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Live Thread: Michael Jackson Memorial Service
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 | Kristinn

Posted on 07/07/2009 7:58:55 AM PDT by kristinn

The Jackson family has decided to bring Michael's body to the memorial service being held today at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, putting off the announced plans for a private internment at Forest Lawn cemetery from 8 a.m. PDT to after the service.

The 10 a.m. PDT service is being broadcast on all the major American broadcast and cable news networks, as well as in theaters across the country, the Times Square jumbotron in New York City and on TV screens around the world.

From Entertainment Weekly, performers and friends expected at the service include: Kobe Bryant, Mariah Carey, Berry Gordy, Jennifer Hudson, Shaheen Jafargholi, Magic Johnson, Martin Luther King III, Bernice A. King, John Mayer, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Brooke Shields, Usher and Stevie Wonder.

Michael's Jackson's close friend Elizabeth Taylor declined an invitation to speak at the service, writing in part on Twitter: "I cannot be part of the public whoopla."

In a strange but fitting twist of fate, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus elephant parade through the streets of Los Angeles is set to take place this morning with the elephants arriving at the Staples Center just hours before the service for the circus' scheduled run at the arena.


FILE - In this July 15, 2008 file photo originally supplied by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, take an early morning stroll en route to the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Stefano Paltera, file) (Stefano Paltera - AP)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benevolent; homosexualagenda; kingofpop; liars; michaeljackson; pedophile; rip
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To: kristinn

41 posted on 07/07/2009 8:16:57 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: indylindy

OMG- I had that very thought this morning.

I had the thought after seeing the circus is also in town :)


42 posted on 07/07/2009 8:17:44 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: stentorian conservative

This world has fallen into Idolatry before Michael Jackson’s death....

Before MJ ws Obama, and I am sure after MJ their will be another one.....


43 posted on 07/07/2009 8:19:07 AM PDT by TaraP (Unless we stand for something, we will fall for everything.")
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To: Dallas59

Why aren’t these mentally diminished cretins at work?


44 posted on 07/07/2009 8:19:39 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: kristinn

Today is also the running of the bulls in Pamplona. It will have more decorum than the circus in CA.


45 posted on 07/07/2009 8:19:47 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: TaraP
Was he sexually obsessed? -Yes.

Did her have an unusual and abnormal interest in young boys? -Yes.

46 posted on 07/07/2009 8:19:52 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: TaraP
Was he one of the best musical talents in the world-Yes

I guess if you like your ‘pop’ with no bite to it???....his little lame antics and incipid lyrics were at best not repulsive or hateful like (c)RAP. thats the best I can give it....

47 posted on 07/07/2009 8:21:44 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: TaraP
Will MJ be in heaven if he accepted Christ as his Saviour?-YES....

He converted to Islam, last year I believe.

48 posted on 07/07/2009 8:22:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: trisham; TaraP
Did her have an unusual and abnormal interest in young boys? -Yes.

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Oops! Freudian slip, no doubt!

49 posted on 07/07/2009 8:22:04 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Dallas59

Let’s see that Photo could be for:

1. American Idol

2. The Beatles

3. Michael Jackson

4. David Cassidy

5. Elvis Pressley

6. Barack Obama

Take your pick....


50 posted on 07/07/2009 8:22:18 AM PDT by TaraP (Unless we stand for something, we will fall for everything.")
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To: Vaquero

Like Paula Abdul with better dance moves.


51 posted on 07/07/2009 8:23:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: a fool in paradise

According to Neal Boortz, Michael Jackson is a “shovel-ready project”.


52 posted on 07/07/2009 8:23:56 AM PDT by jslade (People who are easily offended......OFFEND ME!)
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To: dfwgator

There was a freak show at the funeral of Rudolph Valentino too.


53 posted on 07/07/2009 8:23:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: TaraP
Was he a pedophile? he was never convicted of it...

PLEASE...he gave one family $22 million to shut them up. get your head out of your @$$. OJ wasn't convicted either....Jeeze!

54 posted on 07/07/2009 8:24:33 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: SE Mom

This is one embarrassing monstrosity that really tells us about our culture and makes the statement as to why we have been taken over by communists.

The silly MSM do not know how foolish they look.


55 posted on 07/07/2009 8:24:59 AM PDT by dforest (Anyone dumb enough to have voted for him deserves what they get.. No Pity!)
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To: kristinn
My bet is they do with MJ what the Iranians did with Khomeni.


56 posted on 07/07/2009 8:25:48 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
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To: gimme1ibertee; Slings and Arrows

I’m beginning to think that Micheal Jackson was the ONLY guy who could’ve beat Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election.


57 posted on 07/07/2009 8:26:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Vaquero

You are definetly in the Minority...

I no way worship Michael Jackson, but I don’t think I ever heard anyone say his Thriller album was not fantastic....

His music outshines any artist we have today, most have tried to copy him, especially his dancing.....

I had his the original Jackson 5 Album and Thriller, most kids growing up with him did...


58 posted on 07/07/2009 8:27:20 AM PDT by TaraP (Unless we stand for something, we will fall for everything.")
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To: EyeGuy

Well, people over 50 are retired and collecting huge pensions, the rest live off the people who are at work.


59 posted on 07/07/2009 8:27:46 AM PDT by dforest (Anyone dumb enough to have voted for him deserves what they get.. No Pity!)
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To: TaraP

60 posted on 07/07/2009 8:28:57 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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