It’s really nice to see Michael Jackson and Dick Cheney together in a bar, getting drunk and singing ‘They don’t care about us.’
Well, it’s been a while since we last heard from him, but Michael Jackson is back. He’s also proving that he truly is one of the people. Subprime justice, anyone?
Michael Jackson is to lose his eccentric American property, The Neverland Ranch, unless he can raise $25 million in the next three weeks. The onetime King of Pop will see the property, a child’s wonderland complete with carnival rides and a mock Tudor mansion, auctioned on March 19 after Financial Title Co. filed a trustee’s sale notice with Santa Barbara County Superior Court.
The ranch, named after the island in the JM Barrie novel Peter Pan where children never grow up, will be auctioned on March 19, according to Julie Wagner, a manager at the San Francisco-based Financial Title Co. Court documents warn Jackson, 49, that he has until the date of the auction to take action to maintain ownership of the unusual estate, situated in Los Olivos, north-west of Santa Barbara.
Still, it’s sad. He had some good times there, no doubt and I’m sure he’ll miss it.
Talking of missing things, Dick Cheney finds himself in a little bit of bother too. Not that one would like to compare the excellent Cheney to the misfit Jackson, of course. Cheney never stood trial for child abuse, for instance. Hell, he didn’t even stand trial for shooting a friend in the face. So, no real comparisons there, of course.
Further more, Cheney’s not exactly in any real estate trouble. As long as Pelosi keeps being a good little German, the vice-president is not exactly in danger of having to hand back his office keys. He’s still missing something though – and, like the former King of Pop, he ain’t all that thrilled about things anymore. Like poor old Michael he would love to tell all his detractors to beat it but they won’t go away. It’s so unfair though, all Cheney ever wanted to do was heal the world and still his enemies want to paint him as some smooth criminal. It’s bad. Real bad.
(Okay, enough with the lame Michael Jackson song title jokes. Though I can see Dick and Michael, sitting in some pub, drowning their sorrows and singing ‘They don’t care about us.’)
Oh, and what Dick Cheney was missing – well, as I said, nothing major; not some promised never Neverland. Just some silly bits of paper:
WASHINGTON - When Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald wanted to find out what was going on inside Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, the prosecutor in the CIA leak probe made a logical move. He dropped a grand jury subpoena on the White House for all the relevant e-mail.
One problem: Even though White House computer technicians hunted high and low, an entire week’s worth of e-mail from Cheney’s office was missing. The week was Sept. 30, 2003, to Oct. 6, 2003, the opening days of the Justice Department’s probe into whether anyone at the White House leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
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