With a movie that easily cost $400 million to produce and promote, and will be lucky to make $500 million worldwide.
How do you screw up an Indiana Jones movie?
Well, these are the same people who destroyed Star Wars, Pixar, Willow, Disney Animation Studios, and Marvel.
Tuesday, July 04, 2023
Nolte: Disney's 'Indiana Jones 5' Officially Bombs with Pathetic 60M Opening
Nolte: Disney's 'Indiana Jones 5' Officially Bombs with Pathetic 60M Opening:
Independence Day and Thanksgiving define America
Independence Day and Thanksgiving define America - GLENN K BEATON
- My father’s father – my grandfather – died in the depths of the Great Depression when my father was five.
- He was the second husband his mother buried. She then single-handedly raised my father, his brother and his half-sister.
- For a few years anyway. My father flunked the sixth grade, twice. He dropped out of school altogether in the eighth grade to go to work to help support the family. Kids grew up early in those days. He joined the army at age 17 just before the war ended, and served in Europe and Japan. He got his GED, and landed a job as an engineering technician...
He was awestruck that he – he! – could achieve what he did.
His sentiment was not founded in conceit for what he had achieved, but for love of the place that let him do so, a place rooted in the notion that all men were created with equal opportunity regardless of their circumstances or limitations.
Merit counted for a lot, and effort accounted for even more...
This Independence Day, green shoots are sprouting in America.A post-apocalyptic lunar landscape of wokeness, Marxism, hatred and nihilism is giving way to a renewed appreciation and outright love for a country that is still the greatest in history, a country whose best days are still ahead, God willing.My father would be happy to see it this Independence Day, as am I.
Celebrate America!-----Happy Fourth of July BY BRIGGS ON JULY 4, 2023
Happy Fourth of July BY BRIGGS ON JULY 4, 2023
You can look at these pictures of fireworks, as they used to be (from Flickr Commons)...
Hunter Biden Laptop Strikes Again as Photos Appear to Show Him Committing 2 Crimes on Camera
Hunter Biden Laptop Strikes Again as Photos Appear to Show Him Committing 2 Crimes on Camera:
“The timeline that is emerging does not paint a picture of an apolitical FBI, and the bureau has a duty to explain itself, which it has so far failed to do.”
Johnson said that entwined with the implications of foreign policy reverberations from the Biden family’s network of businesses is the barrier put in the way of investigating allegations against the Biden family.
“As troubling as Biden family corruption is — and the extent to which it comprises American foreign policy — there is a much larger story of corruption to be uncovered,” he said.
"Trust us, we're from the government"-----CDC OKs New Pfizer, GSK Vaccines Against RSV in Older Adults
CDC OKs New Pfizer, GSK Vaccines Against RSV in Older Adults"Some older adults should receive the new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has concluded, while acknowledging that the risks of the shots may outweigh the benefits for some of the population.
The CDC’s director on June 29 endorsed advice from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, known as ACIP, for the new vaccines, which are manufactured by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
The CDC’s director on June 29 endorsed advice from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, known as ACIP, for the new vaccines, which are manufactured by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
- That means people aged 60 and older can receive one of the vaccines...
Glass bottling plants forced to shut down, leaving 600 employees jobless amid Bud Light controversy | Fox News
Glass bottling plants forced to shut down, leaving 600 employees jobless amid Bud Light controversy | Fox News:
The bottling company did not reveal the reason for the move, but an investigation by WRAL reportedly found that the plants are shuttering because of tanking Bud Light sales, as retailers, distributors, bars and contracted companies feel the wrath of nationwide boycotts over the controversial Bud Light partnership that celebrated Mulvaney's "365 Days of Girlhood."
Celebrate America!-----All Immigrants Are Born on the Fourth of July | The Free Press
All Immigrants Are Born on the Fourth of July | The Free Press
- Our history belongs to me no less than to any Mayflower descendant. Maybe more, writes Martin Gurri, since I knew too well the alternative to freedom. - By Martin Gurri
"I arrived in the United States as a child from Cuba, and immediately realized things were different here...
...And for those of you who love to sneer at “consumerism,” let me repeat a story I have told before. A Cuban woman, a recent refugee, entered a supermarket in Miami and proceeded toburst into tears. Surrounded by such a dazzling display of goods, her heart broke, she said, when she thought of the people she had left behind in Cuba, who had so little.
The opposite of consumerism isn’t authenticity—it’s penury.
It’s scarcity and hunger.
We are fortunate and exceptional that most of our problems stem from abundance.
This amazing history is the property of every American—and it was the legacy that confronted me when I first arrived in this country.
- But here’s the strange thing: fairly quickly, without my knowing how, I started to think of it as my legacy. I internalized the evolution of freedom the U.S. represents.
It belonged to me no less than to any Mayflower descendant—maybe more, since I knew too well the alternative to freedom...
'Cruel' and 'extreme': Governor vetoes bill to protect children from risky transgender surgery, puberty blockers - TheBlaze
'Cruel' and 'extreme': Governor vetoes bill to protect children from risky transgender surgery, puberty blockers - TheBlaze:
Louisiana's Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed the "Stop Harming Our Kids Act," a bill that would have banned transgender surgery, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones for children.
A good one!--Celebrate America!-----What Two Iraqi Teenagers Taught Me About America | The Free Press
What Two Iraqi Teenagers Taught Me About America | The Free Press
Asla (left) and Mariam Al-Khafaji came to America from Iraq nearly 10 years ago. (All images courtesy of the Al-Khafaji family; photoshop by The Free Press)
- To Mariam and Asla, America was both beautiful and pockmarked. But they believed in it, because here they became the people they were meant to be...
...On July Fourth, the Al-Khafajis will celebrate their arrival in this country, and they’ll remember the long, tortuous road to this place, and the long road ahead, and they’ll do what they always do on the Fourth.
They’ll pile into the family’s Honda Odyssey and drive up to Buffalo, which, like Erie, has a large community of refugees and immigrants from all over the world.
There’s a Yemeni restaurant there that they like.
It serves, according to the sisters, a solid lamb and rice dish.
- Then, they’ll head on to Niagara Falls, a half hour away, and watch the fireworks over the falls.
- They’ll take pictures with their phones, and enjoy the lovely nighttime breeze, and then they’ll climb back in the car and drive home."
History for July 4
History for July 4 - On-This-Day.com 
Al Davis 1929
- 1776 - The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in America.
- 1802 - The U.S. Military Academy officially opened at West Point, NY.
- 1803 - The Louisiana Purchase was announced in newspapers. The property was purchased, by the U.S. from France, was for $15 million (or 3 cents an acre). The "Corps of Discovery," led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, began the exploration of the territory on May 14, 1804.
- 1817 - Construction began on the Erie Canal, to connect Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
- 1960 - The 50-star U.S. flag made its debut in Philadelphia, PA.
- 1976 - The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.
Monday, July 03, 2023
China's updated counterespionage law is 'direct attack' on US citizens, businesses: Sen Markwayne Mullin | Fox News
China's updated counterespionage law is 'direct attack' on US citizens, businesses: Sen Markwayne Mullin | Fox News:
U.S. intelligence officials have issued a warning to American businesses and company employees in China as sweeping updates to the country's counterespionage legislation go into effect on Saturday.
One lawmaker, however, warns the revision is a "direct attack" on American citizens and businesses.
"This is a direct attack on United States citizens and businesses," Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said on "Fox & Friends Weekend" Saturday.
Read 'em all!-----The Tactics of Indoctrination Are Driving Society Right Off the Cliff - America Out Loud
The Tactics of Indoctrination Are Driving Society Right Off the Cliff - America Out Loud by Patricia Anthone 
"Leftist woke ideology actively and purposely destroys its subscribers’ capacity for rational thought...
Some of the most outlandish examples:
- Taking a “vaccine” that fails to prevent infection or the spread of disease demonstrates virtue. Refusing it constitutes willful disregard for the safety of others.
- Cow farts cause global warming. Beef, therefore, should be abolished as a regular dietary habit....
- Carbon, an essential, naturally-occurring element in the Earth’s environment and the fundamental building block of all life has been deemed “a pollutant” by “scientists” subscribed to (or purchased by) the Climate Crisis narrative...
- A person’s physical sex can be surgically and biochemically manipulated to better align with his or her “gender identity.”...
- Property rights are racist...
- They are legitimately insane, i.e., destructive to the society that embraces them.
- And all can easily be refuted...
Crooked profs, stupid studies. Your tax dollars at "work"!-----Harvard behavior scientist who studied honesty accused of fabricating data
Harvard behavior scientist who studied honesty accused of fabricating data By David Propper"...A prominent Harvard behavioral scientist who undertook studies about honesty is under fire for allegedly fabricating papers that she worked on, according to a report.
Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino allegedly chalked up phony results tied to studies, including one focused on honest behavior, the New York Times reported...
Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino allegedly chalked up phony results tied to studies, including one focused on honest behavior, the New York Times reported...
White House report signals openness to manipulating sunlight to prevent climate change | Fox News
White House report signals openness to manipulating sunlight to prevent climate change | Fox News:
A research document published on the White House website reveals the Biden administration is open to studying how to block sunlight to save the Earth from climate change.
The congressionally mandated report released by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Friday shows that the team has been researching "geoengineering" methods to keep the sun rays from accelerating global warming.
As the University of Oxford notes in its entry on the subject, "geoengineering" is "the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s natural systems to counteract climate change."
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