Andalublue ~  Amen and thank you!!

Because it bears repeating:

How quick I've noticed everyone has become on how to judge Michael Jackson.. you get stories made up to sell tabloids and hear a little bit here and there and suddenly we are inside the guys head and heart and soul and know him better than anyone.. Have you thought about this.. You got a kid whos family is brain washing him to tell a little fib so they all can get alot of money.. and the only way to get it all over with quickly is to throw a few dollars at them.. OK alot of dollars.. laywers want their small part, and do some damage control and get on with trying to get the people to love you again.. NO ONE knows what someone's life is like until they walk in their shoes.. I say get your own life in order before you start judging someone elses.

And when did we start a 'rating system' for mourning? again the only reason you hear about Michael Js death is because it sell.. you watch CBS.. they charge more for air time.. it sells.. 

Let's keep our eyes on the problems and people we can help and do something about.. again the devil as got us running in circles and not helping one another.

Peace,

Donne

Whether or not Michael Jackson is a "legend" is purely a matter of personal opinion.  Elton John was as flamboyant but a much more innately talented artist, a legend if you will, but that, of course, is purely a matter of personal opinion.    Pink Floyd forged new breakthroughs, and not by jumping up and down with "don't stop till you get enough" 

Personally, I was more interested in the 5 min blurb I heard about Nelson Mendela on CNN, or the 20 min segment about Walter Cronkite's life and work, also on CNN. 

No repeated, hour-long, program after program of those 2 men, though.  No comments from people like Madonna ("I can't stop crying") or Elizabeth Taylor ("I can't speak") or Diana Ross ("I am devastated") over those stories, either.    As if what Madonna has to say, or Liz Taylor for that matter, is weighty enough to be announced on the official news programs, over and over again.

There would have been much less judgment about "The King of Pop" if the stories had been confined to where they belong -- on shows like "Showbiz Tonight" or "Inside Edition" -- so that people who care what Madonna thinks could find & watch it, and those who wanted to hear about what was happening at the very same time in Iran, as just one example, would have been able to hear that (instead of what Madonna feels about everything)

Yes, blame Pepsi...  Of course, never mind the thousands of people SERIOUSLY burned... burned to the point that they don't GET pain killers because the drugs would just ooze out of their bodies because the skin is gone.

Yeah, he was so special that ONE incident with pain killers caused the entire downfall of his life.

Sorry, not buying it.  I, personally, know 4 people who were burned over 70 percent of their bodies... they weren't wheeled into an ambulance with their little one glitter glove and tux.  Not one of them is a drug addict, every one of them is grateful for their lives.

He chose not to seek rehab.  He chose to live his life as he did.  His doctors chose money over ethics.  It's not the commercial's fault, nor is it the fault of Pepsi.... He knew there were pyrotechnics and he knew just how flammable jerry-curl is.  It was an accident.

I just hope and pray that someone sane gets those kids.  They don't need to be with his parents, they showed they are incapable of raising kids without abusing them.

Joe is ALREADY musing on their "careers"...

Though his own son has yet to be buried, the always forward looking Joe Jackson said of the children and their possible show business careers – “I don't know. I keep watching Paris. She wants to do something. And as far as I can see, well, they say Blanket, he can really dance.” 

Their father isn't even in the ground and this old b*stard is ALREADY planning on how to use/abuse these kids to make himself rich.