'CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY'

It's here! Check out the brand new trailer for Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story.'

'Capitalism: A Love Story' opens nationwide October 2nd.

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SICKO

From the trailer of SICKO

NARRATOR: When Michael Moore decided to make a movie on the health care industry, top-level executives were on the defensive. What were they hiding?

EXECUTIVE: That's not on, right?

MICHAEL MOORE: No.

EXECUTIVE: Okay.

EXECUTIVE: The intent is to maximize profits.

MICHAEL MOORE: If you denied more people health care you got a bonus?

WOMAN: When you don't spend money on somebody, it is a savings to the company.

HEALTH CARE WORKER: I denied a necessary a man a necessary operation and thus caused his death. This secured my reputation and it ensured my continued advancement in the health care field.


POLITICIAN: I want America to have the finest health care in the world.

MICHAEL MOORE: Four health care lobbyists for every member of Congress. Here's what is what it costs to buy these men, and this woman, and this guy, and this guy. And the United States slipped to 37 in healthcare around the world - just slightly ahead of Slovenia.

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WOMAN: I get a bill from my insurance company telling me that the ambulance ride wasn't pre-approved. I don't know when I was supposed to pre-approve it. After I gained consciousness in the car? Before I got in the ambulance?

MICHAEL MOORE: There's actually one place on American soil that had free universal health care.

MICHAEL MOORE: Which way to Guantanamo Bay?

GOVT OFFICIAL: Detainees representing a threat to our national security are given access to top-notch medical facilities.

MICHAEL MOORE: Permission to enter. I have three 9/11 rescue workers. They just want some medical attention - the same kind the evildoers are getting...Hello?


If you missed Michael Moore on Democracy Now today you can get caught up at the website and listen, read, or watch the Sicko trailer. And do NOT miss the transcripts of his California Assembly speech half way down the page. Out-fucking-standing.

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Sicko Premieres At Cannes

Sicko Premieres At Cannes

This time, the U.S. government apparently has Michael Moore in its sights. To make "Sicko," he traveled to Cuba with some rescue workers who became ill after cleaning up debris from the terror attacks in New York. In the film, he shows them getting health care in Cuba that he says was unavailable to them in the United States.

The film got a warm welcome at Cannes on Saturday where it played to a packed house. It's main message is that the U.S. health care system is driven by private industry greed. The film asks why 50 million Americans have no health care coverage, and why many who have health insurance still have trouble getting treatment.

"I understand why the Bush administration is coming after me -- I have tried to help the very people they refuse to help..."
-- Michael Moore

"Sicko" presents an emotional portrait of an array of people, including volunteer rescue heroes of the September 11 attack, who are denied needed care -- despite the fact that most are insured. And it points a finger at the source of the crisis, a profit-driven insurance industry whose "biggest accomplishment is buying our U.S. Congress" to prevent real reform.

It also focuses on the suffering caused to the nine million children living in the United States whom Moore says are left without any health cover because of the country's reliance on private insurance. 'We are the last country in the industrialized world to have this system,' the film-maker said after the screening. 'The poorest child in Britain has a longer life expectancy than the average American child.'

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I don't know what drives this lovely man to want to fix our unconscionable health care system, but I'm grateful for all the passion and love that he displays.

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MONDAY | WebTrail - Sicko, Name Game, FreakFest, Awww!

Michael Moore works to complete his upcoming feature film, Sicko. (NOT a movie about George Bush) With 75% of "Sicko" now shot, Moore describes the film as "a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth." link

What makes some people change their perfectly normal names to something different? I've seen Rheamond for Raymond, Mathieu for Matthew. Steve becomes Stephán, accent on the "phán". Some just flip it from James Miller to Miller James. You want to be someone else, but are afraid to fully commit. Why not go all the way with something a little more creative like Bocephus Bimbledick or Shaneequa Onoshedidnt? Get a legal name change and celebrate the new you.

Arthur Magazine is sponsoring another mondo boffo event this week called Hypnorituals and Mesmemusical Miracles Hanging in the Sky, on July 18-22. It features Devendra Banhart and everyone he knows. Banhart points out some of the impending Hypnoritual Mesmemusical highlights on LA Alternative.

Today's Quote
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
--Jack Kerouac

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The Online Dickhead Registry - It ain't easy being a dick. Link

Think you can't get supplies directly to those in need in Louisiana and Mississippi? Michael Moore will show you how to bypass the red tape and what to send. It's clear the government can't get it done. Let the people take care of their own. Link

At up to £300 an ounce, exotic strains of designer cannabis are fuelling a booming market in herbal highs for affluent smokers. For an emerging generation of herb elitists, the generic skunk sold on street corners - the plonk of the cannabis world - no longer hits the spot. These media executives, creative professionals and party people choose to have their executive brain functions impaired by only the best brands of cannabis: AK47, Charas, Kali Mist - vintage weeds that represent the summit of 25 years of selective breeding and artisan horticulture. Link

Ketamine replaces ecstasy as the drug of choice. People aged 18 to 25 are taking ketamine for a more trippy night out. You can spot them on the dance-floor because they're not dancing, they're sitting down in a bit of a vegetative state." Link

Hell No We Ain't Alright --by Chuck D from Public Enemy is a passionate piece on the Katrina catastrophe.
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If men could knit... Click here - NSFW

This website looks best when viewed on company time.

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Sometimes when we want something to happen, we can visualize it. If you're a Kerry supporter, Paul Levy, spiritually informed political activist, suggests that we visualize John Kerry winning the Presidential election.





Michael Moore: "In your heart of hearts you know Bush is a miserable failure..." more »



Soldiers reveal the truth about the war @ Operation Truth.



Ten Thousand Monkeys Election Issue is out.



Ani DiFranco: "...all of the rights and freedoms that we brag about around the world, were fought for by activists." more »



John Edwards: "Tomorrow, hope will arrive".



If he were my Bush, I'd shave him off.



I'm shuttling folks to the polls tomorrow from 6:30a - 10:00a. (Must have gotten the short straw) Will return tomorrow for mutual commiseration and hand-wringing until the results roll in.

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Useful Voter Guide - Game helps determine if you're Democrat or Republican.



My Results: "You are a Left Wing Communist. You have little love for God or country. You list Michael Moore as an intellectual and often threaten to move to Canada. You may want to vote for Nader, but your socialist friends will tell you to vote for John Kerry." Ouch.

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The GOP Doesn't Reflect America

- by Michael Moore



Michael Moore. The Anti-Coulter. No spewing, slithering, deep-rooted Coulter hate permeating the USA Today convention update column. Showing that you can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar douche. No matter your political persuasion, his article today is worth reading. An excerpt...



"I've often found that if I go down the list of "liberal" issues with people who say they're Republican, they are quite liberal and not in sync with the Republicans who run the country. Most don't want America to be the world's police officer and prefer peace to war. They applaud civil rights, believe all Americans should have health insurance and think assault weapons should be banned. Though they may personally oppose abortion, they usually don't think the government has the right to tell a women what to do with her body.



There's a name for these Republicans: RINOs or Republican In Name Only. They possess a liberal, open mind and don't believe in creating a worse life for anyone else."



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Republicans: Don't forget to vote November 3.

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Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential. Bush's Brain portrays political adviser Karl Rove as the true brains behind President Bush's administration.



The film by Joseph Mealey and Michael Paradies Shoob, based on the book of the same name by Texas journalists Jim Moore and Wayne Slater, is scheduled to open Aug. 27 in New York and Los Angeles and expand to more cities in September.



("Outfoxed" opens wide this Friday, too. Since the success of Fahrenheit 9/11, political films are being rolled out as quickly as possible, which will be interesting.) Link

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» You know how every city has that one Artsy Film Theater? The Fine Arts Theater in Asheville will be showing Fahrenheit 9/11 and neighboring Hendersonville's Skyland Arts Theater hasn't decided whether to show it or not and are bowing to public pressure. Even though they had 71% FOR the movie yesterday, I still don't think he'll show it. They're taking a poll on whether to show it or not. Click on the link, scroll all the way to the bottom, and put in your two cents worth. Thank you.



» Nader: Go to My Rallies, But Vote for Kerry - via: NPR via: Democratic Underground Sure is a strange fucker. And he also joins Michael Moore in urging Canadians not to vote Conservative; which makes more sense to me. Link via: bryn



» Most every day I've been adding new links to the Side Bar on the right and will try to keep it current.



Charlotte got Okafor.

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The Corporation. Winner of the Audience Award @ Sundance and many more honors. Based on Joel Bakan’s book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, the film is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the 4corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. Featuring illuminating interviews with Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn and many others.



Also The Corporation would like to invite you to join the Reclaim The Commons Mobilization. (Pertinent G8 Summit in Georgia info.)

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TRANSFORMUS - The Southeast Regional Burn. July 30 - Aug 1, Deerfields, NC. Be There. Great. Something else I'll have to check out. Southeast's version of Burning Man.



:: Looking good, new Blogger! Anyone have an opinion on the new, improved Blogger? I do love the new look, but am still fumbling around with the innards. You know, the gibblets. (the editing, the template, the settings, congifuration, etc)



:: 57th Cannes Film Festival to begin Wednesday, May 12- 23. Approximately 20 films in contention for the prestigous Palme d'Or. Fahrenheit 911, directed by Michael Moore is one. The Ladykillers, directed by the Coen brothers is another. Contenders; [Cannes link]



:: A Wrinkle In Time to air tonight on ABC. [link]



:: Compassionate Conservatism aka The Child Bush Left Behind.



Bush stimulating economy with magic dildo.

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Re-Defeat Bush is an activist group's weblog. They also have condoms that say "Re-defeat Bush - Don't Get Screwed Again". What if more businesses had their own condoms? McCondoms - You deserve a d*ck today!



Nice vintage posters [via: growabrain]



Artist did a portrait using only candy hearts. Pretty impressive.



Edited @ 2:30 pm - **Click Here to listen to Air America LIVE online. Al Franken's O'Franken Factor premiere show was great. Al Gore called in to wish him well. Michael Moore was a guest and the running gag was that Ann Coulter's screaming from the back room where they'd locked her in and just generally raising all sorts of hell. Hillary Clinton will be on tomorrow and Richard Clarke on Friday. Randi Rhodes show's up after Al's; and she's explaining Bush as the Fredo of the family. And Janeane Garofalo is up from 8:00pm - 11:00pm est.



{local} Local clothing designer is well on her way. Brooke Priddy, 26, has been making her own clothes since the age of 10. She once twisted a Twister mat into a skirt, exhibiting a creativity that in her teens morphed into a "Mad Max" look - leathers and boots, ripped and frayed. "Amazon goddess" is her self-described current phase - "super-empowered, sexual, flowing, beautiful, straight out of the sky like an angel." After getting her Fine Arts degree, she settled in Asheville. I wish her much success. [link]



I still miss my ex-husband. Will my aim ever improve?

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Good Tuesday Morning to you.



Read Three Easy Pieces for Any Decent American from Michael Moore. (Sep 15 Message) via: ollapodrida



Today at 11:30am EDT, the Senate voted 55-40 to roll back the entire FCC rule change. WaPo has more. Due in part to the many calls made and the petition that we signed.



We Want Your Soul.Com - How much is your Soul worth? Find out the current monetary value. via: stare, via sauceruney



Sharon Osbourne Show

With folded legs reclining on a divine sofa and a soft, sweet British brogue, Sharon Osbourne peered into the camera like she was speaking to an old friend. She's on 2 or 3 times a day in my area. (Can you guys see her in Canada?)



Jagger says it's hard living up to sex god image

Mick said: "When you are said to be the fuck of the century it's a matter of course that every woman is disappointed after the first night with you. It is a fact that this adventure playground behind the zip of my trousers has myth status on the groupie scene."



Happy Birthday, Kim!

Kim is celebrating her birthday today.



Quote For Today

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Sag, You're it!

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Good Morning.



"They're all bad, but Fox is the absolute worst," said Tracy Blevins, 32, a New York City resident. "The people who report the news aren't journalists. They just say what the government tells them to say." When protesters were near the Fox News Building, Fox changed their outside news ticker to chide the protestors: "War protester auditions here today ... thanks for coming!" read one message. "Who won your right to show up here today?" another questioned. "Protesters or soldiers?" Said a third: "How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them."



Still another read: "Attention protesters: the Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street" - a reference to the film maker who denounced the war while accepting an Oscar on Sunday night for his documentary "Bowling for Columbine."



The protesters said Fox's sentiments only proved their point: that media coverage, in particular among the television networks, is so biased as to be unbelievable. Fox New is the worst of the networks for their biased reporting and attitudes. They certainly don't have to agree with the protesters, but news is far more respected without an agenda.

[poster: whitehouse.org]



More downloadable War Protest posters. [via: nurse ratched]



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After reading a blog this morning and seeing all the many different interpretations of one particular statement someone made, I am reminded of a simple truth I once learned, which is this:



A mother asks each of her three children to bring her some milk. The first child brings her a glass of milk. The second child brings her a whole jug of milk. And the third child brings her a cow. All three children heard the same request from their Mother and all three interpreted it in their own way.





Quote For Today

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." ~Helen Keller



Wheeee! Democracy exploding all over Iraq.

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I still wish for peace.....



The Rolling Stones have released an Artist Choice - Music That Matters To Them CD, with their just favorite songs of other artists for a Starbucks (yikes!)promotion. You can also listen to some of those songs included: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, James Brown; You Shook Me, Muddy Waters; If You Want Me To Stay, Sly & The Family Stone.



More Weblog Stuff

**Do you ping? Some blogging systems will automatically ping you, like Movable Type and Radioland and Blogger Pro, (I believe all these do) but many of us have to ping ourselves manually. For those not familiar with "pinging", it's a way of listing your site after you update it, so that others will know you've recently updated your weblog. Many who use blogrolling.com can signify an updated site. I use an * (asterisk) beside the recently updated ones. Anybody can ping. To manually ping your own site after posting/updating, bookmark this site: http://newhome.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm, and fill in the name of your site first, and then the address of your site. That's it.

**New stuff! Now getting Blogspot updates integrated into the recently updated feeds. This is a beta feature and only updates once an hour right now. Like all beta features let me know if you notice any wonkiness. This will be updating more often in the near future. I just read this on the Blogrolling site; it was written on Sunday, Mar 23.



Per Daily Kos: "No Scuds. No WMDs. No attacks on Israel. But AK-47s, RPGs and pickup trucks. Thank the gods I'm being "defended" (per Bush) from these pickup trucks of mass destruction. I will definitely sleep better tonight.

(Actually, I wont...)"



One very good source for war news. I check it a few times each day now.



Quote For Today

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." ~Albert Schweitzer



Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. {michael moore}

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