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VILLA VYBES VINYL: PERPETUATING THE SOUNDS OF VINYL RECORDS IN ALL GENRES

z bear groovingZ-Bear, her husband and their children are a family in Hawaii who deejay the terrific YT channel Villa Vybes Vinyl. Z-Bear and her hubby are professionals and periodically let their kids take center stage for some of the DJ chores. It adds considerably to the charm of this eclectic channel.

z bear hubbyNo matter how good digital is, many people still thrill to the sound of a needle pressing down on an actual vinyl record and the slight whispering and popping before the music begins to play. Z-Bear and company don’t waste the time of listeners/ viewers with DJ patter, they just let their audience see them going through all the vinyl DJ activities!

z bear familyThe VVV folks lovingly select, clean and otherwise care for the musical artifacts they proceed to play. They have an incredible setup with multiple turntables and other equipment that many will envy. Multiple camera angles are provided, plus Z-Bear and her family change up those angles over time.
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SEPTEMBER 2020: A LOOK BACK

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

democrats oppressing people whileDEMOCRATS AND CORPORATE FASCISM – Some excerpts: “Let’s start with the basics – long ago corporate fascists and other bloated rich pigs tended to gravitate toward the Republicans. However, the clueless Republican leadership understands nothing but money, while the Democrats understand power and its use.”

          “Money follows power, so corporate fascists therefore naturally gravitated more and more to the Democrats, who not only get the corporate fascists what they want but manage to make them look civic-minded in the process. Conversely, if rich pigs don’t play ball with the Democrat fascists the Democrats use their media outlets to smear those rich pigs to the point of ruin.”

          “(T)he Democrats’ reasoning goes, “if we can work hand-in-hand with corporate fascists to ensure you won’t even be allowed to make a living if you express disagreement with us, then we think you’ll realize it’s in your own best interest to stop resisting and pretend you go along with even our most ridiculous positions.”  For the full article CLICK HERE.

clarence hendersonCIVIL RIGHTS ICON CLARENCE HENDERSON SAYS TRUMP “HAS DONE MORE FOR BLACK AMERICANS IN FOUR YEARS THAN BIDEN HAS IN FIFTY” – Excerpt: “These achievements demonstrate that Donald Trump truly cares about black lives. His policies show his heart.” CLICK HERE

AUSTRALIAN NEWS ON JOE BIDEN’S SENILE, INCOHERENT BABBLINGS – And this was back in 2020! Biden is far worse now! CLICK HERE.

president trumpDEMOCRAT MAYORS ENDORSING TRUMP OVER HIS HELP FOR THE WORKING CLASS – Some excerpts: “… politicians like Joe Biden did nothing to help the working class. We lost thousands of jobs, and generations of young people have left the Iron Range in order to provide for their families with good-paying jobs elsewhere.”

          “Today, we don’t recognize the Democratic Party. It has been moved so far to the left it can no longer claim to be advocates of the working class. The hard-working Minnesotans that built their lives and supported their families here on the Range have been abandoned by radical Democrats.” CLICK HERE.

SERBIA AND KOSOVO NAME BORDER LAKE AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP. CLICK HERE. Continue reading

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SORRY, BUT THESE NEWS STORIES CAN’T BE IGNORED

Here at Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog I hate to do news more than twice a week but some stories can’t be ignored. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

joe biden is aBIDEN IMPEACHMENT AND INVESTIGATIONS: BURISMA BRIBERY TAKES CENTER STAGE NOW.

OREGON NOW BARS TEN REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS FROM BALLOT ACCESS. Anyone who thought this tactic would be limited to Trump was being incredibly naive.

EVEN THE UAW HEAD ADMITS MANY OF THE UNION’S MEMBERS WILL NOT VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN AFTER HIS ANTI-UNION POLICIES AND WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS.

bideningMAYOR OF EAST PALESTINE, OHIO, WHOSE EMERGENCY SITUATION JOE BIDEN HAS IGNORED FOR A YEAR, TELLS BIDEN NOT TO VISIT UNTIL “AFTER HE LOSES TO TRUMP.”

YOUNG VOTERS CALLING BIDEN “GENOCIDE JOE.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS EVICTS AFRICAN AMERICANS IN ORDER TO HOUSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Continue reading

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAMES JOYCE (2024 EDITION)

jamesjoyceHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JAMES JOYCE! His works got me hooked in my teens when I really related to his character Stephen Dedalus as he rejected his religion and indulged what I call his “young and pretentious side” in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). I wore out my copy of Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922) and continue to mark Bloom’s Day to this very day.

Over the years Finnegans Wake (1939) replaced Ulysses as my favorite Joyce novel and I’m fonder than many people are of his play Exiles (1918). Continue reading

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FEBRUARY 1st ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Welcome in February with Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog and its latest look at current events. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

president trumpPRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ONCE AGAIN NOMINATED FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR HIS ABRAHAM ACCORDS. The Nobel Peace Prize hasn’t meant anything in several decades, but I’ll go ahead and mention this.

BIDEN REGIME BRAGS ABOUT IGNORING THE SUPREME COURT. Can you imagine their reaction if Trump had ever said anything like that? Hilarious hypocrisy!

they hate trump that muchANTI-TRUMP ZEALOT FANI WILLIS FIRED EMPLOYEE WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE ON HER MISUSE OF FEDERAL FUNDS SCANDAL. More HERE. And HERE. Fani fired the employee for WARNING HER about the misuse. Fani fired the whistle blower but kept the employee involved in the scandal HERE.

BIDEN’S PLANS FOR REVENGE DISCUSSED.

 IRS WORKER WHO LEAKED TRUMP’S PRIVATE TAX INFORMATION SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns. Hopefully some of the current participants in the deranged anti-Trump hysteria will someday face justice themselves. Continue reading

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ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS: JANUARY 29th

Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at current events. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

biden family values sampleWALKER TESTIMONY ON JOE BIDEN’S INFLUENCE PEDDLING: BIDEN MET WITH CCP-LINKED COMPANY WHICH THEN PAID HIM THREE MILLION DOLLARS. Buying Joe Biden was the best investment China ever made.

BIDEN REGIME CHALLENGED BY PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATORS REGARDING THE REGIME MEDDLING IN ELECTION PROCEDURES THAT ONLY THE LEGISLATURE IS AUTHORIZED TO CHANGE. Another attempt to prevent the recurrence of the vote fraud in 2020.

trump and jfkREMEMBER THE UNDEMOCRATIC AND OLIGARCHIC “SHADOW CAMPAIGN” THAT TIME MAGAZINE BRAGGED HAD INSTALLED BIDEN IN THE 2020 ELECTION? WELL, THE ANTI-TRUMP GROUPS ARE BEING EVEN MORE BLATANT THIS TIME AROUND. For that Time article click HERE. Are the uninformed and unhinged anti-Trump forces aware that long after Trump is gone such unconstitutional efforts will still be polluting our elections? Corrupt American politicians never stop once they realize they can get away with something. 

ARTICLES COVERING THE GROTESQUE LAWFARE AGAINST THE OPPOSITION LEADER TRUMP, ESPECIALLY THE LATEST UNHINGED ACTION IN NEW YORK. Overview of all the lawfare HERE. Fifteen facts on why the shoddy Carroll case will likely get overturned on appeal HERE. Gorka on all of the lawfare HERE.

RAHEEM KASSAM: THE TRUMP-CARROLL CASE IS BLATANTLY THE GREATEST MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY. I personally would not go that far, but Kassam expertly tears apart the unfounded political persecution of Trump in this case based on NO evidence.  

it is vitalARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST BIDEN REGIME’S MAYORKAS.

TRUMP STATES HE WOULD SEND TEXAS REINFORCEMENTS, NOT STOP THEIR EFFORTS TO CONTROL OUR UNSECURED SOUTHERN BORDER.

ABC NEWS REPORTS THAT THE INFLUX OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IS OVERLOADING THE DENVER HOSPITAL SYSTEM, FORCING THEM TO TURN AWAY AMERICAN CITIZENS BECAUSE THEY ARE FLOODED WITH ILLEGALS. More HERE.

BIDEN BASHED FOR HIS WEAKNESS WHICH INVITED THE ATTACK BY IRAN
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AUGUST 2020: LOOKING BACK

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

Myron LizerNAVAJO NATION VICE-PRESIDENT PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES, SAYS “NATIVE AMERICANS WEREN’T INVITED TO THE AMERICAN DREAM UNTIL DONALD TRUMP WAS ELECTED”.

        An excerpt: “We for years fought past battles with congressmen and senators that were part of a broken system that ignored us. That is until President Trump took office.” Click HERE.

sharyl attkisson smallerJOURNALIST SHARYL ATTKISSON EXPOSES THE DISHONESTY OF SELF-APPOINTED “FACT CHECKERS”. As we’ve all seen, “fact checkers” (LMAO) are anything BUT. Some excerpts: “Fact Checkers serve no purpose except confirmation bias for their target audience.”

        Also- “The fact-checkers are like-minded journalists or often liberal Silicon Valley gatekeepers, who frequently rely on partisan news sources and political activists to control narratives on a wide variety of issues and controversies.” Click HERE

kim klacikKIMBERLY KLACIK EXPOSES DEMOCRAT FAILURES. Click HERE.

EVEN THE DEMOCRATS AT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ADMIT TO OBAMA/ BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SCANDALS. Click HERE. Only imbeciles would believe we have ever had ANY presidential administration that was “scandal free.” Ridiculous!

democrats culture of hateTO DEMOCRATS, FUNERALS ARE NUREMBERG RALLIES – The Party is blasted by Martin Luther King’s niece and others for turning John Lewis’ funeral into an orgy of partisan hatred.

        An excerpt: “Even the most casual observers of the American scene have noticed over the years that Democrats are so dead inside they use high-profile funerals as nothing more than political theater. They contemptuously hide behind the corpse they pretend to be mourning, figuratively holding it up as a shield against criticism and against responses to the deceptive claims they make and the outright lies they tell under the guise of noting someone’s passing.” Click HERE.

DEMOCRATS’ “RIOT WARFARE” ON THE NATION OPENS NEW FRONTS IN KENOSHA AND DENVER. Click HERE. And Democrats lie about the violence and bloodshed being “mostly peaceful”. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP: JANUARY 22nd

stop that auFrom Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

one of the mostBIDEN REGIME CAUGHT USING A “COUNTER-TERRORISM” GRANT AGAINST POLITICAL OPPONENTS. Joe Biden is utter filth.

DOJ ADMITS TO COVERUP IN LYING ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP WHICH EXPOSED BIDEN CRIME FAMILY SCANDALS. For those few people still idiotic enough to pretend the revelations were “Russian disinformation.”

BIDEN REGIME’S FBI DEFIES ANOTHER LEGAL RULING AND REFUSES TO  TURN OVER MORE EVIDENCE IN ANOTHER CASE.  

jack smith picFOUR JUDGES ON DC CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS BLAST PRIOR COURT WHICH LET CORRUPT PROSECUTOR JACK SMITH VIOLATE TRUMP’S RIGHTS IN UNPRECEDENTED WAY. More HERE.

EVEN THIS ANTI-TRUMP COLUMNIST AT THE DEMOCRAT OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES ADMITS TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Some excerpts: “Arguably the single most important geopolitical fact of the century is the mass migration of people from south to north and east to west, causing tectonic demographic, cultural, economic and ultimately political shifts. Trump understood this from the start of his presidential candidacy in 2015 …

        “It said something about the self-deluded state of Western politics when Trump came on the scene that his assertion of the obvious was treated as a moral scandal, at least by the stratum of society that had the least to lose from mass migration. To millions of other Americans, his message, however crudely he may have expressed it, sounded like plain common sense.”

        “Enforcing control at the border — whether through a wall, a fence or some other mechanism — isn’t racism,” Stephens wrote. “It’s a basic requirement of statehood and peoplehood, which any nation has an obligation to protect and cherish.

NEVADA GOVERNOR ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP.

ANTI-TRUMP JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE FOUND TO HAVE DELETED OVER 100 ENCRYPTED FILES BEFORE THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO TURN THEM OVER TO THE INCOMING REPUBLICAN MAJORITY. Continue reading

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JULY 2020: A LOOK BACK

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

vernon jones picLIFELONG DEMOCRAT AND OTHER BLACK VOTERS BASH BIDEN AND SUPPORT TRUMP – Some excerpts: “Jones has pointed out that President Donald Trump has done more for the black community than any other Washington politician, all while Biden hides in his basement. Vernon also criticized hysterical Democrat plans to defund police.”  

         “The black unemployment rate under Biden and the Obama administration averaged a horrific 12.8 percent … By comparison, more than double that number – 350,000 black Americans – were lifted out of poverty during just the first two years of the Trump administration.”

we are not our parents        “Jones also reminded voters of color about Joe Biden’s THIRTY-SIX YEARS of pushing horrifically strict bills against black offenders (sometimes in conjunction with Hillary Clinton, who notoriously called black men “super-predators”)

        “Joe Biden is directly responsible for the mass incarceration policies of the 1980s and 1990s, which decimated the black community. Biden authored the 1994 crime bill which imposed mandatory minimum sentences, disproportionately putting hundreds of thousands of young black men in prison.” CLICK HERE, and HERE

trump is fdrTRUMP’S NEW EXECUTIVE ORDERS SAVE WORKING CLASS AND POOR FAMILIES BIG MONEY ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – And Big Pharma never forgave him. Many of us had loved ones who benefited from these moves by Trump. CLICK HERE.

EXPLAINING DEMOCRATS’ DISASTROUS “DEFUND THE POLICE” POLICY FOR OVERSEAS READERS – CLICK HERE.

carmen best picCARMEN BEST TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEMOCRAT RIOTS IN SEATTLE – “Democrats continue to egg on the riots and the hatred of police by pretending these are “peaceful protests.” CLICK HERE. HERE. and HERE.  

CAMPUS DEMOCRATS CALL A STATUE OF ABE LINCOLN “WHITE SUPREMACY” – CLICK HERE.

Melissa Tate and TrumpBLACK VOTER RECALLS DONALD TRUMP’S LOANS TO BLACK BUSINESSES WHEN BANKS WOULDN’T LEND TO THEM – Read about it HERE.

DEFY DEMOCRAT TYRANTS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON – Having a good time drives the primly disapproving jackasses crazy. CLICK HERE. Continue reading

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JANUARY SIXTEENTH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here is the latest current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. As always, everyone is welcome here no matter who they vote for.

KEVIN O’LEARY EASILY DISMANTLES THE LUDICROUS NEW YORK CASE AGAINST TRUMP. More HERE. Political lawfare at its lowest levels in Joe Biden’s Banana Republic.

bloody hands of joe bidenTRUMP HAD PUT THE HOUTHIS ON THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION LIST. BIDEN TOOK THEM OFF, UNLEASHING ALL THE RECENT BLOODSHED. Biden now admits they are terrorists, after all. That doesn’t help the dead, though.

JOHN HAYWARD DEMONSTRATES HOW THE DEMOCRATS HAVE REALLY DONE – AND ARE STILL DOING – ALL THE THINGS THEY CLAIM IT WOULD BE WRONG FOR TRUMP TO DO. If you read only one item today, this should be it.

ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA IN OVERDRIVE: DEMOCRATS OPENLY DISCUSSING THEIR STRATEGY AGAINST HIM – INCLUDING USING THE MILITARY AGAINST HIM – IN THE EVENT OF ANOTHER VICTORY FOR HIM. More HERE. It’s no “conspiracy theory,” they are openly planning far worse against him than anything they’ve accused him of. And we lack an effective opposition party to do anything about it.

        trump donatedSo, they’re already preparing their new version of “Russian Collusion” nonsense to interfere with a Trump administration, this time by frantically claiming it’s legal and constitutional to refuse any cooperation to a winning candidate they don’t like. And remember the Time article bragging about anti-Trump fascists tampering with the 2020 election as if it was something good? CLICK HERE.

SENATOR MIKE LEE ENDORSES TRUMP.

Senile Joe BidenPENNSYLVANIANS TAUNT BIDEN BY SHOUTING “GO HOME, LOSER!” More HERE.

DOUG BURGUM JOINS THOSE ENDORSING TRUMP

LATEST ITEM ABOUT BALLOT FRAUD FROM THE 2020 ELECTION. The 2020 presidential election was as corrupt as those in 1876 and the year 2000. Rutherford B. Hayes, George W. Bush and Joe Biden were “selected, not elected.”

IN ILLINOIS THE DEMOCRATS ARE CALLED OUT FOR HAVING DESTROYED RECORDS FROM THE 2020 ELECTION BEFORE THE LAW ALLOWS. Have I mentioned that the 2020 election is as forever tainted as those from 1876 and 2000? I thought so.

MSNBC’s ANTI-TRUMP LOONS MELT DOWN OVER HIS RECORD-SETTING WIN. More HERE. Pathetic little people. They censored his victory speech when he mentioned Biden’s border disaster HERE.

HILARIOUS! THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE A.P. FORCED TO ADMIT THAT TRUMP DID BETTER AMONG WOMEN THAN MEN IN IOWA’S CAUCUS YESTERDAY. Continue reading

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