Halloween Month plactan jremm!
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Bih gneq zyzy Babalon Working. Qlett sdo zxxtng twa kwa sdo! Sruohu gzevvro kna lu gzevvro sdo feswaq ts o pa Marjorie Cameron.
Ghui laktim laktoma Jan-Mar 3112 YOLD. Continue reading
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Halloween Month continues here at Balladeer’s Blog with another seasonal song. This time it’s Marilyn Manson’s cover of Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP IS MOZART, THE FASCISTS WHO HATE HIM ARE COLLECTIVELY SALIERE – Since I despise the Democrats and Republicans I have been thoroughly enjoying the way de facto Third Party President Donald Trump has been rocking the crooked boat of Washington, DC.
President Trump – whose wife Melania speaks more languages than both Obamas combined, by the way – has already nominated his SECOND openly gay judge for a Circuit Court position. Patrick Bumatay is his name and ALREADY the screeching mobs called Democrats have played into Trump’s hands. They disgustingly pretended that it’s “foul” for Trump to nominate gay judges since gay people are another group – like black people, the working class and the poor – that Democrat fascists think they OWN. Yeah, that approach will go over well, Democrats.
Trump’s wonderful work with African-Americans and gay people is part of the reason the repulsive George W Bush/ National Review faction of the Republican Party HATE him so much! And anyone hated by George W Bush is automatically worthwhile.
BATTLING BILLIONAIRES – As I’ve often said, if we absolutely HAVE to have a tycoon as President at least let it be a tycoon with a sense of noblesse oblige, like Democrats Franklin Roosevelt and John F Kennedy.
Donald Trump has thus far been in the mold of FDR and JFK. On the other end of the spectrum are oppressive corporate fascists like Mark Zuckerberg, the Koch Brothers, Tom Steyer, Jeff Bezos, the Bush Family … and George Soros.
Alleged human being Soros is LITERALLY a fugitive from assorted criminal charges in various countries for his soulless, conscienceless antics. Think of him as a much more vile version of Republican Richard Nixon’s alleged pal Robert Vesco, the man that the villainous Robert Denby was based on in The Gemini Man/ Riding With Death.
And the slimy Soros really HAS been “as elusive as Robert Denby.” (My fellow bad movie fans will get it.)
FEMALE JOURNALIST ASRA NOMANI HAS THE BEST BREAKDOWN ON GEORGE SOROS – I’ll just use an excerpt from Ms Nomani’s recent article on Soros and his front organizations. NOMANI LAYS THEM OUT LIKE THE GREAT IDA TARBELL NAILING STANDARD OIL LONG AGO!
Here’s the excerpt. The link to the full article is below and the link to her spreadsheets about Soros’ Mafia-style front organizations is in the excerpt itself:
“I am a liberal feminist whose views on abortion and same-sex marriage align with the Democratic Party’s. Yet while most demonstrators are not paid for their efforts, the protests at the Capitol Saturday, and the ones that have included stalking lawmakers inside and outside their offices, are organized by groups of which Mr. Soros is an important patron.
“I started following the money for the “resistance” when it was born, hours after Election Day 2016. I have organized my findings in a spreadsheet I have made public. At least 50 of the largest organizations that participated as “partners” in the Jan. 21, 2017, Women’s March had received grants from Mr. Soros’s Open Society Foundations or similar funds in the “House of Soros,” as his philanthropic empire was once called internally. The number of Soros-backed partners has grown to at least 80. At least 20 of the largest groups that led the Saturday anti-Kavanaugh protests have been Open Society grantees.
“On Saturday I also studied the fine print on the signs as protesters waved them defiantly at the Capitol and the high court. They came from a familiar list of Democratic interest groups that have received millions from Mr. Soros: the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Center for Popular Democracy, Human Rights Campaign and on and on. MoveOn.org, a Democratic organizing and lobbying group founded with Soros money, sent its army of partisan followers regular missives that led them to a Google form to ask for train tickets and places to stay. …
“The agitators even have help with their handmade signs. Across the street from the Supreme Court, a woman uses supplies provided by UltraViolet Action to write, in Spanish: “No more rapists in power.”
“Back on the Capitol lawn, people from Megaphone Strategies, a public-relations firm founded by former Obama adviser Van Jones, manage interview requests from USA Today and other news outlets. Women’s March lieutenants exchange T-shirts for completed “Legal Support Sheets” with information in case of arrest.
“Suddenly everyone stands to walk in unison to the Capitol steps. When they arrive, the few Capitol Police officers on the scene silently watch them. The protesters walk up the stairs – though they don’t “storm” them, as the leaders have claimed. There are no barricades, no phalanx of armed police.
“Rethink Media created a “social media strategy sheet” back in August for anti-Kavanaugh protesters. One talking point: “Kavanaugh was hand-picked by dark money groups and their billionaire backers.” Rethink Media is itself a Soros grantee, and Saturday’s protests and unlawful disruptions were part of a well-funded, orchestrated network that books buses, hotel rooms and churches for such agitation … Continue reading
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HEADLINES
TOPPLING NUMBER FOUR – Yesterday the NAIA’s CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY PHOENIX hosted the number 4 team in the nation – the LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS. The Phoenix put the Blue Raiders on Upset Alert with a 10-7 Halftime lead that became 17-13 to end the 3rd Quarter. In the end Cumberland U made it a happy Senior Day by holding on for a 24-21 triumph.
MARATHON GAME OF THE DAY – Down in NCAA Division Three came Saturday’s longest game. The WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE COLONIALS faced the visiting BRIDGEWATER STATE BEARS and, though trailing 21-14 at the break, came back to force Overtime with a 28-28 tie. The 1st OT ended in a 34-34 deadlock, neither team scored in the 2nd and the 3rd ended at 42-42. In the FOURTH OVERTIME the Colonials won it 50-48.
NUMBER SIX GETS DEEP-SIXED – Back in the NAIA the MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY PIONEERS took it on the road against the country’s 6th ranked EVANGEL UNIVERSITY CRUSADERS. The Pioneers were chasing the Crusaders 19-13 at the Half but in the 4th Quarter they outscored EU 20-7 for a stunning 33-26 Upset victory. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog’s month-long celebration of Halloween continues! There are plenty of Marvel Comics authorities who could give you the story of the in-depth evolution of horror comics in the 1970s, from the relaxing of the Comics Code around 1970 onward. I’ll spare all of us a trip down that particular alley and cut to the chase. Marvel Comics is THE comic book publishing house in pop culture right now with nearly every movie that ever gets made being based on a superhero figure from The House of Ideas.
The 1970s saw Stan Lee and company churn out countless horror comics to cash in on the new flexibility in four-color storytelling. Some were long-lasting successes, like Tomb of Dracula, and others weren’t, like The Frankenstein Monster. When Marvel ventured outside established works by Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley and others they actually produced some very intriguing characters who had more potential than many actual horror films from the 70s. Excluding the overworked Drac and Frank here are five of Marvel’s most intriguing horror figures from that experimental decade.
1. SATANA THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER
Comment: How has this character NOT been the subject of multiple movies by this point? You’d think that Marvel would have learned long ago not to let its strong female horror figures lie unused. For decades Stan and friends let their character Rachel Van Helsing, the young blonde descendant of a long line of vampire slayers go unexploited only to watch potential millions of dollars fly away as Buffymania took hold in the 90s.
Satana Hellstrom was the half-sister of Damian Hellstrom, Marvel’s Son of Satan character. Like Damian she was the offspring of Satan and a mortal woman. Unlike Damian, who went goody-goody to spite his infernal father, Satana was a loyal Daddy’s Girl who was happy to try to spread her father’s ways in the human world.
When she wasn’t battling her half-brother or serving as the Earthly object of worship for a Satanic Cult or facing down covens of demons conspiring to overthrow her father’s rule of Hell Satana was a very successful succubus, and it’s easy to see why.
Even the more “adult” black and white horror comics of the 1970s couldn’t show what a succubus REALLY does, so Satana set about harvesting souls by simply kissing her victims, despite occassional dialogue panels indicating that something a little more … involved … might be going on. Mortal souls would emerge as black butterflies from the mouths of the dead, shriveled bodies of Satana’s prey and our sultry protagonist would then crush those butterflies between her fingers, proud to send another soul to her father’s domain.
A cinematic Satana could be given full-blown horror treatment and be a female franchise-spawner to compete with Freddy Krueger and the like. Continue reading
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Halloween Month continues here at Balladeer’s Blog.
Paul “Jacinto Molina” Naschy was Spain’s King of Horror decades ago. Many of his films featured his recurring character Waldemar Daninsky, a tormented lycanthrope who was seeking a cure for his curse.
Long ago I reviewed Assignment: Terror (1969), which pitted Waldemar against aliens, a faux Frankenstein Monster, a vampire and a mummy. Here are three more from Naschy:
Dr Jekyll vs The Wolfman (1972), in which a descendant of the original Dr Jekyll uses the family formula to cure Waldemar of lycanthropy. Trouble is he starts turning into a kinky and murderous Mr Hyde on the nights of the full moon. (This is better than being a werewolf?)
There’s even a scene in a disco, for that quintessential 70s touch. (Don’t you hate people who use the word “quintessential”?] Continue reading
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I’ll start with a reminder that it’s just one week til the start of the #WALKAWAY MARCH ON WASHINGTON. Many people from among the millions of former Democrats driven away by the Party’s fascism and intolerance will be there.
With Antifa (really KLAN-tifa) blocking traffic and beating up the elderly in Portland while the Democrat Mayor orders the police to stand down and with Democrats like Nancy Pelosi STILL refusing to denounce the violence (this week she actually referred to the victims of Democrat violence as “collateral damage”) here’s a look at the apparent 2018 Democrat Platform.
*** REMEMBER “WHAT’S GOOD FOR GENERAL MOTORS IS GOOD FOR THE USA? WELL, WE’VE CHANGED THAT TO “WHAT’S GOOD FOR US DEMOCRATS – AND ONLY WHAT’S GOOD FOR US DEMOCRATS – IS GOOD FOR THE USA!”
*** WE DIDN’T GET INTO POLITICS TO LISTEN TO YOU VOTERS, WE DID IT TO GET GRAFT AND BRIBE MONEY.
*** WE DEMOCRATS WOULD RATHER SEE THOUSANDS OF YOU PEASANTS RAPED AND KILLED THAN INCONVENIENCE ONE SINGLE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT!
*** YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES IN THE ARMED FORCES ARE IMPERIALIST SCUM, BUT MURDEROUS HOMOPHOBE CHE GUEVARA WAS A REVOLUTIONARY!
*** IF YOU’RE NOT WITH US, YOU’RE AGAINST US!
*** WE DEMOCRATS STILL OPPOSE VOTER I.D. BECAUSE IT HINDERS OUR PERENNIAL VOTER FRAUD!
*** WE REFUSE TO DENOUNCE OLE MISS PROFESSOR JAMES THOMAS’ SUGGESTION THAT SERVICE PERSONNEL CONTAMINATE THE FOOD OF REPUBLICANS … AND REMEMBER, IF YOUR CHILDREN COMPLAIN HE CAN GIVE THEM BAD GRADES!
*** THE POLICE ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS AND MUST BE HAMSTRUNG AT EVERY TURN!
*** THIS DREADFUL DONALD TRUMP PERSON HAS FILLED THE WORKING CLASS RABBLE WITH THOUGHTS ABOVE THEIR STATION IN LIFE!
*** VOTE FOR US DEMOCRATS OR WE WILL TOTALLY FILE A COMPLAINT ABOUT YOU!
*** WITH THE TECHNOFASCISTS AT GOOGLE, FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ON OUR SIDE WE WILL SILENCE ALL DISSENT!
*** WE DEMOCRATS PLEDGE TO PHYSICALLY ASSAULT ALL OPPOSITION CANDIDATES LIKE WE DID IN MINNESOTA THIS WEEK
*** AFRICAN-AMERICANS NEED REMINDED THAT WE DEMOCRATS OWN THEM JUST LIKE WE DID ON OUR PLANTATIONS! Continue reading
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Halloween Month continues! From The Rocky Horror Picture Show it’s the opening song Science Fiction Double Feature.
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Halloween Month continues as Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at another tale of Gothic Horror which, like The Lost Stradivarius, centers around a violin player.
THE ENSOULED VIOLIN (1880) Written by Helena Blavatsky, aka Madame Blavatsky, famous for the Theosophy Movement and its premier work Isis Unveiled. Later she wrote The Secret Doctrine, another milestone theosophical opus.
This tale of Gothic Horror is set in the 1820s. The main character is a young violin virtuoso named Franz Stenio from Styria in Austria. Though studying the occult arts and alchemy while away at college his central passion had remained music.
Franz’s skill was extraordinary but eventually his widowed mother ran short of money, ending his studies. He left university and moved back home. Franz devoted his every waking moment to his violin and he refused even to go to church with his mother when she begged him.
The youth’s occult studies had filled him with contempt for Christianity and he preferred to think of himself as a pagan. Franz’s mother worried herself sick over the potential fate of her son’s soul and eventually she put such a strain on herself that she died. Some dark whispers hinted that her son had killed her. Continue reading
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Halloween Month continues here at Balladeer’s Blog with my take on the top four (of ten) movies in the Hellraiser franchise.
HELLRAISER (1987) – “Jee-zuz WEPT!” Clive Barker helped translate his novel The Hellbound Heart to the big screen in this film. It’s incredibly rare for a novelist to get to DIRECT a movie version of one of his own works but Barker made the most of it.
Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) has exhausted sexual sensation with women, men, corpses and animals. Seeking new stimulation he solves LeMerchand’s Puzzle Box, a “Rubik’s Cube From Hell” which leaves him at the mercy of the demonic inter-dimensional sadomasochists called the Cenobites of the Order of the Gash.
Suffering unimaginable torments as the M in this S&M relationship, Frank struggles to escape the Cenobites for good, even if it means sacrificing his brother Larry plus Larry’s wife Julia (Clare Higgins) and daughter Kirsty (Ashley Laurence). Continue reading
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