THE MUSLIM SACRAMENT OF STONING GAY PEOPLE.
Oh, yeah … Muslim savages. The Islamic State, spawned by Barack Obama’s premature withdrawal from Iraq, was the site of this ongoing display of Islam’s barbarity. But to demented Americans the REAL hell of this tableau is that the guys doing the stoning would probably refuse to cater a gay wedding. Now THAT’S inhumane! Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of the macabre 1868 French language work The Songs of Maldoror. This time around the title character battles an angel from Heaven.
THE ANGEL OF THE LAMP
The vile supernatural being Maldoror is lurking near a Paris cathedral. He is furiously cursing a lamp that hangs high overhead in the sacred place because the “holy” light it shines prevents him from attacking the worshippers inside. He begs the lamp to permit itself to be extinguished by the wind, reminding it that it owes nothing to the worshippers that it protects from his assaults.
Maldoror can tell the lamp is acting specifically on orders from his archrival God because of the way its light glows more and more intensely to drive him out whenever he attempts to enter during a mass but the people in attendance at the mass seem oblivious to the blinding intensity of the light which assails him. Our protagonist has returned to the cathedral in the dead of night to confront the lamp. Continue reading
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ANDRIANAMPOINIMERINA – A past King of the Merina people and the Demi-God who ruled over the birds called crows. From the time Andrianampoinimerina was a small child crows were his special protectors and always kept a watchful eye on him.
Once when a wild boar attacked the youngster the crows guarding him rapidly beat their wings in the eyes of the boar and pecked at it, ultimately driving it off. Continue reading
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PUTTING A CRIMP IN SENIOR DAY – The NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY GOTHIC KNIGHTS handed their hosts – the WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY PIONEERS – a split in the Senior Day Double Header they played. After losing the first game 15-12 the Gothic Knights trailed 4-3 in the 2nd Inning of Game Two. The NJCU bats tied the game at 4-4 in the 3rd Inning on their way to a 9-4 lead by the 6th. From there the Gothic Knights held on for a 9-7 win. NJCU Pitcher Kevin Demauro went an Iron Man 9 Innings for the victory. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of the macabre 1868 French language work The Songs of Maldoror.
THE ENVENOMED WEAPON
Our supernatural narrator Maldoror, fresh off canonizing lice as deities in his demented personal pantheon now enshrines three goddesses in his fevered belief system. Those goddesses are Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry.
He praises their perfection and their dispassionate aloofness. He admires the way in which there is no deceiving them nor escaping them, since they set the very rules of the universe. Maldoror metaphorically describes his first encounter with them as if they were three beautiful women who summoned him to them in his youth, when he groped and molested them while discerning their secrets. Continue reading
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NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE PARSONS
Location: Papillion, NE
Division: Association of Christian College Athletics
Conference Affiliation: Midwest Christian College Conference
Comment: How can you not love a cool and nearly unique nickname like the Parsons? Continue reading
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The French who first came into contact with the people of Madagascar mistook Tompondrano for Leviathan from Christian mythology.
TOMPONDRANO – “Lord of the waters.” The supreme snake deity in Merina mythology. Not only were all other serpents subordinate to Tompondrano but he often acted as an ambassador between snakes and human beings, negotiating the end to conflicts between the two groups.
A major myth about this deity includes its role in advising the Vazimba how to use sacrifices to appease gods and demons. The Vazimba were little people who were previously the dominant race of Madagascar. They are similar to the Menehune in Hawaiian myths and to “little people” who figure into mythology and folklore from around the world. Continue reading
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Remembering the ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND dead from the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Muslim Turks.
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Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of the macabre 1868 French language work The Songs of Maldoror.
PRAYERS TO THE GODS CALLED LICE
The supernatural being Maldoror devotes this stanza to waxing rhapsodic about lice. Yes, actual lice. For the most part the demented yet brilliant figure does this as a wry mockery of religion itself but mixes in some of his own depraved acts of violence for some extra spice to the story.
His first prayer to the gods called lice praises them as powerful deities who could grow to the size of elephants and crush all animal life on earth if not for the offerings of blood that lice are given from the hair or fur of us beasts. This prayer calls lice the most esteemed of life forms, worthy of using the heads of mankind as their thrones. Continue reading
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Here at Balladeer’s Blog I’m all about helping out. This slogan originally referred to physical fitness but it fits the Jeb Bush campaign better. Let’s face it, if you’re willing to vote for another disgusting member of the repulsive Bush clan you truly will be “getting the ass you deserve.” Continue reading
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