FlaSoxxJim

The great thing about being a filmmaker is that you can decide what story you want to tell. I think the topics you mention are monumentally important avenues of inquiry that someone should try to follow up on. It won't be Michael Moore, because he has his own axes to grind. Moore will be first and foremost in telling you he is not interested in being unbiased. At the same time, the paucity of libel suits against him tells you that he's not making up his facts, he's just using them very selectively in support of his own viewpoints. He would be a very bad scientist, but he's a very good documentary storyteller and that's what he has chosen to be.

Most of the very damning footage is NOT archival footage. Most of it was shot by Moore's crew while imbedded in Coalition units. Of course, they never indicated they were shooting on behalf of Moore, or that the footage was intended to be used to tell a side of the story that would be unflatttering to the Administration or the execution of the war.

When you're right, you're right. I wish Moore had not relied on Mirimax money to get it done, because the film would not be in limbo now if he hadn't. The truth is that he had to do it because his original backers had dropped out of the project and apparently he didn't have the $6 million to put up himself. Although he did indeed know from the start that Disney was likely to balk in the end, he had the complete convictions of the Mirimax heads that the film would get distributed, so he went with the plan. I wish he had not.

Nobel Peace prize Nominee Kathy Kelly, a major player and one of the founders of Voices in the Wilderness, was a theology teacher of mine in high school. She is probebely the single most amazing person I have ever met and has thrust herself completely in harm's way to be a presence and a voice for the iraqis. I wish I had the conviction to dedicate a 10th of myself to a higer purpose the way she has. No words to describe her.

Kudos to Mike, and to all in the Jury for chosing the film. I smell box office smash... once they figure out how to get it shown here.

Because....?

:headshake

This is true.

For the record, I have not posted on this attack baecause I did not know what to think. I don't think the claims that we screwed it up are so easily dismissed yet. If so, then is the AP film crew in cahoots? Did the iraqis trying to convince us it was a wedding go out and find people that really were in a local wedding that day, make sure they appearded on the wedding tape, and then blow them up so they can be positively identified on post-attack footage as among the casualties? As far as there not being misical instruments on hand (along with a dead organist and singer for good measure), that was not the case unless again you believe the AP crew is making it up. The same water tanker appears in both the wedding videoand the news crew footage of the attack site, so it is really unlikely that they are not at the right site. Before reading this I actually believed there was a good chance the wedding story was bunk. Now, not so much. Here's the story on abc news for any interested: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040523_1038.html

Now would be nice. I was underwhelmed by him from day 1 with us but thought he'd come back a bit from an injury-related year last season. I thought the pickup was a decent move at the time but I get more nervous seeing him come out of the pen than anyone right now.

Good girl. Hey, enjoy the games this weekend!

31 will be going into 19 quite a bit less now, I'd imagine.

Still trying to figure that out. "Blessed are the french fries" apparently is not in there.

Kind of makes our thoelogical debates here seem downright tame, eh?

Two of the suspects have been questioned and released, and the other two are still being questioned. There is no confirmation as yet that any were involved in teh assisination: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040521_740.html

There are lots and lots of fiscal conservatives and moderates on both sides that feel exactly that way. I wish the Libertarian candidates represented a viable option for those voters. For me, the Jeb's environmental and education policy record should have been damning enough, without even considering his extreme right leanings on social issues. Jeb is probably going to cost Florida the Everglades cleanup and the $8 Billion in federal money promised for it, because he won't risk pissing off Big Sugar and development. Public education in Florida is a joke. The whacko left-winger in me also has yet to be convinced that Jeb did not also seriously cook the Florida process and results of the 2000 presidential election, but I won't beat a dead horse.

I was thinking the very same thing. Commercially, there is no doubt disco was bery bery good to the BeeGees. Musically, I think that really stereotyped them and they spent the rest of their careers trying to dig out of that hole. There's that Robert Stigwwod connection again. If blame for the abomination that was the Andy Gibb/BeeGees Sgt. Peper film, then you also have to give him credit for reinventing the BeeGees with Saturday Night Fever. Questionable music and styles of the day notwithstanding, that film is still very good, IMO.

It is not an election year for the Florida Governorship. Buncha dummies down here gave him four more years in 2002.

Now you're just being an enabler. Actually, I used to play "Gotta Get a Message Through" with some regularity in a acoustic/vocal duo deal for a couple years if people requested it. I'll still do "How Can You Mend This Broken Heart" (I don't know what the real titles of either of those two songs is) if the mood and/or alcohol hits me, but admittedly as a a sendup/parody of the tune.

It's tied into the busy summer tourist/driving season, so it makes sense from that perspective. Of course, if the airlines all have to raise fares to offset rising jet fuel costs, less peolpe will fly down to rent the cars to buy the gas to drive to the kingdom that Mickey built. If the gas price crisis does substantially impact Florida's tourism industry in terms of people flying to and driving within the state, it will be an interesting juxtaposition of Jeb and Dubya.

Or the BeeGees? :puke

I have a love/hate relationship with Mac. His brilliance was undeniable, as was his ego. At the same time, John was the king of snide (crass, rude, borish, etc., are equally applicable), and Paul is an unsung hero for keeping John in check and on task as well as he did for so many years.

No new details, but it has been confirmed. Arrests are said to been connection with the incident, but these four are not necessarily those on the video: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040521_561.html

I agree, they were largely poking fun at, simultaneously, their 'pop moptop' beginnings, and their then-current and improbable positions as the musical/cultural/sociopolitical demigods of the day. On a more inter-personal and snide note, although the bit worked to good effect I think there was also an element of Paul's ego – not entirely content to let a John song (All You Need Is Love) bask in the glory of the moment, the International TV simulcast of the performance, etc. John noted in several post-Beatles interviews that many of his songs that were haild as being daring and 'experimental' in nature ended up working despite the experimental elements rather than because of it, and that those experimental fluorishes were very often PAUL saying, "hey let's try this..." John was fairly bitter that Paul never considered screwing around with his own compositions in that way, but thought all John's stuff was fair game. And a lot of these sentiments remained with John until the end, as they fill up a good part of that most excellent final Playboy interview.