Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at some recent news stories.
IN JULY OF 2021 JOE BIDEN CLAIMED “NO SERIOUS ECONOMIST IS PREDICTING HIGH INFLATION.” The working class and the poor are paying the price for Biden’s inflation thanks to his and his “experts'” monumentally bad judgment.
DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS HELP DEMOCRATS ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ AND ILHAN OMAR FAKE THEIR PROPAGANDA PRETENDING THEY WERE HANDCUFFED AT DEMONSTRATION IN WHICH SEVENTEEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WERE ARRESTED. More HERE. And the media wonder why people are so aware of their pro-Democrat or pro-Republican biases.
“BRANDON FALLS.” COURAGEOUS POLITICAL DISSIDENTS MOCK THE FASCIST BIDEN REGIME BY MAKING A TOURIST DESTINATION OF THE PLACE WHERE THE UNFIT MAN FELL WHILE ON HIS BIKE. Hilarious! Ugly political trash like Joe Biden can’t stand being ridiculed.
MORE COURTS RULING THAT CERTAIN STATES VIOLATED THEIR OWN ELECTION LAWS IN THE FOREVER TAINTED 2020 ELECTION. Scrutiny of that most corrupt election since 1876 and 2000 must continue, to try preventing repeated abuses.
CAREER CRIMINAL JOE BIDEN GREETED IN MA WITH CHANTS OF “LET’S GO BRANDON.” Heroic American dissidents strike again.
THE DEMOCRATS OF SOCIAL MEDIA CONTINUE THEIR PLANS TO SILENCE CRITICISM OF THEIR POLITICAL PARTY CLOSE TO ELECTION DAY. It will be like the way they buried the proven TRUE reports about the Hunter Biden/ Joe Biden scandals in 2020. Continue reading
THE SICKLE OF FIRE (1896) – Written by Charles Kelsey Gaines, an American author who set this particular short story in British Columbia. The main characters are our narrator and a scientist named O.D. McKazy.
FARMER PEEL – Gunslinger Langford Peel got the nickname “Farmer” Peel through the same sense of irony that earns some tall people the nickname Shorty and some fat people the nickname Slim. Peel was always well-dressed and smooth-tongued and the furthest thing away from the image of a Farmer that you could get among the high-stakes gambler/ gunslingers of his era. 
Once again, Mary Harris Jones – aka Mother Jones – speaks with Balladeer’s Blog despite having passed away in 1930. 
The Marvel Comics run of stories based on Robert E. Howard’s Conan character from 1970-1993 helped maintain the character’s place in the public consciousness after the end of the Pulp Magazine era. 
CONAN THE BARBARIAN Vol 1 #46 (January 1975) 
Before long he passes through the village of Sfanol, where he sees the inhabitants about to burn at the stake a beautiful young woman named Stefanya. 
Our hero saves Stefanya from this fate and learns she was being burned for her service to the late sorcerer Zoqquanor now that he is no longer alive to protect her. The panicked woman tells Conan that they must retrieve Zoqquanor’s body from the ruins of his castle, which was leveled by the same superstitious villagers who tried to burn her alive. 
Over 10 million viewers watch the first night of the NFL draft every year. While those figures pale in comparison to the Super Bowl, you can bet industry insiders are all glued to their screens. Pundits endlessly pore over pick possibilities in the lead-up and will start speculating on how new arrivals will contribute to their franchise the second a draftee puts on his new team’s cap for the cameras. 
Eric July aka YoungRippa59 has launched what he’s calling the Rippaverse. July has been touting this independent publishing project for quite some time and, after investing $200,000 of his own money and, having now raised well over 2.25 million dollars more, went live with his website on July 12th. UPDATE: He is now over 3.7 million dollars. People know a good thing when they see it.
Rippa’s first superhero is called Isom and his 96-page debut book is lengthy enough to deserve the term Graphic Novel. And this is just the start of a brand-new superhero universe that Eric vows will compete with Marvel and DC eventually. 
As promised, Balladeer’s Blog returns to some brief looks at assorted Pony Express Riders as seasonal posts now that the Frontierado Holiday is fast approaching. (It falls on August 5th this year.) Frontierado is about the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality.
IRISH TOMMY – Thomas J. Ranahan was better known as Irish Tommy during his days as an Expressman (the official title of Pony Express riders). Ranahan was born in Ireland on August 28th, 1839 and his family moved to America in 1841, settling in Vermont. 
A. Ngai, the creator god, divider of the universe, divider of the land from the sea and owner of the dazzling light, descended to the Earth shortly after making it. Mists covered the entire world because of how freshly made it was. 
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