NEWS ROUNDUP: MARCH SIXTEENTH

Time for another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog here in an America where last night saw the most callous and uncaring bloated rich pigs in the world refusing yet again to donate their $350,000 per nominee Swag Bags to charity. Nothing that such privileged one percenters have to say is worth anything.

ImageMOTHER OF WOMAN MURDERED BY AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DUE TO DEMOCRAT POLICIES SPEAKS OUT.

DEMOCRAT-RUN FAIRFAX COUNTY REFUSES TO TURN OVER TO ICE AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO SEXUALLY ABUSED AT LEAST NINE STUDENTS. “Illegal immigrants uber alles” remains the Democrat motto.

IN MINNESOTA, YET ANOTHER ELECTION OFFICIAL ADMITS THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS VOTE IN STATES THAT GIVE THEM DRIVER’S LICENSES. The SAVE Act is direly needed.

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DEMOCRAT PARTY

DEMOCRAT POLICY IN VIRGINIA THAT PREVENTS COLLEGES FROM ASKING ABOUT AN APPLICANT’S CRIMINAL HISTORY OR DENYING THEM ADMISSION BASED ON CRIMINAL HISTORY ENABLED THE OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY SHOOTER MOHAMED JALLOH. More blood on Democrat hands because of their insane policies.

ANTHROPIC DONORS GAVE NEARLY ALL OF THEIR TWO HUNDRED MILLION POLITICAL DONATIONS TO DEMOCRATS. That is NOT “politically neutral.”

DEMOCRAT CHUCK TODD GETS CLOBBERED ON X FOR HIS INCREDIBLY STUPID QUESTION.

JURY CONVICTS ANTIFA TERRORISTS. Remember how many years Democrats spent trying to convince the public that Antifa didn’t exist? Continue reading

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FLASHBACK: SOME OF THE PREVIOUS TIMES THAT ANTI-TRUMP FOOLS FELL TO PIECES AND PRETENDED HIS ACTIONS WERE THE END OF THE WORLD

The lying, ignorant, uninformed and emotionally unstable zealots who spend their every waking moment hating President Donald Trump haven’t changed. They still exaggerate everything into Apocalypse of the Week stories like they did during his first term. And like all these previous lies, time will no doubt prove this week’s anti-Trump lies wrong, too. 

FLASHBACKS

ImageJANUARY 31st, 2017 – DEMOCRATS HYSTERICALLY OVERREACT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NINETY-DAY IMMIGRATION HALT FROM SEVEN NATIONS.

JANUARY 24th, 2017 – DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CAUGHT LYING BY CLAIMING THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP REMOVED A WHITE HOUSE BUST OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

JANUARY 23rd, 2017 – ANTI-TRUMP LOONS CLAIM PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL DO THINGS THAT ARE FAR BEYOND ANY PRESIDENT’S ACTUAL POWERS. Trump-haters are brainwashed enough that they would probably believe he might invalidate the law of gravity if media outlets told them to.

JANUARY 7th, 2017 – DEMOCRATS STILL PUSHING ABSURD RUSSIAN COLLUSION CLAIMS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. Continue reading

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DIFFERENT EVENTS ON MARCH 15th IN HISTORY

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While most people focus on the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at various other historical events on this date.

200 B.C. – The 2nd Macedonian War begins.

221 A.D. – In China, Warlord Liu Bei claimed to be the legitimate successor in the Han Dynasty and declared himself Emperor of Shu-Han.

493 – In Ravenna, Italy the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great drew his sword and killed King Odoacer at a banquet.

856 – Empress Theodora of the Byzantine Empire is overthrown by her son, who becomes Emperor Michael the Third.

933 – The Battle of Riade was fought between the East Franks under King Henry the First and the invading Magyars. Continue reading

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MARVEL PREMIERE PART THREE

This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog finishes examining Marvel Premiere.

ImageMARVEL PREMIERE Vol 1 #41 (Apr 1978)

Title: The Dying Sun

Villains: Jason and the Six

Synopsis: In a timeline outside of Marvel’s main continuity, Earth of the year 3000 A.D. is facing the imminent supernova of our Sun. The news has been kept from the public at large by the Six, a half-dozen power-mad people each of which rules one of the occupied continents. Leading the Six is Jason (no last name ever given).

Jason and the Six have secretly financed a massive spaceship called the Seeker 3000 and selected an elite crew of hundreds to pilot the vessel, themselves and cellular material of thousands of the Six’s friends and family members in order to flee the solar system before the sun goes nova.

They will all seek out a new planet to inhabit, with the thousands of cell samples being used to clone a sufficient genetic pool to start a new civilization. We are told that no previous attempt at a warp-speed vessel has ever worked, so Seeker 3000 is humanity’s last hope. 

ImageThe crew members we meet in this debut story – 1. Captain Jordan Shaw (right), a decent man appalled at the way the Six have chosen to play God with who gets to escape and who gets left behind to die. He cooperates just so he and his wife can survive, so he bitterly knows he is no better than the oligarchs in the end.

2. Lt. Valida Payton, a black female solar engineer, physicist and Shaw’s second in command. 3. Ensign Ben Payton, Valida’s brother, who is a biologist, terraformist and cloning engineer. 4. Dr. John Running Bear, a Native American, physician, psychiatrist and behavioral scientist.

ImageAnd 5. Phaedra (left), a mutant with telekinetic and telepathic abilities. She and Earth’s hundreds of other mutants live in prison camps at the Six’s command while their abilities are probed. They are all forced to wear facial tattoos to prevent them hiding their mutant status.

NOTE: Yes, a few years before Chris Claremont & John Byrne nabbed these exact designs for facial tattoos on an imprisoned mutant race in Days of Future Past, this story used them first. Continue reading

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NCCAA AND USCAA NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS CONTINUE

UNITED STATES COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION DIVISION TWO

ImageNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The 1 seeds – the PENN STATE AT YORK LIONS – battled the Cinderella 6th seeded MIAMI UNIVERSITY AT HAMILTON HARRIERS. This game was a defensive epic, with the Lions on top at Halftime by a mere 25-19. After the break, PSU-York kept the Harriers at arm’s length to win the title 56-48. James Barlow led the Lions with a Double Double of 15 points and 21 rebounds.

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION DIVISION TWO

ImageFIRST QUARTERFINAL – The 6th seeded CROWN COLLEGE POLARS took the court against the 3 seeds – the MANHATTAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE THUNDER. The Thunder seemed to be in control at the Half with their 36-28 lead, but from there Crown College roared back. The Polars proceeded to upset MCC by a final score of 71-64. Leading Crown College was Anthony Knight, who tossed in 26 points. Continue reading

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MARCH THIRTEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

ImageIndependent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with another current events roundup in a world where Democrats and war criminal Vlad Putin have both expressed their “unwavering support for Tehran” and its regime of Mad Mullahs. (Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s invitation to Putin for a small incursion into Ukraine caused a war that has been going on since 2022.)

DEMOCRAT SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN COURAGEOUSLY SPEAKS OUT ON HOW THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES PROVIDES DISTORTED IRAN COVERAGE.

MARLOW ON DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CNN’S BLATANTLY FALSE STORIES DEFENDING IRAN-ALLIGNED TERRORISTS. More HERE.

EVEN THIS FORMER CLINTON OFFICIAL ADMITS THAT THE “IRAN THREAT WAS GROWING. OTHER PRESIDENTS DIDN’T DO ENOUGH.” 

ImageDR. DONELL HARVIN, FORMER D.C. INTELLIGENCE CHIEF, STATES TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT HOW AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND SIX-HUNDRED UNACCOUNTED FOR IRANIANS CROSSED THE BORDER UNDER JOE BIDEN’S REFUSAL TO ENFORCE IT.

POLL: EIGHTY-SIX PERCENT OF REPUBLICANS SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S IRAN ACTIONS DESPITE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CLAIMING TRUMP LOST THEIR SUPPORT.

MELANIA DOCUMENTARY DEBUTS ON AMAZON PRIME AS THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA.

ImagePRESIDENT TRUMP HOSTS CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH.

TRUMP Rx PROVIDES THE PHARMACEUTICAL REFORM NEEDED BY THE WORKING CLASS BUT ANTI-TRUMP PSYCHOPATHS AVOID USING IT. Trump Derangement Syndrome is pathetic.

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY SHOOTER MOHAMED JALLOH WAS PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIC TERRORISM.

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES THE U.S. TRADE DEFICIT HAS DROPPED BY FIFTY-SEVEN POINT SIX PERCENT. Continue reading

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DOG BREAK!

To end this hectic week how about some dog photos to give all of us a few smiles?

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE PROFESSOR’S EXPERIMENTS (1910)

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THE PROFESSOR’S EXPERIMENTS (1910) – By Paul Bo’ld (sic) – real name: Edward George Paul Bousfield. (Not to be confused with John Paul George Ann Ringo.) A possible influence on H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West, Reanimator in style but not in content. This collection of six short stories centered around mad scientist Jerome Mudgewood and his assistant Dr Gertrude Delaney.

Mudgewood’s envelope-pushing experiments unleash forces beyond his control, resulting in death and tragedy. The stories in order:

The Retardatory Force – Professor Mudgewood tries to harness a pair of sub-atomic and extra-atomic forces, believing that eternal life can be achieved by doing so. He, Dr Delaney and their housekeeper instead find themselves confined in an energy field that slows matter down and eventually dissolves it into nothingness. Jerome and Gertrude survive but the housekeeper isn’t as lucky.   

The Magnetic Essence – The Professor isolates a particle in iron, a particle which he believes causes iron to be attracted to magnets. Dubbing this particle “the magneto component” he plans to implant it into any object he wishes to magnetize. It turns out the force is also responsible for maintaining an atom’s integrity and so extracting “the magneto component” figuratively splits the atom, unleashing incredibly deadly explosions.      Continue reading

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THE ADVENTURES OF LIEUTENANT PETROSINO (1912) SILENT FILM ABOUT THE REAL-LIFE DETECTIVE

ImageTHE ADVENTURES OF LIEUTENANT PETROSINO (1912) – This 47-minute silent movie was a rushed look at the career of New York City Police Detective Joseph Petrosino, who specialized in fighting organized crime. I meant to cover Petrosino years ago, but other topics kept taking priority.

Petrosino has become all but forgotten here in 2026, but he was once so popular that hundreds of thousands attended his funeral, which was declared a holiday in New York. He was murdered by organized crime in 1909, and his posthumous fame made him the hero of Dime Novels like old west figures Buffalo Bill Cody and others.

I’ll do more detailed examinations of Joseph Petrosino in the near future, but for now I will review this 1912 flick while peppering in a few notes about the man’s real-life saga which was far too broadly presented on the big screen.   

ImageTHE REEL PETROSINO – Still in uniform, Joseph has made a name for himself as a tough cop capable of dealing with Italian gangs like the Black Hand, the Mafia and the Camorra. When Mafia bank robbers humiliate a pair of policemen who try taking them in, the storied Petrosino is sent for.

     He quickly finds the gang, subdues them and drags two of them in to be booked as the others flee. The arrested criminals rat out their colleagues. That night at the dinner table, Joe brags to his wife Adelina about his exploits. 

THE REAL PETROSINO – Born in 1860, Joseph Petrosino joined the New York City Police Department as a uniformed cop in 1883. He made excellent use of his fluency in Italian to solve crimes in Italian-American neighborhoods that were easy prey for organized gangs from the Old Country. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR MARCH ELEVENTH

It’s a mid-week current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

ImageIRAN EXPERT LISA DAFTARI ADDS HER VOICE TO THOSE POINTING OUT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOT START A NEW WAR, HE IS ENDING THE WAR IRAN STARTED. Aaron Flint agreed HERE

URBAN WARFARE SCHOLAR STATES THAT IRAN CONFLICT IS NOT A “FOREVER WAR” LIKE IRAQ BECAME UNDER THE REPULSIVE GEORGE W. BUSH.

MUSIC VIDEO: DEATH TO KHAMENEI.

ImageEVEN MORE FIGURES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TAX CUTS PRODUCING LARGER TAX REFUNDS FOR WORKING CLASS VOTERS. Just like during his first term, but anti-Trump loons ignored the facts then and now to lie that the tax cuts only help “the rich.”

NBC POLL: ICE HAS HIGHER APPROVAL RATING THAN DEMOCRAT PARTY, AS DOES PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER AOC, KAMALA HARRIS AND OTHER DEMOCRATS. More HERE. And HERE.

ImageDR. MEHMET OZ EXPOSES EVEN MORE OBAMACARE FRAUD.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLED OUT FOR “IGNORING MILLIONS OF IRANIANS THRILLED WITH THE DEATH OF KHAMENEI” SO THEY CAN PUSH THEIR ANTI-TRUMP BIAS.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT JOSE MARTELL-ARIAGA ARRESTED FOR FIFTY-SIX CHILD SEX CRIMES GETS BOOKED IN DEMOCRAT-RUN CHARLOTTE AREA AS A “WHITE MALE” SO DEMOCRATS CAN CONTINUE TRYING TO SKEW CRIME STATISTICS TO MATCH THEIR POLITICAL PARTY’S DISTORTIONS

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DEMOCRAT PARTY

PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT WOMEN FORM GROUP TO TARGET ICE AGENTS.

DEMOCRAT-RUN CHICAGO TEACHER’S UNION PRIORITIZES THEIR POLITICAL DEMONSTRATIONS OVER ACTUALLY TEACHING THEIR STUDENTS TO READ. Democrat politicization of the “educational system” (LMAO) continues. Continue reading

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