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NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIRST NEWS ROUNDUP

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE CHARGED WITH STEALING FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN FEMA FUNDS. More HERE. Have I mentioned lately that many of America’s elected officials are white-collar criminals?

DEMOCRAT EX-MAYOR CHARGED WITH DRUGGING AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A CHILD. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

EVEN THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CBS HAD TO ADMIT THAT EPSTEIN VICTIM VIRGINIA GIUFFRE CALLED TRUMP HER “HERO” AND STATED HE WAS CLEAN OF ANY WRONGDOING IN EPSTEIN’S SCANDALS.

AL GORE AND NUMEROUS CLINTON ADMINISTRATION FIGURES REPORTED AS VISITORS TO EPSTEIN’S ISLAND.

DEMOCRATS BLUSTER AS THE EPSTEIN FILES INCRIMINATE MANY, MANY OF THEIR OWN PARTY’S MOVERS AND SHAKERS. Jim Jordan lectures them HERE. And HERE.

DEMOCRAT JASMINE CROCKETT HUMILIATES HERSELF BY WRONGLY ACCUSING OPPOSITION PARTY MEMBERS OF RECEIVING MONEY FROM EPSTEIN. IT TURNED OUT TO BE THE WRONG EPSTEIN.

ICE HAS COME TO THE AID OF THIRTY THOUSAND CHILDREN TRAFFICKED UNDER THE BIDEN REGIME. Joe Biden’s creepy attraction to children – including showering with his own daughter when she was a child – is well known.

TRUMP EFFECT: ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN THOUSAND NEW JOBS ADDED IN SEPTEMBER, FAR HIGHER THAN PREDICTED. More HERE. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. 

TRUMP POLICIES CAUSE TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT DROP IN AMERICA’S TRADE DEFICIT. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER NINETEENTH

Here’s a midweek current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

U.N. PASSES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PEACE AND REBUILDING PLAN FOR GAZA AND CALLS TRUMP THE “CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF PEACE.” More HERE.

MORE SUCCESS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SLASHING OF INHUMANE FEDERAL TESTING ON ANIMALS

EPSTEIN FILES REVEAL THAT DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES SOLICITED DONATIONS AND MORE FROM JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

FURTHER REMINDERS THAT TRUMP WAS THE ONLY PROMINENT FIGURE TO CUT TIES WITH EPSTEIN AND CALL FOR INVESTIGATING HIM. Epstein’s desire to destroy Trump began then, even to the point of colluding with a Democrat Congressional figure against Trump in 2019.

LONG LIST OF DEMOCRAT SCANDALS REVEALED BY THE EPSTEIN FILES. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Trump weighs in HERE.

MARLOW OFFERS REMINDER THAT DEMOCRATS NEVER CARED ABOUT EPSTEIN’S VICTIMS WHILE JOE BIDEN WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Such ugly hypocrites.

ICE JOINT OPERATION WITH FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL RESULTS IN ARRESTS OF OVER SIX THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH SENDING NUDE PHOTOS TO A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD. Continue reading

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RYAN O’NEAL: FORGOTTEN FILMS (1969-1981)

RYAN O’NEAL – Let’s face it, Errol Flynn himself probably looked down from above with envy when it came to Ryan O’Neal’s escapades with women. And it’s a cinch that Flynn would have envied O’Neal’s acting talent, which was never spectacular but was above that of many of Hollywood’s biggest names.

In addition to the love of his life Farrah Fawcett, a partial list of the beautiful ladies who had romances with Ryan includes Joan Collins, Jacqueline Bisset, Diana Ross, Ursula Andress, Anouk Aimee and Leigh Taylor-Young. His first wife Joanna Moore praised O’Neal as “an incredible lover … totally devoted to giving a woman pleasure.” 

Ryan tried his hand at boxing, then started his film career as a stuntman before gravitating to acting. At one time he was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, but his legendary partying and volatile behavior ultimately led to him being passed over for roles that might have cemented him as an upper tier thespian in Hollywood.

In this blog post I won’t be covering Ryan O’Neal’s well-known movies like Love Story, Paper Moon, What’s Up, Doc?, Barry Lyndon, The Driver, The Main Event and others. Nor will I cover his ensemble cast flicks like A Bridge Too Far.   

GREEN ICE (1981) – Sadly, by 1981 the age of classic heist films like Rififi was long over and that may have contributed to the less than stellar box office results for this project. Ryan O’Neal starred as Joseph Wiley, a former engineer turned adventuring globe-trotter.

In Mexico, Wiley meets Anne Archer playing Lillian Holbrook, a diamond heiress running away from the life led by her stuffy family. Omar Sharif is Meno Argenti, Holbrook’s co-conspirator in a network of Colombian emerald smugglers. (Emeralds are the “green ice” of the title.)

An attempt on his life drives Wiley closer to Lillian and Argenti, but after intrigues and double-crosses involving Colombian rebels, Lillian’s missing sister and clashes with the corrupt Colombian government, Argenti emerges as the main villain.   

Meno has hoarded emeralds that were originally intended to finance the rebels and stores them in his high-tech, supposedly impregnable vault in his penthouse atop a Colombian skyscraper. Joe Wiley and Lillian Holbrook recruit Miguel (Domingo Ambriz) and Claude (THE John Larroquette) in a heist involving one-man hot-air balloons and assorted technology to steal the emeralds from Argenti’s vault. Continue reading

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NOVEMBER SEVENTEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up a current events roundup.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP CALLS FOR THE HOUSE TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES SO THE COUNTRY CAN FINALLY “MOVE ON FROM THIS DEMOCRAT HOAX.” But we all know that unless the information in those files is damning to Trump his deranged haters will just cry coverup, etc.   Remember their unhinged push to have Trump release years’ worth of tax returns and the returns proved he did nothing wrong? Yet they haven’t called for any other elected figure to have to release their returns.

PROFESSIONAL THERAPIST SAYS SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF HIS PATIENTS HAVE TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. Not at all surprising. We see it in action every day. More HERE. And HERE. Some excerpts: “Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert says that 75% of the patients he sees have a deep hatred for Trump and are ‘hyper fixated’ on him.” They hate him, but he is, after all, president of the United States, and they can’t bear to stop following politics closely enough to regain some perspective and serenity.       

Typical anti-Trump fundamentalist

They can’t sleep,” Alpert said, because “they feel traumatized by Mr. Trump.” … “I had one patient who said she couldn’t enjoy a vacation because anytime she saw Trump in the news or on her device, she felt triggered…. So this is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far as to call it the defining pathology of our time.” 

NOTE: I’ve been saying for years that people will someday look back on the slobbering psychopaths’ reaction to President Trump the same way we look back on the “Satanic Panic” in the 1980s. I even used it for the title of a blog post long ago.

PRESIDENT TRUMP PAUSES WORK TO VISIT WITH CHILDREN IN THE OVAL OFFICE

ICE IS TRYING TO SAVE FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND CHILDREN THAT THE BIDEN REGIME PLACED WITH UNVETTED SPONSORS.

EPSTEIN EMAILS REVEAL CLOSE TIES WITH OBAMA’S WHITE HOUSE LEGAL COUNSEL.

THE LATEST REMINDER ABOUT ASHLEY BIDEN’S DIARY IN WHICH SHE WROTE ABOUT HER FATHER JOE TAKING “INAPPROPRIATE” SHOWERS WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD. And how she was “probably” molested. Can you imagine the uproar from hypocritical Trump-haters if such diary entries were found from HIS children?

EPSTEIN FILES ON PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON’S TREASURY SECRETARY LARRY SUMMERS. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: CALIFORNIA WOMAN SAYS “FELLOW LIBERALS, I’M TIRED OF YOU.”

FROM DECEMBER 23rd, 2016, amid the unhinged Democrat overreaction to Trump’s election for his first term. If anything, they’ve grown even worse and certainly more violent.

DEMOCRAT PARTY

Here is ANOTHER former Democrat like me expressing their disgust with what clueless, uninformed Democrats have fundamentally transformed Liberalism into. The link to the whole item is below, but here are some excerpts from her piece:  

” … I want to share with you, from the liberal bastion of Northern California, that I am officially tired of the type of people who have surrounded me my entire life. In the wake of Trump’s election, I am experiencing ‘tribe fatigue.’ I’m not tired of The Other, Detestable Tribe. I’m tired of my own.

“I was raised a secular liberal. My college professors were secular liberals. During my journalism phase, my newspaper colleagues were secular liberals. My law school professors and peers were – in the vast majority – secular liberals. Almost everyone at my corporate law firm was a secular liberal. My California neighbors and friends are secular liberals, as are my colleagues. My mother, siblings, and their spouses are all secular liberals.

By all rights, I should be a member in good standing of their tribe, ‘liking’ their Facebook posts and joining their candlelight vigils against the evil Trump Administration. But November 8 and its aftermath revealed to me that I am just so tired of these people. I can’t be like them, and I don’t want my kids turning into them.

“I am tired of their undisguised contempt for tens of millions of Americans, with no effort to temper their response to the election with humility or empathy.

“I am tired of their unexamined snobbery and condescension.

“I am tired of their name-calling and virtue-signaling as signs of supposedly high intelligence.

“I am tired of their trendiness, jumping on every left-liberal bandwagon that comes along (transgender activism, anyone?) and then acting like anyone not on board is an idiot/hater.

“I am tired of being bored and exasperated by everybody. I feel like I have read this book a thousand times, and there are no surprises in it. Down with Trump! Trans Lives Matter! Climate deniers are destroying the planet! No cake, we’re gluten-free! Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER FOURTEENTH

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS BLOCK RELEASE OF EPSTEIN FILES.   Congressman Burchett called the Democrats’ bluff with a motion to do what they claim they want – transparency on the Epstein files – but they voted to block it. This Epstein frenzy is just another “Russia, Russia, Russia” style lie against President Trump. The Democrats obviously prefer to just leak isolated bits from the files cherry-picked to mislead people into thinking Trump was involved somehow.

A REMINDER THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES AND MICHAEL WOLFF (LEFT) “BEGGED” EPSTEIN FOR DIRT ON DONALD TRUMP BUT CAME UP EMPTY. How many times will Democrats push this farce? And how stupid are the people who still fall for it every single time? 

A LOOK AT THE MANY, MANY EMAILS THAT CLEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP AND INDICATE EPSTEIN’S PARANOIA THAT TRUMP WAS OUT TO GET HIM DECADES AGO. More HERE.    

DEMOCRATS, AFTER LYING THAT TRUMP SPENT THANKSGIVING OF 2017 WITH EPSTEIN, FINALLY DELETE THEIR CLAIM. Do 2025 Democrats EVER tell the truth?     

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP (WHO STILL SPEAKS MORE LANGUAGES THAN BOTH OBAMAS COMBINED) LAUNCH INITIATIVE TO HELP FOSTER CHILDREN.

DEMOCRATS AND THEIR MEDIA OUTLETS IGNORE WHAT THE JUST-RELEASED EPSTEIN EMAILS REVEAL ABOUT BILL CLINTON AND ABOUT OBAMA OFFICIALS. More HERE.    

AND REMEMBER THAT REDACTED VICTIM THAT DEMOCRATS IMPLIED TRUMP HAD MISCONDUCT WITH? IT WAS REALLY VIRGINIA GIUFFRE, WHO HAS ALREADY TESTIFIED THAT TRUMP WAS NOT INVOLVED IN EPSTEIN’S CRIMES. More HERE. Continue reading

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MONDO CHARLES BRONSON: HIS MOST UNUSUAL MOVIES

Charles Buchinsky, better known as Charles Bronson, was a World War Two veteran who went on to superstardom as one of the most iconic “tough guys” in film history.

Balladeer’s Blog has reviewed several of his westerns so far, but this time I’ll examine Bronson’s offbeat, uncharacteristic starring roles. 

SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR (1971) – This Eurothriller directed by Nicolas Gessner was also released as Two Minds for Murder. Charles Bronson stars as an amnesiac patient of sinister brain-surgeon and psychiatrist Laurence Jeffries (Anthony Perkins himself).

Jeffries knows his wife is cheating on him and subjects Bronson – billed as the Stranger – to unethical psychological programming to make him think the brain surgeon-psychiatrist’s wife is really his wife, then manipulate him into murdering her.

In the role of unfaithful wife Frances Jeffries is Bronson’s wife Jill Ireland, since we’re in the period when Charles dragged her into everything with him like she was Linda McCartney to his Paul. The story isn’t plausible, of course, but artsy Eurothrillers always accentuated atmosphere and “what if” situations over realistic plots. 

Anthony Perkins tones down his twitchiness a bit and Bronson is credible as the manipulated amnesiac thinking he’s met the wife his memory loss wiped from his mind.

To say anything more would give away too many spoilers. Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: ENGLAND’S NICK COHEN ON HOW THE LEFT BECAME APPALLING

From February 17th, 2016. Back when I was still referring to American Democrats as Liberals before I went along with reader requests to just say Democrats instead because they were no longer liberal and were, in fact, very illiberal.

Nick Cohen

“I make no secret of the fact that I’m tired of the outdated Liberal vs Conservative paradigm. I considered myself a Liberal back before the political left became constrictive and totalitarian … I periodically post about fellow former leftists who have also recognized that Liberals throughout the Western World have become everything they pretend to oppose. They’re just better at P.R. than right-wingers are.”

England’s Nick Cohen made plenty of remarks I can relate to:

(A Liberal) cannot break with the pressures that enforce conformity in his left-wing world and accept the real reason why many leave the left. It ought to be obvious. The left is why they leave the left. Never more so than today.”

“The shift of left-wing thought towards movements it would once have denounced as racist, imperialist and fascistic has been building for years. I come from a left-wing family … and I don’t regret any of it. But slowly, too slowly I am ashamed to say, I began to notice that left-wing politics had turned rancid. Continue reading

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NOVEMBER TWELFTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog serves up a mid-week current events roundup.

DEMOCRAT ANTIFA THUGS VIOLENTLY ATTACK PEOPLE ATTENDING A TPUSA FUNCTION AT UC-BERKELEY. More HERE. And HERE.

        It was the final stop on the speaking tour started by free speech martyr Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated back in September.

ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL HARMEET DHILLON STATES THE DOJ IS LOOKING INTO UC-BERKELEY’S POTENTIAL COMPLICITY OR NEGLIGENCE IN THE VIOLENCE AGAINST TPUSA ATTENDEES. More HERE. And HERE.

ONE OF THE VIOLENT DEMOCRAT MOB MEMBERS AT THE UC-BERKELEY ATTACK IDENTIFIED.

DEMOCRAT VIRGINIA DELEGATE CONVICTED OF COVID RELIEF FRAUD.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR SCHUMER ADMITS OBAMACARE LITERALLY FUNDS HEALTHCARE FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Unreal.

TOP AIDE TO NEW YORK’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR HOCHUL ON TRIAL FOR SPYING FOR CHINA AS AN UNREGISTERED AGENT. And earning millions for it!

TRUMP EFFECT: GOODS SEEING PRICE DECREASES COMPARED TO 2024. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime.

PRESIDENT TRUMP PRAISED FOR THE WAY HIS TARIFFS HAVE MADE IT SO U.S. AUTOMAKERS ARE NO LONGER “DISADVANTAGED” FOR MAKING VEHICLES HERE IN THE U.S Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR NOVEMBER TENTH

Here’s a Monday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where, now that the Senate advanced the measure to “reopen” the government on to the House, we’re closer to the period after every shutdown where both political parties claim they “won” that shutdown.

BBC DIRECTOR GENERAL AND THE HEAD OF THEIR “NEWS” DIVISION FORCED TO RESIGN OVER PROPAGANDISTIC AND DECEPTIVE ANTI-TRUMP BROADCAST. Splicing and recutting footage completely distorted Trump’s words and actions. So, business as usual at anti-Trump media outlets, except this time they were held accountable. Trump reacts HERE.

NEW HAMPSHIRE’S CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRAT STACIE LAUGHTON PLEADS GUILTY TO THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN. More HERE. Democrats, can you please leave children alone? If you don’t remember Laughton, he was praised by The Party as “the first openly transgender candidate elected to a state legislature.”  

Nancy Pelosi, whose policies harm the working class and the poor.

DISGRACED, PRIVILEGED WHITE ONE PERCENTER DEMOCRAT NANCY PELOSI FINALLY REMOVES HERSELF FROM CONGRESS. Her disastrous terms as Speaker of the House caused the Democrats to lose their majority two times, but The Party will praise her as she goes out the door, of course. That’s politics!

NANCY PELOSI’S INSIDER TRADING SCANDALS GO BACK MANY YEARS. Yet anti-Trump hypocrites never called for HER to provide several years’ worth of tax returns. And remember how her husband’s business conveniently got awarded lucrative government contracts over the decades? Nancy embodied the Swamp.   

PELOSI’S CORRUPT LEGACY CALLED OUT. She’s now worth two hundred eighty million dollars

BABYLON BEE’S MASTERFUL SATIRE ABOUT PELOSI’S CORRUPTION AND INSIDER TRADING. Some excerpts: “Having long been in the privileged position of using her status as a Washington power player to pad her impressive stock portfolio, Pelosi now faced the the grim reality of having to trade stocks without insider info just like a regular peasant.”  …  “It’ll be the total opposite of what I’m used to,” Pelosi reportedly told her aides. “Once I retire from public office, I’ll be forced to trade stocks blindly, just like the rest of the schmucks and peons I’ve governed for the last four decades. It’s beneath me, honestly. How am I supposed to make millions of dollars off of shady stock trades now?”  Continue reading

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