BIDEN REGIME CONTINUES ITS WARFARE ON THE REST OF US

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democrat platform hatredIndependent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes to you from the corporate fascist kleptocracy run by the illegitimate Joe Biden, who sics his thuggish, jack-booted FBI (Fuhrer Biden’s Intimidators) on the Regime’s political opposition. Here are some of the latest dispatches following this week’s Banana Republic raid on Mar-A-Lago.

(By the way, one of the reasons I used to be a Democrat was because they USED TO outspokenly criticize the never-ending abuses perpetrated by the fascists at the FBI and CIA. In recent years Democrats decided that if FBI and CIA thuggery helps their party then they’re fine with it.) 

trump is a lot like jfkTRUMP-BACKED CANDIDATES WIN BIG IN THE PRIMARIES FOLLOWING THE FASCIST RAID ON POPULIST LEADER DONALD TRUMP’S HOME. Voters know Gestapo tactics from the Biden Regime when they see them.

BIDEN’S INFLATION CONTINUES TO CRUSH THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR. Consumer prices rose 8.5% in July. More HERE.

TRUMP’S ENDORSED CANDIDATES SO FAR IN THE 2022 PRIMARIES – ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT WINS, JUST FIFTEEN LOSSES. But the Democrats’ media outlets pretended each loss “proved” Trump was losing influence.

biden the fascistDEMOCRATS MOVE TO CUT SENIOR CITIZENS’ PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS. Can people stop pretending this is still the “old” Democrat Party? It’s not. 

BIDEN REGIME MAKES TRUMP A HEROIC MARTYR. More HERE, and HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

BIDEN’S DISASTROUS POLICIES CAUSE BIGGEST RISE IN LABOR COSTS SINCE 1982.

FBI RAID ON TRUMP PUTS DEMOCRACY AT THE PRECIPICE.

THE FBI: AMERICAN STASI. To say the least. Continue reading →

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THE JAMES ALLISON TRILOGY: ROBERT E HOWARD’S NEGLECTED CHARACTER

base x betterJAMES ALLISON – American author Robert E. Howard is, of course, best known for his Big Three pulp heroes – Conan (debut year 1930), Kull (debut year 1929) and Solomon Kane (debut year 1928). Among his many overlooked creations was James Allison, whose trio of short stories serve as a perfect analogy for readers who long for adventures that the modern world denies them.

marchers 2MARCHERS OF VALHALLA – Ironically, this tale which introduces James Allison was never published during Robert E. Howard’s lifetime, even though the two follow-up stories were. We meet James Allison, a man living in early 1930s Texas.

James feels profound disappointment over his mundane existence and the era in which he lives. Most of all, he feels inferior to his brothers, who were slain in the World War, and his father, who was wounded while charging up San Juan Hill with Theodore Roosevelt.

Even if the drab, stifling modern era DID serve up an adventure, Allison feels he is in no condition to pursue it because he has lost one of his legs in a riding accident. One day James limps his way up a hill to take in the scenery when a beautiful (of course) woman approaches him. Continue reading →

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MARS REVEALED (1880) ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION

mars revealedMARS REVEALED (1880) – Written by Henry A. Gaston, this is another work that combines science fiction with religious and spiritual concepts.

The novel’s narrator, while walking in the hills of northern California during springtime, is approached by a Celestial Spirit. The spirit interrogates him about his lack of knowledge regarding the arcane secrets of the other planets in our solar system.

Our narrator expresses a willingness to be tutored in those secrets and the spirit offers to show him any planet of his choice. He selects Mars and the Celestial Spirit flies off with him toward the Red Planet. The voyager is awed by the sight of Earth far below and by the hills and valleys of the moon as they fly past it.

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Approaching Mars, the Earthman sees that the planet has a pink atmosphere and, rather than be all red like it appears from Earth, the Martian surface is red mixed with silver and green. After circling Mars a few times, the Celestial Spirit and the Narrator land atop the highest mountain peak on the planet.

Mountaintops on Mars are covered in snows that have a pink tinge to them because of the pink atmosphere. Trees larger and taller than any on Earth grow far down from the peaks and those trees give off a perfumed scent.  Continue reading →

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AMERICA THE BANANA REPUBLIC: FUHRER BIDEN’S INTIMIDATORS RAID POPULIST DONALD TRUMP’S HOME

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I’ve been sorting through details about tonight’s abomination from the installed, illegitimate Biden Regime. Until we know more, I decided to post this item pointing out how the Biden Regime has thrown away all pretense of legitimacy or legality with this atrocious behavior.

America under the Democrat Party is a banana republic in which elections are fraudulent and popular political opponents of the Regime get attacked by the unquestioning filth who carry out raids like this. Recently, de facto Third Party President Trump had announced a strategy for cleaning up America’s infamous cesspool of corruption that masquerades as a government. (More HERE) Polls indicated that voters preferred Trump to the career criminal installed in the White House via cheat-by-mail and other measures.

trump is a lot like jfkTotalitarian regimes around the world are notorious for oppressive actions like this. Raid the personal and professional areas frequented by popular candidates who pose a threat to the regime, then seek to discredit them via manufactured “evidence.”

Biden and his lackeys have provided all the incentive that is needed to doubt ANY AND ALL ACCUSATIONS they make against President Trump based on items they allegedly find in this perverse raid. Continue reading →

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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN IN TOOMORROW (1970)

Olivia Newton-John has passed away. In memoriam here is my 2020 review of her 1970 film Toomorrow, which went unreleased for several years due to legal battles. 

ToomorrowTOOMORROW (1970) – What is one part Monkees episode, one part Frankie & Annette Beach Movie, one part Help!, one part Donny & Marie in Goin’ Coconuts, one part KISS Meets The Phantom of the Park and one part Beyond the Valley of the Dolls? The answer is Toomorrow, the infamous Don Kirshner/ Val Guest cult movie with a then-unknown Olivia Newton-John in a starring role.

The aim was to launch a new pre-fab pop band like the Monkees, but this time consisting of an Aussie (Newton-John of course), a Brit (Vic Cooper), an African-American (Karl Chambers) and a white American (Benny Thomas).   

Olivia sings and also dances around the guys while they play, Benny plays the guitar, Karl is the drummer and Vic plays the keyboard AND his special invention called a Tonalizer. The band is called Toomorrow because, as Karl observes, they are “Too much! Too-Morrow!”

Toomorrow 2We’re told that Vic’s Tonalizer is what gives Toomorrow its special “sound.” How special is that sound? So special that its unique vibrations can revive the stagnant culture of an alien race that’s facing decay and collapse. It seems the aliens’ own musical output has grown stale because they have long since progressed beyond the troublesome “emotions” and “heart” that Toomorrow’s members pour into their songs. 

Buy this movie for the Sandbaggers or Dalgleish fan in your life, because Roy “Neil Burnside” Marsden co-stars as Alpha, the captain of the aliens’ spaceship. His forever-terse voice is unmistakable despite the – admittedly competent – makeup and prosthetic effects for the ET’s (above right). Continue reading →

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POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: AUGUST 8th

On this 8th day of the 8th month, let’s take another look at some recent political cartoons.

This first one deals with the callous Joe Biden’s word games while the working class and the poor suffer under his policies.

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Up next is this non-cartoon reminder from Australia’s Ross McLean about the way China gets its money’s worth from Joe Biden.   Continue reading →

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BALLADEER’S BLOG’S PRESEASON RANKINGS FOR NAIA FOOTBALL

The 2022 College Football season kicks off on August 25th for the divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog. Here are my preseason rankings for the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics).

Morningside Mustangs*** 1. MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS (Defending National Champions)    ###     2. NORTHWESTERN (IA) COLLEGE RED RAIDERS    ###      3. GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY VIKINGS    ###     4. MARIAN UNIVERSITY KNIGHTS    ###     

Southwestern College Moundbuilders NEW5. SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE MOUNDBUILDERS    ###     6. LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS    ###     7. CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (MI) CARDINALS    ###    8. KEISER UNIVERSITY SEAHAWKS    ###      Continue reading →

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IT, THE LIVING COLOSSUS: MARVEL KAIJU

Okay, this Saturday’s light-hearted, escapist superhero blog post will take a look at Marvel Comics’ neglected figure It, the Living Colossus.

it 1TALES OF SUSPENSE Vol 1 #14 (February 1961)

Title: I Created the Colossus

Villains: The Kigor, an alien

NOTE: It the Living Colossus was created by Stan Lee, his brother Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby

Synopsis: We are introduced to Boris Petrovsky in the Soviet Union. He is a dissident artist whose brother Ivan, a Party official, had Boris canceled for his pro-freedom views. Ivan also had his brother detained for “reeducation” and was forcing him to create a huge statue glorifying the Soviet Union to show that he had abandoned his insurrectionist beliefs.

Defiant to the last, Boris instead used the months-long period to craft a menacing, horrifying face on the mammoth statue to show how he REALLY perceived the communist government. Shortly before Ivan was due to arrive to inspect the finished statue a spaceship crash-landed near Moscow.

living colossusThe sole occupant of the alien vessel was a member of the Kigor race, large crab-like creatures of great intelligence who walked erect. Outnumbered on a hostile planet, the Kigor used its alien technology/ powers to transfer its mind into the enormous statue to try surviving.

Whether via technology or radiation treatments or some other method, the Kigor made the statue capable of movement as though it was a living being who had skin and muscles made of other-worldly stone. It’s a comic book, just go with it.

Ivan Petrovsky arrived to see the statue moving around on its own and called in the military. The statue, soon labeled It, the Living Colossus in languages around the world, fought back against the army, tanks and aircraft. It rampaged through Moscow like a kaiju monster stomping Tokyo. Continue reading →

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BUCKSKIN FRANK: HAPPY FRONTIERADO 2022

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HAPPY FRONTIERADO! The first Friday of every August marks this holiday devoted to the myth of the old west rather than the grinding reality. For some of us the celebration kicks off Thursday night, for others they wait until the actual day of Frontierado to hold their festivities. Enjoy your buffalo steaks, rattlesnake fried rice, corn on the cob, tumbleweed pizza, cactus salad and more today and tonight, and enjoy the leftovers on Saturday and Sunday.

buckskin frankBUCKSKIN FRANK LESLIE – Franklyn Leslie, full name Nashville Franklyn Leslie, was better known as Buckskin Frank. “Nashville” was, he claimed, his actual first name, NOT a nickname.

Buckskin Frank Leslie had no connection to the popular 1800s magazine of that name, but that’s one of the few questions that can be answered about this gunslinger. Which side of the Civil War did he serve on? He claimed both at various times.

Was he pro or anti-Clanton Faction during the gang war in Tombstone, Arizona? He claimed to be a Lone Wolf, and news accounts of the time do feature him in conflict with figures from both sides. He definitely killed Billy Claiborne and MAY have killed Johnny Ringo. Even his own death is shrouded in mystery.

Nashville Franklyn Leslie was born March 18th, 1842 in Texas. Virtually nothing is known about his early life and at different times he claimed to have served on each side of the Civil War. Why he left Texas is not known, either. By some accounts it was because of a family conflict but by others it was to flee a criminal past, possibly under the surname Korrigan or Corrigan.

buckskin frank drawingDocumentation starts to show up regarding Buckskin Frank on July 11th, 1869 when he arrived in San Francisco via the steamship Portland according to the passenger information published by the Daily Alta California.

After working as a bartender in San Francisco and possibly other California cities Leslie worked for Wells Fargo and similar outfits for a few years as a gunslinging guard before becoming an army scout under various commanders including Custer. He dabbled in law enforcement as a Deputy Sheriff and may or may not have met Wild Bill Hickok during the early 1870s, depending on which source you go by. Continue reading →

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NEWS ROUNDUP: AUGUST 4th

democrat republican otherIt’s time for another news roundup here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

THE LATEST ON THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY AND ITS UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN. “No-show jobs” – common to organized crime AND Hunter Biden.

ELECTION FRAUD CONCERNS ARE DELAYING THE U.K. VOTE FOR THEIR NEXT PRIME MINISTER. The repercussions from America’s tainted and corrupt 2020 presidential election continue to be felt around the world.

POLL: SIXTY-TWO PERCENT CALL OUT BIDEN FOR BEING A RECESSION DENIER BY CORRECTLY IDENTIFYING THE ONGOING RECESSION. More HERE. Majority also say that de facto Third Party President Donald Trump handed a surging economy over to the Biden Regime, who proceeded to crash it into the ground.

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE CALLED OUT FOR OMITTING MORE THAN $200,000 FROM THEIR INCOME DISCLOSURE REPORT. Life in Joe Biden’s Corporate Fascist Kleptocracy. 

democrat platform hatredDEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ CALLED OUT FOR HIS FAILURES DURING HIS POLITICAL PARTY’S RIOTS IN 2020.

THIS YEAR TRUMP-ENDORSED CANDIDATES HAVE WON 170 PRIMARY RACES AND LOST ONLY 10. But the Democrats’ media outlets claimed each of the 10 losses were “proof” that Trump no longer has influence.

AND ANOTHER DEMOCRAT OFFICE HOLDER CAUGHT FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES.

BIDEN ADMITS TRUMP WAS RIGHT BY ADDING TO THE BORDER WALL. More HERE. And, needless to say, the Party’s news outlets are fine with it. A wall was only bad if Trump was doing it. Continue reading →

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