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I... am... stunned... somebody hit me with the tazer again.

Hogan wasn't anything in the WWF before he was champion. They made a boatload of money too. Like it or hate it, success it was.

that's a laugh No, not really it isn't.

30 last september. Now none of you can trust me. Die Wonderful scum, get a job!

Cerebus is right on track with this. Of course TV, Newspapers, etc. are ALLOWED to sell ads. It's that they are GEARED entirely towards serving the advertisers rather than serving the public interest. So when they choose stories to put on the front page or at the beginning of a news broadcast they will always choose the story that will serve the interest of the people and companies who buy the advertising. For example: The Lewinsky Scandal being reported really didn't serve any public interest that wasn't purient. But OH BOY did it catch ratings! Like Clinton or hate him people were INTO that story. So we all got ourselves a nice blowjob story to talk about at the dinner table with the kids. Isn't that nice? You can bet thought that the ad rates during that portion of the news broadcast was alot higher than say... later around the time of the weather report. This is of course how TV works. But it isn't always how the NEWS has worked. It's changed alot over the years and not always for the better. Corporations Uber Alles.

*SALUTES*

I'm a big fan of No Mercy as well, but as of now for playability Day of Reckoning is tops. Haven't tried the new X-Box game though.

I can understand why some folks might feel the guy needed to go. He WAS an asshole to alot of people but the important part was just how he really didn't need to be that way. But hey! The guy was alot of fun to fuck with. I always thought his posts were entertaining as hell. The more he frothed at the mouth the harder I would laugh. This is coming from a guy who has had plenty of his posts derailed by the guy. All you had to say was some vaguely contrary thing and off he would go! I will miss him.

Isn't every town?

Remember when Kerry claimed that all of the idiots who were making offensive comments were the heart of America? And I find it funny that Laura telling old jokes is so stunning to the left. Then again, the left ceased having a sense of humor years ago. -=Mike Mike I'd like you to meet my friend Irony "The Laughgetter". Thanks man that ^ was the best laugh I've had in awhile.

Anybody kicked out of the church should see it as the opportunity it is. A Chance to sleep in! Play some video games. Maybe throw one in the old lady.

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comm...edved040403.asp April 4, 2003, 7:15 a.m. Captain America, Traitor? The comic-book hero goes anti-American. By Michael Medved s if Defense Department officials didn’t face enough challenges in and around Iraq, they must now prepare for battle without a celebrated component of past victories. Captain America, the patriotic superhero whose comic-book exploits inspired the nation in World War II, now feels uncertain about the nation’s cause; in his latest adventures, The Sentinel of Liberty seems disillusioned, embittered, and surprisingly sympathetic to terrorists. This odd, unsettling direction for Marvel Comics comes at a time of maximum cultural influence. The company owns 4,700 characters, including classic figures like “Spider-Man,” “Daredevil,” “The Incredible Hulk,” and “X Men,” all celebrated in recent or upcoming movie blockbusters. This mainstream clout makes the radical rethinking of the company’s signature hero, Captain America, all the more unsettling. In 2002, Marvel responded to the horrors of 9/11 with Captain America: The New Deal, a series featuring a terrorist named Al-Tariq who’s determined to punish the U.S. for its reckless misdeeds. After taking hostages in a small town with a defense plant, the militant addresses Captain America through loudspeakers, demanding: “Tell our children then, American — Who sowed death in their field — and left it for the innocent to harvest? Who took their hands, their feet?” A horrified hostage mother turns with fury on her own husband and shrills: “This is how you feed our baby? With bombs? You make bombs?” No one in this comic (#3 of the series), neither Captain America nor any of the hostages, ever offers a word of rebuttal to the pro-terrorist tirade. In the next installment of the series (#4), Al-Tariq insists: “I am not a terrorist. I am a messenger-here to show you the truth of war. YOU ARE THE TERRORISTS!” Later, Captain America seizes an ID device from around his enemy’s neck — a “CATtag” used by U.S. intelligence. He later confronts the secretary of defense by declaring: “You tried to hang one of these around my neck...The terrorists I fought in Centerville all wore them — these CATtags.” In other words, Marvel Comics thoughtlessly recycles a notion that’s been lovingly nurtured by anti-American conspiracy theorists of all stripes: that our own intelligence establishment somehow orchestrated bloody terrorist attacks against U.S. civilians. This idea of America the Guilty permeates other additions to the series, including #5 (October, 2002) in which Captain America visits Dresden to receive a history lesson on American war guilt — for World War II! The broad-shouldered hero goes through a searing reverie about America’s controversial fire-bombing of the city in 1945: “You didn’t understand what we’d done here — until September the 11th,” he tells himself. “These people weren’t soldiers. They huddled in the dark. Trapped...And while there was nothing left to breathe there in the dark, they died... History repeats itself like a machine gun.” Captain America’s post-9/11 understanding of the destruction of Dresden suggests a moral equivalence between the Allied forces in World War II (in the midst of a bloody, all-out global war) and the al Qaeda terrorists who randomly attacked unsuspecting office workers. Especially in a comic book aimed largely at children and teenagers (and rated PG) the comparison (in the hero’s own voice) is both illogical and obscene. The indictment of the United States becomes even more explicit in issue #6 (December, 2002) in which Captain America listens to yet another sympathetic rant from a terrorist mastermind. “Guerillas gunned my father down while he was at work in the fields — With American bullets,” the militant helpfully explains. “You know your history, Captain America...You played that game in too many places... The sun never set on your political chessboard- your empire of blood.” To this verbal assault, The Sentinel of Liberty responds meekly, “We’ve changed. We’ve learned...My people never knew. We know now. And those days are over.” In addition to making one-sided, damning references to controversial elements of American foreign policy, Marvel Comics recently highlighted totally invented atrocities to underscore the nation’s vicious, racist nature. In January, 2003, the company published Truth — Red, White and Black, a prequel to the original Captain America story. That classic tale from 1941 focused on Steve Rogers, a blond-haired weakling who, after rejection for military service, volunteers for a secret government program. Scientists inject him with “super soldier” serum, producing a muscular fighting machine. In the new addition to the yarn, we learn that the government first tested the formula on unsuspecting black soldiers, employed as human guinea pigs. The evil Army scientist in the comic baldly declares: “It’s necessary to see if our methods apply to the inferior races.” White commanders separate African-American GI’s into two groups, one of which speeds away on locked trucks (like Nazi train transports) to a secret laboratory, while the remaining soldiers face mass murder from squadrons of machine gunners (like Nazi Einsatzgruppen). The sadistic experimentation on the survivors (in the PG-rated series) includes horrific panels showing bodies exploding, and laboratory walls splattered with blood. The recent comic unequivocally suggests a heavy-handed analogy to the death-camp experiments of Dr. Mengele. Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, cheerfully acknowledges the holocaust echoes. “There are moments in our history that may not have been our shining glory,” he told me. “We’ve done things in our history that aren’t right to our own citizens.” He specifically cited the infamous Tuskegee experiment, in which medical researchers left syphilitic black patients untreated in order to study effects of the disease. “The beauty of America is that we can tell these stories and learn from our mistakes and move on.” The messages he hopes to convey to children who read the comics include “the need to learn racial tolerance and that peace is the best way to go, wherever possible.” In a special introduction to the hardbound edition of Captain America: The New Deal, Max Allan Collins (author of the acclaimed graphic novel The Road to Perdition) praises Marvel for its edgy content. He cites the determination to “take this classic character of a simpler time into the smoky aftermath of September 11th” and “this story’s courage and ability to examine the complexities of the issues that accompany terrorism... specifically, not to duck the things America has done to feed the attacks.” We might expect such blame-America logic from Hollywood activists, academic apologists, or the angry protesters who regularly fill the streets of European capitals (and many major American cities). When such sentiments turn up, however, hidden within star-spangled, nostalgic packaging of comic books aimed at kids, we need to confront the deep cultural malaise afflicting the nation on the eve of war. — Film critic Michael Medved hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk show on politics and pop culture. This piece was prepared with the assistance of Michael Lackner as part of a research project for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a nonprofit, bipartisan think tank on terrorism.

Do I really NEED to trust Google?

Stop whining.

Can I get these two reposted please? Please please too! I have never seen Austin/Benoit from Edmonton. I just hope its as good as everybody says.

From the Torch... ~Lita talked with Kane backstage about their plans for the match later. Lita created nasty mental images of Viscera naked and drew pictures of what it would take for them to have sex with each other, speculating that Viscera would have to be on top. Kane told Lita she was disturbing him. Then Lita said she liked Kane's plan. Then they made out. They must not have shown the crowd that segment on the big screen as they didn't boo Lita nor did they react to anything Lita said.~ They must have turned down the mics for this because the crowd DID react very negativly to Lita. Not that it matters. The crowd nailed her good when she went out for the match.

Just got back from the event. Crowd was BATSHIT for Hogan. Loudest pop I have heard since Foley first won the title. They were really into the event all night long and for good reason. The first PPV in Manch-Vegas really made the city. Hopefully they will keep coming back as Boston and good ole WOOSTER has been lacking in recent years. Great stuff from top to bottom.

I'm going. I'm somewhere behind where the announce booth used to be. I doubt I'll bring a sign. Should be a good time. My two buddies I'm going with have never been to a televised show before.

Guess not. It's just sad that they just seem compelled to lift every rock looking for anything they might consider bias. It's a friggin comic book!

I like that part where he wacks his head at the end. No arms= no brakes.

From the Hustle show last year. Was it anygood?

I am very upset that I didn't make the first moustache joke. Damn, damn, and more DAMN!

From www.Faygoluvers.net Terry Funk talks ICP in his Book: I HAD to come back over here and add what I saw at Juggalo.com about Terry Funk's new book, "Terry Funk: More than just Hardcore"! In the book, he recalls a meetup with J and Shaggs, and talks about wrestling at the Gathering of the Juggalos. Check it: Lawler approached me about doing the show earlier in 2004, when we both worked a show for the Insane Clown Posse. The Insane Clown Posse is a pair of rappers, Violent Jay and Shaggy 2 Dope, who paint their faces up like clowns. They're also completely insane and a couple of wrestling fans. They put out a videotape where they were commenting on old matches. One of the matches had me versus Abdullah the Butcher, and they kept knocking us and laughing at us. "Look at those two big goofs, acting like they're wrestling. Ha Ha Ha!" After I heard about that every time someone told me they were going to see the Insane Clown Posse, I said, "Tell them if I see them, I'm going to go ahead and kick their asses! Goofy bastards, knocking me on a tape and using it without my consent!" Of Course, I wouldn't have known the Insane Clown Posse from Adam and Eve, if I'd seen them on the street. I sure wasn't listening to their damn music! Finally, I got a call at the ranch from Sabu: "Terry, I've got the Insane Clown Posse here. They want to come and see you, but they don't know if you're mad at them or not". "Well," I said, "bring the sons of bitches out here." They had just finished a show in Corpus Christi, and their next one was in Houston, so they took their bus all the way from Corpus Christi to Amarillo, and then back down to Houston after they met me! I told you they were nuts! And so the Insane Clown Posse came into the house, and Vicki had some chili cooked up. They Sat down and ate a bowl of chili apiece and talked to me. They said they were sorry if I was upset over what they said on the tape, and we buried the hatchet. Then, Violent Jay said, "Terry, we want to leave you some money for using the tape of you." I said, "No, no, don't do that!" "Yes, Terry, we're going to leave it under this jar, on this counter here!" I kept telling them not to, but I walked into the next room before them. They followed me in, and told me they had to go. We said our goodbyes, and the Insane Clown Posse drove off in their bus. And I walked back into the other room, to get the money I knew they'd left. I have to tell you, I was excited. I was thinking, "Oh boy, I bet they left me twenty bucks, or maybe even forty," which would have just tickled mepink. I thought I'd have enough to pay for the chili, at least, and so I was really happy at the notion of having twenty bucks. I went in there, lifted up the jar....and there was four thousand dollarsthere! And so let me tell you people something right now-I love the Insane Clown Posse! The next retirement match I have, they're going to be in the semifinal! They're the greatest band in the world, and I have all of their records. Haven't got around to listening to them yet, but I have them here somewhere. Later, I got a call that they wanted me to work at a show they were putting on, and I went. And I was amazed. Vince McMahon could learn a thing or two from the Insane Clown Posse, and I'm not lying. Those boys run a better show, and a smarter one, than even WWE does. It was a four-day event, held outdoors, about 40 miles from the middle of nowhere. They drew a total of about 11,000 people, and they were charging 180 bucks a pop, just to get in. And it's two guys! That's all it is! The Insane Clown Posse is a two-man outfit! I think of a posse as 20 idiots running around with rifles. But this was just two guy. It reminded me, in a way, of the show my father did, where his match with "Iron" Mike DiBiase was the only one on the card. They paid the people who worked for them a set amount, and then they split the lion's share of the proceeds, because they're the stars! Those two goofy bastards are two of the smartest people I've ever met! And it was the greatest place in the world to sell T-shirts. I had my Terry Funk T-shirts and was selling them when I wasn't wrestling. Well, those people were so smoked up on that marijuana, they didn't need much convincing. Someone would walk by and see me and say, "Hey, Terry, how are you doin?" I'd say, "Come on over here and buy a shirt." "Nah, Terry, I don't wanna buy a shirt." "Oh, come on and buy a shirt!" "No, I don't know, man." "Oh, come on and buy a damn shirt!" "Well, OK." I didn't even wear my own shirt to the ring. I left my vest, my chaps and all that crap. I wore my Juggalo T-shirt, with the Insane Clown Posse on the front. I like to think of myself as the honorary third member of the Insane Clown Posse now! Cool Story. Terry Funk is awesome. I can't wait to read his book. Then again I gotta finish "The Death Of WCW" first.

I dig their music too. Alot of recent stuff has been a letdown. But they provide exactly what I would want from a rap group which is humor and lots of it. The fuckers make me laugh.

Reading "The Death of WCW" as we speak. So far so good. Read Chynas Book~ UGH Litas Book~ was OK I suppose. That "HeadLocks" book by that Moonyham guy. Wasn't very good at all. Foleys books were fun. Flairs book was great. Scott Keiths first two were too much of what was already available on the net for free.