You sound like a guy I saw in a bar once who was having way more fun than the rest of us.


hey who's the old furt you're using for an avatar?

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"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
--Jonathan Swift

Thats me. Just an old diver someone dragged up

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Westboro's Next Target? MJ’s Funeral

By Michelle Garcia Michelle Garcia – Fri Jul 3, 9:24 am ET

The Westboro Baptist Church clearly knows no boundaries.

Members of Fred Phelps's fundamentalist church are planning to picket the funeral of late pop icon Michael Jackson, according to the group's website. The funeral is scheduled for Tuesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The controversial group is well known for picketing funerals of those who have died of HIV starting in the early 1990s, eventually moving on to services for public figures, and military personnel.

Staples Center was the space that Jackson was using to rehearse for his upcoming 50-show concert, which was to start on July 13 in London, according to MTV.

I want to see them get their asses kicked by 10,000 13-year old girls.

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Let me go on record now as saying that Tuesday will be pandemonium in LA, and it will be 40-50 year old men and women kicking their asses.

I don't blame LA. No city should have to endure the pain and celebration of losing the most prolific man of an entire global generation all on it's own. The federal government should be prepared to help usher this embrace of Michael.

I don't care because I'm moving on with the process. Michael's rendition of Charlie Chaplin's classic helped me:

YouTube - Michael Jackson - Smile

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-- Me, to President Obama and the rest of his self-loving amateur staff.

Russians create shrine to Michael Jackson.. 4 hours 14 minutes ago.

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- They headed to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow after news broke that Michael Jackson had died. And they're still coming.

Young Russian fans, some of whom don't even speak English, bring homemade signs, pictures and drawings of Jackson, Russian religious icons, candles, teddy bears -- all signs of how much they loved the singer.

"At first I couldn't believe it had happened," 23-year-old Zhenya Iordanskaya said. "I thought it was another rumor. My friend told me about it, and then I saw it on TV, on every channel. I was really in shock. And I still can't believe it."

Iordanskaya was standing in the rain Sunday with her friend Alexandra Belayeva, 20, looking at the shrine Jackson's fans have erected along the fence in front of the Embassy.

Iordanskaya says she was 8 when she first heard "Black or White."

"I didn't understand English, but the faces of all the different people really inspired me. And the fact that he dealt with all these issues, you really have to give him credit for that," Iordanskaya said.

Belayeva says she became a fan about three years ago.
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Russians create shrine to Michael Jackson - CNN.com

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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson.. (1709 - 1784) Faith is what mine is built upon..

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

It is still going, its a happening on TV....RIP Michael...

Jackson service a national viewing experience

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle, Ap Entertainment Writer – 36 mins ago
NEW YORK – A giant audience formed for Michael Jackson's memorial service, as millions gathered in public, in front of televisions and at computer screens to experience the mourning of the celebrated pop star.

Chants of "Michael! Michael!" rang out in Harlem, where about 1,000 gathered to watch the memorial service on a giant screen live from Los Angeles' Staples Center.

A steady stream of fans — wearing Jackson T-shirts and listening to hits like "Billie Jean" — visited the singer's boyhood home in Gary, Ind.

"I felt like I needed to pay homage to 'the greatest,'" said 49-year-old, retired chemical operator Jackie Ford, who used to do Jackson's moonwalk and drove to Gary from Aberdeen, Miss.

The media-saturated event was expected to rival the online audience of even President Barack Obama's January inauguration — which similarly was a daytime event witnessed by many on their computers at work.

Aside from the wall-to-wall coverage by the TV networks and cable news channels, the memorial service was streamed online by many news outlets and Web sites, including Hulu.com, MySpace.com and The New York Times' Web site. The Associated Press' online video network also offered a live broadcast.

Several outlets rolled out interactive features previously used for Obama's inauguration. CNN.com integrated its live video with chatter from Facebook.

"This has a shot to be one of the biggest lives events we've hoisted up," said Kenneth "KC" Estenson, senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com. "It's tracking to be pretty big."

Estenson noted, though, that live video on the Web is still in the nascent stage. A huge swell of traffic — and the heavy bandwidth of video — can cause troubles across the Web.

"Live video on the Web is still a dicey proposition any way you cut it," said Estenson. "We've built out the infrastructure to be able to handle a very large event."

Alan Wurtzel, chief of research at NBC Universal, called it "the first multi-platform significant culture event."

"This is definitely going to be the first worldwide event where there is going to be a significant amount of multi-platform viewing," said Wurtzel. "But I don't have a clue how many people are going to watch it."

Not all the coverage was virtual.

Cinedigm Digital Cinema Network carried the memorial service on its live digital network in more than 80 movie theaters nationwide.

Crowds watched the broadcast in New York's Times Square and in Harlem near the Apollo Theater, where the Jackson 5 won "Amateur Night" in 1967. Jackson impersonator Moses Harper, teary-eyed at the sight of the singer's casket, danced Jackson's version of "Ease on Down the Road," from the musical "The Wiz."

"I'm just grateful that I got to live in his time," said Harper.

In Detroit, where his career was launched with Motown Records, hundreds of people filled into the auditorium at Detroit's Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, where the memorial service was to be shown on a giant screen.

"I think he was somebody who really did change the style of music," said Jonathan Contreras, a 23-year-old college student from Westland, Mich. "They call him the King of Pop. I call him the King of Music."

Outside the White House in Washington, Rocky Twyman, a community activist, asked tourists to sign a "book of condolences" for Jackson's family.

"We consider him a national hero," said Twyman. "We want people to remember the good things he did."

A total of 8,750 people out of 1.6 million registrants were chosen to receive two tickets each to the memorial service in downtown Los Angeles. Participants included Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Usher, Lionel Richie, Kobe Bryant, Jennifer Hudson and many more.

The 50-year-old singer's June 25 death brought an outpouring of grief and remembrance from fans across the globe.

The reaction was especially considerable online, where many people first read the news. The avalanche of traffic temporarily brought Twitter, Wikipedia and AOL's instant messaging service to a crawl.

Jackson generated the most tweets per second since Obama was elected president in November. Akamai's Net Usage Index, which monitors global news consumption online, found that Web traffic to news sites increased by about 50 percent.

Traffic flowed to YouTube, where many celebrated Jackson by watching his iconic music videos. Last week, Internet video research firm Visible Measures said Jackson's 14-minute, 1983 video "Thriller" had been watched more than 8.5 million times online since his death.

At the same time, others have grown tired of the continual coverage of Jackson's death, believing it has overshadowed more important news and that Jackson — who was tried and acquitted of sexually abusing a child in 2005 — doesn't deserve such attention.

A Pew Research Center poll published last week found that 64 percent of those surveyed said Jackson's death has received too much coverage. New York Rep. Peter King also released a YouTube video calling Jackson, who was acquitted of child molestation charges, a "pervert" and a "lowlife."

While many celebrated Jackson's life Tuesday, others shrugged off the spectacle. In Baltimore, a simulcast of Jackson's funeral at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, drew only about 10 people. Much of the normal crowd went about their business checking out books without seeming to notice the screen showing the memorial service.

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Associated Press writers Ben Greene in Baltimore, Jim Irwin in Detroit, Jennifer Peltz in New York, Caryn Rousseau in Gary, Ind., and Nafeesa Syeed in Washington and Television Writer David Bauder in New York contributed to this report.
Jackson service a national viewing experience - Yahoo! News

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson.. (1709 - 1784) Faith is what mine is built upon..

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

My daughter was at home today and DVR'd it. She told me she broke down at the end.

I can't watch it all tonight yet, though she told me the family spoke at the end and especially his daughter. I guess I'm gonna have to 'read the reviews' for another day.

I saw the text of what Paris said and a picture on CNN.com. They say it was moving. I am just worried now more than ever for his children.

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-- Me, to President Obama and the rest of his self-loving amateur staff.

Like his act, it is in the ending, the closing prayer. I recall one or two others Michael1 earlier in this show of shows send off.

If comparing to trends at the time only President G. Washington got a better send off.

Funny the way history has changed, in the last say 215 years. Like so much else it is based upon trends in society. A society shaped and shown the way is as close to being completely controled and dependent. Values change as thrends developed. Awww just thinking out loud... Enjoy it when you do decide Michael1......

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson.. (1709 - 1784) Faith is what mine is built upon..

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Didn't see it. Don't care to.
I heard a sappy old Stevie Wonder I think drifting from someone else's TV news.
I like Michael Jackson's music.
I think such an outpouring and goings on shows he did have a lot of fans. World wide.
I think an hour of him performing his music might have been more appropriate. Then maybe I would have watched.

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"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
--Jonathan Swift

Don't lie.

It's obvious when you are doing so.

An hour of him performing his music would have garnered even less of your attention. You were simply annoyed that there wasn't more pointless/endless 'current affair' news bull****ting up the airwaves.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled pointlessness.

Sorry ... just had to get that out of my system.

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Dudes ... you're just NOT THAT MUCH ****ING SMARTER than all of us. GET OVER YOURSELVES!
-- Me, to President Obama and the rest of his self-loving amateur staff.