ADDITIONAL NAIA COLLEGE BASKETBALL CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS CROWNED

MontanaTech_150pxFRONTIER CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The 2 seeds – the MONTANA TECH OREDIGGERS – clashed with the top seeded CARROLL COLLEGE FIGHTING SAINTS in the title tilt.

The Fighting Saints were on top 32-29 at Halftime, and the Orediggers were chasing them most of the 2nd Half, as well. With 2 seconds left to play, Montana Tech’s Drew Huse hit a 3-point shot to give his team a 62-61 victory. Sindou Diallo’s 18 points led the winners in scoring. * THE OREDIGGERS ARE CHAMPIONS OF THE FRONTIER CONFERENCE * Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS VERSUS THE REST OF US: MARCH 2nd

biden a weak failure

Joe Biden – WHO STILL HAS MORE KIDS IN CAGES THAN EITHER TRUMP OR OBAMA DID – stumbled his way through a disgracefully dishonest State of the Union address. He couldn’t pronounce “ruble”. The blithering buffoon called Ukrainians “Iranians” and mentioned “a pound of Ukrainian people.” (?) No mention of the FBI investigation of the Ashley Biden diary and its account of Joe Biden taking “inappropriate” showers with his daughter when she was a child

And 81 year old privileged white one percenter Democrat Nancy Pelosi literally wiggled out of her seat with glee and ground her knuckles together at the mention of American soldiers getting exposed to toxic burn pits. Why? Did her addled mind even comprehend what Biden said? 

BIDEN DESIGNATED AS THE WORST PRESIDENT OF THE MODERN AGE

joe biden slovenly messBIDEN CRIME FAMILY: HUNTER BIDEN “BUSINESS PARTNER” SENTENCED TO PRISON. But Underboss Hunter Biden is still at large.

JOE BIDEN’S INFLATION STILL CRUSHING THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR. More HERE.

GALLUP POLL: ONLY 21% SATISFIED WITH THE STATE OF THE UNION.

HARVARD/ HARRIS POLL: ONLY 36% OF THE VOTERS SAY BIDEN IS FIT TO LEAD THE NATION.

UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER BRAVELY TRASHES THE DISASTROUS BIDEN

SPECIAL COUNSEL FINDS THAT MARK ZUCKERBERG’S MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT FOR COLLECTING BALLOTS ONLY IN DEMOCRAT DISTRICTS VIOLATED WISCONSIN’S ELECTION LAWS. It was even labeled “bribery” HERE. So now one percenters like Zuckerberg are more blatant than ever about buying election results. The 2020 election was as corrupt as the 1876 and year 2000 elections. 

biden coneBIDEN REGIME, AFTER ENDING AMERICA’S ENERGY INDEPENDENCE ACHIEVED BY HIS PREDECESSOR, FEEDS PUTIN’S WAR MACHINE BY PAYING HIM TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER DAY FOR OIL. The Trump administration is still the only one in the last 20 years during which Russia did not invade a foreign country.

ARIZONA SENATE PROBE FINDS OVER 200,000 BIDEN BALLOTS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISQUALIFIED BUT WERE COUNTED. Have I mentioned that the 2020 presidential election was as corrupt as the 1876 and year 2000 presidential elections?

HOW EUROPE’S DEPENDENCE ON RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS EMBOLDENED PUTIN.

CALIFORNIA, WITH ITS DEMOCRAT-RUN SCHOOLS, HAS THE LOWEST LITERACY RATE OF ALL 50 STATES

TWITTER, STILL INTERFERING IN ELECTIONS TO BENEFIT ONLY THE DEMOCRATS, SUSPENDS REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL CANDIDATE. Yet Vlad Putin’s Twitter account is still up.

MOTHER OF MARINE KILLED IN BIDEN’S AFGHANISTAN DISASTER COURAGEOUSLY SMACKS HIM DOWN ONCE AGAIN.

BRITISH NEWS REPORTS ON BIDEN’S DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SCANDAL ABOUT PAY TO PLAY. Buttigeig in the middle of it all. Continue reading

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THE BRAIN (1962) BAD MOVIE REVIEW

brainTHE BRAIN (1962) – Freddie Francis directed this black & white film, which was the third movie adaptation of Curt Siodmak’s science fiction novel Donovan’s Brain. The characters’ names were changed and the sci fi elements were mixed with detective story elements this time around.

Max Holt, a callous, bloated rich pig of the George Soros/ Koch Family type, is one of the passengers on an airplane which crashes near the laboratory of Dr Peter Corrie (Peter van Eyck). That reclusive doctor and his colleague Dr Frank Shears (played by Bernard Lee himself) have been conducting experiments to see how long they can keep monkey brains alive once removing them from their host body.

masc graveyard smallerCorrie and Shears discover that Max Holt is the only one of the airplane passengers still clinging to life, but just barely, and has no hope of survival. Corrie browbeats Shears into helping him get Holt’s body back to their lab, where they remove his brain to see how long they can keep it alive in one of their fish aquarium containers filled with life-preserving fluids and equipment. Continue reading

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NAIA COLLEGE BASKETBALL CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS

CALIFORNIA PACIFIC CONFERENCE

calmaritimekeelhaulersDAY ONE, GAME ONE – The CPC tournament tipped off with the 4th seeded CAL MARITIME ACADEMY KEELHAULERS taking on the 5 seeds – the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT MERCED GOLDEN BOBCATS.

The Keelhaulers were trailing UC-Merced by a mere 37-36 at Halftime. After the break CMA outscored the Golden Bobcats 43-35 for a 79-72 victory. Amil Fields led the game’s winners with 24 points. Continue reading

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POLL: SIXTY-TWO PERCENT OF VOTERS SAY PUTIN WOULD NOT HAVE INVADED UKRAINE IF TRUMP WAS STILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE

biden on sanctionsbiden bloodThe latest Harvard/ Harris Poll found that sixty-two percent of the voters feel that Vlad Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump was still in the White House. Out of that 62%, 59% also said Putin invaded because he saw weakness in Joe Biden. (links below) This has resulted in the Democrats’ media outlets frantically pushing another Big Lie, this time that Trump was “praising” Putin by acknowledging the cold-hearted, calculating nature of the Russian leader and his Ukraine moves after baiting Biden into okaying an incursion.

To the rest of us – aka “adults” – it was obvious that Trump meant this the same way that some people point out the cunning and genius for atrocities shown by vile figures like Hitler or Stalin. It was not praise, just a mature observation of how Putin had outmaneuvered the weak and overmatched Joe Biden.

(By the way, the shouder-mounted Javelin missile weaponry that is so damaging to the Russian invaders was PROVIDED TO UKRAINE BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.) Continue reading

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CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON: 1970s CLASSICS 9 – CAP QUITS AND THE ALIEN LUCIFER RETURNS

For Part One of this series click HERE.

ca f 176CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON Vol 1 #176 (August 1974)

Title: Captain America No More

Villain: Steve Rogers’ drama queen tendency to quit being Captain America every so many years. This was already the SECOND time he had pulled this.

Synopsis: Captain America, still reeling from the monumental revelation about the leader of the now-defeated Secret Empire, has been contemplating whether or not his disillusionment is strong enough to drive him to quit being Captain America.

Avengers 125NOTE: In spite of my joke above, I do recognize that THIS time that Cap quit let the Marvel Comics writers explore competing nationwide feelings of the time period. I would argue that this time also should have been the last time this gimmick was pulled. Everybody always knows that Steve Rogers will go back to being Captain America no matter how many times he quits.

While weighing his decision, he motorcycled from Washington DC to New York City, where he and his fellow Avengers fought alongside Captain Marvel and Drax the Destroyer in the first Thanos War (1973-1974). He was also still with the Avengers when they faced the supervillains Klaw and Solarr.

This issue picks up late that same night, after the Avengers’ official farewell dinner for the Black Panther, who was temporarily leaving the team to devote all his attention to Killmonger’s uprising in Wakanda. Cap stands on the rooftop of Avengers Mansion, still engaged in soul-searching. Continue reading

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PAUL AERMONT AMONG THE PLANETS (1873) – ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

venus-landscapeA NARRATIVE OF THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF PAUL AERMONT AMONG THE PLANETS (1873) – I shortened the title when naming this blog post. Paul Aermont was the pseudonym of an unknown author, so full credit cannot be officially given.  

Paul Aermont, an American descendant of fallen French aristocrats, is living in Albany, NY with his parents. After running off to sea years earlier Paul has sown some wild oats and now seems willing to settle down. In his travels he has learned how to be a pharmacist but while pursuing this stable profession by day the still-adventurous young man spends his free time experimenting with gases and balloons.  

In the early 1820s Aermont discovers a fictional gas which enables his aeronautical balloon & cart vehicle to escape the Earth’s gravitational field and explore our solar system. Like other vintage science fiction that Balladeer’s Blog has reviewed this story presents space travel being possible without breathing equipment. Once in space Paul is rendered inert and is unaware of the “space currents” (sic) blowing him toward Jupiter.   Continue reading

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JIREL OF JOIRY: STORY SIX

Balladeer’s Blog concludes its examination of the stories of pulp heroine Jirel of Joiry, the Medieval French woman-warrior created by female author C.L. Moore in 1934. For the first story click HERE.

jirel in armorHELLSGARDE (1939) – Sadly, this is the last of C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry adventures, but the character gets to go out on a high note. The handsome but treacherous Guy of Garlot ambushes twenty of Jirel’s soldiers and imprisons them in the dungeons of Castle Garlot.

Guy demands ransom, so Jirel meets with him to negotiate since Castle Garlot is impregnable to assault and sieges as it sits atop a high, steep mountain with underground springs supplying it with endless water. The only payment Guy will accept to free Jirel’s men unharmed is the treasure from the remote and damned castle of Hellsgarde. Continue reading

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2022 COLLEGE BASKETBALL POSTSEASON IS UNDERWAY

Yesterday the 2022 postseason of college basketball tipped off in the divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog. The Frontier Conference Tournament started things off.

Montana state northern lightsDAY ONE: GAME ONE – The 4 seeds – the MONTANA STATE-NORTHERN LIGHTS – took on the 5th seeded ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE BATTLIN’ BEARS.

By Halftime the Lights held a 37-32 advantage. After the break they put up another 37 points to the 35 scored by the Battlin’ Bears for a 74-67 victory. Mascio McCadney led Montana State-Northern with 18 points. Continue reading

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DEMOCRATS VS THE REST OF US: FEBRUARY 22nd

democrat failures coming home to roostTwenty-first Century Democrats are not liberals and they’re not progressives. They are illiberal and regressive, which is why so many of us have left that political party to become Independent Voters. Just as America’s Democrats cheer on Justin “Blackface” Trudeau’s fascist tactics against the populist movement of Canadian Truckers they support the fascist treatment of the populist January 6th protestors. (People who think that was an “insurrection” need professional help and a history lesson.)

freedom trucker protest bitBy the way, JOE BIDEN STILL HAS MORE KIDS IN CAGES THAN EITHER TRUMP OR OBAMA HAD. But as we all know, Democrats never really cared about those kids, they just used them as a political stick.

JOE BIDEN’S INFLATION STILL DRIVING RENTS SKY-HIGH. The Biden Regime’s war on the poor and the working class continues.

BIDEN’S POLICIES DRIVING BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS HIGHER AND HIGHER. Under his predecessor’s policies black unemployment was at a record low. 

Nancy Pelosi demagoguePRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI PLOTS AUTHORITARIAN MEASURES AGAINST POTENTIAL AMERICAN TRUCKER CONVOY. Democrat fascism continues.

DEMOCRATS IN VERMONT FOLLOW NEW YORK’S LEAD IN OPENING UP VOTING TO FOREIGN NATIONALS. Coming soon to a location near you if Democrats get their way. 

DEMOCRAT BAIL POLICY IN CALIFORNIA: MAN ARRESTED THREE TIMES IN EIGHTEEN HOURS AFTER BEING RELEASED ON BAIL TWO OF THOSE TIMES IN A ROW.

HEROIC RESISTANCE TO THE BIDEN REGIME VIA PUBLIC “F*CK JOE BIDEN” MEME CONTINUES. Courageous dissent will always find a way. 

THE DEMOCRATS AT THE WASHINGTON POST CALL INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM “A KEY COMPONENT OF WHITE SUPREMACY.” More HERE. Absurd. Continue reading

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