@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:
Quote:I liked Shewolf's post about three pages ago.
Shewolf is likeable. I like
Sparta, too.
Quote:In my callow youth I made Michael Jackson jokes.
He was fair game, while alive,
when his family and his children were not in a state of shock,
reduced to tears, in their mourning. For that matter, we have seen
large numbers of his fans weeping bitterly on TV for the last 2 days.
Is it decent to throw salt in his children 's wounds, or on his mother ?
Quote:
I think he was a damaged person, and damaged people can damage others.
That can happen. One thing about the Jackson family:
thay stick to their guns; thay don 't back down from their beliefs.
I remember Joe Jackson
insisting in an interview with Barbara Walters that whipping Michael was
OK.
(I saw a clip of Michael telling of how, in rehersals, Joe stood by with a whip [a leather belt] and hit them
if thay missed a dance step. He was literally a slavedriver. He drove them with the lash, as before the Civil War.)
Then Michael
insisted that he was innocently non-sexual in his relations with the children, bed or no bed.
He refused to back down from his beliefs, right or rong, no matter what.
Quote: I don't trust wealth.
Agreed.
I don' t trust
ANYONE.
Which financial demografics are better represented in prisons ?
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But mostly I cannot suddenly uncondone jokes just because someone died.
Sure, if you're mixing with relatives and friends of a deceased person you didn't like or respect
keep shtum for proprietry's sake, but none of us, I think, are in the Jackson social circle,
It has become very, very clear from TV of the last 2 days
that his fans are suffering intense anguish and prolonged emotional distress.
Is it wise to
aggravate that ?
My own ex-girlfriend, Marilyn, was a big fan of his.
I woud not make life worse for her.
Quote:so changing our tune because he has died smacks of hypocrisy, especially for those of us who
did a little dance when Saddam Hussein was executed, David.
Did I do that ?
Let us remember that Saddam was a public sadist.
I saw a girl who said on TV that when she was in high school,
she wrote something mildly questioning Saddam in the margin
of her loose-leaf binder notebook. Her teacher caught her.
She was arrested for this and her entire large family was
forced to attend her punishment, at which many soldiers
raped her in front of her parents.
He used public stadia as fora to run his opponents thru
industrial strength shredders, alive, probably with little
benefit of anesthesia and without their consent.
When Saddam 's boys were little children, he gave them
handguns after school and invited them to a local jail
in Bagdad for minor offenses, and had the boys
take potshots at the jailbirds "just to see what it feels like".
Michael Jackson did not do that with his children.
