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NUMBER THREE GETS TAKEN DOWN – The 6th seeded MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS welcomed the Number 3 team in the nation – the DOANE COLLEGE TIGERS. The Mustangs are still boiling from their undeserved drop in the rankings a few weeks ago and took their anger out on the Tigers in a SIXTY-NINE to SEVEN blowout.
NUMBER EIGHT FALLS AT HOME – The Number 18 HARDING UNIVERSITY BISON traveled to take on the 8th ranked HENDERSON STATE REDDIES yesterday. To the shock of the entire country the Bison proceeded to dismember the Reddies on their own field, manhandling them to the tune of 35-3. Continue reading
DR CALIGARI (1989) – “The Cabaret of Dr Caligari” might make a more fitting title for Stephen Sayadian’s genre-bending Dr Caligari. Long before Dandy Dust there was this fun movie which was sort of a hybrid of Eraserhead and The Rocky Horror Picture Show with sprinklings of Liquid Sky and Repo Man. Nightmarish visuals and deranged sexuality abound. 
This movie, which is full of absurdly horrific imagery and horrifically absurd imagery is simultaneously a celebration of AND a parody of art films and silent movies – especially of the German Expressionist variety. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari kicked off that cinematic style in 1919 and we’re told that the title character of this 1989 product is the great granddaughter of THAT Dr Caligari. 
The heroic stands by these two extraordinary women have been largely ignored by America’s gutless Political Correctness fascists who crawl for Islam . Those enablers cravenly try to pretend that all Muslim women LOVE wearing degrading body-bags. If Nazi and Carla were calling for the 64 chess players to surrender their dignity and WEAR the hijabs you can bet they’d have been canonized on The View multiple times by now. 
Gaston Leroux – the author of The Phantom of the Opera – wrote The Machine to Kill in NINETEEN TWENTY-FOUR. Many book sites list it as 1935, but that was just the year it was finally translated into English. It has also been published in English under the titles The Bloody Puppet and The Gory Puppet.
My disgust with American Liberals and Conservatives is no secret by this point. Like so many of us I used to identify as a Liberal until they became as intolerant of free speech and opposing viewpoints as the worst Christian Conservatives had ever been. 
Welcome back to Balladeer’s Blog’s month-long celebration of Halloween!
In the deluded minds of American Liberals they are taking on mobs of ignorant people who just don’t understand that not all Muslims use violence. Ironically, the only Muslims who benefit from this refusal to openly discuss Muslim fascism are the violent, reactionary types who perpetuate misogny, homophobia and all of Islam’s other examples of intolerance and savage superstition. (Killing people for drawing pictures? Really?) 
Balladeer’s Blog’s month-long celebration of Halloween continues with this look at a variety of forgotten or neglected horror legends from American lore. 
THE CORPSE-SMITH OF CONNECTICUT – Also called the Cadaver Master and the Carrion Engineer this mad scientist of Eastern European descent was the cause of the many vanished graveyards from Connecticut’s past. The Corpse-Smith scandalized 1770s America with his brilliant but macabre uses for every single resource he could possibly harvest from the bodies of the recently deceased.
DOWN GOES NUMBER SIX – The 12th ranked BUTTE COLLEGE ROADRUNNERS, where Aaron Rodgers got his start, were on the road against the number 6 CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO RAMS. The Roadrunners were looking for redemption after losing at home the week before and seized a 16-0 lead in the 1st Quarter. Butte College never looked back from there, spanking the Rams by a final score of FORTY-FOUR to SEVEN! 
Wikileaks has been doing the job that “journalists” stopped doing long ago (except for Sharyl Attkisson) and the outfit has shone light on many crucial stories that would otherwise be ignored by the corporate media.
