Last night the first game in the best of five Finals series in the WNBA tipped off.
LYNX VS LIBERTY: GAME ONE – The MINNESOTA LYNX visited the NEW YORK LIBERTY to get the Finals started.
The Liberty grabbed a sizable 32-19 lead in the 1st Quarter, then spent the rest of the game watching it melt away. By Halftime the Lynx had cut New York’s advantage to 44-36 and 68-61 to end the 3rd Quarter. Minnesota forced Overtime with an 84-84 tie. Continue reading
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Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at current events in this land of Democrat Apartheid called the United States.
DEMOCRAT APARTHEID: KAMALA HARRIS/ JOE BIDEN REGIME STILL PLAYING POLITICS WITH HURRICANE RECOVERY IN AREAS THAT VOTE FOR THE OPPOSITION PARTY. Want FEMA to help? Vote Democrat seems to be the message. And don’t dare help each other out – the Regime will decide on such things.
MICHELLE WOODHOUSE ON HARRIS’ FEMA FAILURES AND TARDINESS.
KAMALA HARRIS CRONY MAYORKAS SAYS FEMA, WHICH SPENT UNTOLD AMOUNTS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, NEEDS MORE MONEY TO HELP AMERICAN VICTIMS OF HURRICANE SEASON. And we all know when a high-profile “must-pass” spending bill comes along, Democrats will attach all kinds of unrelated funding for their pet issues because they can blast the opposition party for “holding up” the hurricane expenditures if they protest the unrelated funding that Democrats slip through.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP PROVIDED FREE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR NEARLY THREE HUNDRED LINEMEN TO GET THEM IN POSITION BEFORE THE HURRICANE EVEN HIT. Unlike Kamala Harris and her ilk, Trump doesn’t care what political party people belong to when humanitarian aid is needed.
SENATOR TOM COTTON BRAVELY SPEAKS OUT REGARDING THE DEMOCRATS’ FCC SPEEDING THROUGH GEORGE SOROS’ PURCHASE OF OVER TWO HUNDRED MEDIA OUTLETS IN THE U.S. Many opposition party broadcasters affected. Normally such large foreign involvement must wait for national security review, but the FCC has rushed the deal through for Soros without such security procedures. Republicans set to lose another round of the Media Arms Race if more don’t join Cotton.
NEW HEAD OF NATO HAILS GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
A MAN CALLED SLOANE (1979) – Robert Conrad, often called the ultimate man’s man, was famous for several television series over the decades, especially The Wild Wild West and Black Sheep Squadron. Here is a look at his modern-day spy series from 1979, the last Quinn Martin Production.
Conrad starred as American superspy Thomas Remington Sloane III aka T.R. Sloane, who worked for an espionage outfit called UNIT. (Go ahead and write T.R. Sloane/ Doctor Who fan fiction. Or not.) The evil organization opposed to our hero’s agency was called KARTEL.
Ji-Tu Cumbuka from blaxploitation films played Torque, a brawny mercenary with an artificial arm which could be outfitted with flamethrowers and other weaponry. (Arm? Torque? See what they did there?) Torque started out as a Jaws-like foe of T.R. Sloane but joined UNIT as Sloane’s partner.
Sultry Michelle Carey, daughter of MacDonald Carey and a veteran of many Wild Wild West episodes herself, provided the voice of EFFIE, the supercomputer at UNIT headquarters. Dan O’Herlihy played UNIT’s director.
A Man Called Sloane was fun but not spectacular and it only lasted 12 episodes in addition to a tv movie produced as a pilot for the series. That film wound up not being broadcast until AFTER the show was already canceled. Robert Logan portrayed Sloane in that telefilm but was replaced by Robert Conrad for the show.
THE PILOT MOVIE AND EPISODES: Continue reading
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Halloween Month continues as Balladeer’s Blog takes an anticipatory look at Terrifier 3, which hits theaters tomorrow, October 11th. Despite making his first appearance in 2008, Art – the blood-and-gore-soaked supernatural killer of the Terrifier franchise – still gets hailed as a “new” figure because general audiences were unaware of him until 2016.
Regular readers know I’ve long been pushing this ultra-violent series which is a return to the kind of uncompromising horror films from the distant past. Though critics of this latest movie are outraged at Art’s “no limits” approach to victims, let me remind people who feel that way that this grotesque figure has been killing children in his movies since All Hallows’ Eve in 2013.
WARNING: I chose the tamest Terrifier 3 picture I could find to start off this blog post, but this is one of those times when I’m giving a warning that readers who want to avoid excessive gore and intensely disturbing concepts should not click “Continue reading.” Continue reading
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It has literally been years since Balladeer’s Blog did a post in my Transgress with Me series, so here we go. For newbies, I’m an Independent Voter who used to be a Democrat until they became such intolerant fascists. At present, it’s the Democrats who are the worst authoritarians and hatemongers, but I have bashed figures from both major political parties here.
*** All “news” outlets are biased, but at present Democrat outlets far outnumber those for the opposition party, and that has resulted in a false impression of a national consensus on various issues and topics. (But it’s the fault of the Republican Party that they are still so far behind in the Media Arms Race.)
*** Democrats mistakenly believe that successfully censoring dissenting opinions means they are “in the right.”
*** When pompous Democrats put up those nauseating signs that say “Hate has no home here” what they really mean is “Hate has no home here, except for our perfectly righteous hatred of everyone who disagrees with any of our political opinions.”
*** Elon Musk, like de facto Third Party President Donald Trump, was long a darling of the Democrats until daring to disobey The Party. Now The Party wants them destroyed.
*** Democrats are only content in environments where they have a captive audience, like in schools or wherever they can use the full force of the government or other higher “authorities” to impose silence on those who disagree with them.
*** If you want people killed or injured just because they voted differently than you did, then they aren’t the fascists – YOU ARE.
*** Democrats are not liberals – they’re illiberal. Democrats are not progressives – they’re regressive.
*** Democrat dishonesty has become even worse and is spiraling out of control. The number of lies they try to force the rest of us to believe is always growing, especially the Democrat insistence that some males menstruate and some men can naturally get pregnant. Some “party of science.”
*** Democrat snobbery and pretentiousness have become such that they will be well into their 20s or older and living with their parents but will look down on a plumber who makes six figures and is raising a family.
*** People who say that teaching is a political act should never be trusted with authority over vulnerable young minds.
*** Democrats demonize and dehumanize anyone who does not support their every opinion, yet they pretend to be models of “tolerance”.
*** People who actually think any American President has been the equivalent of Hitler need to seek professional help. They’re only trying to compare them to Hitler for self-aggrandizement. After all, such pathetic little people think that it makes their own whiny complaints the equivalent of “fighting Hitler” which we all know such insecure narcissists would NEVER have had the courage to do. Continue reading
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THE JOKER (1919) – With the Joker sequel reportedly stinking up theaters around the country I figured why not look at the 1919 pulp magazine hero who used that nom de guerre?
Why not, indeed! Here’s another neglected Pulp Hero in the tradition of Balladeer’s Blog’s looks at the Moon Man, Silver John, the Nyctalope, G-8 & His Battle Aces and Northwest Smith. This time it’s the Joker, but not THAT one. Before the comic book villain and even before Conrad Veidt’s turn as Gwynplaine in The Man Who Laughs (1926), came the 1919 Pulp Magazine figure called the Joker.
NOTE: Sometimes people mistakenly think Pulp Magazines were the same as comic books, only earlier. However, the Pulps were TEXT STORIES, not sequential art like comic books. The Pulps did have colorful, striking covers like later comic books would have and sometimes a few illustrations in the stories, but the Pulps were a much higher level of storytelling.
The 1919 Joker was created by Hugh Kahler, who the year before had created the White Rook, another hero/ villain of the Pulps. In some ways the Joker was a rehash of Kahler’s own White Rook crossed with Guy Boothby’s Simon Carne/ Klimo crime figure from 1897. Continue reading
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As Halloween month continues, Balladeer’s Blog does a special look at the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN THE 1850s, CLICK HERE.
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The previous installments of Fool Killer lore have seen the neglected 1800s folk figure in a variety of roles: Political and cultural vigilante, slayer of lynch mobs, battler of war profiteers, foe of the Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction South, bastard son of a supernatural entity, guardian of Melungeon Gold, old west gunslinger, steam-punk policeman and so much more.
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In honor of the Halloween season this post will look at the Fool Killer as a 1980s slasher.
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And I don’t mean the Fool Killer/ Grim Reaper figure from the horror film A Day of Judgment (1981) as seen above right. I mean a true 1980s slasher in the mold of Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and others.
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THE FOOL KILLER – As we all know, Anthony Perkins starred in the eerie 1965 movie The Fool Killer as an amnesiac Civil War veteran who came to believe he was really the legendary title figure. A 1980s slasher version of the Fool Killer could feature a deranged killer who has similarly come to regard himself as the “real” one.
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To avoid having to get into any political or “moral” motive behind this figure’s killing spree I would have made this deranged (and possibly supernatural) Fool Killer be an “outdoorsy” slayer like Jason Voorhees, Madman and many others. He would kill any who dare to trespass in his domain.
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It would be TOO derivative to have a summer camp be this Fool Killer’s territory, so I would instead set his activities along the Fool Killer mountain and hiking trail in New Hampshire. A 1980s slasher franchise set there would have added to the renown and tourist appeal of the place. Continue reading
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LIBERTY VS ACES: GAME FOUR – The NEW YORK LIBERTY were on the road against the WNBA’s two-time defending national champions – the LAS VEGAS ACES.
A 23-19 1st Quarter edge for the Liberty became 41-38 by Halftime. The Aces pulled even closer to end the 3rd Quarter facing a mere 53-51 deficit, but in the 4th New York exploded for 23 points and a 76-62 victory. The Liberty won the series 3 games to 1. Twenty-two points from Sabrina Ionescu led New York, and her teammate Breanna Stewart logged a Double Double of 19 points and 14 rebounds. Continue reading
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Halloween Month rolls along here at Balladeer’s Blog with this look at one of Allan Cunningham’s Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, published in 1822.
EZRA PEDEN – This was Allan Cunningham’s tale about the deeds of Scottish Presbyterian Minister Ezra Peden and his encounters with the forces of the supernatural in Scotland from the late 1600s to around 1706. It makes for nice Halloween Season reading and practically makes you feel the chilliness of Scotland in late October as Cunningham depicts the brave, if humorless, Ezra adventuring in the moonlight. Continue reading
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From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog:
HARRIS-BIDEN REGIME ANNOUNCES FEMA DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR HURRICANE SEASON AFTER OUTRAGEOUS AMOUNTS SPENT ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Not to mention that the U.S. has spent outrageous amounts on Zelensky. Further proof that Kamala Harris’ constituents are bloated rich pigs, NOT American citizens. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE.
HARRIS-BIDEN REGIME WANTS AMERICAN CITIZENS TO CONTRIBUTE EXTRA MONEY TO MAKE UP FOR THE REGIME’S SHORTFALL. But Zelensky got ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE BILLION DOLLARS of U.S. taxpayer money. Meanwhile, Trump’s compassion stands out.
CAREER CRIMINAL JOE BIDEN ONCE AGAIN AFFIRMS KAMALA HARRIS’ “MAJOR” ROLE IN THE REGIME’S DISASTERS.
HARRIS-BIDEN REGIME SLOW-WALKS THE AID TO HURRICANE VICTIMS IN AREAS WHICH HISTORICALLY VOTED FOR TRUMP. More HERE. Axelrod even gloats that conditions there may not be restored enough for the citizens to be able to vote in the election in November.
Wow. Democrats have become so callous to human suffering that they even view a humanitarian disaster through the lens of their political hatred. Unreal.
FURTHER CRITICISM OF THE HARRIS-BIDEN REGIME’S FAILURES WITH HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORTS. More HERE.
HARRIS-BIDEN DOJ SUING TO KEEP INELIGIBLE VOTERS ON THE VOTER ROLLS. But Democrats still pretend those ineligible voters haven’t been voting in U.S. elections. So why do they want them on the rolls? I think we all know why.
DEMOCRATS IN ST. LOUIS CAUGHT TRYING TO REGISTER EVEN MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO VOTE.
HARRIS AND BIDEN STILL CLUELESS ABOUT THE AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE SINCE OCTOBER 7th, 2023.
HARRIS-BIDEN FCC AIDING THE OVERSEAS FINANCIAL TAKEOVER OF 220 MORE U.S. RADIO STATIONS, BYPASSING THE LAW LIMITING OUTSIDE INTERESTS’ HOLDING IN AMERICAN STATIONS. If only the U.S. had a competent opposition party that could effectively fight this.
KAMALA HARRIS STILL HASN’T ACCOUNTED FOR WHERE THE FUNDS WENT IN THE 42.5 BILLION DOLLAR “PROGRAM” SHE WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF. Life under the Harris-Biden kleptocracy. Continue reading
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