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December 9, 2024 · 8:44 am

NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: DEC NINTH

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

trump fistTRUMP STATES HE WON’T TARGET JOE BIDEN. Trump also refrained from prosecuting Hillary Clinton right after his 2016 victory, too. Democrats ungratefully reacted to that magnanimous gesture by trying to destroy him daily. We’ll have to see what comes of his compassion toward career criminal Joe Biden.

TRUMP MAKES IT CLEAR ONCE AGAIN THAT HE WILL NOT CUT SOCIAL SECURITY, NOR DID HE DO THAT IN HIS FIRST TERM. But Democrats are still going by their same script of lies.

WESLEY HUNT BACKS PRESIDENT TRUMP ON DEFENSE SECRETARY.

TALK OF HEROIC DANIEL PENNY RECEIVING CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.

ASSAD’S SYRIAN REGIME FALLS, FILES ABANDONED.

ERIC ADAMS WON’T RULE OUT LEAVING THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. And who could blame him if he does?

TRUMP SPARKS BREAKTHROUGH IN HAMAS HOSTAGE STANDOFF. Continue reading →

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December 6, 2024 · 2:57 pm

DEC SIXTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s another current events roundup.

biden wretchedJOHNSON: TRUST IN OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM HAS BEEN ALMOST IRREPARABLY DAMAGED BY THE BIDENS.

I’m not sure “almost” is the word.

CAREER CRIMINAL JOE BIDEN EMBARRASSED HIMSELF IN ANGOLA. More HERE.

trump teamPRESIDENT TRUMP’S LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN.

GREAT PIECE ABOUT HOW SO MANY ELECTED REPUBLICANS “STILL DON’T GET IT.” More HERE.

OPTIMISM AMONG AMERICAN FARMERS SURGES AFTER TRUMP VICTORY.

JOE BIDEN’S CALLOUSNESS TOWARD THE AMERICANS STILL HELD HOSTAGE GETS CALLED OUT. Continue reading →

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December 5, 2024 · 3:19 pm

BEST OF FEBRUARY 2024

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end-of-year retrospective continues with this look at February’s Best.

FURIOUS (1984) – The Rhee Brothers star in one of the most joyously bad and disjointed martial arts movies of all time.

My review is HERE.

BALLADEER’S BLOG RANKS THE PRESIDENTS – And I do it the way that ANYONE trying to be objective would do it – by omitting the most recent presidents because there is still too much emotion surrounding the perception of such figures. Click HERE.

AUSTRALIA’S SUPERHEROES OF THE 1940s & 1950s – An examination of Atom-Girl, the Grey Domino, Jet Fury, the Blue Ghost, the Vesuvian and many more HERE.

MY TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE PAST FIFTY YEARS – Click HERE. Some expected titles plus a few surprises.

QUENTIN DURWARD (1971) – A French-German television series about Sir Walter Scott’s lesser-known swashbuckling hero. It was produced in the same spirit as Desert Crusader and The Flashing Blade. My review is HERE.

Continue reading →

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December 4, 2024 · 1:26 pm

NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: DEC 4th

Here is another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

GREAT LIST OF THE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF CRIMES THAT UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN WAS JUST PARDONED FOR. Plus it’s important to remember that a pardon means that Hunter can no longer invoke the 5th Amendment if called to testify regarding any of the crimes that his father and his associates are being investigated for.

           Joe Biden would have to pardon himself and all his co-conspirators to avoid such a situation. He may do that. I wouldn’t be surprised.

ANOTHER GREAT LIST – THIS ONE OF THE LIES INFLICTED ON THE PUBLIC BY DEMOCRAT NEWS OUTLETS.

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

TRUMP’S DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY (D.O.G.E.) SET TO TARGET “FEATHERBED”, UNNECESSARY JOBS THAT POLITICIANS LIKE NANCY PELOSI GIVE FAMILY AND FRIENDS AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE.

ARTICLE SAYS “THE WORLD IS HEALING” AS TRUMP IS ALREADY HARD AT WORK.

JENNINGS: “BIDEN IS LEAVING OFFICE IN COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISGRACE.” He has a point. Trump knocked him out of the race in the debate, defeated Joe’s hand-picked successor and there are all the Biden scandals.

VILLAGE PEOPLE MEMBER THANKS TRUMP FOR USING HIS SONG YMCA. Continue reading →

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December 3, 2024 · 11:07 pm

THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ (1904) BOOK REVIEW

marvelous land of ozTHE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ (1904) – We’ve all been exposed to countless variations of the adventures of Dorothy Gale and company in Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Therefore I’m starting my reviews of the Oz books with the second in the series – The Marvelous Land of Oz.   

A little boy named Tip lives with the mean-spirited witch Mombi as his adult “guardian.” One day Tip mischievously plans a bit of revenge on Mombi by building a pumpkin-headed figure made of wood, branches and old clothes. He then positions the figure – named Jack Pumpkinhead – to scare the evil witch when she arrives home.

pumpkinhead and tipThe nasty old witch is unfazed and further proves she’s not scared by sprinkling the pumpkin-headed figure with a magical Powder of Life. The powder brings Jack Pumpkinhead to life but he’s very naive and ignorant.

When Mombi threatens to turn Tip into a marble statue as revenge for trying to scare her, the boy steals some of her Powder of Life and runs away with Jack Pumpkinhead as a traveling companion. Tip sprinkles some of the powder on a sawhorse, bringing it to life as a mount for Jack, who is still unsteady on his legs.

Thus begins another adventure throughout the bizarre Land of Oz. Among the other characters encountered by Tip, Jack and the Sawhorse: Continue reading →

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December 2, 2024 · 6:00 pm

BEST OF JANUARY 2024

Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective begins with this look at January’s Best.

DICK TURPIN (1925) – My review of this silent movie which starred American cowboy star Tom Mix trading in his rifle and six-guns for a sword and pistols in an exciting film about England’s real-life outlaw Dick Turpin. It’s HERE.

SAM SPADE – I take a look at Dashiell Hammett’s four overlooked 1932 short stories about his hard-boiled detective from The Maltese Falcon. Read it HERE.

SCARFOLK: LIKE MY MILWAUKEE CROSSED WITH LOCAL 58 TV – Richard Littler’s eerie, dark-humored presentations of the lore behind his fictional English town of Scarfolk has been presented as a website and then as a few books. Experience 1984 and Twin Peaks wrapped into one HERE.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE’S STORYBOOK (1958-1961) – This bit of Forgotten Television featured Temple starring alongside some of the biggest celebrities of the day in child-safe dramatizations of classics from children’s literature. Click HERE.

BRITISH-MADE SUPERHEROES OF THE 1940s – My look at forgotten characters like Streamline, Electro-Girl, Captain Magnet, Acromaid, Tiger-Man and over twenty more HERE.

DESERT CRUSADER (1968-1969) – A French tv series about Thibaud (tee-bow), a French knight who has adventures along the road to the Holy Land in between the 1st and 2nd Crusades. My review is HERE.

THE FLASHING BLADE (1967) – A similar French tv series. Dumas meets Sabatini in this swashbuckling tale of Francois, Chevalier de Recci, from 1628-1631. HERE.

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: ADVENTURES OF JAMES MASSEY (1714) – A novel about the title character finding an island of giant-sized birds, odd plant-life, bear-sized beavers and strange human beings, both “normal” and ape-like. It’s HERE. Continue reading →

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December 2, 2024 · 4:30 am

DEC 2nd ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here is another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHY PEOPLE ARE ACTING SO SURPRISED THAT JOE BIDEN, HEAD OF THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY, LIED ABOUT NOT PARDONING HIS UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN. For years I’ve stated that part of why Hunter deserves so much contempt is because we all know he’ll be pardoned. The country has gone through this type of thing since at least 40 or 50 years ago. 

           Outgoing presidents unleash a flurry of clearly unethical pardons during their last few months in office. It’s disgusting, yes, but it’s hardly a surprise that the Biden Regime, a Banana Republic level of a political sewer, would pursue the same strategy to protect its capos and its Underboss.

STILL, I IMAGINE PEOPLE WANT LINKS TO THE ARTICLES EXPRESSING OUTRAGE, SO I’M PROVIDING SOME HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And HERE. 

ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT THE DAMAGE TO DEMOCRACY BEING DONE BY LETTING CALIFORNIA’S LATE-COUNT MADNESS CONTINUE. It’s like my frequent joke about a Democrat slogan – “The campaign never ends. And neither will our discovery of ‘uncounted’ votes for our candidates.”

CANADA’S BLACKFACE PERFORMER AND POLITICIAN JUSTIN TRUDEAU CRAWLS TO MAR-A-LAGO.

FURTHER REPORTS OF JOE BIDEN’S REGIME PLOTTING TO GIVE ZELENSKY NUCLEAR WEAPONS BACK. Joe Biden would apparently prefer mushroom clouds to his crime family’s atrocities in Ukraine getting exposed. Continue reading →

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November 29, 2024 · 9:37 am

NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: NOV 29th

polish official saysIt’s time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

POLISH OFFICIAL CONFIRMS THAT DEMOCRAT SCAM WITH ZELENSKY FUNNELED HALF OF U.S. AID BACK TO BIDEN REGIME AND OTHER CORRUPT POLITICIANS. And the Biden Crime Organization just gave twenty-four BILLION more to their coconspirator Zelensky. Bigger than the Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier Scandals combined.

CALIFORNIA’S ONGOING LONG COUNT OF ELECTION RESULTS HAS ALREADY FLIPPED TWO MORE HOUSE SEATS BACK TO DEMOCRATS. Since at least 2018 these long counts this far after election day have done this. It may go back even further, but 2018 was when it first caught my attention. 

DESANTIS ADDS HIS VOICE TO THE CRITICISM OF CALIFORNIA’S ABSURD ONGOING FARCE WITH FINDING “UNCOUNTED” VOTES FOR THEIR CANDIDATES THIS LONG AFTER ELECTION DAY.

LEGAL FIGHT AGAINST CALIFORNIA’S TRANSPARENT LATE COUNT CHICANERY. It’s about time!

DONALD TRUMP ONCE AGAIN NOMINATED FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, THIS TIME BY A UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL. More HERE.

CORRUPT BIDEN REGIME OPENLY SABOTAGING INCOMING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ON THEIR WAY OUT THE DOOR.

FAMILIES OF AMERICAN HOSTAGES STILL BEING HELD BY HAMAS LOOK TO TRUMP FOR HELP SINCE THE BIDEN REGIME FAILED THEM. Continue reading →

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November 28, 2024 · 11:00 am

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2024!

happy t givingHAPPY THANKSGIVING! Enjoy this holiday and the hope for peaceful coexistence represented by the possibly mythic meal that it commemorates. The kind of self-righteous killjoys who bash Thanksgiving are the type of sanctimonious idiots that are fun to laugh at since they have no identity outside of their ephemeral political concerns.

Whether you consider the tale of the first Thanksgiving to be literal or aspirational, enjoy yourselves! Be thankful that you’re not one of those heartless people who try to pollute every happy gathering with divisiveness and turn it into a showcase for the simple-minded, ankle-biting political remarks that those people laughably think are Really Deep.

How sad is it that every year they circulate those articles about which brainless talking points they should use to harass the adults at the Thanksgiving Day table?   

PREVIOUS THANKSGIVING DAY POSTS:

A THANKSGIVING STORY FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERE. Continue reading →

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November 27, 2024 · 10:12 am

NOV 27th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s another current events roundup. 

trump newBE FURTHER THANKFUL THAT TRUMP WON – BIDEN REGIME POLICIES CAUSED THANKSGIVING COSTS TO GO UP 24%. Americans look with hope to less inflation next year. 

JOE BIDEN’S LACKEYS SURRENDER AND CALL OFF LAWFARE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP, DROPPING THEIR PURELY POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF HIM. More HERE. We all knew that these cases were absolute nonsense. Only Trump-haters pretended they were legit. More HERE. We also knew the appeals courts would strike down these cases.

california outlineTHE DEMOCRATS IN CALIFORNIA AND OREGON ARE STILL FINDING VOTES. And literally 2 million more “uncounted” votes for Kamala have been found. It’s possible the goal is to pretend Kamala won the popular vote or at least argue that Trump does not have a mandate.

           Voter integrity groups need to fight this absurdity – the election was weeks ago and Democrats are still engaging in their practice of “finding” votes for their candidates long after the country stops paying attention.

THE TRUMP EFFECT: MEXICO’S PRESIDENT NOW SAYS THE LATEST MOB OF ILLEGALS WON’T BE ALLOWED TO REACH THE U.S. BORDER. As adults knew, Trump’s tariff talk was your typical bargaining stratagem. Anti-Trump fanatics are apparently still going to pretend his every move is a call for hysteria.

REPUBLICAN JOHN BOLTON, A CHRONIC FAILURE, FLAILING AGAINST TULSI GABBARD. It’s silly for Bolton of all people to pretend someone else is unqualified. Continue reading →

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