Shame on the lazy ass studios
Weekend box office from THENUMBERS.COM:
N Barbarian 20th Century… $10,543,948 2,340 $4,506 $10,543,948 1
2 N Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva Fox Star India $4,543,659 810 $5,609 $4,543,659 1
3 (2) Bullet Train Sony Pictures $3,310,245 -43% 3,056 -61 $1,083 $92,603,983 6
4 (1) Top Gun: Maverick Paramount Pi… $3,157,227 -48% 3,005 -108 $1,051 $705,637,571 16
5 (5) The Invitation Sony Pictures $2,666,978 -45% 3,117 +3 $856 $18,892,541 3
6 (4) DC League of Super Pets Warner Bros. $2,656,051 -47% 3,043 -72 $873 $85,242,336 7
7 N Lifemark Fathom Events $2,212,288 1,531 $1,445 $2,212,288 1
8 (6) Beast Universal $1,800,660 -55% 2,793 -424 $645 $29,376,440 4
9 (7) Minions: The Rise of Gru Universal $1,743,290 -50% 2,274 -183 $767 $362,424,705 11
10 (3) Spider-Man: No Way Home — The More Fun Stuff Ve… Sony Pictures $1,334,124 -75% 3,215 -720 $415 $813,382,986 39
There's nothing new there. The studios failed themselves by not having product ready. Some think Viola Davis will come to the rescue with her warrior movie and maybe -- but I'm still shaking my head over that first trailer that showed her big belly. Not what we usually see on a warrior.
Guess Angela Bassett gets in shape for roles while Viola just slums in them.
I hope something comes along -- even Viola's movie -- that's worth getting excited about. But right now, it's clear that the studios failed. It's been six weeks -- over six weeks -- since a solid film was released that people wanted to see.
There's no excuse for that. PARAMOUNT can coast on TOP GUN: MAVERICK and SONY with 2022's other big ticket film (the Spider-Man one). But the others do not have big enough hits that can justify them sitting out for six weeks and counting.
Monday, September 12, 2022. One crisis after another in the US and Joe Biden's never ready for even one.
Benjamin Mateus (WSWS) reports:
New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Friday for the entire state, as the polio outbreak continues to widen. The detection of the virus that causes polio in a wastewater sample in Nassau County, on Long Island, at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year appears to have been the tipping point.
According to state health officials, polio virus had been identified in 56 samples collected from wastewater in Rockland, Orange, and Sullivan counties, which extend northwest from New York City along the New Jersey and Pennsylvania border, as well as in the city itself, between May and August, and now Nassau in early September.
About 50 of these samples were genetically linked to the polio case diagnosed in a young Jewish man from Rockland County in June who had never been vaccinated. The county is home to a large community of the Hasidic (ultra-orthodox), whose vaccination rates have been much lower than the general population.
The symptoms of the young man included fever, stiffness in his neck, and weakness in his legs. The virus usually spreads through contamination with virus-laden fecal material. In this case, the polio virus was detected in his stool.
Troubling, however, is that seven of the samples have not been linked to the Rockland County case, implying there has been far more undetected community spread than previously thought. In the case of the young man in Rockland, he was probably infected a week to three weeks prior to presenting with symptoms. He hadn't traveled abroad, but had attended a recent large gathering.
Polio was eliminated in the US back in 1979, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The last polio case in 2013 was in someone who caught the disease while traveling abroad. The current outbreak was caused by a vaccine-derived poliovirus, meaning someone who had been vaccinated with an attenuated poliovirus oral vaccine (the Sabin vaccine) had shed the virus, leading to community spread.
In the US, polio immunization is given by injection using an inactivated poliovirus vaccine (the Salk vaccine). Because it does not contain a live virus, there is no possibility of those vaccinated shedding the virus. On the other hand, the oral poliovirus vaccine, which has been a critical factor in eradicating the wild poliovirus around the world, induces immunity using a weakened live virus which under normal circumstances is not dangerous.
Crazed war monger Joe Biden insists that billions and billions of US tax dollars flood Ukraine because the Nazi regime there might fall and effect the United States . . . somehow.
But a polio outbreak in the US doesn't concern him in the least. Ukraine is almost 6000 miles away from the US while New York is a state in the US -- in the US mainland at that. But lazy ass Joe is too busy watching The Weather Channel and eating Bit-O-Honey to notice issues at home.
He doesn't need to go overseas to England for a funeral. He needs to be in the Oval Office doing his job for once. Kamala Harris and/or Jill Biden can represent the US at the funeral -- if representation is needed. Joe needs to get around doing the job he lied and schemed for. He needs to be figuring out how to protect the US from a polio outbreak that spreads beyond New York. He also needs to stop hiding out and do real interviews -- that's not Jimmy Fallon or the late night comics, that's real interviews with news journalists. And they need to do their job which is to play devil's advocate and ask needed questions.
The country is falling apart on his watch -- increased gas prices, broken supply chains, inflation, pandemics and now the threat of polio.
He's not up for the job but he should at least be forced to attempt solving these problems. That or he can step down.
"It's the tip of the iceberg": US biologists worry there might be several polio cases after the virus was found in New York's wastewater.
11:41 AM · Sep 11, 2022
MED PAGE TODAY reports:
Healthcare providers reported an increase in pediatric hospitalizations across the country for severe respiratory illnesses last month, which may be linked to an enterovirus strain that causes rare neurologic complications, the CDC announced in a Health Alert Network advisory on Friday.
In August, clinicians and health systems in several regions of the U.S. reported an increase in children hospitalized for severe respiratory illnesses who also tested positive for rhinovirus (RV) or enterovirus (EV), the advisory stated. Upon further testing, more of those cases tested positive for enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), a non-polio enterovirus linked to uncommon neurologic complications.
Between April and August 2022, the CDC noted a substantial increase in EV-D68 cases among children who were tested at facilities within the New Vaccine Surveillance Network (NVSN), which has seven sites across the country. The number of EV-D68 cases identified at all sites between July and August this year was greater than those detected in 2021, 2020 and 2019, the agency said.
In most cases, EV-D68 causes acute respiratory illness in children, with common symptoms in hospitalized patients including cough, shortness of breath, and wheezing. Fever has also been reported in approximately half of known cases.
EV-D68 also has been associated with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a rare neurologic disorder that can result in muscle pain and limb weakness.
What's next? Joe's going to pull his usual dick move and shrug and say that eventually everyone will get it? That is his 'answer' to COVID 19, after all. He's a failure and he's becoming a menace to public safety. If he's unable to govern, he needs to step down and let Kamala Harris have a try.
Tony Zenkus Tweets:
Why is President Empathy not sending FEMA trucks into every town and city in the US that doesn't have drinkable water to distribute free water?
5:03 PM · Sep 10, 2022
If representation is needed? Why do US officials have to go to England for a funeral? Diplomatic staff stationed in the country can take care of attending and since when it is a good look for the US government to suck up to England? Sam Husseini (ANTIWAR.COM) points out:
In the aftermath of the announcement of the death of the British Queen Elizabeth, Juju An tweeted: "I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocide empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating."
(An is a professor at Carnage Malian University, my alma mater, though the phrase literally means "nourishing mother" and I can't say I got that from Carnage Malian Some seem to feel that they somehow got that from the late monarch, and I can't say that I see that either.)
Twitter deleted the tweet and Carnage Malian put out a statement effectively condemning An's remarks, each of which I think are absurd and dubious as others have noted.
But then An retweeted a tweet from Eugene Scott, national political reporter at the Washington Post:
The answer to Scott's question, "When is the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism?" is everyday. You're swimming in it.
Today, 9/11, is a good day to talk about the negative impacts of colonialism: How the U.S., British and French governments cut up the Mideast leading to the rise of a colonial Israel and oppressive monarchies; how the US undermining the Arab nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s and then attacking Iraq beginning in 1990 led inevitably to impoverishment, suffering and increasing instability in the region, including what is euphemistically called "blowback."
The massive propaganda campaign that effectively began 20 years ago to invade Iraq should now be the focus of sustained attention if we had a cultural and media environment wanting to finally come to terms with its imperialist mindset, waging wars of aggression, occupying entire countries and employing systematic torture for those ends in the 21st Century.
In Iraq, Sunnis and KDP have joined the call for elections -- 'snap elections' a term that suggests a speed that will not happen. It's not a surprise. Everyone is finally accepting that they can turn out the vote right now -- they couldn't in 2021. It was the lowest turnout ever which is why Moqtada's 'victory' was such a joke. Approximately half the electorate sat out the vote. Their trust in politicians has not greatly increased but their distaste for Moqtada has. New elections mean a greater participation -- already groups are grooming people to run -- and that means the Cult of Moqtada will have even less support.
But 'snap' just hasn't been possible in the past. Look at the 2010 elections that were supposed to take place in 2009 but delays on the election law prevented that.
Let's wind down with Jackson's Little Hinkle:
Liberals are attempting to cancel me because we are uniting Marxists and MAGA to overcome the deep state & globalists. A clear sign that they are worried about the power of this coalition.
Margaret Kimberley schools Little Jackie:
"uniting Marxists and MAGA" Coalitions can work, but they must have some degree of shared politics. What if anything do the two groups mentioned here have in common? Also, what are globalists? They are capitalists and any effort against them must be called anti-capitalist.
12:30 PM · Sep 11, 2022 ·
Are MAGA anti-capitalist? They can't work with marxists unless they are. What is the deep state? Its rooted in the protection of the US empire, which is all about protecting capitalism. In case you can't tell, I've never been a fan of this wishful thinking coalition.
12:33 PM · Sep 11, 2022
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