NoCalMike

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.

I do agree that the ECW show should feature ECW attributes, like Three Way Dances instead of Triple Threat Matches.

I dunno, maybe they feel that with RVD beating Big Show the last two weeks in a row, that the fans might want something "bigger" as the PPV Main Event. They never really built for RVD vs. TBS, it just kind of happened, and RVD won, and then won again, which probably would take away from the "excitement" of another win at the PPV.

With what? They have the worst roster since AWA 1990... Yet somehow keep me more interested then Raw or Smackdown.

So I saw it tonight, just got home. Pretty damn good, the gore was stepped up a notch, and they once again found away to make a similar type movie - different. Also, Angus Macfadyen starring in the flick helped step up the acting in this movie, as I'd say this was the best acted out of the three. If you liked the first two, go see it NOW!!! Oh and regarding Marvin's post...

I noticed that Chik-Filet sells Sweet Tea by the gallon, and they have it on the menu here in California too....I wonder if it is the same stuff....

I am seeing it tonight, after my girlfriend gets off work.....I will share my thoughts.

I am most likely getting it, because the TNA and WWE PPVS in December are usually just filler PPVs, and since this is ECW's FIRST PPV, you'd think they are going to go all out and pull all out all the stops to make people want to get another ECW PPV.

I still say the problem is that they are trying to sell a guy like CM Punk to a predominantly WWE-Smackdown crowd, which is taught not to care about wrestling manuevers and overall ringwork, so CM Punk getting a good reaction from the crowd is a tribute to the man himself, but there is still a huge difference between the fans chanting "CM PUNK" at the beginning of a match, and actually getting behind a guy, for instance RVD, who the fans still view as "big time" because he was successful in WWE. To me the problem is still that WWE-Creative/Vince/Steph etc....are having a hard time finding the balance between selling ECW as ECW or selling ECW as WWE's Hour of Extreme. It seems they desperately want to go with the second option, but the fans are relating and getting behind ECW originals. Those are who they want to see because those guys are who they heard and read about in the ECW DVD/Books etc..... If Vince would just give in on this issue, and get ECW it's own tapings, in smaller arenas, in front of a full crowd that is there to see ECW and not "Smackdown-featuring ECW" If anything, just send camera crews to the ECW house shows, which are usually getting very good crowd reaction. I know the main obstacle in this is Vince McMahon refusing to want anything to look "small-time" or amateur, and he probably feels that if people at home are watching ECW in small venues, then they will think of ECW as small-time, but fuck that noise, because ECW WAS small-time compared to WWE, sure they could get huge PPV crowds for the bigger shows, but on a nightly basis they averaged around 1500 or less. Question: Does anyone else find it odd that ECW doesn't get much attention during Raw or Smackdown? I mean during ECW we usually get WWE promos during commercials, or Marine interviews/trailers, but during RAW why not have an "ECW REWIND" or something like they do for smackdown. Maybe more people would be convinced to watch if they saw exactly what they were missing!?! It just seems with Raw/Smackdown there is a lot of cross promotion, but nothing is mentioned about ECW.

Haha, well if anything the card can be put together like a REAL ECW show, where the only announced match is the title match, and then you end up getting some last minute crazy 6 man tag match to get everyone else on the card, which turns out to be a pretty fun match to watch.

When my girlfriend saw the webcam pic I snapped of my pre-makeup costume, she said I looked like Andre the Giant in the Princess Bride.....the part where is wearing the dark cloak when they are about to storm the castle........LOL.

This is my costume for this year.....The Grim Reaper, minus the makeup which will be on for Halloween, oh and I also have the blade-thingy, it is just not in this picture..... I get paid tomorrow, and I am pondering whether I should buy the skeleton hand-gloves to complete the effect or not..... I am having a Halloween Bash on the 28th(this saturday)....who's in? Lots of "scaaary" food n' drink....LOL.

Am I the only one that ENJOYED Punk/Striker? The mat worked looked good, and I would have liked to see how the match could have gone, had it naturally progressed into a 20-25 minute match, instead of a 5 minute match with a run-in. I would have preferred that match get the timeslot that Test/Holly got.

Sacramento is thus far unlisted in the theaters listed for horrofest, but it said on the website the list is incomplete and to keep checking back for more theaters. I wonder how much a ticket for the entire weekend is....I don't see the point of just seeing one out of the eight.

I do wonder how all this RVD/Big Show stuff is going to affect the demand for a PPV match. Only thing I can think of is that they won't ever have a clean finish until the PPV, banking on the fans pretty much "knowing" that RVD is taking the title in December.

It's funny because lately, the ECW Preview is just as long as the RAW preview, only ECW is a one hour show. I truly hope that once ECW goes to two hours, it will be like having another hour of matches packing the show, and not so they can space out wrestling matches with the kind of lame crap we see on Raw.

Tiki Barber still fumbles, it is just that now it takes a good hit to make him fumble, as to where he used to just have bad hands.

How about the Bledsoe NOT TD, that just got called a TD?

I enjoyed the show tonight. The only dissapointment for me was the Monsters Ball match, it didn't "suck" perse,and it still had some cool spots, but this one felt more like a mere avenue to get Joe over, rather then just having four guys go out and kick each other's asses like last time.

WWE fans didn't care about Eddie one bit until "Latino Heat" It is a sad fact but it is the truth. WWE fans are just wired differently, they are taught to put character over workrate, and the same held true with Eddie, sure after playing the comedic "Latino Heat" persona, fans started to respect other aspects of what he brings to the table, but "Latino Heat" is where it started with the WWE flock.

Well right now, to the american people they basically see ZERO resistence from the Republican controlled house and senate to pass whatever the hell Dubya wants passed. They were happy as hippos to eliminate our goddamn habeas corpus rights yesterday...... Basically, if you want ANY TYPE OF CHANGE, you aren't going to get it by voting republicans in. EDIT: Hell, not even Change, if the American people even want some oversight, checks 'n balances or at the least some freakin' DEBATE on issues they better as hell not leave control of the house to republicans.

ACTION ALERT: Blackwell purged Ohio Voter Rolls Oct 1st.- Vote Early. by KStreetProjector Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 05:59:14 AM PDT A friend, in a position to be present at lunches of GOP insiders here in DC called me on Thursday, they know of my ongoing efforts to make hackable voting end. My friend was present as a group of Moderate GOP members with Ohio ties lamented how far the party had strayed. There was consensus at the table there was no way they should retain control. The table conversation began with the assumption they party would lose control in this election. The moderates started planning how to take back control of the GOP from the extremists. Then, one insider, probably an extremist, but certainly very close to Mr. Ken Mehlman abruptly stopped the conversation. He told table that it was impossible they would lose either house. He also predicts an Ohio GOP sweep. More Below. KStreetProjector's diary :: :: He informed the group that over the last year, in four critical states the GOP needs to hold huge purges of the voter rolls have just been finished. The insider did not say which four states, but did say Ohio was among them. His claim was a new Diebold voter registry system had been installed over the last year. The last week of July and the first week of August a "test run" was made of the systems ability to purge ineligable voters. The purge generated names and test letters sent out to 1.2 million Ohio addresses with a focus on University's, Apartment addresses with high turnover. He claims they made the letters seem just functionary, but they have an action component to avoid being purged from the rolls. The Insider warmed and said that Blackwell was brilliant in how he did this. The letter went on for a long time about changes in Ohio voting and security and suggested people who might have any concerns about their voting status could come by county offices and confirm their continued voting eligability before election day. He further added, that since it was conducted as a "test" they only sent letters to a limited number of suspect addresses and "I suspect Blackwell chose criteria very very favorable for us." Further the insider stated that Blackwell had only purged the lists after a full 60 days was given for people to respond. Which means even if a voter was on the "termination" list, they would still have been eligable to vote in the primary. He told they table they believe the purge has probably caught up "hundreds of thousands of students, activists and wanderers with no real job" would show up at the polls and have to vote provisionally. He predicted to the table that tens of thousands of voters will show up on election day, and once the provisionals are used up will simply not be able to at all. He also said that this "operation" (The Insiders word, my friend was specific about this" had turned up a lot of additional fascinating information including a number of Democrats in elected office who are registered to vote in several places, and they may explore how to use this information against them. I am going to assume, Mr. Blackwell's "test" purge went to no-one registered GOP. His criteria is something I am trying to get a copy of now. Friday I called friends in Lorain County and Wayne County Ohio. I told them this DC tale. Neither of them had voted yet and I asked them if they could go on Monday to either early vote, or apply for an absentee ballot. And if possible sit for in the Elections Office for an hour and determine if anyone was expressiing surprise they were no longer registered. If the sample of 11AM-1PM in Lorain County Ohio and 10AM-11AM in Wayne County Ohio are true. Then Ohio Democratic Voters had better go and Vote Early if they plan to vote at all. At Lorain County, my friend arrived to find a line of over 15 people, many of whom had come back for a second time, all of them Democrats who had arrived to vote and been told that Drivers Liscence Information, or in one case Home Ownership Information had not matched the address provided for Voter Registration. In one case a college student had been purged because he had changed dorms on campus. In another case a local blue-collar worker had been purged because his voter registration had only his building address, but his drivers liscense included an apartment number. This tiny difference in information had led to his purging. While everyone present seemed to have enough information to allow the records to be updated, my friend told me it was being done by one and only one clerk and was taking a very long time, about 5 minutes per person to resolve. Everyone in line confirmed that several voters had given up in frustration and left. In Wayne County the sample is smaller, but during the one hour he stated 18 people arrived for absentee ballots or to vote early. Wayne County had 3 Diebold TSX Touch Screens set up for early voters. Of those who arrived two of them had been provisionally purged. The first was again a student from a local college, she was sent away and told she had to bring some ID beyond her student ID to prove she was resident at the College. She was wearing a Sherrod Brown button. The second was a local guy who owns two houses on the same block. His drivers liscence is to the one house where he keeps his cars, but his voter roll is in his house where he actually sleeps four houses away. This got resolved with a series of steps that included filling out two forms, and a clerk having to enter the corrected information into two seperate computers. As an added bonus, My friend listened in and witnessed 8 retired ladies getting instructions on how to be poll workers on the new TSX machines. The instructor was a local elections board member. She was asked many questions by one of the retirees and her answer to almost all of them was "I don't know how it works, I just know how we are supposed to use it" Get ready Ohio. This story also may explain Mr. Blackwell's sudden discovery of the "two homes and is he really a qualifed Voter" now facing Strickland. This Blackwell discovery of Mr. Strickland is actually "by-catch" of the much larger net thrown to eliminate hundred of thousands of democrats from the voting rolls. ACTION: Get to your election boards, bring all the documentation you can. Demand a paper absentee ballot. Alert a everyone you know in Ohio. Good luck out there. This doesn't eliminate the fact your Diebold System is utterly hackable, but it certainly explains how Rove plans to drag all your races into the margin of error so hitting the Diebold Button to steal the election doesn't look so obvious. He has taken away your right to vote based on any piece of mismatched information in your state records. I would expect that would be nearly everyone if the test was applied across the board. But I suspect it was not done that way by Mr. Blackwell. It might be worth other states starting to look at this issue as well. They are very much in love with the power they have my friends. I am increasing afraid this one one ends as another of my friends now says very often: "By Feeding the Tree of Liberty ------------------ Yeah, it's from the daily kos, but after the debacle in 2000, and the scandals of 2004, it comes as no suprise really.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15339.htm The Republic is Dead, Long Live the Republic. Year One of the Empire Bush: Resistance is Illogical By Juan Cole 10/18/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Bush and a supine, cowardly Congress shredded the US Constitution on Tuesday, abolishing the right of a court review (habeas corpus) for some classes of suspect. Suspect, mind you, not proven criminal. In other words, we have to be confident that George W. Bush is so competent, all-knowing, and inherently just that we can just trust him. If he says someone is an enemy combatant, then he or she is. No need to check with a judge about why he or she is being held. And then Bush can have the suspect tortured to make him confess, and can convict him on the basis of the coerced confession, all in secret. This law creates two classes of persons inside the United States, citizens with rights and non-citizens (12 million persons? Equivalent to the entire state of Michigan!) without rights. Basically, Bush can issue them what the French kings used to call lettres de cachet.: ' In French history, lettres de cachet were letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his ministers, and closed with the royal seal, or cachet. They contained orders directly from the king, often to enforce arbitrary actions and judgements that could not be appealed. . .' We Americans made a revolution against such arbitrary practices of the French and other Empires. Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution says, "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." I look out my window. I don't see a general Rebellion or an invasion by a foreign power. The conditions, under which the right of the imprisoned to demand that a court establish whether there are genuine grounds to hold him is suspended, are absent. The law is unconstitutional. Moreover, our founding documents did not admit of a distinction among human beings with regard to rights. The Declaration of Independence says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." All men here means all human beings. It says they are all created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights. All of them. Not some of them. Of course we have had these periods of neo-Monarchy and temporary insanity before in our history. There was the Alien and Sedition Act, and the Red Scare after World War I, etc. King George came on O'Reilly and said that it is "illogical" to disagree with his policies in Iraq and branded arguments that he is drifting along without a plan "propaganda." Bush sounds more and more like the Borg every day. I swear to God, next we are going to get up in the morning and hear him proclaim, "Resistance is futile!" So of course eventually Bush-think will lead to attempts to cure those of us who are critical of him of our illogicality, and to suppress our "propaganda." We'll all be right-thinking non-propagandists after a little water-boarding. You say we don't have to worry about that because we are citizens? But what is to stop Bush from declaring you an enemy combatant and stripping you of your citizenship? And then keeping you away from any civil court where those letters of cachet can be challenged? The Republic is Dead, Long Live the Republic.

200 Years......gone like that.