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The massive energy tax bill, the largest tax increase in American history, aka The Cap & Trade/Global Warming bill is active in the House today. Heritage has the best analysis of the impact of this piece of crap. Beware of Cap and Trade Climate Bills
Here’s Michelle Malkin’s liveblogging of the Energy Tax fight in the House
Americans for Prosperity has a list of congressional members and where they stand on this debacle.
Video: Palin Addressing Troops in Kosovo
Salon: Michael Jackson’s celebrity suicide
…And finally, a black moral hole, and a descent into a double life as a sexual predator. You’ve heard about not taking candy from a stranger; Jackson’s candy took the form of literal amusement parks. There were nights of fun and sleepovers and inappropriate touching and …
Accusations were leveled many times; most cases were settled; one case, gone to trial, ended in an acquittal in Santa Maria in 2005.
In the obituaries, writers will savor Jackson’s talents, which were unquestioned; his ambition, which was otherworldly and a thing of awe; and his heyday, which lasted really just a few years, and encompassed perhaps two and a half albums. Others will reflect on the tragedies visited upon him and those he visited on others.
I think it’s fair to classify Kurt Cobain’s death as one brought on by medical problems, specifically the roiling interaction of depression and addiction. Jackson’s death is in this sense more purely a suicide, just as Elvis Presley’s was some three decades ago. Like Presley, Jackson at some point stepped through a door, closed it, and turned the key. What went on behind the door we’ll never know.
Good news: Animal cruelty may be added as a charge to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
