Kimberly Klacik has joined so many other voters of color to expose Democrat policies and the devastating effect they have on the working class and the poor. The Democrats aka Fascists aka The Political Mafia aka House Harkonnen long ago switched to just paying lip service to working class and poor people. Klacic also looks at the insanity of Democrat attempts to defund the police, like they’ve done in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland and Austin.
KIMBERLY KLACIK, MARTIN LUTHER KING PERSON OF COURAGE, EXPOSES DEMOCRAT FAILURES
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PULP HERO G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES: STORIES NINETEEN THROUGH TWENTY-ONE
*** SOME READERS HAVE ASKED ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PULP MAGAZINES AND COMIC BOOKS. Pulp magazines were WRITTEN material with a few accompanying illustrations. Comic Books were picture stories told via sequential art. ***
Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of the neglected Pulp Hero G-8. This continues a story-by- story look at the adventures of this World War One American fighter pilot who – along with his two wingmen the Battle Aces – took on various supernatural and super- scientific menaces thrown at the Allied Powers by the Central Powers of Germany, Austria- Hungary and the Ottoman Muslim Turks.
G-8 was created by Robert J Hogan in 1933 when World War One was still being called simply the World War or the Great War. Over the next eleven years Hogan wrote 110 stories featuring the adventures of G-8, the street-smart pug Nippy Weston and the brawny giant Bull Martin. The regular cast was rounded out by our hero’s archenemy Doktor Krueger, by Battle, G-8’s British manservant and by our hero’s girlfriend R-1: an American nurse/ spy whose real name, like G-8’s, was never revealed.
19. THE CAVEMAN PATROL (April 1935) – Previously in G-8’s adventures the Central Powers formed an alliance with Martians to try to win the war. This time around those same powers form an alliance with a subterranean race of pointy- eared cavemen still living the same way they did in the distant past. Well, except for the fact that they’ve evolved enough to use crossbows.
This squadron of cavemen are victorious on the ground and even in the air as the ancient troglodytes calmly adapt to flying in airplanes … although they still just shoot their crossbows at their foes. G-8, Nippy and Bull try to rally their comrades-in- arms against this bizarre menace before the Central Powers gain the upper hand once and for all. Continue reading
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MALDOROR 8: AN INSATIABLE THIRST FOR THE INFINITE
Balladeer’s Blog continues its poem by poem examination of the 1868 French language work The Songs of Maldoror by Isidore Ducasse, the self-titled Count de Lautreamont.
AN INSATIABLE THIRST FOR THE INFINITE
This section begins with Maldoror wandering through the darkness of the night, at times nostalgically recalling the terror and dread with which he used to regard the sounds and distant impressions of the overnight hours. But that was when he was merely a human child and his mother would try to calm him as he huddled beneath his blankets listening fearfully to the savage or vaguely sinister sounds made by the beasts who roam the night.
She would explain away the horror of the distant noises by assuring him that the beasts meant no harm, but were instead filled with an insatiable thirst for the infinite, the same thirst she sensed in the son she was trying to comfort.
Now, fully grown and more than human, Maldoror prowls the night as one of the beasts making noises that terrify others in their beds. Supreme in his element our narrator blissfully describes some of the nightly tableaus that catch his attention. Continue reading
Filed under Halloween Season, Maldoror
MARTIN LUTHER KING PEOPLE OF COURAGE TAKE DOWN JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS
CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY LEO TERRELL STATED JOE “BIDEN HAS THE MIND-SET OF A PLANTATION OWNER.” And much more.
Joe Biden’s history of draconian and dictatorial policies toward African-Americans has gotten a lot of attention.
Joe often pursued those policies alongside Hillary Clinton, who is remembered for referring to African-American males as “super-predators.”
Biden, who often seems senile or demented, tried addressing his ugly history on racial issues with his running mate selection. As we all know, he went with the scandal-plagued Kamala Harris, with even some Democrat pundits calling her selection “The best day of the Trump Campaign.” (Yes, she’s that bad.)
AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVERY (ADOS) has specifically stated “She ain’t us.” (Readers may remember Kamala Harris’ history of exploiting color for political gain then turning her back right after election day. Plus her own ancestors owned slaves, something the Biden Campaign is trying to ignore.) Click HERE
THE HODGE TWINS have even gone so far as to say that “Black people hate Kamala Harris.”
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
THE 2020 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON KICKS OFF THURSDAY NIGHT
… At least it does in some of the divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog! There are two games on the slate for Thursday night plus 4 more set for Saturday. Here are the matchups for this Thursday and Saturday –
THURSDAY
The DODGE CITY COLLEGE CONQUISTADORS, out of the 
Jayhawk Conference, welcome the TRINITY VALLEY COLLEGE CARDINALS, from the Western States Football League. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:00PM Central Time.
Another Jayhawk Conference team, the COFFEYVILLE 
COLLEGE RED RAVENS, take it on the road against the ELLSWORTH COLLEGE PANTHERS, out of the Iowa Collegiate Conference. This game also kicks off at 7:00PM Central Time.
SATURDAY
The VERMILION COLLEGE IRONMEN travel to face the 
MINNESOTA STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SPARTANS in a gridiron grudge match between two teams from the Minnesota College Athletic Conference. The game is set to kick off at 3:00PM Central Time. Continue reading
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THE FIRST TWENTY IRON MAN STORIES FROM THE 1960s
Balladeer’s Blog continues its Top Twenty Lists for 2020 while simultaneously providing another item for this superhero-hungry world. It’s the first 20 Iron Man stories, beginning in 1963.
TALES OF SUSPENSE Vol 1 #39 (March 1963)
Title: Iron Man Is Born
Villains: Wong Chu and his Red Guerillas
Synopsis: Tony Stark is living the dream. He’s a multi-millionaire, women consider him very handsome and he has all the inventive genius of a new Thomas Edison but without the litigiousness. He has multiplied the fortune he inherited from his parents many times over through the value of his tech and weapons creations instead of through the ruthless big business savvy shown by his late father.
After Tony demonstrates his latest inventions for the Defense Department to an audience of Generals he is flown to Vietnam to watch his devices in action in the field. This will help him refine them for the front-line troops.
While accompanying a squad of soldiers through the jungle, Stark accidentally triggers a Viet Cong booby trap and the subsequent explosion kills his soldier escorts. Tony himself is left with a piece of shrapnel lodged dangerously near his heart and inching closer by the day.
Wong Chu, the North Vietnamese Warlord, is holding the injured millionaire captive in the village he rules with an iron fist. Wong Chu knows that Tony Stark has only days to live but lies to him and tells him he will set him free if he devises a high-tech weapon for him and his VC forces. Continue reading
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CHINESE MYTHOLOGY: YI THE DIVINE ARCHER
BALLADEER’S BLOG’S TENTH YEAR OF BLOGGING CONTINUES …
I.WHAT’S UP WITH YI? – Yi the Divine Archer from Chinese mythology deserves to be remembered in one breath with some of the other great heroes and monster slayers from belief systems around the world. Most people are only familiar with his feat of shooting down multiple suns that appeared in the sky one day, but this article will provide a light- hearted look at all of his fantastic adventures.
Yi is pronounced “Yee” according to some sources, but according to others it’s pronounced “EEE”, so you can insert your own Ned Beatty joke here. Continue reading
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TRUMP AGAIN SAVES THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR FROM DEMOCRAT SABOTAGE
Balladeer’s Blog presents a look at some recent good news as we prepare for the weekend to kick off. Once again Democrats (House Harkonnen) tried to damage the working class and the poor by obstructing de facto Third Party President Donald Trump’s economic measures. Trump outmaneuvered them and signed Executive Orders to extend the federal bonus on Unemployment Benefits and to suspend payroll taxes, adding to the take-home pay of countless employees.
Take-home pay means a lot to the working class but means nothing to most career politicians, who snobbishly look down on the poor and working class. President Trump has done more to help the working class and the poor than any other president of my lifetime. That’s one reason why so many Democrat and Republican office-holders oppose him.
More good news came in the form of the PEACE DEAL between the United Arab Emirates and Israel. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
VITO GESUALDI: MOVIE AND GAME CRITIC EXTRAORDINAIRE
Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog are familiar with my fondness for laughably bad movies. Vito Gesualdi at YT is one of the funniest and most irreverent critics to be found. I would recommend any of his reviews but for newbies I can tell you he does what may be THE funniest takedown of the disastrous Rise of Skywalker.
Because that review is over an hour long here is his much shorter review of the virtually worthless COMPANION BOOK to the Disney Sequel Trilogy. If you like it, you can watch Vito’s Rise of Skywalker review HERE
Filed under Bad and weird movies
KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK (1978) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT
In the middle 1980s/ Way down on Level 31 –
Randy Clower and Richard Malmos of The Texas 27 Film Vault (both lower right) featured in a Movie Host article with Stella from Saturday Night Dead and Elvira.
Before MST3K there was … The Texas 27 Film Vault!
Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this neglected cult show from the mid-1980s.
EPISODE ORIGINALLY BROADCAST: Saturday May ??, 1987 from 10:30pm to 1:00 am. Exact date is still being debated. Any Vaulties with further information please feel free to contact me.
EXTRAS: Every single nanosecond of this film is riff-worthy, so with the usual comedy sketches from the Film Vault Corps (“the few, the proud, the sarcastic”) added on plus commercials there was no time for an episode of a Republic or Columbia serial before the movie this time. Randy and Richard, our machine-gun toting Film Vault Technicians First Class were able to get to the movie quickly. Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies, Movie Hosts
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