Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some of the latest news, memes and political cartoons.
GAL LUFT, THE COURAGEOUS WITNESS IN THE BIDEN BRIBERY PROBE, SPEAKS OUT FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION OVER CONCERNS FOR THEIR SAFETY. Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy gives even the term “Banana Republic” a bad name.
PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL BLACK FARMERS ASSOCIATION BLASTS BIDEN REGIME’S FUNDING OF CHINA’S PURCHASES OF AMERICAN FARMLAND. Buying Joe Biden was the best investment that China’s government ever made.
BIDEN REGIME’S POLITICIZED DOJ TARGETING FAMILY MEMBERS OF A COURAGEOUS REGIME OPPONENT IN WEST VIRGINIA. You may recall that the Democrats needlessly subjected Trump to two impeachment proceedings knowing both times that they did not have the votes for a guilty verdict in the Senate. Democrats – always superior to Republicans at political maneuvering – understand that “the process is the punishment”, but Republicans are the party of gutless inaction. We need a viable opposition party.
AND YET ANOTHER EXAMINATION OF THE CORRUPTION IN THE BIDEN REGIME’S DOJ. So much white-collar crime among America’s political class, yet one lone outsider and NON-career politician is the only figure our joke of a system goes after. Repeatedly.
CONGRESS STILL DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY OVER THE FBI’S GROUNDLESS WAR ON TRUMP.
MARK ZUCKERBERG IS STILL COLLUDING WITH THE DNC: HIS COMPANY FACEBOOK REFUSES TO LET BIDEN CHALLENGER ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. LAUNCH A CAMPAIGN SITE. It’s life in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.
AUSTRALIAN NEWS DOES A BETTER JOB EXPOSING THE HUNTER BIDEN SCANDALS THAN AMERICAN MEDIA. All that plus a great interview.
THE LATEST ON THE MORE THAN 200,000 BALLOTS IN NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA THAT CONVENIENTLY “VANISHED” IN 2020. The various “Cheat by Mail” scandals are what most people are talking about when it comes to the fraudulent election, but the corporate media focuses entirely on the easily-muddled claims of computerized cheating to distract from these damning scandals. Continue reading
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. 
A VOYAGE TO THE WORLD IN THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (1755) – This intriguing work was published in London anonymously and no author has yet been decisively identified. The novel’s narrator – who remains as anonymous as the book’s author – parties away his inheritance and then ships out for Italy. 
Periodically a King is elected for a lifetime term. Common-sense morality prevails, and ingratitude is especially frowned upon. All of the inhabitants are strict vegetarians, as are the animals so the humans and the beasts interact peacefully. 
Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog are familiar with my odd sense of humor. While searching for some more obscure films to watch and review, I came across this synopsis of the storyline for a 1974 Italian comedy. The movie in question is La Cugina (The Cousin), and the English translation of whatever the contributor actually wrote in Italian is … a bit garbled. Hilariously entertaining, but garbled nevertheless. 
HAVE A RESPECTFUL MEMORIAL DAY, EVERYONE! Two years ago I marked the holiday with a look at 
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EDWARD LEE BAKER JR. 
The Memorial Day Holiday is marked here at Balladeer’s Blog with posts about neglected conflicts and neglected military units from American history. The latest unit to be examined is the Navy of the Republic of Texas. I’ll examine the period from the Texas Revolution against the tyrannical Mexican government up through the Texas Republic joining the U.S. as the State of Texas. 
