Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is back with another current events roundup for all you ladies and gentlemen!
Watching President Trump cleaning up the cesspool of corruption in our political establishment reminds me of a much larger version of the cleanup in New York City’s police department in the 1970s following Frank Serpico’s revelations.
And those revelations were just the tip of the iceberg as you can read in the non-fiction book Prince of the City (NOT the fictional film based on it). The corruption was so pervasive that some were even contemplating bringing in the National Guard to replace the New York City police so that hiring could start from scratch once all the incriminated parties were rooted out.
For another comparison remember the real-life efforts of prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino as they tried to end organized crime’s control of Sicily’s governmental figures. They were eventually assassinated after years of having the entire corrupt system against them. The non-fiction book Excellent Cadavers is a great way to familiarize yourself with them.
Long years ago, when I first read that book (full title Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic) I thought at the time that any real attempt in America to clean up our institutionalized political corruption would resemble that situation. Obviously on a much larger scale, of course.
The Establishment Sewer is fighting back, and the outcome of this first dedicated pushback against America’s bought and paid for officeholders and bureaucrats is still uncertain. Our repulsive “intelligence agencies” may try anything and “By Any Means Necessary” has long been the motto of America’s fascist Democrat Party.
Even worse, Trump has made some unforced errors and lapsed into foolish distractions like the whole “51st State” nonsense with Canada. He’s still a de facto Third Party President and given the unreliability of A LOT of Congressional Republicans massive betrayal could come at any time.
The most likely danger may not be that dramatic, however, and may instead manifest in the form of the general public’s tendency to pretend “the good guys won” after a major event and go back to ignoring politics while the rot resumes spreading. Interesting times ahead.
ALLEN WEST COURAGEOUSLY POINTS OUT SEVERAL ATROCITIES FROM DEMOCRAT PARTY HISTORY.
SURVEY: MORE AMERICANS TRUST TRUMP THAN TRUST THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA FOR FAIR, FULL AND ACCURATE FACTS. And no wonder.
DEMOCRAT POLLSTER FINDS DEMOCRATS NOW DOWN TO 35% APPROVAL, WHILE TRUMP IS AT 57% APPROVAL.
WISCONSIN’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR SUPPORTS BILL TO CHANGE THE WORD “MOTHER” TO “INSEMINATED PERSON” IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PARTY’S TRANS RELIGION. Continue reading
BIG HAWAII (1977) – From a promising pilot movie to “poof” it’s canceled – that’s the story of and that’s the glory of Big Hawaii. I’ve rarely seen such a pronounced overhaul from a pilot movie to the resulting series. 
BIG HAWAII: DANGER IN PARADISE (May 12th, 1977) – The creative team came so close to changing the future of 1970s prime time programming by getting the jump on Dallas, which did not come out until 1978. The network suits or somebody chickened out after this powerhouse pilot movie. 
JOHN DEHNER, forever remembered as the voice of Paladin on the Have Gun Will Travel radio western, played Barrett Fears, patriarch of the Fears family and a veteran power player in what would soon become Jock Ewing fashion. 
INA BALIN as Barrett’s second wife Marla embodied the older-but-still-hot female character that would soon define a genre. Think Joan Collins and Linda Evans on Dynasty, Abby Dalton, Susan Sullivan and many more on Falcon Crest, Barbara Rush and Stella Stevens on Flamingo Road, Katharine Ross on The Colbys plus a few others I’m probably forgetting. 
BESS THE DETECTRESS – Bess Meredyth was a silent film starlet, writer and director. This particular blog post will focus on her Bess the Detectress character at Universal Studios but in the future Balladeer’s Blog will cover other aspects of her life and career. 
BESS THE DETECTRESS IN THE OLD MILL AT MIDNIGHT (Jun 1914) – The first short in the Bess the Detectress series. When the stage show she was performing in closes as a flop, Bess is left scrambling for her next meal. She spots a Wanted poster offering a reward of $200.00 (equal to $6,300 in 2025) for the capture of the male outlaw Honey Hall. 
FIRST, I AM DOING WHAT ANY SUCH LIST COMPILER SHOULD DO IF THEY ARE TRYING TO BE AS OBJECTIVE AS POSSIBLE: I am omitting the most recent presidents because of the way emotion (and hysteria in some cases) can color perceptions of them. Presidential rankings lists which go all the way up to the present year are used simply as partisan political propaganda, not as true assessments.
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