How soon before the "limited edition" DVD set hits the stores?

My word, what a debacle.

I've got digital cable here, and counted no less than fifteen channels with wall to wall coverage today.
That's NOT including even Fox news, and MSNBC.
And then there's the HD channels too...

Could not care less...

Oh, almost forgot. A quote from some pastor at the start of the ceremonies: "Michael Jackson was an icon and a hero to many..."

A HERO?!

Wow.

Sam S.

In Canada it has been a total wal to wall ORGASMIC Jackson week at CTV.

I rarely watch CBC, but today Martha Stewart was a breath of fresh air.

My back-of-the-envelope calculation says that about a quarter million people die each day on this earth, give or take. Those people who insist I grieve over Michael Jackson will have to convince me that he is more deserving than any of those people. So far, I don't see it.

I refuse to even think about Michael Jackson by posting on this thread.

Any of you on Twitter, follow Badbanana. He is "live-tweeting" even though he can't be at the memorial. Too funny!

Personally I have no problem with a celebration of excellence and no matter what you say about the man he was the best at what he did.

The service I guess that is what it is actually pretty well done. Magic Johnson and Lionel Ritchie were very poignant. However Sharpton, That big beast white chick who is still a Virgin at 40 something Brooke what's her name was really insipid. '

More or less a nice enough service.

brought to you by the same media who vilified Sarah Palin, and now gives this freakazoid, pedophile iconic standing...what a mixed up world we live in

I'm too busy thinking about the 3 CF soldiers killed this week ... killed while making a real difference in this world ... a difference for the poverty stricken kids of the world's 9th poorest country.

What a pathetic, decadent, and aimless society we have become when freaks like Jackson become not just music icons, but cultural icons as well to which terms like "hero" are applied. I could hurl.

Oh crap forgot to make my point which is I ended up watching it on CBS and Kouric can screw up just about anything. Man it's like sandpaper when all else is silk.

That women is horrible.

The same fools who put Barry in the White House now mourns a deranged egocentric child molester who artistically acheived nothing significant in almost 2 decades.
Oh the power of media over the zombie sheeples...

...And the decline of Western civilization continues unrestrained...

Stopped by Fox News for 5 min. just as Martin Luther King Jr was winding down and his wife was winding up.
The blacks (or is that racist?) have the rhetoric for such an occasion unlike any other.
You could almost get caught up in the thing.

When I heard last night that MJs idea of going to sleep was to have all the lights on, classical music throughout the house, while he had one eye on a Disney DVD, and a book to read, all at the same time he was begging for a sedative, then I guess what we can wish for him is the sleep of the just.
Rest, Michael, rest.

On the noon news, here on the left coast, it was reported that Obama wasn't really ticked with all the attention going to the MJ send off. Obama quoted saying soon people woill get back to thinking about nuclear weapons.
Go figure, maybe BO didn't like MJ's kind of Hope and Change.

I'm starting to think that the MSM had MJ bumped off so that they could cash in on the ratings bonanza. And if it doesn't result in increased audiences and ad rates, at least they have a better excuse for ignoring real news.

Good one Kathryn.
Maybe the MSM can rig it so that MJ isn't interred at all but instead is shipped around the world like the Olympic Torch on the flatbead of a former Pepsi delivery truck with Stevie Wonder as the driver and Al Sharpton as the advance man preparing the crowds ahead on the route.

The MSM could get endless headlines out that almost hourly.
Too bad Evel Knievel is dead, he coulda jumped the Pepsi truck at the really special venues.

Actually Kathryn MJ was bumped off to take public attention off of Pelosi's Cap and Trade bill that was getting voted on that same week.

Oz, my thought is why waste a potentially useful corpse by just burying it?! Maybe they could do a Lenin-in-Red-Square type display thing with The Gloved One's corpse.

Freeze the body, maintain in a sealed refrigerated glass display case as the main exhibit at Neverland theme park. Have The Gloved One's music playing in the background. Even though he's dead, he could still make a lot of money for the family.

Michael Jackson pickled in perpetuity; why not he was most of his life. Let's just recall the good stuff and inter the rest with the body, he's in God's hands now.

Fascinating cultural marker.

Not much from white celebrities.

Were they invited?

Excluded?

No video from Obama?

Pretty well produced for such short notice.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would like this creep, but I am baffled as to what use blacks would have for him. This is a guy who apparently was ashamed of being black and went to extreme measures not to be. How desparate does one have to be see as a hero a guy who despised everything you are. Weird.

15,000 people attended Mother Teresa's funeral at Netaji Stadium in India. Compare that to the hundreds of thousands of people who signed on to the Jackson wake lottery. Hero's come pretty cheap these days when the death of a "pop icon"??? commands the attention of so many around the world. Frankly, I could'nt give a sh*t because my car needs a new transmission and its going to cost me $4500.00 bucks.

If you want to see real dancing, go to YouTube and look for the Origins of the Moonwalk. Michael Jacksom was and imitator, not an originator.

Actually, Dave and Larry, MJ was to be cryogenically preserved but he missed his "best-before" date with cryogenics so is to be "plastinated".

"Von Hagens said that he spoke with representatives of the Jackson family 'many months ago' and it was agreed that his body will be plastinated and placed next to Bubbles, his late pet monkey who was plastinated a number of years ago..."
FROM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195750/Michael-Jackson-set-plastinated-missing-deadline-cryogenic-freezing.html

Michael Jackson, a Freak Show to the bitter end.

Michael Jackson is annouced he is Muslim

then he needs to have barry him like muslim method with no casket

like similar Jewish ceremoney and Muslim are similar

He need to bring a Sheikh and made
'Wahsaht" salat and pray for his sole to stay in peace

if he said he is muslim

his lawyrs and his parents can not change his wish to barry him like muslim not christian

he was target with racist in USA and he asked
Muslim to direct him to right path

while hate against him made him to this point

then his kids need to grow in hand of
one Muslim good foster family

not his mother if his motehr was good enough
do not let his child become for her money victim and act frick or his x wife act strange of abonden her child for sake of milionmoney
or lawyer who never help him to

understand he need love and justice and look at him similar like white peopel and he need
mental psycolgist help not criminal court help

and his lawyer knew he came with pigameh to court he was down he could stay in home and with disignation his lawyer present in all court hearing for money and filim

made him appear
his ceromoney more like to go to sing ceromoney to go to barry good man and nobody cry for him

let muslim grow his children in right path

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530322,00.html

"Surrounded by her aunts and uncles, Paris told the audience that her "daddy" was the best father one could imagine."

Right...if you lived in Africa, surrounded by poverty and aids infected men who are dying. Or perhaps if you are a girl who is growing up wearing a burkha in Saudi Arabia. Or your dad and all of your male relatives are in jail and you never see them. or you suffer from molestation and daily beating from your father.

Then he might be the best father one could imagine. If he doesn't inadvertantly drop you from a balcony.

Is that the black guy turned white you are talking about? Heard of him in mid-90s.

I'm rather surprised that they didn't include a holographic CGI performance by Michael himself...

Aaron, MJ was a product of the 80's and he didn't do a thing after that.

If CD and iPod sales continue at the current rate the estate will be outa the hole in a few months folks!
As for California/LA they are asking "fans" for donations to pay for the 3000 or so cops on duty for this farce.

Hmmmm...those children are very...white. How lucky was that for MJ that Ms. Rowe obviously has stronger genes. Hmmmm....

Minus one more child molesting weirdo, good riddance.

I could have sworn I heard one of the sycophantic male commentators to this circus saying gravely ( paraphrasing) that Michael was not only a great musician but also a great dancer. He was was good as Grace Kelly. ROFL. Did I hear this right?

The caskets empty I saw him tanking up in Nanaimo this morning.

*
"jeff says... a celebration of excellence"

nope, just another neurotic, multi-millionaire junkie with a disturbing fondness for small boys,
make-believe & cosmetic surgery... who spent the last 20 years of his life trying to transmogrify
himself into a younger version of elizabeth taylor.

i don't get it.

*

When society in West and North America

made so much of gay and child melsting and rape

you must ask yourself

what you did wrong you white people who mess with this great nation

who to blame really!! the master

London England
IF never immigrant to USA
Michael Jackson did not wish to marry English women who attacked reporter I saw last night

or bittle music obess

to see what was wrong really

I am sorry for this nation and thier teens and very young people in this country

old are goning soon
even Michael jaskson was old too

I wish I could help teenagers to grow with more healthy happy environment

money is not every thing

All racist are so happy now that is bother me
bunch of sick people
8 G summet Italy-English-USA-Russia-France-Canada-Germaniand europe and Isreal oh my god
how good generation are doom soon among this dirty people

I recommanded all Muslim back home soon

Joe Molnar -- MJ memorial service or Martha Stewart. I can not/will not/could not watch either. I think there might be a Jays game on later, otherwise no TV today.

I recommanded all Muslim back home soon

If by "back home" you mean dar a-Islam, then I heartily concur.

"Von Hagens said that he spoke with representatives of the Jackson family 'many months ago' and it was agreed that his body will be plastinated and placed next to Bubbles, his late pet monkey who was plastinated a number of years ago..."

Yeah, maybe that's the way to go, I remember Tim Leary before he went sayin' "We were coming down to the wire and had to make a decsion," so they cut off his head and shot it into outer space, so like, you know, Tim is still up there smilin' down on all of us, beamin' benevolent thought vibrations helpin' us turn on, tune in and drop out and do hits of 4-way sunshine...

But like, hey, what about the option of cryogenically freezin' Michael's body, and, you know, putting his brain back in his head and stuff like that, but you know, what if in a thousand years from now the Muslims hit the power grid and all the containers get all unfrozen or somethin' and leave everybody on their zombie-like life support system dragging their way around Los Angeles and causin' trouble 'n stuff?

But like, if you shoot his head into outer space like Leary then what about doing DNA tests to find out who the real parents of those kids are? I mean, there Michael would be in outer space with Leary and you'd have to use space shuttles or shit to get out of the orbit to, you know, to ascertain the information.

So maybe, like, you know, doin' him over in plasticine like the monkey would be all right, but if, you know, you have to go penetrate that plastic for the DNA or some deep shit like that, you can't just have some redneck knee-jerk answers to that sort of thing.

So, you know, like you gotta think about this shit and figure it all out because you know, like, it would be easy to make an error here and you wanna to this shit right.

Is there any particular reason why we must endure the blathering of these idiot trolls?
Bad enough that the media world is consummed with the circus..... time to put the boot to the clownshow posters I say.

"new" is gay - as Archie Bunker used to say, she's "lebanese."

Ya gotta admit it's like watching a trainwreck.

"...brought to you by people who cannot name the American Vice-President."

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I don't like this hype fest anymore than you guys do but one thing can be said for Michael Jackson; that there has been few individuals who have donated as much as he has to charity. His donations over his career have topped over 100 million dollars...and due to many of his songs being dedicated to charity, they will continue to generate money. Many of the charities he supported were rather silly (random childrens camps) but he also helped set up burn units in hospitals, etc. etc...see a very complete list here:

http://www.examiner.com/x-7230-Atlanta-Special-Needs-Kids-Examiner~y2009m6d25-Thank-You-Michael-Jackson-for-your-life-long-charity-work

I don't get it ... What are all the Negroes doing carrying the casket? And the black church choir ... Don't they know Jackson morphed into a white man several years ago?

His two kids were insemination freaks from white man's sperm into a white woman further rejecting his original race.

And what is Sharpton and Jackson's interest in this white pop star other that an opportunity to put their big ugly faces up front where they actually don't belong.?

I just don't get it. It's a nightmare.

Momar, his kids certainly aren't "freaks"; they had no choice about how they were brought into this world. They are beautiful little kids.

I had tears in my eyes when little Paris spoke. Leave the kids alone. He was their daddy. That's how they knew him.

The rest doesn't matter to them.

Greg in Dallas

Heavy stuff, man. It, like, freaks me out thinkin about MJ trippin the cosmos, man.

Hey, didn't they do the same to Country Joe? Oh wait, maybe it was the Fish. Anyway, mind-blowing any way you look at it. Man, I gotta like, stay away from the brown acid.

Soccermon:

I second your motion. Leave the kids alone. They're not freaks.

Regarding Sharpton, he was born with an irresistable impulse to heave himself in front of any running camera. He has never missed an opportunity for self promotion.

Sorry comments here.
Simply the most disappointing time, calling myself a conservative, reading this garbage.

Grow up people, the guy is dead!

Breaking news!

MJ is still dead...Developing...

The guy is dead? The guy is dead! THE GUY IS DEAD! The world is now a better place. Good riddance.

This obsession with celebrity on the grand scale is indicative of how shallow and hollow our society is.

mike

Soccermom,

When I originally pointed out that his children were quite white, it was not as a reproach to the children.

More that I find it curious that he was so adored by African-Americans, yet he seems to have done just about everything to become a white guy.

I had never seen the children and had no idea that they must not carry his DNA (it has to be impossible), I guess to assure that they would be white?

My other surprise would have to be that for someone who saw himself as he did, that he would not want to father biological children. Unless he could not, in which case why not be truthful?

Read that article, Oz. ... "MJ was to be cryogenically preserved but he missed his "best-before" date with cryogenics so is to be "plastinated".

How apt-a dead but plastic coated Michael Jackson, displayed with his dead but plastic coated chimp.

Kathryn @3:35 - My money's on Ahmadinejad.

Anne (not from Cornwall) @5:01 - I had the same thought about the kids. Either:
a) They're not related to MJ or
b) Lamarck was right. (No, wait, I think they had noses.)

I don't normally watch TV but they force you at the Gym and I just suffered through HOURS of this lunacy, so I'm a little bad tempered about it.

new wrote: 8 G summet Italy-English-USA-Russia-France-Canada-Germaniand europe and Isreal oh my god
how good generation are doom soon among this dirty people.

Reading a post by new is like wandering through a maze made by evil clowns. If I understand the sentence correctly she is calling Israel a dirty people?

I'll stop now before I say something I shouldn't.

to Anne (not from Cornwall): My post was addressed to Momar, who called the Jackson kids "freaks". Not you.
I saw three beautiful kids who lost the only parent they ever knew. They are not freaks.

The kids aren't freaks.
Yet.
Give them time.

If the autopsy rumors are even half true the "real" story is how MJ and his entourage pulled off this farce right in the face of the not so observant MSM. Complicit is what the media is. I feel sorry for his "kids". They will probably get the same "treatment", i.e., ignore what is as plain as the noses on their faces and promote them as celebs or as the "talent".

I'm missing all of this except for random bits of Muzak in offices etc. plus the odd unwanted pic on news sites. No cable, no radio, no newspapers.

And I'm loving every blessed minute I'm missing it. I love the smell of no-Michael Jackson in the morning. Smells like... victory!

What a bunch of miserable pricks.

The guy wasn't "trying to be white" - he had vitiligo. It's relatively common, but it's impact, for obvious reasons, is much more noticeable in black people.

He gave more money to charities than anyone in history.

RIP Michael