Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.
DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS ABSURDLY TRY TO SPIN ANTI-TRUMP NARRATIVE OUT OF THE PRAISE THAT WORLD LEADERS SHOWERED PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH OVER HIS PEACE EFFORTS BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA. Finland’s President Alex Stubb even dissed Joe Biden by emphatically stating “I think in the past two weeks we’ve probably had more progress in ending this war than in the past three and a half years.” More HERE.
ZELENSKY PRESENTS TRUMP WITH A SPECIAL PUTTER GIFTED BY A UKRAINIAN SOLDIER WHO SUFFERED AMPUTATION.
PRESIDENT TRUMP MAKES THE U.K. DROP ITS DEMAND THAT APPLE PROVIDE THE U.K. GOVERNMENT WITH AMERICAN USERS’ ENCRYPTED DATA. Starmer was way out of line for ever trying to get that from Apple.
KAROLINE LEAVITT BRAVELY TORCHES THE IRRATIONAL, OVER THE TOP DEMOCRAT MEDIA LIES ABOUT THE ALASKA SUMMIT BETWEEN TRUMP AND PUTIN. She said it perfectly. More HERE.
CONGRESSMAN BUDDY CARTER STATES “ONLY DONALD TRUMP” COULD MOVE PUTIN AND ZELENSKY TOWARD PEACE. Carter further stated “He (Trump) has done more to negotiate peace in the last eight months than anyone in the history of the world.”
DEMOCRAT MAYOR OF BOSTON AGAIN REFUSES TO COOPERATE WITH ICE. THE DHS RESPONDS.
DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS AUTHORIZES TAXPAYER FUNDS TO PAY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO ATTEND IN-STATE UNIVERSITIES, BUT NOT CITIZENS. Pure spite seems to drive the Democrats’ “Illegal immigrants uber alles” actions these days. Continue reading
KARATE GIRL aka Karateci Kiz (1973) – As fans of Psychotronic movies know, Turkish cinema’s imitations of B-movies from around the world are known for very eccentric acting and for ignoring international copyright laws. 
THE HERO: Space traveling anti-hero Smith was created by the female writer C.L. Moore in the 1930s. Four decades before Han Solo, Northwest Smith was a ruthless swashbuckling smuggler, thief and all-around mercenary. Smith’s less than sterling character made him a refreshing change from the usually wholesome pulp heroes of the time. 
SHAMBLEAU (1933) – While trying to lie low between smuggling runs, Northwest Smith stays in New Chicago, a dangerous Martian hotel with a deadly clientelle. Walking the nighttime streets, he saves an eerily seductive woman from a mob who want her dead for being one of the sinister race called the Shambleau. Can Yarol save Smith from himself as the Shambleau lures him into deeper and madder indulgences? Click 
NJCAA – 1. HUTCHINSON COLLEGE BLUE DRAGONS (Defending National Champions) ### 2. IOWA WESTERN COLLEGE REIVERS ### 3. NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE RANGERS ### 4. GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGE BULLDOGS ###
5. SNOW COLLEGE BADGERS ### 6. COFFEYVILLE COLLEGE RED RAVENS ### 7. EAST CENTRAL COLLEGE WARRIORS ### 8. MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST COLLEGE BULLDOGS ### 
The title Baptae came from the fact that the worshippers of Cotyto would immerse or “baptize” their garments in blue, green or purple dye, an expensive and very ostentatious indulgence for the time period. And yes, Baptae and baptizing are from the same root word, since it originally referred to immersion in any liquid, not just water.
RED NAILS – I always like to emphasize that – despite the way Marvel Comics’ 1970s and 1980s Conan stories kept the character’s name alive and introduced new generations to him – the Cimmerian was not a mere comic book figure. Iconic author Robert E. Howard introduced Conan on the printed page in his 1930s stories featuring the character. 
I. This first installment introduces readers to a blonde female pirate – Valeria of the Red Brotherhood. She is the only female pirate among them and is as notoriously deadly as the others. NOTE: Yes, this is the character that Sandahl Bergman played in the 1982 Conan the Barbarian film. That movie made her a standard thief instead of a pirate and – sadly – gave her the “ghostly return” scene that actually belonged to Conan’s true love Belit (Bay-LEET) from 
THE QUEER SIDE OF THINGS (1890s) – Written by James Frank Sullivan. Straight from the Gay Nineties, it’s a selection of Sullivan’s contributions to the Strand magazine’s short fiction column The Queer Side of Things. 
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