NoCalMike

Sounds like bullshit thought, I hate the whole "though somebody else" I mean if he thinks Liakhovich said, call him out about at the press conference and let Liakhovich respond....... Anyways, thoughts on Baldomir/Mayweather. To me it is what we don't know about Baldomir that will make or break the fight for him. Is he going to stay distanced from Mayweather, allowing Floyd to hit combinations, or is he going to walk through his punches like he did Gatti, and storm on the inside with body punches to set up head shots. Jose Luis Castillo's first fight with PBF, was Floyd's toughest to date, and you'd think Baldomir would that sort of gameplan....We already know what Floyd is going to bring to the fight, so I think it is more up to Baldomir to go out and take this fight from PBF.

LOL......So much for the Kerry Joke!!!

People act like RVD was on a cocaine-induced highspeed chase from the SWAT team........the dude had some Marijuana on him and the WORST CASE SCENARIO is that he would have been given probation and/or fined by the courts.......BIG FUCKING DEAL. The Wellness policy has already been changed to accomodate other workers, which means Vince McMahon is not even taking it seriously. Of course if it is RVD, it is just fine to make him a fall guy and an example, but if it is someone like Orton, the rules need to be re-written as to not interfere with a push........

Well Sacramento does have a listing now, and the theater less then a mile from my house is getting it.....the bad part is that there isn't going to be a package deal for this, every movie ticket must be purchased seperately....I guess they tried to get a package deal, but it was too late or something.......http://www.dreadcentral.com/index.php?name...cle&sid=772 All I know is that if each of these movies are full price admission, then I definately won't be seeing all eight of them...... Oh and here is one that only plays ONCE during the three-day-horror-weekend....... http://www.xenonpictures.com/FDHOH/trailer.html

Shannon Briggs is fighting Liakovich this Saturday on Showtime. This could be Briggs final chance to get back into the mix in the heavyweight division. http://www.sho.com/site/boxing/home.do

If you watched the show last night.....RVD got the biggest pops, and the most positive reaction....AGAIN.

My point was basically to say that the John Kerry joke or whatnot is a total fucking NON-STORY, yet the media is going to run with it and basically play right into the republicans hands, because that has been the republican's strategy for what, 6 years now? Turn the attention AWAY from the issues and onto bullshit like this....and I guess for the fun of it, I included a story about Iraq that SHOULD BE getting ten times the attention that the Kerry-Joke is.

The funny thing is now the media will be the typical sensationalistic media and run with this story ad naseum, instead of oh talk about how shiate militias have inflitrated the Iraqi army..... In Baghdad, a Force Under the Militias' Sway Infiltration of Iraqi Police Could Delay Handover of Control for Years, U.S. Trainers Suggest By Amit R. Paley Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 31, 2006; Page A01 BAGHDAD -- The signs of the militias are everywhere at the Sholeh police station. Posters celebrating Moqtada al-Sadr, head of the Mahdi Army militia, dot the building's walls. The police chief sometimes remarks that Shiite militias should wipe out all Sunnis. Visitors to this violent neighborhood in the Iraqi capital whisper that nearly all the police officers have split loyalties. Members of the 372nd Military Police Battalion visit the police station in Baghdad's al-Amil district, where a U.S. report found the commander "afraid to report suspected militia members." (By Amit R. Paley -- The Washington Post) And then one rainy night this month, the Sholeh police set up an ambush and killed Army Cpl. Kenny F. Stanton Jr., a 20-year-old budding journalist, his unit said. At the time, Stanton and other members of the unit had been trailing a group of Sholeh police escorting known Mahdi Army members. "How can we expect ordinary Iraqis to trust the police when we don't even trust them not to kill our own men?" asked Capt. Alexander Shaw, head of the police transition team of the 372nd Military Police Battalion, a Washington-based unit charged with overseeing training of all Iraqi police in western Baghdad. "To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure we're ever going to have police here that are free of the militia influence." The top U.S. military commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., predicted last week that Iraqi security forces would be able to take control of the country in 12 to 18 months. But several days spent with American units training the Iraqi police illustrated why those soldiers on the ground believe it may take decades longer than Casey's assessment. Seventy percent of the Iraqi police force has been infiltrated by militias, primarily the Mahdi Army, according to Shaw and other military police trainers. Police officers are too terrified to patrol enormous swaths of the capital. And while there are some good cops, many have been assassinated or are considering quitting the force. "None of the Iraqi police are working to make their country better," said Brig. Gen. Salah al-Ani, chief of police for the western half of Baghdad. "They're working for the militias or to put money in their pocket." U.S. military reports on the Iraqi police often read like a who's who of the two main militias in Iraq: the Mahdi Army, also known as Jaish al-Mahdi or JAM, and the Badr Organization, also known as the Badr Brigade or Badr Corps. One document on the Karrada district police chief says: "I strongly believe that he is a member of Badr Corps and tends to turn a blind eye to JAM activity." Another explains that the station commander in the al-Amil neighborhood "is afraid to report suspected militia members in his organization due to fear of reprisals." American soldiers said that although they gather evidence of police ties to the militias and present it to Iraqi officials, no one has ever been criminally charged or even lost their jobs. Among the worst of the suspected Mahdi Army members is Lt. Col. Musa Khadim Lazim Asadi, station commander of the Ghazaliyah patrol police. "He has stated to us that he does not believe the Mahdi Militia is a bad organization," a military report said. "He had a picture of Sadr in his vehicle until we said something about it." "He is a cancer to the station and the people of Ghazaliyah," the report concluded. On a recent visit to the blue-and-white facility, located in one of the most violent parts of the city, even other police officers in the building complained that Asadi and his subordinates are corrupt and tied to the militias. "They steal vehicles and kill people," said 1st Lt. Sarmad Sabar Dawood, assistant commander for the local police, which is independent of the patrol police. "In fact, we are investigating Colonel Musa and the patrol police for criminal behavior." But when U.S. military officials visited Asadi on a recent afternoon, he not only denied that his men were involved in the militias or crime but refused to acknowledge that there had been any killings in the area at all. Although scores of tortured bodies are often found in the neighborhood, Asadi said the murders all took place somewhere else. At his response, 1st Lt. Cadetta Bridges shook her head in disbelief. "This guy is a crook and a liar," said Bridges, 31, of Upper Marlboro. "They're all crooks and liars." Shaw, 32, of Alexandria, turned the conversation to the confusing division of Iraqi police forces into three autonomous parts: patrol police, regular police who investigate cases, and traffic police. The U.S. military has proposed reorganizing the force so that there is one commander in each neighborhood responsible for all the police. So far, Shaw said, Iraqi officials have not been receptive. The problems with the tripartite division were evident in Sholeh. Sitting in Asadi's second-floor office, Shaw asked him if he worked with the regular police on the ground floor. "Of course not," Asadi replied brusquely. "Why do we need to coordinate with them?" Visibly exasperated, Shaw and Bridges quickly left and headed for a police station in Mansour, a relatively safe neighborhood in central Baghdad, to meet with a police major they described as one of the better cops they'd encountered. When Shaw asked what the police in Mansour were doing to reduce the violence, the major said: "There is nothing the police can do. The only solution is to create a government that will take away the militias. Then everything will be fine." The major, who asked to be identified as Abu Ahmed because he feared for his safety if his full name was published, sat in a closet-size room that he hardly ever leaves. Orange-and-brown sheets covered a tiny bed next to his desk. "I can't go home or I'll be killed," said Abu Ahmed, who sees his children only when police officers can bring them to the station. He sighed as he looked at photographs of two recently assassinated officers. "And it's getting worse. So much worse." "I think I must quit soon," he said quietly. Arabi Araf Ali, a police officer in the southern neighborhood of Dora, said police do little more than pick dead bodies up off the street. In the station's parking lot nearby, a colleague washed off a police truck that had just been used to retrieve the corpses of five Shiite men slaughtered that morning. Brain matter littered the ground. "Some parts of Dora are so dangerous," Ali added, "that we cannot even pick up the bodies there without Americans. We are just too afraid." The Iraqi police are not the only ones who feel unsafe. The American soldiers and civilians who train the Iraqis are constantly on guard against the possibility that the police might turn against them. Even in the police headquarters for all of western Baghdad, one of the safest police buildings in the capital, the training team will not remove their body armor or helmets. An armed soldier is assigned to protect each trainer. "I wouldn't let half of them feed my dog," 1st Lt. Floyd D. Estes Jr., a former head of the police transition team, said of the Iraqi police. "I just don't trust them." Jon Moore, the deputy team chief, said: "We don't know who the hell we're teaching: Are they police or are they militia?" The trainers agree that Ani, the new police chief for western Baghdad, is an honest cop who is trying to get the police force in order. But Ani acknowledged in a meeting with U.S. officials that he does not plan to root out and fire militia members. "I don't have that power," he said. "There are people higher than me that control that." Among Ani's bosses are the police chief for all of Baghdad, who has been linked to the Mahdi Army, and the minister of the interior, who is a member of Sadr's political bloc. "I think he's trying to do the right thing," said Lt. Col Aaron Dean, the battalion commander, as he walked to his Humvee after the meeting with Ani. "But I know they're all under certain influences. If you take a big stand against the militias, they're going to come after you." The difficulty of eliminating corruption and militias from the Iraqi police forces can be exasperating for the American soldiers who risk their lives day after day to train them. "We can keep getting in our Humvees every day, but nothing is going to work unless the politicians do their job and move against the militias," Moore said. Sitting in the battalion's war room with four other members of his team, Moore estimated it would take 30 to 40 years before the Iraqi police could function properly, perhaps longer if the militia infiltration and corruption continue to increase. His colleagues nodded. "It's very, very slow-moving," Estes said. "No," said Sgt. 1st Class William T. King Jr., another member of the team. "It's moving in reverse." ....and some will still have the audacity to say "the media is sooo uber liberal"

I was referring to the bottom part of the board, and LSD which I guess is The Chocolate Socket v2.0 now. The sports forum has numerous good posters and is usually good reading. The two below that have good info, also. And the rare times I care about wrestling, we have a decent amount of good posters here. Much more so since people like RRR have left, and HTQ doesn't post much anymore. Ok. Fair Enough.

So it takes place 28 Weeks after the end of 28 Days Later. It looks interesting and I will be seeing it.

If Vince is serious about having ECW back for a long time, CM Punk is the guy you want to slowly build up to, not the guy you want to go "Randy Orton" with and over-expose the hell out of, hot shot the title to, suffer burn out, and end up burying with to cover for your earlier mistakes with. CM Punk is over right now, and he is doing fairly well in his matches, but besides this Knox feud, which for ALL WE KNOW might be over, now that he beat him in the semi-final match, it is yet to be seen if he is ready to carry a company. He is still new to the audience. The fans want RVD, they view him and probably him alone as a star big enough to carry ECW for awhile. It doesn't make sense to put the title on anyone else right now. The ECW return is still in it's infancy, and right now they should be doing it by the numbers in order to increase interest and the fanbase, and the numbers right now say to put the title on someone the fans want to see it on, which is RVD. Even Sabu, who would likely get some pops as champ, is not nearly as familiar to the crowd as RVD is.

I just got back from Apple Hill which is basically a bunch of apple ochards with farms that sell all sorts of apple(and other fruit)related products and produce. Anyways, I bought a cup of Apple-Beer, which basically, they take the apple cider and fill a cup about 1/8th with it, and then fill the rest with beer. It was fucking excellent. A few years back at the strawberry festival I had a cup of Strawberry beer and it was great as well. If you don't like beer, then you most likely won't like these concoctions either as the beer taste is still there, but it just has some fruity-ness added to it. If you already like beer, I HIGHLY recommend trying these types of brews at local festivals.

Because this board is filled with unintentional comedy. You're the easiest bunch of losers I've ever flamed. And it's even better since most of you hide behind your tough little facades in a specialized flaming folder on a degenerate former wrestling board. Most of my "Ice Princess" stuff I do in here is a gross exaggeration. Anyone who gets to know me realizes this right away. But, now, with how pathetic you kids are acting with the slightest chance to get rid of me... it's very sad. It's not about hating me being a bitch, and it's not even about being jealous of me because I'm cute and likely more successful than you college kids. It's because you're mindless losers that just want to play along with your pals, to the point where you'll be total douches. And that stretches out to other people like Mike who have done absolutely nothing to get involved in this. You're all so socially inept and unconfident that it makes me want to leave, yet point and laugh. But, then I also want to drag you down some more with my antics. My friend here says I should move on since even though this is hilarious, I'm feeding into your degenerative ways. But, I'm the kind of person that has fun kicking a wounded animal. Oh well. I've never really had a problem with you or your posts. You bring some quality to the sports folder, and much needed female perspective to the sex folder. We usually bump heads in the wrestling forum, but nothing to the point of flame-bait. You are a virtual no-show in the political forums, but judging by your love for the crew at the Pit, maybe it is a good thing you never post about politics. However, I must say this latest rant above has me a bit bothered, because you must be finding at least SOME redeeming value in TSM forums, otherwise you would just leave for good. Pointing & Laughing at others has a shelf life, and the older and more mature you are, the shorter that shelf life gets. It is something I would do to mIRC chatrooms called "Enchanted Dwarf Paradise" on DALnet servers when I was fourteen, and it got old, very old after about twenty minutes.

What happened to your blog?

<----that about sums up my feelings on the Redskins. "WE WANT CAMPBELL"

Wouldn't Leena, by showing her tits, only further the case for her being fake, because come on guys, chicks like her in real life don't do that kind of stuff...... Of course, sending ME a pic of her tits via PM....chicks like her do THAT in real life...for REALZ!!!

Nevermind. I just viewed the thread.

Well I think they went for the opposite effect of the Season 1 finale, which had everything turning for the up and up, they also kind of made it somewhat as a final episode, just in case the series didn't get renewed. The Season 2 finale on the other hand ended with a bad situation happening for almost every single character in the show.

I just hope Season 3 starts on time, unlike Season 2 which kept getting pushed back.

He was punished, and did the time outlined in the wellness policy. It was a first offense. Get over it.

I swear, if they make the mistake of putting the title on CM Punk too soon......

From the Observer via Wrestlezone I just think it is funny because the new ECW is still in it's infancy, yet they are treating the title match like it is going to determine who carries the entire company to the next level....... Even if Vince McMahon doesn't see RVD as the long-term solution, he definately is the best suited RIGHT NOW to beat The Big Show for the title. Also the "arrest" to me is just a goddam excuse. Plenty of Vince's workers have shown plenty of irresponsible behaivor as champs before.

Yes those ECW house shows that mean so much they draw less than half the people that the Raw/Smackdown ones do. The ones that mean so much that they are being ended after November. The WWE doesn't give a flying fuck about the 1000 people that attend the ECW house shows that's apparent right now. They probably view the fact that the ECW show has blah ratings and crappy house show attendance compared to the other 2 shows as a sign that RVD isn't a draw. The thing is though, RVD is a proven draw or at least fan favorite amongst the Raw/Smackdown fans as well, as he was getting pops before the return of ECW. RVD is the guy on his own level amongst the new ECW, because he has had success in the original ECW as well as on WWE programming. Right now, when you watch ECW, whether it is in front of an ECW crowd or Smackdown crowd, it is very obvious that RVD is the ascending star of the show. Anyone who can't see that is stupid, and to put the belt on anyone else RIGHT NOW is fucking absurd. Goes like this though.....when you aren't a WWE pet project which RVD isn't. When they actually do put a belt actually 2 at the time on you.........it's not best to royally fuck it up. Because now everyone who doesn't like him or want him pushed in that office can go "see like we said he's a fuckup". uh-huh, that excuse works until it becomes painfully obvious that the "policy" RVD broke has already been twisted and turned and outright changed in order to accomodate "bigger stars" then RVD. Like I said, I am not saying Vince McMahon sees the reason to give RVD the belt, rather I am trying to address anyone with a rational thinking brain.