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Oh sweet Jesus. If they really do wind up giving Orton a long title reign, I'm going to dread watching RAW because it will be nothing but verbal blowjobs from Lawler right up until the end of that reign

I'd love to see a JSA episode.

I agree completely. I've said it before - let's see Orton put on a good match against an opponent who isn't a better worker than him. Because he hasn't yet. He should be thanking Edge, Jercho, Benoit, Foley, and all of the others that have been carrying him on their shoulders for the past few months, and he should be thanking them daily.

If I remeber correctly, he got fired for not being able to get a handle on that little "I like to commit assault on others in my spare time" habit of his.

I think BDC has an interesting point in nothing that he's just choosing to sell ONE product - and yet many here are dismissing him because he's not choosing to sell one product. By not doing so, it's not as if his entire career as a pharmacist is a failure. Let me pose YOU a hypothetical here: let's say that you buy a store, already established and operational. Let's say is a small general store, sells a little bit of everything - including a small amount of guns, for personal protection or hunting purposes. You decide, after purchasing the store, that as the new owner / manager you're not going to stock firearms anymore because morally you are opposed to distributing firearms so easily. Do you think it's fair for someone, perhaps one of the previous customers who had bought a firearm under the old management, to come up to you and say that you should quit and find a new line of work because if you aren't willing to continue to sell firearms, you aren't capable of doing your job? That analogy is not perfect, I know, but perhaps it could give you some perspective. Yes, morality means different things to different people, but in the hypo I gave someone could easily turn around and claim that YOU are unwantingly imposing YOUR morality upon them. I think what this guy's doing is silly, but if he feels this strongly about it, it's his choice to do so, and while I question the logic of making THIS issue his own personal "line in the sand", if you will, I'm not going to say something like "he needs to get out of the pharmacy business" because he refuses to sell this product. I suppose I consider myself a "softcore" Christian, and quite frankly, I don't have a problem with selling the morning after pill, and I certainly wouldn't have any qualms about selling medication or any other product to homosexuals. Any Christian who does isn't a true Christian. No matter how much they may disagree with a person's lifestyle, true Christians are SUPPOSED to love all of their fellow men and treat them as brothers. I mean, c'mon, Christ hung out with lepers - any Christian who couldn't fill out a homosexual's prescription is a fucking hypocrite.

Where the hell did this reaction come from? Unless I missed the memo, Eric Bana is not some sort of teen idol. If the Bond producers had only been concerned about appealing to teenage girls, they really WOULD have hired Ashton Kutcher. Or someone like Heath Ledger. Bana's a good actor, who's pretty much been taking serious roles ever since "Chopper", and I think he'll probably do well in the role. I do believe that Brosnan was a pretty damn good Bond. It wasn't his fault he got stuck with inferior scripts.

I will NEVER forgive Star Trek creative for utterly destroying the Borg with Voyager. Voyager sucks, and is doing shit in the ratings, so what do they do? Put lots of Borg on the show! Hey, people love the Borg! But they fucked them up. The best villains that Trek created in the last 20 years, and they just FUCK them up. It was probably at the time when they introduced Borg children that I decided that Trek needs to die for a while.

WOW, did Thunderbirds bomb. I mean, I figured it would - but I did think it would at least break the top ten. You just KNOW that the producers / studio were probably hoping for another Spy Kids-like kiddie franchise with this thing. Glad to see Bourne Supremacy doing so well. It deserves it. Anyone want to wager how much Village will drop next week? I'm going to guess 60%. Shymalan is, I think, pretty much exposed now.

Edited for accuracy. Just joking, of course, but c'mon AoO - a pink shirt and a pink belt at the same time is just a little too “Hello, ‘Frisco!” to not make a comment. The fact that you call it a “sash” isn’t helping either. BTW, I agree with the pro-Disturbed sentiment here. I consider them to be a pretty decent hard rock band. Hell, I own both albums, so I must be something of a fan.

well then tell Tom Ridge to stop claiming an attack is highly likely every other day, only to give out the most vague and non-informative information. Your response only works if he had been making a post criticizing Tom Ridge. But he didn't. For whatever reason, he decided to use this opportunity to be an ass. The problem I have with the information is that even though it's specific, there's still no guarantee that those are the real targets or if it's just some sort of elaborate feint. Everyone could be focused on the financial institutions in targets, and in the meantime some jihadist could stroll into the subway system during rush hour with a backpack bomb. When I hit the Metro tomorrow, I better see Metro cops out the goddamn wazoo. Hell, bring the damn bomb-sniffing dogs too.

Let's try and keep the petty-ass Bush bashing to a minimum, thank you, since the topic at hand is whether or not D.C. or NYC is going to be attacked within the next few days. Some of us have to WORK in those cities, as I do tomorrow, and frankly, I'm fairly concerned whether or not I'll be able to actually get there and back. Christ, you'd think some people have the slightest amount of TACT.

The real order goes like this: Babylon 5 and then way down below it: TNG TOS DS9 Enterprise Voyager The franchise is utter shit at this point. I've been advocating for a while now that they should just shut down the shows / movies, and wait a long time - at least five years - before they restart anything. Take a LONG hiatus, and in that time take a scythe to the current creative team, hire new people, and work on producing a kickass new series that does a lot of things we haven't seen before (because the main problem that Trek has had - with Voyager, and now with Enterprise - is that we've seen all of this shit done before, and done infinitely better). I've read a few. They range from good to really bad. If you're going to read a Trek book, stick to the ones written by Peter David - he usually does a pretty good job with them.

Why the fuck would you want to take a talented guy like Joe, who could easily be a break-out singles star for them if they even HALFway push him, and team him up with that sack of shit? Jamal has a high asking price? Fuck him. If you want to bring in a high-priced Samoan, just drop cash for Rikishi. It's not as if I'd like to see Rikishi in TNA, either, but at least he has good name value and can put on a decent match. Jamal / Ekmo can't even do THAT.

All I can say is, they better not fucking blow up the city until I leave on vacation in a week or so.

Yeah but then you get into the whole argument on "where life begins" which can become quite the headache... and besides, the point of the morning after pill, is precautionary... in most cases, no one knows whether the girl is pregnant anyway! It's done "just in case" so therefor you don't know if she's destroying anything or not. You said there is no difference - all I pointed out to you is that, at least in the mind of a follower of Christian doctrine (and presumably that's what this guy is), there is a rather HUGE difference. One prevents life from ever happening, the other potentially destroys life after it's begun (with conception) - the most rudimentary form of life, but if you believe life begins at conception, it doesn't matter to you. No one's blaming him for that... I'm blaming him for simply not doing his job Jobber appears to actually be blaming this guy. So, to everyone who lives in this guy's community: if you have unprotected sex tonight, and get a disease or an unwanted pregnancy: you know who to REALLY blame. What law is he violating here? No offense to you, but when it comes to constitutional issues, people always screw up and think that somehow private individuals or companies are violating someone's constitutional rights. Here's the answer: in the private realm, your constitutional rights mean shit. He's a private individual. He owns his own store in Fabens, which is a private company, unless I'm mistaken and the government owns some percentage of them. If this was an instance of a GOVERNMENTAL body or official refusing to provide contraceptives, then you may be running into a due process issue, and this man's actions might be in violation of the law. But as it is, unless there's some wacky state law which requires that pharmacy owners sell contraceptives (and I doubt that there is), then he's not violating the law here at all. This is a weird, stupid thing he's doing, but again, he's under no legal obligation to sell condoms, etc. I'd even argue that, based upon his belief system, he's under no MORAL obligation to sell them either. I would defend him, yes. I would find it as equally ridiculous as what he's doing here, but it's his choice as to what he sells in his store. And again, he'd be under no obligation to sell Advil if that's what he doesn't want to do. I'm still not quite sure what the fervor over this is. I'd be shocked if there were NO other places to buy contraceptives in that community. Hell, they sell condoms and other such items in fucking grocery stores here in the D.C. metro area - I have to imagine that there's literally a dozen or more places people will turn to if they can't buy rubbers from Johnny Christian here.

I'm guessing that means the JLU episodes will only be half-hour episodes. Que Sera Sera... Tonight's episode was good, but really, it showed why the half-hour format is just going to cause problems. You can't really tell the best story possible in a half hour, considering they have such a large cast of characters. 30 minutes isn't even enough time to get adequately present (let alone develop) the different personalities of the new characters and how they interact with other Leaguers.

The idea is NOT the same. One form of contraception prevents conception from even occurring. One, theoretically, terminates the fertilized egg after conception has already taken place. I don't even have a problem with the morning after pill, but the ideas are not the same thing. Isn't that really more of the fault of the people who decide they're going to fuck anyway, WITHOUT protection? I don't think the blame should fall on him at all. It's silly what he's doing, but he's not obligated to provide contraceptives, and I'd find it hard to imagine that there isn't a clinic or hospital in that area that doesn't provide contraceptives to those who need them. If the people in his community still decide to have sex without protection, it's their fault - not this guy's.

I'm loving the fact that the Benoit DVD is doing so well. And the Cena story is fantastic. It makes me have a great deal more respect for the guy. It's too bad he's so damn limited in the ring, otherwise I'd probably have a new favorite Smackdown star.

And once again the free exercise of religion is confused with "pushing" religious values upon another.

I would tend to agree - the script is the most important thing. But I'd probably be happy with Bana. I still think that in a comparison, Law would be better than Bana for the role, but I could live with Bana.

Carnage is in general a shitty villain anyway. "Well, Venom was a big hit.....so let's make an even meaner, CRAZIER version of Venom!" Carnage is a character born of creative stagnation.

I would be perfectly happy with them using their non-main event talent - provided that they book them well, and by that I mean book them in decent matches. Matches that aren't squashes. Because there's no need for them. Absolutely none. There's no need to have something like 6 matches per show, and have (essentially) all of them be 2 or 3 minute squashes - there's NO point to it. In THEORY it's to get the TNA guys over, but really, outside of aberrations like Goldberg, wrestlers get more over (ESPECIALLY on the indy scene - which at this point, TNA is STILL a part of) by engaging in entertaining, competitive matches, rather than 3 minute matches against jobbers. Here's my simple formula for Impact, which would no doubt work absolutely well for them: No more than five matches per show. Preferably, only 4 matches per show. Of those matches, at least three CANNOT be squashes. This leaves, at most, only one to two squashes per show. One match - the main event, if you will - should be established TNA star vs. established TNA star. Doesn't have to be the main event workers, but it has to be established stars. Give this match a minimum of 6 minutes. The other matches can include TNA stars against indy workers - but the matches must be COMPETITIVE, which means that at least a portion of the match includes the indy worker / jobber gets in some offense. This would necessitate longer matches also. The WWE does this on Heat & Velocity often, and does it fairly well. This would produce better matches, help the TNA workers get over, AND probably make the indy guys more well known to the TNA crowds, possibly even making them stars out of the process. If you're going to have Jerrelle Clark v. AJ Styles, there's no reason you can't give them 6 or 7 minutes to work their match as opposed to 3. You'd still have time left over for you interview segments, PPV plugging, etc. Something as simple as that would make Impact VASTLY better than it is now. I would disagree. Certain guys - like Abyss - can get away with squashing people, because that's part of their gimmick. But as I said before, if you're going to put AJ Styles, or Christopher Daniels, or Chris Sabin in the ring with an indy worker who can go, there's no reason to make that match 3 minutes long when you can give them at least 6 or 7 minutes and let the match be competitive. Fans are smart enough to realize that, inevitably, the TNA guy is going to win, but there's no reason not to make the match as exciting as possible. This would not damage the credibility of the TNA wrestlers, and could possibly even build up some of the indy workers they've been using (who I guess are from NWA Florida? There's rumors they want to give these guys contracts anyway). There's no excuse for not having at least one PPV quality match on Impact every week. At least one - EVERY WEEK. The PPVs are supposed to be sold primarily on their storylines - so there's still plenty of room for them to book matches between guys that have no current storyline against each other. If Raven is involved in a storyline with Sabu, then there's no reason he can't face, say, Irish Pat Kenney on Impact.

What's his platform? If he even has one, I'm in. I think his platform goes something like.. Let me see you get low Bounce that ass to the floor Bend over to the front, touch your toes bounce that ass up and down and get low!! Basic gist: Get Low, for America that is!!! I'm saving my vote for Juvenile. Get slow-motion with him.

Exactly, Mike. This show is their BEST opportunity to promote the product, but it's just not getting done with this shit. Hell, Velocity actually looks to have a MUCH better lineup this week than does Impact - and quite frankly, after reading the Velocity spoilers, I've already decided that that program isn't worth my time this weekend. I didn't think I'd ever really say this, but on the subject of TNA I'm closer than I've ever been to crossing over and joining you on the dark side, Mike.

All I have to say is, where were the D.C. metro police last week when I had to ride the Red Line with some long-haired hippie (it's really what he was - honest) who was eating what appeared to be some nauseating chicken & rice dish out of a tupperware container? I nearly vomited. If I could have gotten away with it, I would have stabbed out his eyes with his fork.