Earlier this week I examined the NAIA and NCAA D2 playoff teams. Here are the NCAA Div 3 matchups for tomorrow.
The TRINITY (TX) TIGERS will host the UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR CRUSADERS.
Kickoff will be at 1:00PM Eastern Time.
The WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY PIRATES will host the POMONA-PITZER COLLEGE SAGEHENS.
Kickoff will be at 3:00PM Eastern Time. Continue reading
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The latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.
JOE BIDEN STILL TRYING TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA IMPOSSIBLE ON HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR. Joe is garbage. And remember, he’s been declared incompetent to stand trial for his many crimes, yet he’s supposedly competent enough to sit in the Oval Office.
PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER NANCY PELOSI BEING HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR HER MANY DISASTERS. That includes the way she caused the Democrats to lose the House of Representatives TWICE under her “speakership.” More HERE.
DEMOCRAT SETH MOULTON IS THE LATEST TO ADMIT THAT THE PARTY HAS LOST TOUCH WITH AMERICANS. Among his remarks: “Well, obviously, we’ve lost touch with the majority of Americans. Democrats have a habit of preaching down to people and telling them that if they don’t 100% agree with our orthodox view, often defined by the far left, then they’re just bad people. They’re morally wrong. And that’s not going to win us any elections.”
EXCELLENT ARTICLE ABOUT ALL THE CAREER POLITICIAN/ CAREER CRIMINALS THAT TRUMP HAS BEATEN OR IS STILL CLASHING WITH. Grifting and graft-grabbing members of both major parties have fallen to Trump the reformer. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at a neglected epic myth, this one from Africa.
The mythic tale of Aiwel Longar comes from the Dinka pantheon. Nhialic is the supreme deity to the Dinka and the first man and woman he created were Garang and Abuk. The Dinka people live in the Upper Nile in Sudan, as they have for centuries.
AIWEL LONGAR
I often cover the way in which cultures which come into contact borrow mythic material from each other to embellish their own respective belief systems. The story of Aiwel Longar clearly influenced (and vice versa) Egyptian, Jewish, Christian and Muslim myths. It also bears striking similarities to the Gnostic Hymn of the Pearl.
PART ONE – Born as simply Aiwel, this figure was a gift from the god of the Nile River to Aiwel’s widowed and childless mother. The infant already had a full set of teeth when his mother picked him up out of the Nile River, where the river god had set him adrift.
Like many mythic figures Aiwel could talk and function like an adult at a very young age. While still a toddler he often stole and drank entire gourds full of milk. After one such binge Aiwel’s mother caught him and the young demigod warned her not to tell anyone or else she would die. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog’s Forgotten Television feature provided background information on Reel Wild Cinema (1996-1997) and examined its first episode last time around. This time I’ll take a look at episodes two to four.
THE RUNDOWN FOR EPISODE TWO (April 28th, 1996)
Title: Supernatural Sirens
Truncated Films Shown:
CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN (1963) – The Mexican horror film about La Llorona that got U.S. distribution and half-assed dubbing via K. Gordon Murray himself. I’ve reviewed this film in detail previously so for a quick recap for newbies to this flick it’s the old ghost story about an undead woman who sheds tears from her empty eye sockets while making with withering cries.
The Crying Woman has been searching for her dead children for hundreds of years and this version of the legend added a trio of leashed, ghostly hounds to accompany her on her nocturnal hunts. Death comes to all who cross her path.
THE NAKED WITCH (1961) – For starters, this is the Larry Buchanan film, NOT the Andy Milligan Naked Witch movie from a different year. As usual for Buchanan this was filmed in Texas, and is yet another variation of the tale about a witch who gets put to death but returns a century or more later to slay all the descendants of her killers.
Viewers get a reasonably attractive woman in the lead role. She’s never naked no matter what the title says, but she does do a weird dance when not killing her victims. And that’s just part of the unintentional laughs contained in this infamous piece of schlock. Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies, Forgotten Television
Balladeer’s Blog previously looked at the playoff teams for the NAIA. This time it’s NCAA Division Two’s matchups for this Saturday.
The PITTSBURG (KS) STATE GORILLAS will host the HARDING UNIVERSITY BISON.
Kickoff will be at 2:00PM Eastern Time.
The GRAND VALLEY STATE LAKERS will host the UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS GREYHOUNDS.
Kickoff will be at 1:00PM Eastern Time. Continue reading
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Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S RNC HEAD DISCUSSES THE BATTLE TO STOP THE BOB CASEY ANTICS IN PENNSYLVANIA. I’m happy to admit I was wrong about the RNC failing to take effective action in this case. The goal was to stop PA Democrats from trying this type of vote fraud ever again, especially after the forever-tainted 2020 election. Further proof – as if more were needed – that Democrat vote fraud that year installed Joe Biden in the White House.
RNC CHAIR MICHAEL WHATLEY ON FURTHER STEPS THAT CAN BE TAKEN TO PROTECT ELECTION INTEGRITY. Reigning in the Democrat tactic of finding “uncounted” (LMAO) votes several days after election day is certainly a must.
JOE SCARBOROUGH AND MIKA BRZEZINSKI CRAWL TO MAR-A-LAGO TO GET FORGIVENESS FROM TRUMP. He has more patience than I would have had with those two serial liars who compared him to Hitler on a regular basis. The man is open to conversations with almost anybody.
TRUMP’S DESIRED AG PUBLICLY SHAMES DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI AND REPUBLICAN MITCH MCCONNELL FOR INSIDER TRADING AND OTHER SCANDALS. Call it a stunt if you like, but it’s the kind of wake-up call that America’s cesspool of political corruption NEEDS.
SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT OF AMERICAN INDIANS VOTED FOR TRUMP. His first term policies were very good for them!
THE BLACK HOLE OF CORRUPTION AT THE PENTAGON CONTINUES AS IT FAILS SEVENTH AUDIT IN A ROW. Have I mentioned what a cesspool of corruption America’s political system has been for decades? Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
BATTLE OF THE JAPAN SEA (1969) – Japan’s Toshiro Mifune led the cast of this Japanese film about their successful naval clashes with Russia during the often-forgotten Russo-Japanese War (February 1904 – September 1905). U.S. servicemen stationed in Japan played the Russians.
Fans of Reilly, Ace of Spies may remember that the Japanese attack on Port Arthur in 1904 was at the core of that program’s second episode.
Other footnotes that might excite interest in this film for people who aren’t familiar with the Russo-Japanese War – President Theodore Roosevelt negotiated the peace between the two nations to end the war; one of the staff officers who accompanied Roosevelt on that venture was a young Douglas MacArthur; and Tsarist Russia’s humiliating loss in the war helped fuel the ultimately unsuccessful communist uprising in 1905.
On to the film itself. Battle of the Japan Sea employs the approach that moviegoers will recall from The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Midway, even Inchon and others, by having an all-star cast (in the Far East) act out set pieces throughout the scattered fighting. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, opinion
Just as the divisions of college football covered here at Balladeer’s Blog start earlier than the other divisions their postseason also starts earlier. Here are this year’s NAIA playoff teams. Games begin Saturday.
The SOUTH-WESTERN COLLEGE MOUND-BUILDERS (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) will host the UNIVERSITY OF ST. FRANCIS COUGARS (Mid-States Football Association).
Kickoff will be at 1:00PM Eastern Time.
The DICKINSON STATE BLUE HAWKS (North Star Conference) will host the KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY COYOTES (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference).
Kickoff will be at 3:00PM Eastern Time. Continue reading
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REEL WILD CINEMA (1996-1997) – This program is still beloved by us fans of Psychotronic movies and the So Bad It’s Good subculture. Reel Wild Cinema helped feed America’s growing appetite for bizarrely awful cinema, an appetite most recently whetted back then by Joel Hodgson’s Mystery Science Theater 3000.
If, like me, you also enjoyed The Incredibly Strange Film Show hosted by Jonathan Ross, Reel Wild Cinema blended elements from both shows plus all the Movie Host programs from the 1950s onward.
Reel Wild Cinema‘s 1-hour runtime wouldn’t let the creative team show and mock entire films like MST3K did, just tightly edited highlights from them, anticipating the videos of countless internet movie critics of the future. Reel Wild Cinema didn’t riff constantly on the bad movies being shown, just before and after commercial breaks like old-time Movie Host shows.
Similar to Jonathan Ross’ Incredibly Strange Film Show, Reel Wild Cinema also aired interviews with many cult figures from fringe cinema as well as campy trailers for vintage Golden Turkeys. Also like the Jonathan Ross show, Reel Wild Cinema featured an animated opening accompanied by catchy theme music. Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies, Forgotten Television
Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at current events from an America where terrific institutions like HOLTERMANN’S BAKERY are still in operation. HOLTERMANN’S BAKERY is a storied enterprise and is pure Americana. I wish them continued success.
BIDEN TRYING TO RUIN ANY CHANCE FOR PEACE BY AUTHORIZING UKRAINE TO USE AMERICAN-SUPPLIED WEAPONS FOR DEEP STRIKES AS ZELENSKY ALSO PUBLICLY TOYS WITH NUCLEAR OPTIONS. Is Biden’s attitude that he’d prefer mushroom clouds rather than have the Biden Crime Family’s Ukraine corruption be exposed?
ANTI-TRUMP MOBS CAUSE HOMAN AND HIS FAMILY TO BE RELOCATED FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY. Democrats are the fascists they accuse everyone else of being.
SECRET SERVICE AGENT EXPOSED AS SELF-IDENTIFYING “ANARCHO-COMMUNIST” AND ANTIFA MEMBER. Still wonder why so many people suspect the Secret Service of being in on the attempts to assassinate Trump?
BIDEN REGIME BRAGS ABOUT HOW IT HAS ALLOWED OVER FOUR MILLION, EIGHT-HUNDRED THOUSAND SELECT GOVERNMENT WORKERS AND REGIME FAVORITES TO HAVE THEIR STUDENT LOANS FORGIVEN TO THE TUNE OF ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE BILLION DOLLARS. The Supreme Court ruled multiple times that no president has the authority to do this but Biden ignores the rule of law as usual.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS JUST ROBBED THE REPUBLICANS OF ANOTHER SEAT THEY WON ON ELECTION DAY BY STILL FINDING “UNCOUNTED” BALLOTS NEARLY TWO WEEKS AFTER THE ELECTION. The Republican “majority” just got even more slender. Since at least 2018 California’s districts have flipped lost Democrat seats back to them by their “count until we can claim we won” approach. The Stupid Party (Republicans) once again stopped fighting on Election Day and once again loses seats they celebrated winning on Election Night.
RELATED: PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS MAY WELL SUCCEED IN KEEPING BOB CASEY’S SENATE SEAT BY CONTINUING TO COUNT ILLEGAL BALLOTS IN DEFIANCE OF PA SUPREME COURT DECISION. More HERE. Can Republicans stop celebrating and pay attention to the fact that they aren’t really going to have the level of Senate and House majorities they thought they had won? Same ol’ same ol. There is no curing the Stupid Party.
IRONICALLY, THE DEMOCRATS AT THE WASHINGTON POST COURAGEOUSLY CALL OUT BOB CASEY’S UGLY MANEUVERS. Hopefully somebody from the incoming administration will do the same.
DEMOCRAT J. WALSH GOES ON BRITISH NEWS AND SAYS AMERICA’S ALLIES SHOULD WITHHOLD INFORMATION FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. Tell the Republican fools to stop picking out their Inauguration wardrobes and pretending that all their cabinet picks will be confirmed AND START PAYING ATTENTION. Continue reading
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