Jobber of the Week

Critical Mass has been a regular function in San Francisco for what feels like forever. It ran out of steam in 2002, but was one of those events that was becoming so regular that traffic people warn you about running into it while coming hom on the morning commute broadcast. In the SF ones, while I've heard a few rotten apples who drum their hands on the hoods of cars filled with upset drivers, it's not really that violent as protests go but it also might be because people were starting to get used to it being there a couple days out of the year and try to avoid the route. For the most part, at least over here it's about a bunch of bicycles exercising their legal right to drive on the roads. And they do so in a big group. And automobile drivers get cranky because their car/truck/SUV is stuck going at the speed of bicycle.

That's almost sig-worthy. The informative portion is a bunch of sourceless stuff we know about "Oh hey, Mr. T, you might have cured cancer by now if Bush had a better health care system" or "Bush is adopting a radical religious agenda to please the Christian wackos." This stuff isn't necessarily lies, but doesn't really source it in any way. 'Round these parts, we call that fluff. That and the visual of a giant titty crashing into a wall while Hulk Hogan threw what looked like snowballs at pig-headed men in suits was generating so much retarded that I almost expect it to transform the concept into a physical form and plot a heaping pile of retarded right in my room. Again, it looks like a lot of work went into it for a Flash timewaster, but it's like the liberal version of that episode of The Simpsons where the Navy chief has a hallucination and sees his sailors shooting hippies that are trying to kill him by throwing flowers. EDIT: But Howard Dean has a scream. Oh thank god. EDIT 2: You know, maybe it's because I'm just all moderate, but some of this stuff this EVIL KKKORPORATE MONEYPIG and UPPER CLASS OF SATAN imagery is almost offensive. It's those kinds of things that makes me start thinking if Mike is right when he says the fringe radical shit is starting to become more and more mainstream. *contemplates it* No...They aren't. They're just awfully loud.

This is going to be one of those negative Kurt posts, so look out, but first I have to mention that I'm one of those people who slobber over the ground Angle's walked on for most the past few years. So this isn't some guy trying to go against the grain, it's how I've felt recently as this "Kurt the backstage asshole" stuff has been coming more and more: Someone needs to remind Kurt that his WrestleMania main event didn't really draw much as far as Mania goes. While I usually enjoy him on TV, he's seemed to forgot that the reason he's over is an unusual sense of comic timing (which has been completely lost since his 9/11 push), a catchy theme song, and that he hasn't really been buried by anyone, although he's come out on the short end of a few fueds. Angle matches are Smark Dreams for quite a few people given enough time and an opponent above broomstick level, but Angle's style is the kind of that puts the crowd to sleep like HHH's 2002 glass ceiling period. If you look at the highlight video of Angle's crowd-pleasing ring moments, you have the moonsault off the cage and angleslamming a Hoss of your choice, and that's about it. He has very little in-ring character. There is no riverboat strut, no F-U elbow, no five knuckle shuffle, no hulkin' up, no "spit in the hand" slap, no lying and cheating and stealing. And thus there's very little for the crowd to be excited about. The most he has is taking off the singlet and applying the anklelock. It's a "no gimmick required" ring persona that works fine for the likes of Benoit, HHH, and Bret Hart, but doesn't work for Kurt Angle becuase he IS a gimmick and got over as such.

It's creative, but still pretty stupid.

Yes, we know, becuase it'll lead to "all sorts of queer shit." Thank you for valued and informed opinion.

My guess with longhorn is late 2006. They always delay these things. Intel is still charging ahead with ramping up the Ghz of the P4, even though AMD has given up on that shit and moved to a true 64-bit processor. If you want a gaming cpu, AMD has the better deal. If you want a video/multimedia CPU, the P4 is still encoding faster than comparable Athlon64. I believe AOL is currently teaching it's users how to count up to 10 as we speak.

This is the retarded slippery slope arguement that appeared in the last thread about marriage (or civil unions) and there's two questions: (1) What about gay marriages somehow changes the playing field for that? If Americans really wanted 3-people marriages, there'd be heavy lobbying and campaigning for it. (2) The government has a problem with multi-person marriages because then people get "married" into a group for big tax breaks. But it doesn't even matter because this hasn't appeared as a viable probem at all in the debate about gay marriage, except perhaps as talk radio shit. edit; Wow. I posted this comic in Rant's old thread. Shit.

That doesn't matter. The government sets federal guidelines for M/F unions, why should they not set any for M/M or F/F unions as well?

So does this: So that confirms what I've been saying for the past several pages about Thurlow, and Hoffman was in charge of the group that approved Kerry's version of events. Hmmmm....

Oh god, here we go with the dictators again. I expect to hear "rape rooms" at any moment, lay it on me....

This is being reported as a near-miss, but I view it as a near-hit.

He's considered a Republican because he supported Bush six months after 9/11? I mean, maybe he is, but that's a pretty poor period for judging people's politics, since we all suddently turned into a nation of flag-salutin' motherfuckers for a while there after the attacks.

Courts didn't let the states make the decision on interracial unions either, and that helped cement the acceptance of those kinds of relationships. Of course, back then, people trusted their courts to make the right decisions instead of shouting about judicial activism the moment the judge makes a decision they don't agree with.

Er, you need what exactly? You can save those pictures to your hard drive without needing me to host them.

I was just kidding.

Where was the obligatory mention of tea and crumpets that we all agreed upon?

This explains the lifted up Cadillac Escalade down the street with the "WLFRWLZ" license plate.

I don't think you understand. The title originally was Taboo Tuesday and Airtime, You will be surprised. This had been the second time he hadn't specified exactly which continent he was talking about, so I was just trying to be friendly in foretelling exactly what happened in the last thread: North Americans clicking en masse and getting upset that this suprising news effects only a small minority of posters here. However, appearantly this is done intentionally by Vanhalen to get back at us for having a continent that's so big and self-centered. Fighting American tyranny begins at home and all that. Nik's cleared the air, though, so it's all moot now.

No one is changing the definition. We're talking about civil unions here. What I'm saying is the government had to set some national ground rules for marriage that all states had to follow, and it needs to do so here.

The best interest of this country, and any country in the world, is to not be viewed as a bully. Being a bully didn't help Hitler, it didn't help the Russians, it won't help us. At the least it'll lead to us having to do EVERYTHING by ourselves, allied only with the tiny do-nothing countries that want to ride our coattails but don't have the resources to be useful. At the worst it'll lead to eleventh hour negotiations and fingers unsteadily hovering over The Button. I don't remember Clinton bending over to do favors for France and Germany and there wasn't this much resistance from them then, was there? Lastly, I would sooner have a President that kisses the ass of those countries than a President that kisses the ass of Saudi Arabia.

Okay, Mike. I got a new idea. How about we let the states decide if blacks can marry? And then if a black couple gets married in a state where they let them do that kind of thing, and then wants to move on down to a state where the people said black people can't get married, then they are considered not married anymore. Oh, and only white people should do the decidin' about if black people can marry in each state. Hey, wait a minute, this doesn't sound very fair.....

FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. ...Upon which Germany declared war on us days later. In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. To the contrary: In the three years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has left two countries fighting warlords for power, moved the Taliban from a known to unknown location, spread the power of Al-Qaeda's message that the US wants to take over the Middle East, lost the guy we were looking for, and wasted our time when he had nothing by going after a dictator who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people while he had our full support. It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation. It only took less time to "take" Iraq if you stopped counting when you saw the aircraft carrier landing and said "Well, the banner said mission accomplished, so it must be so." Smart people knew better. We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records. Does it matter? The search will be about as successful as a search for live dinosaurs. It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!! LOL.

I'm not suggesting the Dems "run on it," nor do I suggest there was some sort of collusion going on between Enron and the Republicans through Gillespie, nor did I say he was doing both jobs at the same time. I'm just saying that's a pretty embarassing history for a major figure in politics. Nothing more, nothing less.

See, I think that's putting too much power in the hands of the states. You need to set some government baselines on the national level, and then let the states work from there. And I personally don't think there should be any state in America where people lose benefits because of who they choose to sleep with. How in the hell is that the state's business to begin with?