10/27/2022

matthew perry thinks we're stupid

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Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Psychic Hillary's Pre-Emptive Denial."






Matthew Perry is apologizing for passages in his forthcoming book, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, that reference Keanu Reeves.

Among the excerpts that have been posted online from the memoir, which hits stands Nov. 1 from Flatiron Books, are ones in which the Friends alum opens up about his own struggles with substance abuse and laments that his former co-stars River Phoenix and Chris Farley were lost to addiction while Reeves “still walks among us.”

In a statement shared to media outlets including People, Perry said, “I’m actually a big fan of Keanu. I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”



what a liar.  he trashes keanu twice in his book and now wants to claim he's 'a big fan.'  he's only issuing his weak statement because backlash is taking place.  

i don't understand how he thinks he can get away with this.  what he did was 'witchy' at best.  he's exposed his true self.  he went to the trouble of writing those insults at keanu and now he wants to act like he was playing and pull a 'woopsie!'  and we'll all be fooled?

matthew, you're not that good of an actor.

let's close with  C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:'

 Thursday, October 27, 2022.  A lot of silence . . . 




We're going to start with an important event that we also noted yesterday.  





The Congressional Progressive Caucus on Tuesday withdrew a letter that mildly expressed support for diplomatic negotiations to end Russia's war on Ukraine as the document's 30 signatories faced a torrent of criticism and hysterical backlash from fellow Democrats, party leaders, and pundits on social media.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the CPC, said in a statement that the letter addressed to U.S. President Joe Biden "was drafted several months ago, but unfortunately was released by staff without vetting"—a line that was widely seen as Jayapal throwing her staff under the bus.

"As chair of the caucus, I accept responsibility for this," she added. "Because of the timing, our message is being conflated by some as being equivalent to the recent statement by Republican Leader McCarthy threatening an end to aid to Ukraine if Republicans take over."

"The proximity of these statements," the CPC leader said, "created the unfortunate appearance that Democrats, who have strongly and unanimously supported and voted for every package of military, strategic, and economic assistance to the Ukrainian people, are somehow aligned with Republicans who seek to pull the plug on American support for President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian forces."

Jayapal said that narrative—peddled by one Democratic leader who Politico granted anonymity to slime their colleagues as Putin apologists—could not be "further from the truth."

"Every war ends with diplomacy, and this one will too after Ukrainian victory," Jayapal continued. "The letter sent yesterday, although restating that basic principle, has been conflated with GOP opposition to support for the Ukrainians' just defense of their national sovereignty. As such, it is a distraction at this time and we withdraw the letter."

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Late Monday, in the face of growing backlash, Jayapal issued a statement purportedly aimed at "clarifying the position" of the letter, which was endorsed by a number of peace groups including Just Foreign Policy, Win Without War, and the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

"Let me be clear: we are united as Democrats in our unequivocal commitment to supporting Ukraine in their fight for their democracy and freedom in the face of the illegal and outrageous Russian invasion, and nothing in the letter advocates for a change in that support," Jayapal said. "Diplomacy is an important tool that can save lives—but it is just one tool."

Erik Sperling, the executive director of Just Foreign Policy, told The Intercept Monday night that "the shrill response to this utterly moderate letter exposes that war proponents are scared of an open debate about the range of potential approaches to address this escalating conflict."


Jayapal's an idiot -- Mike named her Idiot of the Week -- and there's a lot of stupidity at play here so its hard to know where to start.

But to start anything, you have to know -- so let's start there.  Yesterday, we noted WSWS's article on this.  Today, we note COMMON DREAMS.  And?

THE PROGRESSIVE should just fold shop.  It should just shutter its doors.  It claims to be:  "A voice for peace, social justice and common good."  Yet if you read it in the last years, that really comes across like a punch line, doesn't it?  They haven't stood for peace -- or anything -- in forever.  They're so fluffy that they make IN STYLE look like an investigate outlet.  They always have time to rot your brain, but THE PROGRESSIVE has no time to deal with reality and what happened is reality.

THE NATION?


Joan Walsh offers "DO WE REALLY HAVE TO CARE ABOUT MISERABLE WHITE PEOPLE?"  No, Joan, we don't have to care one bit about you.   Geoffrey Marx, apparently believing he was contributing to THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER, hands in "I WANTED A BOYFRIEND.  MY LIFE COACH TOLD ME TO BECOME A COMMODITY."  Hairball Dave Zirin jerks off to "Is Portland About to Have Two Supporter-Owned Soccer Teams?" -- the universal answer being, of course, come a nuclear war, Dave's scribbles will come off even worse.  John Nichols lands yet again on his knees in front of the DC, fully ready to demonstrate that he has no gag response with his usual nonsense that has no weight or meaning.  

This was an important moment, The Fraud Squad backing down yet again.

This was an instructive moment.

But you don't know about it if people don't cover it.

THE PROGRESSIVE, THE NATION, IN THESE TIMES and COUNTERPUNCH have elected to ignore it.  

Why?

VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Voting matters!!!!

Not if you don't hold politicians accountable.  Not if you just vote and then go silent.

Which is what political parties want.  It's natural, they need your vote.  That's all they want.  Then leave them alone and let them do the job they mistakenly believe that they're smart enough to do all on their own.

They need to be called out and they need to know that this is not acceptable.

We're getting closer to the brink of nuclear war, this is not acceptable.

And it is not acceptable that supposed 'independent' media like THE NATION, et al can't cover this as the big story that it is.

JACOBIN's worthless.  They won't cover it.  They've pimped this war all along.  Just like some on the 'socialist' left pimped the Iraq War.  A friend pimped it, self-identified as a Socialist.  I told her it was the worst mistake of her life.  She's had some fawning since her death but no real scholarly piece.  When that day comes or when a biography is written about her that her daughter doesn't screen, they'll have to deal with her stupidity of calling for the Iraq War.

Ukraine is popular with the Bette Midler crowd on Twitter.

It's not popular with the American people.

The letter the Fraud Squad issued was weak.  But it was also stupid.  In terms of being stupid, the most ignorant part was leaving out the financial cost.  Over $65 billion already pledged, another $50 billion about to be.  The American people do not like that.  As the country suffers from inflation and you can honestly spent $100 at a grocery store and leave with only two bags (as e-mails to the public account continue to note), the American people are tired of billions going overseas.

Many remember that Barack Obama, when he was president, talked of how Ukraine really wasn't an American issue, didn't have impact on this country.

It's a war of choice.  We don't need to be involved.  And considering the regime in Ukraine is racist and neo-nazi, we shouldn't be giving them a dime.  

Nor should we have instigated this conflict, but we did.

In one year, our politicians are willing to give over $110 billion to Urkaine?

While we suffer at home?

Progressive caucus, that was the first point you should have made.

The stupidity is all around.  

The only thing more shameful is the silence.


Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Shia Al Sudani is expected to submit his Cabinet list to Parliament on Thursday for approval, as squabbles over government posts continue between political parties.

If approved, it will end the longest political deadlock over the formation a new government in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime.

At its height, that stalemate turned bloody when clashes broke out between Shiite militias in Baghdad's Green Zone, the heart of government that contains Parliament and foreign embassies. Dozens of people were killed and wounded.


BROS is streaming in the US and playing around the world.  





There's been a non-stop, right-wing attack on the film in the US and it's an attack on LGBTQ+.  You could help prove them wrong by seeing the film.  We'll be writing about that at THIRD so I'll just leave it at that for right now.


Let's wind down with this from MS. MAGAZINE:

 



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10/26/2022

matthew perry is jealous of keanu reeves

 closet case matthew perry wrote a book and i guess it's the closest he'll ever come to coming out.  he comes out as a witch with passages like this:





Perry continues later on, “River was a beautiful man, inside and out — too beautiful for this world, it turned out. It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down. Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us? River was a better actor than me; I was funnier. But I certainly held my own in our scenes — no small feat, when I look back decades later.”

and this:

Keanu Reeves is cited again when Perry writes about the death of comedian Chris Farley. “His disease had progressed faster than mine had. (Plus, I had a healthy fear of the word ‘heroin,’ a fear we did not share),” Perry writes. “I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall when I found out. Keanu Reeves walks among us. I had to promote ‘Almost Heroes’ two weeks after he died; I found myself publicly discussing his death from drugs and alcohol. I was high the entire time.”



that's not funny.  it's just evil.  maybe keanu reeves turned perry down and perry couldn't handle it?

i don't get how he yammers on in print about his drug addictions but never notes his food addictions.  delta burke had similar food problems and they not only never let her live it down, they fired her for it.

it must be sad to be matthew perry.  he had 1 hit his entire career, the t.v. show 'friends.'  he never made it as a film star.  he never made it as a t.v. star outside the ensemble that was 'friends.' 'studio 60 on the sunset strip'?  bomb.  'mr. sunshine'?  bomb. 'the odd couple'?  bomb.  

keanu?  he's got the bill and ted films, the matrix franchise, 'speed,' 'point break,' 'the lake house,' 'a walk in the clouds,' 'the devil's advocate,' 'something's gotta give,' 'constantine,' 'the day the earth stood still,' and the john wick franchise.  and those are just his big hits.  he's also got 'parenthood,' 'chain reaction,' 'my own private idaho,' 'i love you to death,' 'bram stoker's dracula' with winona ryder, 'dangerous liaisons' with michelle pfeiffer and glenn close and 1 of his most under-rated films, 'tune in tomorrow.'

that is hilarious.he's working at a radio station.  he's got the hots for barbara hershey (who is brilliant as usual) and peter falk's mentoring him (and you know peter falk's great).  the amazing cast also includes de dee pfeiffer, john laraquette, henry gibson, elizabeth mcgovern, hope lange, peter gallagher, buck henry and patricia clarkson.  it's a comedy and i never see it anymore.  not on t.v. not on streaming plaforms.  flyboy was cleaning out our storage space and started to toss the vhs and i was like, 'no, it's the only way i can watch ''tune in tomorrow''!'

matthew perry hasn't made a film since 2009.

keanu?  he's worked with halle berry, river phoenix, gus van zandt, michelle pfeiffer, uma thurman, john malcovich, mildred natwick, glenn close, dianne weist, martha plimpton, joaquin phoneix, kathryn bigelow, patrick swayze, lori petty, diane keaton, jack nicholson, al pacino, charlize theron, sandra bullock, winona ryder, gary oldman, bridget fonda, bernardo bertolucci,  tracey ullman, kevin kline, william hurt, joan plowright, barbara hershey, peter falk, dennis hopper, anthony quinn, giancarlo giannini, morgan freeman, tuesday weld, thomas jane, gene hackman, marisa tomei, cate blanchett, sam raimi, hillary swank, diane lane, d.b. sweeney, carrie ann-moss, laurence fishburne, nancy meyers, richard linklater, robert downey jr., forest whitaker, chris evans, james caan, ...

and matthew made 'friends.'


let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot;'


Wednesday, October 26, 2022.  Cowards in Congress and homophobes in the court define the US while Iraq has a rare arrest and conviction in the murder of a protester.


Noted homophobe Cathy Miller of Bakersfield, California is being allowed to practice her homophobia and Georgetown homophobe and FOX 'NEWS' 'scholar' Jonathan Turley gets as close to jizzing as a man his age can over her court win.

Turley likes to present himself as a free speech advocate but every year with FOX 'NEWS' takes him further and further away from reality.  In his rush to celebrate discrimination, he loses whatever is left of his legal mind.


Idiot Cathy thinks she's an artist and idiots like Turley have encouraged her in that delusion.  She's a hateful person who doesn't know anything including her own supposed religion.

Idiot Cathy would be traumatized if she had to make a cake if it were for a gay couple getting married!!!! It would destroy her life.


Reality, she provides a service.  That's all she does.  This is not freedom of speech.


In the current climate where Jewish people are being attacked and many people have valid concerns about a revival of the KKK, we don't need more discrimination.  But Turley's on board with it because he's a homophobe.


You carry this nonsense out to the logical conclusion and you see how damaging it is.


You are stranded  because you ran out of gas and the only service station refuses to sell you gas because you're a gay couple and it would violate their free speech rights.  And let's expand it because that is what happens with hate.  So then some bigot gets to insist that their religion doesn't allow for interracial couples and then they're the ones denied service.  Or they insist that their faith means that they only sell to those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior so Jews, Muslims, et al will not be served.


No one's asked Idiot Cathy to attend a gay wedding.  She's supposed to be baking a cake.  That is her job.  But she think she can refuse service based upon what the customer does in bed.  It's discrimination, it's not free speech.  She can worship however she wants.  But if she has a business, she can't discriminate.


This is discrimination and lets invoke those two infamous words: "Slippery slope."  


You allow her to discriminate against gays and then you allow the next person to discriminate against mixed-race couples, against people based on their skin color, against people based upon their religion or lack of religion.


She bakes cakes.  I must have missed -- like she missed the part about the Good Samaritan -- the verse on "Thou shall not bake cakes for those you disagree with."  


And on Jonathan Turley, I hope your campus is taking a good luck at what you're inspiring in the comments of your website.  I hope they're seeing the effect that you are having.  I hope they're registering how you regularly issue cover-your-ass statements regarding January 6th or racism when you write about those topics but that you've fostered homophobia online by never feeling the need to even incldue the weak ass defense of "Naturally, I support the rights of LGBTQ Americans."  I hope they're seeing it because it won't be long before they've got a student complaining about your discrimination in the classroom because the two go hand and hand.


Some people are ridiculous and live their later years in fear.  Jonathan's made the choice to be one of those people.


From the embarrassment of Jonathan Turley, let's move to another -- Democrats in Congress.  Eric London (WSWS) reports:

 On Monday, 30 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus sent a letter to President Joe Biden suggesting the US negotiate with Russia to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. The letter cited “the catastrophic possibilities of nuclear escalation and miscalculation” and expressed concern that the war is forcing billions of people worldwide to suffer loss of access to food and other necessities.

On Tuesday, with the “catastrophic possibilities” just as great as the day before, the Democratic signatories—including all four congressional members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)—withdrew their letter, repudiated calls for negotiation and pledged their full support for the war.

The reversal was immediate and total. In a statement published Tuesday, Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (Democrat-Washington state) called Monday’s letter “unfortunate” and apologized on behalf of the letter’s signatories for causing a “distraction” to the war effort. “The Congressional Progressive Caucus hereby withdraws its recent letter to the White House regarding Ukraine,” she stated. Not a single member of the caucus voiced any opposition to the reversal.

Jayapal did not merely withdraw the letter, she also committed the caucus to support the war until Russia is forced to capitulate. “Every war ends with diplomacy,” she wrote, “and this one will too after Ukrainian victory.” But according to the letter issued on Monday, if the Russian government lacks “a realistic framework for a ceasefire,” then the “risk of catastrophic escalation” will only grow. While the signatories wrote Monday that “the alternative to diplomacy is protracted war, with both its attendant certainties and catastrophic and unknowable risks,” on Tuesday they chose “protracted war” and accepted the risks.

Such is the reactionary dynamic of Democratic Party politics. This profile in political cowardice once again demonstrates that the Democratic Party, like its Republican counterpart, is nothing but a political pillar of American imperialism. It is a vehicle for prosecuting Wall Street’s reckless drive for world domination. Its “left” wing, represented by politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat-New York), is no exception.

These heroes of the upper middle class “left” are scrambling over one another to erase their signatures from Monday’s letter asking for negotiations. In a transparently false attempt to blame her subordinates, Jayapal (who claims to be a supporter of the rights of employees against employers) ignominiously said the letter “unfortunately was released by staff without our vetting.”

Many signatories employed the same phrases to explain that they no longer support negotiations, as though they were reading from a common script. Mark Pocan (Democrat-Wisconsin) tweeted, “I have no idea why it went out now. Bad timing.” Sara Jacobs (Democrat-California) said, “Timing in diplomacy is everything. I signed this letter on June 30, but a lot has changed since then.” Ilhan Omar (Democrat-Minnesota), who was endorsed by the DSA, said, “Timing is everything in public policy, letters are written to respond to a moment and in politics moments pass in the speed of light. In this particular case, the letter was a response to intel we were getting on the war and the pathway forward.”

Omar’s allusion to receiving “intel” in briefings from the CIA and Pentagon is further proof that the pseudo-left is an arm of US imperialism which “responds” to the demands of the military-intelligence agencies. The “intel” Omar and the rest of the Progressive Caucus received in the wake of Monday’s letter was that they must immediately withdraw it and reverse course, which they promptly did.


Here are four video reports on this nonsense.







Chris Hedges (SCHEERPOST) offers:

I have covered enough wars to know that once you open that Pandora’s box, the many evils that pour out are beyond anyone’s control. War accelerates the whirlwind of industrial killing. The longer any war continues, the closer and closer each side comes to self-annihilation.  Unless it is stopped, the proxy war between Russia and the U.S. in Ukraine all but guarantees direct confrontation with Russia and, with it, the very real possibility of nuclear war.

Joe Biden, who doesn’t always seem to be quite sure where he is or what he is supposed to be saying, is being propped up in the I-am-a-bigger-man-than-you contest with Vladimir Putin by a coterie of rabid warmongers who have orchestrated over 20 years of military fiascos. They are salivating at the prospect of taking on Russia, and then, if there is any habitation left on the globe, China. Trapped in the polarizing mindset of the Cold War — where any effort to de-escalate conflicts through diplomacy is considered appeasement, a perfidious Munich moment — they smugly push the human species closer and closer toward obliteration. Unfortunately for us, one of these true believers is Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

“Putin is saying he is not bluffing. Well, he cannot afford bluffing, and it has to be clear that the people supporting Ukraine and the European Union and the Member States, and the United States and NATO are not bluffing neither,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned. “Any nuclear attack against Ukraine will create an answer, not a nuclear answer but such a powerful answer from the military side that the Russian Army will be annihilated.”

Annihilated. Are these people insane?

You know we are in trouble when Donald Trump is the voice of reason.

“We must demand the immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, or we will end up in world war three” the former president said. “And there will be nothing left of our planet — all because stupid people didn’t have a clue … They don’t understand what they’re dealing with, the power of nuclear.”

 I dealt with many of these ideologues — David Petraeus, Elliot Abrams, Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland — as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Once you strip away their chest full of medals or fancy degrees, you find shallow men and women, craven careerists who obsequiously serve the war industry that ensures their promotions, pays the budgets of their think tanks and showers them with money as board members of military contractors. They are the pimps of war. If you reported on them, as I did, you would not sleep well at night. They are vain enough and stupid enough to blow up the world long before we go extinct because of the climate crisis, which they have also dutifully accelerated.

If, as Joe Biden says, Putin is “not joking” about using nuclear weapons and we risk nuclear “Armageddon,” why isn’t Biden on the phone to Putin? Why doesn’t he follow the example of John F. Kennedy, who repeatedly communicated with Nikita Khrushchev to negotiate an end to the Cuban missile crisis? Kennedy, who unlike Biden served in the military, knew the obtuseness of generals. He had the good sense to ignore Curtis LeMay, the Air Force Chief of Staff and head of the Strategic Air Command, as well as the model for General Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove,” who urged Kennedy to bomb the Cuban missile bases, an act that would have probably ignited a nuclear war. Biden is not made of the same stuff.



Turning to Iraq where the big story remains the theft of $2.5 billion.  Since that story hit the news last week, an arrest has been made of a man at the airport trying to leave the country.  Sinan Mahmoud (THE NATIONAL) reports:


Iraq's judiciary claims to have traced and seized “most” of the $2.5 billion embezzled from government funds in the latest corruption case that has shocked the country and drawn UN condemnation.

The announcement of the recovered funds was made by a senior judge in charge of the investigation on Tuesday.

The latest scandal, revealed earlier this month by a government minister, has caused a political storm in corruption-plagued Iraq and is being dubbed domestically as “the theft of the century”.

In the embezzlement, an amount of 3.7 trillion Iraqi dinars (almost $2.5 billion) was fraudulently paid to five companies by the General Commission of Taxes, an office within the Ministry of Finance.


In other legal news, RUDAW notes:


An Iraqi court on Tuesday sentenced a man to death by hanging for the killing of an activist during the 2019 Tishreen protests, reported the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council.

Prominent activist Thaer al-Tayeb was severely wounded when a sticky device attached to his car exploded while he was on his way back to Diwaniyah from Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on December 15, 2019. He was announced dead in hospital two days later.

“The al-Qadisiyah criminal court issued a death sentence against Kifah al-Kuraiti after the assassination in Diwaniyah province which targeted activist Thaer al-Tayeb,” read a statement from the Iraqi judiciary.

The announcement of the activist’s death prompted angry protesters in Diwaniyah to set ablaze offices of the pro-Iran militias of Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH) and Badr, and further charged the hundreds of thousands of people holding mass anti-corruption protests in most Iraqi provinces.


THE NEW ARAB reminds, "More than 600 Iraqi protesters were killed and tens of thousands wounded during the demonstrations. Some activists died in targeted assassinations, including former government adviser Hisham al-Hashemi who was shot near his home in July 2020."  THE NATIONAL adds:


Although departing Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi has repeatedly vowed to seek justice for the hundreds killed, most of the deaths have gone unpunished.

Two people were sentenced to death last year over the killing of a teenager who joined the protests.

Last year, the UN warned that Iraqi activists were being killed with impunity.

“The rights of many victims and their families to truth, justice, redress and reparation have not been fully respected,” it said in a report.


As we wind down, let's note BROS which is now available in the US on streaming.  Justin Heo (USC ANNENBERG MEDIA) notes:


From the quick-witted angry comedian, Eichner, who is best known for “Billy on the Street” (2011), and filmmakers Nicholas Stoller and Judd Apatow, “Bros” is a rom-com about two men who fall in love. And not to be dramatic, but “Bros” is literally the best gay film I’ve ever seen.

Eichner plays Bobby Lieber, a successful podcaster and chairman of a committee that is overseeing the creation of the first LGBTQ history museum. Bobby takes on the same charms as Eichner: He’s intense and cynical yet crass and self-deprecating. He’s a 40-year-old gay man who has never been in a serious relationship until he meets Aaron, played by Luke Macfarlane.

“Bros” is an easy watch with some familiar story beats. The jokes are hilarious in both its writing and delivery, with standout performances from Bowen Yang and Jim Rash. The comedy is smart, largely critiquing gay culture without mocking it, and pokes fun at infighting among the LGBT community, impossible beauty standards and the promiscuity of gay men.

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At its core, “Bros” is a hilarious movie that packs a lot more heart than expected. When the movie is funny, it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious, and when it’s sweet, it’s tear-jerking. There’s something very emotional about seeing a relatable representation of gay men, and “Bros” makes me optimistic for the future of gay cinema, especially as it stands to impact many more queer adolescents by widening its audience and accessibility.









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