JANUARY SIXTH-A-PALOOZA: 2025
Here’s the 2025 edition of what will apparently be an annual post for as long as demagogues insist on pretending there was an “insurrection” (LMAO) on January 6th, 2021. Uh. Yeah. No guns, no police officers killed (despite Joe Biden’s absurd claims otherwise) and the Capitol building’s doors were OPENED for the trespassers by the authorities, as shown on film.
And remember, NOTHING THAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY SIXTH COULD HAVE PUT TRUMP BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE! Learn something about how your own government works, anti-Trump fascists! At any rate, here we go again:
BIDEN CALLED THESE RIOTS MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS
The overwrought propaganda of Biden supporters on this date has me laughing VERY hard. They theatrically pretend that the mass trespassing incident of January 6th, 2021 was “worse than the Civil War and the 9-11 attacks.” What disingenuous garbage.
Their monumental and hilarious political hypocrisy is on full display in Washington DC as Democrats engage in political theater while pretending to revere the Capitol Building and its “symbolism.” (LMAO) Before I became an Independent Voter I spent most of my life as a Democrat and believe me, they feel contempt for the Capitol and its “symbolism”, even calling it one of the “institutions of imperialist rule” and “the seat of White Supremacy and systemic racism in America.”
Democrats also despise people who DO revere the Capitol and its symbolism, dismissing them as simple-minded patriotic rednecks.
On January 6th, 2021, a “mostly peaceful protest” (as Democrats described the MONTHS-LONG Antifa riots which terrorized the country) at the Capitol turned into a chaotic mass-trespassing incident with the Democrats of the Capitol Police even killing an unarmed woman. Suddenly, Democrat pretensions that they revered the Capitol poured from the mouths of the demagogues of the Democrat Party.
Hey, let’s rename it “the Demagogue Party”. After all, the Democrat Party is the country’s oldest existing institution which launched a Civil War and fought for slavery, so a name change for that political party is LONG overdue. Okay, so they won’t rename themselves the Demagogue Party, but they should rename it something to distance themselves from the Democrat Party’s horrifically racist past.
Anyway, Democrats felt that their OWN storming of the Capitol was fine back on October 4th, 2018, even though THEY WERE INTERFERING WITH ONE OF THOSE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS WHICH THEY NOW PRETEND SHOULD BE SACROSANCT. Democrats/ the left cheered on that activity. And let’s not forget the way the left literally set off a BOMB in the Capitol on November 7th, 1983. Also HERE. A million dollars (by 1983 standards, so much more today) in damage was done.
Most adults are above the fake tears and the fear-mongering which truly pathetic Democrat members of Congress are indulging in regarding January 6th. The Democrats will probably never lose their competitive edge in phoniness and manufactured emotion, so non-Democrats – as in Independents, Third Party Voters, Republicans and People Who Claim No Political Affiliation, in other words THE REST OF US – will always need to remain highly skeptical of any and all political theater from them.
In May 2020 when the White House was violently attacked for about 24 hours and many secret service agents were seriously injured, Biden and other Democrats said Trump “used tear gas against peaceful protestors” even though it’s been proven that he DIDN’T use tear gas on those “peaceful protestors.” Listen to those Democrat hypocrites today and the draconian measures they now recommend against civil disobedience!.
The night of May 31st, 2020 rioters set fires all over the capital of the United States. A mob of them gathered outside the White House and threatened to storm it. The president was said to have been moved to a bunker. Many Democrats laughed at him and supported the mob. Never mind that the safety of the president, as a symbol of America and self-governance, goes beyond individual or party and should never be a laughing matter, like Democrats are now sniveling about the Capitol.
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Who knows? Someday the January 6th protestors may be looked on as the victims of governmental authoritarianism, like the Bonus Marchers of long ago. Nobody knows how events will be viewed decades and centuries from now, no matter how much Democrats pretend that they do with their ridiculous “right side of history” nonsense.
SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROCK (1956)
SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROCK! (1956) – Rocksploitation at its campiest! In this hilariously bad movie Rock and Roll music is blamed for the Juvenile Delinquency epidemic of the 1950s.
Not only does one particularly irrational city ban rock music completely but it puts the local rock DJ ON TRIAL for playing rock and roll records! Continue reading
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BALLADEER’S BLOG: COLLEGE BASKETBALL RESULTS FROM JAN FOURTH
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PROUDLY PREVAILING POMEROYS – The ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE POMEROYS hosted the INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST GRENADIERS. By Halftime the Pomeroys had so completely dominated IUS that they held a comfortable 39-20 lead. After the break, SMWC kept the Grenadiers at arm’s length for a 69-58 victory. Greg Jenkins led the Pomeroys with 23 points and his teammate Shon Tupuola had a Double Double of 15 points and 18 rebounds.
STORM FRONT – The UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE RED STORM took it on the road against the SHAWNEE STATE BEARS. Another lopsided game was in store here as the Red Storm were on top of their opponents 44-29 at the Half. From there they got more separation from Shawnee State to win out by a final score of 93-72. Twenty-three points from Eric Butler led URG. Continue reading
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DC SUPERHEROES OF THE SIXTIES TO EIGHTIES
This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog picks up from last weekend’s look at DC’s 30s-50s characters by examining some of their 60s-80s heroes.
FLASH VS HIS ROGUES GALLERY – I looked at the 1960s to 1980s stories in which Flash did battle with many of his foes assembled during their Semi-Annual Convention of Flash Villains and its related mayhem.
Readers got some landmark tales as the Scarlet Speedster took on his recurring foes like Mirror Master, the Trickster, Captain Cold, Pied Piper, Captain Boomerang, the Golden Glider and others. Click HERE.
BLACK LIGHTNING – Beginning in the 1970s, High School teacher Jefferson Pierce became the costumed superhero called Black Lightning. He used his new powers to fight crime and other dark forces in Metropolis’ Suicide Slums.
Black Lightning faced a variety of villains, like the Whale, Syonide, Cyclotronic Man, Steel Fist, the Annihilist and the criminal organization called the 100. Click HERE. Continue reading
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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JAN THIRD
Another roundup here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog coming to you from an America where the repulsive Biden-Harris Regime spent years lying that their political targets were the greatest danger regarding domestic violence, thereby enabling the New Year’s attacks.
You’ll notice Biden didn’t blast the pro-terrorist Democrats who marched to celebrate the attacks “globalizing the Intifada” the way he did to people who simply didn’t support his policies.
SPENCER’S TERRIFIC TAKEDOWN OF THE MAKE-BELIEVE “FACT CHECKERS” OF THE CORPORATE MEDIA. Fact-checkers (LMAO) are anything BUT.
SUIT: TRANS CHILD MOLESTER PRETENDING TO BE A WOMAN WAS IMPRISONED WITH BIOLOGICAL WOMEN AND COMMITTED REPEATED SEXUAL ASSAULTS. More HERE. Democrats, we know you don’t care about children and now you’re determined to show that you don’t care about real women when it comes to your Trans religion.
TEACHERS IN NEW JERSEY NO LONGER NEED TO DEMONSTRATE BASIC COMPETENCE IN MATH, READING AND WRITING TO BE HIRED. More HERE. And the circus that Democrats have reduced America’s school systems to continues. This is why there is so little respect for the Democrat clergy members who pretend to be “teaching.” Continue reading
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CHARLEMAGNE: ASTOLPHO REUNITES BRADAMANTE AND RUGGIERO
These are the legends about Charlemagne and his Paladins, not the actual history, so there will be dragons, monsters and magic.
FOR MY FIRST CHAPTER ON CHARLEMAGNE’S PALADINS CLICK HERE.
ASTOLPHO REUNITES BRADAMANTE AND RUGGIERO – The last Paladin to depart the island realm of the good Queen Logestilla was Astolpho, as he and the queen savored each other’s company. Finally, Astolpho announced his departure, knowing his duty was to return to the war raging on the Continent between Emperor Charlemagne’s forces and the Muslim invaders from North Africa and colonized Spain.
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Queen Logestilla provided her swiftest ship and best crew to transport Astolpho from her island west of Ireland back to Charlemagne’s Empire. The good fairy queen gave the Paladin a mystic tome which included instructions on how to overcome all manner of enchantments.
Her final gift to Astolpho was a magic horn which, when blown, could drive off supernatural creatures and/or shatter the strongest of spells. The ship carried the Paladin to the port city he requested and, astride his horse Rabican, he was soon on his way to rejoining the bulk of Charlemagne’s army.
Along his way our hero clashed with groups of brigands who were taking advantage of the unsettled state of the Empire due to the ongoing war by acting as bandits. Astolpho also overcame a wolfpack and then a giant serpent, which he drove off with a blast from the horn given to him by Queen Logestilla. Continue reading
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FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE FICTION DAY: AN 1888 TALE OF A SENTIENT TRAIN ON A RAMPAGE
I just learned at Jacqui Murray’s great blog that this is National Science Fiction Day, so here’s a post to mark the event.
A MEXICAN MYSTERY (1888) – Written by W. Grove. (No other name available) This is the first of two novels by Grove. This one features a sentient and evil train referred to only as The Engine.
In 1864 Mexico the Emperor Maximilian holds a contest for the best design of a new locomotive. The winner or winners will be awarded a lucrative contract to build trains to run all across Mexico on rail lines already laid – a project overseen by a Scottish engineer named John Brown.
Brown meets Pedro da Luz, the wealthy descendant of Montezuma AND Spanish Conquistadors. The brilliant but mysterious da Luz works out of the Mexican town of Xiqipu and his train engine is a marvel of technology, capable of automatically handling many duties that other trains require human workers for.
One of those duties is piloting the train and another is the feeding of wood into the Engine’s furnace to keep it running. At the contest before Emperor Maximilian da Luz’s creation outshines all the other entrants, but then things begin to go wrong. The Engine has depleted its on-board supply of wood and, in its hunger, uses its mechanical arms to uproot telegraph poles, chop them up and feed them into its furnace.
The furious Emperor disqualifies Pedro’s Engine and awards the prize to another designer. Da Luz rants and raves to such a bloodthirsty degree that his fiancee Inez dumps him, adding to his anger. Meanwhile, the Mexican people begin regarding the Engine with superstitious awe and claim it is possessed by the Devil.
Pedro da Luz pretends to be repairing the technical glitch in the Engine in order to remove it from the vicinity but in reality he makes further “refinements” to its programming. The next day da Luz feigns surprise when daybreak reveals that the Engine has apparently left on its own and is nowhere to be found.
The story unfolds as diary entries by the Scottish engineer John Brown, mentioned earlier. Da Luz turns up dead days later, a victim of a stabbing in Mestra. Mysterious events start happening at train stations throughout Mexico, like fatal accidents and the disappearance of wood for train engines. Water towers are drained in the dead of night as well. The missing Engine, apparently acting on its own, is sighted around the country. Continue reading
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1925: MONTH BY MONTH
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM BALLADEER’S BLOG! To mark the day here’s a timeline of American events from a century ago.
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1st – The Rose Bowl Game, first played in 1902, pitted the undefeated UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH against the undefeated STANFORD UNIVERSITY INDIANS (later the Cardinal, as in the color). The Fighting Irish, under iconic Head Coach Knute Rockne, defeated the Indians 27-10.
Also the 1st – The UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY GOLDEN BEARS hosted a New Year’s Day Bowl of their own, taking on the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA QUAKERS. The Golden Bears won 14-0.
Also the 1st – A detachment of U.S. Marines arrived at the Christian-founded Nanking University (established 1888, see above pic) in China to protect Americans there from recent unrest and looting.
Also the 1st – American astronomer Edwin Hubble, whom the Hubble Telescope was named for, announced confirmation of the existence of galaxies outside the Milky Way. Continue reading
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DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST ROUND-UP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS
A current events roundup here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog coming to you from an America where Republicans need doused with a bucket of cold water and forced to look at their barely-existent “majority” in the House now that the California Slow Count is over. They don’t have the same numbers they thought they had on election night.
JOURNALIST SHARYL ATTKISSON ONCE AGAIN EXPOSES THE BIASES OF THE CORPORATE MEDIA’S MAKE-BELIEVE “FACT CHECKERS.” I still consider Attkisson to be America’s greatest actual journalist since Ida Tarbell.
FOR OVERSEAS READERS, this Slush Fund that goes back years has long been exposed but because figures from BOTH gangs of white-collar criminals are involved Congress has “bipartisanly” ignored it. At least SEVENTEEN MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money was spent on those settlements and representatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene and others who keep speaking out about it get attacked and ostracized and ridiculed.
Greene, Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert are among the few demanding names of the offenders be made public since taxpayer funds were used. This is just one of the reasons why Greene and Boebert in particular get subjected to so much trashing and ridicule by their colleagues, especially through dubious leaks against them.
FOR JUST A FEW OTHER REMINDERS OF THESE BIPARTISAN COVERUPS OF ATROCIOUS CONGRESSIONAL CONDUCT: The Congressional Bank Scandal more than 30 years ago, in which elected white-collar criminals FROM BOTH PARTIES were sticking taxpayers with overdrafts on checking accounts of Congressmen. *** The BCCI Scandal and the earlier Savings & Loan Crisis saw members of both major parties involved in wrongdoing and/or questionable ethics.
AND YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT COURAGEOUSLY LEAVES THAT INTOLERANT PARTY BEHIND AND BECOMES A REPUBLICAN. Representative Hillary Cassell joins so many of us in leaving the irrational, hatemongering mess that the Democrats have become.
DEMOCRAT JOHN MORGAN – A MEGADONOR TO JOE BIDEN – CONSIDERS LEAVING THE DEMOCRATS TO RUN FOR OFFICE AS A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE. Hopefully he will. Morgan praised Trump’s transformation of the Republican Party and called him “a f**kin’ genius.”
CHINA’S GOVERNMENT HACKED THE U.S. TREASURY. This happened on December 8th, but the outgoing Biden-Harris Regime covered it up until now. Have I mentioned lately that buying Joe Biden long ago was the best investment that China’s government ever made?
LATEST REPORT ON HOW JOE BIDEN WAS OBVIOUSLY UNFIT FROM DAY ONE. All of us who were paying attention noticed it during the 2020 campaign. Continue reading
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