NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST ELEVENTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.

MARLOW ON THE PRIVILEGED WHITE BILLIONAIRE LEFTISTS TRYING TO “BUY OUR DEMOCRACY.

U.K. DEMONSTRATORS AGAINST CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT SAY “IT’S JUST A SHAME WE HAVEN’T GOT A GREAT MAN LIKE MR. TRUMP.” It is indeed.

JIM LOVELL, R.I.P. – THE OVERLOOKED APOLLO MOON MISSIONS.

A REMINDER THAT PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI’S INSIDER TRADING SCANDALS GO BACK SEVERAL YEARS AND DID NOT BEGIN WITH TRUMP MENTIONING THEM RECENTLY. More HERE.  And HERE.

CROUERE POINTS OUT THAT TRUMP HAS MADE MORE PEACE THAN THE U.N. HAS IN RECENT YEARS. Impossible to dispute.

IN HOUSTON ALONE, ICE ARRESTED OVER THREE HUNDRED FIFTY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GANG MEMBERS WHO HAD ALL BEEN ARRESTED SEVERAL TIMES EACH PREVIOUSLY.

REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS ACTED LIKE HAVING TRUMP REVEAL SEVERAL YEARS’ WORTH OF TAX RETURNS WAS VITAL FOR “TRANSPARENCY?” HOW ABOUT CALLING ON PELOSI AND OTHERS FOR THAT SAME TRANSPARENCY? Politicians from both parties should be called on to do that, as I’ve said for years.

POSSIBLE ROLES FOR GINA CARANO NOW THAT DISNEY SETTLED WITH HER. Continue reading

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A.I. YOUTUBE CHANNELS CAN MAKE HILARIOUS SCREW-UPS

I’m far from the first person to be pointing out the absurd mistakes that A.I. can make when basically left on its own. Rather than devote this blog post to some of the potentially catastrophic errors that can be made via A.I. I will instead look at the jaw-dropping blunders made by YT channels that rely entirely on A.I. scripts and narration.

I’ll avoid the mistakes made on True Crime channels given how sad it is when A.I. screws up accounts of real-life murders, rapes and disappearances. Suffice it to say True Crime may well be the topic that most often falls victim to artificial intelligence’s inability to grasp subtleties or even pronounce basic words correctly.

In my experience second place would be held by YT channels that cover entertainment in the form of movie and television reviews of productions from decades ago. Some outstanding examples: Continue reading

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PRESEASON TOP TWENTY FOR NCAA DIVISION TWO COLLEGE FOOTBALL FROM BALLADEER’S BLOG

On August 23rd the divisions of college football covered here kick off. Previously I posted my NAIA preseason rankings, now here’s NCAA Division Two.

1. FERRIS STATE BULLDOGS (Defending National Champions)    ###    2. HARDING UNIVERSITY BISON    ###    3. UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA ARGONAUTS    ###    4. UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA BRONCHOS (their spelling)    ###   

5. COLORADO STATE AT PUEBLO THUNDERWOLVES    ###    6. GRAND VALLEY STATE LAKERS    ###    7. WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY MOUNTAINEERS    ###    8. UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON GOLDEN EAGLES    ###    Continue reading

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AUGUST NINTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

TRUMP THE PEACEMAKER STRIKES AGAIN AS HE OVERSEES A PEACE AGREEMENT TO END THE THIRTY-FIVE YEAR CONFLICT BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN. The nation’s leaders even named the agreement in honor of President Trump – “The Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.” Let’s all enjoy a good laugh over the way the slobbering psychopaths who hate Trump will explode over that!

AND YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT OFFICIAL PLEADS GUILTY TO VOTE FRAUD CHARGES. The battle for election integrity continues.

TRUMP SIGNS EO TO BAN DEBANKING PEOPLE FOR THEIR POLITICAL OPINIONS. A victory for tolerance and freedom of expression. Financial institutions who engaged in this discriminatory behavior deserve contempt.

POPULIST PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S SIX BIGGEST VICTORIES IN HIS FIRST TWO HUNDRED DAYS.

GRANT NAPEAR AT LAST RETURNS TO RADIO AFTER LOSING HIS POSITION TO DEMOCRAT MCCARTHYISM FOR POSTING “ALL LIVES MATTER.”

INVESTIGATION OF DEMOCRAT SENATOR SCHIFF FOR MORTGAGE FRAUD TO BE LED BY ED MARTIN. More HERE.

HELLNER CORRECTS YAHOO FINANCE’S INCORRECT REPORTING ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ECONOMIC POLICIES.

ANDREW CUOMO CALLS ON WEALTHY MAMDANI TO MOVE OUT OF HIS RENT-CONTROLLED APARTMENT SO SOMEONE IN NEED CAN MOVE IN.

MINNESOTA DEMOCRATS AXING THEIR OWN HOUSING PROGRAM OVER ITS ONE HUNDRED FOUR MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD.

CORRUPT AND BIASED ANTI-TRUMP “JUDGE” BOASBERG SMACKED DOWN YET AGAIN BY A HIGHER COURT. More HERE. He’s an insult to the profession. Democrats should stop celebrating his decisions because they’re likely to be overruled. Continue reading

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THE DEFENDERS: AFTER THE EVIL EYE STORY

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at the Defenders tales following the Evil Eye of Avalon story.  

DEFENDERS Vol 1 #12 (February 1974)

Title: The Titan Strikes Back

Villain: Xemnu

Defenders Roster: Dr Strange, Hulk, Valkyrie

Synopsis: We pick up an unknown amount of time after the previous story. Dr Strange gives Valkyrie a mystic sword called Dragonfang to make up for her giving the Ebony Blade back to the Black Knight.

Xemnu is back on Earth, having reassembled his scattered atoms once again. He has taken over the town of Plucketville in the American Midwest. He again plans to repopulate his home planet of Xem at the expense of Earth’s life-forms.

Dr Strange, Hulk and Valkyrie are the only Defenders available who can be rallied to save the world from Xemnu. (I’d have thrown in Clea, too, myself.) Our heroes battle the alien, who is defeated and again seems to be destroyed in the explosion of a spaceship he made the enthralled citizens of Plucketville construct for him. Continue reading

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ICE CUBE’S WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025) THE UNINTENTIONAL COMEDY HIT OF THE YEAR

WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025) – A new chapter has been added to the history of H.G. Wells adaptations. Ice Cube stars in Amazon’s feature-length product placement for itself. In a moment of Cosmic Comedy, Amazon straight-facedly attached the tagline “It’s worse than you think” to this flick.

Yes, obviously that was meant in the sense that the crisis involving invading aliens is worse than you think, but my God you’d have to be an idiot or have the proverbial balls the size of church bells to approve that tagline for your own company’s movie production.

Master thespian Ice Cube stars as a government surveillance operative who abuses his position to violate people’s civil rights all day long while also obsessively spying on his own family members on taxpayer time. AND HE’S OUR SUPPOSED HERO!

Ice Cube Makes Faces should have been this thing’s title, since he does nothing but sit in a chair exercising his facial muscles while spending face time with us and absurdly playing his Big Brother Will Protect You role to the hilt. And lest you fear that this adaptation will be less than faithful to the source material, the filmmakers even included the part where one of H.G. Wells’ characters says “Get your skinny ass over there!”

I now want to see an entire Cinematic Universe of Ice Cube starring in movies made from H.G. Wells stories. I’m sure the Invisible Man’s reaction to his condition would be something like “DAAAMN!” Continue reading

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: GULLIVAR JONES ON MARS (1905) CONCLUSION

GULLIVAR JONES ON MARS aka Lt. Gullivar Jones – His Vacation and various other titles and spellings, was published in 1905 and is one VERY odd piece of work. The author was Edwin L. Arnold, whose ineptitude made this novel very unfulfilling as he defeated his storyline at every turn. Before I get into this third and final part of my review of Gullivar Jones on Mars the links to the first two parts are below:

PART ONE – I examined the low-profile feud between fans of Edwin L. Arnold, who maintain that many elements of this novel “influenced” (to say the least) Edgar Rice Burroughs’ later stories about John Carter of Mars, and Burroughs fans. The parallels are many, and I laid them out while also pulling in Arnold’s novel Phra the Phoenician. Click HERE

PART TWO – I reviewed the first half of Gullivar Jones on Mars, complete with what revisions I would make to correct the way Edwin L. Arnold never failed to sabotage his own work, letting intriguing concepts die on the vine or letting rising tension peter out into lame anticlimax. It’s almost comical how he did that. Click HERE.

GULLIVAR JONES ON MARS: PART THREE OF THREE

MORNING ON THE ISLE OF BEASTS – We pick up the morning after our hero, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Gullivar Jones, survived the night on the Isle of Beasts – my name for the place, since Edwin couldn’t be bothered to provide names for places or characters much of the time. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST SEVENTH

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up another current events roundup.

HILLARY AND BILL CLINTON, COMEY, GARLAND AND MUELLER ORDERED TO TESTIFY IN EPSTEIN PROBE. Maxwell punctures Democrat attempts to drag Trump into this HERE.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN CALLED OUT FOR LIVING IT UP ON TAXPAYER MONEY WHILE THEIR STATE STRUGGLES. Democrats are the “Let them eat cake” party. 

ICE DETAINS FUGITIVE CUBAN REGIME TORTURER WHO WAS ALLOWED IN UNDER BIDEN.

ICE PURSUES CUSTODY OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED FOR CHILD RAPE, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND OTHER CHARGES TO PREVENT DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” STATE MASSACHUSETTS FROM RELEASING THEM. C’mon, Democrats! You KNOW you want to make this guy your new Cause Celebre!

MARLOW DISCUSSES SIX CASES OF THE 2023-2024 LAWFARE AGAINST TRUMP TIED TO JOE BIDEN AND HIS REGIME. Banana Republic tactics, like we stated at the time. 

ILLEGAL CHINESE IMMIGRANT AND ACCOMPLICES CAUGHT SMUGGLING U.S. MICROCHIPS TO CHINA. More HERE. Joe Biden was owned by China but Trump isn’t.

CLAPPER AND OTHER FORMER OBAMA OFFICIALS FACING GRAND JURY PROBE OVER THE RUSSIA HOAX AGAINST TRUMP.

TEXAS LAW REQUIRING VOTER I.D. FOR MAIL-IN VOTING WINS AGAINST THE BIDEN REGIME’S LAWSUIT. Efforts continue to prevent another tainted and corrupt election like 2020.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY STATE” OF NEW JERSEY ARRESTED FOR KILLING A WOMAN AND HER ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR ADAM SCHIFF’S MORTGAGE FRAUD SCANDAL CONTINUES

ANTI-TRUMP DISTRICT JUDGE INVESTIGATED OVER USING AI TO WRITE ONE OF THEIR LEGAL DECISIONS. Massive errors and references to nonexistent case law as well as parties not involved in the case at hand. Continue reading

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MONTCALM COLLEGE: COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAM

Grown bored with college sports teams called Eagles, Tigers, Bulldogs and Wildcats? Here’s another institution whose teams go by a more creative name. 

MONTCALM COLLEGE Continue reading

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REMEMBERING DR. GAD SAAD’S WISE WORDS ABOUT ANTI-TRUMP LUNACY

Truly delusional people continue to prove how little they understand about how our own political system works, given their hysterical, unhinged rantings about President Donald Trump. It’s an appropriate time to remember SANE Trump critic Dr. Gad Saad’s 2017 words about unhinged Democrat panic over things the Donald couldn’t possibly do under our system. 

NOTE: And let’s face it, the 2025 anti-Trump freakouts are even more idiotic than the ones in 2017 because we’ve already had years of privileged white Democrats suffering from their own paranoid fantasies rather than anything actually done by President Trump. No, Democrats, being fearmongered by the way your own Party’s media outlets incessantly push shrill apocalyptic narratives does not count as “oppression.”

Dr. Saad, who experienced REAL personal and political peril in his life, made this observation about the histrionics of pampered American Democrat “academics” – “As somebody who escaped Lebanon and actually hid under desks to avoid death squads, I don’t take well to these idiots from Wellesley College who say, ‘I’m scared to go and buy my hamburgers now that Trump won,’ because it trivializes what true trauma is.

Saad is an authority on Behavioral Science and Evolutionary Psychology as well as the author of a column in Psychology TodayBelow is a link to the entire interview but first some more excerpts from Dr. Saad: 

Everyone who is suffering from collective Munchausen and mass hysteria are obviously of a particular political bent — the ultra-Left (who typically belong to the Democratic party).”  …  “This leads to people thinking absurd lines of thought like — and I’m being satirical here — : “How will I go to the store and feel safe buying tomatoes once Trump is in office?” or “What will happen to my children? Will Trump cause us to cannibalize our children?” “Will sex still be permitted?

When you’re getting into that kind of delusional discourse it seems extraordinary that this is viewed as reasonable discourse. These are professors, these are colleagues of mine who feel perfectly comfortable departing from reality in this way.”   …    “Hate Trump as much as you want. Hate specific policies by him but don’t engage in this grotesque discourse.”   

The problem arises when you have a discourse fully detached from reality. It’s beyond satirical and grotesque in how much stupidity is exhibited. A typical comment on my social feed might state something to the following effect, “I’m a woman of color,” she’s attending some school in Maine and she’s saying, “I’m afraid. Can I still go to class?

It’s more than just mass hysteria — which is a known psychological mechanism.”    …  “So the faux-fear we’re seeing now with all of these, for lack of a better term, schmucks is a form of collective Munchausen. It’s: “Oh my god, we’re going to be gang-raped, the third-reich is coming for us.” Continue reading

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