In an interesting move, I found out today at [this link](http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-09-06) that Michael Moore will not be going for an Oscar this year. Fahrenheit 9/11 was a great movie and would almost certainly win the award but MM wants to get the movie on TV before the election. There is apparently an Oscar rule that would be in conflict with this goal, so in typical MM fashion, he’s just going to ignore the rule and forfeit his Oscar.

He does warn that getting it on TV is an unlikely goal, but what a blow it would be if he was able to do so! Check out the article (linked above) for more details.

[This link](http://www.freewayblogger.com/) is outstanding. Political dissent is American and in the words of my friend Jenn Lena, “[these] Folks [are] takin’ it to the streets.” My personal favorite image is linked below: “485 Dead, 2,779 Seriously Wounded, 3,264 blood-soaked uniforms, and we impeached Clinton over one lousy dress.”

I know who I’m voting for:

**Update:** [Nox](http://www.livejournal.com/users/noxfu), Kompressor’s official PR Officer [adds](http://www.baudburn.com/mt-admin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=51): Kompressor is the obvious choice for a few reasons: he breaks the glowsticks of ravers, while simultaneously eating their candy. That’s a winning combination. Kompressor in 2004!

…and he rides in on a horse of steel… surrounded by the MiB.

I was heading to school today when I noticed no parking signs everywhere and a swarm of VUPD. One of the coppa’s told me they were closing everything off because your friend and mine, President Bush was making a visit to Vanderbilt. Literally every VUPD officer in Vandy’s staff was standing on one approximately 6 street corners between Olin Hall and the Med Center North.

Feel free to ransack the rest of campus, there won’t be anyone to stop you.

Apparently Michael Moore’s new film, “Fahrenheit 9/11″ has become the first documentary in something like 50 years to win the Top Prize — the Palme d’Or. Other awards that it recieved were an apparently record breaking 20 minute standing ovation and the International Federation of Film Critics Award.

All this praise, and Disney is still trying to block distribution because it criticizes Bush and may jeopardize Disney’s tax breaks in Florida, where Jed Bush is the governor. It’s pretty sad that certain very wealthy powerhouses could try and succeed at controlling the flow of information and censor criticizim because of their bottom dollar. The more I learn, the more truly sad the state of affairs here makes me.

MM himself puts it best:
> I fully expect the right wing and the Republican Party to come at me and this film with everything they’ve got. They will try, as they have unsuccessfully in the past, to attack me personally because they cannot win the debate on the issues the film raises—namely, that they are a pack of liars and the American people are on to them. And, if the early screenings of “Fahrenheit 9/11” are any indication, those who see this movie will never view the Bush administration in the same way again.

Isn’t it great that he has to expect personal attacks for criticism? I guess thats just the way it goes.

On a semi-related note, apparently Bush is coming to Nashville to drum up $$$ and support. According to Matt over at Nashville Peace Justice Bush is having a little shindig here that you too can attend for only $25,000 per couple.

So if you want to get your protest on, check out Nashville Peace Justice’s website.