Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with a mid-week current events roundup. Unhinged Democrats pretend Iran is “a quagmire” but are fine with the Biden-caused war in Ukraine still going since 2022.
APPEALS COURT AGAIN SMACKS DOWN CORRUPT ANTI-TRUMP “JUDGE” BOASBERG FOR HIS ABSURD OVERREACHING. More HERE. And HERE. Boasberg embodies “judges” who use their position as a political weapon.
PRESIDENT TRUMP MARKS HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE WITH HIS UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO FIGHT HATRED. A crucial message in this time of rampant Democrat antisemitism and violence against Jews.
TAX DAY 2026 SERVES AS A REMINDER OF HOW MUCH MONEY TRUMP’S TAX CUTS HAVE SAVED WORKING CLASS FAMILIES. Democrats didn’t want the working class to get those tax cuts.
JOE BIDEN, STILL UNFIT AND ILLEGIT, THINKS ALL BLACK PEOPLE LOOK ALIKE AND SAYS TO BLACK PRESIDENT OF SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY “BARACK, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” More HERE.
DEMOCRAT HATEMONGERS ARE STILL MAKING DEATH THREATS AGAINST WIDOW ERIKA KIRK. Democrats want to kill her like they did her late husband.
BIDEN REGIME EXPOSED FOR RELEASING SHERIDAN GORMAN’S CHARGED KILLER INTO THE U.S. DESPITE KNOWING HE HAD NO VALID CASE FOR ASYLUM. “Illegal immigrants uber alles” is still the Democrat motto.
AND YET ANOTHER PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WANTED FOR MURDER IS LOCATED. “If it saves even one life” isn’t it worth it to enforce immigration laws?
REPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH FOUR MURDERS AND ARSON IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY” NEW YORK AFTER HE SETS FIRE TO AN APARTMENT BUILDING. The dead victims got no “sanctuary” from elected Democrats. Only perpetrators do.
THE TRUMP-HATERS’ BELOVED IRANIAN REGIME SET TO HANG THE FIRST OF ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PUBLIC PROTESTS. Yet privileged white Democrat women love to cosplay in Handmaid’s Tale outfits and pretend they have it worse than these women. Continue reading
MAZEPPA – No relation to Tchaikovsky’s opera Mazeppa, this blog post refers to comedian, artist and actor Gailard Sartain, who got his start playing the wizard Mazeppa (center left) while hosting Tulsa, Oklahoma’s late Saturday night Bad Movie show called The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting. 
In between films came old educational shorts, black & white sci-fi shows, weird cartoons, you name it. It was like a countrified forerunner of Night Flight from later decades. 
And let’s quickly address the nice coincidence of Mazeppa and Busey’s character Teddy Jack Eddy hosting campy rock and roll movies like Don’t Knock the Rock, Untamed Youth or Shake, Rattle and Rock only for Busey to go on to play Buddy Holly and Sartain to play the Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story. 
BORDER PATROL (1959) – Based on actual case files of the United States Border Patrol, this half-hour series ran for 39 episodes and starred Richard Webb of Captain Midnight fame. Webb played Don Jagger, Deputy Chief of the Border Patrol, yet oddly he took part in individual cases. Why not just make him an agent or officer? I guess the creative team felt Deputy Chief sounded cooler. 
As the Argo pulled into Colchis, King Aeetes and his family – including his daughter Medea – observed their arrival. The Royal Family was on hand because of a dream that the goddess Hera had sent to Aeetes regarding foreign forces that would take Medea across the seas. 
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The NORTHERN ESSEX COLLEGE KNIGHTS did battle with the RICHLAND COLLEGE THUNDERDUCKS for the NJCAA3 crown. At Halftime the underdog Thunderducks clung to a 30-28 edge. The Knights came out of the locker room ready for a comeback and ultimately won the game 68-62. Alejandro Delgado led Northern Essex with 16 points. 
FIRST SEMIFINAL – This game pitted the PARKLAND COLLEGE COBRAS against the DANVILLE AREA COLLEGE JAGUARS. The Cobras put Danville Area College on Upset alert at the Half with their authoritative 39-25 lead. From there, Parkland College carried through by toppling the Jaguars 77-66. Twenty-two points from Jaiden Martin led the Cobras. 
THE BAKARIDJAN KONE EPIC – Djeli, the poet-historians of the Bambara people for over 300 years, would often recite, chant and sing this epic myth while playing their stringed instruments called ngoni. 
JUNGLE ACTION Vol 2 #19 (Jan 1976) 
FIRST SEMIFINAL – The RICHLAND COLLEGE THUNDERDUCKS took the court against the NORTH LAKE COLLEGE BLAZERS. The teams went almost basket for basket and by Halftime the Blazers held a mere 31-30 edge. After the break the Thunderducks made their move, storming back to upset North Lake College 67-59. Sixteen points from Dre Rutledge led Richland College and his teammate Andrew Huntley got a Double Double of 15 points and 12 rebounds. 
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