APRIL 24th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents another roundup of current events:

democrats culture of hateDEMOCRAT FASCISTS VANDALIZE THE HOME OF A UTAH STATE SENATOR FOR SUPPORTING LEGISLATION THEY DISAGREE WITH. More HERE. Threatening messages left scrawled on the walls, too. If the buffoons who run the Republican Party had kept up with the Democrats in the Media Arms Race this would be a nationwide story 24/7. Instead, it will soon fall down the Memory Hole. America needs a viable opposition party.

ANOTHER AMERICAN DEAD AS JOE BIDEN AGAIN LEAVES THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE BEHIND WHILE FLEEING A COUNTRY. More HERE. Joe Biden’s career of failure and scandal continues.

eric adamsNEW YORK’S ERIC ADAMS BRAVELY POINTS TO BIDEN’S DISASTROUS HANDLING OF AMERICA’S SOUTHERN BORDER CAUSING CRIME RISE

DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE THEY WILL HOLD NO DEBATES FOR THE PRIMARIES, TO PREVENT EVEN FURTHER DISASTERS REGARDING JOE BIDEN’S MENTAL UNFITNESS. They still know what they knew in 2020 – Joe Biden is unfit for office. He was hidden away as much as possible in 2020, remember?

EVEN THE DEMOCRATS AT THE AP HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE BIDEN REGIME’S DEA HEAD IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR CRONYISM. It’s life here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy. 

rfk jrCOURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TALKS SENSE ABOUT TOTALITARIAN POLITICS. More about Kennedy’s related remarks HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Will the Democrat National Committee do to him what they did to Tulsi Gabbard in 2020? He is already feeling the heat from the Democrat establishment.

biden the fascistBIDEN REGIME  STILL USING FEDERAL AGENCIES TO WAGE WAR ON A TWITTER FILES REPORTER. REPUBLICAN PARTY SILENT, OF COURSE. More HERE.

CLUELESS, OUTDATED AND UTTERLY USELESS BUFFOONS WHO RUN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LEARN ANOTHER HARD LESSON ABOUT FAILURE TO KEEP UP IN THE MEDIA ARMS RACE.

FORMER CIA DIRECTOR ADMITS THAT “THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY” CLAIMING THE LAPTOP EXPOSING BIDEN FAMILY SCANDALS WAS “RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION” WAS INTENDED TO INTERFERE WITH THE ELECTION AND INSTALL JOE BIDEN. More HERE. And HERE. Continue reading →

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SANTO VS THE RIDERS OF TERROR (1970) BAD MOVIE REVIEW

santo vs the riders of terrorSANTO VERSUS THE RIDERS OF TERROR (1970) – Called Santo Contra Los Jinetes del Terror in its native Mexico, this is one of my all-time favorite hidden gems among the wacked-out movies about the Mexican wrestler called El Santo.

(Many movies about Santo and other Mexican wrestlers were shown on “the Mexican MST3K” show – A Platicar a Su Casa, reviewed HERE.)    

El Santo – often called “Samson” in English-dubbed versions of his flicks – has battled Martians, vampire women, vampire men, witches, mummies, wax figures come to life and dozens of other monstrosities. This particular flick stands out to me because of its joyously tasteless brand of “monsters” – a horseback riding outlaw gang of lepers.

Yes, LEPERS! In a move even Tod Slaughter might have deemed too crass and exploitative a group of bandits deformed by leprosy are at large and pulling off a series of robberies. Continue reading →

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JUSTICE SOCIETY AND JUSTICE LEAGUE TEAM-UPS: 1975-1979

For this weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog, I will review the 1975-1979 crossover stories involving DC’s Justice League and Justice Society. For my review of their 1963-1969 crossovers click HERE.

jla 123JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA Vol 1 #123 (October 1975)

Title: Where On Earth Am I?

Justice Society Roster: Hourman, Dr. Mid-Nite, Wildcat, Johnny Thunder, the original Robin (now an adult) and the original Wonder Woman (Diana Prince-TREVOR)

Justice League Roster: The 2nd Flash, 2nd Batman, 2nd Green Arrow, 2nd Hawkman, 2nd Aquaman and 2nd Black Canary (daughter of the original)

Villains: The Injustice Society (Icicle, the Shade, the Gambler, the Wizard, the Sportsmaster and Huntress) plus Cary Bates

Synopsis: Continue reading →

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APRIL 2017

FOR PART ONE OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE (2016) CLICK HERE.

trump and steve harveySTEVE HARVEY PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR KEEPING HIS PROMISES TO INNER CITY AFRICAN-AMERICANS. 

CAL-BERKELEY FASCISTS UPSET THAT PEOPLE HAVE NOTICED WHAT FASCISTS THEY ARE.

NAVAJO NATION PRESIDENT PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES WHICH HAVE HELPED HIS PEOPLE. Continue reading →

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BOOK OF THE DUN COW: PART SEVEN

Here is Part Seven of Balladeer’s Blog’s look at the various mythological works in Ireland’s Lebor na hUidre, The Book of the Dun Cow. This part features three more sections. For Part One click HERE. 

feast of bricriuTHE FEAST OF BRICRIU (Fled Bricrenn) – The Book of the Dun Cow version of this tale is dated to around the 700s A.D. and is considered the forerunner of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in British legends. 

The frequent troublemaker of Irish myths – Bricriu – holds a feast in his new banquet hall at Dun Rudraige. He invites all the nobles of Ulster and, always a jerk, starts a conflict at the party by having three heroes argue over which of them deserves the Curadmir – the champion’s portion of the feast.

        The three are the demigod Cuchulainn, Conall Cernach, and Loegaire Buadach. The competitors perform various feats and Cuchulainn is judged the winner. Conall and Loegaire refuse to accept that judgment, and the trio go to Connacht under immunity. They perform feats before Queen Maeve and King Ailill, and again Cuchulainn is decreed the victor.

Once again, Conall and Loegaire heatedly refuse to accept the outcome and so the trio travel to Munster to be judged by King Cu Roi mac Daire. He, too, names Cuchulainn the winner. The other two still refuse to acknowledge Cuchulainn as the victor and they wind up back at the Ulster stronghold of Emain Macha. Continue reading →

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THE BRICK MOON (1872) – ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

brick moonTHE BRICK MOON (1872) – Written by Edward Everett Hale, best known for The Man without a Country. This novella started out as a serialized story published in 1869 in the October, November and December issues of Atlantic Monthly. A follow-up installment, titled Life in the Brick Moon, was published in the February 1870 issue.

In 1872, the entire four-part piece was published by Roberts Brothers as part of His Level Best and Other Stories, which contained works by multiple authors. The Brick Moon was published again in 1899 as part of Edward Everett Hale’s The Brick Moon and Other Stories.

brick moon titleThe story begins in the 1840s when Frederic Ingham, the tale’s narrator, and his college friends Orcutt and Halliburton plan a dream project which winds up taking decades to fulfill – a manmade artificial satellite, the first recorded in science fiction stories.

The possibility of wireless communication was unknown in that time period, so the three friends don’t plan to use their Brick Moon to transmit and receive communications. They instead plan for it to serve as a heavenly object that ships at sea can use as a marker. Continue reading →

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APRIL NINETEENTH NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

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The latest from Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy, brought to you by Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY EXPANDS TO SIX MORE MEMBERS. More HERE.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING A CRIMINALLY COMPROMISED FIGURE LIKE JOE BIDEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

THE LATEST BOMBSHELL REVELATION ABOUT BIDEN’S 2020 CAMPAIGN COORDINATING WITH MEDIA OUTLETS TO COVER UP BIDEN FAMILY SCANDALS. The 2020 election was at least as corrupt as the 1876 and year 2000 elections.

SPECIAL COUNSEL REVEALS THAT BIDEN’S HHS SECRETARY VIOLATED THE HATCH ACT. 

biden brainlessAUSTRALIAN NEWS: BIDEN AND HIS REGIME HAVE “LITERALLY BECOME A JOKE.” But people who only watch or read news outlets that pander to their own political prejudices pretend things are just fine.

BIDEN REGIME “LOSES TRACK” OF THOUSANDS OF MIGRANT CHILDREN. The regime was warned about the exploitation of child labor but didn’t care HERE. Only silence from “protesters” who pretend to care about such children. More HERE.

FLORIDA CONGRESSMAN GREG STEUBE JOINS THE GROWING LIST OF FIGURES ENDORSING DE FACTO THIRD-PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

UNFIT JOE BIDEN NEEDING TO END HIS DAILY ACTIVITIES EARLIER AND EARLIER. His feeble mind and body were apparent even during his 2020 non-campaign despite the attempts to hide it.

FORMER NEW YORK CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER KELLY BLASTS CORRUPT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG AS “A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO NEW YORK CITY CRIME” . Continue reading →

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THE CHALLENGE (1970) AKA SURROGATE

challenge tvmTHE CHALLENGE aka Surrogate (1970) – This made for tv movie aired in February 1970. The storyline involves a downed satellite that contains American national defense technology. It landed near a fictional Asian nation which is closely allied with Communist China.

The fictional nation’s navy recovered the downed satellite, but the U.S. navy blockaded them and, as this telefilm opens, is preventing the other nation from taking the satellite anywhere. The smaller nation is a client state of Communist China, as stated above, and China intervenes on their behalf.

darren in challengeNeither the U.S. nor Red China want to see this incident escalate into an all-out war, so they agree to a solution. Each side will send one man to a small nearby island. Whichever surrogate manages to kill the other within five days will have “won” the downed satellite for its side.

Yes, that’s a silly premise from a real-world angle, but this first aired in a less cynical time, so the fact that the story is obviously an allegory for proxy conflicts like the Vietnam War was considered daring for the period. Original director Joseph Sargent quit the film over creative differences, and replacement director George McCowan insisted on using the Director’s Guild pseudonym Allen Smithee. Continue reading →

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BOOK OF THE DUN COW: PART SIX

Here is Part Six of Balladeer’s Blog’s look at the various mythological works in Ireland’s Lebor na hUidre, The Book of the Dun Cow. For Part One click HERE.

cattle raid of cooleyTHE CATTLE RAID OF COOLEY (Tain Bo Cuailgne) – Because this is easily the most well-known tale from Irish Mythology I will be brief and I will also include another section of the Book of the Dun Cow in this same blog post. 

I. In Connacht, as we saw in earlier installments, Queen Maeve lived with King Ailill in Cruachan. A bedroom squabble between the pair involved a comparison of each of their belongings. King Ailill edged out Queen Maeve by his possession of an incredibly fertile (and in some versions immortal) bull called Finnbhennach (white-horned).

        Queen Maeve didn’t like that at all, and resolved to acquire the Donn Cuailnge (brown bull) of the Ulstermen, which creature was said to match Ailill’s bull in magnificence and fertility. 

II. Maeve sent envoys to negotiate with her people’s enemies the Ulstermen in the north, because the owner of the Donn Cuailnge lived among them. Negotiations broke down, so the queen resolved to take the brown bull by force of arms.

cattle raid of cooley againIII. As Queen Maeve and her army approached Ulster, most of the Ulstermen were incapacitated by labor pains, a curse from the goddess Macha that they would be thus afflicted for nine generations whenever Ulster faced peril. The only man of Ulster not affected by the curse was the demigod Cuchulainn, familiar to us from previous installments.

IV. Cuchulainn and his charioteer Laege waged guerilla warfare on the advancing army, slowing them down as best they could. At length, when Cuchulainn intercepted Maeve’s army as they were fording a river, he invoked the Right of Single Combat at Fords. (No, not the Right of Dual Combat at Isthmuses, the Right of Single Combat at Fords.) Continue reading →

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MONDAY NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a brief look at current events:

tax returnsCIVIQS POLL: ONLY TWENTY-TWO PERCENT FEEL BIDEN HAS THE U.S. GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 

MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER ON GOVERNMENTS CENSORING ONLINE DISCOURSE.

ELON MUSK DROPS MORE INFO CALLING OUT GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN GLOBAL SPEECH.

NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR YEONMI PARK ON HOW THE BIDEN REGIME IS MAKING THE UNITED STATES AS OPPRESSIVE AS THE REGIME SHE FLED.

FLORIDA DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN HEADED FOR COURT ON FEDERAL CHARGES OF DEFRAUDING CAMPAIGN DONORS.

BIDEN’S 2020 CAMPAIGN EXPOSED FOR ROLE IN THE 51 “INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS” WHO HELPED SQUELCH THE BIDEN SCANDALS REVEALED BY HUNTER’S LAPTOP. The 2020 election was as corrupt as the 1876 and year 2000 presidential elections. 

GREAT PIECE ABOUT DIRTY D.A. ALVIN BRAGG. Continue reading →

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