Bits & Bytes

BIDENOMICS: On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a more than 1,000-point loss. On Wednesday, it went even lower.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/stock-market-drops-as-wall-street-tries-to-make-a-comeback-5701452

BOEING: On Tuesday, federal investigators opened a two-day hearing into the door that blew off a Boeing 737 Max in January. Boeing factory workers who testified said they were pressured to work too fast and asked to perform jobs that they weren’t qualified for, including working on the door that blew off the Alaska Airlines jet. One said, Boeing’s safety culture is “garbage. Nobody’s accountable.”

• https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/ntsb-boeing-max/2024/08/07/id/1175545/

CATHOLIC: Pray for our nation. [1:07]

CELEBRITIES: Please feel free to smack me upside the head if I forget my policy of never reporting what these people say … unless it’s to praise Jesus or our nation. Then, yeah. You might hear about it!

OLYMPICS: Paris 2024 is such a freakin’ joke. After beating the CRAP out of real female boxers, these two pathetic excuses will be going for the Gold. And they might both win, since they’re in different weight classes.

• https://notthebee.com/article/both-of-the-xy-chromosomed-female-boxers-will-be-fighting-in-the-olympic-gold-medal-match-for-their-respective-weight-classes

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Remember back in 2015 when undercover pro-lifers released video of conversations with Planned Parenthood execs and employees laughing about how they were illegally selling aborted baby body parts? All of the video was shot in public settings where California law says people have no right to expect their words or actions are private.

Do you remember back in 2016 when the two leaders of that effort, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, were charged with 15 felonies for allegedly violating these scumbags’ rights to privacy?

Do you remember how their homes and offices were raided by armed SWAT teams?

Do you remember that it was then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris who ordered these raids and prosecutions? She did so just two weeks after she met with Planned Parenthood officials, and after the organization had specifically requested the computers used for the undercover videos to be seized. Harris has long maintained close ties with Planned Parenthood and has made promoting abortion a central point of her campaign. 

David Daleiden says, “Kamala Harris weaponized her office and weaponized the law in a completely unprecedented way to try to discriminate against free speech that her powerful political backers disagreed with and that they wanted to suppress because the evidence was so damning for them.”

Litigation is still ongoing in California’s case against Daleiden and Merritt, though about half of the charges have been dismissed. CLICK https://x.com/daviddaleiden/status/1821709089371742592 [6:04] and https://x.com/daviddaleiden/status/1821526483581768011 [10:00] to see clips of the offending videos … if you have the stomach for it. I watched them in 2015. I’m not going to do it again.

• https://www.dailywire.com/news/hurricane-kamala-activist-remembers-harrowing-raid-ordered-by-harris-over-planned-parenthood-videos
• https://notthebee.com/article/remember-those-planned-parenthood-whistleblowers-california-ag-kamala-harris-charged-with-15-felonies-for-their-undercover-videos-back-in-2017-well-theyre-back-with-another-video-that-you-don

GRAMMY NOTES: An off-campus friend was waiting for me to eat my meal plan breakfast in a cafeteria that was down a flight of stairs. IOW, she was standing above the munching crowds. When I met up with her, she told me that, when I bowed my head to say grace, everyone else stopped eating to stare at me. I hope it made at least one person stop and think about their eternal destiny.