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I wonder if it was the threat that gays pose to marriage that led Sanford to cheat on his wife. I bet that's what drove Ensign to it too.

First person to have three simulatneous top ten hits. Thriller was a top 10 album for 80 consecutive weeks, and number 1 for nearly half of those weeks (37.) He did a remix album in 96 or 97 - it went platinum. And sold 6 million world wide. Remix albums don't do that. The guy was massively popular.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 12:26 PM) Am I the only one who found/finds it absolutely repulsive the amount of coverage he's getting? He's a freakin' peder-ass. He was pyschotic. Yeah he was a gifted musician (25 years ago) with a difficult past, but that doesn't excuse the fact that he molested little boys and became a pain killer addict. I swear, flipping through the TV last night I was surprised it was Michael Jackson that died and not Jesus. And how about those awesome celeb statements? Madonna's says she can't stop crying. Quincy Jones said he lost a part of his soul. GMAFB. Quincy and Michael were supertight though - so I can see that. They worked together hand in hand for like 15 years - the street cred Q earned in the 80s and 90s are pretty much entirely due to Off The Wall and Thriller.

Newsweek: Mrs Sanford - PR Genius http://www.newsweek.com/id/203875?from=rss

This whole scandal is starting to read like a Craigslist Missed Connections ad.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 08:08 AM) Yesterday was crazy, my Facebook news feed was blowing up. This is all anyone was talking about. I went to a bar and suddenly it was all Michael Jackson on the jukebox. The London Sun was reporting that MJ overdosed on Demerol.

Michael Jackson dead at 50. But you probably already know that.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 22, 2009 -> 02:07 PM) Yes, because that's how it works. It is sometimes actually, although not nearly as often as proponents of universal health care coverage claim. It's also how having a public option would work as well.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 22, 2009 -> 02:05 PM) The scariest thing to me is that Iran as a country does something stupid to try to legitimize the need for Ach to be at the top, and that is most likely trying to provoke a war with a "new" Hawk PM in Israel with Bibby back at the helm. I think the struggle has more to do with internal pressures than external.

I saw the most amazing show this weekend. The band is "Hess Is More" They are from Denmark. The woman singer went into the audience mid show and started wrapping random members of the audience in packing tape.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 21, 2009 -> 05:28 PM) This is where the GOP steps in their s*** all the time. They want to be the "moral" party because of their evangelical ties, and what they don't get is morality shouldn't be edicted from the government. Humans are immoral beings, period, and the second you start judging another you're in the wrong. Now... I may have issues with a person, but I shouldn't judge them. They could be served this little dose of reality once in a while. This is where us bleeding hearts have one up on "family values" conservatives. Since we're always apologizing for everything anyway, forgiveness is much easier to get.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 10:45 PM) Does anyone in Obama's administration pay taxes? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/us/19mar..._r=2&ref=us Umm, you mean collect their refunds?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 03:46 PM) So now we're down to 1/2 of the 1/2 of the 1/2. Yet, that's still better then Pelosi. I'm sorry. She's just a dumb, pathetic (aww hell I have to censor myself). ETA: And I didn't like him, either. I'm no Pelosi fan, but I will say this... it seems that we're getting back to business as it was sort of meant to be done in Congress. I'm not talking about shenanigans and whatnot, but more along the lines of this. The House was always meant to be a partisan place. The Senate was meant to be more bipartisan and amenable to compromise. It's why things pass in the House and get held up in the Senate. It's why people like Kucinich and Sali are congressmen and people like Lugar and Kennedy (say what you will about Kennedy - but he's proven time and again to work with both sides of the aisle.) are in the Senate. But I do think that we all would do better with another Speaker of the House.

Ensign apparently is backing away from his claim of blackmail. Since it turns out, it wasn't blackmail - but the fact that the offended husband contacted Fox News a week before Ensign admitted to the affair. Apparently, now the office is claiming that Ensign knew of the contact with Fox News before the admission.... FWIW, Fox News was the last network to cover the affair, despite having had knowledge of it for a week before anyone else. Turns out, it wasn't blackmail, it was about trying to control the embarrassment. http://lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/18/en...ched-media-sto/ Doug Hampton's letter: http://lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/19/te...usbands-letter/

Two bottles of wine and a liter of Radeberger later, I can tell you that Yoko Ono is totally underrated. And my cat is hilarious.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 11:50 AM) Here's the interview with Walpin. Don't even pay attention to Beck if you don't like him...The first half is at the bottom of this link: http://www.therightscoop.com/video-glenn-b...r-june-17-2009/ This is the sanity test Beck gave him: I'm sorry, but yeah, I ain't buying these charges they are putting on Walpin. First off, he's man enough to come on TV and defend himself, while the people placing these charges on him are hiding behind closed doors. Also, who cares where he was working, he was getting his job done, and evidently, he must have been doing his job pretty good if they wanted him to do a big speech where got more time than the CEO of the company that ran this event. And he doesn't seem senile to me, a little old, yes, but not senile. This is so bogus. The left went crazy when Bush LEGALLY fired the lawyers, but when Obama ILLEGALLY fires an Inspector General on bogus charges, you only got Glenn Beck reporting. There should absolutely be an investigation into this firing assuming that Obama did not properly follow protocol on the firing of the inspector general. That being said, Glenn Beck has no business giving anyone a sanity test.

QUOTE (Cubano @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 11:26 PM) Would the Japanese surrender without a fight? Could the USA had sent lots of troops to fight Japan in addition to the the European front? How many American lives were saved by not fighting Japan with a conventional army? Droping an atomic bomb among civilians is truly horrible, but I am not sure what the USA could had done differently. Didn't the USA warn the Japanese about the atomic bomb? The same President who presided over the creation of the UN also was the President who presided over the bulk of the Korean conflict.

QUOTE (Cubano @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 08:55 PM) That is what this country elected when helping create the U.N. and contribute most of the money for it. Based on your post, then it was a mistake entering WWI and WWII. The same President during the creation of the United Nation was the same President who authorized the only wartime deployment and use of atomic weapons.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 12:16 PM) As Balta said a few posts ago this isn't about democracy vs. theocracy and never has been, although some of us in the US wish it was. It's about the theocratic hardliners (Khameini, Ahmadinejad) vs. the theocratic pragmatists (Rafsanjani, Mousavi, also by extension Khatami). This has been brewing for a few years now, has now come to a head, and nobody really knows how it's going to play out. Except the fight is going to cause an unintended casualty, the Islamic Republic itself. What will happen? Who knows. Certainly, not a suddenly secular Iran.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 12:36 PM) Either way, this seems like a case where some Congressional oversight might be warranted. Unfortunately, Congress hasn't cared much about that lately. Agreed.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 12:21 PM) I thought liberal posters here only made excuses for Dems? Oh, I was just playing detective. My own personal game of Clue. It's Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with a candlestick?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 12:32 PM) He sold out on that on his campaign, so, what did people expect there? I'm over that, though. Besides him obviously being two-faced, I don't think the issue itself is what it was blown up to be in the first place. He's been more or less what I thought he was going to be. I didn't want sweeping super-liberal change and that isn't what I was voting for. I figure, there are goals, and there is what you can accomplish as president. That's about what he is. I also know that the entire government is not going to change overnight. Sometimes I wonder when I see certain criticisms from people - would they wake up from triple bypass surgery not even sure if they're going to live yet, and ask the doctor why their LASIK surgery wasn't done? True that. Foreign policy wise, I think he's been pretty Aces. And I think that's a big change and a good one too.

I'd argue that by and large, Obama has taken a lot of steps that are in line with what he's spoken about in his campaign. The only people he's sold out so far has been the gay community.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 11:34 AM) If Im reading this article right, this top aide seems slimy too. He finds out that his wife was cheating on him with this Senator, has a "positive encounter" with the senator, and then demands money? Quite a way to get through the grief of the news. Now, its more likely that "positive" means that no fists were thrown and this guy was actually quite upset, but the quick demand for money is quite odd to me. Well, the guy was making 140K a year as an aide to the Senator. The affair happens, he's no longer working for the Senator - has a million dollar mortgage and less than 30K to his name according to Congressional disclosure.... His public figure boss just slept with his wife.... it's not hard to put two and two together there....

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 11:58 AM) Ack-muh-DEE-neh-jahd My new spelling is easier. In fact I may just move to A...d