Quoted from senders

Who cares.....4 soldiers died in combat today.....

McMahon, Faucett, Jackson > American soldier?

if P then Q??????????????????????????????????

During World War II, McMahon was a fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps serving as a flight instructor and test pilot. He was a decorated pilot (six Air Medals) and was discharged in 1946, remaining in the reserv

Feel better ?

Quoted from Sombody

During World War II, McMahon was a fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps serving as a flight instructor and test pilot. He was a decorated pilot (six Air Medals) and was discharged in 1946, remaining in the reserv

Feel better ?

I think that was senders point. There is many more important issues to concern ourselves with other than (and in all due respect) charlie's angles and the king of pop! One would have thought that McMahon would have gotten a better send off with his military credentials! I guess the media didn't find his story news worthy! sad!

Quoted from Sombody

During World War II, McMahon was a fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps serving as a flight instructor and test pilot. He was a decorated pilot (six Air Medals) and was discharged in 1946, remaining in the reserv

Feel better ?

A little.....Elvis Michael Jackson has now left the building......

Quoted from bumblethru

I think that was senders point. There is many more important issues to concern ourselves with other than (and in all due respect) charlie's angles and the king of pop! One would have thought that McMahon would have gotten a better send off with his military credentials! I guess the media didn't find his story news worthy! sad!

I think around 1985 Jackson SPEARHEADED  " We are the world "charity -  raising millions of dollars  that ultimately saved thousand  of lives- not necessarily heroic  - and I'm gonna guess his music gave him the opportunity to help the less fortunate--- maybe even people that were starving or dying-  ya think ?

Actually- I think music is pretty important- right up there with any political-military agenda -

Quoted Text

     
Michael Jackson had a will; nurse says star sought drug
BY NEKESA MUMBI MOODY The Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES — A will for Michael Jackson has surfaced and is expected in court soon, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday, countering their previous claim that he died without such a document.
    “My clients are now aware after filings that a will has been presented,” said L. Londell McMillan. “His various advisers over time are looking for additional documents.”
    A person with knowledge of the will says the singer’s mother gets custody of his children and his assets are to be placed in trust.
    The will disclosed Tuesday was created in July 2002 and named as executors Jackson’s longtime lawyer John Branca and John McClain, a music executive and a family friend, says the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the topic.
    The person says the Jackson family and its lawyers are reviewing the document. The word came just a day after the family said in court documents it believed the entertainer had died without a valid will.
    Jackson was recently in shaky fi - nancial health. In the most detailed account yet of the singer’s tangled financial empire, documents obtained by The Associated Press show Jackson claimed to have a net worth of $236.6 million as of March 31, 2007. But less than $700,000 of that amount was in cash — a relatively paltry sum given his opulent lifestyle, prodigious borrowing and seven-figure shopping sprees.
    Also on Tuesday, a nutritionist who was working with the singer as he prepared his comeback bid said Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful.
    Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse whose specialty includes nutritional counseling, said she repeatedly rejected his demands for the drug, Diprivan, which is given intravenously.
    But a frantic phone call she received from Jackson four days before his death made her fear that he somehow obtained Diprivan or another drug to induce sleep, Lee said.
    While in Florida on June 21, Lee was contacted by a member of Jackson’s staff.
    “He called and was very frantic and said, ‘Michael needs to see you right away.’ I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I could hear Michael in the background … ‘One side of my body is hot, it’s hot, and one side of my body is cold. It’s very cold,’ ” Lee said.
    “I said, ‘Tell him he needs to go the hospital. I don’t know what’s going on, but he needs to go to the hospital … right away.’
    “At that point I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system,” she said, adding, “He was in trouble Sunday and he was crying out.”
    Jackson did not go to the hospital. He died June 25 after suffering cardiac arrest, his family said. Autopsies have been conducted but an official cause of death is not expected for several weeks.
    “I don’t know what happened there. The only thing I can say is he was adamant about this drug,” Lee said.
    Meanwhile, Sheriff’s Lt. Butch Arnoldi said authorities met Tuesday based on speculation over a possible memorial at Neverland, but Jackson’s family had yet to reach out to them for assistance with any kind of memorial.
    “We have not been contacted by any member of the family or any representative of the family, talking about or requesting any kind of event,” he said.
    Neverland is located in the rolling hills of central California’s wine country, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles. A public funeral there on a busy holiday weekend could bring the rural area’s roads to a standstill.
    A statement from Santa Barbara County officials said the county “cannot confirm that any such funeral or memorial plans for Michael Jackson will occur here despite widespread reports today by the news media that a funeral or memorial event is planned for the area.”
    California Highway Patrol spokesman Rick Quintero said the CHP had not received a request for a motorcade. ............>>>>............>>>>........http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00200

Quoted from Sombody

I think around 1985 Jackson SPEARHEADED  " We are the world "charity -  raising millions of dollars  that ultimately saved thousand  of lives- not necessarily heroic  - and I'm gonna guess his music gave him the opportunity to help the less fortunate--- maybe even people that were starving or dying-  ya think ?

Actually- I think music is pretty important- right up there with any political-military agenda -

Dont get me wrong---I LOVE music and I have never been in the military nor am I a politician......however, the average
Joe dies every day......Elvis is not a god, Jackson is not a god, Paris Hilton is not a god, American Idol is not
a god etc etc.....that was just my point......did his music come easy for him----sure and he was damn good at it.....
did Joe the mechanic's job come easy for him----probably and the list is endless......

Jackson/Elvis/Brangelina etc sell their souls to the public,,,,fine,,,,,but so does everyone else,,,,,stay grounded JMHO

Quoted Text

Hype for Jackson,
but no notice of those at bottom of heap

    The media super-hype generated by the sudden death of iconic pop star Michael Jackson points out a world of differences.
    Each hour nearly 50 percent of primetime media repeated every minuscule detail of the circumstances of his death Reaction ranged from "how could this happen?" to “collective shock.”
    Yet every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes one child every five seconds. In the developing world, 947 million people are chronically undernourished.
    In the United States, 35.5 million people — including 12.6 million children — live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger. Many in these households frequently skip meals or go without food for a whole day .
    Where is our "collective shock" at these numbers? These people are invisible, without names and faces. They are statistics.
    The intensive medical response attention given to Mr. Jackson included an hour of CPR, helicopter transport, high number of emergency room doctors and professionals. Yet 47 million Americans lack health insurance, which causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year, according to the National Institute of Health. America is the only wealthy industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage. Do we ask "how could this happen?"
    This unfortunate event points out a vast world of difference between entertainers whose income and privileges place them in the 10 percent who live on top of the population pyramid and the rest of humankind, 50 percent of whom live on $2 a day. What do we truly value?

    REV. RICH BRODERICK
    Cambridge

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00703

The reverend brings to light some very critical  issues-
I did not know  Michael Jackson was acknowledged by the Guinness Book of world records  as have given more money  to charity than any other popular artist.

WAIT, STOP the presses. I need some clarification! Are people starving in America? Or are they all obese and overfed? because we have programs that throw money (and insure democrat hacks get jobs) that FIGHT HUNGER, and we have programs that FIGHT OBESITY! Which is it? Obese or starving? I recall liberals saying that the number one health problem in the USA is obesity, over and over and over so we MUST regulate things like menus and trans-fats in restaurants so that liberals will feel it is even MORE THE FAULT of the evilllllll businesses when people get fat and less the fault of the people doing the eating.

ALSO... THE WRITER HOPES IN THE FUTURE people with more money and private insurance should get LESS CARE, even though NO ONE IS TURNED AWAY at the emergency room because they choose NOT TO purchase insurance. I am waiting for someone to do a study on the lower class to find out that they spend more on booze, cigarettes, junk food snacks, drive-thru meals, sneakers, jewelry, overstuffed furniture, flat screen TVs, music purchases, partying, drugs, clothes, chotchskis and lottery tickets than they do on health care insurance per year on average. I am certain those facts would be found to be true. ON AVERAGE, not ALL OF THEM. I will except the elderly for the most part, since they tend to have slightly different values than the post-war crowd of buffoons.

What part of America is making two dollars per day? Is that the expenditure of a welfare person on cigarettes, lottery tickets or fast food? I am sure they spend on average more than that on all of the above.

The problem? In America even the poor people are rich and have too many choices on which to blow their money and they often have little or no discipline in which to face the real world. They lack preparation, education, and motivation, thinking instead that like on MTV, life is a 24/7 party. WHY? Because liberals decided long ago to destroy the value system of the lower classes by giving welfare, programs, and more welfare, and not expecting them to PREPARE FOR LIFE AND FACE THE FACT- ILL PREPARATION AS A SOCIAL CONDITION LEADS TO NEVER ENDING POVERTY AND LOW-CLASS LIVING AND THE 'LIVE FOR TODAY' MENTALITY!!!

I have to agree with you on this one GB. After I read this, I saw RED! First is this guy a 'real reverend'? Like does he pastor a church?If he does, than get some money up from his parishioners and send some money to the 'poor'. Someone should also remind this REVEREND, that for those of us who do work, pay our fair share in taxes to the system. Welfare, medicaid, food stamps, rent, education...and the list goes on. And then there are the non profits! Again funded,in part with our tax dollars!

Mr. Reverend, don't even think that I feel guilty because I work 40+ hours a week in the private sector and have health care. (that I contribute to). And while I'm working and contributing to my health care...I'm working and contributing to a health care system where people don't work at all! THEY should feel guilty, clearly not I!

For those who can READ...this is how it goes....you are born, go to school to get an education, study hard to go to college or go to a trade school (that you can get grants and get loans for if mommy and daddy can't pay), get a job, sustain yourself and your family if you have one AND live within your means!

Simple as that! K?

rasicm is alive and well over here I see

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

WAIT, STOP the presses. I need some clarification! Are people starving in America? Or are they all obese and overfed? because we have programs that throw money (and insure democrat hacks get jobs) that FIGHT HUNGER, and we have programs that FIGHT OBESITY! Which is it? Obese or starving? I recall liberals saying that the number one health problem in the USA is obesity, over and over and over so we MUST regulate things like menus and trans-fats in restaurants so that liberals will feel it is even MORE THE FAULT of the evilllllll businesses when people get fat and less the fault of the people doing the eating.

ALSO... THE WRITER HOPES IN THE FUTURE people with more money and private insurance should get LESS CARE, even though NO ONE IS TURNED AWAY at the emergency room because they choose NOT TO purchase insurance. I am waiting for someone to do a study on the lower class to find out that they spend more on booze, cigarettes, junk food snacks, drive-thru meals, sneakers, jewelry, overstuffed furniture, flat screen TVs, music purchases, partying, drugs, clothes, chotchskis and lottery tickets than they do on health care insurance per year on average. I am certain those facts would be found to be true. ON AVERAGE, not ALL OF THEM. I will except the elderly for the most part, since they tend to have slightly different values than the post-war crowd of buffoons.

What part of America is making two dollars per day? Is that the expenditure of a welfare person on cigarettes, lottery tickets or fast food? I am sure they spend on average more than that on all of the above.

The problem? In America even the poor people are rich and have too many choices on which to blow their money and they often have little or no discipline in which to face the real world. They lack preparation, education, and motivation, thinking instead that like on MTV, life is a 24/7 party. WHY? Because liberals decided long ago to destroy the value system of the lower classes by giving welfare, programs, and more welfare, and not expecting them to PREPARE FOR LIFE AND FACE THE FACT- ILL PREPARATION AS A SOCIAL CONDITION LEADS TO NEVER ENDING POVERTY AND LOW-CLASS LIVING AND THE 'LIVE FOR TODAY' MENTALITY!!!

Well said GM- every man for himself- dog eat dog and vice versa-

Comparativly Michael Jackson'S contributions to charity put most " Christians " to shame-

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

WAIT, STOP the presses. I need some clarification! Are people starving in America? Or are they all obese and overfed? because we have programs that throw money (and insure democrat hacks get jobs) that FIGHT HUNGER, and we have programs that FIGHT OBESITY! Which is it? Obese or starving? I recall liberals saying that the number one health problem in the USA is obesity, over and over and over so we MUST regulate things like menus and trans-fats in restaurants so that liberals will feel it is even MORE THE FAULT of the evilllllll businesses when people get fat and less the fault of the people doing the eating.

ALSO... THE WRITER HOPES IN THE FUTURE people with more money and private insurance should get LESS CARE, even though NO ONE IS TURNED AWAY at the emergency room because they choose NOT TO purchase insurance. I am waiting for someone to do a study on the lower class to find out that they spend more on booze, cigarettes, junk food snacks, drive-thru meals, sneakers, jewelry, overstuffed furniture, flat screen TVs, music purchases, partying, drugs, clothes, chotchskis and lottery tickets than they do on health care insurance per year on average. I am certain those facts would be found to be true. ON AVERAGE, not ALL OF THEM. I will except the elderly for the most part, since they tend to have slightly different values than the post-war crowd of buffoons.

What part of America is making two dollars per day? Is that the expenditure of a welfare person on cigarettes, lottery tickets or fast food? I am sure they spend on average more than that on all of the above.

The problem? In America even the poor people are rich and have too many choices on which to blow their money and they often have little or no discipline in which to face the real world. They lack preparation, education, and motivation, thinking instead that like on MTV, life is a 24/7 party. WHY? Because liberals decided long ago to destroy the value system of the lower classes by giving welfare, programs, and more welfare, and not expecting them to PREPARE FOR LIFE AND FACE THE FACT- ILL PREPARATION AS A SOCIAL CONDITION LEADS TO NEVER ENDING POVERTY AND LOW-CLASS LIVING AND THE 'LIVE FOR TODAY' MENTALITY!!!

Well said GM- every man for himself- dog eat dog and vice versa-

Careful pointing the finer " To whom much has been given much will be required "  Luke 12;48

Comparativly Michael Jackson'S contributions to charity put most " Christians " to shame-

Quoted from Sombody

Well said GM- every man for himself- dog eat dog and vice versa-

Careful pointing the finer " To whom much has been given much will be required "  Luke 12;48

Comparativly Michael Jackson'S contributions to charity put most " Christians " to shame-

You are kidding right?
People usually, or are suppose to give, 10% of their income to their church. (Christians as you mention) so.....
10% of $300 = $30
10% of $1000 = $100

Obviously when someone has millions of dollars, the donation is much much larger. You are implying that the person who makes $300/week/gross, should be shameful cause they didn't give millions? WTH?  So where is the shame here?  

more right winger rasicm over there thank you people for telling the world that rotterdam is rasict