tommytomlin

Freddy will show those Maroons in Game 3, just you watch. And as for League being 'near dead' in Australia, the 3.3 million people who saw Origin II (a new record) say you're wrong.

WCW in 1996-1998 was my favourite era of a wrestling promotion ever. Stuff like the 6-Man Lucha matches, Crow Sting, the Flock vs Benoit/DDP/Saturn, the nWo, Piper going crazy, Flair, all the surprise debuts like Rude, Jarrett, Henning, the rise of Goldberg, Jericho/Malenko, Rey and Eddie's matches and just the way every Nitro had a big-time feel to it hooked me. The dieing days of WCW, with the Steiner/Booker feud and the re-emergance of the Cruiserweight division with Chavo and Sugar Shane rocked too. A shame it took two years of absolute shit in the middle.

The U.S funnelled aid to the Afghanistan mujaheddin through Pakistan's ISI, but it was the ISI who directed which groups received the aid. Sadly, the most fundamental mujaheddin groups received the bulk of the aid (even though they were a minority in the country) which, combined with the ISI's call for radical Muslims to fight in the civil war, facilitated the rise of the Taliban and gave UBL a nice little place to set up shop. So no, the U.S government had nothing to do with UBL directly, but they indirectly and unintentionally set up the conditions for him to gain his power in the country. It was a short-sighted, poorly executed policy, but so were a lot of U.S decisions during the Cold War. If you want to critique U.S foreign policy, there's a few dozen better candidates than Afghanistan.

Well, I hope the Soviets don't hear about this, because otherwise we're screwed!

But for every instance of 'the media' not wanting to get involved and putting somebody in harm's way, there's just as many instances of 'the media' GETTING involved for a good reason. Like the reporter from The Australian, who flew that armless kid out of Baghdad when nobody else cared. Or the dozens of reporters and cameramen who, during the bushfires in Canberra in 2003, put their own lives on the line to help save families and houses. Yes, there is a kind of unwritten law that journalists try and remove themselves from the story, but most members of 'the media' know the difference between right and wrong. Just because these tools didn't isn't proof of a general lack of morals in 'the media'. It's proof of a lack of morals in the three tools that let it happen.

First Chalabi, and now amassing troops on the border. Iran really has your number, eh?

Blaming the 'media' is just as stupid as people who blame the 'left' or the 'right' or the 'police'. Every single one of those groups is comprised of millions of different people, all with different personalities, opinions and morals. You can't blame 'the media' for the actions of three people, just like you couldn't blame 'America' for the Abu Ghraib scandal.

That was the single most boring Hell In A Cell match ever. Absolutely horrible. The only story it told was that they hated each other, and we knew that already. About 20 minutes too long, and if HBK's elbow off the ladder (a good three feet drop!) was meant to be the high spot, then I want my money back. Why waste a Hell In A Cell match when you don't even use it? Why couldn't they have just had a cage match?

Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman (we get this overrated hag shoved down our throats on pretty much every media outlet in Australia) and Ben Affleck I HATE. Halle Berry I also hate, but she's also a horrible actress. Bitch couldn't even do a convincing accent in X-Men 1, so they let her drop it in X-Men 2. AND SHE WON AN OSCAR.

I think it's great that everyone here can express their view on an issue without resorting to anger or petty name calling. Oh. Wait. My mistake.

Because they have more guns and a big brother. Fair or not, that's how the world works.

Because they were attacking a Palestinian terrorist group. They weren't attacking Lebanon.

Yeah, apart from the fact that the entire world isn't embroiled in a conflict against an alliance of hugely powerful countries who want to take over the four corners of the globe, then yeah, I guess it is.

Booker T's 'Save the drama, for yo mama' in 2000 WCW.

Haha - Jake The Snake just bitchslapped Torrie Wilson!

But that report came from the LIBERAL MEDIA!

'This just in folks....... a house in Iraq has been connected to the mains power supply!' News is a business. The good stuff that's coming out of Iraq is numerous, but it doesn't sell papers. It's got nothing to do with a bias.

I never knew America never had a WW2 memorial before? I am shocked. It's not like it was a Vietnam-type war which split the nation, this was a truly noble effort that nobody in their right mind could say wasn't justified. I say give the remaining veterans a few thousand bucks and a nice place in Florida or something.

Lots!

Bloody Americans starting fights.

Anyone with a false eye and a hook should be arrested on sight. How many nice people do you see with a false eye and a hook?

Can't we have one thread on this forum spared from the Left/Right bullshit? As for the movie itself, I thought it was alright. Not as good as ID4, which seems to the barometer of a good disaster flick, but better than say, Armageddon or the steaming pile of crap that was Deep Impact.

Comforting the enemy? You think that a speech by Al GORE is going to do anything to inflame tensions in Iraq? Why can't he say what he feels about a situation? Am I 'comforting the enemy' by supporting his right to say that? Or can only people who disagree with your politics be Sadr sympathisers?

See the months of September-December, 2001.

But doesn't the majority of the criticism towards Bush's lack of press conferences come from the print and online media, who REPORTED the event? Why hold the networks accountable for the opinions of a few? How can you generalise the entire media industry so indiscriminately?