Highlights of the week

Summertime, and the news is boring. Let’s liven things up.

ITEM 1: Breitbart reported, “The Walt Disney Company is having trouble keeping its story straight about the unauthorized photos taken on the set of its woke Snow White remake.

“Disney officials first denied that the unflattering photos — which were first published by The Daily Mail — were real. But the studio later backtracked, admitting the viral pictures depicting the multiracial cast were real but unauthorized.

“The confusion arose when The Daily Beast ran a story Friday complaining that conservatives were making fun of the images, which show a Latina Snow White greeting the ‘seven dwarves’ — a multiethnic group of hipsters, only one of which is an actual dwarf.”

So instead of 7 short people getting a gig only one does because we have to bust the stereotype that short people are sleepy, dopey, grumpy, happy, bashful and sneezy. That means Doc got the gig.

With a Latino actress cast as the lead, Snow White’s skin no longer is white as snow. Maybe they should change her name to Brown Sugar.

Someone suggested Disney have the 7 Whatsits sing The Safety Dance.

SPOILER ALERT: In this version, Snow White preaches against the patriarchy and the white privilege of her evil stepmother.

It ends with Snow discovering Prince Charming cheated on her with Cinderella, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty. Snow then begins his gender-affirming surgery with a pair of gardening shears.

ITEM 2: Tech Crunch reported, “Ford slashes the price of the F-150 Lightning EV pickup.”

Oddly enough, there is not a big market for battery-operated trucks. I bet they are great for hauling Bud Light to Gay Parades and Drag Queen Story Hours.

ITEM 3: The Guardian reported, “‘Uncharted territory’: UN declares first week of July world’s hottest ever recorded.”

The Guardian also reported, “‘Pure magic’: snow falls on Johannesburg for first time in 11 years.”

So global warming causes snow. Got it.

ITEM 4: Breitbart reported, “Arkansas ‘2022 Teacher of the Year’ Had Sex with Student in Her Office.”

Well, that's one way to get votes.

ITEM 5: The Cable reported, “Global food supply threatened as Russia terminates Ukraine grain export deal.”

The Cable also reported, “‘Poor countries hardest hit’ — Okonjo-Iweala reacts to Ukraine grain deal collapse.”

If only Africa were a warm continent where she could raise crops to feed her people.

ITEM 6: The Financial Times reported, “Millions of U.S. military emails were misrouted to Mali by a ‘typographical leak’ that exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords and travel details of senior officers.

“Despite repeated warnings over a decade, the steady stream of email traffic to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, continues to be the result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix for all U.S. military email addresses.”

Who runs the military email operation? Hillary Clinton?

ITEM 7: Legal Insurrection reported, “Woke Mob Targets Country Singer Jason Aldean Over Try That in a Small Town Song.”

The backlash made the song No. 1 on iTunes — bumping to No. 2 another song the left hates, the Luke Combs cover of Fast Car.

ITEM 8: WaPo reported, “Georgia Supreme Court rejects Trump petition to block election probe.”

The headline is poorly written. Georgia is not investigating the 2020 election for possible fraud. No, no, no. It is investigating Trump for daring to raise the question about election fraud.

ITEM 9: NYT whined, “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025.”

Obama used the DOJ to spy on Trump and Biden is using the DOJ to prosecute him. They made presidential power infinite. The real fear is Trump will know how to use those powers.

ITEM 10: AP reported, “The latest bid by conservationists and tribal leaders to block construction of a huge lithium mine already in the works along the Nevada-Oregon line was denied by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday.”

The mine is crucial in the production of battery-operated cars. That’s right, we have to destroy the environment in order to protect the environment.

ITEM 11: Sundance reported, “Lisa Murkowski Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats, Several Republican Senators Including Thune, Romney, Cornyn and Young Agree.”

The Liz Cheney-Mitt Romney-Lisa Murkowski Brigade marches on because it is all about getting that liberal love your Republican fathers were denied.

ITEM 12: Ace of Spades reported, “Barry Diller: Hollywood Faces an ‘Absolute Collapse’ If Actor and Writer Strikes Are Not Resolved Soon.”

So? I watch only the rerun stations anymore. Bachelor Father is better than The Bachelor. John Forsythe and Sammee Tong paved the way for Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot in Family Affair.

Here’s an idea. Some cable channel should take every movie mentioned in the Statler Brothers song The Movies (“The movies are great medicine, thank you Thomas Edison”) and broadcast the films in a marathon weekend.

THE DOWNSIDE: Shutting production down may save Disney because it lost $890 million on its last 8 movies.

Fewer movies, fewer box office bombs.

ITEM 13: The National Pulse reported, “‘Mohammed’ is The Most Common Name Amongst Arrested ‘French’ Rioters.”

The West turned its back on the Lord and now pays the price.

I wonder what the Muslims will re-name Notre Dame.

MEME OF THE WEEK:

ITEM 14: The Sun reported, “Trocadero: Muslim billionaire Asif Aziz wins permission to turn London’s famous landmark into a mosque.”

Winchester Cathedral
You’ll soon be a mosque
You stood and you watched as
They took over the town

Oh-bo-de-oh-do, oh-bo-de-oh-do
Oh-bo-de-oh-do, do-do-duh

ITEM 15: The Wall Street Journal wept, “Europeans are facing a new economic reality, one they haven’t experienced in decades. They are becoming poorer.

“Life on a continent long envied by outsiders for its art de vivre is rapidly losing its shine as Europeans see their purchasing power melt away.

“The French are eating less foie gras and drinking less red wine. Spaniards are stinting on olive oil. Finns are being urged to use saunas on windy days when energy is less expensive. Across Germany, meat and milk consumption has fallen to the lowest level in three decades and the once-booming market for organic food has tanked. Italy’s economic development minister, Adolfo Urso, convened a crisis meeting in May over prices for pasta, the country’s favorite staple, after they jumped by more than double the national inflation rate.”

So how is that free health care and no guns working out?

ITEM 16: Christian Toto wrote, “Lesbian Comic Judy Gold: I Was Canceled by LGBTQ Group.”

Any more, the biggest homophobes are in the Gay Mafia. As the song said, step out of line, the men come and take you away.

ITEM 17: Breitbart reported, “The Louisiana legislature voted in favor of overriding Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a law that would ban medically transitioning minors.”

Tip to parents: As long as he’s governor, don’t let your kids attend any sleepovers at the governor’s mansion.

ITEM 18: Biden met with Israel’s president and took a nap.

Simultaneously.

ITEM 19: Fox reported, “Democrat congressman melts down, claims DOJ, FBI, IRS ‘keep democracy in check’ during Hunter Biden hearing.

“Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., ripped up his prepared remarks in a show of frustration.”

Interesting story. Here’s another one.

It began, “God Almighty, you can get killed in Baltimore—for no reason at all.

“Say that to yourself a few times. Gargle it, and choke on the terror. If you look at a kid too long, or the wrong way, you could get killed. For no reason at all. If you bump into a kid on the street, if you only lightly brush up against him, and even if you apologize, it could be the last thing you ever do.”

Later it said, “The Atlanta child murders were a horror—someone was out there kidnapping and killing young kids. But with one arrest, it was over. Here, in Baltimore, the killing never ends. It goes on, a reign of terror. Over the past few months, much of my time has been spent watching these kids. Moving from club to club, hanging out on street corners. I’ve met the killers, and sadly, I think I’ve also met kids who will most likely be victims.”

The writer is Barry Michael Cooper. It was published in Spin Magazine in May 1986. It won the 1987 Ball State University Prize for Best Magazine Feature, and the 1987 National Association of Black Journalists Prize for Best Magazine Feature.”

1986 was the year Mfume was first elected to Congress.

ITEM 20: Peter Sweden tweeted, “Greta Thunberg who has been skipping school her whole life has now being made an honorary professor in theology at the University of Helsingfors.

“I knew it all along.

“The climate fanatics are a religious cult.”

Fact check: True.

ITEM 21: WFTV reported, “Wave near Africa may develop this week; Tropical Storm Don continues slow move through the Atlantic.”

You know it is headed for DC.

ITEM 22: National Review reported, “The Stanford University DEI dean who accosted a Trump-appointed federal judge during a Federalist Society event is resigning from the law school after months of icy relations with the administration and student body.

“Tirien Steinbach, associate director for diversity, equity, and inclusion, is leaving her role for another opportunity, Stanford Law School said Thursday in an announcement obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

“In March, Steinbach and a mob of unruly law students disrupted a Stanford Federalist Society event for Kyle Duncan, a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge. His talk was on ‘Covid, Guns, and Twitter.’”

Good luck with those applications for law clerk at the Fifth Circuit, kids.

ITEM 23: Collin Rugg tweeted, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes on 5 minute rant eviscerating Democrats for trying to smear his name.

“The rant came as House Democrats tried censoring Kennedy on a hearing about government censorship.

“‘If the views that you and others have applied to me . . . were actually true, I can see why I shouldn't be able to testify here today. Those are not true. These are defamations and malignancies that are used to censor me to prevent people from listening to the actual things that I'm saying . . .”

“The term ‘malinformation’ was coined to describe information that Facebook and Twitter and the other social media sites understood was true, but that the White House and other federal agencies wanted censored anyway for political reasons because it challenged official orthodoxies.”

I would be more impressed if over the last 8 years Bobby Jr. had spoken up in defense of Trump.

ITEM 24: We put the ho in Ho Chi Minh City as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited Vietnam.

She said, “Vietnam is also a close economic partner, with our two-way trade reaching record highs last year and the United States serving as Vietnam’s largest export market. It is a priority for our administration to deepen our economic and security ties with Vietnam in the months and years to come.”

Just what we need, another poor trading partner that kills our industries and doesn’t buy a darned thing from us.

ITEM 25: Zero Hedge reported, “New York City will immediately begin discouraging asylum seekers from seeking refuge in the self-proclaimed sanctuary city, warning migrants coming from the southern border that there’s no guarantee they’ll receive shelter or services, Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday.

“‘We have no more room in the city,’ Adams said during a news conference at City Hall, in what the NY Times describes as a ‘somewhat unexpected departure from its long-held status as a sanctuary city, and as a place that guarantees a right to shelter.’”

Looks like black Democrats are bailing on illegal aliens.

Wait until Adams discovers the homeless are overwhelmingly white. When he does, he’ll put them out on the street.

ITEM 26: Business Insider bleated, “The FBI is furious Chuck Grassley released an internal document that makes unverified claims about Hunter and Joe Biden accepting bribes.”

Laptop 2.0. The deep state denies; the press repeats the lies.

ITEM 27: Tony Bennett died at 96.

I dropped a deuce in San Francisco
High on a hill, poop piled from me

To be where little thugs who loot, fear no cops are gonna shoot

The homeless bums may sleep on stairs, no one cares

My turd sits there in San Francisco
Right near the blue and windy sea
When I come home to you, San Francisco
Some golden rain will stream from me

ITEM 28: Breitbart reported, “Berlin Say No Danger to Public After Two-Day Hunt for Lioness Around City.”

The story said, “A search turned up no sign of such a predator and experts who analyzed a video have concluded that it was likely a wild boar, they said.”

Someone is lion.

ITEM 29: CNN reported, “Pro-war Russian blogger who called Putin a ‘lowlife’ arrested in Moscow.”

Did Putin charge him with insurrection?