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AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH APPROACHES, JACK BREWER WEIGHS IN ON MINNESOTA

Lifelong role model Jack Brewer, former NFL star turned successful businessman, courageously blasted the state’s Democrats for fomenting an insurrection and insisted that the reason they are mad is because ICE is “deporting their voters.”

Brewer was more steadfast than so many others, who forget that we had an election in 2024 and the candidate who called for enforcing immigration laws won. And conveniently, as soon as the Democrat fraud rings were exposed in Minnesota, suddenly Democrat hate mobs began provoking violence to distract from those scandals.

Over the years, America’s gutless elected Republicans have made it clear that all Democrats have to do is force a few shootings and they can undo the results of entire elections. As always, they don’t care about the countless victims of illegal immigrant rapists and murderers. They surrender because Democrat media outlets still vastly outnumber theirs, so Democrats can be much “louder.”

Democrats are basically saying that ONLY laws they approve of will be enforced, no matter how the voters feel and no matter who wins elections.

Back to Jack Brewer, he also stated “We’re deporting their voters. That’s part of what’s happening and it’s blowing up their whole plan. … Minneapolis is protecting these thugs. It’s unbelievable.”

        “There is something wrong in Minneapolis. We need a city-wide behavioral health assessment. People have completely lost reality,” he said. “I hope President Trump sends in the National Guard. We need curfews. We need real consequences for attacking law enforcement. These men and women should be able to do their jobs and go home to their families safely.” Continue reading

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THE GREAT ACTRESS SARAH BERNHARDT IN MERES FRANCAISES (1917)

MERES FRANCAISES (1917) – This silent film was made and set during World War One. It starred the legendary stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, whose career spanned from 1862 to 1923. She was practically royalty when she deigned to appear in a few silent films. 

The title Meres Francaises means Mothers of France and it was a morale-building wartime film. Sarah Bernhardt was in her 70s but nobly did her best as Madame Jeanne D’Urbex, the matriarch of a French family which suffers more than its fair share of loss and heartache as World War One rages on.  

Sarah as Jeanne loses her husband and a son to the grave, plus members of her extended family endure blindness and the loss of beloved friends. Madame D’Urbex puts aside her own pain and becomes the rock on which the women of her family and the young nurses serving under her can rely. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: SNOPES ADMITS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PLACED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILDREN WITH HUMAN TRAFFICKERS

FROM JUNE 20th, 2018 – Even Snopes had to admit that the Obama-Child Traffickers scandal from 2014 was true. I ran this item back in 2018 because back then Democrat hypocrites were as usual throwing fits about illegal immigrants and President Trump’s policies toward them. (Snopes link below.)

Democrat misdeeds were in the news back then just like now and Democrats needed a distraction from them. Just like now.

DEMOCRATS DID NOT CARE ABOUT THIS SCANDAL WHEN OBAMA WAS IN OFFICE. No marches, no demands for action or protests to get answers about the fate of those children. DEMOCRATS ARE NEVER BEING SINCERE WHEN THEY PRETEND TO BE MORALLY OUTRAGED OVER SOMETHING.

Back then when illegal immigrants were marching about “family separations” under Trump I ran reminders and photos from Obama’s term of children carrying signs saying “Obama, don’t separate me from my mommy” as a reminder that the same policies were in effect under Obama as under Trump. But, of course Democrat hypocrites only made a big deal about “family separations” once Trump was in office.

AND AS A REMINDER: BOTH BILL CLINTON AND BARACK OBAMA DEPORTED MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THAN PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN ABLE TO BECAUSE OF THE IRRATIONAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL INTERFERENCE FROM TRUMP-HATERS.

        SO WHY WERE THERE NO MOBS ATTACKING IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS BACK THEN, WHEN MORE DEPORTATIONS WERE GOING ON? WE ALL KNOW WHY. UNHINGED HATERS FEEL SOMETHING IS ONLY WRONG WHEN TRUMP DOES IT.

At any rate, here’s that 2018 item with Snopes confirming that Obama’s people were (supposedly accidentally) turning illegal immigrant children over to human traffickers:

When even the hacks at Snopes can’t try to finesse words to make it look like Obama is innocent, you know the situation is bad. BARACK OBAMA’S ADMINISTRATION PLACED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILDREN WITH HUMAN TRAFFICKERS. Even Snopes had to admit that is the truth and that the usual Democrat and Republican game of kick-the-can followed AND STILL HASN’T BEEN FOLLOWED UP ON!

Once again we see that President Donald Trump is a de facto Third Party President and therefore gets attacked by the career criminals from both the Democrats and the Republicans.

“Snopes does go on to beclown themselves in the same piece by pretending that the miniscule amount of media coverage to that scandal (one of many) during the Obama Administration was somehow equal to the frantic and outrightly dishonest media blitz against President Trump regarding his every move.

“I will mention once again that the American Media and our crooked career politicians are so much worse than President Trump that they always make him look like the heroic underdog. People know a rigged pile-on when they see one. Continue reading

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THE “NEW” MONSTER MASCOTS CONTEMPLATED BY GENERAL MILLS IN THE 1990s

My recent blog post about the short-lived General Mills cereal mascots Sir Grapefellow and Baron Von Redberry reminded me that – even though I covered the five Monster Cereals from General Mills in 2021 – I had neglected to cover the four new Monster Cereal mascots that General Mills contemplated using in the late 1990s. (Carmella Creeper didn’t come along until 2023.)

This post will remedy that by examining the proposed mascots for what would have been GM’s new cereal flavored like raspberry mixed with hints of other berries.

BRIDE OF FRANKENBERRY

Monster Model: Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein

Comment: Okay, Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo-Berry, Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy were long overdue for a female mascot to join their ranks.

Personally, I feel that Yummy Mummy should have been female, and that way Bride of Frankenberry would have been a second distaff addition, but what can ya do?

Downside: Bland, not very monstrous appearance. Fan art (see below) of a spicier version of the Bride made her more monstrous but did nothing to combat the fact that she was basically just a retread. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED ON THE POMPOSITY OF THE AMERICAN LEFT’S TRUMP-HATERS

FROM MAY 18th of 2018:

Obama pen and phoneHere’s another blog post where I take a break from personally pointing out how the American Left’s unbearable pomposity and snobbery have driven away so many of us who used to consider ourselves part of it. This time my points are being made in a New York Times Op-Ed by Gerard Alexander, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia. 

He uses the out of date term Liberals to describe them. If anything they are Illiberals and Left-Wing Archie Bunkers. The link is below, but first some excerpts:

“(Left-Wing Archie Bunkers) are not as smart, or as persuasive, as they think.”

“Liberals dominate the entertainment industry, many of the most influential news sources and America’s universities. … But this makes liberals feel more powerful than they are.”

“In fact, liberals may be more effective at causing resentment than in getting people to come their way.”

“Liberals are trapped in a self-reinforcing cycle. When they use their positions in American culture to lecture, judge and disdain, they push more people into an opposing coalition that liberals are increasingly prone to think of as deplorable. That only validates their own worst prejudices about the other America.” Continue reading

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A MONTH BY MONTH LOOK AT NINETEEN TWENTY-SIX

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Last New Year’s Day’s look at 1925 in America month by month was so popular I’m doing a month by month look at 1926 this time around.

JANUARY

1st – The ROSE BOWL GAME was broadcast on radio for the first time. This game pitted the undefeated UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE, then from the Southern Conference, against the undefeated UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HUSKIES, then from the Pacific Coast Conference. The Huskies led 12-0 at Halftime, but the Crimson Tide came from behind to win the game 20-19 in what has been called “the football game that changed the South.”

6th – Mickey Hargitay, bodybuilder, movie star, husband of Jayne Mansfield and father of their daughter Mariska Hargitay, was born.

11th – The Whittemore Gang, led by Richard Reese Whittemore and his wife Margaret, robbed a Manhattan jewelry store of $175,000 worth of gems, equal to $3,205,000 here in 2026.

12th – The radio comedy program Sam ‘n’ Henry debuted on WGN in Chicago. Two years later the title would be changed to Amos ‘n’ Andy but it’s inane under any name.

13th – 91 coal miners were killed in a mine explosion in Wilburton, OK. Continue reading

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TWENTY BOOKS ABOUT BARACK OBAMA CORRUPTION AND SCANDALS

We need Third Parties as I often point out, and here are some books emphasizing how American career politicians are nothing but white-collar criminals. In this case the spotlight is on the scandal-plagued Barack Obama.  

Gangster GovernmentGANGSTER GOVERNMENT – Written by Columbia School of Journalism graduate David Freddoso.

The title Gangster Government could have applied to George W. Bush’s administration as well, but this is a list of books about Barack Obama, remember?

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: OBAMA AND HIS TEAM OF TAX CHEATS, CROOKS AND CRONIES – It’s been said that the Obama Administration may have been the most corrupt since the days of the Ohio Gang under Republican President Warren G Harding. This book details why.

Worst President in HistoryTHE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY: THE LEGACY OF BARACK OBAMA – Written by Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan, this thoroughly documented and highly detailed work of investigative journalism has been called “the definitive takedown of the Obama Presidency.”

THE SCANDALOUS PRESIDENCY OF BARACK OBAMA – Another of Matt Margolis’ blistering exposes of one of the most damaging and crooked presidencies in history.

THE OBAMA SCANDALS: THE TWENTY-TWO WORST OUTRAGES OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION – This riveting book was authored by Keith Koffler and is a must-read.

Commander In FailureCOMMANDER-IN-FAILURE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN REFLECTS ON AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT AND HOW HE FAILED US ALL – Martin Luther King Person of Courage Kiara Ashanti penned this masterful deconstruction of the weak, inept and crooked little man named Barack Obama.  

THE PEOPLE VS BARACK OBAMA – A very apt book title when it comes to the president who damaged the working class and the poor more than any other president of my lifetime.  Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS STATES THAT UNDER OBAMA THE U.S. FALLS TO 46th IN THE WORLD FOR PRESS FREEDOM

FROM FEBRUARY 13th, 2014 –

"Sit down and shut up! My administration will tell you peons everything you need to know!"

“Sit down and shut up! My administration will tell you peons everything you need to know!”

Welcome back to Balladeer’s Blog, the only site on the web that truly criticizes Liberals and Conservatives equally. Reporters Without Borders has been publishing a yearly World Press Freedom Index since 2002. The press here in the United States has been leaned on so heavily by the Obama administration (an administration that Little Barry claimed would be noted for its “transparency”) that in just ONE YEAR the nation’s ranking on that index fell THIRTEEN PLACES.

After getting safely reelected (like George W. Bush and Richard Nixon did, too) Obama’s administration apparently felt so secure they stepped up their war on press freedom; a war that even Huffington Post described as ” a dictator’s dream”. Continue reading

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ON THIS DATE THE SULAWESI CAVE ART WAS DISCOVERED

DECEMBER 11th, 2019 – On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, cave art was discovered that has been recognized as the world’s oldest example of pictorial storytelling, dating to approximately 43,900 years ago. 

The precise location of the discovery was in the limestone cave Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4. The art depicts therianthropes, abstract figures with qualities of human beings and animals combined, hunting wild pigs and dwarf buffaloes. Continue reading

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THE PETTICOAT REVOLUTION OF DECEMBER FIFTH

THE PETTICOAT REVOLUTION – On December 5th, 1916 the “Petticoat Revolution” occurred in Oregon. Women had been allowed to vote in the state since 1912 and in the town of Umatilla several women ran stealth candidacies for municipal offices.   

Quirks in the Umatilla laws at the time enabled the ladies to keep their bids for office a secret even from their spouses. Driven by a desire to reverse the town’s decline and slack law enforcement at the time, Robert and Lola Merrick plotted this odd operation with six other women during a card game at their home.

The residents of Umatilla found out on the afternoon of election day that the ladies were running for mayor and other elected positions. Voting participation was so low in the town at that time that the current mayor’s wife Laura Stockton Starcher (above left) was elected as the new mayor by a vote of just TWENTY-SIX to EIGHT!    Continue reading

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