Like he cares. You know he was thinking, "Snow day! I'm going hunting."

so the government is now going to shut down every time a hollywood person dies? that's great,just great.

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Don't you think a "preventing prescription drug abuse" campaign shouldn't be postponed due a death by POSSIBLE PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE?

I'm so over GWB…and the WBC….and TLC, no…not TLC, I love those ho's

George was probably just too feklempt to carry on.

In the name of Lisa Left Eye Lopez what the hell?

Don’t you think a “preventing prescription drug abuse” campaign shouldn’t be postponed due a death by POSSIBLE PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE?

Mom… You are being rational again. This is Dubya we're talking about. There is no interaction betwixt rational thought and Dubya.

Who knew he cared so much about Heath. I wonder if he warned him like Jack did?

oh god juju you crack me up

Sorry Sugar…I forget who the American public elected to lead the country for eight years.

This condolence was brought to you buy Bank of Anerica

Don't blame me, Mom. I didn't vote for him. It scared the hell out of me to think that a man who couldn't even pronounce 'nuclear' would be allowed to have his finger on the button!

So to recap:

George Bush cares about drug addicts.

He doesn't care about black people.

He's very conflicted about Whitney Houston.

Osama loves Whitney. She must be a part of some kind of axis.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said Bush's event had been scheduled for a while.
"We thought it would be better to postpone the event rather than run the risk of anyone thinking that we were being opportunistic in highlighting the issue," she said.
HA! They got so much shiat from being opportunistic TRUMPING UP A WAR, that has now been proved to be based on lies, they'll back out of anything. Wow. (or bush just wanted to golf with his Bank of America bros)

Oh Sugar, i wasn't blaming you darling. I didn't vote for him either and it just gets so frustrating sometimes, ya know?

Mom I'm frustrated too.

I say we blame the boys! You know how they are… especially Joe. He'd vote for satan himself if he ran a republican.

I tried to have a discussion with him after Rush Limbaugh got tagged for his little oxi-cotton ordeal (following his multiple rants concerning drug users.) You know his response? "Well that was different. He was talking about illegal drugs." My brothers are fuckin' idiots. (No offense Mom.)

When Joe was a kid, I didn't put enough pot in his oatmeal.

(second reference to oatmeal in a post. my apologies)

See? I knew something was squirrely about that boy.

Cord - Because Ledger has been confirmed as dead, we think the story should be over. Alas, it is not, nor will it be for days.

Hello Kettle, it’s me Pot - you’re black!
For those who disagree - when you have the power to actually stop spreading the story as the manager of content and then don't you are a hypocrite.

Just as Bush is a hypocrite - his cancellation has gotten more hype than the actual filming would ever have gotten, he is therefore being opportunistic by not being opportunistic. Why was there a need to announce the cancellation?

Ok, Cord. I see you are messing with me. Why can you change your subhead to explain what you meant by "alas" and not to explain what you meant by "that"?

This is a "no win" for Bush - if he had filmed the ad, everyone would be having a fit about that.

Oh fuck. Not "that" again.

Dear Tangerine,
Maybe I'm just a Blogoholic, and this is just the blog talking…sometimes, we say things that we wish were true but are not. Like, "I wish Britbrit knew where her deodorant was, alas, she doesn't and probably never will" It doesn't make us a hypocrite when we proceed to talk about her smells. I doubt Cord delights in the ways of the media frenzy surrounding a tragic death. But what can he do? It's not hypocritical, it's just…"I can't quit you".

That's right juju, & I really wanted to see the pretty pink block, oh well.

Anyways tang as someone mentioned he did NOT say I'll stop writing about it so my readers can get ofay with whats up. He was lamenting that it's going to go on for days. obviously you are seeing this in black & white while we are probably seeing it in gray

sorry not juju, Blue

maria: it's the "blogohol"

oh and Tang you can't tell us what to agree or disagree to just as we can't tell you the same

sincerely
lovelee

I know, love, after I saw that I thought for sure there was going to be a pink comment square.

Tangerine - I agree with the second part of your post: Bush will get more 'publicity' for cancelling this event than he would have for just fulfilling his obligation, but I'm not sure it really matters.

oh there's one in the 1st post about three ladies

I'm gonna kick my own ass later for defending the retarded Monkey in the White House but it probably would have been seen as tacky for him to give the speech today. Having said that, Bush is still a sack of stupid shit.

I forgot to put quotation marks all over my sentences. "My" "bad" "."

This is really amazing. I was driving home from work yesterday and NPR announced his death and I thought "Huh, Heath Ledger died. Wonder what's up with that?" I had no idea it would end up being a huge deal. Is this symptomatic of our celebrity culture, or did he actually touch that many lives, and if he did, how did I miss that? That's not a facetious question, I am actually looking for feedback because I thought he was OK as an actor, and it does seem 28 is the magic number sometimes which makes for juicy sensationalist news, but I don't get how this has become a nearly global event important enough to dictate the actions of the White House.

Lily, there is an article in The New York Times likening this to the death of James Dean.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01.....pr.html?hp

Lily, Heath was a rising star, having moved from being just another pretty, talented actor to being an Oscar nominee (for a movie that kinda hit the zeitgeist jackpot, Brokeback and made him a household name) to now starring in the latest Batman movie so he was a big deal, pop culture wise. Plus all the little girls and gay men thought he was a hottie…see Anderson Cooper's sad-sack reporting of his death as an example. Poor Anderson probably had a poster of Heath in a cowboy hat over his bed. I know I certainly thought he was hot and although it's shallow and wrong, the death of hot young actors always gets to you (James Dean, etc.)

But then Chris Farley was certainly not hot and that was a real tragedy too.

Maria - if you had the deodorant in hand and the power to give it to BritBrit then you would be a hypocrite if you did not do so;

Lovelee - lamenting something and being a part of said lamentable activity is actually the definition of hypocrite, from Websters "a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings."

Also Lovelee - my point is not to tell anyone what to think,it was merely to point out the evident contradiction. The fact is we are all lookieloos on the celebrity highway where every incident or crash causes us to slow down and watch. To decry it or deny it is to be a hypocrite.

A thought on Heath - I'm surprised no one has mentioned his role in "Candy" which was a pretty hardcore drug film. Art/life life/art - that kinda thing.

I believe I did yesterday. Awesome movie and he was awesome in it. I actually mentioned that while watching the movie….it looked like he really new what he was doing, if you know what I mean.

Tang I repeat

His personal thoughts is that it should be laid to rest.

He is a blogger and it’s his job to keep us in the know (thats why we come here). That’s why he's posting. so while personally he thinks it should be laid to rest, the other side of the coin is it’s his job.

So my question is Do I do my job or not because of my personal feelings?

lol, Bush has killed more than drugs ever have…

Well lovelee, according to speedo if you complain about your job and still do it your a big fat hypocrite. Everytime I told my mom I liked her crappy food I was just a big ole hypocrite for still eating it. I just have no personal integrity. Damn me.

Bush is a douche, but it's a good move.

P.S. Not listening to the UN is actually a good thing IMO. It's a glorified boys clubs for brokering corrupt deals. (Food for Oil program anyone?) Complete waste of every nations money.