Jobber of the Week

Just saw this during the local news ad break:

It sounds like he doesn't care that much about the risk, probably is planning to raise a child at some point anyway. He's in a committed relationship, and provided he's financially and morally sound to raise children and he isn't opposed to it, what's the problem? If he was more concerned about not having children, he probably would do more. If you're only sorta kinda interested in avoiding a pregnancy, then isn't sorta kinda birth control simply enough? Just back off a little bit.

Taker is great at pacing a match, and is a good worker when he wants to be. His act wouldn't fly in Japan at any age, but how many WWE guys would? The only problem is that he only goes when he wants to, and the rest of the time... Meh. I think he should job at WM25, but since I'm not planning on going anymore, I kind of hope he won't.

Undertaker. Not that I'm a big fan, but the dude has basically always been there. I also tend to think of Flair because his Rumble win was the first time I watched anything wrestling with great interest (more for the Rumble match itself which I had never heard of before but seemed neat.) That and he showed up in Nintendo Power's review of some WWF game way back when, so I never really thought of him as a WCW guy. Hogan, not as much. Between avoiding Hulkamania as a kid and seeing nWo shirts everywhere as a teenager and not knowing what it meant, I see him as much more of a tweener in basically every respect.

This means people took satire seriously.

"Heat", an episode of PBS' Frontline to be aired on October 21st. Looks like it could be kinda controversial.

Listening to this Obama's speech geared toward women in Missouri, and out of nowhere there's a massive chant and I hear him go "whoa, whoa, okay.. Okay.." and now I'm struggling to get the video to come up, there's a crowd of people in the corner holding up signs that say things like "blacks against Obama" and "Obama (unreadable) KKK." Isn't that special...

That dude was bullshit. Matthews likes answers that address the question. He doesn't like answers to yes/no questions that begin with "Well, Chris..." and then head off down another raod. This guy, for instance, got smacked down for using talking points without knowing what the fuck he was talking about. He not only got owned, but angry Republicans arguing on message boards stopped using the WWII analogy for negotiating with hostiles after it got debunked in this clip. And it's that complete implosion in front of a nationwide audience that shuts down a stupid sound bite entirely like this one.

There was hope. There was change. There was a few instances of gambling references and foreclosure talk to make it regionally relevant. There was a President as bus driver allegory. It was a stump speech

Saw $3.59 today, but a blogger around town reported $3.39.

Hello, TSM. Guess where I went today?

GM is a character that need not be all over the screen. Bischoff clicked at first because everyone knew who he was, but rather than throw him in there and see him interact in this new world, they basically blank-slated the guy and made a new sleazeball character with a taste for McMahon women. It had no bearing to the guy you knew from WCW aside from being the same person. The problem is overexposure. They introduced him in August 02, and by November he was making speeches about how even though Kane is a murderer, we'll still allow him to show up at PPV. It was simply really weird, and they only used history whenever they felt the need to set up a stupid gimmick, isntead of making history itself a gimmick. The only time he had a really truly classic moment that felt like something he'd do in WCW was disguising himself as the minister at the chuckabilly wedding. Mike is in the same boat. He is comic relief, but now he's just... There. But there's no there there.

Welcome to America circa 2002. While you guys were dealing with getting 50 of our cents for your dollar, we had begun watching the industrial jobs disappear, even the high-tech ones. If the people in charge tell you that you'll adjust by becoming a "service economy" that just sells and supports products manufactured elsewhere, run as far away as you can. That plan always was bullshit.

People don't want news, they want entertainment. With the exception of Brit Hume (who is leaving at the end of the year), every one of those shows is merely entertainment with an icon that syas "news" spinning around in the corner to make you feel informed. I hate to make a post that comes so close to using the word "sheeple," but this is a trend in all of news recently. I like Lou Dobbs, kind of.. Right after Katrina he went to town on exposing connection-based promotions and cronyism in the administration. I've stopped watching his show now, though, because he's programmed against two of the last news shows in this country which report actual news: BBC World News America, and our PBS affiliate's HDTV broadcast of the NewsHour. Those are my number one and number two US-oriented news shows.

That Obama ad looks like a vapour ad. I doubt it'll be hitting the airwaves much, but was simply produced to direct a media narrative. Meanwhile, speaking of the media... Testy, testy!

Saudis left OPEC, that has a large part to do with it. The Saudis leaving OPEC is kind of like the US leaving NATO, and since they have all the resources they got tired of everyone else in OPEC limiting their production to put the screws to the rest of the world.

CUT THE MIC. CUT THE MIC NOW. I'm cutting your mic for your sake and for the memory of your father!

That's the first time I've ever seen anyone say The View is a "tough interview."

Tucker Bounds get lit up by Fox News blonde. The McCain campaign is so completely and brazenly lying about almost everything that even Fox News can't spin that fast.

I always thought that the Daily Show That Says Fuck was when it was at it's best, and at it's worst it sounds like the Berkeley College Radio Show That Says Fuck. Maher helps set the tone for that when he goes off on a tear about how people are stupid for buying things from chain corporations.

That's just typical YouTube BS. The tac-nuke was a concern around 2002-2003, but was scrapped when they couldn't get through the political red tape to use the Nevada Test Site as a proving ground. They wanted to set off an explosion of TNT that would equal those miniature nukes, but people here were understandably uncomfortable with a ton of irradiated 60-year old soil being disturbed and kicked up into the air.

Dion's like "Hey, we'll fix up the immigration backlog by rolling back Harper's changes to streamline applications!" What? It's because of the Liberals not bothering to dismiss obviously falsed up refuge claims that the backlog was created in the first place. Harper's plan gave arbitrary power to one office, but it also allowed people like me who would like to live there an easier time to eventually move in through attending school there. College and University is a great gateway for immigration and Dion wants to set that back to being more difficult again, in order to make it easier to move there. Seems backwards to me. Nobody has it right in that article. Dion is wrong, the idiot commenters who want to raise the points or somehow make it harder to get in are wrong (typical "I'm here, raise the drawbridge" reaction), and Harper did something less than ideal on the way to co-oping Dion's goal. Canada doesn't need to keep drawing well-educated professionals. All they're donig is drawing in people with extensive education and career background to come in and drive cabs and deliver pizza. The jobs that are having trouble being filled are grunt work labour typically in Alberta. With the American labour market so depressed by outsourcing, really the best course of action IMO is to offer these labour-intensive jobs down south with ease of immigration as a perk. You can pull in workers who don't have a dozen degrees but do speak English and are willing to work jobs most Canadians pass up to live in the MTV cities, in the frigid cold for some money and maybe even a chance to leave America if they don't like it here (a lot of us don't.) Too bad anything that involves more Americans in Canada is so unpopular as to be third rail.

Barack Obama: A candidate you'd like to drink a beer with. Sarah Palin: A candidate you'd like to pour a beer on.