Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.
CAREER CRIMINAL JOE BIDEN RELEASES CONVICTED MURDERERS WHO KILLED ENTIRE FAMILIES INCLUDING CHILDREN. More HERE. And remember, we’ve been told Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial for his crimes, yet he’s somehow fit to continue to wield presidential powers regarding pardons, clemency and commutations.
CBS POLL: SIXTY-PERCENT SAY TRUMP’S RETURN MAKES THEM OPTIMISTIC FOR 2025. Understandable, but we still have to see what America’s corrupt political establishment may throw at Trump between now and his inauguration.
HEAD OF THE TEAMSTERS REVEALS THE POMPOSITY AND CLUELESSNESS OF KAMALA HARRIS TOWARD THE ORGANIZATION. No wonder they refused to endorse her.
OUTGOING ILLEGITIMATE BIDEN REGIME REVEALS EVEN MORE JOB STATISTICS THEY LIED ABOUT TO MAKE THEMSELVES LOOK BETTER. More HERE. Was any aspect of the Biden-Harris Regime honest?
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE EMERGES OF CAREER CRIMINAL JOE BIDEN AND HIS UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN MEETING WITH THE CHINESE OFFICIALS WHO BOUGHT THEM. More HERE. Continue reading
Balladeer’s Blog’s Fifteenth Annual Christmas Carol-a-Thon speeds toward its conclusion! For today’s installment I’m grateful to my fellow blogger at
WAITRESS AT THE INN/ TAVERN: KATH SOUCIE – The waitress who served Scrooge his dinner at the inn/ tavern he stopped at on his way home after parting company with Bob Cratchit on Christmas Eve. She is in the Dickens novel but has no dialogue and is omitted from most versions of A Christmas Carol.
GHOSTLY HEARSE DRIVER: ROY EVANS – This phantasmal character from the Dickens novel was rarely featured in screen adaptations of the Carol. Shortly after Scrooge sees Jacob Marley’s face in his door knocker, he gets a brief glimpse of this coachman driving a horsedrawn hearse. 




THE BIONIC BOY (1977) – BAD MOVIE REVIEW – I reviewed this Asian film about a boy who survives a car accident thanks to bionic replacements for some of his body parts. He seeks revenge on the gangsters who killed his parents. Read it
BUFFALO SOLDIERS – A Frontierado celebration of the famed African-American soldiers of the 1800s west. Click
RUDOLPH VALENTINO’S SILENT FILMS – I reviewed the movies of the big screen’s 1920s heart-throb and the man Susanna Hoffs sang about “kissing by a crystal-blue Italian stream.” Click
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: IN THE DEEP OF TIME (1897) – A very imaginative look at life in 2190 A.D. There are “Sun Telephones”, tripod-like vehicles for personal travel, all manner of futuristic technology for everyday life and much, much more. This work deserves far more fame. Click
THE MICRONAUTS – A look at several of their 1980s crossover stories with Marvel characters like Nick Fury & S.H.I.E.L.D., the Fantastic Four, Ant-Man and others. Plus Baron Karza returns. Click
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1914) – This British production was directed by Harold M. Shaw and runs a bit over 22 minutes. Charles Rock starred as Ebenezer Scrooge and he delivered a very good performance, diminished only by the brief running time. 
Long years ago things were always slapped together right before a shutdown while the corrupt political establishment acted like an apocalypse had been averted. But eventually, arrangements started falling through and we got “government shutdowns” (which were NEVER truly government shutdowns) that resulted in Continuing Resolutions, etc. and our white-collar criminals in office switched to hyping up the repeated “showdowns” over the C.R.s, like is going on now. 

This is one of the perennial staples of Christmastime viewing for many people. Readers are often surprised that it took me so long to review this one even though it’s one of my favorites. No special reason, it’s just that so many excellent reviews have already covered this Carol that I wanted to hit the more obscure versions first.
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THE SWAMP FOX (1959-1961) – The forgotten television series about a young Leslie Nielsen portraying Francis Marion, the guerrilla leader known as the Swamp Fox during the Revolutionary War. Click 
ANNA MARIA LANE (left) AND SALLY ST. CLAIR (far left): REVOLUTIONARY WAR HEROINES – A look at two heroines from the American Revolution. Click
BLACKE’S MAGIC (1986) – A Father’s Day look at the series which featured Hal Linden and Harry Morgan as a father-son team of stage magicians who solved seemingly impossible murders and other crimes on the side. Click
THE BLACK COAT – My look at this comic book series about a costumed Revolutionary War hero. Click 


