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Oh, it won't be Congressional children at risk. They weren't drafted during Vietnam, and they wouldn't be now. How many of current Congressmen have kids in Iraq? Is it up to two or three now? But I do think that if such a measure were taken, public approval for the war would drop to levels that would make the current ones look downright friendly. Words like "recall election" would be thrown about. I seriously doubt it could pass.

Aye, but here's the rub: 1. Companies closes their factories in America and open up new ones in Mexico. 2. Those companies pay the Mexican laborers pennies on the dollar, less than a living wage. 3. Mexicans hop the border into America in order to get a job they can survive on. 4. Those Mexicans compete for jobs with the very Americans who were put out of work by the factories closing. That's not a hypothetical example, I've seen it happen. You don't live here. He's right. Prices never go down in America. Pretty much everything is like the oil market: prices keep rising regardless of any other circumstances.

Quasar, question: where are you from? Not the South, I assume? You seem to have this view of all Southerners as overall-wearin', scattergun-totin', WASPy "we keep them thar wimmin and darkiez and forners in their place!" type people. I've known quite a few emo kids who go rave-dancin' at the goth & gay bars in downtown Nashville who would disagree with you. Plus the millions of black and mexican folk. Personally, I wish EVERY state would do this. It would eliminate the "more people voted for the loser" loophole that happened in 2000 and three times before that. Maine already does it that way, and maybe another state I'm forgeting. A district-by-district system would eliminate that problem, too. I just think the current "all or nothing" electoral system is obviously flawed.

Are you making an ignorant "Brock iz on de juice" joke, or a clever "man Brock's WAY off the juice" crack?

Not gonna happen. They've teased it a few times, but it's pretty obvious that TNA's glass ceiling is pretty goddamned air tight, and they've only got a "1 new guy per every 2 years" quota for the heavyweight belt. 1.They never should've brought him in at all. 2. At a time when TNA is crying poor and cutting costs across the board, they signed Jones to the highest paying contract in the company's history. 3. Maybe they should've had someone read Pacman's contract, or at least ask the Titans if it was okay? 4. I hate the offscreen attack because it's so obviously phony. If it didn't happen on-camera, it didn't happen, that's the fundamental rule of wrestling on television. It's not real life?! Dude, if I counted on my hands the number of people I knew personally who left their homes and moved to Nashville in order to work for TNA and then got fucked over or fired, I'd run out of fingers. TNA has blatantly showed time and time again that they only really care about anyone who's friends with Jarrett/Dixie/Russo/etc, and everyone else can drop dead as far as they care.

So... you do realize that this is just a con man trying to steal your money and/or identity, right? (And did you notice the French email address for someone who's supposed to be in Africa?)

If he just came out, yelled "HOO-RAH", and then got his ass completely kicked inside-out, I wouldn't mind Miz that much. But to actually be winning all his matches and to have a harem of chicks hanging on him? Oh hell no.

Well now, let's dissect this bit by bit, shall we? Senshi/Daniels vs. Dutt/Lethal vs. Shelley/Sabin: the crappiest team won the match. Great job burying XXX in their first PPV match back. Kaz vs. Raven: does anyone care? Anyone? Besides Kazarian's mom? Seratonin has been so pointlessly misused and ignored that they might as well just cut it. Plus, with the interference, this was Non-Clean Fuck Finish #1 of the night. Storm vs. Rhino: first of all, if you're gonna do a drunken deathmatch, it needs to be done with REAL alcohol and for comedic purposes. Secondly, remember the first time an angle about a wrestler being an addict got over and drew money? Yeah, me neither. Also, due to rampant drunkeness, this was Non-Clean Fuck Finish #2. Robert Roode vs. Eric Young: I could not care less. And I like Eric and Traci, personally, I've worked with both of them. But END this goddamn boring endless feud. Also, the babyface loses the match, but our heroic surrogate refuses to honor his promise and instead pours gooey liquid all over a helpless woman? Yep, Russo's booking alright. Also, NCFF#3. Chris Harris vs. Black Reign: not even a real match. And remember the first time Dustin Rhodes got over and drew money without being called Goldust? Yeah, me neither. NCFF#4. Steiners vs. Dudleys: okay, they FINALLY have this match, just a year and a half late. And what the fuck, the only clean job the Dudleys do all fuckin' year is to the LAST team that needs extra credibility?! Golden Shower Jones talks. Apparently the crowd was split right down the middle, between people who hated him and people who didn't care. Also, having him "attacked offscreen" is the lamest fucking thing possible. I know they couldn't do it onscreen, because TNA is run by a bunch of fucking idiots who didn't bother asking the NFL if it was okay if the biggest thug this side of New Jack actually wrestled on their show, but it was still fucking weak. Six-Man Overcomplicated Hardcore Clusterfuck: first of all, the rules were stupid. Secondly, is it written in goddamned stone that every barbed-wire match ever MUST at some point have one wrestler whip out a pair of wire cutters and start chopping? And the finish, "broken glass", go fuck yourselves TNA. Either 1.it's real glass, so AJ Styles is the biggest goddamn idiot on earth, or MUCH more likely 2.it's the same incredibly obviously fake "glass" that Sting got slammed onto the other week, which makes the audience want to laugh and groan in disgust more than anything. NCFF#5. Joe vs. Angle: -I'm tired of this go-nowhere feud -Putting EVERY BELT IN THE COMPANY on one guy (who is injury-prone and a rumored drug addict) is the stupidest thing TNA has ever done, and sweet jesus does that cover a lot of ground. -Joe loses the big match AGAIN. Samoa Luger? Samoa Jericho? -Everyone called the Karen Angle swerve ahead of time. -Good thing that Accidental Ref Bump happened just in time for Karen to do the swerve in the first place. This is possibly the laziest and worst cliche that Russo uses, the "ref bump sets up a turn from someone interfering" bit, and he uses it ALL THE GODDAMN TIME. Can we just call it the Russo Finish? I mean, if Dusty can have his, surely this even worse booker deserves one named after him. And oh yeah, NCFF#6. SIX OUT OF EIGHT FINISHES WEREN'T CLEAN. And the funniest bit: you know who Alan Wojcik is? You know, the guy who usually reports the TV taping spoilers to Metlzer. He's also full-time fluffer for TNA's cock, endlessly talking about how great they are and defending all their bullshit decisions. Well, he was told that he was never allowed to bring his laptop (which he uses to write his reports on) to this show or any TNA show ever again, and he said if that doesn't change he ain't coming back. So they just ran off their primary internet reporter and single biggest mark cheerleader for no particular reason. In conclusion, Fuck TNA.

He signed up for the Pit a long while back, but disappeared again, that was over a year ago.

Those are all worth mentioning again. Rob Roy: Liam Neeson vs. Tim Robbins swordfight. THAT is the movie fight I point to when I'm trying to explain what "psychology" in a wrestling match should mean. Just an awesome swordfight that actually feels real, not two guys banging away like superheroes for twenty minutes before the babyface suddenly, arbitrarily wins, like most movie swordfights tend to be.

Ironically, I just got off the phone with that guy. He's a friend, and in fact was my tag partner in my first match. We joke that we're still undefeated (we only teamed once and won that night). And hey lookee, 5000 post mark. Weird how appropriate it seems to have it happen in this thread.

No, he never won the title. I think he won a non-title match over Styles when he had the belt, something like that.

I'll watch anything Michel Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Gondry makes. For the Jack Black haterz, remember, this is the same director who made Jim Carrey seem completely believable as a shy, introspective guy.

They HAVE brought in real athletes, plenty of them, everyone from Tito Ortiz to Johnny Damon. NONE of them drew better ratings.

Not really a surprise. Five years back in NWA Wildside, half the locker room despised him then too.

Dyersburg... hmm... did they have a guy called Void wrestling there? If so, I know a couple people at that show. And with a body that looked vaguely like Scott Steiner's? If so, that's the one and only Spellbinder, aka Del Rios from the 1st TNA ppv, aka Wrestlecrap's Phantasio.

Why all the sympathy for Pacman? The dude is a fucking idiot and violent thug who has nobody but himself to blame for all his many, many problems.

I'm the only one he hates enough to say it twice. I win. ...and I gotta come up with a new reason for people to disparage me, that one's getting old.

::walks blithely into the thread:: Hey guys, what's going on here OH SICK MONKEY FUCK SUIT Milky just squirted hatred all over me!

The what? You mean the thing that killed Sirius? Yeah, I wish she would've told us something, anything about that.

Only if it's in Guyana. Sadly, the many ignoramusi who make constant "Kool-Aid" jokes about ECW will have no idea what the fuck you're talking about there.

You seriously think that Vince not being on TV is more likely to cause a huge drop in ratings than one of their top stars snapping and killing everyone near him?

And to think, it was only a week or two ago people were bitching about the heels winning clean at GAB being bad booking. You're both right. Having every single heel go over at the Bash WAS bad booking. Why screw the fans who actually paid money to see these shows, and presumably cheer their favorites? I've never understood PPVs that are loaded with heel finishes, nonfinishes, whatever. Like, GREAT example, the worthless piece of shit they claimed was Summerslam last year. I mean, of ALL times for Cena to do a job, it's in his hometown in the second-biggest show of the year? What the fuck?! That kind of "make the fans wait for the payoff, drag it out drag it out dragitout" thinking is the exact same thing that helped kill WCW's ratings in 1998, when the NWO just Never. Freakin'. Lost. On the OTHER hand, you can't go around making every heel a chickenshit scaredy-cat with no apparent wrestling talent who lives in fear of the badass babyfaces. Like Ricky Steamboat's philosophy: if I make my opponent look like a piece of shit, then when I pin him, so what? I just beat a piece of shit.

Orton, easily. When did the others wander around doing drugs in the locker room, or violently trash their hotel suite, or get a reputation for being the biggest misogynist on the roster, or not bother to tell anyone that their dad was packing a communicable blood disease, or... you see my point.

One of the few, judging by the number of people who didn't watch again after Randy was named the new #1 contender.