Highlights of the week

ITEM 1: Ed Morrissey tweeted, “About to see Oppenheimer. Hope it’s not a bomb.”

I don’t know. It may be the film for you, but it ain’t the film Fermi.

ITEM 2: Elon Musk changed the name of Twitter to X.

Surprisingly, neither Justine Wilson nor Talulah Riley is the new symbol of the brand.

ITEM 3: The Guardian reported, “‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record.”

Those temperatures are 100 degrees Fahrenheit, not Celsius, Einstein.

ITEM 11: The Irish Times reported, “Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56.”

She refused to sing in New Jersey because the venue played the American national anthem. That was before dissing the Star Spangled Banner became a cliché.

Oh yes, this week half the U.S. women’s soccer team refused to honor our national anthem. They are still butt hurt after getting beat 4-1 by a bunch of under 15 boys.

ITEM 5: Ben Bartee reported, “Green Party candidate Cornel West was invited onto CNN so that Anderson Cooper could shame him into dropping out so as not to be forever smeared as responsible for Trump's re-election, as Sister Jill Stein is to this day.”

Then Cooper flipped him a quarter and told him to shine his shoes.

ITEM 6: The Daily Mail reported, “One big car crash! Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis in four-car motorcade crash as his team collides with each other on way to campaign event.”

I thought there were only three stooges in any one film.

ITEM 7: Harriet Hageman said, “There's a 100 percent failure rate for sex change operations, isn't there? Because it's not possible to change your sex.”

Thank you, Liz Cheney, for forcing voters in Wyoming to send someone new to Congress.

ITEM 8: Other states are lifting their sales taxes on tampons.

West Virginia lifted its sales tax on ammo and guns.

ITEM 9: The New York Post reported, “President Biden’s nearly two-year-old German shepherd Commander bit seven people in a four-month period after former first dog Major was ousted from the White House over similar aggressive behavior, according to internal Secret Service communications reviewed by The Post.

“The shocking spate of incidents involving Commander — none of them previously known — mirror attacks involving Major, who the White House says was given to family friends after biting many Secret Service members in 2021.”

Maybe that was the dog’s cocaine they found.

ITEM 10: A judge in Delaware refused to rubberstamp the Department of Justice’s sweetheart plea bargain with Hunter to dismiss current and any future charges of bribery, tax evasion, illegal gun ownership, and being an unregistered foreign agent.

Remember when Democrats tried to get Trump on the emoluments clause in the Constitution because his children ran a hotel that had foreign guests? The press apparently does not.

ITEM 11: The Daily Wire reported, “Former Pedophile Advocacy Group Spokesman Writes Bloomberg Hit Piece On Sound Of Freedom.”

His name is Noah Berlatsky. This was distributed by Mike Bloomberg’s news service and published by Jeff Bezos in his newspaper. Neither man bothered to tell readers that Berlatsky is a pedo pusher and not a movie critic.

I now call it LGBTP. The Big P stands for Pedo.

ITEM 12: Politico reported, “How Mark Zuckerberg became a Republican punching bag.”

By being a douchebag. It also did not help that he accepted money from the intelligence community to censor Trump and his supporters.

ITEM 13: Financial Times reported, “The science is clear.

“If we want to stabilize the climate, we can’t just reduce emissions; we must also remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere. Meeting Paris Agreement goals will require gigatons of carbon to be effectively scrubbed out of the ambient air. This means restoring natural ecosystems that can act as carbon sinks and deploying various carbon removal technologies.

“One promising solution is direct air capture (or DAC), a technology that removes carbon directly from the ambient air through a chemical process.”

The process of removing carbon dioxide from the air is called photosynthesis. I believe God has a patent on it.

ITEM 14: The LA Times reported, “California's snowpack reached record-high levels this year — 40 million acre-feet at its peak in April, which, melted, would be enough to fill a third of Lake Tahoe. The persisting snow cover has to do with an unusually wet winter and temperatures that remained low well into the spring. Direct sunlight is also usually a driving factor in accelerating snowmelt, but many parts of the state saw a relatively cloudy spring.

“On July 21, the snowpack in both the South and Central Sierra regions was a staggering 1,000% of the average for that date. Snow cover at high elevations has persisted far longer compared with last year.”

Flashback to November 29, 2021, when the San Francisco Chronicle ominously warned, “Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada could disappear in just 25 years.”

That was climate change. The snow this year is just weather.

ITEM 15: AP reported, “Environmentalists cautioned Britain’s main political parties on Sunday not to water down their climate change promises after a special election result widely seen as a thumbs-down from voters to a tax on polluting cars.”

Odd way to say climate change cult lost the election.

ITEM 16: The Epoch Times reported, “A former employee of a large food service corporation is suing the company in federal court after it fired her for refusing to participate in a program that discriminates against white male employees.

“Courtney Rogers worked for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Compass Group USA Inc. from her home office in San Diego, California.

“The company had more than 280,000 employees and $20.1 billion in revenue in 2019, according to its LinkedIn profile.”

Democrats are reviving segregation in North Carolina. I always knew they would.

ITEM 17: The Wall Street Journal reported, “Anheuser-Busch InBev laid off hundreds of workers at its U.S. offices after months of slumping sales at Bud Light.

“The world’s largest brewer, which also sells Stella Artois and Budweiser, on Wednesday said the cuts would affect less than 2% of its roughly 18,000 U.S. workforce. The layoffs won’t impact front-line workers such as brewery and warehouse staff, the company said.”

Meanwhile, Dylan Mulvaney is preparing a college tour in the fall for $40,000 a speech. He will speak on women’s rights. Smart man. He found a way to grift off those rights.

ITEM 18: The Daily Signal reported, “Another detransitioner who attempted a gender transition at age 17 is suing the doctors who operated on her, accusing them of ignoring her plethora of mental health conditions and pushing her down a destructive path.

“Soren Aldaco, who is now 21 years old, filed her lawsuit Friday in the Tarrant County District Court of Texas. She alleges that her doctors behaved more like ideologues than medical professionals and that they did not properly take her autism, depression, anxiety, and other comorbidities into account when they evaluated her for an attempted gender transition.”

The ideology is just marketing, kids.

ITEM 19: The Moscow Times reported, “President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a controversial law that bans legal and surgical sex changes, a move that deprives transgender Russians of the right to access gender-affirming services [sex change operations].”

I see the Russian media is as pro-LGBTP as ours.

TWEET OF THE WEEK:

Peachy Keenan: “Hunter Biden is causing so many headaches for the Deep State that he just got an invite to go paddleboarding at the Obamas.”

ITEM 20: The Tallahassee Democrat said, “The oldest intercollegiate black fraternity in the country is moving its 2025 conference from Florida, calling the state hostile to the black community.”

The fraternity held its 1954 convention in Miami at the height of segregation in the South.

ITEM 21: Mitch McConnell became the third senator to have a stroke, following the lead of John Fetterman and Ben Ray Luján.

Was it the vax or the cocaine?

ITEM 22: With millions of illegal aliens walking across our border, the Senate finally held a hearing on aliens.

Space aliens.

My favorite senator, John N. Kennedy of Louisiana, said, “In Washington, D.C., common sense is illegal. I swear to God and all the angels that’s true. You know, I remember when the kitchen table issues mattered more than pronouns, when boys weren’t allowed to compete in girls’ sports, when truth mattered a lot more than political correctness.

“Maybe that’s why the aliens won’t talk to us.”

ITEM 23: Fox reported, “Republicans want child tax credit for unborn babies in massive federal family care overhaul.”

More welfare from Democrat Lite, out-of-touch, out-of-their-minds Beltway Republicans.

ITEM 24: The Daily Signal reported, “Two weeks from now, The Daily Signal’s chief news correspondent, Fred Lucas, will lose his White House press credentials. It’s the latest—and perhaps most brazen—attempt by President Joe Biden to limit media access to what he regularly calls ‘the People’s House.’”

Hey, remember the time when the press got mad at Trump for trying to kick out the Playboy reporter who challenged Sebastian Gorka to a fight?

I’ll bet Jimmy “Olsen” Acosta does.

ITEM 25: Fox reported, “Bowe Bergdahl court-martial conviction for Army desertion thrown out by federal judge.”

The story said, “In 2009, he walked away from his post in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban and held for five years. Some of his fellow soldiers were injured trying to find him.”

Time profiled at the time, “The 6 U.S. Soldiers Who Died Searching for Bowe Bergdahl.”

That’s some injury.

ITEM 26: National Pulse reported, “The Department of Justice has dropped campaign finance charges against alleged ‘crypto scammer’ Sam Bankman-Fried, who was accused of misusing customer deposits and who made $90 million in campaign contributions to around 300 predominantly left-wing political candidates or action committees.”

Everyone who has ever watched Goodfellas knows that when you commit a crime, you give Paulie his share of the loot.

ITEM 27: The Daily Mail reported, “The race is on to prevent the sinking of a cargo ship off the Dutch coast which is carrying almost 3,000 vehicles, including 350 Mercedes-Benz, as it burns out of control with an electric car believed to be behind the deadly fire.

“At least one crew member died and others were injured after fire ripped through the Fremantle Highway, a 18,500-ton car-carrying vessel. Rescue helicopters and boats evacuated 23 crew members from the Panamanian-registered ship.

“Officials have said there are 'many' wounded. Some suffered broken bones, burns and breathing problems and were taken to hospitals in the northern Netherlands, emergency officials said.”

They should remove the batteries when they ship these battery-operated toys.

They also should hire a fire crew trained in containing electric fires.

ITEM 27: The Hill said, “Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) yelled at House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on the House floor on Thursday, calling Republicans’ funding bills racist, after GOP lawmakers passed the first of 12 annual appropriations bills.”

She was elected because she is black in a district drawn to be 49% black, promoted Black Lives Matter, and is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. If she were white she would still be a triage nurse. Instead, she is in the top 5% income bracket.

Bush calling Scalise racist is like Roseanne Barr calling Taylor Swift tone deaf.

ITEM 28: CNBC reported, “Trump hit with new charges in classified documents case, third defendant added.”

Just a reminder that Democrat Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate states, was never indicted for insurrection or anything else.

ITEM 29: Piñon Post reported, “Public records obtained by New Mexico Alliance for Life reveal that the state’s pro-abortion Democrat Gov. Lujan Grisham’s taxpayer-funded abortion hotline is referring women to The Satanic Temple Health (TST Health) abortion facility — advertised as ‘the world’s first religious abortion clinic.’”

Democrats have gone from opposing any mention of the Lord under the pretense that this establishes a state religion to establishing Satanism as the state religion.

FINALLY, in make-believe news, the Trashmen are redoing their big hit, Surfing Bird (The Bird Is The Word), to honor Biden. The new lyrics are:

A-well a-everybody’s heard about the perv.

Perv, perv, perv, the prez is the perv.

Now to get the Rivingtons to re-word Papa Oh Mow-Mow to reflect his loving showers with his daughter.