NoCalMike

Not horrible, but kind of bland. With what, three weeks to go until the PPV, I think it is about time for RVD to make the official announcement on RAW tonight that he is cashing in the MITB at ONS II, that way there is at least the next two weeks to build for the Main Event. I mean up to now, RVD and Cena had what, a 2-second kind of stare, and that's it. They need to build for this.

Hopkins doesn't have a style. He adapts to whatever his opponets weakness are. Tarver is not going to be able to land the punches he did on RJJ or Glen Johnson, because defensively Hopkins is beter then both fighters. You are correct in that his defense is great, however, he can't afford to wait around like he did against Taylor, and expect to just bring the fight in the later rounds. Tarver has made it clear that he is going to be aggressive from the opening bell, which if history tells us anything, it probably means Hopkins will lose rounds early hoping his opponent gets tired and he can bring it on later in the fight. Tarver is also a big puncher and the natural light-heavy. Hopkins is the one moving up in weight.

I think Diego COULD win too, but he has to stay outside, use his reach advantage and box. My brain says his pride will start fucking with him though and when the crowd demands a brawl, he will give in, and let Castillo bring the fight inside, exchange with Castillo for a round and get caught with another left hook. I dunno, I kind of think Tarver is a matchup problem for Hopkins. Hopkins likes to stand around for the first half of the fight, and Tarver isn't the type to stand around, him being the natural light-heavy, has me thinking that Tarver figures he can walk through the jab and just start wailing on Hopkins, dictating the pace of the fight.

Funny you should say that because Richard Clarke was on Mahr's show the other week and basically said they will be playing the six degrees to Kevin Bacon(except insert "random terrorist here" instead of Mr. Bacon) once the Phone number database is collected.

Not to mention using the smaller ring with tighter ropes.

Jesus Christ, I can't believe The Da Vinci Code did that well........

Whoa the possibility of ECW being live? It has to be more than one hour if it ends up being live, as it wouldn't seem justifiable cost-wise to only do an hour....

I think I was omitted from the GOOD list, because Lenna is secretly preparing a GREAT list, which I will surely be a part of. That is all.

I know some of the TVs themselves have multiple HDMI ports, but I was thinking of external ports, like how they have switches for RCA cables where you can plug for inputs into it, labeled "1-4" and click the button for whichever one you want to use.

Last night on some local spanish station, they were just randomly playing a replay of the Castillo/Mayweather fight. That is a fight I wouldn't mind seeing a rematch of. Oh and Tarver said Hopkins is going down in 5. Thoughts?

AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY DAMMIT! My school had security cameras all over the parking lots, but they weren't used for protecting the cars, they were used for making sure nobody went to Taco Bell during lunch. Someone keyed my friend's car, he asked the office why they didn't do anything about it since they saw it happen, they said that's not their problem. Doesn't that kind of rub anyone the wrong way? What's the point of expensive security measures if you don't have your priorities straight? I know someone will come back with "schools aren't liable for any damages to student property," but I think something like that is a slightly bigger concern than a few kids going off campus for fifteen minutes. Whatever: as a smart, involved, middle-class white kid, I and students like myself got tons of preferential treatment from the administration and most teachers (but not that aforementioned comm arts bitch who took pride in a 35% failure rate), so none of us could ever get TOO outraged at the system. Still, schools don't have to be so damn draconian. Give them a reason to enjoy being there. You have a point there with the security systems, but hey that is an entirely different issue. I mean I used to work for a Target warehouse and they have 24 hour security surveillence however it was only to catch people stealing from Target. If your care got broken into or stolen, oh fucking well the company would refuse to cooperate and considered your own damn fault for owning a car and parking in their parking lot, but like I said, seperate issue dude.

Flown right into the ocean...!?! Hell I have no clue. Really though, I am not so sure that "the official 9/11 explanation" isn't true, but that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of coincidences and weird happenings that went on, enough to question it all. That is all I am doing. I am not trying to say I am CONVINCED it is all a conspiracy, I just think there is a lot of information still to come out in the future. I still am also very interested after reading about all the abnormal stock activity for america airlines on Sept 10th, as if someone knew the stock would be falling the next day. A lot of elites made a boatload of cash the second those planes hit the WTC. 1st, if they went to the trouble of crashing REAL planes into the WTC, (unless they were missles painted to look like planes) why would they not just use a real plane when attacking the pentegon?!? and 2nd, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories Umm...the wiki is public domain, anyone can go in there and put anything they want, doesn't make it fact. ----------------- www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly into the CIA’s Highest Ranks CIA Executive Director “Buzzy” Krongard managed firm that handled “PUT” options on United Airline Stock by Michael C. Ruppert FTW - October 9, 2001 – Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency. Until 1997 A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown. A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard’s last position at Banker’s Trust (BT) was to oversee “private client relations.” In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money. Krongard joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year. BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. The combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe. And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks. THE SCOPE OF KNOWN INSIDER TRADING Before looking further into these relationships it is necessary to look at the insider trading information that is being ignored by Reuters, The New York Times and other mass media. It is well documented that the CIA has long monitored such trades – in real time – as potential warnings of terrorist attacks and other economic moves contrary to U.S. interests. Previous stories in FTW have specifically highlighted the use of Promis software to monitor such trades. It is necessary to understand only two key financial terms to understand the significance of these trades, “selling short” and “put options”. “Selling Short” is the borrowing of stock, selling it at current market prices, but not being required to actually produce the stock for some time. If the stock falls precipitously after the short contract is entered, the seller can then fulfill the contract by buying the stock after the price has fallen and complete the contract at the pre-crash price. These contracts often have a window of as long as four months. “Put Options,” are contracts giving the buyer the option to sell stocks at a later date. Purchased at nominal prices of, for example, $1.00 per share, they are sold in blocks of 100 shares. If exercised, they give the holder the option of selling selected stocks at a future date at a price set when the contract is issued. Thus, for an investment of $10,000 it might be possible to tie up 10,000 shares of United or American Airlines at $100 per share, and the seller of the option is then obligated to buy them if the option is executed. If the stock has fallen to $50 when the contract matures, the holder of the option can purchase the shares for $50 and immediately sell them for $100 – regardless of where the market then stands. A call option is the reverse of a put option, which is, in effect, a derivatives bet that the stock price will go up. A September 21 story by the Israeli Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, entitled “Black Tuesday: The World’s Largest Insider Trading Scam?” documented the following trades connected to the September 11 attacks: - Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines, but only 396 call options… Assuming that 4,000 of the options were bought by people with advance knowledge of the imminent attacks, these “insiders” would have profited by almost $5 million. - On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls. Again, there was no news at that point to justify this imbalance;… Again, assuming that 4,000 of these options trades represent “insiders,” they would represent a gain of about $4 million. - [The levels of put options purchased above were more than six times higher than normal.] - No similar trading in other airlines occurred on the Chicago exchange in the days immediately preceding Black Tuesday. - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in the three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an average of 27 contracts per day before September 6. Morgan Stanley’s share price fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks. Assuming that 2,000 of these options contracts were bought based upon knowledge of the approaching attacks, their purchasers could have profited by at least $1.2 million. Merrill Lynch & Co., with headquarters near the Twin Towers, saw 12,215 October $45 put options bought in the four trading days before the attacks; the previous average volume in those shares had been 252 contracts per day [a 1200% increase!]. When trading resumed, Merrill’s shares fell from $46.88 to $41.50; assuming that 11,000 option contracts were bought by “insiders,” their profit would have been about $5.5 million. - European regulators are examining trades in Germany’s Munich Re, Switzerland’s Swiss Re, and AXA of France, all major reinsurers with exposure to the Black Tuesday disaster. [FTW Note: AXA also owns more than 25% of American Airlines stock making the attacks a “double whammy” for them.] On September 29, 2001 – in a vital story that has gone unnoticed by the major media – the San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data. “The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors – whose identities and nationalities have not been made public – had advance knowledge of the strikes.” They don’t dare show up now. The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking. “… October series options for UAL Corp. were purchased in highly unusual volumes three trading days before the terrorist attacks for a total outlay of $2,070; investors bought the option contracts, each representing 100 shares, for 90 cents each. [This represents 230,000 shares]. Those options are now selling at more than $12 each. There are still 2,313 so-called “put” options outstanding [valued at $2.77 million and representing 231,300 shares] according to the Options Clearinghouse Corp.” “…The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options…” This was the operation managed by Krongard until as recently as 1998. As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks. CIA, THE BANKS AND THE BROKERS Understanding the interrelationships between CIA and the banking and brokerage world is critical to grasping the already frightening implications of the above revelations. Let’s look at the history of CIA, Wall Street and the big banks by looking at some of the key players in CIA’s history. Clark Clifford – The National Security Act of 1947 was written by Clark Clifford, a Democratic Party powerhouse, former Secretary of Defense, and one-time advisor to President Harry Truman. In the 1980s, as Chairman of First American Bancshares, Clifford was instrumental in getting the corrupt CIA drug bank BCCI a license to operate on American shores. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and banker. John Foster and Allen Dulles – These two brothers “designed” the CIA for Clifford. Both were active in intelligence operations during WW II. Allen Dulles was the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland where he met frequently with Nazi leaders and looked after U.S. investments in Germany. John Foster went on to become Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower and Allen went on to serve as CIA Director under Eisenhower and was later fired by JFK. Their professions: partners in the most powerful - to this day - Wall Street law firm of Sullivan, Cromwell. Bill Casey – Ronald Reagan’s CIA Director and OSS veteran who served as chief wrangler during the Iran-Contra years was, under President Richard Nixon, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and stockbroker. David Doherty - The current Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange for enforcement is the retired General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency. George Herbert Walker Bush – President from 1989 to January 1993, also served as CIA Director for 13 months from 1976-7. He is now a paid consultant to the Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defense contractor in the nation, which also shares joint investments with the bin Laden family. A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard – The current Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is the former Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown and former Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust. John Deutch - This retired CIA Director from the Clinton Administration currently sits on the board at Citigroup, the nation’s second largest bank, which has been repeatedly and overtly involved in the documented laundering of drug money. This includes Citigroup’s 2001 purchase of a Mexican bank known to launder drug money, Banamex. Nora Slatkin – This retired CIA Executive Director also sits on Citibank’s board. Maurice “Hank” Greenburg – The CEO of AIG insurance, manager of the third largest capital investment pool in the world, was floated as a possible CIA Director in 1995. FTW exposed Greenberg’s and AIG’s long connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that was interrupted just prior to the attacks of September 11. AIG’s stock has bounced back remarkably well since the attacks. To read that story, please go to http://www.copvcia.com/stories/part_2.html. One wonders how much damning evidence is necessary to respond to what is now irrefutable proof that CIA knew about the attacks and did not stop them. Whatever our government is doing, whatever the CIA is doing, it is clearly NOT in the interests of the American people, especially those who died on September 11.

The Reformation of DX could just be a way to justify keeping HHH and HBK at the top of the card because currently their characters/gimmicks are stale as fuck.

Maybe she will treat every new day of life as a gift now, so when Hef comes a calling with an offer, she will finally take it.

Make sure to go bar hopping and not just one place. If you hit enough places you should be able to get drunk for free, as just about every bar will give you at least a free birthday shot.

EDIT: Nevermind June 28th... http://www.superherohype.com/news/bladenews.php?id=4214

Flown right into the ocean...!?! Hell I have no clue. Really though, I am not so sure that "the official 9/11 explanation" isn't true, but that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of coincidences and weird happenings that went on, enough to question it all. That is all I am doing. I am not trying to say I am CONVINCED it is all a conspiracy, I just think there is a lot of information still to come out in the future. I still am also very interested after reading about all the abnormal stock activity for america airlines on Sept 10th, as if someone knew the stock would be falling the next day. A lot of elites made a boatload of cash the second those planes hit the WTC.

Oh look, MikeSC is back at TSM.....

I'd rather see Ricky Hatton vs Mayweather. How much crack are you smoking? Did you see Collazo get robbed against Hatton, last week? Collazo hit Hatton with some hard shots which resulted in this... Imagine if it was Mayweather instead of Collazo(Who had 12 KO's in 26 wins)? Hatton would've got KO'd. If Hatton was a true champion he would rematched Collazo, because mostly everyone in the boxing community thought Collazo won that fight. De La Hoya would give Floyd a much tougher fighter, because he is bigger and stronger, and is very powerful. I give De La Hoya a VERY big chance to, and I wouldn't be suprised if he won, but I'm still going with my boy Floyd Mayweather. Agreed. Hatton's american debut was definately a bust, and I dunno how he got the win last week. If anything it should have been a draw.

It looks like it could be decent. Of course most movies-turned-series end up sucking, but from the commercials it looks like it is worth giving a chance.

I am assuming those flying the planes everyday are experienced pilots, not an arab terrorist that got his flight training on a crop duster or small single engine plane, and then on top of that not even learning how to land. That is where the suspicion lies. Of course someone profressionaly trained could do it. There are also several eye witnesses that say bombs went off in the WTC several minutes after the planes hit, but of course THOSE PEOPLE don't know what they are talking about and should be discounted, right? Eye witnesses are not always a good source, and can be coerced rather easily ?

So if you have been following these guys at all, you would know their first fight was probably FOTY with Corralles going down twice in the final round before rebounding and TKO-ing Castillo. Their 2nd Fight, on PPV...Castillo avenged his loss with a vicious left jab to Corralles Jaw for the KO....I forgot what round, the sixth maybe. Two weeks from Saturday they are getting it on for the rubber match and Showtime has blessed all of us boxing fans by not even putting it on PPV...(a fight I would have heavily considered buying). It is on plain old Showtime. Corralles being the hometown guy from Sacramento or the greater outlying area to be more accurate, is who I want to win, but something tells me that Castillo is going to draw him into another war on the inside where Castillo is superior. Corralles had much success in the first fight when he kept his distance and used his jab, and he survived the war, but in the second fight, Castillo didn't waste time as soon as the fight went to the inside he start throwing punishing blows and connected on a vicious left jab the ended the fight. Thoughts?

Dell Dimension 9100 Series.

Well until the PS3 comes out, I don't have to worry anyway, but currently my DVD player plugs into my only HDMI slot, but I know the PS3(expensive version) will have an HDMI hookup as well. Anyone know if by November(unless they already currently have them) if they will have HDMI expansion ports available, or am I going to be stuck climbing behind the tv to switch out the HDMI plug when I go from PS3 to DVD? Oh wait, if the PS3 plays DVDs and it is plugged into HDMI...then I guess I won't even have to use my other DVD player anyway....problem solved....I think....right?

Dish Networks HD plan comes with all the basic HD channels, but they also bought out VOOMs HD channels so they get MONSTERS HD which is a HD Horror Movie network....of course I don't have the HD Box/Plan yet, so I don't get it, but if I get a better paying job in the future, that is going to be the first thing I do, because it sucks having an HD TV and not being able to put it to use....(well I do with DVDs via HDMI port and it fucking rocks)