Debbie Rowe confirmed to attend Jackson memorial

What is the over/under that something incredibly catastophic will happen at this event? a riot, a shooting,

What are the odds 1 person will die?
" " 2 people will die?
etc.

I will be soooooooooo glad when they get this over with. The media has aired too much time to this. Personally I dont think that 5 media stations need to air the service. They should of picked one network and left it at that. We already get programs interupted when former Presidents pass away.

Who cares...my boyfriend thinks the same with me. Heh heh, just kidding. Uhhhh, Yeah, give LA some money. They're broke. If I would've won the tickets, I would have contributed, so I'm on permanent protest and won't ever buy Jackson stuff ever!! Mozart rules!!

First of all why should tax payers have to foot the bill? He was an entertainer, not a diplomat or statesman, or a public official.
Second, are they ready for the riot that is to follow. It is in LA a town that rioted after the Lakers won the NBA championship. So what makes you think that these trouble making idiots will not try to burn the town down because they couldn't get into the Staple Center?

hurry hurry hurry get your Death Concerts here....state of california to pay for 28,000 police while family charges for tickets....get your Death Concert tickets now..

with the way phuckers are going on about him, you'd think he was the second coming of christ. why don't they just nail up his corpse on a cross and worship him as a false idol.

Send Al Sharpton the bill.

The family should pay the entire bill, including the post riot destruction that will happen.
Whan a family member of mine dies a member of my family or myself will defray the cost involved.

Think like a professional victim like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. They will say that Michael Jackson brought LA so much money while he was alive that LA can pay a some back now.

Did anyone catch the racist remarks Al Sharpton made (in Church of all places) about the news coverage Jackson is getting? If he died from misusing drugs than isn't it proper procedure to find out who supplied him those drugs, and isn't that information that is open to the public? Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Rev Wright came from the same mold. They should all be called Rev Racist Sharpton, Rev Racist Jackson, and Rev Racist Wright.

The state of California is broke yet they can afford this?...What Bull S.hit!....all this to do for nothing...He was a talented man, true... but that isn't what he'll be known for...guess God and those little boys will be the only ones that know for sure....

This has gotten way out of control and has become more of a circus than a memorial on the passing of a great extertainer. Why? Have some dignity and let the man rest in peace.

Think like a victim and it will all become clear. It goes like this: Michael made money for LA while alive so they can pay a little for a celebration of that live when it passes.

Sharpton is a child, with the mentality of a child who wants everything paid for by someone else. The inmates have control of the asylum and LA and California deserve what its getting. Instruct your children to leave America before the debt eats their life savings for funding millionaires from wall street to stadiums. America is feeding on itself and China will someday stop paying its allowance ...shame. I think I'm becoming a republican and see what they have to offer ...naw.

Why are they even doing a public memorial, just keep it within the family and burry his ass. Then the public will be able to pay there respects without having to cause a big scene.

All this boils down to is M&M (Media & MONEY), instead of saying "NO" let the family deal with it, they just want Money.

Yes, he contibuted alot to modern pop & entertained the entire world thus becomming an icon forever. Can't we just bury the guy & let him rest in peace now? Why does there have to be so much drama ?

WHEN will the police be prosecuting the provider of the drugs, the person writing the prescriptions, filling prescription and administering prescription and WHY is the right reverend Al Sharpton so insistent that to prosecute them would be "improper" ...were they somebody he knew...hopefully not on the Duke Lacrosse team..poor Al, its better to keep your mouth shut and thought a fool, than to open it and prove it...what you hiding Al? the people want to know...what you hiding Al

We should just embrace the wonderful, awful, audacious mess that this is and will be for many months to come. Why fight it? It is a B-movie that you are forced to go to by your dumb cousin or brother-in-law. It is Halloween 9 or Leprechan 6.

they're trying to milk this foe all it's worth and people are eating it up, except for me, i turn the channel everytime something about jacko comes on.

Here are some tips for surviving the next 6 or 7 months of Michael Jackson:

(1a) talk to family and friends about how you feel
(1b) write down your thoughts about how you feel
(2) talk to a counselor or pastor
(3) form a group (real or online) that have the same concerns
(4) try to think of this as a big circus that you are just watching from far away, see the fat man with the bullhorn, that's the ring-master
(5) try to learn something constructive, use the thoughts you wrote down from 1b and try to come up with ways to avoid being like Michael Jackson
(6) see a pychiatrist
(7) see a suicide-prevention specialist
(8) check yourself into an institution

above all, never, ever be by yourself alone, especially with guns, sharp knives, ropes, belts etc.

Why should the family pay anything..it is a CHOICE of whether to attend or not. I know this was a shock to all but it is being blown way out now. After all, doesn't the media say MJ was in DEEP debt so why put more on the family that is going to raise his children. The CHOICE is yours so leave it at the BEEP!

Can the words " this child molester violated young boys for over 20 years" fit on the monument?

How can the city ask for money? At this point there's noone in control of the money.

So what if there's a crowd around the Staples Center? As you go through history there's always been a huge crowd at world famous funerals. It's just part of the fame game.

This is wrong .The city has no money, why should they pay any of this. Just let the family have a private service and let him rest in piece.The media and fans have turned this into a circus and a joke. The only thing these fans care about is one day telling everyone they were at M.J.s services. Thats sad. Its to bad The King of Pop has now become a sideshow attraction. RIP Michael

Debbie Rowe should be part of all the funeral arraignements! She was his wife and the mother of his kids!!!!

WHERE IS LA GOING TO GET THE $2.5 MIL JUST FOR THE POLICE SECURITY AT THE FUNERAL????

I THOUGHT THE STATE WAS BANKRUPTED!

SEND THE BILL TO JOE, AL AND JESSE, THEN WE'LL SEE HOW MUCH LONGER THEY HANG OUT TOGETHER!!!!

m jackson the pedophile
a sharpton the racist liar
j jackson the adulterer and bastard father

The "triple threat".
Th' "triangle of imbeciles"
the "3 racist stooges"

jackson shoulda died in jail for all the crimes he committed with boys
but our screwed up courts (money talks) capitulated again.

if it was u or me we'd be convicted and murdered in jail.....but this piece of scabby pus was free.......glad the garbage known as jackson died.......shows that there really is a god

The Reverend Al Sharpton is incorrect. The biggest entertainer of our generation was Elvis. It would be great if that many people were seeking Christ!

If L.A. was worried about the cost or the aftermath then they never should have allowed the event in the first place. The family should incur all of the costs, including any damage done afterwards. Of course, the Jacksons aren't much of a family. If the media hadn't pointed out Michael was dead, or hadn't expended so much attention to his death, we probably wouldn't have heard from any of them.
Of course, if there are riots or uncontrolled behavior afterwards it only speaks to how Americans handle themselves and the way we are brought up. I wasn't brought up to act in such a manner - certainly not as an expression of grief.
So now that the whole world (or so the media would have us believe) is watching L.A., what sort of image are you going to portray?
Honestly, you guys should be rioting that there is a public service being held rather than having the money being spent on the less fortunate.

" Voucher holders had to get past a police checkpoint outside the stadium, then drive into a parking lot where orange traffic cones marked about 20 lanes. A police officer and an event staffer stood at the end of each lane. Drivers pulled up, handed over their vouchers, had a band placed on their wrist and were given tickets and another wristband.
Ticket winners were to show up with a unique code and instructions, and organizers were to check IDs to make sure those picking up wristbands were the same people who originally applied online, said Staples Center spokesman Michael Roth."