Just when I thought it was safe to turn my TV back on...

I can't turn away, hard as I try, from the Michael Jackson funeral. It reminds me of a major mob do.

Six of our Marines were killed in Afghanistan yesterday. There is currently a major offensive in the south of Afghanistan. Major.

Liberty Hall at Forest Lawn Cemetery is the site for the family and friends portion of the funeral this morning. There's an aerial shot of pallbearers hauling out a huge gold casket to a waiting hearse. Good Lord, there must be fifty limos lined up--like Jackson was a president himself! What a strange country we live in.

Iraq is trying to play house now that we're pulling out. Hard to believe, isn't it, that we are actually getting out of there? I think it's a mistake, but my time at war college is limited.


Staples Center, known for Lakers basketball, is the venue for the bigger-than-life memorial for MJ whose contribution to society are those of a dancer and singer! Unfortunately, the city of Los Angeles, which is broke, is paying for the security and police (overtime) and accompanying costs. This unbelievable fact seems irrelevant to the Jackson family, who has enabled him and excused him or were in denial of his unspeakable character defects.


"That girl," Sarah Palin, has flushed her political career down the toilet by quitting her governorship in Alaska, purportedly for the sake of the state. She has decided to maintain the four point chip on her shoulder and alienate the moderates--like me--in the Republican Party who were more than on her side. She's squandered an opportunity with her stubbornness which has taken on an unattractive side. Instead of an interesting, becoming maverick, she's become instead a boor with nothing but a lame excuse and old stories about how she's saved the average Alaskan a bunch of money, you betcha, wink, wink. That is so over, Sarah.


They (the "theys" who know) say that MJ's casket will be on stage. Will it be open or closed? Oh, wait. It's Smokey Robinson. He's reading a letter from Diana Ross. Couldn't she bring herself to go to his funeral? LOL. What strange, selfish people these entertainers are. Gee, it sure is quiet in the Staples Center right now...you'd think the guy was a saint or something. I just don't get it.


VP Biden told everyone on Saturday the Obama Administration "misread" the economy. No one quite explained how the stimulus would thus work.


(Sigh)

Good grief, this thing does look like a mob funeral. I hear there are 6500 empty seats. Hmmm.

North Korea is continuing its weirdness. Do you suppose Kim Jong Il just wants to get the bomb off while he's still alive? I wouldn't be surprised.

Everyone who's anyone is at this funeral. Even Magic and Tobey came to talk about his philanthropies. What a guy, huh? Guess they missed all those stories about child molestation. Gosh, I must just have a dirty mind.

Robert McNamara, the ex secy of Defense during Vietnam, died this last weekend. Some of us remember him. For those who don't know, he was about as popular as Donald Rumsfeld.

Does anyone else wonder why all these famous people have shown up now that MJ's dead? Where were they when he was on trial for child molestation? I think it's rather odd.

Barack Obama has Freudian slipped his way into the good graces of Prime Minister Putin by addressing him as "President," and further flatters him by indicating the error was natural mistake considering...Mrs. O looks very odd, I must say, in her choice of fashions. I think they're too casual for the occasion, but then I think SHE's too casual all the way around. I'm just saying, I'd like to see her dress up some...the girls look wonderful, as usual. What cuties they are!

Good Lord, the Jacksons are letting that little girl, Paris, speak. She looks exactly like her mother, Debbie Rowe, sweet child.

It looks like we're not going to get out of this recession any time soon. The unemployment rate where I live is 11.5%. Of the seven people with whom we spent July 4th, five were unemployed. Of those six people, all were upside down on their mortgages, most were at least 100 thousand or more dollars upside down. Of those six people, all were prime borrowers with credit FICO scores of 750 to 825 and 20 years of excellent credit histories. All were over 50 years of age. Two were small business owners; the rest worked for companies. Three had mortgages in jeopardy and one in default, one owned freed and clear and the others not in default yet, but they were worried. The two people working were worried about losing their jobs as they were laying off their subordinates. We are all Repubicans. We just keep looking for jobs and wishing the banks would work with us (which they will not unless you're late).

It is wonderful that Michael Jackson has finally been laid to rest. Now can we finally move on?

Thanks for the read.