There’s just one choice this week, and you know it
You knew it had to be him.
UPDATE:
The parallels with Elvis continue. Says the Washington Post:
The county coroner began an autopsy on the singer’s body, which an official there said would take several hours. A cause of death is not likely today, said Lt. Brian Elias of the LA County Coroner’s Office Investigations division, and might not be made public for a week or more, pending the results of toxicology and other tests.
Police interviewed a doctor who had been at Jackson’s posh rented Holmby Hills home when the singer went into cardiac arrest and towed the man’s car. “His car was impounded because it may contain medications or other evidence that may assist the coroner in determining the cause of death,” police spokeswoman Karen Rayner said. Detectives interviewed the physician briefly and were seeking to question him again, but police did not identify him.
A Los Angeles Fire Department source told the Los Angeles Times that Jackson was in full cardiac arrest Thursday when rescue units arrived on the scene after receiving a 911 call. The unidentified doctor was in the house performing CPR on him, said the Times’ source, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
In the meantime, lawyer Brian Oxman, who has worked with the Jackson family, told CBS’s “The Early Show” that he had been concerned about the prescription drugs that Jackson took due to injuries suffered while performing. “I do not want to point fingers at anyone because I want to hear what the toxicology report says and the coroner says but the plain fact of the matter is that Michael Jackson had prescription drugs at his disposal at all times,” Oxman said.
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RW-(the original)
June 26th, 2009
10:28 pm
I’ve got a barstool to this day that I took out of a disco in the 70’s because a bouncer told me I could take it just so they could lock the doors for the night. I only (think) I know that because that’s what I was told the next day when I wondered where the stool came from, so I fully understand, josef.
Bosch
June 26th, 2009
10:29 pm
joseph,
The Big Easy? I agree, the most exciting place on the planet. No other town like it. I remember my first walk down Bourbon Street – I thought I’d dropped off the planet – who knows, maybe I did.
josef nix
June 26th, 2009
10:29 pm
Hillbilly Deluxe–Mama used to say, “don’t ruin good co-cola with bourbon and don’t ruin good bourbon with co-cola,”
Corn liquor? Best I ever had was in Poteau, Oklahoma meetin’ the Pesky Savage in-laws who gove me the compliment that I could hold my own pretty well for a Jew Boy!
Bosch
June 26th, 2009
10:31 pm
RW,
I have a gold painted reindeer in the attic that I acquired under similar circumstances. Still don’t know where it came from, but apparently I had a good time getting it, so I’ve always kept it.
Bosch
June 26th, 2009
10:33 pm
Wait a minute. Maybe @@ is morally superior to me.
josef nix
June 26th, 2009
10:34 pm
BOSCH–dad’s family is from there. Mom’s is Upland Southerner and, well, tight a**ed. When I was ten I went down visiting and my Aunt took me down to Bourbon to see the naked lady swing out…Mom was horrified when she found out,,,my aunt told her, “Well, Jeanne-Marie, I fail to understand what you’re getting so upset about, you don’t want him to grow up to be a pervert, do you?”
RW-(the original)
June 26th, 2009
10:35 pm
Bosch,
A gold painted reindeer is worth a dozen barstools. The only place I know of you could find one of those is in a hole in the wall bar on a side street in Anchorage. It’s a great bar right behind a gift store called Once Upon A Blue Moose. Is that where you got it?
josef nix
June 26th, 2009
10:36 pm
Disco days? Was visiting with some old friends and were looking at some photos, can’t for the life of me recall the time and place, but from the looks of things, I was definitely enjoying the moment!
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 26th, 2009
10:39 pm
Josef:
Somebody offered my Grandpa egg nog at Christmas once, he said “no thands I’ll take my corn liquor straight”.
Bosch
June 26th, 2009
10:41 pm
RW,
Could be. I got around in my younger days. But I hope that I didn’t block out a whole trip to Anchorage. Mind you it’s not real gold paint, it’s like gold spray paint, but the paint has held up well over the years.
joseph nix,
I’ve reminded my oldest who is starting his second year in college that when you post photos to Facebook, they never really go away, and everyone can see them.
Bosch
June 26th, 2009
10:42 pm
The only time I’ve had straight corn whiskey (moonshine) was at a Willie Nelson concert. Damn good concert, I think.
RW-(the original)
June 26th, 2009
10:44 pm
and the thread gets back on topic with a very nasty turn of events.
Jay B’s blog meets the Star Bar.
josef nix
June 26th, 2009
10:46 pm
BOSCH–oooh don’t mention photos…discretion being the greater part of valor I won’t call the name but it’s one you’d recognize of a politician (yes, GOP), but there’s a set floating around out there taken way, way back long before I settled down and became respectable and he a champion of “traditional family values” that we’d both like to get our hands on for different reasons!
josef nix
June 26th, 2009
10:48 pm
RW–still dig out my Donna Summer and you’re right, how apropos to the topic…
Bosch
June 26th, 2009
10:51 pm
joseph nix,
A politician spouting family values in an indecent photograph. Say it ain’t so! That Willie Nelson concert – I went with my dad, years ago. This drunk woman threw her underwear on stage, and my dad leaned over and said, “Well I’ll be damned, that’s my ex-sister-in law!”
RW-(the original)
June 26th, 2009
10:55 pm
josef,
My wife says Turbo Dog is her favorite from Abita, but it’s dark so I’m thinking fall or winter. Apparently they also do a strawberry in the summer, which sounds disgusting to me, but she says is great and she’s never steered me wrong yet when I get up the nerve to take her advice.
Bosch
June 26th, 2009
10:56 pm
Okay, checking out again. My dad got some sweet painkillers after his surgery and things are starting to look fuzzy! Just kidding. Big weekend. Gotta get some sleep (or maybe some wang dang doodling!). Later all
Bosch
June 26th, 2009
10:57 pm
RW,
Saw your post. Strawberry beer is so wrong, but then again, your wife and I have the same kind of blood that stops mechanical instruments, right? So, maybe I’d like it.
Pleasant evening.
josef nix
June 26th, 2009
11:00 pm
RW–will try it out…several years back I had a muscadine in Louisiana and can’t recall anything about it now other than it really was quite tasty and not nearly as sweet as I would have expected…kind that would really go well with pork…
RW-(the original)
June 26th, 2009
11:03 pm
Bosch,
You and she stop watches from watching the time, compasses from compassing, and radio waves from waving. I’m guessing you would also like the strawberry beer if only for that reason, but for what it’s worth she thought it would suck until she tasted it.
RW-(the original)
June 26th, 2009
11:08 pm
josef,
Chateau Elan has a muscadine wine that’s interesting and not bad, but pork should be handy when drinking it.
Check out time!
Later y’all
josef nix
June 26th, 2009
11:11 pm
RW–Chateau Elan? Will check it out. Been impressed with their offerings so far…
Gotta run myself…busy day tomorrow and have to be decent since it’s my professional face I have to put on…asi es la vida!
TnGelding
June 26th, 2009
11:13 pm
You folks make me sorry I’m a teetotaler.
Seriously, I hope your heavy drinking days are over. You exhibit too much zest for life to end it prematurely.
‘W’ solved homelessness?
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2009/06/26/squatters_foreclosures.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
Michael H. Smith
June 26th, 2009
11:20 pm
One more parallel from so says the Washington Post
Obama Drafting Order on Detention
Officials Say It Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/26/AR2009062603361.html
Oh no, Barack O’samer is at it again, walking in those Bush footsteps!
Tom
June 27th, 2009
2:01 am
All Michael, all day. What a great and deep revelation of the depth and intellectual mind!
Normal
June 27th, 2009
7:19 am
Hello, Hello, anybody home?
josef nix
June 27th, 2009
7:29 am
NORMAL–I’m here and Paul’s downstairs…see what you missed last p.m.?
Seek and ye shall Find
June 27th, 2009
7:32 am
Gov. Mark Sanford’s admission to an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina has sparked a debate within the backchannels of the GOP over how strongly the party should emphasize morality and religion going forward.
For decades, the GOP has used issues like respect for the sanctity of marriage and the notion of family values as a key component of its political platform and a point of divergence between Republicans and Democrats. A series of sex scandals involving high-ranking officials, however, has drastically altered that equation. And now some strategists are questioning whether the party should rethink the way it emphasizes these matters.
In short, they’ve lied for years and now the lies are catching up to them. Bunch of hypocrites.
Normal
June 27th, 2009
7:33 am
Yes I Do, but I had to go to work. I’m there now actually…slaving over a hot iron…soldering iron, that is…
Wide stance Andy
June 27th, 2009
7:36 am
Well, one good thing that Andy has done is really build a sense of family in here… group hug everybody… Andy you too…
Paul
June 27th, 2009
7:37 am
Kamchak 8:24
[[Forget the issue about Conyers. Paul’s position is that “life partner” is a more responsible position than parent.]]
see my last post downstairs. You know better, really, you do. I did not take a position on judging Conyers. I asked why some go after one politician, not another. When people came up with justifications, I asked “what about this?”
Did you ever attend school? Did the instructor asking questions mean he or she believed a particular position? Did you ever hear a business presentation that listed options and discussed significant advantages and disadvantages of various options?
It’s a typical tactic: falsely ascribe a position with which you disagree to the person who asks you to clarify your position. It’s effective with some, transparent for others.
Paul
June 27th, 2009
7:38 am
Hi Normal
It’s Saturday. Just finished the paper and some news items, tired of hearing All Jackson All the Time. Gets light enough, it’s outside before the temp climbs to 100.
Normal
June 27th, 2009
7:38 am
Who, the h-e-double toothpicks, is andy???
Normal
June 27th, 2009
7:40 am
Hey Paul, I’m working indoors today…but I’m gettin’ time and a half…
Seek and ye shall Find
June 27th, 2009
7:42 am
That said, conservatives have hit a rough patch in the last few years on the family values front, with Sen. John Ensign, Sen. David Vitter, and former Sen. Larry Craig all setting the stage for Sanford’s own marital misconduct controversy. And there is a growing belief among strategists that Republicans might — at least for the time being — be better served to stress the economic components of their platform rather the social or moral aspects. – HuffPo
“Rough patch”, eh! Where have I heard that one before. And, now the Republicans want to do what! Emphasize the economic components of their platform! And, what would that look like. I know. “How to sink the economy in one easy step — Elect a Republican.” Is that what we need to be reminded of — the Bush years. Go for it.
Wide stance Andy
June 27th, 2009
7:46 am
Andy is the resident “conservative” troll/bomb thrower… @@ has been rushing to his defense over the last couple days cause some of us mean ol Lib trolls have been picking on little Andy… up to speed now? It’s a troll war… ew that could be a new cartoon… Troll wars… but the trolls could mechanized… and we could have good trolls (liberals) who are kind and gracious and care for thier fellow trolls regardless of color or economic circumstance… and bad trolls (”conservatives”) who are only one color and are only nice to other Trolls of the same color and want to destroy the environment and they want to start wars with other Trolls who don’t worship the same Troll gods they do… and all they care about is Troll money… yeah…. Troll Wars….
Paul
June 27th, 2009
7:47 am
Normal
The other day I was checking out at a grocery store and the young lady greeted me with ‘how are you?’ I said ‘fine, and you?’ She said ‘great, I’m out of here in a couple minutes.’ I said ‘but then you won’t be making any money.’
You know those looks you get that are a priceless ‘huh?’
Seek 7:32
Please don’t be too hard on people who take a position and then change it when circumstances change (well, okay… play it for a while….) (typing with a whisper: we’ve a president who likes to do that…. the loyal opposition may toss that line, unfair or not, back at you…).
Wide stance Andy
June 27th, 2009
7:49 am
I sure hope Obama has found that veto pen that was lost in 2000… I don’t like the way this global warming bill has gone down. It’s just like the “conservatives” did things. 300 page bills dumped on the chamber in the middle of the night with a forced vote before anybody can even read it…
Normal
June 27th, 2009
7:49 am
What? Andy is WHINER/BRUTUS?
Wide stance Andy
June 27th, 2009
7:51 am
Well yeah he is, but I didn’t want to call him any names… @@’s very sensitive about that right now…
Normal
June 27th, 2009
7:52 am
I always heard “Fine” was F**k*d up, insecure, emotional, and neurotic…I just say I’m Normal…hehe
Wide stance Andy
June 27th, 2009
7:53 am
Paul, taking a line then being convinced that maybe it was not a correct line and changing your position is a hallmark of intelligence. Taking a line and sticking to it just to not be “wrong”, well we all see where that gets the country…
Normal
June 27th, 2009
7:54 am
Well, good…from now on I’ll say Brutus, sir…I’m not using “Whiner” anymore for the reasons I posted downstairs…
Normal
June 27th, 2009
7:55 am
Make that neurotic and emotional…I haven’t had all my coffee yet…
josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:01 am
PAUL–left you a comment downstairs on the Palin bash…
Seek and ye shall Find
June 27th, 2009
8:01 am
OK, Paul. I’ll try not to be too hard on those politicians that spout rhetoric about their moral superiority and belief in (yet to be properly defined) family values, and such. Now, precisely, what are you inferring that our president has done in that regard.
josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:03 am
NORMAL–kinda nice to have a day where I can play here and do what I have to do at the same time!
josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:05 am
Seek and ye shall Find
in reference to your 8:01–Prop 8, preacher Warren, DADT, DOMA brief, that memo…but he’s a “fierce advocate” Jus’ sayin’
Wide stance Andy
June 27th, 2009
8:10 am
Well because Conyers isn’t affiliated with the political party that uses “family values” as a plank in it’s platform. Did I say plank? The “conservative” party uses “family values” more like a bludgeon. They get what they deserve in response to that.
If marriage is sacred and “family values” are to be the standard, then they as a party, and more importantly, as individuals HAVE to live up to thier own standards and values.
Democrats have plenty of thier own trash to take out, hopefully they’re learning, we got rid of McKinney, folks of color have finally seen enough of her act… we’ve got a few more that need to go as well…
Republicans just can’t come to grips with that whole “we were wrong” idea, if you’re never wrong then there’s nothing to fix…
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josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:11 am
NORMAL “…I said you wanna be startin’ something, you got to be startin’ somethin…you stuck in the middle…”
Jus’ sayin’
Paul
June 27th, 2009
8:13 am
Wide Stance Andy 7:53
Well, I’d offer it takes some people a bit longer than others to see what’s there. Kinda happens when you’re insulated and have the same people telling you the same stuff day after day. Let’s hope this administration breaks the cycle.
your other post – well, Pres Obama’s already uncapped his veto pen for the Defense Bill if it goes through with the corporate sellouts for the F22 fighter and the F35 extra engine. Progress!!!
Seek 8:01
I don’t think I inferred anything in that regard. I did refer to Pres Obama changing his mind on some things.
Which I don’t think is a bad thing (changing one’s mind). Nor do I necessarily disagree with his new positions. I noted the other day to RW-(the original) that our Pres is causing no bit of consternation among the farleft and if he keeps it up, he just may win over a bunch of conservatives!
Normal
June 27th, 2009
8:13 am
josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:05 am
Seek and ye shall Find
————
I used to do a lot of that when I was a kid…mostly in the dark…
Wide Mouth for Andy
June 27th, 2009
8:22 am
I’m thinking about taking my Michael Jackson poster down but that would leave a big hole on the wall next to John Wayne Gacy.
What do you think, everyone, should I fill it back in with Perez Hilton?
He’s just so……..ew.
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Seek and ye shall Find
June 27th, 2009
8:22 am
josef,
To start with, he’s got a full term to make progress on campaign promises and, in my humble opinion, such things as the economy, the environment, the wars, healthcare, etc., just take precedence over other issues. Further, he definitely has an uphill battle with regard to gay rights and perhaps now is not the time for him to be pressing that singular topic too fiercely. Regardless, I still do not equate politics and one’s potentially changing stance on issues over time with the use of morality as a faux political tool. I seem to recall the Republican Party drawing the line in the sand with their attacks on Clinton (and Clinton was wrong to cheat on his wife and he was wrong to lie under oath) and many Republicans taking the moral high ground. Well, there is a price to be paid for doing so.
Seek and ye shall Find
June 27th, 2009
8:28 am
Paul, when you take one issue or statement or whatever and highlight it and then insert another name into the sentence or sentences without making any distinction regarding the insertion of that other name, then you are making an inference by association. Just sayin.
Wide stance Andy
June 27th, 2009
8:30 am
Hehe… Andy says he wants to fill in Perez Hilton… hehe… you can’t make this stuff up…
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I Report (-: You Whine )-:
June 27th, 2009
8:31 am
Aahhh, yes, the Urinal runs propoganda stories for it’s favorite pedophile-
Heart attack might have killed Jackson-Urinal front page
Meanwhile, back on Earth-
He had bruises on his chest consistent with someone trying to revive him, but there were no obvious signs of a heart attack, which leads investigators to believe some sort of drug or drug combination caused either the heart to stop beating or the lungs to stop breathing.
This is on top of yesterday’s lying article that he had some sexual problems in which the Urinal failed to mention it involved underage boys.
Is this your idea of a hero, AJC?
Wide Mouth for Andy
June 27th, 2009
8:33 am
What’s wrong with having sex with little boys, huh Andy?
Your nothing but a troll, ew.
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Wide stance Andy
June 27th, 2009
8:34 am
Hmmmm…. Drudgereport ran the same stories, is Drudge a liberul hack too…
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josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:34 am
Seek and ye shall Find
It’s easy enough to say when you’ve not been waiting as long as me and my Unmentionable have and if you don’t plan to do anything, then say so and be done with it. I didn’t expect the bus to stop here but the rocks being chunked at me from those on board aren’t very pleasant either.
And as far as uphill battle is concerned, DADT repeal has the support of the MAJORITY of the population of all stripes, a point Rachel Maddow seems to be the only one making. Prop 8 and preacher Warren had nothing to do with this “uphill battle.”
“Perhaps now is not the time for him to be pressing that singular topic too fiercely…” Well, then, don’t go calling yourself a fierce advocate. And if not now, when? What to you and others may be a “singular topic” shades and colors every fiber of my being and excuse me if I don’t feel it’s in my best interest to shut up and go away…
catlady
June 27th, 2009
8:35 am
I hope he is experiencing the peace he could not seem to find in this world.
Wide stance Andy
June 27th, 2009
8:36 am
I’m pretty sure Andy wouldn’t want the “Urinal” to be running stories about his activities with underage boys… I’m just sayin’…
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Paul
June 27th, 2009
8:38 am
Seek 8:28
?
I was talking about Pres Obama reversing himself on a number of (national security) issues. That was all – nothing about the morality schtick at all – unless you’re referring to a post other than my 7:47.
catlady
June 27th, 2009
8:39 am
“For decades, the GOP has used issues like respect for the sanctity of marriage and the notion of family values as a key component of its political platform and a point of divergence between Republicans and Democrats. A series of sex scandals involving high-ranking officials, however, has drastically altered that equation. And now some strategists are questioning whether the party should rethink the way it emphasizes these matters.”
What’s that little thing about being known by your acts? Well, we have seen enough.
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
June 27th, 2009
8:39 am
House OKs global warming bill-Urinal
Now the dimocrats have their screaming headline, all of their mouthbreathing moonbats think the planet is “saved,” Mission Accomplished!
Now it can quietly crash and burn in the Senate, hahahahahahaha.
pukes
Normal
June 27th, 2009
8:40 am
Checkin’ out for a while…my test equipment isn’t testing. The ol’ techasaurus has to troubleshoot…bye for now…
Normal
June 27th, 2009
8:41 am
Before I go…Top of the morning to you BRUTUS, sir…
josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:42 am
catlady @ 8:35–ditto
Paul
June 27th, 2009
8:43 am
Well, Spkr Pelosi can enjoy her ‘victory’. But it was only a battle. I’m betting her side loses in the Senate. And there goes the war.
If they’d just go for the pollution elimination – maybe a gov’t controlled single payer system – and not create a market (cap n trade) and turn it over to the same Wall Street goombahs who helped give us this financial meltdown (I still can’t figure out why Democrats turned to the Street on such an issue, unless it’s the money…. nawwwww…) well, maybe they’d win the war.
But not now.
Seek and ye shall Find
June 27th, 2009
8:44 am
josef,
I hear you and I’m not against your fight for equality. But, I suppose we do have different priorities. Keep up the fight.
josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:45 am
catlady–”What’s that little thing about being known by your acts? Well, we have seen enough”.
As a wise woman once said to me, “there’s only a limited number of things any two or more people of any combination of sexes can do with other before it gets repetitous.”
josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:47 am
NORMAL–shoot some trouble for me, got the grill heatin up today!
Vinny
June 27th, 2009
8:49 am
Jay,
Why didn’t you choose a topic that really matters? – Something that will negatively affect the livlihood of every man, woman, and child for generations to come if it passes the Senate?
You could have discussed the Cap and Tax bill that just passed in the House.
You could have at least honored Farrah Fawcett instead. At least she was never accused of molesting little boys.
Bud Wiser
June 27th, 2009
8:51 am
Iran’s hardline president lashed out anew at the United States and President Barack Obama on Saturday, accusing him of interference and suggesting that Washington’s stance on Iran’s post election turmoil could imperil Obama’s aim of improving relations.
“We are surprised at Mr. Obama,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in remarks to judiciary officials broadcast on state television. “Didn’t he say that he was after change? Why did he interfere?”
“They keep saying that they want to hold talks with Iran … but is this the correct way? Definitely, they have made a mistake,” Ahmadinejad said.
Duh.
Mr Dope with Chains is even ridiculed by those he panders to…..he must have not bowed deeply enough.
Even the mad dog of the desert knows that Obowo is about anything but what he says (”change?”). When mongrels like mad dog see it and call it out, and Obowo’s legions of troglodytes cannot, I guess it shows just how stupid the cracker chasers really are.
If you trolls were not so unbelievably stupid before now, well, there is no ‘hope (and change)’ for you after all. Jeez, dumber than a camel jockey.
Seek and ye shall Find
June 27th, 2009
8:51 am
I see Georgia lost two more banks on Friday. The list just keeps growing.
ken
June 27th, 2009
8:52 am
Cap and Trade; Just one step to TOTAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL. Even Jimmy is looking pretty good at this point.
josef nix
June 27th, 2009
8:54 am
Seek and ye shall Find
Yes, you hear well and that, I suppose, is progress. But where do you get the idea that we have different “priorities?” I am a citizen, too, albeit a second class one, and I am affected by all these major problems every bit as much as, and in some cases more than, the rest of my society. I am making the point that it’s not what he’s NOT doing, it’s what he IS doing that’s got my dander ruffled.
Paul
June 27th, 2009
8:59 am
ken
If the gov’t wanted total control, they wouldn’t have gone with cap n trade. That tosses control to the energy industry, wall street traders, fund managers and manufacturers.
What the gov’t wanted was a new source of $$$$. As usual.
@@
June 27th, 2009
9:01 am
Maybe @@ is morally superior to me.
Good grief, Bosch!! Would it be possible for you have a pity party without me. I read your long 10:40 something about how I set out to make you feel like “some moral defect”.
I’m as flawed as the next person. The one flaw I HAVE overcome (used to be like you) is that I no longer seek to justify by over analyzing why wrongs are committed. If I were to look deep enough into everyone’s psyche, I could come up with an excuse for all behaviors that have a negative impact on others.
I don’t know how you guys have ongoing back and forths here. The only reason I didn’t respond in a timely manner is because I wasn’t sitting here just waiting for you to post so that I could quickly respond. Regardless of what you think, my intention is not to make you look bad by posting in your absence. Are you paranoid or what????
Granted, you have said that MJ’s pedophilia cannot be excused but then you spend an “exhaustive” amount of time doing just that.
By Bosch 5:49 — But I seriously do not think that he knew that sleeping with 13 year olds was wrong because I do not feel he was sexually mature enough or emotionally mature enough to know the difference.
He knew enough about human sexuality to make millions of dollars putting it on display. The guy was hands-on when it came to organizing his tours, special effects, wardrobe, cosmetic surgeries. He was no dummy, Bosch. If he could orchestrate such spectacular shows, he was certainly capable of knowing what was a good decision and what was a bad decision. The bad decisions came AFTER the child-abuse scandals surfaced. Before those, he was doing alright for himself and his leeches. Maybe all his enablers gave him a sense of power that he chose to abuse. With his millions, he could have paid the world’s most renowned psychiatrist. I mean we all knew he was weird…we would have expected him to get help but he didn’t….why? Public image?
Have you ever wondered why none of his “alleged” victims were girls? I mean….he certainly had the ability to make choices when it came to sexual preference unless of course he was gay. If he was gay why not just choose men? Could it be that he didn’t wanna risk damaging his star status? But children? that’s a plus as long as no one digs too deep.
I hope never to hear that he molested his “OWN” children.
ken
June 27th, 2009
9:10 am
The more govt taxes you, the more control they have over you. We loose power when we loose money.
Seek and ye shall Find
June 27th, 2009
9:28 am
Well, government does need large sources of revenues in order to keep up the good fights. So, cap and trade is better than some alternatives.
TnGelding
June 27th, 2009
9:32 am
ken
June 27th, 2009
9:10 am
Then we should have plenty of power:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/63412.html
DB, Gwinnettian
June 27th, 2009
9:42 am
I see Georgia lost two more banks on Friday.
Not “lost.” EATED.
Get hep to the gone-cat lingo, Daddy-o.
DB, Gwinnettian
June 27th, 2009
9:45 am
Saw some talk upthread of feminine ideals, as represented in posters, from back in our yout.
Not to go all one-uppy on you commoners, but I’m happy to say that my pin-up gals were Tina Weymouth, Debby Harry and Patti Smith. (Torn from the pages of Creem and Rolling Stone.)
Take that, mass-marketeering capitalist pig-dogs!
DB, Gwinnettian
June 27th, 2009
10:03 am
We loose power when we loose money.
We even “loooose” our ability to spell, such is the wickedness of Soshamalizm!
ken
June 27th, 2009
10:38 am
Cap and Trade: biggest shell game EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!