From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s another current events roundup.
JOE BIDEN’S OWNERS IN CHINA’S GOVERNMENT HACKED INTO YET ANOTHER TELECOMS FIRM TO SPY ON AMERICAN CITIZENS. I will say for the umpteenth time that buying Joe Biden was the best investment that China’s government ever made. Joe Biden is humanoid bacteria.
A REMINDER OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF OF JOE BIDEN MEETING WITH CHINA FIGURES FUNNELING MONEY THROUGH HIS SON HUNTER BIDEN EVEN THOUGH JOE KEPT DENYING HAVING EVER MET THEM. Much more HERE. And Democrat media outlets ignored Biden’s lies.
BIDENOMICS: HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA INCREASED BY A RECORD EIGHTEEN PERCENT THIS YEAR. And that’s on top of the 12% increase in 2023. Joe Biden’s war on the working class and the poor has taken its toll.
EVEN THE BIDEN REGIME’S OWN HUD FORCED TO ADMIT HOMELESSNESS IS AT ITS HIGHEST LEVEL IN MODERN HISTORY UNDER JOE. And that’s just part of Biden’s dark, horrific legacy.
GALLUP POLL: ONLY NINETEEN PERCENT ARE SATISFIED WITH THE STATE OF THE U.S. UNDER JOE BIDEN. The career criminal’s actions since being knocked out of the race by Trump in the debate certainly didn’t help. More HERE.
NEWSWEEK’S SENIOR EDITOR-AT-LARGE STATES THAT DONALD TRUMP’S FOREIGN POLICY DURING HIS FIRST TERM WAS “NOTHING SHORT OF GENIUS.” Delusional Democrats will hate him and ostracize him now for speaking such truth to their power. Continue reading
Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end-of-year retrospective concludes with this look at September’s best. 
RED SUN (1971) – My review of this action western which starred Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress and Capucine. Outlaw Charles Bronson joins forces with samurai Mifune to recover a ceremonial sword (and a fortune in gold) stolen during a train robbery by Delon. Capucine and Ursula are a pair of dangerous ladies. Click 
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: A VOYAGE INTO TARTARY (1689) – I reviewed this long-ago sci-fi novel about the discovery of a futuristic city whose inhabitants had flying machines, ray-guns, and telescopes which had let them see forests and unknown life-forms on the moon. The city’s science had also spawned genetically engineered hybrid creatures. Click 
HEADMASTER (1970) – This example of Forgotten Television starred Andy Griffith in his first post-Mayberry sitcom role. He played the new headmaster at a private academy in California. Jerry Van Dyke co-starred. Click 
MICRONAUTS: THE SWORD IN THE STAR – The Micronauts scour the Microverse/ Quantum Realm on a quest for a relic called the Sword in the Star. The fate of two universes rests on finding it. Click 
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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