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The ceremony was outdoors at the English square of a local park, and as soon as Sara, Grag, and I arrived at the park entrance, the organizers led us to a cart where they shuttled us to the square. As we stepped off the cart, the woman in charge directed her helpers to swarm all around us and escort us to the front row seat. In addition to a few plaque presentations to people that had something to do with the English Festival (I have no idea what they did as the explanation was all in Chinese) the ceremony consisted of several song-and-dance performances. I particularly enjoyed a hip-hop dance by two middle-school guys, one of whom seemed to channeling Michael Jackson! Another one of the teachers in our program who teachers at a different school was also there, and a few of his students seemed to be aiming their words to him when they sang a love song. To end the ceremony with a bang, the staff members set off confetti explosions, and the director invited all of the foreign English teachers up on stage to sing for the crowd. Chinese people always seem to expect Americans to be able to sing beautifully on cue at any time, but we had no idea what to sing. Since there were a lot of young students in the audience, we decided to lead the crowd in a dazzling rendition of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”! I think that it went well, but the Chinese seem to think that everything we do is wonderful, so it could have been terrible and yet they loved it nonetheless.

(click to enlarge)L also had Ana and David ‘carve’ pumpkins. Barring any sharp, protuberant objects what the actually did was color pumpkins with a black marker. The idea was simply to do eyes, nose, mouth, etc., but as you can see some pumpkins had their ethnicity changed and others look like either something Wes Craven would have dreamt up or the in between stage of ‘Thriller’ Michael Jackson and the current Michael Jackson! It’s quite humorous, actually. :)

Michael Jackson is close to completing his charity single for Hurricane Katrina relief and hopes to release the song sometime this month, his spokeswoman said Thursday.

Michael Jackson, Department of Homeland Security deputy secretary, told House members that it was appropriate to re-bid the contracts now that the emergency had passed.

Nope, that’s not the title of an old Michael Jackson song but a phrase related to a verse in the very practical and sensible Book of James.

And these next two images are my favorites, mostly because deep down I have a lot of gen X grief in my heart for the way Michael Jackson has gone off the rails. I loved him when he and I were little and for me, his degeneration has always been a metaphor for that of society generally...

The jewellery workshop I did went off - much to the surprise of my male colleagues! That’s Jono (hey I mentioned you), Dave and Adam. Other new retreat activities were bushwalking, art (or visual worship) and not forgetting our 80’s disco night which everyone got really into. Being a child of the 80’s it didn’t take me long to tease my fringe, overdo my makeup and start singing along to the tunes of George Michael, Madonna, A-ha, Michael Jackson and my old favourite, "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles. Our guy leaders started the night with a "boy band dance" to the New Kids on the Block song, The Right Stuff. It was soooo funny and well choreographed. Here’s some photos…

I grew up in the 80s. When I was at school it was all West Ham, Spurs and Arsenal, Michael Jackson’s thriller and break-dancing. It was MacEnroe, Borg and Connors in tennis, Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram and Daly Thomson. And we had a cricket team. I still remember Botham’s ashes.

and in even more random news, michael jackson hired out a water park in dubai (he invited lots of parents and children to join in the fun) and roamed around in a white lycra body suit.

For the first 120 hours after Hurricane Katrina, TV journalists were let off their leashes by their mogul owners, the result of a rare conjoining of flawless timing (summer’s biggest vacation week) and foulest tragedy (America’s worst natural disaster). All of a sudden, broadcasters narrated disturbing images of the poor, the minority, the aged, the sick and the dead, and discussed complex issues like poverty, race, class, infirmity and ecology that never make it on the air in this swift-boat/anti-gay-marriage/Michael Jackson media-sideshow era. So began a perfect storm of controversy.

A new Weezy and The Swish, up and ready to fly! This week the dynamic trio interview Ron Zonen, the prosecutor who laid out the charges against Michael Jackson and fought him in court. Everyone asks Zonen questions, he gleefully responds, and the entire thing is both informative and hilarious! If you were ever curious about how the trial actually went, this is what you need to hear. Enjoy!

Former BBDO Chairman Phil Dusenberry, the guy that worked on the Reagan campaign and the famous Michael Jackson Pepsi spot, has written a book called, "Then We Set His Hair on Fire," a title nodding to the media circus which surrounded Michael Jackson's hair catching on fire while shooting the Pepsi spot. The book is great. The subtitle on the book "Insights and Accidents from a Hall-of-Fame Career in Advertising" sums up the tone of the book: humble and helpful commentary on a very successful career. It's the most enjoyable book we've read in a long time. Dusenberry takes readers through his very long and very successful career at BBDO as well as several years he spent on his own running his on shop. The book is all about the power of the Insight and how insights are related to but very different than Ideas. Many times the two terms are co mingled but after reading this book, the differences and similarities between the two are clearly understood. Ideas are great but it's insights you really want. It's the "Ah ha" moment.

The New York Post’s Page Six can’t seem to recognize any part of me, so I couldn’t get the link to this, but is it true that Michael Jackson is going for a more manly look?

I mean, the guy is a fantastic musician but has a messed up personal life. Working with Quincy Jones is nothing to snuff at, and on the Bad reissue Jones talks about how MJ really developed in the studio from then on. I can tell you this - the Essential Michael Jackson is one alblum that will not be leaving my IPOD any time soon.

Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

(And yes, that might actually be the first admission that anything has gone less than optimally in the past 5 or so years of the administration.) Mr. Brown, George "I couldn't admit that I made a mistake or admit a minor judgmental error if I was caught masturbating to a picture of Michael Jackson" W. Bush, has admitted that you fucked up. That's professional homocide if I've ever heard it.

Dubai (CBS)–Pop star Michael Jackson has been visiting Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in the Middle East. According to the Middle East news service Al Bawaba, Jackson was thrilled by his first visit to the UAE.

In bed, looking at random websites on my laptop, trying to stop what is threatening to be a migraine acheiving its potential, because Sundays are bad enough without the feeling of my brain simulating six large steel-toecapped men dancing around on my skull while my stomach impersonates a washing machine, only with vomit instead of detergent… that metaphor ended up badly, but anyway. On Friday night we sat for hours in a Wetherspoons in Shepherds Bush, drinking Frisky Bisons (Zubrovka vodka plus apple juice: yes please) and shouting nonsense, before queueing for half an hour at Islington Academy before we realised the place was full and we weren’t going to get in and stuffing ourselves with McDonalds non-food on the nightbus in lieu of indie-based dancing activities. I think it was a fair swap. Yesterday, not wanting to drink more alcohol in case our livers exploded and yet not wanting to stay in and shout abuse at The X-Factor, we ended up in a cinema watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There’s a fine line between genius and being A COMPLETE FUCKING NUTCASE, and Tim Burton is sat on it, possibly giggling to himself about nothing. And I’m glad to see Johnny Depp is continuing his theme of playing his characters as famous people playing someone else: first Keith Richards the pirate, and now Michael Jackson the chocolate-obsessed nutter. But I liked it, even if the kids there hadn’t read the book. Imagine! Kids not reading Roald Dahl! No wonder they’re all happy-slapping each other to death: it’s lack of exposure to The Witches at an impressionable age. A complete lack of fear of being turned into a mouse by a load of bald old ladies, leading to having no respect for them. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Piaget.

We did two rounds of lecture/show-and-tell on Friday with the laptops jacked up to the projector and my colleague’s DJ equipment at the side. The indie part went first, with the likes of Travis, Feeder, Our Lady Peace, Jebediah, etc, played, followed by some explanation. Then the usual crowd-pleasers, such as “YMCA” and “Staying Alive", followed by some new inserts like “Take a Chance on Me” (ABBA and the campy Erasure version) and the vomit-inducing “Funkytown", and the hilarious spoof on Michael Jackson’s “Bad", Weird Al Yankovich’s “Fat". After the ’80’s vids, my colleague did a short demonstration on his CD players and his mixer, followed by one or two inputs from my Ninjatune Zen TV DVD (Kid Koala’s “Fender Bender", Beck’s “E-Pro” from another sampler).

Well, I am here, safe and sound. In NY with R and her nanimals… Considering taking classes here at Syracuse U. Have no idea how long I will be here… R is fine. We’re indefinitely postponing the wedding, and moving home… I dunno, watching the news at the airport(s) was unreal. People talking about it because it’s news (similar to the way we all talked about the Michael Jackson and OJ Simpson trials… you know, almost everyone has something to say about it) I just tryed to remain calm and quiet, not telling anyone I was from there… until…

I think it’s so wrong that Michael Jackson is such a freak. Why is it wrong? Because I like some of his songs (ok, many actually, they’re fucking brilliant) and it is really frustrating to always say “I like Michael Jackson’s music, but for the bloke himself, I’d rather see him neck-deep in a swamp".

Johhny Deep’s portrayal of Willy Wonka is kind of… creepy. I remember hearing that some people got the odd feeling that he based it on Michael Jackson. Except in the movie Willy Wonka doesn’t like children*. One of my favourite parts of the movie is where Willy Wonka tells the children that everything in the room they are standing in is edible. Then, with a smile, he adds “Yes, children: even you and me. But that’s called cannibalism… it is looked down upon in many societies”.

Michael Jackson’s home has been raided by the police this morning.

If there’s been a declaration I missed it. Jay’s rhetoric is a bit edgy here, but that’s the nature of blog debate. Let’s consider the core of his contention: the “watchdog” model. “Watchdog” (forgive me) begs a number of questions, including questions about the watchdog. Who does the watchdog watch? How does it watch? How does it bark? At whom does it bark? Like the Hound of the Baskervilles that was strangely silent, how often does the watchdog not bark? Does the NY-DC-LA watchdog bark at Democratic and Republican presidents with equal ferocity? Is it even a watchdog, or is it a watch-pack, or watch-herd. (Herd is a more apt description of the press descending on Aruba to report on a missing tourist or hanging out in Santa Barbara while Michael Jackson faces a jury.)

It could gauge, for example, which stories capture the greatest attention of Web surfers by chronicling traffic spikes on Akamai-hosted sites at the times of specific news events, such as the verdict in the Michael Jackson trial, the bombings in the London underground, or the landing of the space shuttle. Akamai will go live with the index, starting this morning, at www.akamai.com/netusageindex.

I believe some part of this ridiculous belief is directly tied to the former imperialist and colonialist countries in the past. When the French were in Vietnam there was a caste system. In that time all the French were better than all the Vietnamese. It's similiar with the Dutch in Indonesia, The French in some African countries and the American slave trade in Africa. In every situation the ruling foreign country discriminated against people because of their skin color. And in recent and past history a person here who has white skin is rich and doesn't work in the fields. (like the French in Vietnam, or wealthy Vietnamese landowners in Vietnam) In the west on a subconscious level we like tanned caucasian skin because a person with a tan has enough money to take holiday or play in the sun. If you have pale skin it means you work too much and don't have enough money to enjoy life. So here a person whose parents may have been villagers or is just genetic makeup makes them have dark skin they are never as beautiful as they could be if they have white skin. If they are a millionaire with five college degrees they need to actively take Michael Jackson like strategies to lighten their skin and scourge the stain of peasants and poor people out of their skin.

Rant of the day... Two Jurors Now Say Michael Jackson is Guilty

Two of the Michael Jackson molestation case jurors now say they were coerced into voting for a not-guilty verdict. Eleanor Cook, 79, and Ray Hultman, 62, also evoked the wrath of their fellow jurors for branding Jackson a “pedophile” on national TV.

I read an article yesterday about two of Michael Jackson’s jurors. Seems they feel guilty now and think they made a mistake. Hmph. They picked a fine time to think, didn’t they? I kind of wish they’d just kept their mouth shuts. They have practice after all.

We ended up buying a few just for the covers.� I have no idea if the DVDs themselves will work.� We found one called Miss Castaway and the Island Girls about a plane load of beauty contestants that crash on a deserted island where they discover... Noah's Arc.� The arc is guarded by a prehistoric pig ("Jurassic Pork" it claims on the back cover) and Noah is still alive, but has been kidnapped by apes.� And Michael Jackson is in it.

I was actually scared when I took the picture. All I could think was, “If this freak sees me snapping pics of his ghetto shit, I’m going to have to confront him, and I’d be better off meeting Michael Jackson…”.

Rumour has it that Eminem is considering purchasing the 'Neverland' home of troubled pop legend Michael Jackson. Although Jackson still owns the estate, he has said on record that he would never return after police raided his home whilst investigating child molestation charges against him. Jackson said of his estate after the raid: "It's a house now. It's not a home anymore. I'll only visit" and currently the estate remains unoccupied. The Neverland Vally Ranch is worth an estimated $50 million and spans 2,700 acres. Eminem has expressed an interest in the estate and thinks California would be a good place to raise his daughter, Hailie Jade. To date, there have been no reports as to whether or not Jackson has considered selling his home.

Michael Jackson was acquitted and is now a free man. Had he been convicted then the terrorists would have won. But I guess it only makes sense to acquit Jackson when there are other people out there who are serving alcohol to minors. It only makes sense to let Jackson free and convict a couple for serving alcohol at their son's 16 year-old birthday party. And obviously this lapse in judgment deserves a sentence of 27 months? Michael Jackson can fucking molest a bunch of kids and get off? What kind of world do we live in?

* Michael Jackson, as interpreted by Celine Dion. I get the feeling this one is not recent.

I generally hate shows such as the one that was on last night, Motown 45, and avoid them like crazy, but I remember that twenty years ago (oh my gosh! how could that have been twenty years ago?), when I was eighth grade, and Motown celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, Michael Jackson whipped out the greatest moonwalk ever moonwalked, and the next day in school, everyone was talking about it. On the weird off-chance that something like that might happen again, and because I was too lazy to get up and turn the TV off (I don’t have a remote-controlled television), I watched it. It mostly sucked, but here are a few random thoughts that have been floating around since last night:

James mentions beer snobbery. There are some more good articles about beer snobbery. Here is one from Modern Drunkard Magazine. Not convinced. Check out this article from ratebeer.com. Finally see what the King of Pop Michael Jackson has to say about beer snobbery.

The jury in the Michael Jackson child molestation case has found him not guilty on all 10 counts.

Sure, prior to 9/11, it was wrong for Michael Jackson to rape the shit out of little kids, and I am on the record saying so. But that innocent world is gone forever.

US pop star Michael Jackson is in the tiny Gulf kingdom of Bahrain as a guest of honour of the king’s son, an official close to the royal circle said on Thursday.

I swear this is getting out of hand. Can a day go by without this nutcase making news? Tom Cruise has entered Michael Jackson stage of celebrity weirdness. Except in Michael's case he's been "Wacko Jacko" for decades now while Tom Cruise has morphed over night into from of the biggest movie-stars in the world to one of the biggest head-cases.

2000, Michael Jackson is slapped with a lawsuit by German promotor Marcel Avram … the suit alleges that Jackson refused to perform two scheduled events … it is a small problem for Jackson compared with future trials he will face…

Michael Jackson's mom had such problems. MJ: You know I would never do it with LaToya or Janet or Tito...

When she was hired as an MSNBC only employee I wondered how NBC and certain shows and those shows’ hosts would react to MSNBC getting exclusives first. Well today we sort of learn the answer to that question as NBC issued a release yesterday about Rita Cosby getting an exclusive interview with Michael Jackson’s mother that will appear today on the Today Show and not MSNBC first.

1. First off, I decree that Michael Jackson shall formally change his name to Jacko. I know people call him this already, but it should be legal.

or whatever the lyrics are. but this isn’t a post about michael jackson, but an article about men who thrill seek and why. i don’t exactly know where i fall in the spectrum. i’ve not really done “extreme” things, more for lack of funds than lack of desire. i enjoy things that are “thrilling,” but on the other hand almost completely refuse to do things where i’m not at least reasonably certain of the outcome. so i either tend to live in the middle or on the extremes.

Written in Bush's own hand and inked with the blood of a murdered Abu Ghraib detainee, the Downing Street Memo is a Stunning Revelation that the Shrub's reckless, ill-planned Rush to War with Iraq was carefully planned months in advance, perhaps as far back as his childhood. Of all the Stunning Revelation memos that keep surfacing, this is the one Stunning Revelation that can bring Bush down and finally free the International Community from his arrogant Swagger of Terror. But no matter how often I bring it up in normal conversation, or sneak up behind people and scream "DOWNING STREET MEMO! DOWNING STREET MEMO!" in a high-pitched feminine screech, no one wants to talk about it. They'd rather flap their sheeple gums over the Michael Jackson witch trial - and I hold the media responsible for allowing Hollywood sensationalism to briefly distract them from their job of compulsively badmouthing the peeResident.

I have five days until the Catholic Church hires Michael Jackson’s defense team in the office pool.

Who the hell did they poll? Members of the Michael Jackson Fan Club? They certainly didn’t poll normal people. I’m curious now about the people responsible for this poll.

Michael Jackson’s website is equating his court victory to that of Nelson Mandela’s release and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Well, as we all should know by now, Michael Jackson has been found innocent, regardless of all the kiddie porn and damning evidence that was found in Neverland Ranch (It goes to show that if youre rich and famous you can get away with anything). Now my gripe is not with Michael Jackson, I am certain that the man is guilty, but it is better left for karma to sort him out. My beef is with Mechelle Corby.

Michael Jackson's request to serve his sentence in juvenile prison was declined.

In the decade since Michael Jackson was first accused of child molestation, his record sales have plummeted, his concert dates have been few and far between — and his income has dwindled as well.

It’s common practice for celebrities to start “feuds” to get themselves mentioned in the gossip columns. But how far will they go? Getting arrested for throwing a tantrum at a fancy hotel can only be good for a tough-guy like Russell Crowe. Did he do it on purpose? Certainly it’s possible to take things too far… I’m thinking about Michael Jackson.

“This turned out to be a story that didn’t even have enough traction to compete with the runaway bride, which blew Michael Jackson off the screen for a week and a half,” said Thompson, head of Syracuse University’s Center for the Study of Popular Television.

If convicted, this will be Michael Jackson's new home. Celebrities really do get all the breaks.

As jurors in Michael Jackson's child-molestation trial deliberated a second full day Tuesday, jailers prepared to house the pop music star in protective isolation if he's convicted and ordered into custody.

Mary Ellen Schoonmaker of NorthJersey.com says the press has become more timid since Watergate, shellshocked by plagiarism scandals, right-wing ideologues and the hunt for the almighty dollar, "more enamored of big celebrity stories, more willing to cover the runaway bride and Michael Jackson, more self-absorbed with worries about losing readers and becoming obsolete in a cable and Internet world."

Just hours before jurors were to begin deliberations for a fifth day, Michael Jackson made his third trip to the hospital in a week. The singer returned to the Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital on Wednesday night for previously scheduled "routine treatment" of back spasms that have bothered him throughout the trial, sending him to the emergency room two times.

Of course, it wasn't as important as Michael Jackson's jury deliberations but it did get four minutes near the end of the show. Suddenly, anonymous sources are OK again because John Gibson said "Two anonymous sources have talked to the Washington Times about being threatened and insulted daily. One guard said he nearly had his eye gauged out. Human rights groups are quick to attack Gitmo employees for how they treat prisoners but doesn't guard abuse deserve the same attention?"

The Indepedent: If this wasn't Michael Jackson and he didn't have a top lawyer, he'd be in the cells by now.

A spokesperson from Wynn Las Vegas states, "We are not in discussions with Michael Jackson and/or his people. These statements are completely false and inaccurate."

Well, now we know what it takes to distract them from Michael Jackson.

But, hey, the second they could report that one sentence ("the plane has landed safely") that was all the excuse they needed to get back to Michael Jackson.

In the 25 years since CNN’s founding, we have witnessed the birth of the “500-channels-and-nothing-on” mentality that has fueled the now never-ending sound-bite attention spans that news channels now cater to. The problem, frankly, is that there just isn’t all that much out there as far as news goes that networks feel will increase ratings, and thus their advertising rates. So what do we get instead? Jennifer Wilbanks, Lindsay Lohan, and Michael Jackson. THIS is news??

“You know, we have a lot of perverts on today, and I know that, but is that really news? I mean, come on. I guess you’ve got to cover Michael Jackson, but not three stories about perversion that we do every day as well.”

Comments on Now, can we get back to the Michael Jackson trial??

Since George W. Bush publicly mentioned the word “Darfur,” or made any other reference to it. In the meantime, the American public is apparently more interested in the Michael Jackson trial and the story of the “runaway bride” — that is, if you judge the American public’s interest by what you see on network news.

* Barney & Friends - Push The Button! * Bart Simpson - 1, 2, 3, 4 * Grandmaster Flash - Birthday Party * Stevie Wonder vs. 50 Cent - Happy Birthday To Ya * Crank Yankers - Special Ed Loves Chuckie Cheese * Cracker - Happy Birthday To Me * Baltimore Music Club - Make Some Noise * The Simpsons - Happy Birthday, Mr. Smithers * Marilyn Monroe - Happy Birthday, Mr. President * The Smiths - Unhappy Birthday * SNL - That Damn Happy Birthday Song * Disney Kids - Happy Birthday To You * The Beatles - Birthday * Looney Tunes - Birthday * The Rapture vs. The Beatles - House Of Jealous Birthdays (mashup by ?) * Elvis Presley - Happy Birthday To You * The Simpsons - Lisa It’s Your Birthday (Michael Jackson & Bart Simpson) * Arrogant Worms - Stupid Happy Birthday * Crank Yankers - The Birthday Package Delivery * George Harrison - It’s Johnny’s Birthday * Janis Joplin - Happy Birthday/Happy Trails * Altered Images - Happy Birthday * Touchtone Terrorists - Whopper Penis * Weird Al Yankovic - Birthday Armegeddon * Family Guy - Stewie’s Mayonnaise & Catfood * 50 Cent vs. Iggy Pop - Lust For Da Club (DJ Tripp mashup) * The Simpsons - Ramones’ Burnsy Birthday * NOFX - Happy Birthday, You’re Not Special * Blur - My Birthday * Karaoke - Happy Birthday To You * South Park - Cartman’s Birthday Megama

Computer was computer. Did nothing! Michael was making funny faces at me and I was pissing myself laughing when the teacher was explaining things. MmMmMm After school I went to Lawryns house, Aw he Mum bought me food from the bakery lol. She got some placebo stuff that’s supposed to calm you down. I think I’ll need that for my exams tomorrow because I’m going to be jittering around soooo much. It’ll be awesome. We were doing retarded dancing to Michael Jackson songs and making fun of her Dad’s laugh. Hoorah.

The procecutors in the Michael Jackson trail tried to bring forward photos of MJ’s genitalia which may be used in evidence.

The video cuts to the heart of the allegations that Michael Jackson fondled a 13-year-old cancer survivor in early 2003. Playing the video now would provide a major boost to the prosecution that has worked so hard to prove its case.

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From the lovely base of my Sony subwoofer came the squeaky voice of someone–a guy trying to sound girly. In my mind, while I hopped into my pants for the day, came the morbid thought, “God, that sounds like they’re trying to incorporate Michael Jackson into a car advertisment.”

The natives look down upon you no matter how challenging a job you do or how highly you earn. Firstly, they tch tch you as ‘the poor people who couldn’t find opportunities in their poor country, and so they have fled here”. They might recognize your individual talents but it’s your Indian origin that makes them feel otherwise. Only escape from this tag is to do a Michael Jackson on you. Secondly, the general public will always put you in the same category of taxi drivers and other labourers from India that have flocked there...

Every time I see something new of the Michael Jackson child molestation trial, I feel like my computer's last virtue has been violated. And it’s not like you can avoid it because if you go to most any news media outlet, it’s right there like some soft porn tabloid with the cover just way too exposed. The trial judge even went so far as to ban photos of Jacko’s genitalia. Why? Because even with pictures, he might have stuff that duct tape won’t fix and Ajax just can’t clean.

But before you think I have already convicted Mr. Entertainment, let me say that even without the current scandal, Jackson is all by himself a fully stocked freak show looking for a place to happen. From his self-avowed fetish for sleeping with children to his disturbing, ever-changing physical features, Michael Jackson is an aging poster child for decadence. He even goes so far as to describe himself as a childlike spirit surrounded by adults who have deceived him… right.

This just in. You heard it here first folks. It's official. Hell has frozen over. The strange occurence took place late last night after the devil lost a bet to Michael Jackson. When asked for a comment, Satan said, "I was looking forward to redecorating the place anyway, Jacko just did it for me. I like what he's done."

Rev. Jesse Jackson on Michael Jackson’s life after the trial

‘Pop singer Michael Jackson will leave the country if he is cleared in his California child molestation trial, Fox News reports.

Following News of Michael Jackson's Trial - Evidence, Witnesses, Judgements, Verdict

‘The judge in Michael Jackson’s abuse trial has agreed that a video of police interviewing his teenaged accuser can be seen by the jury reports BBC. The day after the defense rested, Judge Rodney S. Melville agreed to prosecutors’ request that during their rebuttal case they be allowed to show the jury a videotape of a July 2003 law enforcement interview of the boy to show that his story has been consistent reports AP. Comedian Chris Tucker, the final witness for the defense said he had found the accuser unusually sophisticated...

Following News of Michael Jackson's Trial - Evidence, Witnesses, Judgements, Verdict

The "threat" was when I sent them an email after one of their "everybody else is a scam" emails went out. They're trying to start a dirty smear campaign. (Next thing you know they're going to accuse PUAs everywhere of staying at Michael Jackson's house.) What I was trying to tell them was to "Watch out" about their negative and demeaning tactics. Next thing you know, they spin it to mean that they're being threatened.

1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley are secretly married in the Dominican Republic … she sues for divorce 20 months later citing irreconcilable differences…

OK, gang, that kid from Oklahoma has won "American Idol." We can get back to worrying about Sunday's European Union vote in France, the price of gasoline down the street, the Michael Jackson trial, what's wrong with Tiger Woods' golf game and ... aw, never mind. Life's too short to worry about most stuff involving transitory humanity. We've got dogs and cats to save and Plano has that fabulous Books and Barks thing coming up!

Jurors in the Michael Jackson child sex abuse trial were treated to some comic relief when TV host Jay Leno appeared as a witness for the defence and peppered his testimony with jokes and even a plug for his show.

To Jay Leno telling jokes is like playing a round of golf. "You can do it for a long time," the Tonight Show host told the Associated Press in a phone interview a few hours after he testified in the Michael Jackson trial.

I saw this at a Drunken Master Review night at Zaphod’s in the market. Completely bizarre but fun film, spoofing galore going on. It even starred Michael Jackson in possibly his last movie role depending on the outcome of his trial.

Whether or not Michael Jackson's jurors still have a reasonable doubt about his guilt, the wild world of Internet betting has rendered judgment: the smart money is on acquittal... [CNN]

‘A gag order bars Michael Jackson from speaking publicly about his legal troubles, and the defense has not said whether he will testify during his molestation trial.

‘’I've often thought that if you really want to understand Michael Jackson, listen to HIStory,” said J. Randy Taraborrelli, a CBS News analyst and author of the biography ‘’Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness.“

Following News of Michael Jackson's Trial - Evidence, Witnesses, Judgements, Verdict

‘A Los Angeles County social services employee testified in Superior Court in Santa Maria today that the mother of Michael Jackson’s teenage accuser lied on welfare and food-stamp applications.

Following News of Michael Jackson's Trial - Evidence, Witnesses, Judgements, Verdict

‘The mother of the boy accusing Michael Jackson of child abuse was a fraudster willing to exploit her cancer-stricken son for money, a court has heard.

Following News of Michael Jackson's Trial - Evidence, Witnesses, Judgements, Verdict

‘Michael Jackson will not be called to testify in his own defence at his child abuse trial, defence lawyers have told the court in Santa Maria, California.

Following News of Michael Jackson's Trial - Evidence, Witnesses, Judgements, Verdict

"More people joined the Michael Jackson fan club," Maher said in giving a comic twist to his commentary. "We've done picked all the low-lying Lynndie England fruit, and now we need warm bodies."....

You bet it's borderline treason! The constitution says treason must be an overt act, and if mocking the Michael Jackson fan club isn't, then I don't know what is!!

I'd like a t-shirt that says: my career jumped the shark when I testified at the michael jackson trial.

Haha in computer me and Peter (well Peter because I suck at animations I was just asking if he could do it for me) were making all of these animations. One guys starts jumping nothing then he kicks his foot into a bit and starts picking his nose and eating it. The other one he starts doing starjumps and then his head falls off and a picture of Michael Jackson comes out of no where!

We can fill hours of airtime and pages of paper with "news" about American Idol, Michael Jackson, and a runaway bride, but we can't ask the hard questions or run any news stories that might cause dissent. We can't say that something isn't true--that's simply not okay.

Based on the prosecution’s case so far, what will be the verdict of the Michael Jackson child-molesting trial? Michelangelo: sculptor, poet and art forger?

Jacko Sells Neverland? (AZ Central) In other news of creepy celebrity scandals, financially ailing Michael Jackson reportedly has sold Neverland Ranch for $35 million.

On Michael Jackson Trial: Media Perceptions by james mclafferty

On Michael Jackson Trial: Culkin Says He and MJ "part of a unique group of people" by james mclafferty

WOW! My hit counter sure has gone up since I started dishing the dirt. Thanx. Bad publicity is still publicity. Right, Michael Jackson?

in LA started on Tuesday. Get ready for a celebrity trial that will put the Michael Jackson Freakshow Circus to shame.

I was catching up on some back issues of People -- my main source for news and commentary about people finding Jesus whilst fighting for life in Iraq, in a raft off of New England, or beneath an overpass in Chicago -- when I stumbled on a glowing review of Steve Almond's new book The Evil BB Chow and other stories. How cool, I thought, someone who wrote a story about Michael Jackson's dick filling the pages of the magazine versus stories about Michael Jackson's actual dick. Plus, I really liked the book and found the guy to be, well, swell when I met him. Shit, I thought, how many units do you move when you're reviewed in People? So I went to Steve's website to see what was happening on his Tour Diary and found this post:

I would also like to say that this scientist dude should cut King Tut a break. I’m sure had plastic surgery been around at the time, The King of Egypt would have taken the route of the King of Pop. Look how fantastic Michael Jackson looks now. The supposed bucked teeth and retreating jawline this crackpot scientist is so critical of could have been taken care of with a quick nip and tuck. What I will say is this…Tut, if you want people to lay off of you, well…lose the eyeliner.

Michael Jackson has secretly sold his Neverland Ranch for $35 million, The National Enquirer can reveal. The scandal-plagued superstar is so wracked by financial troubles he can no longer afford to keep his trademark fantasy estate in Los Olivos, near Santa Barbara, California.

And I'm still watching the crap; it's better than Big Brother on Nine. Yet, telly vewing patterns are one component of demographics, are they not? And like Wy, I too remember Michael Jackson's Billie Jean well and was quite moved by Jamie Oliver's School Dinners.

42) Michael Jackson supplied the voice for a 300lb white mental patient called….. Michael Jackson. Although he was listed in the credits as John Jay Smith.

43) Jacko Also anonymously wrote the song Do The Bartman, which included the line I wanna be bad like Michael Jackson.

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

The defense is up in the Michael Jackson case, and his mouthpieces are determined to punch holes in the state’s case.

What does Wal-Mart, Zellers and Michael Jackson have in common?

Chatting with her on that day reminded me of a birthday party I went to in grade six where all us girls huddled around a Teen Beat magazine featuring Michael Jackson. We felt giddy� even thrilled! That�s how palpable the excitement was when Nicole and I got to talking about the upholstery.

I have nothing to say besides just stating the obvious. I just thought the web world needed another reminder since CNN’s more obsessed with crap like Michael Jackson and that stupid girl who ran away from her wedding (who the hell cares… my God). Americans should be up on the UK election; they’re very attuned to ours.

In my defence I will say that I am eight and a half months pregnant and slightly election obsessed (both of which I will concede are very temporary states of affair). We also had no furniture until yesterday and there is only so much nuptual massaging a couple can do when one is the size of a garbage truck. We had been trying to amuse ourselves by knitting (me) and getting drunk (daisy) and bastardising nursery rhymes to sing to the baby (the current favorite is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Lily, please don't come out with a willy" - catchy!) but eventually...

^ Hopes for the future: to really make it like Michael Jackson and do a single with Mariah Carey

At 3pm EDT Shepard Smith’s show was on and the lead story was about Michael Jackson. Then I think they showed a bit of a news conference on those toddlers that drowned and then they showed Tom Delay being cheered by Texans at one of Bush’s fake town hall meetings. So about 15 minutes into the program and they had two tabloid-type stories and one promoting the GOP.

Unlike Bob, who is the consummate Silicon Valley insider, I can approach this question from a position of blissful ignorance. My theory is that Steve Jobs has gone off the deep end. You don’t have to be camped outside the Michael Jackson trial cum media circus to know that superstardom can play nasty tricks with people’s minds. And who’s a bigger star right now than Steve? Okay, Paris Hilton. But who else?

Hey, if you've stopped by because the title leads you to believe I'm blogging about the Michael Jackson trial I am not sorry to disappoint you.

During his speech, he encouraged citizens to network over the internet and then get out into the community and "make democracy work the way it's supposed to." He emphasized this several times and added that the media is "conflict-oriented" and focusses on things like "the runaway bride, or Michael Jackson." He noticed that "more and more people are going around the media, to communicate real information."

And what's on CNN? Michael Jackson, Laura Bush delivering jokes at the White House Press Corpse Dinner, the runaway bride relatives, and cracking down on violence in the movies--I am not kidding you.

When you take the easy way out, and report on the Michael Jackson trial, instead of the trials that people face everyday in trying to find a job and survive in this economy, you are hurting America.

first of all... michael jackson. need i say more?? send him off and dont let him return.

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A few years ago, smoking was cool, no one really cared about obesity and Michael Jackson was a well-respected, if still slightly weird, pop star.

As we’ve all discovered (hopefully) over our long years toiling at PR agencies, you can only control so much. You can deliver the big interview only to have the client drop the ball. Or the reporter shows up unprepared. Or the editor decide the story has no point. Or (as once happened to me) Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie and your big front page story on the Post gets bumped, forever.

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We would be ordered to try to avoid saying anything too controversial (and I don't mean "Crossfire" controversial), because we would be calculating what would bring in 15% profits per annum on our operating capital. Would hours and hours of television "reportage" and discussion of Michael Jackson or of Terri Schiavo or Scott Peterson (remember?) bring in viewers and advertising dollars? Then that is what we would be giving the public. Bread and circuses.

On the Today Show, it got a single sentence (right before the fact that 8 people were "killed across the country," a sentence so informative you wonder why they bother. Only three stories got fuller treatment: the shift in White House strategies on John Bolton, an extended treatment on the testimony of Michael Jackson's ex-wife, and a story on the missing woman of the moment, a 32-year old woman who disappeared while jogging in Georgia.

"There is more coverage about the Michael Jackson Trial than I'll ever want to see and other trivial matters.... Things like that make the evening news, but nothing about my father, for example, who has been held hostage now for over 6 ½ months. I find this to be an outrage."--Carrie Hallums Cooper

We would be ordered to try to avoid saying anything too controversial (and I don't mean "Crossfire" controversial), because we would be calculating what would bring in 15% profits per annum on our operating capital. Would hours and hours of television "reportage" and discussion of Michael Jackson or of Terri Schiavo or Scott Peterson (remember?) bring in viewers and advertising dollars? Then that is what we would be giving the public. Bread and circuses.

I got up yesterday afternoon and went to Home Depot and got some air filters and some of those Michael Jackson mask to wear when I clean again this weekend…

I like to never found them. I finally asked this cute little guy where the “Michael Jackson mask were” We both laughed as he told me where to find them…

Michael Jackson has been accussed of child molestation. One witness is crazy.

How is it that there are more than 6 million people in the world today, and there is no one just like YOU, and yet most of us spend the majority of our time trying to immolate or be someone else? We want to bounce a basketball like Michael Jordan, dance like Michael Jackson, or God forbid, be like Dennis Rodman. And even if we succeed here, at best we are just a copy. The one thing that no one can compete with is an original, and God made each of us one of those.

In a stunning burst of prosecutorial genius, CNN reports the prosecution in the Michael Jackson case has decided against calling

No comment from Medal of Freedom recipient George Tenet. I have nothing but contempt for Condoleezza Rice who, along with the Vice President and the President, lied the United States into an immoral preemptive war in Iraq. But on this occasion she did the right thing. Otherwise I have to ask : where's the outrage? This story about innocent citizens abducted, tortured, and...

Americans have shifted their attention from the war in Iraq to other concerns such as high gasoline prices and the Michael Jackson trial. But the war goes on and across the US families are ripped apart every day by what is going on there, unreported in the US press. As Max Blumenthal writes in a moving trinbute on his blog, we will need a "million Marlas" to undo the damage from this war:

Good morning everybody.. Today I woke up around 10 and I woke up to a lovley sunny morning. The warmth weas welthing over me as I opened the window. Praise God for the weather we actually have here in Bergen. Nothing can be better than to wake up in the morning with good friends and listen to travis and Michael Jackson. Okey God is much better. We're leaving to Elisabeth Askeland at the castle on øvstun. We gonna do some work there. (What ain't we do for the ladys???)

Why does Michael Jackson like twenty six year olds?

I have no clue how long I’ve been playing that boring game, but it keeps me getting back to it. You are hitting the same buttons around 20 times then you drink a bit tequila, a met, and if you are lucky another ale. Hit another few virtual monsters on the head, such as Michael Jackson with his weapon Moonwalker. In the end you should be totally drunk, but you are still able to find the way to your sleeping room, click on ‘asleep’ which means nothing more than: log out and wait another 4 hours until the next ‘virtual day’ begins. If that’s...

The mother of Michael Jackson's young molestation accuser claimed that she feared her children would be spirited away from the star's Neverland Ranch in a hot air balloon.

No matter how freakish and plain wrong Michael Jackson's behavior with children is ... this mother smells like a gold digger and she is going to screw up the prosecutions case.

Is Michael Jackson having warm fuzzy feelings after the day's testimony brought his memory back to the good 'ole days?

Michael Jackson leaves Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Santa Maria, Calif., Thursday, April 7, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

My next trick was to DNS spoof all traffic to http://www.cnn.com through my machine. On my machine I had the web proxy Paros running. I configured the proxy to run on the assigned IP and port 80 (instead of localhost:8080 which it does by default). Now I had all traffic to http://www.cnn.com going through my machine. I then used this super-cool feature in Paros which lets me replace a specific regular expression pattern with another in the request...

If half of what the prosecution witnesses say about Michael Jackson is true, he deserves to go to jail. But so do some of those witnesses. Once the whole lot is behind bars, the rest of us ought to work on taming the monster of celebrity before it devours us all.

Here's some news that has nothing to do with the Pope, Michael Jackson, or filibusters. The worlds largest iceberg knocked a chunk out of an Antarctic glacier. Research stations and baby penguins are affected.

What we have here is poorly reasoned bafflegab, the sort of stuff a really clever enemy would publish under your name. The fact is that evangelicals love the media, they love Michael Jackson, Amy Grant, Oprah, Joel Osteen, Paula White, Dan Rather, Bill Hybels, Juanita Bynum, Swindoll . . . because they are consumers, and what they love is celebrity, and what they desire is political influence.

"We will never file a claim against Michael Jackson," the witness said defiantly. "I want justice here."

Coming soon to a water amusement park near you! In what could arguably constitute a questionable and tasteless marketing risk for any theme park, this Chinese inflatable replica of the sinking Titanic, replete with the offending iceburg, is nonetheless available for mass water-sliding pleasure. The illustrated action figures give you some clue to scale (not for your backyard, unless you're Michael Jackson).

‘Americans are recoiling as the shocking details of the Michael Jackson case unfold. But can the singer survive the litany of charges against him?

Janet Arvizo sat in Santa Maria’s modest court room facing a barrage of criticism. Defence lawyers for Michael Jackson were testing her claims to have been kidnapped along with her family and held prisoner by the singer. The questions kept coming and coming, probing her story and that of her son, who she says Jackson sexually abused.

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‘On the witness stand at the Michael Jackson trial, Stan Katz, the psychologist to whom the ex-pop king’s accuser initially told his tale of molestation, mentioned that his book, The Co-Dependency Conspiracy was available on www.Amazon.com.

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I usually avoid commentary about celebrity crimes du jour, but as a parent, I’m always keeping out a wary eye when pedophilia’s at issue. So I find it noteworthy that Jeralyn Merritt’s noted even a Fox News commentator thinks it’s time to pull the plug on the Michael Jackson prosecution.

A year locked in a room with Michael Jackson and a gallon tub of Vaseline doesn't even come close to the psychotic evil brain-washing torture this kid is being put through.

"Starstruck" analyzes the dysfunctional relationship between celebrity and fan. He interviews über-devotees and parties with the rich and famous and strives to provide insight into both worlds. The book covers several topics: the business of celebrity, the subculture of zealous fans, entertainment journalism and interpersonal connections made with luminaries. The two strongest chapters are those in which Gross profiles both Michael Jackson's and Dolly Parton's followers and makes a trip to the Sundance Film Festival.

For the first -- and most likely the last -- time, this blog has an item related to the Michael Jackson trial. The mother of the teenager who accused Jackson of molesting him asserted her Fifth Amendment privilege and refused to answer questions about an alleged welfare fraud. Judge Melville permitted her to testify anyway, rejecting defense objections that the her acceptance of welfare payments that she was not entitled to receive goes to her credibility, on the ground that other evidence can be used to impeach her credibility. ...

There is a lot of debate about Michael Jackson's guilt or innocence today. With many of the witnesses being of less than sterling character themselves, I've heard a few people say that they could not vote to convict. The irony is that these questionable witnesses are the very people Jackson hand-selected to surround him. I believe the man is a pedophile and I hope he is convicted -- pedophiles have the highest recidivism rate among all sex offenders and there will no doubt be more victims if he is not prevented from having access to children. But...

Je serais curieux de savoir qui il faut consulter pour s'attribuer un titre comme celui l�. Arthur roi de la radio, Michael Jackson peter pan et moi roi du sexe si vous le voulez bien.

WHDH-Channel 7 has a promo touting an Edward R. Murrow around they received. So far so good. Only the promo juxtaposes footage of Murrow with WHDH reporter Ryan Owens covering the Michael Jackson case. Why mention in one breath and take away in the next?

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Michael Jackson's former maid, the mother of a boy who claims he was fondled by Michael Jackson three times as youth, offers damning testimony:

The defense in the Jackson case is trying its hardest to discredit the prosecution's witnesses. The maid and her son received a legal settlement from Jackson in the mid-1990's. Her son, who has previously testified that he was fondled by Michael Jackson, often could not answer the cross-examination, e.g. claiming that he had forgotten exactly what he told the police at the time. But the testimony—as well as more like it to come—is damning. Michael Jackson has admitted to sleeping with young boys, so when the maid relates finding Jackson and a boy topless in bed together, should we doubt her testimony? The evidence is mounting, anecdote upon anecdote. The jury will probably overlook the victims' lack of perfect memory: they were young at the time and can hardly be blamed for faulty memory about wording used in reports to the police. The maid's lack of direct experience of Neverland molestation should be no credible defense, since child molesters are not known for parading their exploits in front of parents and other responsible adults. And the settlement money? Why would the maid and her son, and another forthcoming witness who received a legal settlement of over $20mil, have any reason to jeopardize the results of those civil lawsuits by coming forth to lie now? They are not getting anything out of this current trial—except, perhaps, the satisfaction of watching the victimizer squirm.

Merkwaardige en fraaie vondsten uit de Google Maps worden verzameld op het kakelverse Google Sightseeing weblog. Nationale monumenten, wonderen der natuur en de speeltuin van Michael Jackson: allemaal te zien vanuit de ruimte.

En lisant le journal ce matin, j'ai pu constater qu'un grand nombre de journalistes se posent de dr�les de questions sur le comportement �trange de Michael Jackson. Plusieurs le consid�rent comme �nigmatique et impr�visible et utilisent ce comportement comme argument pour insinuer que s'il s'entoure d'enfants, c'est n�cessairement parce ce qu'il veut abuser sexuellement d'eux.

La grosse question que je pose ici est de savoir si, selon mes lecteurs, Michael Jackson est un infantiliste. Selon moi, bien que je n'exclue pas la possibilit� qu'il ait r�ellement touch� au sexe d'un autre enfant, je crois qu'il est plut�t sur un plan d'�gal-�-�gal avec eux. Bon, chose certaine, �a risque de ne pas �tre tr�s bon pour la cause infantiliste tout �a et c'est bien dommage.

The other day I overheard a couple of coworkers debating the Michael Jackson case.

This after Michael Jackson had one of his toughest weeks in court as multiple former Neverland Ranch employees testified to witnessing sexual abuse boys. They provided explicit details that the prosecution used to try and establish what they contend as a pattern of sexual misconduct that has spanned years.

In my opinion, there seems to be a overwhelming amount or evidence and accusations. There seems to be a pattern by Michael Jackson of paying off families once accusations are levied. Just taking this at face value, there is no doubt, in my mind, that I would never leave my child alone with anyone that has even a thought about this pattern of activity.

By the end of the conversation my mind was clear, whether you or I believe Michael Jackson did commit the offensive behavior he is accused, matters not to the law. In the O.J. Simpson trial as well as the Robert Blake trial, the school of public opinion convicted each long before the trial was over. Both were acquitted.

With that, as much as I think Michael Jackson is guilty, I will also be very surprised if Michael Jackson is convicted, others should be also.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson designed his Neverland ranch as a retreat from the prying world. bolster prosecution claims that Jackson molested boys. Jackson’s lawyer has worked to confront the witnesses with their

Perfect fit for the job, right? The chimp nominating a guy like this is like nominating Michael Jackson as the head of child protective services. See what I'm saying?

Doctor Who is brilliant. First episode, bit dodgy but good family fun. Second episode some decent hardcore sci-fi giving a dusting over by Michael Jackson jokes and supernovas. Third episode, fighting gas ghost aliens in 19th century Cardiff with Charles Dickens saving the day.

Chances are he’s got a skeleton in his closet (perhaps something related to the fact that he sang backup for Michael Jackson in the 90s??…yes thats true), but it’s interesting to think at how this could play out if he was trying to use American Idol the way it uses the talented kids who perform on the show. If so, I say more power to him.

Thank goodness that the Pope's unembalmed corpse is finally gone and the media can go back to minute by minute coverage of the Michael Jackson trial. I just couldn't take the media's hagiography of this little man in a big hat any more.

Jackson among mourners at lawyer’s funeral 08.04.05 LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson joined a black celebrity guest list of mourners at legendary lawyer Johnnie Cochran’s funeral on Wednesday.

I personally think that what is going on right now with the Michael Jackson trial is horrible. I for one, have no problem declaring publicly that I believe him to be innocent. I think that because of the person he is, it is very believalbe that he would commit such disgusting crimes. People are taking advantage of his instability and perhaps have alterior motives. The media can be cruel, and it is impossible for this man to get a fair trial after everything that has happened in the past ten years. I was so dissapointed to hear that evidence from...

As recently as last week I was having a conversation, well not really a conversation, but a discussion about the Michael Jackson trial. At the time, I stood strong on my belief in the principal that we are innocent until pr oven guilty, faced with a friend who believes he is guilty.

And something about that, that very idea that Michael Jackson might be guilty, is very disturbing. Occasionally, I will be somewhere public and one of his songs will come on the radio. And oddly, I feel dirty, or just … strange, hearing it. I still remember where I was the first time I heard all of the Thriller LP, and now.. now I cringe if I hear something off it.

Look, Malkin shouldn't be called names like this, but it would behoove her not to automatically assume anyone darker than Michael Jackson is an agent of Al Qaeda or that anyone to the left of Dick Cheney is the antichrist.

The bottom line is that nearly 400,000 people have died of disease, starvation and violence at the hands of the Sudanese government and the Janjaweed militias, yet the crisis has receives barely a fraction of the coverage garnered by the legal problems faced by Michael Jackson or Martha Stewart.

Back on track with this episode. Inane ramblings on Michael Jackson, Terry Schiavo and the Pope. Adam and I embark on starting a new format to the show.

Ok. So, I’m pretty sure that Michael Jackson is not 100% innocent. I don’t know what the true story is but if he had to pay off little boys, I’m sure he did SOMETHING wrong. Now, regardless of that, my question is, if people that worked for him SAW him do inappropriate things, why didn’t they do something sooner?? Why didn’t they go to the police? Or the parents of the kids?? Why didn’t they try to get proof, like video?

Our life on campus was not much different from Ali's, as a matter of fact. At Beijing Teachers College, now Capital Normal University 北京師範学院 (�・首都師範大学), we had four classes in the morning and no class in the afternoon. We went to class, usually. We didn't necessarily play basketball, but we played cards, played Madonna and Michael Jackson on the cassette player (remember, it was the mid-1980s), we played the fool, and played away our youth, money and time. We went home, which was one minute walk downstairs, since our classroom and dormitory rooms were in the same building. And we did our homework -- well, most of the time.

Everybody misunderstands me, and I grew up without a father. You know I love you Hayley, you’re my world. But your mother, who contributed half of your DNA, is a fucking bitch!!!! But the reason I feel that way is because I grew up without a father. Fuck shit asshole you suck! (*fart noise*) Fag joke! (*belch noise*) The war is wrong, and if I get killed now, you know why it happened? It’s because I had the BALLS, the GUTS to be the ONE person in entertainment to speak out against the war! (*vomit noise*) Here are some Michael Jackson...

Okay… In the Michael Jackson case, this maid has testified that she saw Jacko showering with the kid he supposedly molested. Now this maid’s son got a 2.4 million dollar payout from Jacko back in 1994 for claiming that he molested him… Meanwhile, in 2003 the maid is still working for him. Is it just me, or is this absolutely fucking insane? First of all, who the fuck keeps working for someone after they’ve supposedly molested your own freaking son? Second of all, she thinks she saw him showering with a kid?? Why the fuck didn’t she report it back then, and AGAIN, how the fuck could she still keep working for him?

I find that I care about the fact that so many young people - American, especially, but non-American as well - are losing their lives in an unjust war, but have refused to read one article or watch a single newscast about the Michael Jackson case. I do not follow gossip columns focused around the cult of celebrity and could care less what a “celebrity” does or says about anything.

for every time Michael Jackson stuck his hand down my pants, I'd be a very rich man.

By the way, I must defend Michael Jackson. No, no, not the molestation charges - of course he did it. I’m referring to the mean stories about his nose. Michael J. did NOT overdo the plastic surgery! No - it’s a lie! He had the flu and accidentally rubbed away crucial parts of his nose in the blowing process - just as I have been doing, lo, these past 4 days!

In that category also can be filed an update about the Michael Jackson trial. I’m staying in the dark as to what is going on, so to read about people being trapped in the Neverland fortress make no sense to me, nor stories of Jackson staffers physically threatening the guests, nor rumors of smear campaigns and maligned hypnotists (well, he’s only attached to the trial because he shares a publicist with Mike). About those I really do not care, nor will I seek more information. I did find one thing interesting: this former publicist has...

There's no shortage of TV legal experts covering the Michael Jackson trial. In fact, they're crawling over each other to get to the cameras. Some are doing it for free, to the dismay of the pros. Even OJ trial veteran Marcia Clark and her navel ring are getting into the act.

Korn (losers). 50 Cent (loser). Scorpion in Israel (losers). Belle and Sebastian (losers). Aviv Geffen (loser). Grandma’s in leopard skin underwear (ewww). Paul Mcartney (loser). Billy Joel (loser). Michael Jackson (Ziva: cool, harry: loser). Phish (loser), and on and on. Download their podcast today. It’s totally worth it just to hear Ziva say “Haaaarry!”

Ziva! Please stop the madness! Michael Jackson was so *not* cool. He was a corporate hack who got backed by Pepsi only to end usung the cans to house his “magic juice.” Oh Michael!

I’m with harry on that. Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 may have arguably been cool in the late 70s. Maybe. But by 1985? Holy crap. H e was in full on freak mode. Sooo not cool. Sorry Ziva.

Michael Jackson vient d’arriver à l’audience, ce 1er avril.

Larry Feldman est avocat des Arvizo. Il a aussi été avocat de la famille Chandler dans l’affaire de 93. Il a obtenu de Michael Jackson pour son client (Jordan Chandler) une somme estimée à 20 millions de $. Ceci afin qu’il retire son témoignage dans l’affaire d’attouchements en 93. En terminant ainsi avec cette affaire.

Devant la bare, il a expliqué qu’il avait été contacté par les Arvizo dans le cadre de la diffusion de “Living with Michael Jackson” de Martin Bashir, car ils n’avaient signé aucun contrat de diffusion. Il a expliqué qu’il avait alors envoyé les enfants chez le psychologue Katz et qu’ils ont ensuite contacté le département de l’enfance de Los Angeles (qui a finalement mené une enquête qu’ils ont classée). Feldman a alors expliqué qu’il avait contacté les autorité de S.B. (Tom Sneddon)...

Hier matin, c’est Jamie Mesada qui a été entendu par les jurés dnas le cadre du procès “Michael Jackson". Jamie Mesada est le responsable de la laugh factory, un endroit offrant aux jeunes enfants malades des cours de comédies pour les sortir de leurs problèmes.

C’est ensuite Cynthia Bell, une hotesse de l’air qui a été appellée à la barre. Elle était de service lors du vol en jet privé qui a relié Miami et Santa Barbara dans lequel se toruvait Mj et la famille Arvizo. Elle a déclaré que mettre de l’alcool dans des canettes de soda était sa propre idée. Elle a précisé que Michael jackson était quelqu’un de très nerveux à bord des avions et qu’elle avait suggéré cette idée pour que Michael puisse boire. Ceci car Michael Jackson n’aurait pas voulu boire...

Elle a dit qu’elle n’avait jamais vu Michael Jackson proposer de l’alcool à quelqu’un d’autre.

Elle a par ailleurs signalé que lors du vol, Gavin avait crié sur le Roi de la Pop parce que son repas n’était pas chaud et qu’il avait vraiment été infernal, contrairement aux enfants de Michael Jackson a-t-elle précisé.

Devant la barre il a expliqué comme s’était passée l’analyse des pièces saisies chez Michael Jackson et les prises d’empreintes sur places. Il a expliqué que les enquêteurs ont pris des empreintes sur des magazines pornographiques parce que les garçons avaient expliqué à la police que le Roi de la Pop les leur avait montré. Mais il a admis qu’aucun test d’empreintes et aucune analyse n’ont été faits sur les verres de vins, les bouteilles ou les portes de la chambre de Michael Jackson, alors que les...

Devant la bare, il a expliqué qu’il avait été contacté par les Arvizo dans le cadre de la diffusion de “Living with Michael Jackson” de Martin Bashir, car ils n’avaient signé aucun contrat de diffusion. Il a expliqué qu’il avait alors envoyé les enfants chez le psychologue Katz et qu’ils ont ensuite contacté le département de l’enfance de Los Angeles (qui a finalement mené une enquête qu’ils ont classée). Feldman a alors expliqué qu’il avait contacté les autorité de S.B. (Tom Sneddon)...

The defence in the trial of Michael Jackson have been dealt a severe blow with the news that the mother of the boy he is alleged to have abused refused money from a mystery millionaire.

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‘A FLIGHT attendant who has undermined prosecution claims that Michael Jackson served alcohol to his accuser during a plane trip testified yesterday that the boy was unruly, rude and started a food fight.

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‘Jurors in the Michael Jackson trial have heard evidence from the organiser of a comedy camp for underprivileged youth who introduced the superstar’s accuser, Gavin Arviso, to celebrities while the boy was being treated for cancer.

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‘Lisa Marie Presley aired her “Dirty Laundry” on “Oprah.” In the first of a two-part interview on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to promote her new album, Presley spoke Monday about her brief marriage to Michael Jackson, who is on trial in Santa Maria, Calif., on child molestation charges.

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At one point, the boy told Masada that Michael Jackson was his "idol" and wanted to know if he could arrange a meeting. Masada made several phone calls, never reaching Jackson himself. Word got to Jackson, however, and the singer called the boy personally at the hospital in August 2000.

Michael Jackson's jury will begin hearing allegations of past sexual misconduct against the singer in about two weeks.

UNDATED Michael Jackson says he's drawing on his faith in God to help him get through his child-molestation trial.

Pop star Michael Jackson plans to talk Sunday morning, to the Reverend Jesse Jackson on the civil rights leader's radio show.

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump might not want Michael Jackson to perform in Las Vegas after all.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - A Secret Service forensic scientist testified in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial today.

Palanker said she tried to get in touch with the mother after seeing the TV documentary "Living With Michael Jackson" in which Jackson and his accuser held hands, and Jackson acknowledged letting children sleep in his bed.

Michael Jackson was moving slowly and gingerly when he arrived at a California courthouse Tuesday.

He also said that it was unfair that Michael Jackson's jury has no black members and he challenged a reporter to imagine a situation in which a white person would be charged with molestation and have a predominantly black jury.

Pop star Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Thursday, March 17, 2005 in Santa Maria, Calif., to begin the fourteenth day in Jackson's trial on charges of child molestation. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant)

"No, I didn't want to be part of Michael Jackson's family, I never wanted that." the boy said. "I looked at him as a father figure and he looked at me as a son."

"After you met with an attorney you came up with a story that you were masturbated by Michael Jackson," Mesereau said.

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LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Michael Jackson were expected to step up their courtroom grilling of his teenage accuser, as the pop idol's child sex abuse trial enters its third week Monday.

Michael Jackson has explained the reason he arrived over an hour late to his child molestation trial Thursday - he tripped and injured his back.

"After you met with an attorney, you came up with a story that you were masturbated by Michael Jackson," said Mesereau.