What a Great Day

I spent the day at the National Conference On Media Reform. I got to hear Bill Moyers give a well reasoned and passionate speech about the dangers of media concentration restricting the free flow of ideas. Not only that I got to hear it in a hall full of people who gave celebrities a polite smattering of applause while thinkers who can communicate got an ovation. Bill moyers quoted a poem that I will find the text for and post tomorrow. It was truly stirring.

I got to see FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein speak on the importance of our issue. Then later he joined the blues band on stage and joined in. And let me tell you he was no dancing bear.

The conference attendees would crowd the hall to hear a speech and then go outside to talk while the bands played. It was great to see that many people who have rejected the idea that ideas are boring.

In between I go to attend an anti war rally here in Memphis. We had a great turn out and will only get better. Now it is off to sleep and up in the morning to do it again!

Good Protest In Memphis!

About 50 people showed up to oppose the 'surge'. The numbers will only grow.

Islamic Terrorist

NOT!!!!!! The bombing of our embassy in Greece should serve as a reminder that:

1. Not all terrorist are Muslim.
2. Terrorist are not a group. They are those who employ the tactic of terrorism.
3. Terrorism is not an enemy it is a tactic used by the weak against the strong.
4. If we were evil and stupid enough to kill every Muslim in the world there would still be terrorism.

Failure Will Lead To Consensus

One of the guests on Talk of the Nation today said that he thought that the presidints plan was almost sure to fail. He continued saying that he favored it none the less because we will not achieve a national consensus to withdraw untill it fails. He was sure to mention that he regreted that it will cost us many lives while we fail inorder to achieve consensus.

I could usnderstand saying that it will take the failure of this poicy to bring us to consensus. The leap from that to supporting the policy is however unfathomable to me. How does one support a policy one thinks will fail in a spectacularly bloody way?

That is the kind of shit that makes me want to scream.

A Mother Asked

"how many deaths is it going to require before we've honored the deaths of the ones that have gone previously?"

Bush and his apploogist tell us that it will be a disaster if we pull out now. I want to know how is that any worse than the disaster we are going to leave when we pull out after his next failure of policy/strategy, or the one after that?

Bush Is Still Deluded

He still thinks that the war is winnable if we hang on and send just a few more men without a change in strategy. He rejected all the advice that had even a minimal chance of bringing about success and instead embraced the insanity of more of the same and hope it turns out different this time. More men in Iraq wont make him any more competent as a leader or diplomat and that competence is what has been missing from the get go.

A busy week

Tonight I hosted the MoveOn Operation Democracy district council meeting. This weekend I am attending The National Conference for Media Reform here in Memphis. Friday we have a rally to oppose any escalation of the war in Iraq.