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NOVEMBER 2021: A LOOK BACK

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

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BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. Also covers Biden eliminating Trump’s Department of Education policy which tracked the outrageous number of sex crimes committed by teachers. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

DEMOCRATS ARE AGAIN ENCOURAGING RIOTS IF A JURY REACHES A VERDICT THEY DON’T LIKE. Only Democrat fascists would be so deranged that they would think the white Kyle Rittenhouse shooting other white people is somehow “White Supremacy.” Tulsi Gabbard and others weigh in, too.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY UNDERBOSS HUNTER BIDEN PROFITED FROM HIS FATHER JOE’S SUBMISSION TO CHINA. And remember how entangled Joe and Hunter’s finances are.

joe biden is so creepyJOE BIDEN: A FAILURE AND AN EMBARRASSMENT. Among other items, features more excerpts from Ashley Biden’s diary about her creepy, lecherous father Joe Biden – as in “Was I molested? I think so” and she also mentions taking “probably not appropriate” showers with her father when she was a child and incapable of consent.

BIDEN REGIME CORRUPTION AND SCANDAL ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER 23rd.

MORE ABOUT HUNTER’S ROLE IN BIDEN REGIME CORRUPTION. And more HERE.

steele dossierAUSTRALIAN NEWS IS ALSO COVERING THE DEBUNKING OF THE “RUSSIAN COLLUSION” LIES AGAINST TRUMP. Just as they will someday cover the debunking of the latest lies and lawfare against Trump.

JOE BIDEN DISASTERS PILE UP. Biden’s Afghanistan hostages, the impeachment articles introduced against the career criminal and more. Continue reading

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MAY 22nd ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

From an America whose corporate media will offer up the kind of gushingly reverent praise of a dead Iranian official responsible for the imprisonment and torture of untold numbers of people that they will NEVER offer up for any dead opposition party President or official, it’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

Stop Democrat ViolenceDEMOCRAT BIOLOGICAL AGENT ATTACK TARGETED AT TRUMP. I’m not even surprised at this point. Will the Democrats “denounce” this act the way they would demand that Trump denounce any similar action against his opponent? I doubt it.

ANTI-TRUMP PROPAGANDA FILM FABRICATES RAPE OF IVANA BY HER HUSBAND. IVANA PASSIONATELY SAID THAT NEVER HAPPENED. But anti-Trump fascists will use any lies that they want to try to destroy the opposition leader. And their ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable followers will believe – or pretend to believe – whatever The Party orders them to. 

fbi and doj mugging justicePRO-TRUMP WITNESS THROWN FROM COURTROOM IN MERCHAN’S KANGAROO COURT SPEAKS OUT ON THE DEVASTATING TESTIMONY THAT MERCHAN WANTS KEPT FROM THE JURORS.

VETERAN LEGAL SCHOLAR ALAN DERSHOWITZ AGAIN BLASTS MERCHAN’S OUTRAGEOUS PREJUDICIAL CONDUCT. Another legal scholar weighs in HERE.

OVER FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN GOLD BARS FOUND BY AUTHORITIES AT DEMOCRAT SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ’S HOME. Have I mentioned lately what career criminals America’s elected officials tend to be? Continue reading

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FOOL KILLER: THE BEGINNING

Fool Killer wardrobeOver five years ago Balladeer’s Blog began a detailed look at the neglected folklore surrounding the Fool Killer figure. It’s been a while since I left off and I’m about to dive back in. There are so many new readers here that I’m posting a recap of the very first Fool Killer item from the 1850s. Next time I’ll resume where I left off – in 1913. 

Fool Killer illustrationBalladeer’s Blog kicks off a multi-part examination of the neglected 1800s folk figure called the Fool Killer. I will cover the various stories featuring the Fool Killer and the different ways the character was used by the authors. If I ever examine the related character called the Rascal Whaler it will be in a separate series of blog posts.

NOTE: FOOL KILLER LORE IS STRICTLY FOR ADULTS. IT IS NOT FOR THOSE WHO ARE SIMPLE-MINDEDLY OFFENDED BY ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. 

The Fool Killer stories began in 1850s North Carolina. Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, editor of the newspaper called The Milton Chronicle, introduced the character around 1851 (some sources say as early as the late 1840s). If Evans had been a political cartoonist he might have used the Fool Killer as his mascot, like the figure Punch over in England or Puck here in the U.S.

Skull walking stick 3However, since Evans was all about the written word, he used the Fool Killer as a much more active figure. Evans’ Fool Killer – claiming Jesse Holmes as his real name – roamed North Carolina and Virginia (which at the time still consisted of what would become West Virginia) looking for fools to kill with a club/ walking stick he always carried with him. The character would then send letters to Editor Evans explaining why he had chosen victims, defending his actions with puckish commentary.

I’ve always been struck by the similarity with the way real-life serial killers would correspond with newspapers, explaining and/or defending their deeds. In the case of Charles Evans’ Fool Killer, it was Evans himself writing the letters as if they were pieces of correspondence that “Jesse Holmes” sent to him.

The killings never happened, of course, and were simply Evans’ way of using political commentary in an entertaining way. Instead of high-brow social criticism, the Fool Killer Letters were very dark satire in which the mock author of the letters bashed the life out of corrupt politicians and other malefactors. Continue reading

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BLAME CANADA: NEGLECTED MOVIES AND TELEVISION SHOWS FROM THE GREAT WHITE NORTH

This blog post combines my recurring Forgotten Television segments with my reviews of neglected movies. These items are all from Canada.

range ryder and the calgary kidRANGE RYDER AND THE CALGARY KID (1977) – (Also known as The Adventure of the Dinosaur Badlands.) A 14-year-old MIKE MYERS co-starred in this Canadian children’s program that was also aired in the early 1980s on Nickelodeon. (Hey, Nick even showed episodes of The Uncle Floyd Show in its early years.) Myers (in headband) played the Calgary Kid, sidekick to David Ferry’s Range Ryder.

This program was an odd mix of Land of the Lost and The Valley of Gwangi. Range Ryder and the Calgary Kid were cowboy heroes in Canada’s Old West who discovered a hidden valley in which dinosaurs still lived. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: MAY TWENTIETH

From Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog it’s another current events roundup here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

tim scottPRO-TRUMP SENATOR TIM SCOTT IS THE LATEST TO REMIND THE PUBLIC ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S CLOSE TIES TO KU KLUX KLAN MEMBER & DEMOCRAT SENATOR ROBERT BYRD. Biden even eulogized Byrd, whom Hillary Clinton called a “mentor.” 

COURAGEOUS MOREHOUSE COLLEGE GRADUATES TURN THEIR BACKS ON THE EXECRABLE JOE BIDEN DURING HIS SPEECH. More HERE.

BIDEN REGIME ESTABLISHES SANCTUARIES FOR RUSSIAN FORCES ATTACKING UKRAINE. Well, after all, Putin’s accomplice Joe Biden also told war criminal Putin before the war that a small incursion would be fine.

VETERAN LEGAL SCHOLAR ALAN DERSHOWITZ EVISCERATES “JUDGE” MERCHAN’S OPENLY PREJUDICIAL CONDUCT IN TRUMP POLITICAL TRIAL/ TRAVESTY. Democrats have given us a country in which the biases of judges overrule justice.

ashley biden diary quoteTHE DEMOCRATS AT SNOPES FINALLY GET AROUND TO NOTING AS “TRUE” THE ITEM ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S DAUGHTER ASHLEY’S DIARY. THE ONE IN WHICH SHE WROTE ABOUT HER PREDATORY FATHER JOE TAKING “INAPPROPRIATE” SHOWERS WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD. AND STATED THAT SHE HAD “PROBABLY” BEEN ABUSED. AND STARTED SHOWERING AT ODD TIMES TO AVOID LECHEROUS JOE.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE HOLDS FIVE SEGREGATED GRADUATIONS. Bigoted Democrats bring back segregation. Continue reading

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OCTOBER 2021: LOOKING BACK

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

EVERYBODY BELIEVES THEY ARE ON “THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.” Ridiculing the absurd Democrat belief that they know how the people of the future will view the events of the present. 

unfit and pathetic bidenNEW YORK TIMES: BIDEN’S INFLATION CONTINUES TO CRUSH THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR. All that plus more.

JOE BIDEN ATROCITY ROUNDUP: OCTOBER 25th. – Biden disasters and scandals.

stalin vote quotePOLL: FIFTY-SIX PERCENT BELIEVE CHEATING AFFECTED THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL RESULTS – And this was back in November of 2021. The percentage has gone up since then as more and more comes to light.

MORE JOE BIDEN SCANDALS AND MORE EXPOSES ABOUT THE TAINTED 2020 ELECTION. Continue reading

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MAY SEVENTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog brings you another current events roundup from Joe Biden’s dung heap of corporate fascism.

unfit joe bidenBIDEN REGIME STILL FIGHTING THE RELEASE OF THE TRANSCRIPT OF HIS QUESTIONING REGARDING THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR. I don’t know why they bother since Slow Joe has already been declared mentally unfit to stand trial. Remember that from a while back?

joe biden is aBIDEN CRIME FAMILY: EVEN MORE SECRET BANK ACCOUNTS EXPOSED. More HERE. Life in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.

MICHAEL COHEN’S LIES GET EXPOSED AS HE TAKES THE STAND IN THE POLITICAL SHOW TRIAL AGAINST TRUMP. More HERE, and HERE, and HERE. Also, HERE.

president trumpYET ANOTHER LOOK AT HOW DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S POLICIES AIDED THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR. He was the greatest president of my lifetime for the working class and the poor. The Democrats abandoned them long ago.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT TRYING TO BREAK INTO U.S. MILITARY BASE. Life in Joe Biden’s America.

AN INTERESTING PIECE ABOUT THE UNRELENTING WAY THAT DEMOCRATS TRY TO DICTATE EVERY ACTION THAT PEOPLE CAN AND CANNOT DO. Thank their shrill, hysterical pretense that people having the freedom to disagree with them on ANY issue is a threat that must be crushed by the government. Continue reading

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FANTOMCAT (1995-1996) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION

fantomcatFANTOMCAT (1995) – This animated adventure series is pretty much the overlooked stepchild of Cosgrove Hall’s much more well-known and longer-lasting series Danger Mouse. No spy antics in Fantomcat, however, but anthropomorphic cartoon animals represent all the characters.

The fun premise of this program involved a 1600s aristocrat, Phillipe L’Entrique Elan de Chanel, Count Givenchy and Duke of Fantom. Phillipe was secretly the costumed and sword-wielding Fantomcat, hero of the downtrodden and vanquisher of evildoers.

fantomcat picFantomcat’s archenemy was the sword-wielding sorcerer Baron Hugo von Skelter. On the night of December 31st, 1699, a battle between our hero and von Skelter and his henchmen ended with the villains mystically trapping Fantomcat in a painting on the wall in Fantomcat’s castle.

After three hundred years in suspended animation within the portrait, the heroic Fantomcat was accidentally set free by the detectives of the Wildcat Detective Agency, who had pursued two lizard anarchists wanted for bombing into the castle. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: MAY 14th

From corrupt authoritarian Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy, Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog brings you another current events roundup.

kangaroo courtPARALEGAL TESTIFIES THAT TRUMP PERSECUTOR ALVIN BRAGG’S OFFICE TAMPERED WITH EVIDENCE, DELETED RECORDS FROM THE TRUMP CASE FILES. More HERE. Democrats continue to make a martyr out of de facto Third Party President Donald Trump.

EVEN DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET EMPLOYEE FAREED ZAKARIA OF CNN ADMITS THE TRUMP CASE IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. Joe Biden made America the kind of country where political opposition leaders get prosecuted. Zakaria’s other remarks insulting Biden HERE.

lawrence taylor endorses trumpNEW YORK’S LAWRENCE TAYLOR ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP AMID HIS TARGETING BY AMERICA’S CORRUPT POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT. More HERE. Taylor even said “I’ve always been a Democrat until I met this man (President Donald Trump) right here.” 

THE BIDEN REGIME’S NIGER MILITARY DEBACLE STILL ONGOING. How many American hostages will be taken this time?

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An arrested drunk? Nope, it’s the alleged judge.

NEW CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ANTI-TRUMP POLITICAL HACK ARTHUR ENGORON. Engoron is one of the reasons people consider elected judges to be unfit from the start.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DEPORTED UNDER TRUMP GETS LET BACK IN UNDER BIDEN, NOW CHARGED IN THE DEATH OF A THREE-MONTH OLD. Career criminal Joe Biden has so much to answer for.

PAUL KRUGMAN, AUTHOR OF JOE BIDEN FAN-FICTION, GETS HILARIOUSLY ROASTED BY MATT TAIBBI. Krugman is wrong over and over, but remains pompous about it. Continue reading

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R.I.P. ROGER CORMAN: FILM LEGEND

roger corman youngerROGER CORMAN (April 5th, 1926 – May 9th, 2024) – Many words have already been said about the passing of this film industry legend and I’m sure many, many more are yet to be said. From the 1950s to the current year – and with projects still in production – Roger William Corman was a Hollywood fixture.

I’m in no way qualified to give a comprehensive overview of the impact of this entrepreneur or his influence on some of the biggest directors, producers and actors in American cinema. Most people at first think you’re exaggerating when you mention the exhaustive list of people who figuratively learned at the knee of this Grand Old Man or who were given their first shot via a Corman Production. Often in one of his B movies! 

roger cormanRoger was never known as someone who lacked talent, he was just in it for the money most of the time, and therefore kept his budgets tight and his schedules tighter. From 50s monster movies to Raging Youth films to whatever horror trends were ascendant to big-screen soap operas that could be more explicit with their content, Roger Corman was there, raking in bucks and working with future giants of the industry.

Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, James Cameron, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Joe Dante and countless others got some of their earliest directing experiences on Corman productions. Screenwriters like Robert Towne got early “real industry work”, as did actors like Jack Nicholson, Sally Kirkland, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Pam Grier, Peter Fonda, etc.  When you watch just about any theatrical release from America made over the last several decades the chances are at least one of the professionals involved got their start working on a Corman picture.  Continue reading

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