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QUOTE(MHizzle85 @ Jul 17, 2006 -> 10:24 PM) Just thought i'd reopen the thread to see if anyone wanted to discuss tonight's raw...again not a great show, but another good Foley Promo...any adds? I'm getting to really not care about DX. All they're doing is burying the Spirit Squad as a bunch of talentless jobbers. They never get bested by Vince McMahon and hence I can't really get too involved with the feud and don't want to watch the matches because I know the outcome. Foley's promo this week was not nearly as good as his one that he hit last week, so it wasn't really a high spot for me. Add in the SuperCena nearly overcoming Umaga (funny how he can break a '2x4' over his head and not be affected yet moves from Cena nearly knock him out), Striker, Edge, Lita, Estrada and a going through a prop chalkboard and this show was clearly some bad booking. Granted I marked out that Cena did the job but Umaga came off looking really really really weak as a result. They built him up as this monster heel and he needs all of that above mentioned stuff to beat Cena? If they're going to push anybody, push the former school teacher and our teacher, Matt Striker. Unlike that terrible excuse for an IC champ Johnny -- oh wait, here comes Melina doing the splits taking away all his heat --, Striker can get his own heel heat. Granted, I liked the gimmick better when it was the Genius or Dean Douglas, but Striker can make it work by being an actual former school teacher. C'mon who wouldn't want a rousing chant of "Let's read books!" to get some boos. The Highlanders were one of the bright spots. Everything that is retro is in again from DX to the old wildman gimmick to a new Dean Douglas...and that means we must have a new re-hash of the Bushwhackers. That and the Carlito/Benjamin match were the few watchable segments (outside of Cena getting the "three second tan" despite being made out to be damn near superhuman) Overall though, it was a pretty lackluster show with some pretty bad booking.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jul 17, 2006 -> 05:25 PM) Find the original one for me. Until I see further evidence, I think he's ignorant trash. Santo=dorf, Listen to this guy!

Since I took 4 years of HS Spanish and remembered most of it during my placement exam at UIUC, I proficiencied my Spanish course requirements at the college level.

Laptop and printer, cell phone, camcorder, digital camera, TV, digital cable, DVD player, CD player, PS2 and my car.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jul 16, 2006 -> 04:30 PM) hy·per·bo·le Audio pronunciation of "hyperbole" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (h-pûrb-l) n. 1. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect 2. The above quoted post I really think its amazing how you can accuse me of doing something and then go ahead and do it yourself almost in the same breath. To say nothing of your baseless accusations that I think torture should be used first. If less painful means of interrogation prove fruitless then its time to ratchet up the intensity. Also, as I said in an earlier post, leftists like you define torture so broadly it makes the word itself meaningless. A simple reading of the CIA research (KUBARK, the 1950s experiments, etc.) shows the prevalence of psychological torture being utilized. The torture researchers found fairly early on that psychological torture was more effective at gaining reliable information than physical torture. To be more precise, they discovered that sensory deprivation and self-inflicted pain produced more "actionable intelligence" than, say, beating someone. McCoy writes: From A Question of Torture: "Dr. Donald O. Hebb of McGill University [Canada], a brilliant psychologist, had a contract from the Canadian Defense Research Board, which was a partner with the CIA. In this research, he found that he could induce a state of psychosis in an individual within 48 hours. It didn't take electroshock, truth serum, beating or pain. All he did was have student volunteers sit in a cubicle with goggles, gloves and headphones, earmuffs, so that they were cut off from their senses, and within 48 hours, denied sensory stimulation, they would suffer, first hallucinations, then ultimately breakdown...Now, then, the second major breakthrough that the CIA had came here in New York City at Cornell University Medical Center, where two eminent neurologists under contract from the CIA studied Soviet KGB torture techniques, and they found that the most effective KGB technique was self-inflicted pain. You simply make somebody stand for a day or two. And as they stand -- OK, you're not beating them, they have no resentment -- you tell them, "You're doing this to yourself. Cooperate with us, and you can sit down." And so, as they stand, what happens is the fluids flow down to the legs, the legs swell, lesions form, they erupt, they separate, hallucinations start, the kidneys shut down." Tell me that after reading these tactics if you don't see images of the Abu Ghraib guy hooded, tied to fake electrodes with arms akimbo while standing on the box. Tell me that you don't see the hooded and gloved detainees at Gitmo. This so called "no touch torture" is no more acceptable than traditional torture.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 16, 2006 -> 04:27 PM) Not enough cross dressing.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jul 16, 2006 -> 03:44 PM) If they had their way they wouldn't need to have one...........they would have US soldiers do it for them. hy·per·bo·le Audio pronunciation of "hyperbole" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (h-pûrb-l) n. 1. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect 2. The above quoted post Nuke, physical and psychological torture are antithetical to the American values that we uphold -- not to mention that it is notoriously unreliable in getting accurate information. The idea that anybody who opposes physical and psychological torture must hate America is not only laughable but entirely asinine. The FBI has been one of the foremost vocal groups decrying the psychological torture tactics used by MI and the CIA saying that it is entirely ineffective in gathering accurate information, not to mention that it creates a precarious situation of permanent detention. They can't let the people go because they could be brought up on crimes of psychological and physical torture and they don't want them around because the people are severely mentally damaged as a result of the torture or completely innocent of the charges they had levied against them. The FBI has promoted (and so did MI before KUBARK etc. got started) working up a rapport and a trust with the suspect in order to garner accurate information. The FBI style has worked numerous times in the past but we're supposed to forget all that now and fall in lockstep with the "By any means necessary" garbage. That only begs the question: Why does the FBI hate America so much?

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jul 16, 2006 -> 01:43 PM) 8 Canadians have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli strikes. ugh... It's just collateral damage. They're not purposefully targeting them so therefore it doesn't count/matter that they get hit. Why do you love the terrorists that purposefully target civilians? /as if there is a difference between dropping bombs in a city and suicide bombs //both are morally reprehensible

I don't really care if he runs again or not. I'm just shocked that people would vote for him. From his open plans to censor music to his ideas about censoring concerts on criteria of things that he doesn't like -- it's scary. Also, this man is on the advisory board of the Parent's Television Council -- an ultra conservative organization that tries to take shows they don't like off the air instead of allowing Americans to choose what they want to watch + parent their kids themselves as to what they want to watch. I mean, if I don't like a show, I just turn the channel. Thank God for Joe Lieberman for wanting to take that choice out of my hand and advocating putting on only santized, government approved television stories. Cuz you know, killing countless thousands of people in Iraq is a thing that he supports. Yet he comes down on pixelated murder in a fantasy land on television as the worst skirge of American civilization. Cognitive dissonance much there, Joe? It only gets funnier when you realize that the dad of the founder of the PTC actively demanded that we nuke Moscow during the Cold War. I wonder what TV show and video game L. Brent Bozell III's dad watched to come up with the mentality to justify that horrendously violent act! It had to be professional wrestling, Family Guy or playing Grand Theft Auto, right? Most notoriously -- The group fingered "Smackdown!" as responsible in the deaths of four children, including 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick, who was killed by 12-year-old Lionel Tate in 1999. Bozell later retracted the PTC's statement, apologized and paid $3.5 million in damages when it was found that young Lionel had, in fact, been watching "The Flintstones." (and the three other deaths were also not related to wrestling in that the autopsy report said that the injuries were inconsistent with the 'wrestling' cause of death) The PTC also was forced to pay in the lawsuit because they lied about certain companies pulling advertising from WWE programs when said companies never advertised on WWE programming. The PTC also demanded that Family Guy be kicked off the air and were one of the groups involved in the show's initial hiatus. They're also the group that files the vast majority of the FCC reports of 'obscene' television. Good to know Joe is part of such a fine and upstanding moral organization.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Jul 16, 2006 -> 12:59 PM) SHOW me where Amnesty International supports terrorists. SHOW ME. Don't you watch Fox News? Brit Hume was saying that Amnesty and the Supreme Court just want to let them all go. Soxy, they want to stop the KUBARK style psychological torture that goes on at Guantanamo and other military prisons being run by the US because torture is antithetical to human dignity and the American values we claim to fight for. Not to mention that they question the guilt of people being held and have said that some of them are innocent -- which the military has eventually said as well. So they obviously hate the US, love the Islamofascists and keep asking those pesky questions that get in the way of Bush's carefully scripted feel good reality. They cause problems by not falling in harmonious lockstep behind our infalliable and wonderful leader, Chairman Bush. And I find this thread amazing -- It starts with the "Well, HAW HAW HAW, Amnesty and the Red Cross aren't saying anything! Hypocrites!" Then they find out that something has been said and their point was destroyed.. Then the bar gets raised -- "Well, who cares if they said something, they're not doing anything!" in an attempt to revive a point that was already DOA. But let's knock that new point out as well. They've done a lot of stuff in the Mid East and other areas -- symposiums, meetings with government officials, conferences, campaigns to heads of governments from the public, etc. You should really read up on the group you want to attack before you go off on it.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 16, 2006 -> 01:42 AM) Amnesty International Press Release, 7/13/06. Balta, get out of here with your facts. What we need is more baseless accusations and declarations of hypocricy!

On the bright side, at least Mussina is on the wrong side of 50 pitches through 3 innings. He may be looking nasty but he's using a lot of pitches to get outs.

QUOTE(tealeafreaderii @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 12:12 AM) .... huh? attempting to bunt... could someone explain that? How could that possibly be a fineable offense? You ever see Z run? If he has to adjust his junk after every pitch, think about the monumental amount of adjustment if he has to field a ball off the mound. That's just not fair or comfortable to him.

Car repairs, lunch, Target with roommate, nap, baseball, worked on some jokes and lesson planning/rules/class management stuff and lounged around.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 11:36 PM) If this passes, how long until they outlaw using credit cards to purchase guns? Or tobacco? Or booze? Gotta love the "party of small government". This is so f***ing ridiculous that they're getting so much unchecked power.

Get an 80s looking suit and just put a generous dollup of flour around your nose (use some water to help it stick)

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Jul 13, 2006 -> 02:57 PM) I did it once and i'll do it again... HOME OF THE FREE!!! Seriously, dont we have anything better to do? There gonna take away live television now? Glorious Jefferson does barrel rolls in his coffin. Unless we all fall lockstep in line behind the moralists who don't like swearing etc., we will never be able to protect our freedoms. There's only one vulgar F word and that's FCC.

In a lesser known book of the Bible, Jesus also went about getting investments from the disciples before running their money into his personal coffers. So the pastor's speech makes sense. Talk about putting lipstick on a f***ing swine. And yes Athomeboy, he did lift them up....for the monumental fall that came when their jobs/pensions/professional lives collapsed beyond all recognition.

Critic, you're going to laugh hysterically at this...I couldn't make this up if I tried. WWE creative criticized Mick Foley for his promo and told him that it was 'too intense' among other things. On the ECW front... - Vince is putting in a lot of work for ECW. He's been working on ECW more than just about anything else lately. -The EC F'N W shirt, the most popular seller in ECW history is likely to be taken off WWE ShopZone etc. because it isn't "advertiser friendly. Cuz everybody knows ECW totally gave a damn about advertisers. Bold portion for my emphasis -- seems backstage everybody knows Kelly sucks but... - Everyone backstage notices that Kelly Kelly is horrible and has no natural talent at all in terms of looking sexy, dancing and everything else. That is, no natural talent for doing her job. Many people commented, saying that this was especially obvious in her segment with Candice, and that she looked like a "little girl" trying to do a "big girl" thing. Having the two together opened a lot of eyes to the fact that she just doesn't belong on TV at all, since Candice looked like a pro. in comparison. Despite all this, Kelly will still be pushed nonetheless. - Joey Styles is back in Vince's "dog house." After the show last night, Vince had a long talk with Joey, telling him that he's once again not happy with how he's calling the shows. After the meeting, Joey was in a very down mood and one person described it as, "he looked like his dog died," and that's how down he was. Vince just doesn't like Joey's style of calling matches, in that Joey tries to call it like an athletic contest. Vince, as we all know, wants him to call the match by "telling stories."

Yes, Gregory Pratt -- both Have a Nice Day and Foley is Good are both re-reads. In fact, I'm such a fanboy that my copy of Foley is Good was actually autographed by the hardcore legend himself (I got it as a HS graduation gift) The books are so funny and awesome which makes them so good. Today I woke up at the asscrack of dawn and went to a workshop on co-teaching practices. It was good stuff because not only did we get effective strategies for co-teaching/discipline etc., it was a good time for the staff to gel together with all the newbies like myself. Got back and then it was dinner, having a beer, nap, reading and now it is some intense exercise before crashing.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 08:17 AM) Hey LCR...did anybody die in that avatar of yours??? Nope. Zandig and Sick Nick Mondo actually continued their match after that spot. Although it was this bump and a few others (a broken hand that he already had) that eventually caused him to retire in 2003. I think he got some pretty bad puncture wounds in his back as a result of the spot that is in my avatar. Edit: Nick Mondo vs John Zandig, light-tube log cabins 2/3 falls match. And in one of the most scary moments in wrestling history, Zandig gave Nick the Mother F'N Bomb of the roof of a building, at least 30, 40 feet in the air. Positioned near the building was a stack of tables, with a light tube log cabin (a collection of light tubes designed like a log-cabin) on top. The two men went off the roof, and unfortunately, unaccording to plan, Zandig hit the log cabin first, and the tables, breaking everything. Nick only had one thing to break his fall, concrete and broken glass. His back had a dangerous puncture wound similar to that inflicted by a gun. He bled all over his back, and aggrivated his broken hand, breaking it even more. He crawled back to the ring and threw a light tube cabin at Zandig for the win. The Tournament was the last time he would ever wrestle. The injuries he had suffered shut down his wrestling career.

The guy who wrote the blog is now saying he knew the Onion was satire and that he was just trying to ensnare "liberals". It's hilarious. http://marchforlife.blogspot.com

QUOTE(Brian @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 10:27 PM) Did I just read that Sabu got DQ'ed tonight for putting Justin Credible through a table? Oy ve. I'm not as down on the product as most people here. It is going to take time. I like that they are bringing in CM Punk and hope it soon makes a clean break from the other brands. They will need good young talent for the under card to make it a success, like TNA. I could easily see it tanking even more and Heyman pleading for full control and recieving it. Yes, Sabu got DQ'ed because it wasn't 'extreme rules'. It was lame. Although the main event did make up for the suck factor of the rest of the show -- with Flair pulling out a barbed wire bat, trash can, chair and thumbtacks (and both Show and Flair taking bumps in the tacks) Heyman's an excellent storyteller and booker, just terrible with finances. Let Vince/Steph worry about the money and let him take the book to make some interesting TV -- cuz it can't be much worse than what we've had now.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 04:50 PM) Home of the free!!! And the home of the..... moralists who impose their "I don't like X social choice so nobody gets to do it" mentality on the rest of us.

QUOTE(Pale Hose Jon @ Jul 11, 2006 -> 07:32 PM) It is the stated goal of the Hamas Party, not the people of Palestine. Why then do we blame ALL Palestinians for this belief. A majority of palestinains do not support Hamas's goal of wiping out israel. A Majority of people just want to return to a life without a constant struggle. The reason hamas is in power is because the patah party is so unbelievably corrupt. Hamas is not only a terrorist organization, it also provides many of the social services that palestinians enjoy today. Estimates are that around 90% of Hamas's budget goes towards constuction of new schools and hospitals. "I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956). I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do, but we tell others what they shall do." -----Arial Sharon Uh, Chief...you may want to get rid of the quote cuz it has been debunked (there was a bit tadoo about it with the UIUC paper printing it) It was never actually said. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouze_Merham Other than that, your statements about Palestine are pretty spot on. Fatah was so insanely corrupt, the people voted against that + for the social works programs (food, schools, hospitals) that Hamas was providing. http://members.aol.com/drovics/sickp.htm