"There is but one way to know the truth, and that is not a golden one. It is fraught with toil and sacrifice and perhaps ridicule. The seeker of the truth must be fearless, he must not be afraid to enter the innermost holies of holies, and to tear down the veils of superstition that hang about any human and so-called divine institution. It is the truth that makes men free. If the truth tears down every church and government under the sun, let the truth be known and this truth only will be known when men cease to swallow the capsules of ancient doctors of divinities and politics; and when men begin to seek the truth in the records of history, politics, religion, and science."
- Charles Austin Beard, 1898
Sorry I have not been around more, but once again the computer started acting funky so I had to reformat the drive yet again.
I am afraid it will get worse before it get's better. I have another week of vacation so starting next week, no posting.
This has been a most interesting break down. Every night, close to 8:00 my computer would created a temp directory off of the C:\ drive and dumped three file inside. One was called "omnigate.exe" one was called "Installler2" and one was called 'bdl14025.exe" Inside bdl14025.exe was a trojan called "downloader.agent.al. I tried everything, I allowed my virus scanner to remove it. It came back. I used AdAware. It still came back. I would erase the whole temp directory, it came back! I traced down everything I could using the excellent "Hijack This". No help
A search of the net yielded no results. I saw four or five references to omnigate.exe but no one seemed to know what was going on, or even more important, how to remove it. Since I had already reformatted the drive a couple of times this summer I figured it was just easier to do that then try to figure out how to remove this piece o' crap. Hopefully if I get infected again (and I have no idea how it happened, I am very careful) someone somewhere will have figured out how to do a removal short of reformatting.
I have spent the past few days reinstalling programs. I should get something up the next couple of days but then expect nothing at all next week.
Still amazingly busy so let's take a look in the old email box.
First up is the amazingly important "New Voter's Project". From their media kit:
For over two decades, young people have been turning out to vote in declining numbers. Less than half of eligible young people between the ages of 18 and 24 voted in recent national elections. Surveys indicate many reasons why young people aren't voting. They feel it doesn't make a difference, they aren't registered, they don't have enough information, or there is not enough time.
Click here to help convince young voters that their vote does matter!
Visit www.NewVotersProject.org to learn how you can participate in registering people to vote!
I thought you might be interested in dedicating a posting on your blog to United Cerebral Palsy's new national online campaign, www.DontBlockMyVote.org . Launched today, the site allows activists to send a free letter to their Congressmen calling for full funding of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which guarantees equal access to polling places and voting machines for millions of Americans who are disabled. Below is the press release issued this morning.
Feel free to contact me if you have questions or want more information.
One last amazing email on the upcoming election, this time from "Campaigns for People"
In today's editorials, the Houston Chronicle asserted that "vagueness should not be an invitation for abuse" when it comes to respecting the laws banning corporate money from Texas elections. TAB and TRMPAC spent $2.5M in corporate money on activities "designed to help selected GOP andidates". The article states that "Texas law clearly intends to keep corporations from financing political campaigns and purchasing the influence of elected officials" and calls for tightening or eliminating corporate loopholes in the law.
Check out the banner at the top of the page...hehehehe.
Well as you can see I have been one busy bee.
Hope you enjoy the banner. Wanna use it on your own page? Just give me a write and I will gladly give you instructions on how to include it.
This is going to be a semi-busy week. I hope to update but I am not sure how often it will be. Lord knows I have a ton of mail to get to so it might be the only thing I get to this week.
On June 29, 2004, at 12:28 p.m., I flew on Northwest Airlines flight #327 from Detroit to Los Angeles with my husband and our young son. Also on our flight were 14 Middle Eastern men between the ages of approximately 20 and 50 years old. What I experienced during that flight has caused me to question whether the United States of America can realistically uphold the civil liberties of every individual, even non-citizens, and protect its citizens from terrorist threats.
Her conclusion was a great big NO WAY!
Understand that her problem with these 14 Middle Eastern men was nothing more than they were a lot of them, they did not act in a way we do and one of them were not particularly friendly:
The take-off was uneventful. But once we were in the air and the seatbelt sign was turned off, the unusual activity began. The man in the yellow T-shirt got out of his seat and went to the lavatory at the front of coach -- taking his full McDonald's bag with him. When he came out of the lavatory he still had the McDonald's bag, but it was now almost empty. He walked down the aisle to the back of the plane, still holding the bag. When he passed two of the men sitting mid-cabin, he gave a thumbs-up sign. When he returned to his seat, he no longer had the McDonald's bag.
Then another man from the group stood up and took something from his carry-on in the overhead bin. It was about a foot long and was rolled in cloth. He headed toward the back of the cabin with the object. Five minutes later, several more of the Middle Eastern men began using the forward lavatory consecutively. In the back, several of the men stood up and used the back lavatory consecutively as well.
For the next hour, the men congregated in groups of two and three at the back of the plane for varying periods of time. Meanwhile, in the first class cabin, just a foot or so from the cockpit door, the man with the dark suit - still wearing sunglasses - was also standing. Not one of the flight crew members suggested that any of these men take their seats.
Oh the horror. Now I can certainly understand how a person eating McDonald's food would feel an urgent call o' nature and I agree that, given the toxic nature of the food itself, there should have been more of a worry about the location of that bag...
I knew the goateed-man I had exchanged friendly words with as we boarded the plane was seated only a few rows back, so I thought I would say hello to the man to get some reassurance that everything was fine. As I stood up and turned around, I glanced in his direction and we made eye contact. I threw out my friendliest remember-me-we-had-a-nice-exchange-just-a-short-time-ago smile. The man did not smile back. His face did not move. In fact, the cold, defiant look he gave me sent shivers down my spine.
The fact that he was brown, Middle Eastern, not-one-of-us helped a great deal I am sure.
I should not have to tell ya (and it has been mentioned elsewhere) that the foot long cloth object was probably a prayer rug. Having a lot of friends from that part of the world (both of my parents work in the medical profession and so do a lot of Middle Eastern people) that is the first thing I thought when I read the description.
I am not going to mention the likelihood of this being a bunch of phooey, there has been a lot of discussion about this little story (start here at Sisyphus Shrugged and follow all the links) and to tell the truth I am less interested in whether the story is true as much as what it says about us regardless.
That this piece of overripe tripe would be published anywhere other than the racist rags the KKK puts out says a lot about American society in the year 2004. Are we really so chicken that we feel we cannot afford to give people who are different from us the same civil rights we get?
Because after all is said and done this is the only reason Annie even asked the question. Quaking, shaking, overcompensating fear. I will never understand how the right wing can be so cavalier about sending our young men and women to war to fight (and die) for freedom, yet be so scared of death themselves that they will willingly round up all people that are brown skinned, lock them up, and throw away the key, all in the name of saving their own skin.
Bah.
Once again I think Benjamin Franklin said it best.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
The American Family Association Puts the best face forward on their utter defeat!
Well it has become quite clear that the odious Federal Marriage Amendment will not only fail to get it's two - thirds, it is not even going to get a simple majority (60 votes). It has been an absolute pleasure watching the Rethugs slowly self-destruct over the issue. Even better is the face saving letter I just got from Don at the American Family Association. Funny funny stuff:
Dear Dominion,
IMPORTANT UPDATE ON THE FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
Debate on the Federal Marriage Amendment in the U.S. Senate has begun. But I must share with you some information so that when the vote is taken, you will know exactly what it means.
The FMA will probably not get the necessary two-thirds vote required for a constitutional amendment to pass. In fact, there is a possibility that it may not even get a simple majority.
I urge you, DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED! This is only the beginning of a long fight for the very foundation of Western Civilization. One of the primary purposes of this vote is to make public the position of each Senator. There is a general feeling that some Senators will have to be voted out of office before the FMA can pass.
And, despite all the rhetoric by some Senators as to why they voted against the FMA, the bottom line is this: A vote against the FMA is a vote for homosexual marriage. A vote for the FMA is a vote for traditional marriage.
The Democratic leadership in the Senate has made a deal with the homosexual activists that they will kill the bill in return for homosexual financial support and votes. They are working hand in hand to do that. Their desire is to get a federal judge to strike all marriage laws from the books in all 50 states. The ACLU and other groups have already filed suits in several states to strike down marriage laws. Homosexual leaders have promised to "out" homosexual staff members of Senators who vote for the FMA.
Please don’t think that we have lost if the FMA isn’t passed. This will be a long battle and the outcome will determine the kind of society our children and grandchildren will live in. I am greatly encouraged by the growing involvement of God-fearing people that I have seen in the last two weeks. I am hopeful that the "sleeping giant" is waking up.
Dominion, I am committed for the long haul. I hope that you are also. Too much is riding on the outcome. Here is what you can do right now:
- Pray
- If you haven’t already signed the petition in support of the FMA, click here to do so.
- Call your two Senators if you have not already done so. You can reach both Senators by calling 1-202-224-3121. For information on where your Senators stand, and for local office numbers and toll-free numbers, click here(no link included...drat). We will be continually updating this information.
- Please forward this email to your friends and urge them to get involved.
After the vote, we will provide a list of those Senators who vote for homosexual marriage (against the FMA) and those who voted for traditional marriage (for the FMA).
James, your continued involvement in this battle is very much needed! Please stay active and involved. Thank you and God bless you.
Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association[4]
P.S. Please forward this email to at least one friend.
Oh what the heck Don, I can share it with more than just one friend.
Voting on the Federal Marrage Amendment (the Hate Amendment) on Wednesday.
Subject: Urgent: Divisive Marriage Vote WEDNESDAY
Dear MoveOn member,
In less than 48 hours, Congress will vote on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would permanently deny marriage equality to same-sex couples. This is unprecedented -- never before has our Constitution been amended to take away anyone's rights. We've got to fight back.
Please sign on to our emergency petition to Congress to stop this divisive amendment at:
Then please ask your friends and family to sign, by forwarding them this email. We'll deliver our comments tomorrow, before the vote, so we need as many people as possible to sign on today.
President Bush campaigned on a promise to unite us, not divide us. Yet today, as people are questioning Bush's handling of everything from the war in Iraq to the economy, Bush and his friends are trying to distract voters from the real issues by turning to the politics of division and hate.
If America stands for anything, it stands for equal rights and opportunities for everyone. Throughout our history, we've struggled to guarantee that equality: ending slavery; securing voting rights for women; and passing the Civil Rights Act just 40 years ago.
Equality in marriage is the civil rights issue of our generation. We can't let anyone, or any group, be singled out for discrimination based on who they are or who they love.
When two people make a deep personal commitment, taking responsibility for each other and doing all the work of marriage, they should be able to share in the legal benefits of marriage as well. These benefits include access to health care and medical decision-making for one's partner and children, parenting and immigration rights, inheritance, taxation, and Social Security benefits.
This isn't a partisan issue, notwithstanding Bush's pandering to his right-wing base. Former President Gerald Ford, a Republican, said this about same-sex couples and marriage: "I think they ought to be treated equally. Period." [1] Also, many major corporations, including Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Disney, Coors, and IBM, offer health insurance and other benefits to their employees' same-sex partners. Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) says the amendment is "Nuts... To be seen as the party that's coming between two people that love each other doing what they want to do... to me that's going to be seen as a liability, politically." [2]
Yet President Bush is bent on moving America backward, by enshrining discrimination in the United States Constitution.
So what are you doing reading this blog. Go and call your Senator and tell them to vote no against the Hate Amendment. Then when your done, you can come back and read a bit of good news.
What a nice and relaxing vacation I had this past week. Sun. Fun. Sleep. Yep it was nice.
Then I come back home to find crap in my comment section. Written by someone calling themselves (of course) RightWinger .
Once again I felt the need to answer this on the blog instead of the comment section for the reason that I had a lot to say.
I have one more week of vacation, which will probably be taken in August.
In any case, onward and upward!
If lies were calories you'd be as fat as Michael Moore.
And if brains were gold you would be as poor as a church mouse.
Two things jump out as I read your whinning A) IF Gore won Florida why is he not president because he lost. Bitter is the pill of reality. Look at all the places where Democrats voted more than once and you still cry about how you were cheated , you weren't cheated you were beaten. An example of this would be Michael Moore being a regestered Dem in two states.
Let me guess, organizing your thoughts is not something you do very often. It would also help if you learned what a sentence fragment is. Lord knows it's my most common mistake, but I hope never as obviously confusing as the above. Be that as it may, allow me to answer those points I think I puzzled out:
1) Gore did win Florida. That is reality. First we have the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters in Florida and Missouri. See the head of elections in Florida was one Katharine Harris, who was also the co-chair of the Bush for President campaign. According to the New York Times:
Ms. Harris cast a cloud of suspicion over the process by signing on as co-chairwoman of the Florida Bush campaign while she also served as the state's top election official. The purge itself required sensitive judgment calls, notably when to regard a name on a list of convicted felons as a valid match with a name on the voting rolls. According to post-election testimony before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Ms. Harris's office overruled the advice of the private firm that compiled the felon list and called for removing not just names that were an exact match, but ones that were highly inexact. Thousands of Florida voters ended up being wrongly purged.
In Missouri the problems were even more strange:
In Missouri, St. Louis election officials kept an "inactive voters list" of people they had been unable to contact by mail. Voters on the list, which ballooned to more than 54,000 names in a city where only 125,230 people voted, had a legal right to cast their ballots, but election officials put up enormous barriers. When inactive voters showed up to vote, poll workers had to confirm their registration with the board of elections downtown. Phone lines there were busy all day, and hundreds of voters traveled downtown in person, spending hours trying to vindicate their right to vote. The board admitted later that "a significant number" were not processed before the polls closed.
In both cases a significant number of Democratic party voters were denied their right to vote.
2) Next we have the infamous butterfly ballot that lead so many people astray. Instead of voting for Al Gore, they voted for Pat Buchanan. It is clear that more people in Florida intended to vote for Gore than Bush. Now being a right winger you could very well (and probably do) say "Oh well, thems the shakes of the game. They were stupid enough to goof so too bad so sad". I would answer by saying that you have a really bleak and depressing view of democracy. This does not surprise me, right wingers pay lip service to the idea's of democracy as you demonstrate nicely.
3) As been pointed out more times than should have been necessary, under every scenario, if the entire state of Florida had been recounted, Gore would have carried the state. This is the process that should have been followed, Florida having an election law that calls for a manual recount of all the ballots in the entire state if the separation between candidates is less that 1%, which it certainly was between Bush and Gore. Let us remember that there was never even one recount. That's right, not one.
4) Gore was not "beaten" and Bush did not "win". Bush was placed in the presidency by the Supreme Court. See there was this ruling called Bush V. Gore that was brought about because Bush decided to skip the state court and go right to the federal courts. The ruling was as big a piece of crap as the Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson decisions. The idea that the Court had to step in under the equal protection clause in order to protect Bush's right to the presidency does not even make sense (what about Gore's right to the presidency?). The legal reasoning is tortured at best and if there is one thing that we learned from Bush V. Gore, it is "in calendars we trust". But don't believe me, all you have to do is read "None Dare Call It Treason" by Vincent Bugliosi, certainly no liberal (and in case you don't know who he is, given the level of intelligence you have brought to my comment section I am guessing it is a sure bet, Vincent Bugliosi successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials as a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, including twenty-one murder convictions without a single loss. His prosecution of Charles Manson was the basis for his true-crime bestseller, Helter Skelter (Bantam). He is also the author of Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder (Island)).
5) Gore beat Bush in the popular vote 50,158,094 to 49,820,518.
6) Given all the above and realizing that only 537 won Florida for Bush, there is little doubt that if the election had been held in a fair and impartial manner, Gore would be president and Bush would be cooling his heels at his play ranch in Crawford.
That none of this concerns you makes ironic your claims of treason below. See real patriots are concerned when the vote in a democracy is not fair and impartial. It upsets them, and it is not something they just "get over". It is clear that you are more concern that the process comes to the conclusion you want, rather than the process runs as it is intended.
B) Just as Bowling for Columbine was a an exercise in misdirection you on the left who cannot form your own opinions need spin masters to do it for you.
I have to admit, this had me in stitches. Here is an exercise in reality for you. Go to a half dozen of your favorite right wing websites and read about the choice of John Edwards as John Kerry's running mate. Count how many fail to mention that Edwards is a rich trial lawyer who made millions being a trial lawyer. This in spite of the fact that a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, done on Tuesday July 6th found that "67 percent of voters surveyed said his work as a trial lawyer was a strength, while only 27 percent viewed it as a weakness" so let us hope you guys keep pushing that angle!
Feed the uninformed your version of facts don not make them truth. Sarin Gas is a WMD by the way and has been found on numerous occcassions in Iraq its to bad no news agency will report on it.
Wow talk about uninformed. Please feel free to share the "numerous occcassions"(sic) where Sarin gas was found in Iraq? This is all I was able to find and please, pay special attention to the last part:
On May 2, however, US troops found a 1991 Gulf War-era mortar round with mustard gas that had been rigged to explode in a median of a road west of Baghdad.
Two weeks later, soldiers found a 155mm artillery round that tested positive for sarin gas, a deadly nerve agent. It, too, had been rigged as a roadside bomb.
Duelfer said that since then other sarin and mustard rounds have been found, some of them in southern Iraq in areas that were former weapons depots. They were made more than ten years ago, he said.
While they showed that Iraq's pre-war declarations to the United Nations were wrong, Duelfer said he could not say Iraq had hidden a "militarily significant" stockpile of chemical weapons.
One more time, just in case you missed it, "Duelfer said he could not say Iraq had hidden a "militarily significant" stockpile of chemical weapons."
Oh I guess that would magically make GW right. Not like 17 UN violations count for anything.
See above. While you are at it, you might want to check out the report by Congress last week about the intelligence failures that led us to an unjustified war. So I guess that magically makes GW wrong eh?
Some people just have a hate against the parential like descions that have to be made when death is brought against the United States. Another way to say this. Wake up we are at War and ISLAM is its name. ( sung to the tune of BINGO )
This is so bigoted and stupid a statement it could only have come from the mouth of a foaming right winger. We are not at war with ISLAM, sing it to any tune you want. We are supposed to be at war with a terrorist organization called Al-Queda run by this guy...ummm what's his name...Osama bin Forgotten? Something like that? But we are not at war with them either, not really. We are at war with a country that, terror-wise, never did a thing to us. And please don't bring up the Gulf War...you guys seem to forget that Saddam invaded Kuwait, not the USA.
And least you forget, remember that we are fighting that war, not because Saddam was a threat, not because Saddam had plans to hurt Americans, but to turn Iraq into a shining beacon of Democracy. So well did that experiment work that martial law is being declared there as we speak! Nifty eh?
When americans support the enemy in a time of war those americans are traitors.
Well fuck you buddy and the horse you rode in on. There is not one liberal I know, nor one you can produce that "support" the enemy and only ignorant buttheads such as yourself believe it to be so. We object to this Iraq distraction for what it is, nothing more than a better excuse for the sons and daughters of Al-Queda to continue their Campaign of terror against us. Why not, it's not like Osama has been punished for the death of those 3,000 people eh? It's not like justice has been done. Let me tell you something else shit-for-brains, this makes the real patriot's blood boil. The thought of Osama bin Laudin sitting in a cave somewhere laughing his ass off out how stupid America acted in the aftermath of 9/11. And how loud must he have laughed as he watched us do his recruiting for him, Abu Ghraib being only the latest and greatest example. So spare me your traitor talk you hick son-of-a-bitch. Take a good look in the mirror, take a look at a person that can call someone he does not know a traitor, while at the same time utterly dismissing the greatest blow to democracy in this country in the past 200 and some odd years! The 2000 election. I would laugh if I were not so mad!
Your selfish use of your right to free speech makes this marine wish you and all like you would venture to the thrid world so you can see first hand how fubared your ideas truly are enjoy your time we in the military provide you the right to spew forth your God given hate-triatism of those who set you free.
Once again, only a dumb-as-a-brick hick would think that liberal objections to the war in Iraq is somehow being against the military. And you say that liberals walk in lock step. Please! If I had had my way over 800 of your fellow military brothers and sisters would still be alive today, still able to spend time with their families, still able to watch their children grow to adulthood, still able to hold their wife or husband close, still able to say "I love you" to those that matter most to them. To you, supporting the military is asking them to die for no good reason. Gee I wonder which one of us the average grunt appreciates more?
Oh and by the way, failure to use free speech is no different than not having free speech and once again, only a cow-pie stupid redneck would fail to see this. But this is the way of the right winger eh? "Yeah sure you have free speech, now shut your mouth and follow your leader". Be a good little German and ignore the ugly man with the funny moustaches". Sorry I don't think so.
Hopefully it will dawn on you that some one has to stand in the gap for those fools who are unable to decide who is the enemy bent on our destruction. As a true partisan I'm sure you would feel completely different if Bill where dropping the bombs. Even to your self this logic must at the minimum prove to you that you are only interested in your side ruling not doing what is right.
Considering how dismissive you are of the democratic disaster that was the 2000 election the idea that I am only interested in my side ruling blew the circuits in my irony meter...and I had it pegged to it's highest setting!
And no, if Bill Clinton had been dropping bombs on Iraq for reasons as stupid and failed as the reasons GW dropped bombs on them, I would be just as upset and angry. And therein lies the difference eh? I am betting you did object every time Bill Clinton did anything the least bit military, just like the right wing Republican members of Congress. Now we have a president that is actually thinking of postponing an election in case of a terrorist attack. No one can tell me why we would need to postpone the election short of a nuclear attack, and I don't think that is what the terrorist have in mind. "Wag the Dog" indeed.
(sigh). This gets uncommonly depressing. I hear enough of this type of crap talk in my everyday life to enjoy it very much on my blog. I am amazed that RightWinger feels so patriotic when it is clear he does not understand one principle that this country stands for.
Powerful film from an extraordinary film maker. Good Job Michael Moore!
Just like I said we went to see "Fahrenheit 9/11" last night and quite frankly was blown away. I learned nothing new (after all, as a current event blogger I tend to keep up with the news a bit more than most folks. Ok ok, I am a news junkie...happy?) but having it all laid out in a visual form created a much more visceral experience than I was prepared for.
Even more surprising was the audience reaction. I have rarely been in a theater where people cried during a movie, but believe it, people were crying all over (including my wife, our roommate, my daughter and my niece). They cried when they saw the battle scenes and they cried when they heard Lila Lipscomb talking about the tragic waste that was the death of her son.
Yet the movie was so much more than just a condemnation of the War in Iraq. It was an overview of the whole sorry state our poor democracy is in at this point in history. It covered the theft of the 2000 election, the poor approval ratings that BushCo was earning in the short time he had been in office, minus of course, the vacation time Bush managed to take...heck it was only 42% of the total time the guy had spent as president. Who knew that leader of the free world = leader with lots of free time.
Is the movie bias? Did Moore somehow fail as a documentarian by allowing too much of his personal feelings into what was supposed to be an objective look into the War? Why did he not bother to show there was a whole other side of the War?
Egads I simply can't believe the stupidity of people. There is no such thing as a objective documentarian. None. Nada. Zero. Now please (especially if you are a right winger) go and read that again. I can use no greater example than my favorite, Errol Morris and two of his films "The Thin Blue Line" and "Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.". Was Morris totally objective in these movies? Only if you're brain dead. In "The Thin Blue Line" there is little doubt that Morris believed that Randall Adams was innocent, that David Harris was in fact guilty of the crime, and that the Dallas Police Department was completely and utterly corrupt in the way it prosecuted this case. In "Mr. Death" it is clear that Morris considers Leuchter to be a nut case. Now that all these people hung themselves with their own words is simply beside the point. Both films could not help but be bias because both film, any film for that matter, is the vision of the film maker. How could it be otherwise in a visual medium?
While we are on the subject of mind boggling stupid, I simply cannot believe there are people out there that think that Mike Moore is a journalist. Whenever I ask for proof I am told that back when he was a young man (like 20 years ago) Moore served as both editor and columnist for Mother Jones magazine a position he did not hold very long. Oh and that he was responsible for launching the alternative weekly Flint Voice. Well golly gee, I wrote for my high school paper, my college paper and an alternative paper we started at college. It's true I never worked for Mother Jones but hey, my cred is just as good as Mike's. Am I a journalist? Please. Mike himself has denied that he is a journalist (at least, a real journalist, whatever the hell that means). I tend to listen to him. You should too.
I have loved the times when he has been asked about the bias problem. He always answers "Well you guys in the media did such a good job on the administration's point of view I thought it would be nice to bring another view to the table", generally followed by an attack at the failure to ask these questions when they might have done some good. Delightful.
I highly recommend Fahrenheit 9/11. There is not one drop of military hatred, bad mouthing the troops, or according them one moment of disrespect. Even when showing those troopers that were perhaps a bit more delighted with the war than was proper, he precedes the scene by asking what more do you expect when you send such young people into a war. People who avoid this movie because of their political leanings do themselves a disservice. Even worse, they do a disservice to the military they claim to love so well.
Well folks, this will be it till after the fourth. I plan to enjoy the holiday with my family and will be too busy to worry about the problems of the world.
I hope you have a great holiday weekend. Be extra careful out there.
