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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:39 PM
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Verdict reached in Jackson trial....breaking
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oldtime dfl_er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:40 PM
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1. Let's get this over with and get back to the business of the nation!
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:40 PM
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3. like a root canal, just lay back and enjoy it.
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:40 PM
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2. good, they'll finally stop talking about Iraq invasion lies on tv
:eyes:
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:41 PM
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5. yes, that just distresses me more
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:41 PM
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4. What did Jesse Jackson do now?
:shrug:
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:44 PM
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9. Bwa Ha Ha!..........ahem.
:D :D :D
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charlyvi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:43 PM
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6. Yep. Nancy Grace is on CourtTv....
I think her undies are wet.
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:48 PM
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14. Oh dear god. Please. Pass. Brain. Bleach.
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charlyvi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:49 PM
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15. LOL! n/t
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DemBeans Donating Member (669 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:00 PM
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24. Grace truly is having a public orgasm
"We're at the end of miny, miny, miny days of jury watching". God, the accent alone is scary - it's m-a-n-y, nitwit - and she's just about to jump out of her chair.

I just have her on to see her crestfallen expression if they find him not guilty - she'll have a Wicked Witch of the East meltdown on-camera.
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oldtime dfl_er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:43 PM
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7. So how many counts is he charged in?
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:44 PM
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11. Some 'expert' on CNN
is talking about that right now. He says yes, verdict could be split.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:57 PM
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21. Oh Lord
Now they are comparing this to Roman Polanski, wondering if MJ will flee to Europe if he is found guilty and gets bail.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:14 PM
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33. He ain't getting bail if guilty of the child molestation.
The judge will revoke that stuff immediately.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:16 PM
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35. And that is exactly what
the expert on CNN said.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:52 PM
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19. There are ten charges
Here's the BBC link (et tu, BBC?)
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:01 PM
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25. 10 counts
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jim3775 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:43 PM
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8. This does not nesscarily mean he will be found guilty or not guily.
A hung jury is technically a verdict too.
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charlyvi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:50 PM
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16. The jury usually tells the judge when it is hung, though.
So it's know to be a hung jury before the official verdict reading.
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richmwill Donating Member (972 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:44 PM
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10. I have a bad feeling...
...that he's getting off (no pun intended).
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:59 PM
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23. I think he will get off too (love that pun)
and I am thinking that is the fair decision. He is definitely guilty of being strange. But did he molest this kid? I don't think that was proven in court.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:45 PM
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12. Hopefully he will be acquitted
I don;'t know and quite frankly after two years of this crap, I don't care if he's guilty or innocent.

Anything other than acquittal means the crap continues.
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assclown_bush Donating Member (573 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:53 PM
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20. If he is Guilty why would you want to see him "acquitted"???
I hate to say it but I believe that Jackson is a child molester and there is nothing that is worse that you can do to a child than to rob them of their innocence. If he is guilty I hope he is found guilty. Child molestation is a crime with a high recidivism rate, if he is guilty and allowed to go free he will molest again. I wouldn't dismiss his alleged crimes so glibly.

:dilemma:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:01 PM
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26. So you won't accept a not guilty verdict? He is screwed either way
If he is found not guilty his name is mud anyhow. Very sad case all around.
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assclown_bush Donating Member (573 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:25 PM
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37. But if he is guilty and he is found "guilty" justice will be served. n/t
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:33 PM
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41. Do you mean "he's screwed either way" or "he's screwy either way"?
Or both?
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:06 PM
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29. if he is guilty, then the parents can go on trial
for pimping their children. Grifters as victims, that's rich.If there is nothing else here there is reasonable doubt, but as the Mc martin preschool case teaches us, facts don't matter.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:58 PM
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22. I think I understand your feeling, but
the people who are milking the sensationalism of his case (in order to avoid discussing real news and issues facing the country) are going to get their big payoff either way the verdict comes out. Guilty, and they get to throw themselves a victory parade for having convicted him on-air a million times over before the jury could. Not-Guilty and they will throw themselves into televised conniptions of righteous indignation. They've got it tweaked to where they can't possibly lose, no matter what the jury says about the state's case. If he walks, the outrage will roar on for months and months.

The only way this really stops is if he is found guilty and goes to jail. Then they'll just find someone else, so it doesn't really stop even then.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:08 PM
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31. If he's found guilty, the appeals process will last forever
Jacksonm will die before he ever sees the inside of a prison. Even if he is guilty and convicted, he will never do time.

Acquittal means the pimps on the whore snews rant in righteous indignation while ratings tank and they are forced to move on to the next whorish endeavor.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:15 PM
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34. He won't be free on appeal for this sort of charge. Massive flight risk
Even if he appeals, he's going to jail if guilty.
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paula777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:30 PM
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38. I think they might get him on giving alcohol to minors ... but that's it
I don't think they proved anything else from what I saw
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KlatooBNikto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:47 PM
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13. Don't you think that Michael Jackson's alleged molestation pales
in comparison to the Catholic Priests's well documented cases over many decades?
But I forget.Jackson can't hide behind his religion.Besides he doesn't look like Jerry Falwell.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:50 PM
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17. Media Circus...Step Right Up
Letsee...CBS, NBC, ABC, Faux, MSGOP, CNNServative...all interupting programming. Why? A new terrorist attack? Osama's been captured? Nope...this is EVEN BIGGER.

The orgasmic frenzy is reaching OJ levels. Sheesh. One network showed the media tent with all these newsbabes all ready to do their live shots...ALL with that exclusive. Sheesh.

Now it's one hour of speculating...I'm surprised ESPN isn't running odds on their scroll. I can see people just dropping everything they're doing...soon the "King Of Pop" (who I thought was wierd in 1971) will meet his fate.

Of course, the corporate media's already convicted him. If the jury somehow doesn't come in with some guilty verdict, be prepared for hours of "where's the outrage" coverage. If not, then it's Nancy Grace's nostrils flaming that justice has been done!
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:51 PM
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18. Perhaps they will give a verdict that allows him to leave the US
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 02:52 PM by SoCalDem
and we can be done with him for good.:)

He can go hang out with Roman Polanski and make music in Europe, where they still like him..

He could team up with hasselhoff and have a whole new career.. Does Hasselhoff have any pre-pubescent sons?
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true_notes Donating Member (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:02 PM
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27. Here in Naples meanwhile.....
The head of the Chimora (the mob) is also awaiting his verdict. This is actually very important to the penisula, noting that he pretty much ran the city and it's surroundings.

The Jackson trial has NOTHING to do with our mainstream news, just a distraction.
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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:05 PM
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28. Just shoot us. It would be so far much kinder. Damned it all!
n/t

But hey there is a bright side to this, what's next? Brittany divorces new hubbie, Tom C leaves new wife? What? Jen and Brad in a death match?
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Stirk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:07 PM
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30. Huh? Michael Jackson is in some kind of trouble?
I wasn't aware.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:12 PM
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32. Nancy "Flaming nostrils of Justice" Grace is ready to erupt
It's like watching a volcano bubbling ready to blow.
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:32 PM
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39. ROFL
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 03:34 PM by Mandate My Ass
She's rather insane in a shrill psychotic harpie kind of way, and the mutating nostrils only emphasize that quality.
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:33 PM
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40. If Bob Novak is indeed the Douchebag of Liberty
Nancy Grace is the Douchebag of Justice

CNN: More Americans trust our douchebags than any other tabloid news network!
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:18 PM
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36. CNN must be relieved that it ended now
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 03:21 PM by Jack Rabbit
They have to pack up all that equipment and ship it off to Aruba ASAP.
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