THE AMAZON 
Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, as always, welcomes everyone no matter who they vote for. Revelation after revelation keeps surfacing from the way Elon Musk has overturned a figurative rock, thus exposing all of the corrupt, 
Moreover, the past several years have also seen de facto Third Party President Donald Trump overturn a figurative rock exposing the cesspool of corruption that career politicians have made of America’s political system. 
Both of them are in the sights of the powerful totalitarians they have angered, Trump for far longer than Musk, of course. Those two non-politicians have exposed the Banana Republic conditions in which the Joe Bidens and George W. Bushes of the country have mired America. 
dropping from above to perform such civic duties, and regular readers know I sure as hell don’t advocate for such action, but there’s no denying that Trump and Musk are waging the kind of battles that our elected officials, judicial appointees and “law enforcement” (LMAO) personnel should have been waging long before the corruption spread as far as it has. 
CALL OF CTHULHU: THE SILENT MOVIE (2005) – A very clever black & white film presented like a silent movie as it would have been produced in a 1928 adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Call of Cthulhu. 
MONDO MIKE HAMMER MOVIES – My look at some of the straightforward AND the bizarre Mike Hammer detective movies from America and Japan, where the character was called Maiku Hama. And the Japanese versions are just part of the story. The full article 
AFRICAN EPIC MYTH: AIWEL LONGAR – You can read my examination of it 
LUKE CAGE, HERO FOR HIRE – My look at his early adventures as he battled villains like Diamondback, Gideon Mace, Black Mariah, Chemistro, Stiletto, Cottonmouth and more. You can read the article 
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