DECEMBER 12th NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents another look at recent news, memes and political cartoons.

biden crime family memeJOE BIDEN’S WAR ON THE PRESS TARGETS “TODAY NEWS AFRICA” REPORTER SIMON ATEBA. More racist and oppressive hostility from the execrable Biden.

DEMOCRAT MAXINE WATERS CALLED OUT FOR HER AND HER PARTY’S CORRUPTION IN THE FTX SCANDAL. More HERE. Apparently because Sam Bankman-Fried donated tens of millions of dollars to the Democrats, it looks like he may go unpunished for his misdeeds.

     As I observed long ago, bloated rich pigs switched their support to the Democrats once it became obvious that they were much more skilled at pandering to modern Robber Barons than the inept Republicans ever were.  

JACK DORSEY, THE PRE-ELON MUSK HEAD OF TWITTER, CALLED OUT FOR THE WAY HE AND HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS FAILED TO BAN CHILD PORN LIKE MUSK IS DOING. More about the pre-Musk pedophile problem at Twitter HERE. Plus, an analysis of Twitter’s pre-Musk failure to deal with child porn HERE. One of the most disgusting examples HERE. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

Biden crime family underboss Hunter BidenAND YET ANOTHER COVERUP OF BIDEN CRIME FAMILY CORRUPTION IS UNRAVELING. Republican President Warren G. Harding and the Ohio Gang were amateurs compared to the Biden Gang. 

BIDEN REGIME OFFICIAL SAM BRINTON CALLED OUT OVER ANOTHER THEFT. More HERE, and HERE. The Biden Crime Family and their minions are such a bizarre collection of stooges, crooks and graft-grabbers.

AND STILL ANOTHER DEMOCRAT LEAVES THAT PARTY, THIS TIME IN NEW YORK. So many of us who decided to #WALKAWAY from that political party can understand. Unfortunately, this one became a Republican instead of an Independent. Continue reading

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF RESULTS FROM DECEMBER 10th

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The NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME in the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) will be played Saturday, December 17th.

Northwestern College Red Raiderskeiser helmetThe competing teams are the NORTH-WESTERN (IA) COLLEGE RED RAIDERS and the KEISER UNIVERSITY SEA HAWKS. Kickoff is scheduled for 12 Noon ET.

NCAA DIVISON TWO

Colorado Mines Orediggers NEWFIRST SEMIFINAL – The COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES OREDIGGERS took the field against the SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY RAMS in this game. A 3-0 1st Quarter edge for the Orediggers turned into a 17-3 advantage by Halftime. After the break the Colorado School of Mines limited the Rams to just 10 points in the 4th Quarter while piling up points for themselves. The final score was Orediggers 44  Shepherd U. 13. Continue reading

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL: LUKE CAGE AND THE TEEN TITANS

Christmas Carol-A-Thon 2022 continues, this time combined with the weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero blog post. This item looks at A Christmas Carol getting adapted through two separate stories – first with Luke Cage/ Power Man and then with the Teen Titans.

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LUKE CAGE, HERO FOR HIRE Vol 1 #7 (March 1973) 

Jingle Bombs was the real title of this holiday tale which pitted superhero Luke Cage aka Hero for Hire aka Power Man against the one-off supervillain called Marley. Like a Guest Villain from the Adam West Batman show Marley uses a campy Christmas Carol motif for his nefarious plan … yet, oddly the story is kind of quaint.  

On Christmas Eve, Luke Cage is hanging out with his then-girlfriend Claire Temple, a doctor who worked at a clinic in the New York ghetto. Later on in the series Claire would be the center of a romantic triangle between Luke Cage and another of Marvel’s black superheroes – Black Goliath, Hank Pym’s former lab assistant who used Pym’s inventions to turn to giant-size and back. 

As night approaches Luke sees a ruckus outside the clinic: a man in Dickensian 1800s clothing is using his walking stick to beat a little handicapped boy named Timmy. Our hero goes out to save the little boy and is attacked by the strange man, who identifies himself as “Marley.”   Continue reading

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SENATOR KYRSTEN SINEMA LEAVES THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT

kyrsten sinemaArizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, like so many of us former Democrats, disgusted with how fascistic and intolerant the Democrats have become, has officially left that political party to register as an Independent.

This has caused her to be even more viciously attacked by the fanatical Democrats who helped drive her (and so many of us) away from the party when she showed consideration to her constituents instead of the Democrat Party Machine – even barging into Ladies’ Rooms after her to berate her for not obeying Democrat Party dictates. (Let me emphasize, elected officials are supposed to represent their constituents, NOT a political party)

Joe Biden justified the lavatory (and elsewhere) harassment of Sinema by saying it was just “part of the process.” Biden is garbage. 

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog once again notes that the totalitarian Democrats have been unhinged in recent years when it comes to punishing one-time Democrats who stray from the Groupthink of that political party. Continue reading

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BEST OF FEBRUARY 2022

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues with this look at February’s best:

super musicalTHE SUPERMAN MUSICAL FROM 1975 – This stage musical from the 1960s was trying for that intentionally campy and overdone feel of the Adam West Batman series. The official title is It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superman! In this 1975 made for tv staging, David Wilson plays Clark Kent/ Superman, Lesley Ann Warren is Lois Lane, Loretta Swit portrays a femme fatale, plus David Wayne and Kenneth Mars play the main villains. Allen Ludden fills the Perry White role, while Malachi Throne, Harvey Lembeck and Al Molinaro play gangsters. You can read the full review HERE.

CRATES: ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES – A look at the ancient comedies written by Crates, like Neighbors, Lamia, Heroes, Resident Aliens and more. Click HERE.

FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY 6th – You can read it HERE.

afterman posterTHE AFTERMAN (1985) – This post-apocalypse film from Belgium is not for the squeamish. The story presents 1991 as the year nuclear war broke out, and in 2011 our lead character has run out of provisions in the radiation-proof shelter he’s been in for 20 years. The rest of the flick deals with his often violent and depraved encounters with the barbaric world that’s left. My full review is HERE.

COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT TULSI GABBARD CALLS OUT THE HOPELESSLY CORRUPT HILLARY CLINTON. Find it HERE.

death game movie posterDEATH GAME (1977) – This horror/ suspense film is OUT THERE. From the bizarrely inappropriate opening song to the home invasion aspect to the exploitative middle section all the way up to the surreal ending. Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, Bill Paxton and Sissy Spacek were all involved with this weird flick. Death Game inspired a much later remake starring Keanu Reeves. My full review is HERE.

MEDA: A TALE OF THE FUTURE (1891) – This work of “ancient” science fiction depicts life in Scotland in the year 5575 A.D. It’s a VERY interesting look at all the scientific, cultural, political and even geographical changes in the years leading up to 5575. But the Scots still wear a form of kilt! My full review is HERE. Continue reading

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TEN MORE JUNGLE JIM MOVIES

Recently, Balladeer’s Blog examined the 1937 Jungle Jim serial as well as the first six Jungle Jim movies starring former Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller beginning in 1948. Here are the remaining ten Weissmuller films as the pre-Indiana Jones and pre-Crocodile Dundee, but post-Allan Quatermain hero.

jungle manhuntJUNGLE MANHUNT (October 1951) – This seventh Jungle Jim feature film is one of the best examples of how the franchise combined fun escapism with outlandish “So Bad They’re Good” film antics. After rescuing female reporter Anne Lawrence (Sheila Ryan) when her boat overturns, Jungle Jim agrees to guide her on her search for Bob Miller – played by real-life football star Bob Waterfield, Jane Russell’s husband.

Football hero Miller’s plane vanished over the jungle years earlier and Anne is determined to enhance her career by finding him and writing up the story. It turns out that Miller has spent the time serving as a one-man Peace Corps, helping a remote village with engineering and other efforts.

During the expedition to find the missing football player/ pilot, Jungle Jim and company get mixed up in a battle between a shark and a large octopus IN AN INLAND BODY OF FRESH WATER! The shark wins and then Jim must kill that creature in a very unconvincing underwater battle. 

jungle jim vs dinosaurOur hero and Anne also encounter dinosaurs – yes, dinosaurs – in the jungle region where Bob Miller’s plane went down. Much of it is stock footage from One Million B.C. but at one point, Jungle Jim clashes with an upright-walking, man-sized dinosaur who looks like the model for the Gorn Captain fought by Captain Kirk years later. Or maybe Barney the Dinosaur.

Dinosaurs not enough for ya? Well, there’s also Lyle Talbot as mad scientist Dr. Mitchell Heller, an industrial chemist with a bad accent and a method for using uranium to transform lesser stones into diamonds. Heller employs an army of men who sport body paint (really costumes) that makes them look like living skeletons. Continue reading

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LATEST NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

democrats at twitterHello again from Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy! It’s been several days of intensified gangster warfare between the white-collar criminals of the Democrats and Republicans. Neither gang of bought and paid-for whores is worth rooting for, but a few individuals are. De facto Third Party President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are among them.

democrat criminal enterpriseBecause the people who run the Republican Party are clueless, outdated and utterly useless, it has taken the fluke of just happening to have two maverick billionaires around to find people capable of defying the cesspool of corruption that masquerades as America’s political system.

biden getting his ten percentGarbage families like the Bidens, Pelosis and Clintons (Democrats) and the Bushes, Cheneys and Romneys (Republicans) have been running the country like a Mafia bust-out operation and looting the public treasury.

The latest lie being spread about Donald Trump, America’s Lech Walesa, Nelson Mandela and modern-day Eugene Debs & Charles Stewart Parnell all wrapped up in one, is that he supposedly called for the suspension of the Constitution. He said no such thing, of course, but the media outlets of our country’s two criminal political parties NEED a distraction from all of the new evidence of Joe Biden’s illegitimacy and other scandals, many of which incriminate both parties gangs.

democrat media outletsTHE NEVER-ENDING SWAMP OF DEMOCRAT COLLUSION WITH BIG TECH.

AN ANALYSIS OF THE BIDEN REGIME’S CORRUPT PERSECUTION OF THE OPPOSITION LEADER. Biden is unfit and illegit.

A FURTHER LOOK AT COLLUSION BETWEEN THE CORRUPT FBI AND BIG TECH.

BLOATED AND USELESS REPUBLICAN RICH PIGS CALLED OUT.

JOE BIDEN – WHO STILL HAS MORE “KIDS IN CAGES” THAN EITHER TRUMP OR OBAMA HAD, STILL CALLOUSLY REFUSES TO VISIT THE BORDER. But we all know that the people who pretended to care about those kids in cages were just using them as political props. 

biden crushing unionsThis item is a reminder that Joe Biden’s war on the working class and the poor continued with his crushing of the rail workers.

Democrats have not been the party of FDR and JFK for a very long time now. Stop pretending they still are.

This next political cartoon is a reminder about the Democrats and how mired they are in the FTX scandal. If America had a competent opposition party there might be some consequences.

However, the Republican power players are too busy trashing Donald Trump, and presumably some are already preparing their excuses for dumping Ron DeSantis when he gets sufficiently muddied up by the media (remember, a few years back Democrats and their media outlets were able to – virtually overnight – convince most of the nation that Brett Kavanaugh was a serial sexual predator who even ran a rape gang in college).

FTX Democrats cash cow Continue reading

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1982) – AUSTRALIAN CARTOON

Christmas Carol-A-Thon 2022 continues with Balladeer’s Blog’s look at this neglected 1982 Australian cartoon version.

A Christmas Carol 1982A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1982) – Burbank Films of Australia produced this mediocre at best animated version of the Dickens classic. Previously I reviewed the 1969 Australian cartoon version and if you were to go strictly by this 1982 rendition of A Christmas Carol you would think that Australian animation technology had not progressed one bit since 1969.

Background figures often don’t move at all and the ones that do just repeat the same gestures and gesticulations ad nauseum like in early video games. There’s also a delayed reaction element to every dialogue exchange early on. The Australian accents add a bit of novelty but that was also true of the 1969 version.

Moving on to the story, Nephew Fred’s visit to his Uncle Ebenezer and Bob Cratchit largely sticks to dialogue directly taken from the novel but pointlessly throws in meaningless asides here and there. The delayed reactions in the early exchanges of dialogue really stick out here. It’s like you’re watching live actors who take a while to remember their next line.

The dialogue flows much better between Scrooge and the two Charity Collectors. Bob Cratchit’s farewell to his boss is trimmed to the bone, robbing it of any impact, but this IS one of those versions which shows Bob joining children in sliding along the sidewalk ice like an overgrown kid so that’s nice.   Continue reading

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BEST OF JANUARY 2022

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective kicks off with this look at January’s best:

death machines 1976 movieDEATH MACHINES (1976) – Martial Arts meets science fiction meets spy antics in this odd, feverish cult film starring a young Ron Marchini. You can read my review of the movie HERE.

FIREPOWER (1979) – Sophia Loren, James Coburn, Eli Wallach, Jake LaMotta, O.J. Simpson and others star in this espionage/ caper film that I reviewed HERE.

UGLY MOVES TOWARD A ONE-PARTY NATION – Read it HERE.

hunterwaliHUNTERWALI – India’s films about their Zorroesque masked heroine who uses her sword and whip against a tyrannical Vazier and his men. There were Indian-made movies about the character in 1935, 1959, 1972, 1977, 1988 and 2017.

        There was also a movie about the Daughter of Hunterwali (again with Fearless Nadia in the title role) in 1943. Read about all of them HERE.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS ON JOE BIDEN’S UNFITNESS FOR OFFICE – Watch it HERE.   

brum pictureBRUM (1991-2002): FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – A neglected children’s series from the U.K. I reviewed the adventures of the living toy car HERE

CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON: 1970s CLASSICS – My reviews and cultural examinations of memorable Cap and Falc stories pitting them against the Red Skull, the Secret Empire, Nightshade, Solarr, the 2nd Baron Zemo and others.

See the Falcon get his wings from the Black Panther, see the long-lost Peggy Carter return, see Captain America get his Spider-Man level strength (that lasted from 1973-1978) and so much more HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.

jirel of joiry picJIREL OF JOIRY – Female author C.L. Moore’s short stories about her 1930s sword-wielding warrior woman Jirel of Castle Joiry.

Jirel really was what a lot of people mistakenly think Robert E. Howard’s Red Sonya (not Sonja) was. My review of Jirel’s six stories can be read HERE

A BOTTOMLESS MORASS OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION – Multiple accounts of such covered HERE. Continue reading

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BOMBSHELL TWITTER REVELATIONS EXPOSE EVEN MORE EVIDENCE THAT THE 2020 ELECTION WAS HOPELESSLY TAINTED AND CORRUPT

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“I didn’t really win mine, either.”

Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I’ve never shied away from expressing my opinion that Republican George W. Bush did not really win the year 2000 election and Democrat Joe Biden did not really win the 2020 election. I also state that Republican Rutherford B. Hayes did not really win the 1876 election.

Uninformed and historically illiterate partisan fanatics tend to be okay with my remarks about Bush not really winning, but fall to pieces when I point out that Joe Biden did not really win in 2020.

trump on votingTo all my previous blog posts about the overwhelming evidence that Biden was “selected, not elected” we can now add the recent FLOOD of Elon Musk’s revelations about how his predecessors at Twitter also participated in the Democrat/ Corporate Fascist cheating and worse in 2020. They wanted career criminal Joe Biden installed and did not care what they had to do to bring it about. They even made “By any means necessary” their public slogan.

Time Magazine even bragged about the fixing of the 2020 election, under the illusion that everyone approved of the abuse, fraud and theft. (Note how their article bare-facedly refers to the cheating as “saving” the 2020 election.)

AND REMEMBER, THE BELOW REVELATIONS ARE IN ADDITION TO ALL THE “CHEAT BY MAIL” AND OTHER MISDEEDS ALREADY EXPOSED ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. THE “BIG LIE” IS THAT BIDEN WON A FAIR ELECTION.

*** NEW – EXCELLENT BREAKDOWN ON HOW THE BIDEN SCANDALS EXPOSED BY HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP REPRESENTED A FATAL BLOW TO JOE BIDEN’S 2020 CAMPAIGN. For Biden to be installed, the Democrats and their Corporate Fascist allies HAD to cover up the story.

BIDEN CAMPAIGN AND DEMOCRAT PARTY COLLUDED WITH TWITTER TO SWING THE 2020 ELECTION.

democrat media attacking elonELON MUSK HEROICALLY EXPOSES EVEN MORE CORRUPTION SURROUNDING THE 2020 ELECTION. No wonder Democrats are trying so hard to destroy him.

LATEST REVELATIONS: “EVERYONE KNEW”.

FURTHER OUTLINES REGARDING TWITTER’S CONTRIBUTION TO TAINTING THE 2020 ELECTION “BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.” 

THE AVALANCHE OF BOMBSHELLS CONTINUES.

EVEN MORE TAKEAWAYS FROM THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS.

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE FBI AND CORPORATE FASCISTS TIPPING THE ELECTION AND CENSORING NEWS ABOUT IT. Continue reading

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