Last week I took a look at 2017’s lies and hysteria spread by the ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable zealots who spend their every waking moment hating President Donald Trump. Whatever the current lies about Trump were, they pretended they were true and predicted “the walls were closing in” or similar hilariously wrong forecasts. Just like today. Here are 2018 flashbacks.
FLASHBACKS
JANUARY 30th, 2018 – TRUMP-HATERS ATTACK THE WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN WHO GAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP A GLOWING HEALTH APPRAISAL AFTER HIS PHYSICAL CLAIMING HE WAS A TRUMP SHILL. IT TURNED OUT HE WAS THE SAME DOCTOR WHO GAVE OBAMA HIS PHYSICAL. Especially absurd considering how Democrats would go on to parade the clearly unfit Joe Biden before the cameras as a figurehead while still unknown parties were exercising presidential powers.
JANUARY 25th – ROBERT “MURKY” MUELLER AND HIS CORRUPT ATTEMPT TO PUSH THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION LIES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. And since Trump-haters are long on childish snark but short on facts and rational thought, I heard from some of them who said (YAWN) “it’s the end for Trump” and that MAGA really meant “Mueller Ain’t Going Away.” Well, Mueller has gone away and Trump is STILL president.
FEBRUARY 12th – HOUSE DEMOCRAT ADAM SCHIFF HILARIOUSLY GOT CAUGHT DEALING WITH PEOPLE HE THOUGHT COULD PROVIDE HIM WITH NAKED PICTURES OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BUT IT TURNED OUT THEY WERE RADIO COMEDIANS PRANKING HIM! Schiff is a lowlife. A stupid lowlife at that. Continue reading
FIRE-EATER 
Powers: Fire-Eater, as his name would imply, could “eat” and suck in large flames as well as blow fire-blasts from his mouth. He was also impervious to fire and was skilled at unarmed combat. 
MADAME STRANGE 
Powers: Madame Strange was strong enough to rip iron bars out of a jail cell’s window, was bullet-proof and could run at greater than human speed. She was also an expert at unarmed combat and was skilled with a riding crop AND at knife-throwing. In addition this superheroine had her own personal plane from which she could drop bombs. 
THE DESERT HAWK (1950) – This fun but hilariously inauthentic Arabian actioner starred Yvonne De Carlo as Scheherazade, whose father is forcing her into a marriage to the evil Prince Murad. Word of the lavish wedding reaches Omar the Blacksmith (Richard Greene) who is secretly the roguish bandit leader called the Desert Hawk. 
The real Murad is furious about the theft, so he has his men slaughter some innocents and blame it on Omar and his band in order to justify an all-out war against the Desert Hawk. Scheherazade realizes how vile the real Murad is and escapes him disguised as a slave girl. 
FINAL FOUR: BERTH ONE – The 3 seeds – the LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE CHARGERS – faced the 6th seeded CLINTON COLLEGE GOLDEN BEARS. By Halftime the Chargers had compiled a 48-40 advantage. After the break, the Golden Bears rallied furiously but fell just short as Lancaster Bible College prevailed 89-87. Trey Grube’s 18 points led the Chargers, while teammate Connor Storr logged a Double Double of 17 points and 10 rebounds. 
It’s been years since I’ve written about the Orphic variations of mainstream Greco-Roman mythology. For anyone who is not familiar with the Orphic Hymns, Zagreus, etc. these fascinating offshoots of the myths we all grew up with feature a variety of differences.This version of the tale of Jason and the Argonauts won’t always match the more popular rendition. 
THE ORPHIC ARGONAUTICA – To avoid being too boring I will omit all the arguments about the exact time period in which this variation on the epic was first written. At any rate, as the “Orphic” part of these writings would indicate, this look at the Quest for the Golden Fleece is told from the point of view of Orpheus the musician, poet and keeper of the Mysteries. 
Our famous lyre-player Orpheus is approached in his cave at Thrace by the hero Jason. The hero tells Orpheus how he has gathered a crew that will take to sea in the Argo, the first vessel built specifically for ocean voyages. NOTE: Yes, the Orphic Argonautica depicts the Argo as the first ship ever built for a long-range journey. Various allegorical meanings are read into this, but I’ll spare you the details. 
THE INVISIBLE MAN (1975-1976) – Before Harve Bennett and Steven Bochco would launch The Gemini Man they tried a very similar premise with The Invisible Man. David McCallum, with his best Cousin Oliver hairdo (below right), starred as Dr. Daniel Westin, a scientist working for KLAE Corporation on matter transformation. 
PILOT MOVIE: THE INVISIBLE MAN (May 6th, 1975) – My above description also serves as a synopsis, with the resulting series set up by KLAE Corporation only allowing Dr. Westin to use their laboratory facilities to work on his invisibility cure if he and his wife work for them as spies. Henry Darrow played Dr. Nick Maggio in this 90-minute telefilm. 
THE 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. 
The 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 VOYAGE OF MAEL DUIN (Immram curaig Mail Duin) – Dated to around the late 900s A.D. or earlier, this story deals with the epic quest of Mael Duin (aka Maildun and Maeldune) and the crew of his ship as he seeks revenge on his father’s killers. This lengthy epic deserves to be as well-known as the Odyssey or the Quest for the Golden Fleece.
Mael Duin matured, and proved better than his presumed siblings at athletic, martial and academic competitions. Losing their temper over this, one of our hero’s foster brothers ridiculed Mael Duin for not even knowing who his real father and mother were. 
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