Posted on 07/04/2009 10:04:58 AM PDT by Cicero
Los Angeles is a city in mourning. And by that we mean Los Angeles is a city with dollar-signs spinning in its neon eyeballs, thanking its lucky stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the Celebrity Death of the Century. What with the housing market and the Dow Jones and the unemployment figures, it couldn’t have come at a better time.
With only three days to go before the Funeral To End All Funerals — or the Memorial To End All Memorials, as it might more accurately be called — this city has suddenly found itself the direct recipient of what can only be termed the 2009 Michael Jackson Stimulus Package.
And just how stimulating is Tuesday’s $25-per-head deathapalooza at the Staples Centre going to be? “It’s going to be huge. Massive,” promises Brian Oxman, one of the singer’s less publicity-shy former lawyers.
In fact, up to a million people from across the globe are already supposedly on their way. Tuesday was chosen as the date, because on Wednesday the venue had already been booked — by a circus, of all things.
(Excerpt) Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk ...
They should raise the tourist taxes for three days.
the morally sick state has a morally sick hero... albeit, a dead one
Send an email to Arnold suggesting it. Maybe you could ask for 5%.
And if the million people are any more in lockstep, what a quake that would be. CA could moonwalk itself into the Pacific.
10%
I can’t wait for this circus to go away!
Sheesh...conservatives hoping for raised taxes...no wonder we are in the mess we are in. Perhaps you are just a RINO yourself. Go to Europe if you want taxes raised.
I dunno.....makes a certain amount of sense. Tax the stupid. Like Rush's theory of taxing the poor. If you want less of something - tax it. If you want more of something - subsidize it. I say we have been subsidizing stupidity for way too long. Time to tax it!
[cue Jo “Supernanny” Frost]
“That Times editor is very naughty.”
One of my in-laws has just or nearly completed her nursing program and has to attend some function in LA near the Staples center on Tuesday. Fortunately, she booked a room over a month ago, but it’s still going to be a mad-house. She’d cancel if it weren’t mandatory.
The Brits have a proper sense of humor. And they also do the best obituaries.
Im waiting for the riots....
I just don’t agree with raising taxes at this time at all. If the liberals are taxed...who is next? We claim that all the time and now we have drank the cool aide. Yieks! This is a strange time.
My post was meant as an, obviously unsuccesful, attempt at light humor.
Sorry...didn’t mean to be snarky...I am just roasting in my house as the ac went out...I am grouchy. Of course the folks can’t come out and fix it until Monday....Ugh. I may go out and get a window unit just for the weekend...lol. Not!
It's kind of supply and demand. Only so many people can fit in the city, there's more demand than supply, so raise the prices.
That’s OK. I’d be cranky if my airconditioning went on the fritz, too. I don’t do heat well. :)
Stimulus that works.
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