Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog provides another current events roundup from an America where Democrats have made embracing war, transing children and advocating for political corruption their platform.
CBS NEWS/ YOUGOV POLL: SEVENTY-SIX PERCENT APPROVE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SPEECH BEFORE CONGRESS. Yet Democrats still pretend it was “divisive.” (?)
Over three-quarters of viewers also approved of Speaker Mike Johnson ordering the Sergeant at Arms to eject the unstable Rep. Al Green (D-TX) for his deranged behavior and for disrupting the president’s speech despite warnings. (Remember when Democrats pretended that simply calling Obama a liar during a Congressional address was unacceptable?) More HERE.
TRUMP HEARTWARMINGLY MAKES YOUNGSTER WITH BRAIN CANCER AN HONORARY SECRET SERVICE AGENT. Democrats refused to stand for the child. I guess they were too busy telling each other how “compassionate” they consider themselves to be.
PRESIDENT TRUMP READS LETTER FROM LITTLE MAN ZELENSKY, WHO SIMPERINGLY BEGS FOR A CHANCE TO SIGN THE DEAL HE COULD HAVE SIGNED A FEW DAYS AGO. People can support Ukraine but not support the sleazy toad Zelensky, y’know. No one man is synonymous with a nation.
STEPHEN A. SMITH SKILLFULLY DEFENDS TRUMP FROM IGNORANT JOY BEHAR.
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE PRESIDENT SPEAKS OUT ON HOW DEMOCRATS WERE FUNNELING USAID MONEY TO THEIR OWN CAMPAIGN COFFERS. Monumental scandal continues to be exposed. Continue reading
THE MYSTERY OF DR. FU MANCHU (1923) – One of the earliest, if not THE earliest, big screen adaptations of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels, which launched in 1913. The tales depicted the brilliant Chinese figure Dr. Fu Manchu at most plotting global domination but most often uniting many Far Eastern races against White Colonial nations to drive them out of Asia. 
THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) 
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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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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