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Not much effort was put forth. Usually one of those CE-is-filled-with-right-wingers threads has some condecending shit saying how he can't post in there anymore because everybody is ignorant. Then we all laugh at said poster and Dr. Tom punks him out. But I guess beggers can't be choosers... Better than the usual "Only reason Mike isn't banned is because Tom likes him" crap. EVERYBODY loves me. -=Mike No, just SOMEBODY.

Cry me a river. Mr. Thin Skin.

So, being nice and understanding STILL causes them to have hostages taken when they do ANYTHING to upset the extremists? So, can any of the critics of the War tell us how, exactly, Bush's actions made us less safe? -=Mike ...As I said at the time, "If we're nice, maybe they'll kill us last" is a poor policy... Yeah, and killing innocent civilians won't make others join the cause of the maniacs. Good ploy to win their hearts and minds. A better policy would have been to keep our actions small so any mistakes made along the way would have been harder for any media to blow out of proportion. Yanno, so it at least doesn't LOOK like an occupation! Instead, we get a pot boiling over. Now even more of them are becoming extremists. Just like in Iran, when the iranians felt like they had no one to turn to other than the Ayatollah. Now that country is run by hardliners. Whoops! WHOOPS! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195124/posts Yeah, I feel so much safer.

A good reminder that as far off course the left has gone, the right hasn't doing much more for its own cause either. They really are all just a bunch of bandits trying to grab whatever they can while they can. Like philosophy actually matters anymore, just DON'T BE POOR!

Isn't it sad, though, that a candidate is trying to get a book suppressed? Man, Disney got more heat over F 9/11 than Kerry is about this. -=Mike Oh please... if that isn't fucking stretching to make a point, then I don't know what is The campaign is calling on the publiser to withdraw the book, they're not fucking doing anything major to take the books off the shelves... when a lawsuit comes up or if someone tied to the Kerry campaign actually finds a way to get the publisher to remove the books, then you'll have a point Jig, I think the point is that he is doing something to try and remove this. Bush and Co didn't do anything to remove F 9/11; that was Disney, and that was probably just as slanderous as this book could possibly be. And the fact that they are vigourously trying to remove what would normally be considered a whacko book (God knows Bush has enough out there written about him) is just lending it more and more credibility. It's what Michael Moore wanted for F 9/11 but couldn't get. I doubt that Bush and CO. COULD have done anything to suppress F-911. The wave of media surrounding the oncoming controversy was already swelling. Nothing was going to stop that movie from getting released. Now Kerry and CO. wanna hide a book? Politics as usual.

I realize that hindsight is 20/20 but I think its at least good to ask questions. So easily can these questions be turned in witchhunts. "So YOU were the one who was asleep at the wheel!!!" etc etc.

I think also that the time for the reality that people on either side are not going anywhere regardless of the results of the election. Both sides need to see that having an opinion and declaring it isn't going to make people of an opposing view just disappear. Is it so hard to handle the idea that both sides should be asking what the other would be willing to compromise on as far as issues and laws? I mean, yes, I'm a left leaning guy but not every issue is as important to me as some others. I mean what laws, issues, or controversies would you be willing to concede to make gains elsewhere? Good post Mike.

Let me know where and when.... I'm game. Not too far from Beantown being in Cow Hampshire.

How ELSE is a revenge minded girl gonna get close enough to a Yakuza boss to kill him? It is actually a really calculated move on her part. Makes for a good excuse to build her becoming one of the worlds deadliest assassans so early in life as well. Cuz when the "underworld" hears about Matsumoto getting killed, they'll want to hire the resourseful person who did it. Hence at 20 years old, suddenly she is THAT highly ranked to be hired to snipe military dictators? Hells yeah! Plus, there wasn't any sex in the scene. It plays out like they never got to it cuz O-REN went right for the kill once he was vulnerable.

Has he admitted to any of the corruption charges? If so he should just bounce out of there and let the Lt. Gov. take over til November.

No idea if he is gay. But MI2 had a SHITLOAD of gay subtext in it.

This would have been a better idea than Empire IMO. Promised Land had some good stuff. The rest is all shite. Once again IMO. I don't have very high hopes, but I'll give it a listen since I loved Mindcrime back in the day.

Lets not overlook that in waiting the 7 minutes Bush did make a mistake. A forgivable mistake but mistake nonetheless. As an issue (which it IS considering how much debate has been lended to it) it is a small one and I doubt would be the turing point for any independent voting. Nor should it be. But if this is being cast as one of "Moores talking points" then the attempts to minimize his influence has failed. In conclusion, I will now investigate this mystery known as Monkey Island.

Who COULDN'T? you.

I agree with you on your stance. For me, finding a candidate to my liking is very difficult. This time around it just seems like another round of holding my nose and voting. It's awful when the only choices available have their hands so deep in the corporate cookie jar that nobody can trust them regardless of what your beliefs are. Bush and Kerry are both dickheads for the obvious reasons "debated" here and elsewhere and now we have to choose. Just plain nifty.

This is all well and good. I would suggest they expand it a bit beyond just being on the net. Tack these matches on the end of the PPVs or make use of the Comcasts On Demand service so you can watch them on your TV, tape them etc. Besides by being exclusively on-line not everybody will be able to take advantage of this considering alot of peeps have slow computers. I second the motion to get alot of older complete MSG events from back in the day. I know there have to be a huge number of events on tape from the old Boston Garden, MSG, and other places from what I saw on the old Prime Time show.

Ok, here goes THIS: --------------------------------------------- Shut up you whinny liberals "I'm Juxtaposing" by Eightheadz, creator of 8BM.com The headline on the front page of the Ann Arbor News yesterday read “Democrats pledge to stay positive” referring to the message they want to send out at the Democratic National convention that started yesterday. I swear if you hate the Democratic party I can’t say I blame you. Especially if your reasoning is based on the fact that too many in the democratic leadership are just wanna-be Republicans. Bill Clinton was not a republican, yet for whatever reason, the democratic leadership feels like they need to be a republican to beat a republican. Don’t get it twisted John Kerry is a republican. When republicans go off on Kerry they look like idiots. He is one of you. He married a republican and even wanted to nominate a republican to be his running mate in 2004. I don’t think Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter or John F. Kennedy even contemplated for a nano-second to putting a republican on the ticket. Now that I think about it, I am sure Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon didn’t have members of the republican think tank trying to talk them out of nominating a democrat to be their running mate either. Like I said don’t get it twisted. John Kerry is not a democrat. But that is another article altogether. This one is about you whinny liberals trying your best to be republicans. One thing I have noticed about conservatives is at the top of their list on why they hate liberals so much is because we “complain” too much. Hence this proclamation that the democratic convention is going to “stay positive”. But see therein lies the problem. In their eyes, liberals are always bitching and complaining about everything like America does nothing right. They hate that. They absolutely hate that. But you have to understand what they consider complaining. Complaining to them is talking about problems. It’s acknowledging that things aren’t perfect. That America isn’t flawless. Sometimes we are guilty. America doesn’t always wear the white hat and do things for the right reasons. To the liberal this isn’t complaining. That is what progressives do. We address problems. At the core of a progressive’s belief system is that through critiquing, things can be tweaked and then improved. We don’t hate America, if we didn’t love our country we wouldn’t bother. We would just sit there and let the conservatives run the country into the ground. Conservatives would much rather have liberals adopt their attitude towards problem resolution, which is, when left alone things usually work themselves out. And before you start, this isn’t about semantics either. I can hear you thinking. Complaining to a conservative is the same thing “complaining” is to everyone else. It’s the act of expressing feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment. My point is that conservatives hate even knowing that people are in pain, dissatisfied or resentful. When Bill Clinton setup townhouse meetings to listen to the people “complain” Bush Sr. didn’t follow suit. Why? Something like holding a town meeting to talk to the people about what concerns them didn’t even occur to him. Why would he want to talk to the people? They might complain. Talk about problems this country might be having? Are you serious? What problems? There should be nothing wrong with America that a feel good speech with an American flag backdrop on an aircraft carrier can’t fix. This desire to just ignore problems is one of the reasons they have such a poor relationship with minority groups. Minority groups complain. They complained about things like Jim Crow. They tell you about how you have fucked them and how shit still isn’t right. Conservatives do not want to hear that shit. And as a result,40% of all of the delegates to the Democratic National convention are minorities. Conservatives in the south during the 1950s used to complain that “northern agitators would come down south an rile up all the good Negroes that were happy, content, and living just fine before they came down and filled their heads with all of that voter registration talk.” Blacks weren’t happy and content. And trust me, conservatives did not fall into that opinion because they had personally gone down and asked blacks if they liked how they were being treated, if they had any issues with not being allowed to vote, school segregation or taxation without representation and got a resounding “yes, we like how things are!”. They came to that conclusion because they didn’t hear any “complaining” coming from the black community because they made damn sure there weren’t any avenues open to complain. From where they stood all of this ”complaining” didn’t seem to come around until those liberals came down from the north and filled their simple little heads with all of that equal rights nonsense. The April 12 th 2004 issue of Tim e Magazine asked William F. Buckley, "Over the past half century, you have engaged in virtually all the great debates in American politics and culture. Have you taken any positions you now regret?" Buckley: "Yes, I once believed we could evolve our way up from Jim Crow. I was wrong: federal intervention was necessary." Only a conservative would take the stance that things will eventually just work themselves out. And this man is the most respected and supposedly articulate American conservative they can find. ”...evolve our way up from Jim Crow.” Any man that can say that is not looking at his watch while he is waiting for social change to arrive. Evolution doesn’t take someone to be an active participant in order to happen. That is why creationists hate the concept. It doesn’t even take God. It is a natural progression that is believed to happen whether you stick your hand in to stir up the pot or not. That is how they would like problems to solve themselves. If government would just stay out of it things will fix themselves. When you think about it, complaining is also central to why there aren’t many poor people in the Republican Party. That’s because poor people tend to complain too. I wonder why that is? So all that leaves the Republican Party are those least likely to complain, the racial majority and the haves and have even more. That is why they liked Ronald Reagan so much. What do they say about him? What do they say was what endured Reagan to them, “he made us feel good about being American again!” As a liberal I’ve never felt bad about being an American. Then again, that might explain why I don’t have to watch “Patton” or a John Wayne marathon every so often to recharge my patriot batteries. Even when conservatives run for office, they don’t talk about problems they talk about feeling good again. If Dubya will say this once he will say this 1000 times before his campaign is over, “All my opponent wants to talk about is what is wrong about America . Well I would like to talk about what is right about America !” That line only resonates with one type of person. So once again, even the way Liberals and Conservatives campaign is so fundamentally different from one another. At least they are supposed to. That is when democrats don’t become obsessed with trying to be Republicans. The liberal thinks you have just wasted his time if he listens to a 40 min speech any all you talk about is “bringing dignity and honor back to the white house”. He is waiting on you to bring a plan as to how you are going to fix social security or how you are going to help create jobs for those who can’t find work. But see, likewise the conservative that sits there and listens to a 40 minute speech from a liberal about fixing social security and creating jobs so people can get back to work sounds like a bitch fest to him. The messages don’t cross over. That is when the conservative comes back at you with some “pull yourself up by your boot straps” or “I did everything by myself no one gave me anything” clichés. Liberals don’t think that problems just solve themselves. Liberals didn’t think that America would just evolve from Jim Crow. That is why conservatives label liberals “bleeding hearts” because they feel we buy into sob stories for problems that they never heard of because no one on their side of the aisle ever talks about them. If you want to win over conservatives talk about how great America is, how there aren’t any problems that an inspirational speech about God and the flag can’t fix. If Democrats want to stop taking our votes for granted and actually speak to their base then they need to understand that only an idiot thinks that the world is perfect. Source: Ann Arbor News, Time Magazine ----------------------------------------------------------------- Finally somebody who realizes no matter what happens in this election the losing side is not going to go away. Talk maybe cheap, but only if nobody is listening. Which is too bad cuz the dems didn't really give me much hope for the issues that matter most to me during the whole DNC. If you are a left winger, doesn't it really kinda suck that Kerrys main platform is NOT being GWB?

Doesn't the fact that they HAVEN'T answer your question effectively? -=Mike ...Man, the right is so hateful!!!! Well for all the times you have whined about a liberal media, you'd think they would have covered this tenfold. They're not Michael Moore. They want to at least maintain SOME semblance of legitimacy. I do that regularly. ALL of the time. BTW, can I call you the names people call me? I imagine you wouldn't like it, but am I allowed to? No, it's I DON'T SEE THIS ANYBODY. THIS IS BULLSHIT. Can YOU find corroboration of this story? ANY? Then DON'T BITCH that this story is getting dismissed as the total fucking bullshit it is. -=Mike Yeah, a semblance of legitimacy. THATS what the news media wants??? They want ratings, big ratings to sell ad time for BIG money. That rules everything every news desk runs as a story. As far as Bush being on something like Zoloft or whatever... so what. Not an issue. If he happens to be struggling with some GUILT burning the back of his mind... let him deal with it in whatever manner seems best. Good for him not keeping it all bottled up.

I don't know about crying, but I did get a certain amount of satisfaction of seeing Eddy and Benoit in Hogans spot at the end of mania. They are two of my favorite wrestlers getting their time to shine in the spotlight. So kudos for them ya'know? I felt the same way being there for Foleys first title win. It was awesome.

How much will they bitch that their Freedom of Speech is being violated? -=Mike Depends on the size of the sticks the cops are carrying.

Saw Hogan and Flair at the Boston Garden house show the night before Flair won the 92 Rumble. Hogan won by DQ. Saw Foley win the title for the first time at the Worchester Centrum at the end of 98. Had always been on the Foley bandwagon and at the time didn't realise how the match was going to affect the Monday Night Wars with Tonys comments on Nitro a week later. I remember hearing the comments about "Foley putting butts in seats" left me BULLSHIT with WCW. Austins music cue during the match popped the crowd so big that it rates as the loudest thing I have ever heard. TV doesn't even come close to doing it justice and watching you can the tell the crowd was going totally batshit! Saw Vince at the Fleet Center revealed as the Higher power. Had 2nd row seats the RAW after Angle won the King of the Ring. Best seats I have ever had at the Fleet or anywhere else for that matter. Total luck with Ticketbastard as I do not know anybody to get me tix that good. If any of you have that event on tape you'll see 3 idiots bowing to the new King right behind JR and the King as Angle goes to the booth to commentate. Saw Lita get twacked with a chair by Austin as he and HHH killed the Hardys. Again at the Defeat Center. Saw Mr. Americas debut in Manchester, NH. Also saw The Rock/Austin rematch in Providence at Backlash after Mania 15. The highest rated on the net match I have seen. Event had pretty much sucked up to that match too. Well the Foley/TBS boiler room brawl was kinda ok, but who wants to watch a match on TV when you paid to see a live event?

No, he said that Rush reached way more people than Moore does via his movies. True, but it hardly makes much of a difference when the film has earned the money that it has. The word is out and people are talking more about this movie than the Rush broadcasts of the last 2 months even though "he reaches more people" and for a longer period of time. As far as going point by point. I could link something than you link something that is counter what mine was. Back and forth yadda yadda. So far nothing has convinced me otherwise as I find many of the righty counter-points to be just as suspect as they accuse the lefty media of being. However, I DID address the points made about me "being full of shit" by reminding everyone that so far the film has been out over a month with not a word uttered by Bush and his cronies. More importantly, no lawsuits so far! Nor will there be! Moores facts have stood up. He has come straight up with the sources he knew people would expect from him considering the right wing backlash they knew was coming (Except from Bush). Take it, leave it, spin it whatever. *I* thought it was good read.

The Beastie Boys opened for MADONNA! Back in the DAY! Crap!!! Beaten to it!

Benoits push this year has been awesome. Makes last years loss to Brock not seem so bad. Like the move to RAW was a smart move on Benoits part. Winning the Rumble having to pry Big Show out of the ring with a crowbar was a great start too. I never thought Benoit would get a push THIS strong. Having Eddy and Benoit at the end of Mania was almost like a gift to the smarks. HBK has been really good this year. Glad to have him around, and in small doses works. The tap out to Benoit prolly means "I'm sorry". At least to the canadian fans. Cheers. While many keep talking about how business is down the crowds have remained really hot for the shows.

I suppose 100 million bucks earned ISN'T reaching people. Funny how when one strikes a nerve and it's all BAN BAN BAN! Pussies.