Everyone knows, and should call Michael Jackson the King of Pop. What exactly did he do that transformed the genre so much, and why is he such an icon in the music industry?

While I could talk all day about how great he was as a performer, and give many examples myself as to just what it was that he did, I found an article in the Chicago Tribune that does pretty much what I could tell you already. So this is why he went from being the standard copper sinks to gold, and even platinum ones.

The LA County coroner’s office had yet to find a cause for the King of Pop’s death as of Friday. Today the Jackson family has decided to seek a second autopsy from a private expert.

Fox News reported that the coroner’s office called the request “unusual”, but the authorities have no issue with the family’s requests.

Jackson family members reportedly have been frustrated and angry over what they see as a lack of information about Michael Jackson’s final hours and the authorities’ delay of up to six weeks in determining Jackson’s cause of death at age 50.

Don’t see how that is “unusual” considering the delay and being given the run around like they are an elliptical machine.

Sources at the Coroner’s Office have told FOX News that they are confident that they are conducting their investigation by the book, and they are expediting the forensic tests as quickly as they can.

The Coroner’s Office, which released the body to the family late Friday night, has not been told who the Jackson family is hiring to conduct the second autopsy.

The Cash For Clunkers Senate Bill was designed to give anyone driving a low MPG vehicle the ability to offset some of the cost of switching to a more fuel efficient car.

If you want to read through all the lawyer-speak above have at it, but this is pretty much the deal:

1. $3,500 voucher if the new fuel efficient automobile is a passenger automobile and the combined fuel economy value of car is at least 4 miles per gallon higher than the combined fuel economy value of the eligible trade-in vehicle. It must be only 2 MPG better for eligible trucks.

2. You can get $4,500 if your trade in car gets at least 10 MPG less than the new economy fuel vehicle. 5 MPG less if you are trading in a truck.

3. The program lasts from March 30, 2009 until….

“the day that is 1 year after the date on which the regulations promulgated under subsection are implemented.”

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Basically if your car is eating your wallet at the gas pump, they want you to get rid of it and get one that does it just a little bit less. I mean saving 2 MPG isn’t that big a deal really is it? No. No it isn’t.

Unfortunately I can see the writing on the wall in regards to the value of our current “non-fuel efficient” cars we have now. The Blue Book on these puppies are going to drop dramatically I would guess and the offset is going to literally be a wash at some point. At least I have a very good feeling this is what will happen.

Now if you are broke, and need a vehicle, what is stopping you from swooping in and taking advantage of the Blue Book drops on the current cars out there? Not much I reckon. So basically instead of “Going Green” the people suffering from this horrid economy will be saving green by NOT “Going Green”. Get what I’m saying here?

Instead of helping people get their bcbsnc (Blue Cross Blue Shiled) health insurance cheaper, we are “Going Green” instead. Yay!

If you didn’t hate PETA enough already you may be able to just make it past that line after this ridiculous episode. President Obama was caught on tape killing…a terr….err…a FLY! Oh the humanity.

PETA of course had something to say about it, as they always do. Certainly it was insightful like where they get their best diet pill to keep up their vegan facade? Oh no…much more insightful than even that!

When asked for comment, here’s the statement PETA released:

“He isn’t the Buddha, he’s a human being and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act.”

Words to live by.

It’s sure a good thing they kept delaying the inevitable every 6 months for about 10 years. Surely, people were going to freak out when the day finally came to turn off analog signals and switch strictly to digital.

In shocking news…nobody really cared.

Television stations said that calls from confused customers were minimal. TV stations averaged just 130 calls each a crossed the nation. Pandemonium. We can thank the great government for spending so much of our tax money on “warning” everyone about the switch for the last decade I imagine.

Television stations are largely prepared for these calls and are doing everything possible to ensure a successful transition,” said Jonathan Collegio, the NAB’s vice president for digital television.

In Los Angeles, some stations reported even fewer calls. Asian-language station KSCI-TV Channel 18 turned off its analog signals at 11 a.m. Friday and fielded about 100 calls by midafternoon. Most of the callers asked for information on how to get a converter box and how to apply for the $40 government coupon for it, said Bill Welty, KSCI’s vice president of engineering.

Public-television station KCET-TV Channel 28, which had turned off its analog signal Thursday night, had just 16 calls by late Friday afternoon.

“There was that moment when we turned off the signal and held our breaths,” said Bohdan Zachary, KCET’s vice president of broadcasting. “But it’s been surprisingly quiet.”

Converter box demands were also much lower than expected. Certainly lower than the best diet pills, as they should be in this country…

Read more if you care. Obviously if you have the internet you probably don’t have to worry about analog anyways so the only reason to care would be to woner who in the world still does.

Futurama is one of the many fantastic animated series that have made it to prime time over the last decade. It lasted from 1999-2003 on the Fox Channel before they threw the show away like disposable gloves.

The cult following, the popularity of the reruns, and strong DVD sales however have given them reason to bring back this fantastic series.

The series was created by Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, which is the longest running animated series in history.

Groening said: “We’re thrilled Futurama is coming back.

“We now have only 25,766 episodes to make before we catch up with Bender and Fry in the year 3000.”

They will air in 2010 on cable network Comedy Central, which shows repeats and previously commissioned four specials.

Mike Tyson is trying his hand at marriage for the 3rd time in his life. Mike Tyson has married his third wife, Lakiha Spicer, in Las Vegas this past Saturday.

She is not the mother of Exodus Tyson, who died in May.

The girl suffocated after she either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under a treadmill’s console in her Phoenix home.

Exodus lived in a home with her mother and brother that is owned by Sol Xochitl, according to county property records.

Tyson’s agent, Harlan Werner, told the AP that Spicer is not Exodus’ mother. Spicer is a resident of the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson.

Tyson and his bride asked for a simple ceremony with nothing special, Absher said.

“They just wanted to say the vows and be married,” he said. “It was very sincere.”

Hope Mike finds some happiness and can keep his hands off his wife this time. He has had a tragic life. From his own doing (jail for wife abuse), from how others have used him, the recent tragedy, and from where he has come from. While the most problems I have is finding PS3 players he has had much more to deal with.

What could have possibly happened to make rapper Eminem race out acrossed the porcelain tile at the MTV Movie Awards?

Well…after performing his single “We Made You” and “Crack A Bottle” from his hit album Relapse, some odd things happened. Not long after his performance, he stormed away from his seat at the auditorium when Sacha Baron Cohen, in a barely-visibly thong as his flamboyant character Brüno, descended like an angel and landed face down in the rapper’s lap.

Let’s just say he was not amused. The body guards pounced and Eminem’s entourage made its exit in what was the most outrageous moment on a night.

I’m sure some sort of foul mouthed response is coming ;).

If you haven’t seen what over 65 Million viewers have already seen on Youtube take a look here (Sorry, all these videos have disabled embedding, unfortunately. At least with the electronics I have available. ).

Susan Boyle captured the hearts of the world after that performance on Britain’s Got Talent a couple months back, but was not blessed with the win. Instead she lost to a dancing group known as “Diversity”. Tkae a look at one of their performances here (Again, embedding disabled).

If you like that sort of thing there was another highly acclaimed dance group this season called “Flawless” who you can peep here.

During her finals performance, Boyle looked polished, wearing a sparkling, floor-length gown. She returned to the song that made her an internet sensation — “I Dreamed A Dream” from “Les Miserables.”

The winners earned a 100,000 pound ($159,000) prize and the chance to perform before Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Variety Show.

Boyle won’t go away empty handed I’m sure, as I have read in the past that she was negotiating a contract with Simon Crowell and Sony BMG. So you will ahve plenty of opportunity to hear her sing again.

Man I feel old that I even remember this show. I was about 2 probably when it was out, but all the same I remember the “V” mini-series because when you are a kid this kind of stuff scares you when you see lizards popping out of humans. No amount of medical coding training courses will take care of that kind of ailment.

The 1980s U.S. TV mini-series “V,” about aliens who attempt to conquer Earth, may soon get a series order from ABC, sources told The Hollywood Reporter.

The unidentified sources said the TV network is contemplating ordering an initial run of 13 episodes of a re-imagining of the action mini-series, which ran on NBC in 1984 and 1985.

The Reporter said in addition to considering “V,” ABC is negotiating for a six-episode order of the 20th Television series “The Associates.”

You can watch the original on Google Video too actually.