Questions to wrap up your weekend

[sabotabby]

Everyone's sick of talking about the stupid cartoons (although I have a new-found confidence in gaybortion, which is way better than any of them and also has never caused a riot. So hah!), so let's talk about more interesting subjects.

Baby Godwin is a sad panda.

Rumsfeld compared Hugo Chavez to Hitler.
Then Chavez said that Bush was worse than Hitler.

[Poll #667317]

(Hat tip to roter_terror and springheel_jack.)

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Also, OCAP and Uprising are doing joint movie nights and are looking for recommendations for movies to show. They must be fun (that means no didactic documentaries, kthnx) and political in some way. Until the spring, exceedingly long movies like The Battle of Algiers cannot be shown because Uprising has no heat.

La Haine, They Live!, Life and Debt and The Harder They Come have all been recommended, and I'm being told to quash any suggestions of Bread and Roses. (Heh.)

Personally, I recommend this political movie.

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Marinetti thanks everyone for the birthday wishes and fealty. He is now passed out in the living room.

Comments

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Venezuela is not the country the US is most likely to invade. But from the point of view of Venezuela, the US (possibly via Colombia) likely is their most significant potential external threat. And the load of Kalashnikovs they're buying and the million-person army Chavez talks about would be aimed at enabling just that sort of mass guerrilla resistance you talk about.

Still, I suspect that all this militarist talk may well be more directed towards promoting internal pro-government feeling, and that's what concerns me just a little bit.

I recommend The Fox and the Hound

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

I was supposed to watch La Haine for my French history class last semester.

I never did. \m/

Re: I recommend The Fox and the Hound

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

This cow song is impressive.

Re: I recommend The Fox and the Hound

[sabotabby]

You'd love La Haine.

On that note, I rather wish there was a cinematic version of Yertle the Turtle.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Oh, totally.

Speaking of Chavez ...

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I just got this in my mailbox:

PLEASE POST WIDELY

Dear friend:

The rightwingers at the website http://www.afa.net/Petitions/IssueDetail.asp?id=182 are angry at Hugo Chavez and the policies he is pursuing in Venezuela. They are trying to promote a boycott of Citgo. On their website, you are invited to send an email to President Chavez. Let's sabotage their scheme.

Go to the website and click on "send your letter now." In the subject line, type BUY CITGO or CITGO FUELS DEMOCRACY--BUY IT Delete the text in the message box Write your own message telling Pres. Chavez that you are buying Citgo in solidarity with the Venezuelan Revolution; that you appreciate the 45 million gallons of diesel fuel Citgo has made available at subsidized prices for thousands of low income Americans; that you oppose U.S. govt meddling in Venezuela's affairs; and that you support Venezuela's right to choose its own way.

Fill in your name, email address, etc and send.

LET'S REVERSE THIS RIGHT WING PLOY TO UNDERMINE VENEZUELA PROGRESS FLOOD PRES. CHAVEZ WITH E-MAIL MESSAGES OF SUPPORT

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Here is the site for it.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/

Basically it explore the military/industrial complex that Eisenhower warned of in his 1960 Presidential farewell speech and how it's developed over the last 60 years. It pretty much comes to the consclusion that the more a society invests in military institutions, the more likely it will resort to military solutions to solve problems (cause after all, all of those bombs just can't sit around in warehouses doing nothing now can they?).

I seems to come from a more intellectual, quasi-liberal and detached veiwpoint rather than a radical or revolutionary one. But it does seem to have some interesting, if not totally mind blowing insights in to militarism.