Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

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• Daily Variety says Warner Brothers will lose $100 million on its latest flop, Supergirl. Last year the movie studio lost $150 million on The Bride and then $200 million on The Flash. The Pentagon just awarded Warner Brothers a defense contract for manufacturing more bombs than Lockheed Martin.

• England's World Cup team played Argentina's Wednesday in a soccer re-match of the 1982 Falkland Island War. There was one hilarious moment on the last day of the war. The British sank the Argentine cruiser Belgrano, only to find out the next day it was fully insured by Lloyd's of London.

• The Odyssey opens in 70mm theaters in big cities nationwide on Friday. A black actress plays Helen of Troy, a transgender woman plays Achilles, Matt Damon is Odysseus and Anne Hathaway is Penelope. The Motion Picture Academy ruled that any casting of a Greek in this movie would be racist.

• Major League Baseball's All-Star Game was played Tuesday in the Philadelphia Phillies home stadium, home of the most raucous baseball fans in America. Their heckling is famously ruthless. During the winter, Phillies fans love to fly down to Florida and boo the safe take-offs at Cape Canaveral.

• Congress passed a bill Tuesday to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. Twice a year spring forward and fall back drives us batty. However, the Far Left likes to point out that you don't really lose an hour of sleep every April, Bernie Sanders takes that hour and gives it to someone more deserving.

• The Treasury Department showed the U.S. currency with President Trump's signature on the bills. Normally only a dead president can appear on U.S. currency. But after dodging 4 assassination attempts, a drone attack and Iran's death sentence, Trump came to the conclusion that it's close enough.

• President Trump re-started the war with Iran Monday, knocking out military installations up and down Iran's coast. We are now in the 19th week of a 4-week war that we've won 6 times in the past 12 weeks. Well, Trump did promise in his campaign that we would get sick and tired of winning.

• The Democratic Socialists released their platform calling for the abolition of the Senate, ICE, police, jails, grants of amnesty, open borders, government ownership of large corporations and grocery distribution, and a 32-hour work week. Communism is like Veganism. They're both fine unless you like food.

• The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported inflation fell to 3.5% in June, the largest one-month drop in years, and it's not the only thing shrinking. At a restaurant in West Hollywood last Sunday I ordered a $75 porterhouse steak and I told the waiter to put it on my American Express card. And it fit.

• ICE halted highway stops in search of illegal aliens Monday after two fatal shootings reignited street protests. People are generally of two minds on the subject. Most people I know in Los Angeles are opposed to mass deportations, that is, until you tell them it would take 45 minutes off their commute.

• Governor Gavin Newsom broke with Progressive dogma and said he thinks transgender women competing against biological women in sports is unfair. I have one condition. I'm okay with biological men being allowed to compete against women in sports just as long as I'm allowed to bet on the outcome.

• The Prince Estate plans to release 10 songs Prince never released in a posthumous new album next month to mark the 10th anniversary of Prince's death titled Timeless. I think he'd have changed with the times. Today, I don't want to Party like It's 1999, I want to go Grocery Shopping Like It's 1999.

• The European Broadcast Union released guidelines called Raising the Bar on the proper way for TV cameras to show female athletes without sexualizing them. I was watching a women's beach volleyball game that got marred by a wrist injury. The doctor says it'll heal and I should be OK in a week.

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