As a protester during the sixties, and one who did the big local anti-invade Iraq marches in LA (all four), I've often wondered why there are few protests. Somehow, I sense that they won't work like they used to. It's a gut feeling based on the fact that the Bush people don't care about us and box us as anti-Americans. the media is right behind them.

Back in the sixties, the press was much more out-spoken, many of us faced the draft, and we had some wonderful leaders - Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, just to name the two biggest.

Now the Democrats are weak/corrupt/fearful (chose one or all). Yet somehow, without the obvious anti-war marches, public opinion has turned after six years. Hopefully it isn't to late to correct the damage done.

It was America who gave surface to air missiles in Afghanistan not that long ago which enabled Bin Ladin and company to shoot down Soviet helicopters. Does anyone remember? Now we're going to go to war with Iran for the same thing?

Our president has gone mad eager for any excuse for another war. We have to stop him

I'm curious to know where the real blame lies...

Is it with the fired generals who shoulda/coulda taken steps to fix the problems, or Bush and Co. who cut funding to show how they support the troops.

I don't like Entertainment tonight. You see, there is life without celebrities (and, yes, I live in Hollywood.

The short was one of Samantha Bee's best.

Those people know what they're doing. They want to crush Internet radio. In the same way, years earlier, the movie business tried to crush cable TV, and the video tape recorder.

Hollywood delayed cable TV by about 15 years. Truth be told, those guys are similar to the heads of coal power plants that pollute the air they themselves breathe.

Maybe we will first have to get rid of Bush and Company before we can fight back.

Um - wait. Wasn't the real problem simply that the budget was severely cut. Won't that be addressed too? Or even mentioned???

Sigh, more photo ops is the administration solution. That's what they call supporting our troops.

I don't know about all of you, but I thought it was scary that we barely had common sense prevail over corporate greed. 5-4 is not what I would toot as a victory. It's a very close call.

What does this mean for the future?

After watching the first night, I was looking forward, if that's the word, for the rest of the series. I didn't realize that the neocons had struck beforehand!

But to tell the truth, I've been reading and observing for some time now all the stupidity and dogma that has driven the Bush people. It gets really depressing.

To see this cataloged correctly, historically, is hard to bear. It didn't need to get this bad. How Bush got elected on the platform that he is the man to fight terrorism is beyond me.

It's a good bet that we now face some serious violence in the US on a massive scale. That is the consequence of our history with the Arab world, and in particular, of Bush/Cheney.

Reading the article I have to wonder if the problem is that the USDA can't find the source of the problem, or they aren't supposed to find the source.

Read "Fast Food Nation" and "The Omnivore's Dilemma" if you can handle the unpleasant truth. It's all about money. Nothing else really matters to these people, and Bush and Co. make sure that there are few inspections, the rules are lax, and enforcement a joke.

I was only 16 when JFK was shot, but the memory never left me. A part of my innocence about the world was forever lost, and for good reason.

I've read numerous books on who did it, but most didn't feel they had it right like Talbot. Then come my own personal connections that confirm the story - people I know who told about how air force personnel were ordered to not not position themselves in plain clothes along the route of the president - as they normally would do for security sake. Or the woman friend who was a dancer in Las Vegas at that time and a darling of the mafia. She sat at a celebration dinner that night with mafia chieftains as they celebrated Kennedy's death. "The mafia supported him," she said, "a deals a deal. He went against them."

The people who killed JFK and RFK also had a hand in killing Martin Luther King. History was clearly changed by the murders. Yet many of the Salon readers who wrote have a strange negative attitude about the story, and believe in the mythical Warren Commission Report. I thought everyone knew years ago that it was a cover-up. congress even had a second hearing on the subject after the JFK movie.

It's always bothered me that the people behind JFK's murder got away with it, but I've hoped for deathbed confessions. At least E. Howard Hunt spoke out See http://prisonplanet.com/audio/300407jfktape.mp3.

What Bush says is of no consequence - since he's usually lying anyway - but watch what he does. Believe me, he is still a friend of the oil companies. I mean, profits aren't exactly going downward for big oil.