Here's a pretty interesting editorial from (and I can't believe I'm even saying this) Whitley Strieber:
"What the far right seeks is control of our moral life. That is not conservatism. What the far left seeks is control of our economic life. And that is not liberalism. Ironically, the true liberal and the true conservative converge at the one point that really matters: freedom. The conservative says that freedom comes to a man who is allowed room to find it on his own. The liberal says that it comes to him only if it is given to him by protective regulation and supportive social legislation.
All of the ideologues on both says say the hell with freedom, either do it our way or go straight to hell.
I very well remember the day I sat down to read the long, complex document that has become known as Hillary's Health Care Plan. It would have extended universal health care in the United States. But there was a price to pay: the individual had to give up essentially all choices, even with regard to which doctor would give him his health care.
I thought at the time that it was the worst single piece of legislation I had ever read, a fantastic, almost surrealistic assault on essentially every detail of our health care system that works. I wasn't alone: the American people, be they Democrats, Republican or whatever else, stood with their collective jaw on the floor, staring at this lunatic suggestion that we trust the welfare of our bodies to a bureaucratic rat's nest even more labyrinthine and encompassing than Britain's notorious National Health system."
Asked what he thinks WWE needs to do to create a more compelling product again, Jim responded, "I think probably a mainstreaming in the medical community of brain transplants. I mean, I don't know. I can't come up with an answer for why anybody with that much talent on the roster and that much money to spend on advertising and promotion and that much technical expertise in the television studio would consistently produce crap on national television. I really can't understand it. I don't know what the cause of it is. I don't know what the cure for it is."
Here's a good time killer. Four levels of maze action, each more difficult then the first. Keep the sound on, because if you win there's a really cool song.
It sucks to see yet another wrestler die before turning forty, but they're saying this one isn't drug related. I remember these guys in WCW ten years ago fighting with The Road Warriors, Sting & Luger, Faces of Fear, Harlem Heat, The Steiners, Murdoch & Slater, and the Blue Bloods. Man, tag team wrestling was FUN in pre-nWo 1996 WCW...
Here's Christian Cage's final TitanTron video before leaving WWE and joining TNA to become the NWA World Champion. I wish he could use this enterance song in TNA :(
Funny! Did you know that Adam West himself dawned the Batman costume and stormed Memphis to take on the King? Crazy. Too bad they never had a match. Click on the link for the interview.
As always, it takes Michelle Malkin to put things in perspective.
"In Calgary, Canada, the publishers of the Jewish Free Press and Western Standard magazine face civil lawsuits by local Muslims for publishing the cartoons. In Jordan and Algeria, a total of four other journalists face trial for publishing the cartoons. The original cartoonists have been targeted by Islamic terrorist groups and are in hiding.
Yet, here we are, as embassies blaze and editors cower in fear and radical imams ululate against the West, watching our esteemed media go Looney Tunes over an isolated hunting accident."
So can anyone explain to me what right any state goverment has to force a privately owned company to stock any particular merchandise? I'm thinking I should sue Best Buy, since I couldn't buy cigars there. And ShopKo WILL NOT sell me beer!
From Pro Wrestling Insider.com, here's the rumored match list of the upcoming Hulk Hogan DVD. I'm in to this one if only to see the Undertaker match from "This Tuesday in Texas."
DISC 1:
NWA Southeastern Championship Wrestling, 5/5/79: Terry 'The Hulk' Boulder vs. Andre the Giant (arm wrestling match)
WWE, 13/11/79: Hulk Hogan vs. Harry Valdez (WWE debut, Championship Wrestling)
WWE, 17/12/79: 'The Incredible' Hulk Hogan vs. Ted DiBiase (Madison Square Garden debut)
WWE, 9/8/80: 'The Incredible' Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant (Showdown At Shea)
AWA, 18/4/82: Nick Bockwinkel vs. Hulk Hogan (AWA World Championship)
AWA, 24/4/83: Nick Bockwinkel vs. Hulk Hogan (AWA World Championship, Super Sunday)
NJPW, 2/6/83: Hulk Hogan vs. Antonio Inoki (IWGP Championship tournament finals)
DISC 2:
WWE, 23/1/84: Iron Sheik vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship)
WWE, 31/3/85: Hulk Hogan & Mr. T vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper & 'Mr. Wonderful' Paul Orndorff (WrestleMania)
WWE, 7/4/86: Hulk Hogan vs. King Kong Bundy (steel cage match, WrestleMania 2)
WWE, 3/1/87: Hulk Hogan vs. 'Mr. Wonderful' Paul Orndorff (steel cage match, Saturday Night's Main Event)
WWE, 29/3/87: Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant (WrestleMania III)
WWE, 29/8/88: The Mega-Powers vs. The Mega-Bucks (SummerSlam)
WWE, 2/4/89: 'Macho Man' Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship, WrestleMania V)
WWE, 1/4/90: Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior (WrestleMania VI)
DISC 3:
WWE, 27/8/90: Hulk Hogan vs. Earthquake (SummerSlam)
WWE, 24/3/91: Sgt. Slaughter vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship, WrestleMania VII)
WWE, 3/12/91: Undertaker vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship, Tuesday In Texas)
WCW, 17/7/94: Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan (WCW Championship, Bash At the Beach)
WCW, 23/10/94: Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair (WCW Championship - steel cage retirement match, Halloween Havoc)
WCW, 15/9/96: Hollywood Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, & nWo Sting vs. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, & Sting ("War Games:The Match Beyond", Fall Brawl)
WCW, 29/12/97: Hollywood Hogan vs. Sting (WCW Championship - Starrcade)
DISC 4:
WWE, 11/3/02: Hollywood Hogan, Scott Hall, & Kevin Nash vs. The Rock & Stone Cold Steve Austin (RAW)
WWE, 17/3/02: Hollywood Hogan vs. The Rock (WrestleMania X8)
WWE, 21/4/02: Triple H vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship, Backlash)
WWE, 4/7/02: Billy & Chuck vs. Hulk Hogan & Edge (World Tag Team Championship, SmackDown!)
WWE, 30/3/03: Hulk Hogan vs. Mr. McMahon (streetfight, WrestleMania XIX)
WWE, 21/8/05: Hulk Hogan vs. Shawn Michaels (SummerSlam)
See, the Pope gets it. Science is the "how" and religion is the "why." Now please, could people like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell get out of the classroom?
"The Church joyfully accepts the real conquests of human knowledge and recognizes that spreading the Gospel also means really taking charge of the prospects and the challenges that modern knowledge unlocks."
Here's PWInsider owner Dave Scherer's columns about working out. It's worth a read if you need some time to kill this afternoon in order to avoid working.
Here's a clip from OVW on February 8, where OVW Champion and former WWE Tough Enough winner, Matt Cappotelli vacates his title and announces that he's got a cancerous tumor in his head. Major tear-jerker. Give it a look if you've got twelve minutes.
I remember everyone in the wrestling world talking about how Hennig had cleaned up his act and had been off drugs for years. Then this happened (from pwinsider.com).
"2003 - Former AWA World Champion Curt Hennig, known as 'Mr. Perfect' in his WWF days, was found dead in a Florida hotel room. Hennig was in Florida for a show, and when he did not arrive at the building, Dave 'Cuban Assassin' Sierra went to his hotel room. When Hennig did not answer the door, Sierra had a maid open up the room, and Hennig was found lying on the bed. The Tampa Medical Examiner's office announced the official cause of death was 'acute cocaine intoxication'. Hennig was 44 years old."
Sometimes it just flat out sucks to be a wrestling fan.
It's WRESTLECRAP FRIDAY!! This is the only thing that keeps me going all week. I suppose you could say my life is pretty sad if wrestlecrap.com is the only thing that keeps me going, but too bad. Check out this week's "Someone Bought THIS!" while you're on the site. It's a good one!
They were doing the pinch test (chest, gut, thigh) at the gym today so I got it done. He's the results for the last four years. I'll bet you can pick out which year I met my girlfriend :)
FEMALE PRAYER Before I lay me down to sleep, I pray for a man, who's not a creep -- One who's handsome, smart and strong One who loves to listen long.
One who thinks before he speaks, One who'll call, not wait for weeks.
I pray he's gainfully employed -- When I spend his cash, won't be annoyed. Pulls out my chair and opens my door, Massages my back and begs to do more.
Oh! Send me a man who'll make love to my mind, Knows what to answer to "how big is my behind?" I pray that this man will love me to no end, And always be my very best friend. Amen.
MALE PRAYER I pray for a deaf-mute nymphomaniac with great boobs who owns a liquor store and a bass boat. This doesn't rhyme and I don't care.
I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.
FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me. I said "WHAT??!! What was that?!"
So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear... "You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?" Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.
The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier."
I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it."
Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled "WHAT?"
I then said "honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"
Well it looks like some states are taking measures to deal with that asshole Fred Phelps. Who's Fred Phelps, you ask? He's an anti-gay activist Baptist minister who leads protests at fallen soldiers funerals, saying that God is punishing America because our country "harbors homosexuals." I don't even know what that means, but according to Fred Phelps, it makes the Big Guy upstairs angry.
On the asshole scale, this guy blows Al Franken out of the water. He makes Jack Chick look rational, and he makes Cindy Sheehan seem like a pleasant person. Seriously.
Here's the 2006 line-up for WWE DVD sets. I might as well get out my credit card now.
Austin vs. McMahon: The Definitive Collection Brian Pillman: Loose Cannon Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story The Spectacular Legacy of the AWA John Cena: The Time is Now The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story ECW Blood Sport: The Most Violent Matches WWE Divas Do New York ECW Blood Sport: The Most Violent Matches -- Volume II
The plane had a layover in Sacramento. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to Everybody got off the plane except one gentleman who was blind.
Another man had noticed him as he walked by and could tell the gentleman was blind because his Seeing Eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of him throughout the entire flight.
He could also tell he had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached him, and calling him by name, said, 'Keith, we're in Sacramento for an hour, would you like to get off and stretch your legs?'
The blind man replied, 'No thanks, but maybe my dog would like to stretch his legs.'
Picture this:
All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a Seeing Eye dog!
The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. People scattered.
They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!
Pat Buchanan gives some arguments in support of giving foreign aid to HAMAS? He makes some good points. Give it a look...
"If we and the Europeans cut off aid, and Israel refuses to remit to the Palestinians the taxes they collect, the Palestinians will be put through hell for voting the wrong way. The Arabs will call us hypocrites who believe in elections only if they produce the results we demand."
Yes, a PC game based on those dreaded "Left Behind" books. Kind of reminds me of that bible shooter game that Bart Simpson was playing with the Flanders kids. Only not as cool.
Bart: "I got him!" Rod (or Tod?): "No, you only scraped his shoulder. Now he's a Unitarian."
