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JANUARY 1976 MARVEL STORIES

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog resumes my old January by January look at what stories Marvel had out that month.

ff 166FANTASTIC FOUR Vol 1 #166 (January 1976)

Title: If It’s Tuesday, It Must be the Hulk

Villain: Hulk

Synopsis: The U.S. Army calls in the Fantastic Four to help them corral the fugitive Hulk now that Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) has invented a new device which might be able to cure Bruce Banner once and for all.

Through teamwork, the F.F. manage to capture the Hulk. Back at the army facility, Reed’s device works, but the Thing, outraged at the inhumane treatment of the captive Bruce Banner, mucks thing up, causing Bruce to turn back into the Hulk. Continue reading

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JULY TWELFTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, as always coming to you from a land where senile graft-grabber and career criminal Joe Biden spends more time trying to distract from how unfit he is than he does on any of his responsibilities.

biden bloodJOE BIDEN CALLED OUT FOR CALLOUSLY IGNORING THE HURRICANE BERYL DISASTER. The repulsive Republican George W. Bush had Hurricane Katrina, and the repulsive Democrat Joe Biden has Hurricane Beryl. Grotesque.

NBC DEMOCRAT CHUCK TODD AND POLITICO DEMOCRAT JONATHAN MARTIN ADMIT THEY’VE BEEN COVERING UP FOR BIDEN’S UNFITNESS “FOR YEARS.” It’s always “The Party uber alles” with such non-journalists. They don’t deserve to be trusted. More HERE.

NO CABINET MEETINGS IN NINE MONTHS? BIDEN “STEALTH RELEASING” HIS DELEGATES TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE OTHER THAN HIM AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION? Wow! If only we had a media curious enough to press Joe Biden on any of this.

media biasMEDIA-GATE CONTINUES: MILWAUKEE RADIO STATION EXPOSED FOR ALLOWING THE BIDEN REGIME TO MAKE THEM EDIT OUT JOE’S RAMBLING GIBBERISH IN ORDER TO COVER UP HIS UNFITNESS.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR SHERROD BROWN BLASTED FOR COVERING UP JOE BIDEN’S CONDITION. White-collar criminals clinging together like bacteria. A Senator practicing “omerta.”  

BIDENS IN THE BUNKER: REPORT STATES UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN IS JOE’S “ACTING CHIEF OF STAFF.” The Biden Crime Family, as people say.

azealia banksAZEALEA BANKS REMAINS A TRUMP SUPPORTER; REAFFIRMING HER PRAISE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP IN HER INTERVIEW WITH THE STANDARD. More HERE.

CULTISTS: THE DEMOCRATS ON THE VIEW SINK TO NEW DEPTHS TO DEFEND BIDEN, WITH WHOOPIE ADMITTING SHE SOMETIMES SOILS HERSELF LIKE JOE DOES. What these clowns won’t do for The Party, even debasing themselves just to share shame with their Regime’s ring-leader. Continue reading

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THE ALASKANS (1959-1960) FRONTIERADO TV SERIES

The Frontierado holiday is about the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality. This year it will be observed on Friday August 2nd. Here’s another seasonal post.

moore and provineTHE ALASKANS (1959-1960) – The gold rushes in Alaska during the late 1890s and early 1900s provided the usual tableaus of boom towns, claim-jumping, gambling and gunslinging. Unlike such rushes in the Continental United States, the frigid temperatures and monumental snows of Alaska added unique twists to the wild west feel of gold-seeking.

Previously, Balladeer’s Blog covered Alaskan prospectors, gunslingers and gamblers like the Montana Kid, Swiftwater Bill, Klondike Kate, One-Eyed Riley, Silent Sam Bonnifield and others HERE. The Alaskans starred Roger Moore, Dorothy Provine, Ray Danton, John Dehner and Claude Akins searching for gold in the 1890s.   

alaskansThe series was produced by the same outfit behind James Garner’s iconic series Maverick and featured Roger Moore’s character Silky Harris, who ran con games and gambled with as much skill as he displayed at gunplay. Dorothy Provine’s Rocky Shaw was a Klondike Kate-style saloon entertainer who knew how to handle herself in rough company.

John Dehner appeared as the real-life figure Soapy Smith, infamous crime lord of the frozen north. Balladeer’s Blog examined Soapy’s career of crime in Denver and later in Alaska HERE.
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RIN TIN TIN: HIS SILENT FILMS

rin tin tin at typewriterRIN TIN TIN (1918-1932) – Here at Balladeer’s Blog, I’m even fonder of dogs than I am of silent movies, so this post will combine the two topics. Sadly, most silent films have become so little remembered that few people even realize that there actually WAS a real Rin Tin Tin, adopted by American soldiers during World War One.

Amid battles in September of 1918, Corporal Lee Duncan of the 135th Aero Squadron was doing recon work on a bombed-out area near Flirey, France. One of the buildings had been a breeding kennel for German Shepherds trained for Kaiser Wilhelm’s troops. The only animals still alive were a starving mother with five nursing puppies who were so young their eyes had not even opened yet.   

Duncan adopted the six German Shepherds and took them back to his unit. His superiors permitted the mother to be given to an officer, one each of the puppies to three enlisted men and the final two – a boy and a girl – were adopted by Lee Duncan himself and named Rin Tin Tin and Nanette. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JULY NINTH

 Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents another current events roundup from the land where corrupt career politicians run the country like a Mafia bust-out operation.

casey cartel“CASEY CARTEL” – A REPORT ON DEMOCRAT SENATOR BOB CASEY AND HIS FAMILY’S QUESTIONABLE GRAFT ACTIVITIES. Have I mentioned lately that America’s career criminals – and often their family members – tend to be white-collar criminals? I thought I had.

NON-PARTISAN ETHICS GROUP ACCUSES DEMOCRAT GWEN MOORE OF RUNNING A “SCAM PAC.”  

HUFF-PO, THE SITE FOR HUFFY, POST-MENOPAUSAL WHITE DEMOCRATS ACTUALLY ENCOURAGES THE BIDEN REGIME TO USE A.I. TO MAKE BIDEN LOOK MORE ALERT. You can’t make up this stuff. 

the party on bidens unfitnessA LOOK AT THE MEDIA COVERUP ON HOW UNFIT FOR OFFICE JOE BIDEN IS. More HERE. And considering that Democrats refuse to have his Vice President Kamala Harris replace him I guess they’re admitting that they knew that NEITHER their presidential NOR vice-presidential candidates in 2020 were fit for office.

DERANGED DEMOCRATS STILL INSISTING THAT THE SUPREME COURT DECISION MEANS JOE BIDEN HAS “IMMUNITY” TO ARREST REPUBLICAN OPPONENTS AT WILL AND TO LET THE F.B.I. USE DEADLY FORCE TO GIVE DEMOCRATS CONTROL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Have I mentioned lately that people who spend their every waking moment hating Trump are the most ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable people I’ve ever observed?

MORE UNHINGED ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA

EXPLOSIVE STORY ABOUT HOW THE MEDIA COVERED UP BIDEN’S UNFITNESS DURING MEETINGS WITH ALLIES. More HERE.

biden blustering like a foolBIDEN STATES HE IS “RUNNING THE WORLD” We all know what he meant, but if Trump had made that statement we also know that the media would be frantically claiming it proved he wanted to be a dictator.

ANOTHER ROUND OF TAXPAYER-FUNDED DEBIT CARDS HANDED OUT BY DEMOCRATS TO NEW YORK CITY’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FLOOD.

DEMOCRATS FIGHTING BILL IN CONGRESS THAT WOULD PREVENT ILLEGALS FROM VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS. And they’re buying the votes of illegals via debit cards paid for by the little people.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE GETTING CERTAIN SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS IMMEDIATELY. Another way Democrats are buying their votes. Continue reading

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MARCH 2022: A LOOK BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

biden crime family shirtMORE REVELATIONS ABOUT THE INFLUENCE PEDDLING SCAM OF JOE BIDEN AND HIS SON HUNTER, THE UNDERBOSS OF THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. And that was March of 2022. Much more has come out since then.

DEMOCRATIC MEDIA OUTLETS CAUGHT COVERING UP HUNTER BIDEN’S CORRUPTION. More HERE.

MORE LONG-AGO PROOF OF JOE BIDEN’S UNFITNESS FOR OFFICE – HE SENILELY BABBLED SECRET INFORMATION IN BRUSSELS. Never forget how the media covered up how unfit Biden was, from 2020 onward.

pelosi old and defeatedNANCY PELOSI’S RAMPANT CORRUPTION. And her husband’s, too, HERE.

HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP CONTAINED DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ENCRYPTION CODES. Don’t let this fall down the Memory Hole, either.

MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT CHARGED WITH BALLOT TAMPERING AND MORE IN THE FOREVER-TAINTED 2020 ELECTION. Remember the Democrats boasting about “fortifying” the 2020 election?

Biden and Bush asterisks

“I didn’t really win mine, either.”

WISCONSIN JUDGE ORDERS THE STATE’S DEMOCRAT HOUSE SPEAKER TO TURN OVER EVIDENCE IN PROBE OF 2020 ELECTION CORRUPTION. The 2020 election was as corrupt and tainted as the ones in 1876 and 2000.

ARIZONA SENATE PROBE FINDS OVER 200,000 BIDEN BALLOTS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISQUALIFIED BUT WERE COUNTED IN THE 2020 ELECTION. Joe Biden, George W. Bush and Rutherford B. Hayes were all “selected, not elected.”

MARK ZUCKERBERG FOUND VIOLATING WISCONSIN’S ELECTION LAWS WITH HIS DEMOCRAT BALLOT “ASSISTANCE” IN THE 2020 ELECTION. More HERE. Continue reading

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JULY FIFTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

 Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents another current events roundup from the land where an alarming number of alleged adults have zero comprehension of how their own government works.

EMERGENCY MOTION FILED TO STOP THE DEMOCRAT PLAN TO ALLOW VOTING IN 2024 TO NON-CITIZENS. The people who feign concern for “democracy” always pull the sleaziest maneuvers.

meme of trump hatersDERANGED AND UNSTABLE TRUMP-HATERS LITERALLY TALKING ABOUT KILLING FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO SUPPORT TRUMP “BEFORE THEY KILL YOU.” These bizarre little people are insane. More about Trump Derangement Syndrome HERE. More on the court decision HERE

TRUMP-HATERS ARE ALSO SO IGNORANT AND UNINFORMED THEY ACTUALLY THINK THAT THE SUPREME COURT’S RECENT DECISION MEANS THAT PRESIDENTS CAN RANDOMLY ASSASSINATE PEOPLE AND MORE. I will say for the umpteenth time that the people who froth at the mouth about Trump during their every waking moment are not capable of rationally following nuanced language in court decisions.

          democrat party platformTo make up for their stupidity they jump to the wildest, most unrealistic assumptions and seem absolutely convinced that their delusions are real. We share a country with these panicked imbeciles.

ANTI-TRUMP “ACTRESS” CALLS FOR BIDEN TO KILL DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. She honestly seems to think that the Supreme Court decision means Biden would have “immunity” to do this. Trump-haters like this are the lowest of the low. How moronic can they be? 

if you wereFORMER NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR COURAGEOUSLY CALLS OUT THE FAILURE OF DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS FOR COVERING UP FOR BIDEN’S UNFITNESS. They covered up his crimes, too. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE. And especially HERE.

JOCELYN NUNGARAY’S GRANDFATHER SAYS “GOD BLESS” DONALD TRUMP FOR CALLING US. Understandable. A Democrat candidate for president would be siding with an illegal immigrant who murdered rather than with the victims of the crime. More HERE.

JAMES WOODS HEROICALLY CRUSHES BIDEN OVER HIS VIOLATION OF THE SUPREME COURT RULING BY CONTINUING TO WIPE OUT THE STUDENT LOAN DEBT OF SELECT PRIVILEGED DEMOCRATS Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: JULY SECOND

Another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, from the land where the political prosecution of the opposition leader proved why the Presidential Immunity concept is necessary. Our career politicians are too corrupt not to abuse the court system.  

trump smilingTRUMP-HATERS ACT STUNNED BY WHAT WE ALL KNEW WAS COMING IN TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY CASE. More HERE. They need to relax, though. For the aspects sent back to the lower court the anti-Trump bias there means they will pretend virtually nothing he did was an “official act.”

ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA CONTINUES AS IGNORANT, UNINFORMED AND EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE DEMOCRATS PRETEND TRUMP CAN SEND THE NAVY SEALS AFTER THEM. Can these people ever state rational opinions instead of being drama queens?

democrats are the real racistsDEMOCRAT RACISM STILL FUELING THEIR DESIRE TO BYPASS VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS IF THEY REPLACE BIDEN. How much do Democrats hate black people for them to tell the public that Kamala is worse than the senile little graft-grabber Joe Biden?

CLUELESS JOE BIDEN STILL HYPING THE NON-EXISTENT “INSURRECTION” (LMAO) OF JANUARY 6th, 2021. The imbecile even read “end of quote” off his teleprompter. He also forgot the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Democrat prosecutors were wrong in HUNDREDS of cases regarding their political prisoners who were merely protesting that day, so THEIR sentences will be getting lightened, too.

biden derangedMSNBC’S WALLACE PRETENDS THAT SHE’LL BE TARGETED AND “PEOPLE WILL FLEE THE COUNTRY.” But she forgot about the way Joe Biden’s rape accuser Tara Reade REALLY DID have to flee the country to be safe from the Biden Regime. 

SUPREME COURT’S OTHER RECENT DECISION ELIMINATED THE “INSURRECTION” (LMAO) NARRATIVE. Well, for people who care about facts. Anti-Trump loons will still pretend it was an insurrection even though NOTHING THAT HAPPENED THAT DAY COULD POSSIBLY HAVE RETURNED TRUMP TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Continue reading

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ANOTHER RUM MAKES THE LIST JUST IN TIME FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY

Squeezing in at nearly the eleventh hour is one last new rum for the 2024 list of Balladeer’s Blog’s Favorite Rums for the Independence Day holiday.

blackheart rumBLACKHEART RUM – Made in America, this rum product is described by the distillers as “rich in flavor and edgy to the core.” Blackheart Rum comes in at 93 proof. 

TASTING NOTES

Nose – Mix of cinnamon, fennel, caramel and licorice.

Palate – Spicy and flavorful, with notes of cherry, cream and molasses.

Finish – Finishes with a tantalizing taste and a tinge of spice.

LORE – With my oddball sense of humor I thoroughly enjoyed the elaborate, tongue-in-cheek backstory that Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc. came up with for this rum’s mascot. Ready for it?  Continue reading

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BIDEN DIDN’T JUST BECOME THIS WAY, WE KNEW IN 2020

biden in 2021

JOE BIDEN IN 2021, ALREADY LOOKING AS FAR GONE AND PATHETIC AS HE LOOKED IN THURSDAY NIGHT’S DEBATE. THIS IS NOTHING NEW.

Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, I’ve been deluged with remarks, emails, text messages, etc. ever since Thursday night when Joe Biden once again behaved as unfit for office as he’s been since 2020. Some were surprised that I hadn’t immediately posted a crowing account of how – even with the host network’s accommodations for his unfitness that NO sitting president should ever be given – Biden once again behaved as poorly as we have all seen him do in countless video clips from recent years.   

unfit and pathetic bidenRather than just focus on how idiotically Old Soils Himself behaved Thursday night I will first offer some reminders about how the Democrat Party, the Bidens themselves and ESPECIALLY Democrat media outlets have been running cover for Biden’s unfitness for the past four years. Remember how the Democrats were most recently pretending video footage of Biden’s imbecility were “deep fakes” or “taken out of context.”

Legitimate questions were ignored regarding the Media Wall of Protection around Biden that has been lying to the voters for years now. The Party kept claiming Biden was sharp-minded and alert and that his “just a few hours and done for the day” conduct was just opposition party propaganda and not proof of his unfit condition.

biden embarrassingOne of the benefits of my series of blog posts looking back on the national scene under President Donald Trump and then following the installation of Joe Biden has been seeing how short the public memory is. Every week those posts produced “Hey, yeah, I forgot all about that” reactions from people.

Rather than just dump them all in one long blog post, I will recap the most crucial items in the days ahead. Even if the Democrats drop Biden I will still be making these posts because the monumental dishonesty of the Democrat Party and their media outlets as they forced the pathetic little crook Joe Biden on us NEEDS more attention than the topic has gotten so far.

Joe Biden dem in dementiaFirst, there was this satirical depiction of Joe Biden’s unfitness and inability to truly campaign in 2020 as he hid away from the public as much as possible. It’s a hilarious video: WEEKEND AT BIDEN’S. It could still be rerun here in 2024 because Biden’s unfitness is still apparent to everyone except people who refuse to ever read or watch media outlets that don’t play to their own biases and preconceived notions.

Lastly for this time is THIS 2021 ITEM FROM THE U.K. – yes, 2021 – and the reporter correctly points out how clear Biden’s unfitness already was, AND how clearly the media had failed to properly cover Biden’s inadequacies, AND how it was still going on as even then Democrat “reporters” were helping Biden through his public appearances. The whole item is HERE, but first, some excerpts reminding us that Joe Biden didn’t just suddenly become what he was Thursday night. From 2021:

     “(the) reason why too few realised what the world was going to get from a Biden presidency is that the US media simply didn’t ask the questions it needed to ask. Before the election a near entirety of the American media gave up covering it and simply campaigned for the Democrat nominee.” (NOTE FROM BALLADEER: And so did the near entirety of the British media and other European media.)

“Instead, they just hung on his every incoherent sentence and accepted his pronouncements (generally beginning with “Look”) as if they had any more idea than he did about whatever point he was forever struggling to make.”

“Until you see it up close you just cannot believe the cravenness of most of the American media. Last month the CNN presenter Don Lemon was selected to quiz Biden at a “town hall” event before the cameras. Biden was, as usual, meandering and unfocused as though lost in the fog of his own sentences. But Lemon would not press him properly … It wasn’t journalism. It wasn’t even kindness. He was rooting for the president.” Continue reading

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