No one knows how to crack me up quite like Michael Moore... he makes a point while pushing the envelope to the limit! When you see the inanities in this world and the craziness, we need something to break the tension. Michael is able to do it every time...and put red faces and make a few of the tight assed Repug heads explode at the same time! I love Michael Moore!

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I just recently saw Sicko on DVD since they pulled it from theaters in record time... it was every bit as affecting as F 9/11.

For the first time in my adult life I am truly proud of my country's filmmaking abilities. ;)

Michael Moore shows how skilled he is with the p.r. machine in this clip. Fidel Castro was a bloody dictator who overpowered the opposition with death squads. He is certainly not deserving of any sort of adulation from American audiences even if they do have better healthcare in Cuba.

Since Castro is probably too sick to travel (strange irony) perhaps Moore could invite another dictator like Mugabe or Qaddafi. I bet Musharraf could use a little break in the action right now...

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I wasn't planning to watch The Oscars this year. Now, I can't wait to see what he'll come up with this time. Don't let up, Mike! You're doing the work that needs to be done!

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Bring Paris Hilton Michael; I hear she needs a date..!

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The 1959 John Dulles campaign to alienate and discredit a young rebel pro-baseball, pro-American Cuban patriot endures. Listen up! I am 62 and well remember how popular Castro was with the American public for his rebel army's insurgency against Fulgencio Batista, the Mafia corrupted, whoring American puppet. Dulles, Allan Dulles, Eisenhower and Kennedy forced Castro into the hands of the Soviets by fiat. Castro's heroism is a product of US interventionist foreign policy. That is the irony and humor celebrated by Michael Moore.

The red baiting of neocon Alternetters is an old saw that is quite rusty and dull toothed. Can't Americans by now apply contemporary lessons, that we are learning in Iraq Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the past? Propagandists care little who is cast as the enemy, English, German, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Nicaraguan, Saddam, Moslem; its immaterial to the Republo-fascists. Perpetual war is the prize and the income generator.

Accusations of death squads? Death squads came long after Fidel won his war against Batista and Kennedy (Bay of Pigs invasion, remember?). The School of the Americas is where military intelligence trained the death squads of Operation Condor and forced coinage of "disappeared persons" catch-phrase. Yes, we invaded Fidel, he did not invade US! He is tremendously popular in Cuba; I have witnessed this myself with many agricultural trips to Cuba. Do your homework. Read up on Cuban history, Jose Marti, #1 Cuban hero, US Marine invasion on the eve of Marti's victory over the Spanish colonialists, Spanish American war (Teddy Roosevelt, Puerto Rico, USS Maine, Phillipines and all). Fidel Casto led Cuba's way out of foreign imperialism for its first true independence since Columbus.

If we think self-determination is an integral and patriotic tenent of the American constitutional democracy; we can damn well appreciate Castro's right to establish a new government.

We can criticise his failings to establish a working democracy, his machismo of militarism, but must at risk of denial of the destabilizing effects of the US Embargo. The Bay of Pigs and the Embargo provided Castro paranoia and an excuse to remain dictatorial.

Also, beware of 'Cuban-American refugees' propaganda. They are almost all white Latino and were the ruling class of 1-2% of ruling class Cubans who ruled with a military iron fist. The most shocking impact of my first trip to Cuba were the number of African people. 70% are black and mulatto. They were totally disenfrancised in the old Cuba. They had nothing. Now they have nothing but a part in the 'Revolution' and their pride and equal civil rights and, yes, health care....
They all deserve an Academy Award and the Congressional Medal of Honor. They are a peace loving people and deserve not to be subjugated again by the US Marines, nor Geo. W. Bush nor Cheney, nor Blackwater, nor McCain, nor Obama.

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