Ok, now sometimes I must speak of things that I do not like.

There is no news today, AGAIN.

Oh, by the way, Michael Jackson is dead.

I recall 25 years ago watching VH1 and this skinny guy in his early twenties was dressed up as a walking corpse, like dawn of the dead and doing some dance. Of course, I immediately turned to MTV and watched Sting.

But that is about it. I mean actually know nothing about this guy. It might as well been some movie star of Bollywood.

Bollywood (Hindi: बॉलीवूड) is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry.[1] Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest in the world.[2][3][4] The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.[5]

The Bollywood industry is usually the largest in terms of films produced and box office receipts, just as Urdu/Hindi speakers outnumber ...

In point of fact, we do think of all Indian films as part of Bollywood.

But my point here is that billions of dollars are made in the arena of filmdom known as Bollywood. More than in the good ole USA. So there are 'stars' I never heard of in India. Stars with followings that I could never conceive in my wildest dreams. And if one of them dies, well I imagine with over a billion people in India, there would be a lotta grieving.

Oh, and India exports more movies than we do. So people outside of India would be grieving also.

I would, of course, be unaware.

I know nothing about Michael Jackson. Yet they tell me one billion people will follow the funeral rites and such world wide today. So there is no news.

Just like everything else in Michael Jackson's life, his memorial will be on a grand scale with the world watching. The event will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, a 20,000 capacity arena, and 11,000 free tickets will be made publicly available. How they will be distributed has yet to be determined, but the memorial service, which will likely be followed by a small private funeral, is expected to draw many thousands more to the streets outside the arena. Jackson rehearsed at the arena just two days before his death, and video of his practices recently surfaced. Read it at Los Angeles Times  http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/archives/2009-07-03/

It is now 12 days following his death. And there still is no news. I mean there was some news about Palin on jughead this AM. And jughead was able to squeeze in the 'absolute fact' that there are more conservatives in this country than liberals.

Then of course Mika had to show us how someone on ebay was attempting to sell a funeral ticket for ten grand.

I thought it was kind of customary to have a funeral after kith and kin die in about three days.

That was my experience except for my 8th wife. They felt a need to perform an autopsy. They just had never really seen someone impale themselves on a garden rake before. Oh well...........

Now there is Wolf (talk about walking corpses) kind of doing a play by play of the festivities involved in the funeral of MJ. Wolf really has got his serious face on. He did not look that serious when he reported on the war crimes in Darfur.

But twelve days. I mean at our home in the old days we did not even celebrate the twelve days of Christmas.

Bill O'Reilly expressed shock today at a Pew study showing that African-Americans are far more interested in coverage of Michael Jackson's death than white Americans.

O'REILLY: Black Americans are much more engaged in watching this stuff than white Americans, even though Michael Jackson has white children -- and he chose to have white children -- and the face deal, don't even want to get into... So what's that racial thing all about? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/06/gretchen-carlson-michael_n_226707.html

All the while O'Reilly is interviewing to women whiter than one of Boehner's dress shirts.

Who was he?

More information is trickling out about Michael Jackson's final days. Police have found Diprivan (Propofol), a very strong sedative, at his home, sources tell ABC News, in addition to the previously reported doses of pain medications Oxycontin and Demerol. Jackson is believed to have used different doctors and aliases to obtain the drugs. In other new development, Us Weekly is reporting that the 50 year-old singer had a cancerous lesion removed from his nose just days before he died on June 25. "This is not a man who suffers pain well. He likes painkillers. So he got some from here, he got some from there--who knows how much," biographer Diane Dimond said.  http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/archives/2009-07-03/

This is a not a man who suffers pain well. KILLER. Wow.

I guess I am glad I am not running for office like that horrific repub in NY who referred to this music god as a pervert with a drug problem or some such.

Can we all get back to the real news now?

I mean where is Sara Palin fishing today?

Does Sanford have other girl friends we do not know about?

Did Vice President Biden tell us again how the depth of the current depression was not correctly ascertained until just recently?

Did Senator Ensign get reborn again?

And what about Palin's grandaughter's father? What the hell has he been doin?

NO WONDER PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE TV ANYMORE.