>Speaking of funerals, was it New Jersey that put flags at half staff for Whitney Houston (the drug addicted singer who killed herself)?
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>She certainly deserves that kind of respect instead of the soldiers who die in the line of duty for this country.
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>What a load of self-serving BS. Suddenly she was the greatest singer and star on earth, and she was the ultimate personal friend of everyone in the entertainment industry. (I'll admit she really had a voice and was quite a babe - at least before she became a drug addict).
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>They all had to dust off their Michael Jackson mourning fashions and head for the nearest cameras to get some face time on the news (which gives this crap more headline and special coverage than they'd give a nuclear war).

Look there, a distraction!

Such space fillers are the bread, butter and caviar of the media and the rest of show biz. Saves them from empty space left by all the news that have to go unpublished.