HAPPY BLOOM’S DAY 2022!

jamesjoyceYes, it’s the 16th of June, better known to James Joyce geeks like me as Bloom’s Day. The day is named in honor of Leopold Bloom, the advertising sales rep and Freemason who is one of the major characters in Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The novel also brings along Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of his earlier novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

For those unfamiliar with this work, Ulysses is Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness novel in which he metaphorically features the events from the Odyssey in a single day – June 16th, 1904, in Dublin. (The day he met Nora Barnacle, the woman he would eventually marry after living together for decades)

Bloom represents Ulysses/Odysseus, Stephen represents Telemachus and Leopold’s wife, Molly Bloom, represents Penelope. Continue reading

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THREE MORE HARD TO FIND FILMS

Here is Balladeer’s Blog second look at some of the films I have thus far not been able to find and review. Any help anyone could offer would be appreciated. For the first list of five click HERE.

onceONCE (1973) – Written and directed by Morton Heilig, Once is a 100 minute experimental film with no dialogue, just pantomime performances by the lone three actors. Chris Mitchum of all people portrays Creation, Jim Malinda plays Destruction and Marta Kristen co-stars as Humanity. Some may describe the movie as a Biblical parable but actually it reflects concepts from Zoroastrianism, Iroquois myths and other belief systems in addition to Christianity and Judaism.

The story is set on what is supposed to be a desert island as Creation washes ashore and begins creating increasingly sophisticated life-forms. Destruction attempts to create life of its own but fails, so out of envy and spite it brings destruction on the life brought into being by Creation.  Continue reading

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PONY EXPRESS RIDERS: THE CLIFF BROTHERS

pony express stationIt’s less than two months until the major holiday Frontierado, so here’s a third blog post about Pony Express Riders – April 3rd, 1860 to October 26th, 1861. A few weeks ago came Balladeer’s Blog’s look at the first Pony Express riders.

As always, Frontierado celebrations are about the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality.

THE CLIFF BROTHERS

charlie cliffCHARLIE CLIFF – The younger of the two Cliff brothers to ride for the Pony Express was born in 1844 in St. Louis County, MO. Sometime in 1852 the family moved to St. Joseph, MO and by May of 1860 Charlie and his older brother Gus were Expressmen, the official title of Pony Express Riders.

Charlie’s rout passed through Kickapoo Indian territory but the tribe was peaceful and the young man never experienced difficulties with them. However, in 1861 he encountered a small company of nine covered wagons headed west and shared their plight of being besieged by over one hundred Sioux warriors. The siege lasted three days with periodic gunplay before a larger wagon train approached and the Sioux, realizing they were outnumbered, rode off. Continue reading

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MONDAY NEWS ROUNDUP

biden disastersAs I always say here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, we need alternate political parties. At any rate, here are some quick headlines.

biden the fascistFASCIST BIDEN REGIME IS STILL REFUSING TO ENFORCE THE LAW PREVENTING DEMONSTRATIONS OUTSIDE THE HOMES OF THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. The DOJ has yet to prosecute anyone for protesting near a justice’s home … even though doing so is banned by federal law. Like all fascist regimes, Biden and his Democrats allow their party’s violent mobs to run wild.

A LOOK AT SOME OF THE LATEST DEMOCRAT VIOLENCE AGAINST THE REST OF US.

REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRAT “EXPERTS” CLAIMED GAS PRICES WOULD NOT RISE UNDER BIDEN? More HERE. For Democrats, an “expert” means anyone who will mindlessly affirm their partisan views. As we have all seen, Democrats even pretend it requires an “expert” to be able to tell men and women apart.

ANOTHER EXAMINATION OF “THE PARTY” REGARDING ITS CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR.  Continue reading

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NAIA COLLEGE BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

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southeastern fireNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE did battle with the LEWIS-CLARK STATE WARRIORS (should be the Explorers) for the NAIA crown.

After a scoreless 1st Inning the Fire went up 1-0 in the 2nd and made that a 4-0 lead in the 3rd. Neither team scored in the 4th Inning but the 5th ended with the Warriors knotting things up at 5-5. Continue reading

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IRON MAN: 1970s CLASSICS 11: FINALE OF THE BLACK LAMA STORY

For Part One of these Iron Man 1970s classics click HERE.

im 79IRON MAN Vol 1 #79 (October 1975)

Title: Midnight on Murder Mountain

Villains: Dr. Kurarkill and her Neo-Apes

NOTE: Before moving on to the conclusion of the long-running Black Lama storyline, Marvel’s editors had to apologize yet AGAIN for the next issue not being ready and a fill-in story having to be run in its place. This one is set AFTER Iron Man’s final run-in with the Black Lama, presented below.

Synopsis: On a rainy night, Tony Stark, clad in his Iron Man armor, is flying back to New York from Cleveland, where he continued refashioning his company now that he will no longer be doing munitions work. Along the way, in western Pennsylvania, he comes to the aid of a man, a woman and their pet cat whose vehicle was pinned under a falling tree. Continue reading

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EXPLAINING LIZ CHENEY TO OVERSEAS READERS AGAIN

liz cheney is garbageBefore moving on to my usual weekend blog posts of lighter fare, here is a post explaining Liz Cheney, her warmonger father, etc. 

mascot donkey and republican headsOverseas readers have been asking me about the Republican Liz Cheney’s role in the illegitimate January 6th idiocy in Congress. Since Balladeer’s Blog is an Independent Voter site I’ve always made it clear I would be fine if both the Democrats and Republicans splintered into multiple smaller parties because neither one represents the needs of their constituents at this time. That’s why people know they will get a response from me that is NOT motivated by political party bias.

I would love to be able to describe the situation without having to discuss the Donald Trump angle, but our insane media loves to pump up ratings by making EVERYTHING about Trump, so there is no way around it. Links to news items regarding the following remarks are presented below.

To begin with, Liz Cheney is political garbage from the Republican Party. Her father is THE Dick Cheney, Vice President under the repulsive and disastrous George W Bush. (Remember the much lauded movie Vice? That’s her “daddy.”) Her father’s conflicts of interest and blood-soaked ways of making money off the Middle East conflicts that the Bush-Cheney Administration LIED THE COUNTRY INTO are still relevant.

LIZ CHENEY REPRESENTS EVERYTHING AND EVERY POLICY THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD CONDEMNED AMERICA FOR OVER THE COURSE OF NEARLY A DECADE. She and her family are part of the obscenely corrupt and callous Bush Family wing of the Republican Party. The wing of open-ended warfare, of looking for new countries to invade, of contempt for the working class and the poor and so many other abuses.

The Cheney-Bush Republicans have been feuding with Donald Trump over the years for a number of reasons, INCLUDING the way that Trump kept Jeb Bush out of the White House in 2016. The horrific Bush-Cheney wing felt Jeb Bush, part of one of the most corrupt and harmful political families in history, “deserved” the presidency. There is no need to choose sides in this, of course, but don’t believe the way that the Democrats’ media outlets are depicting Liz Cheney like she cares about anything except putting the disgusting Cheney-Bush Republicans back in the driver’s seat.

democrat republican or awakeAnd remember, even if you hate Donald Trump, another reason the Cheney-Bush Warmongers opposed him is because HE KEPT THE U.S. OUT OF ANY NEW WARS. Even the most anti-Trump media outlets in the U.S. are often willing to concede that point. AND SINCE THE CHENEY-BUSH WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WANTS ALL-WAR, ALL THE TIME, WITH VAGUE OBJECTIVES THAT THEY CAN ALWAYS CLAIM HAVEN’T BEEN MET YET, THAT IS WHY LIZ CHENEY AND HER ILK BASH TRUMP. If you back her, you’re backing open-ended warfare, among other things.    Continue reading

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DEMOCRAT BUFFOONERY IN PRIME TIME

democrat demagoguery about jan 6thIf anyone is tired of political posts, blame the Democrats because they insist on continuing their lies, their demagoguery and their hatemongering. They are offering up yet another round of lies about de facto Third Party President Donald Trump. Laughably, they are still pretending that the January 6th, 2021 protest at the Capitol Building was an “insurrection” (LMAO), yet still claim that Democrats burning down buildings, looting and trying to kill or blind cops constitute “mostly peaceful” demonstrations.

democrat platform hatredDespite the attempted assassination of a Supreme Court Justice a few days ago Democrats in the House of Representatives blocked a bill to provide additional protection for the Justices and their innocent family members AND STILL ENCOURAGE DEMONSTRATIONS OUTSIDE THEIR HOMES DESPITE THE FACT THAT SUCH ACTIONS ARE ILLEGAL. Joe Biden’s DOJ simply refuses to enforce that – and certain other – laws if it won’t help The Party. Even children of the Justices have been threatened by Democrat fascists.

And no, cops were NOT killed at the January 6th protest, no matter how many times Democrats and their media outlets lie about it. With Joe Biden’s approval ratings far below Trump’s or any other president’s lowest ratings at this point in their term Democrats are desperate to indulge in a show trial. (Their goal is to try to damage Trump, whose popularity is still such that the candidates he endorsed in this year’s primary elections currently stand at 110 wins and 6 losses.) 

Well, that and their fear that de facto Third Party President Donald Trump will return to his office. One of the best things about Trump is how much he terrifies the cesspool of corruption that masquerades as America’s government. He’s NOT a career politician, which automatically puts him above the career criminals in office, he’s rich enough to not be bought and has a thick enough skin to withstand attacks from the bought and paid-for whores from both of our political parties.  

And I will point out again that he was the greatest president for the working class and the poor of all colors during my lifetime. In addition he brought America energy independence and was the first president in decades to keep the U.S. out of any new wars.

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BIDEN CALLED THESE DEMOCRAT RIOTS MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS

Furthermore, the overwrought propaganda of the Democrats this week has had me laughing VERY hard. They theatrically pretend that the mass trespassing incident of January 6th, 2021 was “worse than the Civil War and the 9-11 attacks.” What disingenuous garbage.

Their monumental and hilarious political hypocrisy has been on full display in Washington DC this week as Democrats engage in political theater while pretending to revere the Capitol Building and its “symbolism.” (LMAO) Before I became an Independent Voter I spent most of my life as a Democrat and believe me, they feel contempt for the Capitol and its “symbolism”, even calling it one of the “institutions of imperialist rule” and “the seat of White Supremacy and systemic racism in America.”

Democrats also despise people who DO revere the Capitol and its symbolism, dismissing them as simple-minded patriotic rednecks.

Nancy Pelosi demagogueJanuary 2021 saw a “mostly peaceful protest” (as Democrats described the MONTHS-LONG Antifa riots which terrorized the country) at the Capitol turn into a chaotic mass-trespassing incident with the Democrats of the Capitol Police even killing an unarmed woman. Suddenly, Democrat pretensions that they revered the Capitol poured from the mouths of the demagogues of the Democrat Party.

Hey, let’s rename it “the Demagogue Party”. After all, the Democrat Party is the country’s oldest existing institution which launched a Civil War and fought for slavery, so a name change for that political party is LONG overdue. Okay, so they won’t rename themselves the Demagogue Party, but they should rename it something to distance themselves from the Democrat Party’s horrifically racist past.

capitol bombing 1983Anyway, Democrats felt that their OWN storming of the Capitol was fine back on October 4th, 2018, even though THEY WERE INTERFERING WITH ONE OF THOSE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS WHICH THEY NOW PRETEND SHOULD BE SACROSANCT. Democrats/ the left cheered on that activity. And let’s not forget the way the left literally set off a BOMB in the Capitol on November 7th, 1983. Also HERE. A million dollars (by 1983 standards, so much more today) in damage was done.

Most adults are above the fake tears and the fear-mongering which truly pathetic Democrat members of Congress are indulging in regarding January 6th. The Democrats will probably never lose their competitive edge in phoniness and manufactured emotion, so non-Democrats – as in Independents, Third Party Voters, Republicans and People Who Claim No Political Affiliation, in other words THE REST OF US – will always need to remain highly skeptical of any and all political theater from them. 

Kenosha democrat riotIn May 2020 when the White House was violently attacked for about 24 hours and many secret service agents were seriously injured, Biden and other Democrats said Trump “used tear gas against peaceful protestors” even though it’s been proven that he DIDN’T use tear gas on those “peaceful protestors.” Listen to those Democrat hypocrites today and the draconian measures they now recommend against civil disobedience!
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The night of May 31st, 2020 rioters set fires all over the capital of the United States. A mob of them gathered outside the White House and threatened to storm it. The president was said to have been moved to a bunker. Many Democrats laughed at him and supported the mob. Never mind that the safety of the president, as a symbol of America and self-governance, goes beyond individual or party and should never be a laughing matter, like Democrats are now sniveling about the Capitol.
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Who knows? Some day the January 6th protestors may be looked on as the victims of governmental authoritarianism, like the Bonus Marchers of long ago. Nobody knows how events will be viewed decades and centuries from now, no matter how much Democrats pretend that they do.
biden riots pic 

Anti-Trump fascists have sunk lower than ever over the past few years. In 2020 we had MONTHS of Democrat mobs rioting and starting fires and causing literally BILLIONS of dollars of damage and the loss of lives while the media and Democrat political figures cheered them on. Biden’s organization as well as several celebrities even PAID BAIL to get their fascist rioters back out on the streets for more mayhem. (Kamala Harris and 13 Biden staffers even donated money to a bail fund for rioters in Minneapolis and encouraged other people to do so, ballooning the fund up into the millions.)

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VAQUEROS WIN ANOTHER COLLEGE BASEBALL TITLE

NJCAA DIVISION ONE

central arizona college vaqueros logoNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The last two teams standing in NJCAA Division One baseball were the CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE VAQUEROS and the COWLEY COLLEGE TIGERS.

The 1st Inning ended with the Vaqueros on top 2-1 and that became a 3-2 edge in the 2nd. The 3rd Inning saw Central Arizona College squeeze out a little breathing room as they made it a 4-2 game. Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS AND THEIR VOTE FRAUD-A-PALOOZA

corporate media liesHere at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s time for the latest in the countless news items about Democrats and vote fraud. As always, I make daily visits to Democrat sites like the Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CNN, etc and to Republican sites like Fox News, OAN, Breitbart and Newsmax. If you avoid the opposite party’s media outlets then you’re only getting half the story. That’s why partisan fools pretend the country is “calmer” under career criminal Joe Biden just because their biased news sources pander to their prejudices by not covering Biden’s many disasters. Check out the news from both sides.  

And as I always say, readers are welcome here no matter who they vote for. NO Democrat site welcomes people who don’t vote with The Party.

GUILTY PLEA IN YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT VOTE FRAUD/ BALLOT STUFFING SCANDAL IN PENNSYLVANIA. More HERE. Tied to conspiracy with an Election Judge who already pleaded guilty in October of 2021.

AND LET’S NOT FORGET THE LATEST IN A LINE OF GUILTY PLEAS REGARDING VOTE/ BALLOT CHARGES IN ARIZONA. More HERE.   

MEANWHILE, 2000 MULES, THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT 2020 VOTE FRAUD IS ALREADY THE TOP-GROSSING DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR! Just like the 1876 and year 2000 elections, it looks like the actual loser in 2020 moved into the White House due to assorted types of corruption. The investigations must continue to try to prevent future recurrences.  Continue reading

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