The singer and musician Prince is dead. Since I like to be different I figured I would post a pic of his work titled Dirty Mind instead of the bigger hits that everyone else is featuring.
And yes, if you’re new to Dirty Mind the song When You Were Mine is the same piece later covered by Cyndi Lauper. Meanwhile Head created a minor radio controversy and Sister (a song about incest) created a major radio controversy. Continue reading
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*** Aaron Black, formerly of Occupy Wall Street, joined Balladeer’s Blog in hoping for the emergence of a viable alternative party consisting of working class voters from both the political left and the political right.
*** The Media Insight Project’s latest poll showed results indicating that only SIX PERCENT of the American public believe the media can be trusted to tell the truth. In a related story the six percent of people still foolish enough to trust the media said they would probably still vote for Obama twice. (Well, that goes without saying …) Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Muslim fanatics are STILL the ones behind the Boston Marathon Massacre, despite the way the media tried to blame it on Tea Party members.
Yes it was three years ago that the world got another reminder about the blood-soaked, homophobic and misogynistic savagery called Islam when the Tsarnaev brothers set off explosives at the Boston Marathon and seemed proud of it. As if the attack itself wasn’t repulsive enough the American media made it even worse by once again showing their ugly biases.
Remember how they spent a few days implying that since the attack happened on Tax Day it must have been Tea Party members (the favorite bogeymen of the American left) who set off the explosives? When the culprits turned out to be Muslims those same outlets looked even more foolish than they usually do. Yes, whiny Liberals, I know Fox News Channel and talk radio show conservative bias but all the other news outlets show liberal bias that is at least as blatant. Grow up and deal with it already.
As I pointed out after the attacks were revealed to be Islamic in nature and not tax-related:
I’d like to offer my condolences to America’s Liberals, who were salivating with the desperate hope that the massacre at the Boston Marathon could be blamed on the Conservatives they hate with such irrational fervor. Democratic Party stations like NPR, CNN and others which are the Liberal versions of Fox News Channel and talk radio were lovingly dwelling on the April 15th date (Tax Day), practically orgasming at the thought that Tea Party activists might have chosen that day to become as violent as Liberals pretend they are.
Let’s face it, American Liberals HAD to hope it was Conservatives behind the killings that we now know – and which anyone with common sense could have told – were really yet ANOTHER Muslim terrorist attack. They had to hope that because American Conservatives are the ONLY people in the entire world that the hypocritical cowards of American Liberalism will unconditionally criticize. American Liberals are far too spineless to even discuss the homophobia, xenophobia and misogyny of Islam, all while demonizing American Christians for having comparatively mild versions of those qualities. Continue reading
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It’s no secret that American Liberalism has alienated countless former allies with its insane fondness for ONLY the most backward, misogynistic and homophobic elements of Islam. Not only do Liberals pompously dismiss Muslims who embrace the West and the 21st Century as “Western Triumphalists” who have “internalized Western oppression” but Liberals have also become THE biggest obstacle to adult discussions about Muslim violence.
ALL attempts to discuss Muslim violence get stagnated at the simple-minded pee-pee ca-ca level because American Liberals always think they’re being deep by pointing out the obvious – that not all Muslims go around killing people. Well, not all gun owners go around killing people, either, but you’ll never hear Liberals saying that means we should NEVER discuss mass shootings. But hey, it’s not news that American Liberals are spineless hypocrites.
Even though it’s a given that not all Muslims are terrorists the shallow, preening asses of the American Left STILL act like they are bringing some heavy-duty thinking to the argument by reciting that same tired refrain over and over again. That’s because American Liberals care only about their own egos and their pretensions. In their adolescent drama-queen minds they think they’re fighting battles of the past. Battles whose outcomes are already known.
In the deluded minds of American Liberals they are taking on mobs of ignorant people who just don’t understand that not all Muslims use violence. Ironically, the only Muslims who benefit from this refusal to openly discuss Muslim fascism are the violent, reactionary types who perpetuate misogny, homophobia and all of Islam’s other examples of intolerance and savage superstition. (Killing people for drawing pictures? Really?)
So, while the rest of us adults try to discuss ways of dealing with the fanatical and violent Muslims in the world, American Liberals – always so far behind they think they’re ahead – will continue to retard those conversations by childishly pretending that it is going to be shocking news to us that not all Muslims are terrorists. (Not all Americans owned slaves, either, but Liberals will certainly NEVER claim that it’s wrong to blame all white Americans collectively.)
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Poster by Bosch Fawstin, winner of the Draw Muhammad Contest. He refuses to talk to media outlets too gutless to show his Muhammad drawings.
I consider all religions to be nothing but irrational mythology. That said there is only ONE religion in the world that elected officials and the increasingly shrill media constantly try to browbeat the rest of us into regarding with a reverence it does not deserve: Islam. (But only those elements of Islam that are violent and want to live in the past. Muslims working to reform their faith get ignored by the Left, who accuse them of “internalizing Western oppression.”)
April 1st – Palmyra, Syria – An investigation uncovered 40 dead victims of the Islamic State formed by Barack Obama’s premature withdrawal from Iraq. “Obamastan” is the alternate name the world has given to the Islamic State.
March 31st – Galkayo, Somalia – A Muslim fascist suicide bomber killed 9 innocent people and injured 10 more.
March 27th – Lahore, Pakistan – Christians celebrating Easter were victims of a Muslim fascist bombing which killed 74 people and injured 362 more. Continue reading
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I never hide the fact that I reject the outdated labels Liberal and Conservative, nor the fact that I follow news and commentary outlets from both the political left and the political right. Politico is one of the left-wing outlets yet even THEY are starting to wake up about the wrong-headedness of the left’s attitude of “Islam: Right or Wrong!” To cite just a few new quotes from the site that usually cries Islamophobia at the slightest excuse:
***** “As the violence spreads across continents, what we are witnessing is a meltdown of the Islamic universe. Populations in Africa are as much in the cross-hairs as those of India, Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. The victims may be diverse but the culprits are of one affiliation.” (Balladeer: Nice of them to finally notice.)
***** “So let’s be clear. The West didn’t invent despots in the region (The Middle East). The tradition predates Western influence, one strongman dynasty has replaced another for centuries — and always with a great deal of popular momentum backing its strong Islamic leaders.”
***** “Why do we expect host countries to succeed in convincing (Muslims) that women have a right to equal treatment, especially when liberal thinking in Europe and the U.S. urges immigrants to hold fast to their own cultures?”
***** “Molenbeek and other Islamized neighborhoods in Europe have become fortresses of separatism. And the influence of those neighborhoods is not easily contained. There’s sufficient evidence to believe that the lackadaisical approach to undigested multiculturalism backfires repeatedly. It could all end catastrophically at any moment.”
***** “Two fundamental conditions need to be met for any chance of peace or security to remain in our globalized century of mass migrations. European and American societies have to regain confidence in their deepest self (not merely in their free market or political principles) and immigrants to the West need to recognize the flaws of their own cultures.
“The first requires that Western societies reaffirm their identity-forming traditions and insist that newcomers incorporate them as a core consciousness. The second requires newcomers to have the cultural humility to do so.”
Balladeer: Well put. Unfortunately it’s Politico-EUROPE. I don’t expect the close-minded American Left to be this reasonable anytime soon. To read the whole article click HERE
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Proud father of the Islamic State (Obamastan) and of the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
The Islamic State, spawned by Barack Obama’s premature withdrawal from Iraq, has clamped down on Christians fleeing for their lives.
The Muslim fascists of Obamastan (the alternate name for the Islamic State) are always eager to show that they are still the craziest and most blood-soaked animals in the world. Their announced plan is to use their Christian captives as human shields in the ongoing war. The Obama Legacy will haunt the world for decades, unfortunately.
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Asad Shah
Asad Shah, a 40 year old Glasgow newsstand operator, was murdered by a fellow Muslim a mere four hours after making a post on social media wishing Christians a Happy Easter. Shah was reportedly stabbed and his head stomped in. He died after being taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Everyone’s thoughts should be with those who mourn this man. Asad Shah fled Pakistan because he was a member of the Ahmadi sect, who are persecuted by other Muslims because they are considered “apostates.”
The complacent, self-satisfied egomaniacs of the political left around the world need to note the irony here. Like many truly moderate Muslims, Mr Shah moved to the Western World to escape persecution and the intolerance of so many of his co-religionists. He and others like him didn’t realize that the Labour Party in the U.K. and the Democratic Party in the U.S. would hitch their electoral futures ONLY to the type of murderous fanatics that Mr Shah fled.
The more that the political left (which so many of us have left because of their bizarre fetish for Muslim fascism) abets ONLY the anti-Western voices of Muslim immigrants while ignoring the moderate Muslims that they CLAIM to be looking out for, the more innocent victims like Asad Shah will die. The Muslims who are as tolerant and positive as he was will catch on that they must pander to the fanatical Muslims even here in the West or wind up dead. Just like in the hate-filled lands they fled.
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*** *** *** *** ** *** *** *** LIBERAL COWARDICE IN ONE LITTLE POSTER.
For a nice change of pace here are some quotes from other people regarding the centuries-old conflict between the Muslim World and the Western World. These people recognize – like I do – that the Western World’s biggest liability has turned out to be the preening jackasses of the political left who pretend they’re being “understanding” to try to hide their cowardice.
Mark Steyn on Belgium’s decision to move airport security perimeters back and pretend that accomplishes something: “If we’re going to move the security perimeter back, why don’t sovereign nations move it back to their own national borders by not importing and expanding the high-risk population in which terrorism incubates?
“But no, that’s apparently too obvious. Europe would rather destroy itself than retreat from the delusions of multiculturalism. And so once free peoples must get used to ever more indignities and inconveniences, and ultimately a lot less of core liberties like freedom of expression and freedom of movement. The geniuses of the EU political class have decided not to solve the problem but to manage it, via ever more constraints on you.”
From Judith Bergman: “The Western narrative represents a complete refusal to examine the doctrines of Islam, out of fear of offending Muslims. This is not a purely European phenomenon. The Obama Administration ordered a cleansing of (homeland security) training materials that Islamic groups deemed offensive.”
Teun Voten on Belgium as a microcosm for the way Political Correctness does nothing but cripple serious attempts to deal with Muslim fascism: “The most important factor is Belgium’s culture of denial… Observers who point to unpleasant truths such as the high incidence of crime among Moroccan youth and violent tendencies in radical Islam are accused of being propagandists of the extreme-right, Continue reading
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*** NCAA DIVISION TWO ***
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The two teams still standing in this tournament were the 2 seeds – the AUGUSTANA (SD) COLLEGE VIKINGS and the lone remaining 1 seed – the LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY RAILSPLITTERS. The Vikings put the Railsplitters in unfamiliar territory by being on top of them 43-38 at Halftime. After the break Augustana College inched further and further away from Lincoln Memorial University, ultimately winning the game by a score of 90-81. Daniel Jansen of the Vikings notched 25 points and 9 rebounds. * THE VIKINGS ARE NCAA DIVISION TWO CHAMPIONS * Continue reading
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