Corey_Lazarus

Abortion: If the health of the mother is at risk, or the pregnancy came from incest/rape, then spare the kid the atrocity known as the life he/she will likely experience and off him. Since a pregnant woman driving a car cannot LEGALLY drive in the carpool lane, that could set a precedent that life begins at birth (or at the very least in the third trimester), I don't see how getting rid of something inside one's body can be considered murder. Free speech: No limits on it, fuck the offended, and if you don't like it? Tough shit, don't listen. As for the FCC, I believe they are there for a reason. I do agree with some of their reasoning, as I believe free TV and radio should be pretty clean, but when it comes to pay services such as cable TV, satellite radio, or the silver-screen? No, the FCC shouldn't have any say whatsoever in that. As for the 'net, there are programs you can download that block any content that can be deemed "questionable," so no government watchdog should be allowed to touch the 'net (this does not include sites that contain child pornography, as those are sites actively breaking the law). Gay rights: Equal rights for all. If there's some sanctity in marriage, then why 2/3 of all marriages end with divorce? I don't see any sanctity in saying "I quit" because you hit a rough patch or married the wrong person, so no dice there, folks. If you don't want to give them the religious ceremony because it's against your denomination? Cool, that's your beliefs. But let them share the same LEGAL rights as heterosexual couples do. Also, to bring up the possibility of legalizing child molestation and statutory rape and the such? Yeah, completely unrelated topic, so don't throw that in there. There's a difference between two ADULTS (as in recognized as adults in a legal sense) having consensual sex and agreeing to be wed than a legal ADULT and an UNDERAGE CHILD agreeing. For as much credit as we give to kids these days, most of them are still naive and don't know what they're getting into, so for a 25-year-old, for example, to nail a 15-year-old? No, sorry, you're ass is in jail for a bit, dude. Drugs: Marijuana should be legalized and given similar restrictions as alcohol and tobacco. Nobody under 18 should be able to LEGALLY purchase it, but much like tobacco they can possess it (it's a weird law, I know). However, nobody should be able to operate a motor vehicle or heavy machinery while under the influence of it, and smoking it in public should be a misdemeanor (unless there is a specified room for it like at clubs and bars in Amsterdam). A smoking room would be good for public places like restaurants, clubs, bars, etc. that uses a ventilation system so that very little to no smoke escapes the room. As for harder drugs...for the most part they should be kept illegal. Crack, cocaine, heroin, acid...they should be kept off the streets at all costs. Prescription medicine, particularly muscle relaxers and painkillers, should stay as they are (only available via prescription), and I actually think that mushrooms should be legal as they are found EASILY in nature and require little-to-no processing. Religion: Keep its influence out of schools. That means that there should not be a teacher-led prayer. However, if the school is to allow an Evangelist club for religious students, then there should also be no argument against allowing an Atheist club or something similar, simply due to legal purposes. If a student, or group of students, want to get together when class is not in session and pray or discuss aspects of their religion? Fine by me so long as they don't go around telling people that their faith is wrong. I'm also all for a theology course at public schools where many faiths - polytheistic, monotheistic, ancient, and current - are discussed and studied. Affirmative action: Something similar should be put in its place. An "anti-discrimination league," or something. Affirmative action can be as big a deterrent as a help, in some cases even more so the former, as a black man could get a job as a public servant (police, fire, EMT, etc.) simply because of the color of his skin when he scored lower than three white men who took the same tests. Then affirmative action becomes a liability. Basically, it should be the belief of "the best man for the job," meaning that the most qualified people available for it should receive it. Welfare: Some families do need it to just survive. Some don't need it as much as others. So long as those on welfare are also aided in the search of a job, and welfare is a means of secondary income to merely help survive (pay the bills, get food, get cheap clothing for children, etc.), then I'm all for it. But the families on welfare that are in line waiting for an X-Box 360? Yeah, take them off of it because they're obviously abusing it. Foreign policy: We shouldn't be policing the world, but we also shouldn't be entirely self-focused. If a country is in disarray, then America should offer its help. If a country is in the clutches of an evil man, then America should do all it can to help the citizens and civilians of that country before war is declared. But to go around the world spouting off lines that democracy is the best way of doing things, and basically shoving America's success over the last 200+ years in every other nation's face, is wrong and can lead to more problems than it can solve. Campaign finance: There should be a limit for every party on how much money can be raised. I don't believe that EVERY campaign should be publically financed, but I do believe that there should be a set dollar limit on how much money each party can put into a campaign. Term limits: I like the limit of 2 consecutive terms (4 years each, obviously), and then you can run again 4 years after your second term ends. I don't see that much wrong with the system as it is, honestly. Gun control: As cliché a response as it is, the line "when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns" fits perfectly within my beliefs on the matter. Maybe limit the amount of firearms one person can purchase in a year, and keep the current system of background checks and only selling semi-automatic weapons. After all, it's the weapons obtained illegally that are found in most gun-based crimes, not the legal ones. And to believe that the limitation of firearms will somehow aid in the decrease of America's crime rate is, in my eyes, a false belief. A gun cannot be blamed for a murder no more than a shovel can be blamed for digging a ditch. Both are tools to achieve the goal, and the man holding it is the one attempting to achieve the goal. Death penalty: Keep it for severe crimes, as in multiple life sentences and treason. I would say do not give the death penalty for those where there is any slight doubt in the innocence/guilt of the prisoner (as in withheld evidence shown, possibility of police corruption, etc.) but keep those under a life sentence. And should a prisoner be found innocent during appeals? Reparations should be paid. The Pledge/Prayer: Honestly, I don't really care either way since I usually didn't recite the Pledge, but to keep "under God" in it officially would, to me, present a little trouble in the separation of church and state. As said, it was added in the 1950's to differentiate America from the God-less communists, so there isn't too much reason to keep it around. Patriot Act: Should have never, EVER been agreed upon. It's unconstitutional to invade the privacy of citizens without a warrant simply for suspicions, so no. Not at all.

Pfft, hell no. Bret Hart has his fucking number. Oh, and I hear Metallica's going to release a new album soon. Rumor has it that it's going to be the heaviest one yet with a lot of it sounding just like Justice did!

Hrmmmm...Viacom owns MTV. Viacom owns SpikeTV, yes? So Viacom is now competing with itself by having MTV's new wrestling promotion and TNA under its umbrella. ...this doesn't sound like it will bode well for TNA...

They talk to the group of promoters that call themselves the NWA Board of Directors and strike a deal with them. I think that in turn of being able to book the national NWA champions that you have to pay a fee (don't know if it's per show, per month, per year, etc.) to keep the NWA name.

I think it says "yeah, Chris Cornell has a good voice, but he'll be pissing on any small legacy he may have in a decade."

No, because there is no American Psycho 2. At least not to me. The film was originally going to be titled All American Girl, but due to the cult success of American Psycho, Lion's Gate slapped the title of American Psycho 2 onto it and filmed a quick 5-minute intro to link the two. It, seriously, has abso-fucking-lutely NOTHING to do with Ellis' work. I agree to an extent. I don't believe he leads an IMAGINARY double-life, but actually DOES lead it, and everybody around him is just so wrapped up in their own material successes and meaningless ploys to greater gain that they don't notice. Again, it's an indictment of the "Me" generation. Every line in the movie is taken from the book. It's quite amazing just how well of an adaptation from page to screen the film is, with only one or two scenes being out of place (that, and Bateman's true loathing of his fiancée is never truly touched upon in the film). Bateman actually makes it abundantly clear in the book that the majority of his life is pathetic, and at times it seems as though he is reaching for redemption (ie. his trip to the beach cabin for a week with his fiancée) but then goes right back to his grisly ways once real life returns. That, and his uncharacteristic bouts of mercy shown towards his secretary (nailgun scene with the sorbet). None of the violence is meant to be sexy, though. It's meant to be gruesome, shocking, and eventually trivial as it becomes more and more apparent that Bateman does these things on an incredibly regular basis. Though he's my favorite author, I'll have to agree with you here. Ellis DOES often wax on for far too long about some things (especially in American Psycho and that 500-pager Glamorama), but I feel it helps add to the charm of his work. It helps show the complete arrogance and almost "routine randomness," I guess, of his characters' lives. Bateman giving 10-page long reviews of the latest Whitney Houston album, for instance, helps this, as does Victor describing every minute detail about his apartment in Glamorama. Inc, please tell me you've read The Rules of Attraction. IMO, it's Ellis' best work, and is a complete breeze to read.

Okay...so the Monday REPLAY of TNA's new episode of Impact does better than the FIRST-RUN AIRING, and it's REPLAY (as in: all results are on the net and can easily be found) is on at midnight, Raw is pre-empted by the fucking dog show, and SpikeTV...cancels the Monday night special? Okay...who the fuck is running this company? Maybe they're deciding this based on the ratings of the past few specials, but seriously: Monday night has been WRESTLING NIGHT since Raw began airing. Most fans from the Attitude era that I speak to who no longer watch still flip through the channels to see what's going on. If they were to air a 2-hour TNA special, chances are these fans would see it, and if they were impressed? You get more fans to watch the show, which means higher ratings, which means more money you can charge advertisers for commercial placements.

The director of the movie most definitely wanted to get it across that Bateman was imagining the killings as a way to escape his meaningless life. It's actually funny, because it can all be seen as Bateman really doing everything until the misplacement of one scene. Either before or right after the ATM-induced shootout, Bateman calls his secretary and has a nervous breakdown on the phone. That is in the movie. In the book, the breakdown happens before any murders occur. I sorta wish the movie took more murders out of the book than it did. The one with the starved rat would have been the most senselessly brutal thing ever shown on a screen, and the one at the zoo would have actually been sorta funny (well, at least I laughed at it, mostly because of what Bateman says before going stabby-stabby: "Hey, you want, uhh...a cookie?").

It's easier to disprove the existence of a prophet due to birth records and other historical accounts surviving than it is to disprove the existence of an all-encompass formless entity. And my post earlier really didn't make sense. Basically, I was saying that the guy wasn't contributing anything positive to society and was, in fact, being a detriment, so he should kill himself while he's ahead.

Porky Pig. The Toxic Avenger. Put 'em together, and you get Babe 2.0.

You're basically echoing my sentiments there, Red. I've always stated that the blend of Sports Entertainment and "old-school" booking that TNA had for its first year and a half in existence was the strongest it had. I actually WANTED to order the next PPV as opposed to now when I don't care if I see Impact or not. Sure, I'll see a couple good matches, but a few good matches (usually with the same people over and over again) and very little in the category of "quality angles" won't make me want to stay tuned. If I didn't care about the story, I'd just watch everything on mute and change the channel whenever anything wasn't happening in the ring.

People said that about The Rock, too. I'm not comparing Shelton to The Rock, but just so you know...

Only bands close to industrial that my friend Wes listened to that I could remember off of the top of my head and wasn't already mentioned.

...some people need to spend their time doing much better, more constructive things, like getting laid. Oh, wait...Catholic...uhhhhh...like owning slaves? No...like touching little boys? Wait, that's too basic of a Catholic joke, even for an idiot like me. Uhhh...let's see...how about by KILLING HIMSELF? He's an Atheist, he's not contributing positively to our world, so why doesn't he just play a game of Russian Rolette, Solitaire-style, with an automatic Beretta 9mm?

I was thinking she worked as a bull's eye a bukkake party, but alas.

I don't see any bands currently enjoying radio success being around in 5-10 years that haven't been around for decades. But, since it's my generic answer (and has been for the last 5 1/2 years) for these threads, I'm saying Shadows Fall. They're talented enough musicians that they can stay within their genre (metal) while writing good songs that can be differentiated, and are DAMN good live. I don't see ANY of the current wave of emo bands staying around much longer. That horse is on its way out of the corral.

Bret Easton Ellis has stated in an interview (I'll google it for a link) that he wrote it the novel (which is remarkable in how boring the first 100 pages or so of it is so that, by the time the killing and other assorted sadistic delights come, you aren't shocked by it) that Patrick Bateman WAS, in fact, committing these atrocities, but just everybody around him was so preoccupied with themselves that nobody noticed. The entire novel is one big satire/indictment of the "Me" generation in the 80's, really. Movie was pretty good at conveying that, too.

He legally changed his middle name to Test. As for the others...I can see Team 3D opposing the WWE's copyright of The Dudley Boyz name, since Vince didn't create it (technically, Raven did, and Heyman used it). Charlie Haas? HA! Try to win a copyright suit over somebody's REAL NAME. Stupid fuckers. That would be like PGA Hall of Famer Arnold Palmer suing my whole family for using his last name. WB can do the "Taz vs. Tazz" thing all they want. It's different, get the fuck over it. And Hasbro? Hey, what're those porno flicks from the early 80's with "Taboo" in the title? Are they just titled Taboo and the ensuing numbers? Well, I guess Hasbro could have a lawsuit on THEIR hands.

So asking for a talented worker to be pushed as something other than a big pussy is asking for too much? Yeah, I guess it is. Just wait until Shelton's Mama brings out some watermelon, KFC, and carries a rolling pin while wearing a red bandana in a du-rag fashion, an apron, and calls everybody "massir." Mama Jemimah Benjamin, people!

Matt, go get a job and save your money by all means possible. Find your girlfriend's hidden stash of coke and heroin, sell it, and then get more money by any and all means. ...then go to community college, and drop out halfway through the semester because you slept through all of the classes since you're working so hard. THEN enlist in the Marines after your girlfriend dumps you, because you have nothing else to live for anyway so you should go die doing SOMETHING that's slightly respectable.

He looks like Danny Bonaduce, sorta.

...here's where I'm not sure if NoCal is being serious or making a bad joke...

1. Mick Foley Able to convey multiple emotions in one promo, and always made every match he ever cut a promo for seem that much more important. Foley could make you laugh and cry with just a few words. 2. Roddy Piper The innovator of the modern promo. He rambles on about nothing nowadays, but back in the 80's he was entertaining as all hell. Charismatic, good vocabulary, and had a terrific pace. 3. Ric Flair Much like Foley, another man who could get you emotionally hyped for ANY match he was involved in. Put over people by simply mentioning them. 4. The Rock ...self-explanatory. Humor, charisma, great pace, and when he came back as a heel with his shaved head in '03 he was AMAZING on the stick, perhaps the best he'd ever been. 5. Raven His only true downside was his expansive vocabulary that sounded like a foreign language to most viewers. 6. Jake Roberts Metaphors, Biblical verses, and stories all weaved into one big promo that hyped every single even he was a part of. 7. HHH You have to hand it to the guy: when he gets the stick, people pay attention. In 2000, his promo's were GOLD, some of the greatest the industry had ever seen, and although his New England accent shines through too much with his words (trust me, the emphasis of "ah" after most words is all New England, and since he's from NH...yeah), he very rarely was inaudible. Don't forget the hilarity of the '97/'98 DX promo's, either. Many of them were carried by Hunter rather than HBK or Road Dogg. 8. Steve Austin He's only this far down the list because of how terrible his promo's were later in his career. The "What?" craze started off as wonderful heel work, but it soon became a self-parody. And how many times have the words "if you want [insert name here] to beat [insert other name here]'s ass, gimme a hell yeah" copied? 9. Kurt Angle Only this far down because of how many other greats there are. 10. James Mitchell Say what you will about him. Sure, he's a little over-the-top. Sure, most of his memorable promo's were comedic filler. However, the man has a way with the mic, and his overall screen presence demanded that you pay attention to him. Whether he be cutting promo's with Whipwreck and Tajiri in ECW, or speaking for the New Church in TNA, or for Abyss most recently, his mic work has always been very, VERY solid.

AJ as the smart-ass heel > AJ as the clean-cut babyface. He just plays it off so well. I don't know if he'll go for it, being a born-again (since, allegedly, that's the reason Sting never wants to be heel again), but he's just so good at it.

Fuckin-A. Sounded like a mix of Rammstein and fighting game music. I dug it.