TIM RICHARDSON -> ED HULETT wrote:
 TR> On 07-13-09, ED HULETT said to MIMI GALLANDT:

 EH>> Mimi Gallandt -> All wrote:


 MG>> Why is it that when ONE man dies, the whole of America loses their
 TR> minds
 MG>> I think that if they are going to hold a moment of silence IN CONGRESS
 MG>> for Michael Jackson, they need to hold a moment of silence for every
 MG>> service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan . They need to PUBLICLY
 MG>> recognize every life that has been lost so that the American people can
 MG>> live their callous little lives in the luxury and freedom that WE,
 TR> those
 MG>> that are living and those that have gone on, have provided for them.
 MG>> But, wait, that would take too much time, because there have been so
 MG>> many willing to make that sacrifice. After all, we will never make
 MG>> millions of dollars. We will never star in movies, or write hit songs
 MG>> that the world will listen too. We only shed our blood, sweat and tears
 MG>> so that people can enjoy what they have.


 MG>> Remember these five words the next time you think of someone who is
 MG>> serving in the military;


 MG>> "So that others may live..."


 EH>> Thanks for posting this. I can't help thinking of the so-called anti-war
 EH>> protesters keeping a count of how many soldiers died in Iraq and
 TR> noticing
 EH>> how they have gone silent since their messiah entered the WH. It wasn't
 EH>> about the war, it was about politics.


 EH>> As we have seen with Jackson's death, more people seem to care about the
 EH>> life of a bizarre entertainer than those who fight for our freedom.



 TR> n++

 TR> Monday, July 13, 2009


 TR> Trying to Make Sense of Nonsense by Burt Prelutsky


 TR> In case you were off on a different planet and hadn't heard the news,
 TR> Michael Jackson died. It was a tragedy. Not that this piece of human
 TR> rubbish had died, but that the media, including Fox News, carried on as
 TR> if it was a major loss to mankind.


 TR> This was, one, a man who had tried to turn himself, through weird
 TR> chemicals and plastic surgery, into a white version of a black man and a
 TR> male version of Diana Ross. Then, for good measure, he was a pedophile
 TR> and a loon. But I guess if a person can moon walk, nothing else really
 TR> matters. Frankly, though, his talent in dancing backwards didn't seem
 TR> like such a big deal. Unlike Ginger Rogers, who, as they used to say, could
 TR> do everything Fred Astaire did, but do it backwards and in high heels,
 TR> Jackson only managed to do it wearing a lady's glove.


 TR> His death did strike home for me, though, the weekend after he died. I
 TR> discovered that the $100,000-a-month mansion in which he died was just
 TR> behind the home where I regularly play tennis. You would not believe the
 TR> crowds that swarmed around the place, as if it was a sacred shrine. The
 TR> scene would have warmed the hearts of pedophiles everywhere.


 TR> Jackson was sold to the world as Peter Pan, the little tyke who just
 TR> never
 TR> grew up. But, if Peter Pan had even faintly resembled this androgynous
 TR> freak, Mr. and Mrs. Darling would have been brought up on charges for
 TR> allowing their kids to accompany him to Never Never Land.


 TR> In a way, the entire sideshow was reminiscent of the grief displayed
 TR> when Princess Di passed away in the distinguished company of an Arab
 TR> playboy.


 TR> But this was even worse because Lady Di was not a villainess, and these
 TR> heartbroken shmoes were mainly Americans, not Brits, and could therefore
 TR> vote in our elections.

I thought it was bizarre the way people reacted to "Lady Di's"
death. It is even more bizarre the way they reacted to Jackson's death.

Ed

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