Five Lessons We Can Learn From Michael Jackson's Death

Watching the news coverage of Michael Jackson’s death reminds me of the hostess party scene from the movie Goodfellas where one of the mafia wives says we always talk about them like they’re saints once their gone.

Michael Jackson is dead and there is nothing that can bring him back but the one “redeeming” thing we can take from his death is the lessons we all can learn from it.

1)Unless you love yourself it doesn’t matter how many other people do. This is a man who hated who he was and what he looked like so much he many actually hold the world record for plastic surgeries. No matter how many people packed into a stadium or lined the streets to see him he never liked what he saw in the mirror.

2)Never buy into your own hype. Adoration is more powerful drug than Heroin. When you receive it to the degree he did it’s easy to believe not only do you deserve it but are entitled to it. After the Thriller album he no place to go but down. Very few artists will ever have a success like Thriller and no one has ever had a second one. Fleetwood Mac never had another Rumors and Peter Frampton never had another Comes Alive. There is nothing wrong with dreaming big but you only set yourself up for intolerable pain when you chase the impossible.

3)No matter if you get them from a Dr. or Dealer DRUGS WILL KILL YOU. He wasn’t the first person become an addict and by no means will he be the last. It’s difficult to perform when you’re so stoned you can’t lift your head off a pillow. If you have a drug problem there are many places to go for help call one now.

4)Keep your sexual appetites to yourself. There is an old saying if one person calls you a horse you can ignore it if enough people say it it’s time to buy a saddle. I don’t care how many public denials he made about the molestation charges, He would deny it with a statement and then prove it with his actions. The only reason he won the criminal trial is the jury hated the accuser’s family worse than they hated what he did. If you suffer from a perversion get help don’t flaunt it.

5)At the end of the day no matter how many people know and appreciate your work you are just a person and are open to the same temptations and downfalls as the rest of us and you can pay the highest price there is for it. Your life.

More Of The Same

I am sitting here reading about another politician who has had an affair. This time it is Senator John Ensign of my home state of Nevada.

Maybe I an uninformed or don’t hold elected officials to the same standard others do but my reaction is so what.

As far as I can tell Sen. Ensign did his job every day, didn’t funnel campaign or state money to her or do anything else even close to illegal. All he did was have sex with a woman who wasn’t his wife and that is nobody’s business except his and Mrs. Ensign.

Does this make him unable or unworthy to carry out the business of the state of Nevada? I don’t see why not.

It is time to realize our elected officials are people just like you and I and susceptible to the same desires and temptations as the rest of us.

I think the Senator did the right thing by keeping this private as long as he did and only came forward to protect himself from the extortion attempt of the husband of the woman he was seeing.

There are some things that are not the business of the people and what an official does at the end of their work day provided it is not illegal is one of them.
This is not a new story. Only the names have changed.

We all remember President Clinton’s involvement Monica Lewinsky. I had no problem with it then or now.

The only thing I feel President Clinton did wrong was lie about it when it became public. He could have saved the country a great deal of time, trouble, and money by coming clean when it became public, just as Senator Ensign did.

When it comes time for the Senator’s re-election I hope the people of Nevada will vote based on the job they feel he has done and not what two consenting adults did on their own time behind a closed door.

Just What Did You Prevent? Nothing.

I have never understood the view of the select few who use violence in the war against abortion.

I just do not see how murder prevents murder. Yes I know all the standard arguments that by killing the doctor you have saved all the lives he or she would have killed. I understand those arguments I just don’t buy them.

I do not want to turn this blog into a debate abortion itself. If it is something you really want to discuss I would rather save that for another entry where it can be given the full consideration it is due. Today I want to talk about killing doctors.

People who kill abortion doctors always say they are following God’s will yet completely ignore the sixth commandment. If you believe in the Ten Commandments how do you pick this one to ignore.

Killing abortion doctors is not going to stop abortions. Abortions are a business just like the removal of kidney stones or any other medical procedure. As long as there is profit to be made doctors will perform abortions. It is as simple as that.

People who kill abortionists give Christians a bad name (and the people who do this always profess to be Christians). I am sure if you were to poll the Christian population 99.9% would say abortion is murder and it should be outlawed. That is their right. I’m sure the same 99.9% would say it is just as big a sin to walk into a church with a gun and kill someone who performs abortions.

People who kill abortionists hide behind the name of Christianity without really knowing any of its core values. The majority of Christians would never even consider such a thing.

If you are that against legal abortion the way to stop it is to have the Supreme Court overturn Roe V. Wade not by bombing buildings and shooting people no matter what they do for a living.

When you take this route you are no better than the terrorists we are fighting around the world right now.