Whitney Houston

[DJD]

Same here....I don't care two squats about this. I know there are thousands of people without anything productive to do that need an event like this to have meaning in their life but I'm not one of them.

I liked some of her songs but she became another wasted life many years ago and if she was so important and great then she or someone should have fixed it. Sorry for your loss Whitney fans and family but I don't care.

This will become another event like MJ and his death so folks can cash in.

[Chubminnow]

So much talent, so much money, fame and glory...so many "stars" have it all...except for one thing.

[bassin_bug]

I was already disgusted with all the senseless reporting on the Kardashians, none of which was worth the effort to write it. Now this crap about Whitney Houston which seems endless repetition. Nobody forced her to drink alcohol and take drugs, that was HER choice. If that had been a homeless prostitute she wouldn't have been mentioned.

[Tim_T]

They have overblown this crap so much that it disgust me, but what disgust me even more is the fact that there are so many people who care this much about people they don't even know. I think we have an obsession with celebrities and it makes no sense.

While we are on this topic I wanted to share something strange regarding a celebrity.

Back in 1991 I was in France for a week. Most of the week I was in Epernay, but Fri-through Monday before I came home I was in Paris. Myself and another guy took a cab to Pe`re Lachaise cemetery. This is where a lot of famous dead French people are buried and it is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Paris. What is crazy is that the most visited grave there belongs to an American, which is why we went. Jim Morrison is buried here. While walking through the walkways of the cemetery, you would see graffiti guiding you to Morrison's grave. So we get there, and there is a guy with an easel painting a portrait of Morrison, about 100 people standing around crying, bottles of liquor thrown around the tombstone. It was just a bizarre sight to see all these people crying over someone that had been dead for about 30 years and most of the people there were not even born before this guy died.

[Chubminnow]

[QUOTE=Tim_T;480898]It was just a bizarre sight to see all these people crying over someone that had been dead for about 30 years and most of the people there were not even born before this guy died.[/QUOT

"People Are Strange" by the Jim Morrrison and the Doors...man they weren't lying!

[artcarney_agr]

I think Ted Nugent described this ordeal quite well..........


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...uandered-gift/


NUGENT: Whitney Houston?s squandered gift
Songstress? lost talent should serve as a warning to America?s youth
By Ted Nugent
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The Washington Times
Monday, February 13, 2012


Another great talent has been silenced, probably because of abusing dope or booze and the criminal, irresponsible lifestyle that goes with that insane behavior. What a waste.

Whitney Houston possessed the most powerful, incredible, soaring and moving voice I have ever heard, and I have heard and revered them all. Her rendition of our national anthem at the Super Bowl 21 years ago was so powerful that it defies description. It is without question the most soulful, emotional, inspiring rendition I have ever heard.

Miss Houston?s God-given and incredible gifts won her numerous Grammy Awards and the respect and awe of every person who ever witnessed her beauty and talent. She sold more than 170 million records and made millions and millions of dollars. But in the end, none of that really matters. What matters is that another human being is gone much too soon.

If we truly care, we should not remember Miss Houston for her incredible talent. Instead, we should use her death as an opportunity to tell our children that her death spiral is yet another glaring example that dope and booze are killers. That is nothing to celebrate.

We should use Miss Houston?s death as a teaching moment: Live a responsible lifestyle; make intelligent decisions; hang out only with good, decent, law-abiding people; and by all means, steer clear of dope and booze and people still foolish enough to abuse them. I would like to think that is what she, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and many others would want us to say to our young people.

In the 50 years I have been in the entertainment industry, I have seen too many incredible talents like Miss Houston choose death rather than respect life. Indulging the fake, deadly highs of dope and booze is not a party or worthy of celebration.

Entertainers who die as a result of ingesting poison are just the very tip of the toxic dope iceberg. I meet with cops on almost a daily basis, and their stories are much the same: Dope and booze are destroying lives, families and entire communities all across America. It is a scourge, a curse.

As it pertains to life and death, we should keep our priorities in check. If you want to celebrate and remember people who have passed much too soon and who really matter, I recommend you visit Arlington National Cemetery, where you can walk among rows and rows of true heroes. Watch the guards march in silent reverence at the Tomb of the Unknowns. They matter. They are forever worthy of our remembrance. They made the ultimate sacrifice for worthy causes: freedom and the American way.

The families of our deceased warriors of the U.S. military whom I meet during my concert and hunting tours across America shake me to my core. Their soft, painful and proud voices are much more powerful than Whitney Houston?s soaring voice. I treasure and remember their voices, not the incredible talent that she wasted.

One plus one will forever equal two. The duo of dope and booze is the toxic express lane off the planet. We would be wise to teach that to our young people at every opportunity.

[Big Gills]

A beautiful woman with a beautiful voice. I had one of her songs at my wedding a hundred years ago. A sad loss especially for her daughter and her mother who will miss her dearly.

[Netboy Extraordinaire]

Great talent that she wasted on Drugs and Bobby Brown. She is not was not will not EVER be an American Hero and any flag flown at half mast for her is a disgrace to the REAL men and women that served our country and paid the ultimate price.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Great voice, terrible waste, and too much hype for a single singer when I feel there is just too litle media and national attention paid to the survivors of our dead soldiers.

Ted Nugent Rocks! Ted for POTUS!

[MrSplitshot]

Love The Nuge!!!

[artcarney_agr]

She is not was not will not EVER be an American Hero and any flag flown at half mast for her is a disgrace to the REAL men and women that served our country and paid the ultimate price.

I agree.

[DJD]

Funny thing....I was watching the Michael Jackson "This is it" documentary on Friday night (what can I say I always enjoyed his dancing and entertainment value...the man had mad skills).
BTW...it's excellent.

Wouldn't you know it during the commercial breaks they were pushing Whitney Houston memorial stuff. Now I never watched a single commercial (love the remote!!) cause I would channel surf and come back but I knew they would tag her with any recently dead entertainer possible to get the money train going. Before long we will have a show about her but it will prolly be a failed "Intervention" attempt as opposed to actually working on a world wide tour.