What, aren't they worried about the carbon they're spewing during these joy rides? Climate change hysteria is only used to manipulate people into buying into cap and trade. But when it comes to the Obama royalty and their many jet trips, it's ignored.

PS, I've often wondered what the REAL story is about that Air Force One scare over NYC.

As a fifth generation Californian, raised in San Francisco and now living in Los Angeles, I'm not willing to sit silent while this beautiful state withers further. Liberal "ideas" have killed our economy and this carbon insanity will only make it worse.

I'm a former liberal who woke up. But, until recently, I've kept my opinions to myself... not seeing the importance of it. Now I do. I can't allow California, a state that once had so much to offer, to continue to be rotted away by liberal stupidity and greed (carbon policies that feed corporations and taxes, unions and their all-consuming salaries and pensions, nanny state laws, unfriendly business climate, and on and on). This isn't the state I was born into. I won't sit silent and leave this mess for my daughter.

My business is slow, so I'm broke ... but I am going to this pre-screening in Hollywood.

I'll blog about it, Twitter links to the film, put photos of the pre-screening party on Flickr - whatever I can do to help get the word out about this documentary. People need to know what's really going on in Cuba. I can not sit back in silence when Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Danny Glover, etc. have done so much harm. Sadly, these useful idiots have the power to persuade people; instead of giving voice to the voiceless, like Dr. Biscet, these celebrities have done them harm by parroting Castro's propaganda.

Years ago, one of my business clients, a Cuban man, found out I edit my home movies and asked me to do the same with his beautiful films and photos of pre-Castro Havana - the happy faces, the swaying palm trees, the turquoise water, all along to his favorite Cuban folk music. He wanted his American-raised children to see the wonderful life he had to escape before Castro's thugs came and took away everything - his business, his home, his belongings - and put him in prison. He escaped only because of a fluke in paperwork.

I've never seen that sort of depth of sadness in a proud man's eyes, not until the day I met that Cuban man who became my friend. Ever since, I try as often as I can to give voice to the Cuban people.

I hope people in Southern California come out and support this film on Sunday in Hollywood. I'll be there!

Mr. Voight, I really wanted join all of you but I have a funeral I, unfortunately, have to attend.

You and all who go to DC to give voice to us "normal" people - moms & dads, business owners, middle class Americans just trying to make a living and raise our families - are heroes. Thank you!

I like the tag (appropriately right under Penn's face on the video capture): anal issues.

Exactly!

Jack Kerouac: a man of words so fluid they slid like fresh cream from his lips, a mind so quick it cracked like a bullwhip, thoughts so new they were too "in the now" even for the hippest of the hip - the beatniks, the imitators, the hangers-on. Kerouac wanted nothin' to do with 'em. It was just about his poems of beat and rhythm.

In those he lives on and on and on.

Thanks, Jack

Yes, I have a Kerouac documentary where Jack fumed at the hippie-types who hung on his coat tails. He wanted nothin' to do with 'em.

If you listen to Bob Dylan in documentaries, he almost says the same thing. The political left used his words to push causes, but he wanted nothing to do with representing any groups, causes...

They only wanted to be, it seems to me, individuals. That's what makes people like Kerouac, Dylan - anyone - unique. Individuality away from the crowds.

Hanks is a walking cliche: Another Hollywood liberal simpleton who ignores facts to push race-hatred. Rare are the Hollywood individuals who don't blather such inanity, know their history and use logic.

Look at that face. Those jowls and scowl have been formed by many years of being a miserable human. Years of lying and pushing propaganda can't be a very happy way to live. Pathetic.

I was a participant in a focus group on gay rights in West Hollywood, California. I have many friends who are gay. I went into the focus group knowing I would be my completely honest and opinionated self.

When the man (who I believe was gay) conducting the focus group asked me if I'd attended any protests at all and if so which was the last protest I attended, I told him yes. I attended a protest for Iranian human rights in Westwood, California. The man then asked me: if there were two protests, one pro gay marriage and one for Iranian human rights held at the same time which protest would I attend if I could only go to one.

I looked him in the eyes for what seemed like a long time and tried to keep my passion at bay. "I would attend the Iranian protest. In Iran women are stoned to death and men who are gay are HANGED."

Why are the gay people around the world not in the streets protesting this loudly? Horrific.