Have all wars stopped? Has crime gone away? Have politicians stopped doing whatever the hell it is they do? Is anything happening that isn’t related to Michael Jackson? Anywhere?
Quick pass that Climate Change bill while everyone is looking at old YouTube videos of Michael Jackson.
There is nothing to see here………Oh what was that??
All this while cap and trade gets passed
May I take this moment to say that this Obama guy is just not working out. If I wanted to live in a third world country I would move there.
YAY!!! One less weirdo in the world!
#3 – contempt – If I wanted to live in a third world country I would move there.
Please expand… this is going to be fun.
Farrah and the Climate bill are not supposed to be talked about.
#5 Jägermeister
I think the point will be crystal clear after you have to take out a loan just to pay your energy bills.
I’m taking the dogs for a walk then going to read a book with a glass o single malt scotch. Maybe if I can’t sleep I’ll fire up the IDE and learn some new stuff.
I don’t about anybody else, but I’ve kind of stopped watching TV. I watch lots of series on DVD (just finished Rome, highly recommended) and rent/buy movies. On the net I mainly read tech stuff because that’s my shtick and a few blogs which are cool. TV, especially the news, just doesn’t cut it anymore.
OK – I lied, I still watch Myth Busters if it’s on. There is one show on TV. 
I bet Obama had the CIA get rid of Jackson to distract us from the what’s going on in DC…
Jackson dies and we finally have world peace. This proves that bastard was behind all the worlds problems.
#8 – contempt – I think the point will be crystal clear after you have to take out a loan just to pay your energy bills.
If it’s really that bad for you, then perhaps it’s time for you to downsize your lifestyle… there are a lot of people who get by with a 1500 sq.ft. home instead of a 4500 sq.ft. home.
Oh, brother! First it’s John always bitching on Tech 5 about some supposedly so many and such “redundant” stories. Now it’s you, Uncle Dave, bitching about 17,062 links related to Jackson’s passing. What in the world do you both propose instead? A single, almighty, ever exclusive source of news for the entire world and the extinction of all others effective immediately? Please get over yourselves.
#13 Jägermeister
>>perhaps it’s time for you to downsize your lifestyle
Spoken like a true socialist determined to make every life as miserable as possible. As it turns out the size of my house is just fine, but thanks for trying to tell me what you think I need and don’t need.
Face it: probably the most famous human on the planet has died. It’s huge news.
#1 -too late, it squeaked by in the house. 
i gather investments companies selling +1800w solar panels will be the *windfall*
profit investment if the shills in the senate send the bill to the prez..
#8 and #11 are spot on…
full passage of this bill will finalize the exodus of any major industries left in the U.S.
-s
#16. “Face it: probably the most famous human on the planet has died. It’s huge news.”
And that pretty much sums up why we are all totally screwed. Thanks for the clarification.
Hewlett-Packard released classic HP calculators for iPhone/iPodTouch:
Downloading one of ‘em, there was a requirement to purchase every Michael Jackson song within 15 minutes of running the app, or every other app would launch into that Rick-Roll thing. (Kidding)
Even the WEATHER channel covered it! “It’s 76 degrees and sunny outside the UCLA medical center where fans have gathered at the report that Michael Jackson is dead”.
At least we don’t have to listen to Sanjay Gupta explain anal cancer.
This just in… Jon and Kate had MJ offed to divert the media attention away from themselves.
Rest in peace Michael… you’ve touched children the world over.
The Pirate Bay torrent server is still up and running!
#9 qb Same here, why channel zap, when with BitTorrent you can have on demand & DVD quality.
Rather than getting the cable co DVR priced well a good 200$ above that of a decent PC, I went the PC route. Wireless keyboard/mouse.
Just a regular nVidia 9800 card is strong enough for even 1080p AVI files.
Might I recommend Weeds, Harper’s Island, Dexter, Fringe, The Mentalist, Prison Break…easy full HDTV shows, whole seasons packaged up in one tidy torrent. PirateBay.org
Or mininova.org
I actually pay my cable co an extra 30$/month for my high bandwidth usage. Easily offset by no longer renting at the video store, and not paying for PayPerView movie channels.
#38 Mark Derail
Those are all excellent shows. Good choices. I haven’t seen Harper’s Island yet but I’ll now look into it.
The climate bill isn’t law.
It passed the house.
#15 – contempt – As it turns out the size of my house is just fine, but thanks for trying to tell me what you think I need and don’t need.
If you can afford it, keep it. If not, stop whining and downsize. You have no clue on what it means to be poor.
Today I listened to most of BBC’s Have Your Say program which is a call-in show with callers from around the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/default.stm
It was amazing that they talked to people on nearly every continent (Yes they even talked to someone at a research station in Antarctica) and everyone was gushing over him. The only critical comments came from people in the USA.
I’m not quite sure what to make of that. Either those of us in the USA who don’t have that high opinion of MJ were close enough to see and hear about his bizarre behavior and criminal allegations and the people from the rest of the world think less of allegations of molestation or we in the USA are overcritical of people even in death and the rest of the world is too polite to say ill of the dead.
Of course it was only an hour long program and so isn’t a real sampling of public opinion from around the world or anything.
It’s a good time to hold that embarrasing press conference. At last count, over 1200 “family values” conservatives have held press conferences about their sex affairs since Jackson died. Over 8,000 “fiscal conservative” Republican leaders have announced embezzlement of taxpayer funds. Over 13,000 military hawk GOP leaders have confessed to draft dodging. Nearly 25,000 “just say no” conservatives revealed their drug addiction. Dick Cheney confessed to everything above and to loathing the constitution, as well.
>> Troublemaker said
>> Rest in peace Michael… you’ve touched children the world over.
It’s fascinating how people refuse to believe “the media” about global warming, 911 or Obama’s birth certificate but they have no doubt about Jackson’s media-reported pedophilia.
I admit that Jackson seems guilty based on the media. But, c’mon, who really knows? I don’t. You don’t.
a famous person died, one of the most famous people in the world at one point. of course its all thats going to be reported for a couple days, you act like you’ve never seen how the media acts before
Who?
Breaking News: Keith Richards is still alive.
The Michael Jackson I am interested with is the beer guru. When he passes away, I will salute him with a bottle of Chimay Blue.
Or am I too late?
Totally agree with this post. Every one of my friends had a Michael Jackson related status today on their Facebook account. I posted a screenshot of Google News showing over 18,000 stories on MJ, and around 2,700 on the climate change bill, and wrote DISPROPORTION in big red letters on it.
This is what is wrong with America; we are a nation of utter morons, apparently. The man hasn’t produced anything of true substance in years and people are revering him as if his death signaled the end of free society or something.
Princess Diana Syndrome.
Sorry, missed the funeral by 11 months. Guess I need to find a place to drink a few more bottles then do an imitation of Manneken Pis, Wallon style.
I’m sure he will eventually enter life, and we will be blessed by this talented artist in paradise…
Obviously the media used his death to distract from the climate change bill…
I wonder how much more Americans will take…
I wonder how much more conservatives will take…8 Republicans voted for the bill, including my representative Bono Mack…
When the RNC called wanting money…I said no…its time for a new party.
I’ll say it…in the face of massive job loss, our media, our representatives worry about cow farts, and pass energy taxes against global warming, when we are in a global cooling…
It must be the end…so many people, so irrational…rule over us…
That can only be if we were weighed in the balances, and found wanting.
You act surprised in some way. Are you perhaps insane?
Of course they would latch onto this, celebrity ALWAYS trumps news.
Apparently the initial reports of him dying of a heart attack in the hospital may be wrong. It has been suggested he was discovered in the children’s ward having a stroke!
At least some young boys will now be safe from this paedophile bit of sh*t. I reckon the post mortem will prove that the cause of death to be HIV/AIDS, but obviously that will be covered-up.
#30 Greg:
“It’s fascinating how people refuse to believe “the media” about global warming, 911 or Obama’s birth certificate but they have no doubt about Jackson’s media-reported pedophilia.”
exac-a-lactly.
who cares
I agree 888. I am sick of it!
/the pessimistic slant
if he did die of cardiac arrest, giving him Oxy’s plus a shot of meperidine would have definitely helped him get there with a quickness, since both can result in cardiac arrest. (never mind respiratory failure)
it’ll be interesting to see if he was given a shot of naxalone prior to the 911 call. (or if any was even on site)
if so, the Doc knew he screwed up, if not, the Doc definitely screwed up.
naxalone will wake the (overdosed) dead if administered within a minute or so of death (coupled with cpr) -i’ve been there.
(oddly, if the doc panicked and gave too much too fast, cardiac arrest would have also resulted)
since Police reports indicate the Doc was injecting the Oxycontin along with the meperidine, to not have naxalone on site almost guarantees death would have resulted eventually.
-esp since oxycontin is only sold in pill form.. (basically, it’s a megadose time released Percocet)
the doc is screwed either way.
only reason i can see the Tox report taking a month is so all those interested in recouping the $200-500 million jackson was in debt for can make some of it back with a month’s worth of The Life of M. Jackson specials and commemorative albums etc etc. (and the media gets a second Life of Mike special)
-oh, and of course, to bury the details of the next life/game changing event congress enacts or votes on. (re: house passage of the carbon bill last night after 7pm or so i think)
(no doubt if drugs are found the as the cause of death, “outrage” and immediate passage of a new (anti)drug related law (or heaven help us, the health care bill) will result.
politicians on the hill would think nothing of exploiting someones death as a springboard for their own agenda.
(a well staffed private lab could do it in a week with preliminaries in 24hrs. -no need to hear from the backlog crew, i am aware of the logistics)
Having said all that, i’ve always been a huge fan of his music since i was a kid and was looking forward to the music from his upcoming tour.
Mike’s music was timeless.
I hope he finds a better life on the other side.
-s
(side note: I bet some underhanded crap in the Madoff case is going to use Mike’s death to slip another extension under the the people’s and MSM’s noses/radar. -my guess, he’ll never see a real jail cell.)
-enough time will pass so a power failure from the crazy electrical storms due this summer opens his cell and “off he goes” -happy as a clam.
yadyada
@# 3 contempt said, “this Obama guy is just not working out. If I wanted to live in a third world country I would move there.”
Third world status was issued sometime early in 2003. The experiments in Florida were successful. It was time to share the results with the entire nation; this following the passage of the Patriot Act. Perhaps you were one of those easily frightened by boogie men and other unseen phenom from far away, primitive exotic places who want to “harm Americans because of our freedom” who supported that gem of legislation.
Third world status was confirmed when wages in most places had not kept up with costs to live and people in the U.S. began working like Jamaicans having two, even three jobs in order to survive.
All this happened under the administration of the previous guy President Dumbya who probably really resonates with you, even though his policies really did not work out.
Hey folks you can always choose to turn off the ding-danged teevee. In fact you’ll be better for it. For those who elect to continue to watch the coverage, who as they do become more and more self righteous remember however wrong you believe any person to be does not make you right.
Another way to say this is if you believe the accusations about Jackson are true, that his alleged behaviors are wrong, know that this will not make you right because you oppose his alleged behavior. It comes to a big fat “So What?!” Get right with yourself so we can get down to work saving the planet for the children.
#46
>>Get right with yourself so we can get down to work saving the planet for the children.
That’s the biggest load of crap yet written.
Saving the planet it just a code phase for government servitude. If that’s the kind of life you want for the children then your government school programming is complete. You will make a fine slave and the children will curse your name.
#46 Save the planet…how absurd…we don’t impact weather…we are helpless in it.
Cap & Trade is one more nail for secession…let the liberals go for third world non industrial status…the rest of us for jobs…and we will erect border fences to keep them, and their ACORN brown shirts, out.
#42 888, who cares
Agreed.
# 23 Troublemaker said, “Rest in peace Michael… you’ve touched children the world over.”
i never had hot coffee stream through my nose…until now!
I am so amazed at how we get so interested in such people as Michael Jackson. His life was pathetic for such a talent. As Elvis did he destroyed his life while others who come out now say they knew he was? What kind of friends and family watch someone your care about do this. Now everybody talks about how much they loved him, Please. Spare me the bleeding heart.
Michael Jackson needed what he is getting now when he was alive. That is Love and concern, and intervention.
And once again, the loonies do not disappoint.
I see one ‘ACORN’, I raise you a ’secret Muslim’.
C’mon, you can do it!
One thing I can agree with- so many people, so irrational. Many of them posting Bible verses here.
he is still dead, time to move on
Let me explain. The story is old and stale for now. Nothing more needs to be said until the results on drug tests comes in but meida types are like a dog chasing their own tail. They’ll most likely keep on doing it until something else comes along and distracts them or the story is so stale that they are getting death threats.
Respectfully yours,
No politicians aren’t doing what they always do. The House voted for a bill that didn’t exist at the time of the vote. The clerk’s desk had an old copy, plus some 300 pages of amendments not added.
we have lost a god!
Once I was at a party and Thriller came up on the play list. The hottest girl there jumped up and screamed at the top of her lungs. And she was smoking hot! As the album played on the girl started dancing in the middle of the floor as if her feet where on fire. This some how caused a spontaneous chain reaction that effect every other girl at the party to follow suit. By the end of the album most of the girl was in tears, almost as if Michael was actually in the room singing to each one of them. I have been to quite a few parties and clubs in my life but I have never seen any thing like that before and maybe never will again. After that day I realized how great this man was…
>> Alfred1 said,
>> Obviously the media used his death to distract from the climate change bill…
Alfred you are spot-on, once again!
That is _obviously_ exactly what’s going on.
I wonder if whoever wrote this would say this to a family who just lost a loved one suddenly, was crying their eyes out getting ready for the funeral…..
“Bla bla bla…….Google currently has 17,062 links bla bla bla …… Every news channel has nothing but Jackson stories. Bla bla bla ….. Have all wars stopped? What the flick are you mourning him for when there are more important things to do…….”
DOOD, HOW FICKING INSENSITIVE.
People need a break from the same old crap especially when someone that affected their lives profoundly dies. They need to mourn, reflect, and be with friends where ever they are online.
Critical comments during such events are like the person that goes to the funeral and immediately starts criticizing the flower arrangements because they had some issue with the person who died or their family.
Show some respect.
#51, skunkman,
i never had hot coffee stream through my nose…until now!
You should read “Alphie’s” posts more often.
One of the most significant entertainers of the 20th century dies and you are surprised by all the media coverage? Jeez, get over it. It will all calm down soon.
Wasn’t he half dead years ago?
It’s being reported that his last words were: “take me to childrens hospital”…
I’m 21 and I’ve never listened to Michael Jackson.
Did George Harrison get this much coverage when he died? I actually liked his music.
Right now ALL the Republican politicians are having as much barely legal gay sex as they can and ALL the Democrat politicians are getting spanked by $2,000 hour hookers.
Karl Rove ordered a hit on Michael Jackson to divert news attention away from that philandering GOP governor.
Michael Jackson was seen walking down the street in Las Vegas today, but his nose was missing.
Michael Jackson faked his own death to collect his own insurance money.
Michael Jackson had his head frozen, and his body is now walking around with Prince Michael II’s head attached.
Jacko’s second wife murdered him to get custody of the clones.
Wait until the tabloids come out next week. This is just a sampler….
Really, it’s all about the recording industry’s profits. So all the news media is helping them cash in on his death, because he wasn’t selling many records while he was alive. I haven’t considered M.J. that good, to justify all this world attention. They didn’t morn Frank Sinatra as much as this. Or John Lennon. But some scrawny kid, who can sing really high notes, and moves like a robot on stage, and molests kids? Oh yeah, that’s who the world falls to its knees over, when they die from a drug overdose.
I gave away the few M.J. 45rpm singles, I had, years ago. When I bought my first CD player, it came with a free “Jacksons Victory” CD, that nobody would take off my hands. Not even for free. The only versions of M.J’s songs I’ve listen to in years, are all Weird Al Yankovic parodies. When Al dies, I will morn.
So the whole world morns the passing of someone who leaves us hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. Possible the world’s biggest deadbeat. Not counting Bernie Madoff. I can possibly understand the sorrow of all those of whom he owed money to. But so many others have taken to lamenting his passing, after years of nearly forgetting him, and thinking him weird for sleeping with young boys. They’re all a bunch of weepy-eyed social victims. They need to cry about something, after losing their jobs and homes, and this finally happened. So now they’ve got any excuse to cry in public. And the media has got an excuse to film them.
all said and done, anything relating to jackson’s death will continue to headline in the MSM news until all the scandalous Bills being rushed through congress are passed.
IMO, the timing of his death is is just too
convenient.
-s
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