We hear that Congress took a moment of silence to recognize the passing of Mr. Jackson. WTF? Get back to work, Senator! Go check with your office Congresswoman!!!
Where is the daily/weekly moment of silent recognition for our military members who have died in direct service to our country, to the cause of peace and in efforts to make one corner or another of the world a bit safer?

Where is the public recognition of these heroic deaths.. NOT related to celebrity excess, Drug abuse/addiction, and the media circus that has apparently become what is most important in the lives of average American citizens?

EVERY DAMN ONE OF THOSE SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN SHOULD HAVE TO SIT DOWN AND WATCH, phones and pagers switched off, no twittering, FROM START TO FINISH, the video TAKING CHANCE.

The celebrity culture is a shameful embarrassment in this country. This is the silliness where SEAN PENN feels he can and should go to IRaq to try and reason with SADDAM HUSSEIN, and Barely a peep is heard from the mainstream media to even question his actions. Michael Jackson was a gifted musician and a weird and terribly twisted and troubled person, who endangered children, abused drugs, and generally contributed little positive to our culture or country of late.

Every network carried this ridiculous maudlin wallowing
spectacle.

I know it will be talked about for months, but hopefully not on every channel.

Not one person in my inner circle of friends and relatives has mentioned this in the two weeks since MJ died.

So you can see how little we were affected.