The MJ Show

I watched 22.5 minutes of the Michael Jackson tribute. I have to be kinda honest....this is between flipping though 30 channels over a 90-minute period.

Frankly, it was a combination of (1) a Vegas chimpanzee show, (2) a three-ring circus, and (3) a collection of a dozen semi-washed up 1990's entertainers. I didn't catch the end....where I'm now told that Paris (MJ kid #2) apparently did a ending speech...which some folks felt it was rigged by the family in some fashion.

You got the impression that it was a show.....a really sad tragic show.

A comparison to Lady Di? No, it was never for one moment anything like that funeral. At some point, as her brother did his speech....you got a 'Churchhill-moment' that was 5-star.

I'm hoping this kinda concludes this episode....but I seriously doubt it.

Common Sense Question

So right now on the news....they are saying that Obama has wrapped up a deal with the nation's hospitals to give him (really us) a swell $150-billion cut over ten years....mostly over Medicaid. The media is almost weeping over this.

So if your business operation volunteered to give up $150-billion over ten years....shouldn't your stock be dumping? Every single rule in the book says that every hospital stock in America should drop by twenty-five percent today. They aren't.

So the real question here is.....did they really give up any money? Was this real money they gave up or imaginary money? Did every hospital in America meet with the Obama team? Did everyone just sign and agree with no "exceptions"?

Something here has a real bad smell to it. It's kinda like being in a slum, with a dead horse in front of you, and five sweaty French guys sitting next to you.