Comments on: Pelosi Shoots Down Resolution Honoring Jackson

[stillwaters6]

Now THE BEATLES borrowed from the Isley Brothers and never paid them for thier work...SHAKE IT UP BABY...

Oh and before Ludwig Von Beethoven came along Classical music was in the pits...

[stillwaters6]

NOW THE BEATLES borrowed from the Isley Brothers without paying royalities....SHAKE IT UP BABY...

[stillwaters6]

HOLD UP...

ELVIS MARRIED AND SEX_ED PRISCILLA WHEN SHE WAS ONLY 14!

THE BEATLES HAD UNLIMITED WESTERN APPEAL YET LIMITED GLOBAL APPEAL AND THEY STOLE MUCH OF THEIR MUSIC FROM THE ISLEY BROTHERS!

If you're gonna dig one ditch you'd better dig two!

[stillwaters6]

HOLD UP...

ELVIS MARRIED AND SEX_ED PRISCILLA WHEN SHE WAS ONLY 14!

THE BEATLES HAD UNLIMITED WESTERN APPEAL YET LIMITED GLOBAL APPEAL AND THEY STOLE MUCH OF THEIR MUSIC FROM THE ISLEY BROTHERS!

If you're gonna dig one ditch you'd better dig two!

[stickdog3]

Thank you stillwaters6 - They often conveniently forget he married that girl when she was 14. And you're right The Beatles themselves admitted taking the Isley Brothers music, and Chuck Berrys. And you're right again. in that they had western appeal but limited global appeal at that time. Thats why Michael bought they catalog, and will be making money off of it for years and years to come, payback is a mother isn't it. Good post 'bro

[stickdog3]

Well said 'bro.

[stickdog3]

Very poignant piece. Seems you're tuned into life and the World. Or, are you? I fundamentally disagree with your assertion that Pelosi was right in her indignation. I say she was dead wrong. Your assertion that this type of thing (resolutions should be for people intertwined with government, is not a very noble suggestion. Actually Michael, visited quite a few Military hospitals Worldwide. Lots of times. Unfortunately the camers were never there. If you look up resolutions drawn up by Congress, you will see quite a few private citizens, that were awarded them. No, this isn't about Michael being a controversial figure (who isn't)? This if way beyond that. Way beyond that. We've had U.S. Presidents that make Michael look like a choir boy. We got one President on Mt. Rushmore right now who once said the "only good Indian is a dead Indian". Now put that in your peace pipe and smoke it.

[sandog1960]

I'm curious as to how many of you haters out there have your own slimy little secrets lurking in your closets.......

[stickdog3]

Well said 'bro.

[jeffstersf]

Charlie: Get a life

[jeffstersf]

I often agree with Nancy. Including now. You folks think she is a dogmatic lefty. Not true. She is PRAGMATIC, and I salute her for this move.

[rushlimpdrug]

Wow.

Nancy Polussy is a total wimp.

She is unbelievably stupid.

Did she ever get her CIA troubling remarks corrected?

[toldyouso29]

Pelosi was right to shoot this down. Even if MJ was not a controversial figure with a mysterious and perhaps sickening history; it still would not have been appropriate. To be honest--it never was appropriate for Congress to switch from their job as legislatures to PR promoters or historical revisionists. We are at war with two countries. We have, in short order alienated Russia and China who has ties to North Korea. We have, in short order indulged in activities that threaten the world both economically, physically and environmentally. We have a money and health crisis as well as a health insurance crisis.

We do not, in the middle of such challenges need to introduce any resolution or award or praise just to make certain groups feel good or to honor 1 person. Priorities. This is not the time or the place and Congress needs to get out of the business of trying to make personal agendas become our country's agenda. No person, no matter how well loved or famous or notorious should EVER be the focus of the entire country's government unless that person was an integral and critical part of that government and their death reflects that void and necessity for changed government policies.

No race should push for resolutions or promises that assuage their grief or demand others turn a blind eye to heinous accusations and information.

And for everyone who turned out for the funereal, who have spent the past few weeks crying and sighing and denying (nod to Jesse and his rhyming) : where were YOU before MJ died? Were you continuing to support him or go to his concerts? Could he count on YOUR money to help pay his legal bills as you bought CDs and magazines with him interviewed? Did you laugh at the jokes about him being a possible pedophile or homosexual? Did you tell or repeat the jokes?

The hypocrisy has to stop. From all the people (of every race) who did not care about MJ until he was gone and now --Niagra Falls--to Politicians who seek to honor him when he can no longer see it to the Politician who DARES to indict him on charges of sexual behavior when a court did not and who DARES (as that party does) to pass judgment and speak about a private citizen as if he is fodder for government or legislation.

Congress keeps forgetting their job. Jackson-Lee forgot hers in trying to elevate a private citizen when we have far more pressing business. King and others forgot theirs when they dared to reflect or discuss or proclaim MJ a "pervert" or pedophile. None of these people are performing in any capacity their elected jobs as legislatures. There are no laws concerning MJ on the floor--the type of remarks whether pro or con are more suited for the bar or club scene AFTER work is done, rather than as remarks any elected official should be making as a part of legal business.

On another note--take a look at the people who called Jackson a pervert and a pedophile. Look real closely. Some people have not learned their lessons yet. The bible says "Judge not, lest ye also be judged" The people yelping the loudest are suspect. They are too proud and self righteous and as everyone knows with Craig, Vitter, Spitzer, Foley, Ensign and Sanford, Gingrich and Guiliani--God LOVES to knock the legs out from under self righteous and haughty folk.

don't be surprised if, at some point the very people who criticized MJ are found to be doing similar things or being accused of it--like Sanford and his self righteous cloak about Clinton--then being discovered with his own adultery--what comes around goes around.

Some people just never, ever seem to learn that--no matter how many times God rubs their faces or their party's face in it.

[stickdog3]

Very poignant piece. Seems you're tuned into life and the World. Or, are you? I fundamentally disagree with your assertion that Pelosi was right in her indignation. I say she was dead wrong. Your assertion that this type of thing (resolutions should be for people intertwined with government, is not a very noble suggestion. Actually Michael, visited quite a few Military hospitals Worldwide. Lots of times. Unfortunately the camers were never there. If you look up resolutions drawn up by Congress, you will see quite a few private citizens, that were awarded them. No, this isn't about Michael being a controversial figure (who isn't)? This if way beyond that. Way beyond that. We've had U.S. Presidents that make Michael look like a choir boy. We got one President on Mt. Rushmore right now who once said the "only good Indian is a dead Indian". Now put that in your peace pipe and smoke it.

[sandog1960]

Have our leaders lost their collective minds? I believe there are much bigger fish to fry than wasting time on humanitarian resolutions - solve the economy!!

[MrBag]

I'm a conservative and this is one of the few times that I find myself in agreement with a Democrat.

[dg441-2009]

Way to go Pelosi!!! I agree 100%.

[ErrorInUse]

So every time some black entertainer dies there's going to be a request for a resolution? Give me a break. Black people didn't want him until he died. And government doesn't need to pass any resolutions for any celebrities. Give me a break. We are losing our ***** in this country and you want our pols to use our taxpayer money and time to pass freaking resolutions for dead celebrities. I loved MJ, but there's a time and place for everything and the House floor ain't it. Do your resolutin' in your house, in your neighborhood, wherever, but keep it out of Government.

[udontnoitall]

It doesn't matter that you "don't think MJ was a pedophile". How could you or anyone else possibly know one way or the other?

[CLoverNYC1]

You're right.

He was a self-hating drug addict with a hole for a nose and a monkey for a best friend, who just liked to sleep with prepubescent boys.

[stillwaters6]

at least he did not have the unmitigated gall to propose and legally marry and sex a 14 year old

[Newster1]

Pressed on why she opposed the resolution, Pelosi reiterated that House members could praise Jackson's life and work without a resolution."

Right, we don't need congress tied up with this garbage, we got an economy in shambles and a war in progress, there's far more important things congress needs to be doing!!!

[andylance1]

This action by Nancy Pelosi helps to prove the old cliche, that there is a little bit of good in everybody.

This is the first positive action by Nancy Pelosi since the voters of San Francisco elected her to public office.

[stickdog3]

Whats the problem? I just saw where 1 billion watched this Worldwide - He's just outsold all the current acts out there on the album charts. I didn't know he was in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the biggest contributer to charities by an individual citizen, its in the multi millions. Again whats the problem?
I am and am not surprised at thtis spearker of the house Wonder if she would deny a resolution for George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, both slave holders. What about Alexander Hamilton who was half black, would she disacknowledge him to because of that, please. Where do these people come from? Like that Peter King person, who are they? What part of their brain is telli them they're far superior, give me a break, what happens when they find out who, and, what, people on this earth they evolved from? Now what? Poor foolish creatures, I can't wait to see when that day comes and they bow down and take their rightful place in the pecking order.

[BM454]

I see you're living up to your screen name. I'm sorry what "Ghetto" or "Hood" are you from?
Or are you so blinded by "pop" culture that you aspire to be as trashy
as the trailer park you look down on?.."Dog"
Going through life praising ghetto/hood life,culture as virtues might be your goal in life, where as most people in that situation with half a brain struggle to get out of it.If there's any "Poor foolish creatures" around here,it's your foolish comment about "pecking orders",sounds just like the Nazis.
This is no place for our government,it maybe ideal in your world of "Idiocracy"