Some Thoughts on MJ's Death

Am I the only one who thinks that Michael Jackson is just a tad bit overrated? His earliest solo recordings from the seventies (Wanna Be Startin' Something, Don't Stop Till You Get Enough, etc.) are extraordinarily catchy, and Thriller was, well, Thriller. But honestly, as the man's career progressed, the weirder he became. His singing style was erratic, either he was near-screaming in an angry sort of way, or he was trying to be "soulful" with mawkish, saccharine falsetto balladry like "Heal The World" or the song from the movie "Free Willy". It seemed like there was no happy medium with his vocal style, and that is what really grated on me. I remember getting a copy of "Dangerous" for Christmas one year (presumably the year it was released, but I don't remember) and maybe listening to it once or twice. I don't think I found a single song on it that I really liked.

Then came the accusations of child molestation. By that time or shortly thereafter, I sold my Dangerous CD. I remember I was about the same age as the child in question.

My thoughts at this time are mixed, as it was clear he did, at least early on in his career, have a gift for crafting catchy pop records. One has to wonder, though, just how much of the credit belongs to Quincy Jones and the other behind the scenes people.

Whether or not he was a child molester is not the point that I am trying to make. It is simply an incontrovertible fact at this point that he was an absolutely bizzarre reclusive cult figure. Was it due to not having a traditional childhood? I don't know. Is it society's fault? I don't think so. He's not the only person to be a child star. While most former child stars to have issues later in life (hello Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson), none have ever managed to eclipse Michael Jackson in terms of weird behavior. I am convinced that he both relished and hated the media attention that he received.

I'm not really sad due to his death, since I never really was a fan of his. But I admit the circumstances surrounding his death are sad, especially as more is being learned about his daily drug cocktails and his sketchy personal doctor.

I wonder if Paul McCartney and Ringo will get to buy back the Beatle's song catalog now?

Congratulations To Our Affirmative Action President!

Barack Hussein Obama. Doesn't it just roll off the tongue? The forty-fourth President of our beloved Republic is an avowed Marxist who hangs out with unrepentant bomb-making communists and sat in a pew listening to a racist crackpot for twenty years. Whatever happened to the phrase about judging someone by the company that they keep? Sometimes I think God must have a wicked sense of humor.

Five years ago, Barack Obama was a nobody, a worthless chair-warmer from the Illinois state legislature voting "present" on anything even remotely contentious. Then he dug up embarrasing tidbits from other people's divorce records and managed to become the junior Senator from Illinois. Now, after a never-ending presidential campaign full of smoke and mirrors and vacuous platitudes, he's the most powerful man on Earth. His campaign was about nothing. It was a veritable Seinfeld episode. Hope and Change. Yes We Can. What has our country become? Now I understand the power of television. Now I understand the nature of the Kennedy-Nixon debates, even though they took place twenty years before I was born.

Aside from snookering 62 million idiots into voting for him, just what the hell has he accomplished politically in his entire career? Zip. Zilch. Zero. Nada. He's a lightly cocoa version of John Edwards. Totally superficial, no substance (I wonder if he has a secret love child with any of his campaign staffers? That would certainly explain why Michelle Obama always looks like she has a huge bug up her ass).

Were it not for an obsequious, hagiographic press and its ridiculous school-girl crush, we wouldn't be where we are today. McCain was ahead in the polls this past summer before the Democrats engineered the current financial crisis. (Remember Senator Chuck Schumer of NY causing a panic by starting on run on IndyMac Bank in California?) I'm glad that McCain lost, but I'm also depressed that Chocolate Hussein won. Sensible conservatives had no horse to bet on.

If Dr. Martin Luther King were alive today, what would he think? This cracker thinks he would be embarrassed. Embarrassed by what America has done. Affirmative action? The content of Obama's character is as thin as his resume. And what about the black community? They have squandered the civil rights movement. Instead of Tiger Woods or Dr. Rice, we have a ghetto subculture of baby mamas, bitches shakin' they money makers, hos, gangsta rap, ebonics, and inner city decay. If a white person dares to mention the problem of black-on-black crime or the tendency of inner-city blacks to regard education and high achievement as "acting white", then we're castigated as the bastard red-headed stepchildren of David Duke.

Sure, guilt-ridden white liberals elected an empty suit that they know nothing about so as to assuage themselves of America's history of slavery. Which, by the way, ended roughly one hundred and forty-four years ago. WTF?

And are we going to have to marinate in the exquisite agony of the dinosaurs of the 1960s civil rights movement for the next four or-God forbid-eight years, hearing about how America has finally made it to the Promised Land™? Don't get me wrong, I'm not denigrating the achievements of the civil rights movement. I'm just so goddamn sick of hearing about it as though segregated lunch counters and Bull Connor's (who was a Democrat, by the way) fire hose happened yesterday. How about if blacks stop looking for bigotry under every rock and fallen leaf? How about if Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and all the other race-baiting poverty pimps land on an aircraft carrier with a sign that reads "Mission accomplished"? My snarkiness manages to surprise even me sometimes.

I know, I know, it's not going to happen. If it did, that would really be "Change you can believe in™".

Timeless Wisdom From Old Hollywood

'Nuff said.

Diddy's Hurtin' 4real

I wonder if this will cause him to vote McCain, if he votes at all. Remember, Vote or Die, Beeotches! Bad Boy 4 Life!

It Could Always Be Worse, Liberals!

I want one as a souvenir! I'm sure I could find the correct amount of change in my couch cushions to afford said transaction.

Karl Rove, You Magnificent Bastard!

Dude.

Sign Me Up!

TO: BENEFICIARY‏
From: GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT (richarddanatttt@yahoo.com.hk)
Sent: Thu 5/29/08 11:17 AM
Reply-to: revfatheragustin@yahoo.com.hk
To:
TO: BENEFICIARY,


I am General Sir Richard Dannatt a British Army Commander and we are the financial investigation unit with the office of the United Nations, EFCC,CIA and FBI. We picked up the file of Mrs.Caro Mark a foreigner of your country,who was the managing director of Oil Development Company plc in Nigeria,She died along with her husband and there three children in Niger Delta Crisis.
And I have been given the mandate to contact you as the next of kin by the Secretary General of the United Nations and we have concluded your payment through the Union Bank Plc and I want you to contact Rev.Father Augustine Mbanefo right away through the below information and you are also asked to stop any further communication with whosoever including your partner because we are undergoing an investigation and if anybody is found guilty or having hands in extorting money from you we will arrest him and hand him over to the Funds Investigation Unit.
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GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT.
BRITISH ARMY COMMANDER:
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Why do these things originate in Hong Kong? I thought Nigeria was the e-mail fraud capital of the world. I'm so confused!

I Knew There Was A Reason Why I Dislike Minnesota

And lo and behold, here it is. Minnesota is inundated with liberals! Lord help me. The comments section is extremely enlightening. Especially the douchebag crackpot that equates reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with the hermetically-sealed police state otherwise known as North Korea:

This rule will fade away
This is not a rule about school safety or academic performance; it is a rule that has been carried over from the past by leaders of society who want to to instill specific social norms in our children. I personally stand and do the pledge all the time, but that is my choice. You cannot force anyone to do it and to expect a "rule" such as this to be obeyed is counter-intuitive to what the founders would have wanted. Institutions such as schools are supposed to be models of social learning, but the modes of learning are through free will, not forced ideology. We joke about North Korea when we see clips of their people blindly giving their allegiance to their leaders because in our view they are being forced to believe something that they shouldn't. The U.S. was supposed to be the opposite of that. The sad thing is that most people don't realize that we do the same exact thing to our own children.

posted by holt0338 on May. 9, 08 at 10:11 AM

Memo to self: Move to a red state. The redder, the better.

Obama Is Tired…And Retarded

Let the mudslinging begin!