Balladeer’s Blog’s Give Them A Shoutout Before They’re Dead returns with this nod to this song by Garbage.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER: AMERICA’S GREATEST FLYING ACE OF WORLD WAR ONE
Balladeer’s Blog had proceeded from the assumption that most readers were familiar with flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker but comments and emails indicate otherwise. Here’s a look at him as we lead up to another November 11th, now called Veterans Day but formerly known as Armistice Day since November 11th, 1918 marked the end of World War One.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER – “Fast Eddie” Rickenbacker was first known as a race-car driver who competed in four Indianapolis 500’s before the U.S. entered World War One. Upon America’s entry into the conflict Rickenbacker enlisted in the Army and was in France with his unit by late June 1917.
Fast Eddie’s mechanical abilities – honed working with engines during his racing days – kept him grounded as a mechanic for several months. During that period Rickenbacker learned to fly in nearly every spare moment. Eventually he got his wings and took to the air with America’s legendary Hat in the Ring Squadron (the 94th Aero Squadron).
Eddie made Ace – five confirmed kills – with less than a full month between his first kill and his fifth. Lieutenant – eventually Captain – Rickenbacker scored his sixth verified kill on May 30th, 1918 before getting an ear infection which kept him out of the air for a few months. Many more kills lay ahead of him. Continue reading
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CHE GUEVARA AND GUY FAWKES
Yes, it’s once again Guy Fawkes Day, the day Balladeer’s Blog celebrates figures who became symbols of the exact opposite things they represented in their actual lives!
Guy Fawkes was a religious fanatic whose face became a symbol of resistance against a fictional theocratic dicatorship thanks to a comic book. Che Guevara was a murderous, homophobic, racist would-be dictator depicted as a symbol of youthful rebellion thanks to the spiteful cluelessness of Left-Wing Archie Bunkers.
Thank the forever-childish 1960s generation for elevating such a repulsive and barely human creature to such heights. Even at HUFFINGTON POST the truth about blood-soaked animal Che has been written. Click HERE
Here are some actual quotes from hatemonger Che:
“Go ahead and try them tomorrow morning — but execute them NOW!”
“Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood.”
“We don’t need proof to execute a man. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.” (Note from Balladeer: Gee, I thought the poseurs and buffoons of the American Left said they’re AGAINST “hate.”)
“What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims.”
Read more of this animal’s own words and you will see what a callous, unfeeling political fanatic this hate-filled scumbag was. He never wanted to overthrow dictatorships to help “the people”, he just wanted to overthrow them to install dictatorships more to his liking.
In other words dictatorships that would let that bloodthirsty maniac kill as many people as he wanted. Che Guevara was a waste of biomass and was the exact opposite of what delusional and uninformed fools consider him to have been. Continue reading
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DEMOCRAT CRIME FAMILY: DONNA BRAZILLE’S BOOK TELLS ALL ABOUT HILLARY AND DNC CORRUPTION
Here at Balladeer’s Blog I am still having the time of my life watching all of the white collar criminals called Democrats and Republicans rolling on each other. The latest is former DNC Consigliere Donna Brazille, the ABC “News Woman” (LMFAO) who admitted to feeding Hillary Clinton advance questions going into the televised debates last year.
Donna succeeded Hillary Clinton stooge Deborah Wasserman-Schultz as Consigliere and she has her own book out now about Clinton and DNC corruption. It will come as no surprise to my fellow aficionados of American “tell-all” books about political corruption that Brazille’s work is the typically self-serving wallow.
Donna insists she was “Shocked! Shocked I tell you” – as Louis in Casablanca would say – at how thoroughly Hillary had corrupted the Democrat National Committee. Wide-eyed Ms Brazille lays out a lot of details on how Obama and Hillary put the DNC so heavily in debt AND how Hillary and her underlings used the DNC apparatus to rob Bernie Sanders of the Democrat Presidential Nomination last year. Continue reading
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SEVEN AMERICAN ACES OF WORLD WAR ONE
Eugene Bullard
For another Veterans Day post I’ll do another shoutout to the Flying Aces of World War One. The movie Flyboys is a good fictional film about their mystique (but based on the real-life Lafayette Escadrille).
EUGENE BULLARD – This African-American boxer from Columbus, GA served in the French Foreign Legion as early as the Battle of Verdun in 1916 and had already won a Croix de Guerre before joining the legendary Lafayette Escadrille on a bet.(!) He qualified but the prejudiced Frenchman Dr Edmund Le Gros rejected him for service.
Bullard instead flew a Spad 7 with French Escadrille 93. Eugene still had an uphill fight against prejudice and the French supposedly failed to credit him with all of his kills, limiting him to just 2 in the official records but tradition credits Bullard with between 5 and 9. He had what may be the best nickname outside of the Red Baron and was called the Black Swallow of Death. On the side of his plane he painted the words “ALL blood runs red” in reference to the bigotry he had faced.
THE IACCACI BROTHERS – In the 1960s young American men would head to Canada to avoid serving in the Vietnam War. During World War One a number of young American men headed to Canada to serve in British Military Units because the U.S. had not yet entered the conflict.
Two of those men were Paul T Iaccaci and his younger brother August. The brothers served in the 20th British Squadron flying Bristol F.2 Fighters.
Both brothers were Ivy League men – Paul at Harvard, August at Princeton. Both Iaccaci’s became Aces on the exact same day – May 31st, 1918. Paul ended the war with 17 kills and his brother August … kept the uncanny coincidences going with 17 kills of his own. In late October of 1918 August was wounded in the eye and spent the few remaining days of the war hospitalized in England. Continue reading
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MADAGASCAR: GODS OF THE BETSIMISARAKA
Previously Balladeer’s Blog examined the gods and goddesses of the Merina people of Madagascar. This time around I’ll move on to the Betsimisaraka people, the second most populous group in that island nation.
Instead of my usual list of entries on each individual deity in a pantheon this time around I will experiment with taking the myths in order, from creation onward. Let me know if you prefer that I go back to the usual method of individual entries.
I. CREATION – Zanahary, the sky god and supreme deity of the Betsimisaraka, wanted companionship in his heavenly realm, so he created his son Razanajanahary. The two got along famously but after a time the son lost his sense of contentment and wanted to explore lower realms.
The father encouraged Razanajanahary to indulge his wanderlust. When the son tried, he found that there was no place for him to stand in the realm far below. He told Zanahary about this situation, and the father resolved to take action. Continue reading
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EVERYTHING ZEN: MUSICAL SHOUTOUT
Balladeer’s Blog’s feature “Give Them A Shoutout Before They’re Dead” strikes again! This time around “there’s no sex in your violence” as we listen to Everything Zen from Bush. As in the musical act, NOT the family of bloated rich pigs.
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MUSLIM FASCIST ATROCITY ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER 1st
The Muslim Fascist attack in New York served as another reminder of what our unresponsive Political Caste continues inflicting on all of us. They’ll probably call for even MORE unvetted Muslim immigration after this.
Here at Balladeer’s Blog I devote a lot of space to those courageous Muslims who take on both the fanatics in their own faith AND the condescending white Westerners who think that ONLY Muslims who hate the Western World are “authentic.”
For the flip side of that here’s another look at JUST A FEW recent attacks by Muslim fascists empowered by Democrats in the U.S. and by Labour in the U.K. and by “educators” (LMAO) everywhere.
October 28th: Mogadishu, Somalia – Another reminder that even in majority Muslim nations Muslim fascists will always go on killing other Muslims who don’t worship in the exact same way that the Muslim fascists want them to. A Muslim fascist suicide bomber killed TWENTY-NINE innocent people and injured over THIRTY more.
October 16th: Nkiedonwhro, Nigeria – Fulani Muslims – the local affiliate of the Global Muslim Fascist Murder Machine – massacred TWENTY-NINE innocent people and injured 3 more for being Christian instead of Muslim. Coexistence!
October 29th: Gouderi, Cameroon – Boko Haram, the local affiliate of the Global Muslim Fascist Murder Machine – killed ELEVEN innocent people.
October 31st: New York City, New York – A Muslim fascist who is only in the U.S. through one of the programs President Trump seeks to end used a vehicle to kill EIGHT innocent people and injure over TWELVE more. Democrats vow they will STILL oppose President Trump on stopping this program. No surprise there.
(Whatever happened to Democrats pretending that if something “saves even ONE life it’s worth it”? Not when their fetish for ONLY violent Muslims is concerned.)
October 24th: Sasawa, Nigeria – Jihadists raided the town and killed SIXTEEN innocent people. Continue reading
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HARRY TRUMAN: HIS WORLD WAR ONE SERVICE
Harry Truman in World War One
Veterans Day is approaching so Balladeer’s Blog is presenting another look at World War One since November 11th marks the date that war ended.
HARRY S TRUMAN, CAPTAIN OF BATTERY D – This future Democratic Party Senator, future Vice President and future President is credited with one of my favorite quotes: “There’s nothing new in the world except the history you don’t know.”
That Show-Me State Seneca was in charge of Artillery Battery D, a hard-fighting unit that was often deployed well forward, in the heart of the action. During the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918 Truman’s Battery D provided fire in support of the young George Patton’s tank brigade. “Captain Harry’s” boys engaged German field guns, eliminating and forcing the abandonment of enemy batteries at a noteworthy rate. Continue reading
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HILLARY’S FLUNKY PODESTA FALLS AMID CLINTON’S OWN RUSSIAN SCANDAL
In the spirit of “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha” the irrational buffoons called Democrats (DemCorp) have been whining “Russia, Russia, Russia” ever since America’s de facto Third Party President Donald Trump humiliated Hillary Clinton last November.
Their obsession with alleged knavish activity on the part of the Russians is hysterically hypocritical given Hillary’s absurd “Reset Button” nonsense and Obama’s pathetic message for Medvedev to be relayed to Putin. Remember, Barack wanted Vlad Putin to know he’d “have more flexibility” after the 2012 election to cooperate with Putin.
You know – the same Vlad Putin that Obama, Hillary and the rest of the Democrats have been denouncing as a global menace worse than the Islamic State (Obamastan) and North Korea rolled into one. The Democrats’ paranoia about Russia is such that their new slogan should be: DEMOCRATS: THINK OF US AS JOHN BIRCHERS IN CHE GUEVARA T-SHIRTS!
Funniest of all is how ALL OF THIS HAS BACKFIRED ON CROOKED HILLARY ONCE AGAIN! All of us rational people in the U.S. are laughing like hell at the way Democrat Party media outlets are acting like Manafort is a big deal. Not only was the man Trump’s campaign manager for barely a few months but the charges he’s been indicted for GO BACK BEFORE HE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH TRUMP OR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN!
Meanwhile, Tony Podesta, one of Hillary Clinton’s dirty deeds thugs for what seems like forever, has been forced to step down! And the emerging dirt on the URANIUM ONE deal is making Hillary and her fake charity look even more crooked than before! And I didn’t think that was possible!
To say nothing of the emerging details about Hillary and the Democrats’ role in the National Enquirer-level Steele Dossier aka For More Laughs Only.
### Here’s a man with a HILARIOUS and accurate breakdown of the shoddiness of the anti-Trump propaganda that masquerades as an “intelligence dossier.” The link is below but first some excerpts:
“By “Russian hacking” of the election, they (the Democrats) mean that some Internet trolls from halfway round the world bought a few fake Facebook ads, half of which weren’t seen until after election day. For purposes of comparison, the one hundred grand these trolls spent to “interfere” in the US election works out at less than two per cent of what Hillary paid a high-ranking spy of a foreign power to interfere in the US election …and post-election.
“It started in April 2016, when it became clear that Trump was going to win the Republican nomination. The Hillary campaign and the DNC gave millions of dollars to Marc Elias, a Clinton lawyer, who in turn hired Fusion GPS, who in turn hired former MI6 agent Christopher Steele. Why use Mr Elias as a cutout? Because Hillary and the DNC could then itemize the expense as “legal services” rather than list payments to Mr Steele, which would be in breach of federal law.“
Yep, as always Hillary and the DNC – which had already sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ campaign to assure that Hapless Hillary could pretend she “won” the Democrat nomination – behave like organized crime circles.
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