CLINTON CAMPAIGN ACKNOWLEDGES THE DAMAGE OBAMA HAS DONE

OBAMA: High office is about personal gain, not caring about the working class!

OBAMA: High office is about personal gain, not caring about the working class!

The Hillary Clinton campaign has acknowledged the damage Barack Obama’s policies have done to the middle class and promised that a Hillary presidency would be about restoring that beleaguered middle class.

Uh. Yeah. Until two minutes after the election, at which point the Democratic Party will return to its never-ending attacks on the middle class as a bunch of “haters”, “racists” and “Islamophobes.”  

Why would any person who works for a living vote for either the Democrats or Republicans?    Continue reading →

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COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: CUMBERLAND U’s NEW NAME

CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY PHOENIX

Cumberland University Phoenix logo

Location: Lebanon, TN

Division: NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics)

Conference Affiliation: Mid-South Conference

Comment: GOOD FOR CUMBERLAND U! Balladeer’s Blog frequently points out the enormous number of college sports teams who go by the overused names Eagles, Tigers, Bulldogs and Wildcats. Cumberland just changed their team names from the Bulldogs to the Phoenix and unveiled their terrific new logo as well! Continue reading →

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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES

"I resolve to make YOUR take-home pay shrink to the point that you have trouble making ends meet."

“I resolve to make YOUR take-home pay shrink to the point that you have trouble making ends meet.”

Balladeer’s Blog is the only site on the web that equally criticizes American Liberals and Conservatives. Here’s my list of recommended New Year’s resolutions for those two groups.

* LIBERALS *

* Stop being such hilariously pretentious asses and such cowardly hypocrites.

* Grow a backbone and begin criticizing Islam’s homophobia and misogny as much as they criticize Christianity for those same faults.

* Acknowledge the genuine pain and financial hardship that Barack Obama’s policies have caused and stop callously denigrating the victims of his heartlessness when they speak out.

* Try to remember a time when they were capable of spontaneous human emotions without distorting them through the prism of their bizarre political prejudices.

* Read some history books so they can learn that most other countries have been guilty of AT LEAST as much repulsive behavior as the Western Democracies have.

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JACK THE RIPPER GOES WEST (1974)

Jack the Ripper Goes WestJACK THE RIPPER GOES WEST (1974) – This hilariously lame horror western was also released under the titles Silent Sentence, A Knife in the Dark and A Knife for the Ladies.

Jack the Ripper Goes West is a horror western that plays like a failed pilot episode for a television series given its mere 51 minute running time. When a rash of Jack the Ripper style murders afflict the western town of Mescal their old-fashioned Sheriff Jarrod (Jack Elam) is aggravated to find himself forced to work with an out of town private detective named Burns (Jeff Cooper). 

If this was indeed once planned as a tv pilot (and the incredibly fake-looking buildings in the town might support that notion) the premise was apparently going to be the clash of old vs new methods of investigating crimes. Elam’s sheriff is an old-fashioned hip-shooting, hard-drinking, saloon-brawling man of the past. Cooper’s private investigator is a sophisticated big city criminologist intent on using modern methodology.   Continue reading →

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EDISON’S CONQUEST OF MARS (1898): PART NINE

Edison's Conquest of Mars 8Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of Garrett P Serviss’ odd sequel to Fighters From Mars, his blatant imitation of War of the Worlds.

PART NINE

As the black chemical cloud succeeded in hiding the entire surface of Mars from the Earth fleet’s view the men on board the spaceships began choking and suffocating as the strange fumes somehow slipped through microscopic pores on the hulls. 

Thomas Edison ordered the fleet to pull far enough away from the Red Planet that they would all be safe from the chemical smoke, which was limited to the Martian atmosphere. While the various commanders tried to plot a new attack strategy it was discovered that most of the food supplies on each of the Earth ships had been destroyed by leaks.

The fleet only had enough provisions left for 10 days, which was not even long enough for the return trip to Earth. The Terran forces now had no choice: they must somehow acquire food and water from the planet below or die. Continue reading →

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2016 IS MUSLIM VIOLENCE AWARENESS YEAR

The sign says it all.

The sign says it all.

Muslim violence and savage superstitions have been retarding the rest of the world’s social progress for centuries. 2016 has been designated as the year to raise awareness about Islam’s violent misogyny, homophobia and overall intolerance.

Islam hates human freedom. Period. And Islam’s Kapos in the “academic” and political world are happy to run interference for Islam in the hope that they’ll be killed last. Those hypocritical cowards gutlessly ignore the Muslim world’s own colonial crimes while relentlessly castigating the Western World.  Continue reading →

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NAIA FOOTBALL CHAMPS BEAT THE NCAA FOOTBALL CHAMPS AGAIN

Marian Knights helmet newBalladeer’s Bowl results are in, and for the sixth year in a row the NAIA football champions – in this case the MARIAN UNIVERSITY KNIGHTS – defeated the NCAA D3 champions – the UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION PURPLE RAIDERS.  Continue reading →

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New YearHAPPY NEW YEAR! As a light-hearted start here’s a look at events that happened on New Year’s Day in the past.

1935 – The very first Orange Bowl pitted Bucknell University against the University of Miami. Bucknell won 26-0. Meanwhile the first Sugar Bowl saw Tulane defeat Temple 20-14.

1915 – With World War One raging a German U-Boat struck in the English Channel, sinking the ship the Formidable and killing 547 people. Continue reading →

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HOUSTON MUSLIM CHARGED WITH MOSQUE FIRE

The Muslim man charged with setting the mosque on fire.

The Muslim man charged with setting the mosque on fire.

Despite the media’s incessant, sniveling  warnings about alleged Islamophobia they never have any specific examples. The ghoulish newsreaders were licking their chops with glee at the thought that maybe a Christian or a Jew had set fire to a Houston mosque on Christmas Day.

Once again the media was left saying “D’OH!” as security camera footage from nearby businesses led to the arrest of Gary Nathaniel Moore – a Muslim who regularly attended the mosque. Moore reportedly prayed there up to five times a day for years.

Was he trying to fake an “anti-Muslim hate crime” the same way people try to fake Bigfoot or UFO footage? Continue reading →

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TERROR TRAIN (1980) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT

Terror Train

Terror Train: A New Year’s Eve Horror Film

Before MST3K there was … The Texas 27 Film Vault!

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this neglected cult show from the mid-1980s. 

EPISODE ORIGINALLY BROADCAST: Saturday December 27th, 1986 from 10:30pm to 1:00am.

EXTRAS: Randy Clower and Richard Malmos, as machine-gun toting Film Vault Technicians First Class and members of the fictional Film Vault Corps (“the few, the proud, the sarcastic”) had two and a half hours to work with each week. Interviews with figures like Vincent Price, Forry Ackerman and others were featured and the movies being shown and mocked were often preceded by episodes of old Republic serials like Radar Men from the Moon and others. 

This episode featured Randy and Richard’s interview with Ben Johnson, whom they had interviewed at his ranch earlier in the year. Johnson also appeared in the episode’s film, Terror Train.

Mysterious Doctor SatanSERIAL: For this episode the movie was preceded by a chapter of  Mysterious Doctor Satan. 

HOST SEGMENTS: The most memorable Host Segment  Randy and Richard did during this New Year’s-themed horror film was a bit where, as Midnight Dallas Time approached, they staged a countdown and then a raucous celebration of the arrival of … December 28th, 1986. Ken “Tex” Miller, Joe “The Hypnotic Eye” Riley and other Film Vault Corps members joined in the festivities in a great example of the wry humor of this pre-MST3K program.  

TERROR TRAIN (1980) – A New Year’s Eve slasher film set on a Continue reading →

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