Michael Jackson: IMMORTAL

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Amazing transitions from one pop hit to the next with tunes ranging from The Jackson 5 to "Blood On the Dance Floor" and, of course, it wouldn't be a Cirque du Soleil production sans fantastic impossible costumes, soaring, flipping, twisting acrobats and contortionists, and dance numbers that rivaled the lighting and video effects.

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Video of philippine inmates dancing to Thriller

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"Thriller" in Philippines @ Yahoo! Video

This baby sings pop !!

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This little runt can beat it-beat it. The seat belt chokes him but it doesn't slow his roll. Gone with yo bad self!

I cannot STAND Jermaine Jackson

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I cannot STAND Jermaine Jackson. He makes me sick. He is so schmaltzy...so shiny claymation and unbelievable. I don't think that the man is insincere in his interviews but, just look at him! I find it hard to take him seriously. His face looks rubbery, his hair looks rubbery, and that voice. Jesus Christ! Does that grown man actually sound like that?! How is it that Joe and Tito are the only men in the family who don't sound like either of the sisters or a prepubescent boy?  

he is so schmaltzy...so shiny claymation and unbelievable.  I find it hard to take him seriously

Joe and Tito Jackson have the voice boxes of men. Jermaine sounds like a lilting elfin. It was fine on Michael because he was all about the overly sensitive genius who never-had-a-childhood motif; and we were accustomed to Michael's voice which went along with his face: light, small, delicate, non-threatening, juvenile.

I think the family spokesman is putting on airs. He sounds ridiculous, he looks ridiculous and half of what he says makes me wish someone would hand him a shovel.

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Michael Jackson has yet to leave from our consciousness. Greatness is immortal. His music and style and quirkiness have touched us. Long live the King of Pop.

worldwide tributes mark the 1st year anniversary of Michael Jackson's passing

Going back to Indiana

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Since Michael Jackson's death his hometown, Gary, Indiana, has garnered more attention outside of the daily police blotter. There's always been stifled debate about turning the Jackson 5 home on 2300 Jackson Street into a proper tourist attraction but too, too many mice and no balls means the cat never gets her bell necklace.
More than anything else, local resentment of the family's fame and success killed the trip to the historical registry...and we all know Gary knows killing. Even the city's historical society skims over the Rock&Roll Hall of Famers.

But now da Mayor Pink Panther is all abluster about turning the Jackson house into a point of interest. Beating his cuff links to the punch, though, are two entrepreneurial women from Chicago experienced in guided tours who have started the "King of Pop Hometown Tour," a four-hour long bus tour from Chicago through Gary.

Hmmm, now why didn't someone from G.I.! or Lake County think of this...?

Mayor Pink Panther ready to cash in on Jackson fame

After all of this time, the city of Gary and its Mayor Pink Panther are finally "seriously" talking about capitalizing on the historicity of The Jackson 5.

Historical status eyed for Jackson neighborhood - Chicago Breaking News

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Michael Jackson Memorial Service - July 7 2009

Jackson siblings & John Mayer

Young fans in Romania & a fan at L.A.'s Staple Center

Mickey Rooney & Usher

Because I want to support black business

Am not a big T-shirt guy and even less likely to sport torso bumper stickers---y'know those shirts with ironic or cheeky sayings like "Sexy Grandma" (when worn by some dork who mistakes his penis for an Xbox joystick), "Save Water.Drink Bieer," "Sex Expert. First Lesson FREE," "Bitch"---but I do want to buy a Michael Jackson print.

Problem is I couldn't find a black store owner around Downtown Toronto. The nearby custom T-shirt and skateboard shops, for whom its mainstay customers, disaffected skate punks and hipsters with arrested development, regard irony a RedBull spin-off, have a nice selection of MJ shirts but the staff are all monochromatic white. I don't think so.

This is one of those cases where my dollars will go to a black owned business or I'll just have to make do without a farewell shirt.

NY official is sick of MJ

This NY politician insists MJ was a "pervert, child molester...pedophile" and is sick of being dying to attend his memorial when they should be dying in Afghanistan like good little heroic sheep instead.

view congressman's video clip

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Michael Jackson had civil rights...just like you

I was very impressed by Duane Booth's sobering article on the death of Michael Jackson. With a title like "A most important civil right died with Michael Jackson" it was hard not to look beyond the cover. Click on the excerpt below to read Mr Booth's entire article:

Among the tributes, accolades and genuine love shown for Jackson in memorium, there were choruses of people who absolutely refused to view him as anything but a monster or a freak show. It struck me as terribly sad that at one moment where we mark the start of a civil rights movement and in a year when another such movement marked its most crowning achievement with Barack Obama’s inauguration one of the most fundamental civil rights to which we are all entitled as citizens of democracies has all but vanished [italics added].

Any remaining threads of presumption of innocence died on June 25, 2009 at 2:25 p.m. [italics added]

Many people remarked about how it was inappropriate to mourn a man who “molested children” and destroyed the lives of so many young boys through his predatory ways. The trouble is, never once has it ever been proven that Jackson ever molested a child. Only two 13-year-old boys ever took Jackson to court - once in a civil trial in 1993 and once in a criminal trial a decade later. The civil trial was settled without any finding of wrongdoing and begged the question that if the case not about money, why would it not have been pursued criminally? Simple. Not enough evidence. You don’t have to prove guilt in a civil trial. The parents of the first child were well known to have financial troubles and there was mounting evidence that this lawsuit was nothing more than a way to tap a very naive man who clearly had difficulties functioning as an adult for large sums of money.

Michael Jackson - 1958-2009

REST IN PEACE