Micheal Jackson dead?

[banca rotta]

Dont feel bad. He deliberatley made a lot of enemies. I liked him when he was younger but when he thought he was above everyone else in Never Never Land, that is when I lost my respect for him. There is an awesome episode of the Jackson 5 on the Carol Burnette show where there is an earthquake during the live show and he was just a kid going way back to the 70's but M.J. wasn't the same person back then.

Welcome to Hollywood, where all your dreams come true.

See! Again we think alike old Bandit. I kind of feel bad that a human being died but I agree with you on the rest.

One thing I will add and that is I have little respect for "millionaire bankrupts" facing forclosure just because he refused to liquidate some assets.

[justbroke]

The only people I had less respect for was the parents of the kids that he molested and then refused to testify based on their buyout from Jackson.

Some of that was just shameful on all sides.

[TEW]

One less pedophile in the world I put him right up there with OJ.
Farrah Fawcett on the other hand is sad

[tinfoilhat]

Screwed up world we live in. Two people died. One we like and hardly speak of, one we don't and argue endlessly about.

[dingdong]

Supposedly billionaire Thomas Barrack bought a bunch of mj's debt and bailed him out and was banking on the 'big comeback' in London.

Looks like he made a bad decision.

MJ used to shop in the mall in my town in the 80's, I live about 15 minutes away from Neverland.

Most people around here felt he was a big whacko for quite some time.

But still sad, there are a lot of people that really idolized the guy.


I bet there is going to be some funky fall out from his death with some of the hard core fans.

Or.......did he pay off the hospital to declare him dead and he is currently hanging out with Elvis?

[JRScott]

While the passing of anyone is hard on friends and family, I somehow do not believe his passing warrants near round the clock coverage.

It's sad we have so many news programs and all of them seem to think that the biggest story is Michael Jackson's passing. I didn't really care for him much as a kid and his antics of the last decade or so haven't improved my opinion of him. Still I am sorry for his family and friends.

[Bandit]

Neverland Ranch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpbE9_BfS6c

[bk4sky]

so sad, and so sudden. i think he was strange but never believed he molested anyone.

[justbroke]

i think he was strange but never believed he molested anyone.

There's about 20 million reasons why I think he may have, now. (Never knew the 1993 settlement amount. Thought it was like $5M plus some other benefits... but is was $20M.)

[blankslate]

Supposedly billionaire Thomas Barrack bought a bunch of mj's debt and bailed him out and was banking on the 'big comeback' in London.

Looks like he made a bad decision.

MJ used to shop in the mall in my town in the 80's, I live about 15 minutes away from Neverland.

Most people around here felt he was a big whacko for quite some time.

But still sad, there are a lot of people that really idolized the guy.


I bet there is going to be some funky fall out from his death with some of the hard core fans.

Or.......did he pay off the hospital to declare him dead and he is currently hanging out with Elvis?

LOL well I think I can put the conspiracy theories to rest... working in the media in LA I can tell you those scanners were jammed as soon as the paramedics were called to his house. We all knew as soon as we heard they were doing CPR that he was gone.

I don't idolize anyone so I'm not mourning but it is a big deal. He was a part of my childhood with "Off The Wall" and "Thriller" and then a part of my daughter's when she fell in love with his song from "Free Willy."

I think we all knew he wasn't going to live to be an old man.

[RainMoM]

How much longer do we need to hear the 911 call of his death on the news ?? I say death due to .. " hes not breathing" thats a good reason to think hes a goner ! When i was a kid, his music was good ( some) but he really had some serious problems later in life.. to bad to sad ! r.I.p.

[AngelinaCatHub]

Is this what our Country is becoming?

The Man in the Mirror
By James Howard Kunstler
on June 29, 2009 6:01 AM

As America entered the horse latitudes of summer, befogged in a muffling stillness on deceptively calm seas, we were distracted for a while by visions of a pale death angel moonwalking across the deck of collective consciousness. Eerie parallels resound between the sordid demise of pop singer Michael Jackson and the fate of the nation.
Like the United States, Michael Jackson was spectacularly bankrupt, reportedly in the range of $800-million, which is rather a lot for an individual. Had he lived on a few more years, he might have qualified for his own TARP program -- another piece of expensive dead-weight down in the economy's bilges -- since it is our established policy now to throw immense sums of so-called "money" at gigantic failing enterprises (while millions of ordinary citizens wash overboard, without so much as a life-preserver). Anyway, Michael Jackson was on the receiving end of one huge bank loan after another long after his pattern of profligacy was set and obvious. They threw money at him for the same reason that the federal government throws money at entities like CitiBank: the desperate hope that some miracle will allow debt servicing to resume. Michael could burn through $50-million in half a year. It didn't seem to affect his credibility as a borrower. When his heart stopped last week, he was living in a Hollywood mansion that rented for several hundred thousand dollars a month. You wonder how the landlord cashed those checks.
Like the USA, Michael Jackson was a has-been. He hadn't recorded a song worth listening to in over two decades. He had done almost nothing but spin his wheels, hop around the globe from one place to another at enormous expense, and make himself available for award ceremonies to stoke his ego (and give advertisers a reason to promote some televised award show). He existed strictly on image, an anorectic figure nourished by moonbeams of attention, famous for saying that he loved his worshippers when the truth was he merely sucked the life out of them. In his last years, he even looked a bit like Nosferatu, the personification of the un-dead, and his fascination with ghouls was the basis for his biggest hit way back in the last century. A zombie nation deserves a zombie mascot.
He was a poseur, vamping in weird military outfits as though he were a five-star general in the Honduran army, or a character from a melodrama by the reprobate Jean Genet. He once materialized during halftime at the Superbowl in a shower of sparks, thrilling the multitudes while grabbing and stroking his sex organs, as though that was a heroic activity -- and indeed the nation seemed to emulate him as its culture became dedicated more and more to acting out masturbation fantasies. America was a fat man jerking off on the sofa watching a vampire of no particular sex vogue deliriously on the boob tube.
More than once the authorities tried to pin charges of child molestation on him for suspicious activities at his boy-trap, Neverland Ranch, with its carnival rides, private zoo, video game galleries, and inexhaustible supplies of sugary treats. The first time he settled with the alleged victim's family for $22-million. They just walked away with the loot and happily shut up. The second time, he moonwalked out of a court-of-law while weeks later jurors mysteriously went on TV to say, well, they did kind of think after-the-fact that he really did those things he was accused of, but, you know.... The defendant himself behaved as though his trial were a TV celebrity challenge show on another planet, arriving on one occasion twenty minutes late in pajamas with some lame excuse about a backache. He spent the last years of his life wandering a few steps ahead of his creditors, gulling concert promoters into "comeback" schemes (with walking-around money up front), and with three bought-and-paid-for children, obviously not his own, for consolation.
When he dropped dead last week, the nation's morbidly maudlin response suggested a cover story for the relief of being rid of him and all the embarrassment he provoked. One CNN reporter called him a genius the equal of Mozart. That's a little like calling Rachel Maddow the reincarnation of Eleanor Roosevelt. A nation addicted to lying to itself tells itself fairy tales instead of facing a pathology report. Yet, like Michael Jackson, the undertone of horror story still pulses darkly in the background. The little boy who grew up to be the simulation of a girl was really a werewolf. The nation that defeated manifest evil in World War Two woke up one day years later to find itself stripped of its manhood, mentally enslaved to cheap entertainments, and hostage to its own grandiosity. Maybe in grieving so exorbitantly over this freak America is grieving for itself. All the loose talk about "love" from the media and the fans gives off the odor of self-love. America is "the man in the mirror," the gigantic, floundering Narcissus, sailing into the stormy seas of history.

http://kunstler.com/blog/2009/06/the-man-in-the-mirror.html

[tinfoilhat]

Is this what our Country is becoming?

What, reporters making up such rediculous stories?

Michael jackson is and never was ***t to me. What an ingenious idea to combine the nations financial status...... with him?

This would have never been written if he didn't die.

Very poorly written, JMHO though. Next up, lets write one about Billy Mays!

[AngelinaCatHub]

Naw, Billy Mays was an entrepreneur and I doubt he was a pervert. Not fair to Billy.

[tinfoilhat]

Naw, Billy Mays was an entrepreneur and I doubt he was a pervert. Not fair to Billy.

No, the point is to celebrate a sucessful persons life and focus on the positive side of things.

Society, yes, has come dramatic and latch onto negativity and we just love to write and read about it and pass it along and discuss it, argue about it, etc.

Yet someone sucessful passes away and well, for some reason theres just nothing to write and gossip about.

So we're just going to forget Billy Mays and all he's done and discuss michael jackson---seems kind of backwards to me, thats all.