Jingus

Allah. Or G-d. Any monotheistic god who isn't the Christian God.

Why does everyone keep thinking that I want a popular vote system? True, I do think it'd serve better than a system where the loser can win, but read the above for what I wish would happen.

Yeah, it was in the shoot interview he did with RFVideo, he said that he never really liked working with Kawada, either in the ring or in a promotional sense. Never heard the Storm story.

No shit there's contact. Unlike you, I've actually felt that contact in the ring. I've been hit by everyone from the Harris twins to Gypsy Joe, so I feel pretty confident that I know more about the difference between worked and stiff than you do. I was just naming one example. Of course there are plenty of wrestlers who are plenty stiff. Tracey Smothers told me that Kawada kicked him too damn hard. I'll believe him before I believe you. Ya know Chris, these condescending tirades of yours used to really piss me off. I'm sure you remember as well as I do. But now, to me, you're just another mark who thinks he knows wrestling better than the people who actually work in the business. Funny how a "hanger-on" like me has been the primary play-by-play announcer on my local wrestling TV show for almost the past three years now. And I'm damn good at it, too. If you don't believe me, just ask Scott Hudson or Joel Gertner or any of the Wildside announce team, they've all worked with me. I already have the trust and respect of the type of people I care about. Ricky Morton told me I was good at my job; with many comments like that in my memory, you calling me a mark just doesn't hurt my feelings at all, strangely enough.

Hi Chris. I wondered if you were gonna show up for this one. About Kawada: yes, he is a damn good wrestler. I've never claimed otherwise. My only point here: in a worked pro wrestling match, it's a far, far better thing to be able to look like you're really kicking someone in the face than to actually do it. So you're saying I should take your word over that of the guys who've actually wrestled in Japan?

I've not seen them in what I'd call a "lazy" performance, though. Yeah, they're both a LOT slower than they used to be and take fewer risks, but massive permanent injuries tend to do that to ya.

Yeah, I finally saw the last Jasmine episode on TNT today, and I'm still less than impressed. The choices Angel, Connor & co. made were pretty ballsy, but Jasmine herself always struck me as not terribly interesting. Having her eat people was the Big Bad equivalent of cheap heat; to really make the moral dilemma as tricky as possible, Jasmine shouldn't have done something as commonly evil as that. It made it way too easy to root against her.

Yep, that's racist fear-mongering, and it's wrong. Thanks for providing that, Mike, since GreatOne seems either unwilling to back up his claims.

Now THAT'S funny. (Side note: the story of the flood and the ark is one of those that I can't see how anyone could possibly believe is literally true, because there's about a googleplex of reasons why it couldn't have physically happened.)

Hell, that's another debate point: the "registered sex offender" malarky. We don't make convicted bank robbers go around to local banks in their areas and announce their presence. We don't make convicted murderers walk door to door and tell all their neighbors what they've done. Why are sex offenders the only ones specifically targeted for "special treatment" after they're released from jails?

I didn't know he played that card. What exactly did he say, and can you provide a source for it? (Still waiting on those other sources BTW.) Nope, in my mind all presidential candidates are created equal. (Little tidbit: I'm not gonna be voting for Kerry.)

Not a serious suggestion, more of a "modest proposal". What is so hard to understand? The majority of people get to make the decisions, period. Whether you like it or not, that's the way a democratic system of government works. Four out of forty-three presidents have been elected this way. Almost ten percent of the people who've made it to the Oval Office were actually voted against more than they were voted for. I'd say that's a serious glitch in the system.

First off, does anyone have or could anyone make a Best of Teddy Hart tape? I don't mean his older Matrats or Stampede stuff which I don't want or the MLW stuff which I already have, I mean his more recent matches against people like Homicide, B-Boy, Trent Acid, Sabu, and other well-known indy guys, plus his TNA matches, and especially that ROH Scramble Cage Match (does ANYONE know if the footage of his infamous post-match cage dives has been released?). Secondly, if anyone is getting the Ted Petty Tournament from this year (or the Evansville show from earlier this week) and will have it for sale (relatively) cheap, please lemme know.

I don't think that geographical positioning has that much of an effect on presidential voting these days. No matter who you are or where you live, odds are that you'll never get to speak to a candidate, and probably never even get to hear one live unless you're willing to travel a bit. Both Bush and Kerry have given speeches and held conferences near where I live; all of them were invitation-only affairs which were closed to the general public. So, considering that 1. I never even get to see a candidate with my own eyes, and 2. That I already know who is going to win my state no matter who I vote for, it makes me feel less than satisfied with the electoral college.

That brings up a fascinating question: should a criminal suffer forever for their crimes? Should a murderer be executed or sentenced to life in prison, because he permanently destroyed the life of a human being? Or should they get the chance to live a productive and happy life, on the basis that they might do some good in the future and attempt to make up for their actions?

Nope, never have. What if I don't want Ohio dictating what the rest of the country does?

That was even quicker than usual. But hey, I guess openly admitting you're a PBP in your first post isn't the best way to stick around for a while.

If that did happen, those people could easily fuck with the food supply, thus evening out the system once again. Why is the concept of majority rule so hard to understand? It's not a perfect system, but our founding fathers understood that; that's why we have both a House and a Senate. I don't think that eliminating the bugs in an old and obsolete voting system would cause the farmers of America to get treated any worse than they do now.

Here's my question: exactly how can one rig a poll in order to favor one candidate or the other? (Aside from the obvious tactic of just making the numbers up, I mean a poll where they really did contact people and tally their responses.) I'm not rabblerousing, I'm genuinely curious as to how this could be accomplished.

This does worry me a little. If Saddam actually runs, it's vaguely possible that he might actually win. (If he did win, it would probably be due to some kind of voter fraud, terrorist intimidation, or whatever, but still.) If that happened, well, what do we do NOW?

If the vast majority of people live in urban areas? In a word, yes. I'm not trying to sound like an asshole here, but you really do have to take care of the needs of the big group of 100 people standing over here before worrying about the needs of that 1 guy standing off by himself.

Oh, please don't talk to me about kayfabe. The indy shows I work have some of the most godawful backwoods rednecks in attendence, some of the last few remaning on earth who Still Believe, and I've had to try and explain bullshit to them without exposing the business on many occasions. You haven't lived until you've been cornered by a big semi-retarded ex-convict who's yelling about how none of the wrestlers are hitting each other hard enough.

Wrestling isn't about looking like "a real fight", and it hasn't been about that ever since the first guy got Irish whipped into the ropes and bounced back. Everyone (with the exception of a few kids and retards) knows it's fake. Blood isn't that much of a problem to me. If a guy wants to scar up his own forehead, that's his business, and it really doesn't affect a person's quality of life that much. But high-risk moves cripple wrestlers and shorten careers. And I don't think any fan can reasonably "expect" any wrestler to put his life on the line for them. Yeah, the fans pay the bills, but unless you're going to front row Wrestlemania, you ain't paying that much for wrestling, especially considering it airs free on TV four or five times a week. This leads into a side argument about another thing that bugs me: when fans complain about the matches that guys like Jeff Hardy or Sabu have these days. Lots of people bitching about how they're "broken down" and the matches suck because of it. Well, what do you think broke them? Doing the sick crap they did, murdering themselves to entertain people. Don't whine about how Sabu used to be cool but he sucks now; one caused the other.

It wouldn't. If the US government started executing Iraqi citizens, there would only be an increase in terrorist attacks, and they'd actually have reason to be mad this time. No country has the right to kill another country's people, in that other country. (I'm not talking about military fighting, I mean taking someone you already have in custody and offing them.)

Better than the tyranny of the few over the many.