Jobber of the Week

Las Vegas doesn't have an arena large enough for that. WWE events there are held in the university basketball arena, and it's the largest venue (which isn't saying much) and pretty old. NBA did the All-Star Game there the other year and basically had to bring in their own generators and infastructure and then left saying "thanks, but no thanks." Boyd is another college field, you wouldn't hold an NFL game there and you wouldn't hold Mania. Basically, the lack of an arena is also why they don't have any pro teams, and arenas are just a pie in the sky dream right now. The gambling thing used to scare leagues away, but the various governments have made enough concessions to put those fears away. The problem is the lack of a building. Personally, I'd like to see it go to San Diego, but that's just me.

I was told by the other forum that I'd be schooled if I came here and participated in the stimulus talk. I look around this thread and all I see is the same here that I see over there: People who need to read this and understand that there is no such thing as pork in this situation if it creates jobs.

The traditional term is "shit disturber."

No, that wouldn't satisfy Hamas. It would take at LEAST right of return for Hamas to recognize Israel, and there's no way in hell Israel is allowing for that.

At that time, they will present the new custom Jeff Hardy themed world title that will become the de facto belt for the next four years.

To be fair, they've cockteased Hardy winning the title since the last Royal Rumble when he was so hugely over that it could work. Then they teased again all through the fall and by now the it happens it doesn't mean as much. This was good, but it's not as epic as when Eddie won the belt because they essentially focus tested too long across too many PPVs.

Just wait until the Dusty Finish kicks in!

Now if only they had actually done it a year ago when it could have mattered.

HHH was smart enough to destabilize the guy on the top rope! He truly is the ring genius!

Jesus christ, I remember that remark.

What?!? CBC: 45% CTV: 44% Global: 46%

Local news: OJ! Me: I don't want to hear about OJ! CNN: OJ! Me: Gah! Canadian news: OJ! Me: yaaaaargh BBC: OJ! Al-Jazeera: Mecca! But first, OJ! Me: %#)(%*&*#$(%&(#*% Thankfully, France is only giving him a ticker blurb.

Because you don't vote the Liberal party, you vote for an MP, and any MP regardless of party will have some "say in the leadership of this country" just by being able to speak and vote yes/no. Likewise, nobody who lives outside of Calgary West voted for Stephen Harper, either. Depends on how the ridings are set up. I don't know how they're set up in Canada, but you have systems like California's legislature until just now where the ridings are cut up so carefully along socio-economic strata that no matter how many people vote the same person will win.

So the picture quality was terrible but you could read the book titles in the background? Dion may have said nothing, but you can't actually say Harper did any good with his scorched earth whipping on anyone who has ever voted for the Bloc. He could have, you know, done the POPULAR thing and hammered on Dion, instead of resorting to Canada's answer to McCarthyism. In spite of NDP running ads that made Harper look like a Nazi, Conservatives placed themselves as a #2 in places not called Montreal around the province. That was what Harper had long building toward, and he just needed to expand it over successive elections, and in the past 48 hours he's imploded the whole damn thing.

It's more like "take his party down with him." Harper would come so close to meeting the goalposts in Quebec and then falling too short because he didn't have the patience to do something like cut culture budgets after an election instead of before. Now he can't control himself and he's undoing years of careful work. His rhetoric of "SEPARATIST SEPARATIST if you vote for the Bloc you are a SEPARATIST" had made sure that the Conservatives won't win a seat in Quebec for a very long time. Those 10 MPs they have there might as well pack their bags and leave them by the door until they're asked to go. He needs to go have a coffee break with Sarah Palin and they can whine together about how their opponents are all nation traitors.

While you may not like how this is being done, you can't deny WHY it's being done. That Harper wishes to end Parliament for 60 days in the middle of an economic meltdown is insane.

I can't imagine having $2 currency period. We got rid of it decades ago and they're now a rare item. I'm pretty sure we have lots of teenagers who haven't seen one in their lifetimes. I can't call that coin a toonie either, I have to go for the old "two dollar." I bought a paper upon immediately landing in Canada to crack a bill into coins for bus fare, and I felt really really odd using purple money and getting all these coins back and having to discuss with the lady running the newsstand what each one represented. It's probably an experience I'll remember for a long time, because it was something I hadn't experienced since first grade. "This one is a nickel, this one is a quarter..." Not to mention that I initially half-expected her to throw my $5 back saying it's not real money, because it doesn't LOOK like what I'd consider real money. I still have $50 in Canadian Dollars that I have nothing to do with, since converting it would make it worth so much less than waiting to go back to Canada someday. Apparently, Canadians can get ATM deposits in US currency, making them much more familiar with our money than we are with theirs.

More people voted for for parties that were Not Tories than voted for Tories. They're struggling to match Harper's unity without falling into an American-style two party system where you simply vote for the lesser of two evils. Unfortunately, US style politics where you're presented with a Pepsi and a Coke and they both taste about the same, is the inevitable result of democracy in my cynical view. Though in a way, Canada is sort of insulated from a Democrats VS Republicans political landscape by way of one province who flatly refuses to vote for anything other than a "Fuck You All, Me First" party which always makes sure the door is open for gimmicky third parties. The other thing to keep in mind is that while you THINK you're electing the leader of your nation, you're technically subject to the rule of that old biddy with the corgis and the colour-coordinated hats. And while you and many other Canadians may insist over and over that showing up on coins and the $20 is her only real duty, we all know that she could basically shut down your elected government and give you what she feels you deserve if she really wanted to. That the coalition is asking Jean to pull the plug on a legitimately elected government essentially will set precedent over whether the Crown or the Canadian people really have the final word on who is running this thing. Jean will do what she feels will best endear people to the Monarchy but whichever way she goes there are going to be people who hate her guts when this thing is over. The Liberals have forced her hand with this no confidence vote.

Whether you like him or not, you have to admit that Harper has a way of acting like Canada is his own personal RISK map of the world. At least over here we still have the good sense to flip the hell out if legislation powers are used to simply improve somebody's chances in the next election.

And then you have parties like the Bloc who net so many votes that they can compete without raising any money at all. If this were stopped, the BQ would become some guys touring in a bus since they haven't raised cash for years. And that's probably why Harper wants to eliminate it, since his cuts to culture and crap about how they want to destroy Canada keeps moving his goalposts further and further away in Quebec, so by doing this he could cut them down at the knees. This is why the BQ won't join the coalition (ruling the country would mean they would be required to care about all the provinces, heaven forbid!) but will support what they're doing. Governments aren't corporate nannies, but they are market nannies. When the market goes south, there is some pressure that they should be assist those who are struck a malfunctioning market, within reason (i.e. anyone without a sound business plan who was going to fail in a stable market probably isn't worth saving, which is what auto is facing right now.) Case example: Airline industry after 9/11. I'm pretty sure the Crown can ask the opposition to form government instead. There's been a lot of jokes this week about Harper having Jean killed.

This pretty much confirmed that the HW division is a joke. Am I really supposed to buy Brock's strategy of cutting to 265 at every weigh in and then getting huge in the time between that and the show?

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