FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.
FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: MARCH 20th. Click HERE.
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS MORE FEMALE SENIOR ADVISORS THAN OBAMA, BUSH AND CLINTON. It’s HERE.
DEMOCRAT ATROCITY ROUNDUP: MARCH 11th. Find it HERE.
ONE MAN AGAINST AMERICA’S CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION. Click HERE.
POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: MARCH 9th. They’re HERE. Continue reading
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This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog will look at a short-lived VILLAIN series.
GIANT-SIZE SUPERVILLAIN TEAM-UP Vol 1 #1 (March 1975)
Title: Encounter at Land’s End
NOTE: Marvel’s Giant-Size comics in the 1970s were an experiment in quarterly publications which would offer a slightly lengthier new story with the rest of each issue filled up with reprinted stories from years or decades earlier. None of these “giant-sized” series even made it to their 9th issue.
Villains: Dr. Doom, Sub-Mariner and Diablo
Synopsis: Dr. Doom’s armored body lands in the Atlantic Ocean following his most recent clash with the Fantastic Four, which ended with him seemingly being killed. Instead, he survived but was knocked unconscious and fell back to the Earth below.
Sub-Mariner, aka Namor, the monarch of Atlantis, caught sight of the falling object while piloting his Atlantean submarine which can also serve as an aircraft. Sub-Mariner rescues Doom, whose armor protected him from re-entry, and the two contemplate an alliance even though their few previous attempts ended with the pair falling-out. Continue reading
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AN AUTOMATIC ENIGMA (1878) – By Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the past Balladeer’s Blog has reviewed some of Julian’s horror stories, but this time around it’s a sci-fi tale. An Automatic Enigma first appeared under the title The Mullenville Mystery in 1872 before Hawthorne revised it and had it published in 1878 under the new title.
In Mullenville, a traveler named Ned Holland charms Nellie Swansdowne, who is considered the greatest beauty in the area. After a time, Nellie accuses Ned of acting too machine-like, provoking a fierce argument and a breakup. Continue reading
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Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog does another roundup of some of the latest.
REAL CLEAR POLITICS ON HOW INEPT BIDEN’S WOULD-BE DEFENDERS ARE. And ANOTHER pro-Biden “journalist” (LMAO) flees necessary questions about Biden bribery and influence-peddling scandals. More HERE.
More HERE. She was passionate but focused and eloquent.
BIDEN REGIME APPOINTS AGENTS WHO LIED ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP TO NEW “INTELLIGENCE GROUP.“ Continue reading
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HELLO, READERS! SORRY I’VE BEEN SO SWAMPED THIS WEEK. I will get back to my usual posting frequency in the next day or so, but for right now here is a quick college football rankings item. I’ll be back to my other topics later today.
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) – 1. MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS ### 2. NORTHWESTERN (IA) COLLEGE RED RAIDERS ### 3. GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY VIKINGS (should be Zebras) ### 4. SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE MOUNDBUILDERS ### 5. DORDT UNIVERSITY DEFENDERS ###
NCAA DIVISION TWO – 1. PITTSBURG (KS) STATE GORILLAS ### 2. FERRIS STATE BULLDOGS ### 3. DELTA STATE STATESMEN ### 4. COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES OREDIGGERS ### 5. GRAND VALLEY STATE LAKERS ### Continue reading
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SURF NAZIS MUST DIE (1987) – The ideal companion piece to the original Point Break! Rest assured, the Surf Nazis are depicted as the scummy villains they are and that they do get their just desserts in this 83-minute bundle from So Bad It’s Good movie Heaven. Though distributed by the venerable Troma Team, Surf Nazis Must Die was actually produced by the Institute. The film was directed by Peter George and written by George with Jon Ayre.
This post-apocalypse flick is not the typically self-conscious, over-the-top Troma madness that we all love. Its more subdued but still energetically bizarre tone often provokes complaints from hardcore Troma fans who expected something like The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke ‘Em High or Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD.
Surf Nazis Must Die is refreshingly played mostly straight – but still howlingly bad – and the actors performers don’t spend their time practically winking at the audience over how absurd the whole thing is. That’s a nice change of pace in this age when there are way too many “look how bad and zany we are” low-budget flicks down on their knees begging for cult status.
Obviously, this Institute production is trying to fit into the post-apocalypse sub-genre of Mad Max imitators from the 1980s. SNMD earns its place with its originality. For one thing, rather than a global cataclysm, the movie is set in the aftermath of a very localized apocalypse – the California coastline has been ravaged by a series of monumental earthquakes. Continue reading
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THIRTEEN AGAINST FATE (1966) – Based on thirteen stand-alone crime stories by Georges Simenon, the creator of Jules Maigret, this BBC series was long thought lost except for three episodes which had gone unwiped by the penny-wise and pound-foolish broadcasters. In September of 2010, the entire series was discovered in America’s Library of Congress, finally making all thirteen episodes available.
None of the 50-minute productions featured Maigret and focused on more of a psychological thriller approach rather than traditional mystery story approach.
The episodes:
THE LODGER (June 19th) – Also known as The Tenant to avoid confusion with the Alfred Hitchcock films titled The Lodger. (One silent, one with sound.) In Belgium, a Turkish rug dealer hides out in a boarding house after committing a vicious murder to cover other crimes. His guilt and paranoia over being tracked down and arrested make things unbearable for him and his mistress. Starring Zia Mohyeddin, Gwendolyn Watts, Gemma Jones and Christopher George.
TRAPPED (June 26th) – Louis Bert, a carpenter turned petty criminal, lives in Nice with Constance, a wealthy woman he is conning. On the side he romances Lulu, a prostitute whom he passes off as his sister to the wealthy Constance.
When Lulu’s former pimp Jean is released from prison, he locates her in Nice and wants to take her back to the streets, killing Constance in the process. Louis hides all the evidence of the slaying and makes off with the late woman’s valuables, only to be caught and accused of being the murderer. Starring Keith Buckley, Sylvia Coleridge, Donald Eccles and Mary Webster. Continue reading
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It’s time for another current events roundup here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.
MORE ABOUT SOME OF THE VIDEO EVIDENCE OF JOE AND BIDEN HUNTER AND THEIR BRIBERY/ INFLUENCE SCANDALS.
BIDEN’S DISASTROUS ECONOMIC POLICIES FORCING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE INTO THE POVERTY LEVEL.
EVEN ABC ADMITS FANI WILLIS’ TRUMPED-UP CASE IS ABSURDLY UNFOUNDED.
LAWSUIT LAUNCHED TO TRY TO STOP DEMOCRATS FROM FURTHER EXPANDING THEIR “CHEAT BY MAIL” RACKET. Continue reading
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HEADLINES
DELTA STATE TAKES DOWN DIVISION ONE – The NCAA Division Two’s DELTA STATE STATESMEN welcomed NCAA Division ONE’s MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE DELTA DEVILS yesterday. The 1st Half was pretty tight with the Delta Devils clinging to a mere 7-6 edge at the break. The Statesmen came out of the locker room on fire and seized a 22-7 lead in the 3rd Quarter before blowing out Mississippi Valley State 35-7 in the 4th.
MARATHON GAME OF THE WEEK – To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “Never have so many football players played for so long for so few points.” The NEWBERRY COLLEGE WOLVES and their guests the EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY WASPS needed SIX OVERTIMES to finish their game. With that many OT’s you’d expect a score of at least forty-something points apiece instead of the 25-23 Wolves victory that we got.
KNOCKING OFF NUMBER TEN – Down in NCAA Division Three, the 22nd ranked SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY RIVER HAWKS visited the number 10 CORTLAND STATE RED DRAGONS. The Red Dragons led 14-7 in the 1st Quarter and 21-14 at Halftime. A 35-21 Cortland State advantage to end the 3rd Quarter was followed by a furious River Hawks rally in the 4th as they came back to win it 38-35. Continue reading
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FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.
AFRICAN-AMERICANS PRAISE DE FACTO THIRD-PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS POLICIES AT BLACK HISTORY MONTH RECEPTION. Among the People of Courage praising Trump at the event – Clarence Henderson of the FREDERICK DOUGLASS FOUNDATION and Civil Rights leader Bob Woodson. Click HERE.
BRAVE BLACK ENTERTAINERS HONOR TRUMP IN PERSON AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SAYING THAT HE “HAS DONE MORE FOR BLACK PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT OF OUR LIFETIME.” Click HERE.
KEVIN JACKSON OF THE BLACK SPHERE COURAGEOUSLY PUSHES BACK AGAINST THE WAY DEMOCRATS TRY TO ORDER AFRICAN-AMERICANS HOW TO THINK. It’s HERE. Kevin’s site HERE.
MOCK HEADLINES: FEBRUARY 21st. The comedy bit returned HERE.
DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE NYDIA VELAZQUEZ THREATENS A YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN. Find it HERE.
ANAND GIRIDHARADAS’ TERRIFIC BOOK ABOUT HOW THE ELITE BLAME THE UNDERCLASSES FOR THE PROBLEMS THAT THE ELITES THEMSELVES CREATE. A sample quote from the article HERE – “(T)he problem is that affluence begets arrogance, including a we-know-what’s-best attitude where these overprivileged people act as if they’re missionaries and the rest of us are ignorant savages in need of their “enlightened” supervision.” Continue reading
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