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Thinking Right's weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and her publicity-seeking stunts have finally achieved the attention she deserves: One- or two-paragraph stories that run with those that warn us that sheep on the remote Scottish island of Hirta are gradually shrinking because of global warming. Global warming's shrunk our interest in her, too.
Are pickups prejudiced? Two Dalton people were killed when the motorcycle they were riding was sideswiped by a motorist who apparently crossed the center lane. A motorist driving a car could have done the same thing. Yet pickup drivers — I am one — are presumed to be aggressive and when a lesser vehicle is involved, it's always noted that the offending vehicle was a pickup.
Not surprising that among the big cities with the lowest unemployment rates is Washington, D.C., with 6.2 percent. Atlanta ranks 18th, at 9.6 percent. The stimulus creates jobs. For government workers.
Atlanta businesses about to be hit with a sharp increase in city property taxes fall into two camps: those who pass on the entire levy and the mom-and-pop operators who can't, and therefore take it out of salaries and services. The latter are the kinds that get taxed out of existence.
The cheating by officials at four elementary schools on the CRCT is so dishonest to children and their parents that nobody found to be involved should ever be allowed to set foot on public school property again. The schools are Deerwood Academy in Atlanta, Atherton Elementary in DeKalb, Parklane Elementary in Fulton and Burroughs-Molette in Glynn County. It is simply appalling that despite the evidence Atlanta Public Schools officials still pretend otherwise. "They're taking the position that there's no confession, so it didn't happen," a state official told the state school board.
A study finds that Georgia ranks 14th nationally in percentage of fat adults and third nationally in fat 10- to 17-year-olds. Georgia is criticized in the report by the Trust for America's Health for not having strict nutrition standards for school lunches and vending machines. It ain't the school's fault. Children eat at the same tables with fat mommas and daddies. The place to start reforming America's health care system is at the TV snack tray.
Fat Georgians are in training to reclaim a title lost last week. Three circus elephants defeated three humans in an eating contest, downing 505 hot dog buns in six minutes. Humans downed 143.
Take the dog, you take the fleas. The Securities and Exchange Commission votes unanimously to require companies requiring a bail-out to allow shareholders to vote on executive compensation. I agree with the principle. It is, however, an instance of regulators using the bail-out to meddle in management's business.
Run, Sarah, run. Actually, all candidates should resign to run for higher office. All four of the presidential and vice presidential candidates last year, including Palin, held onto their jobs until they got something better.
If North Korea launches a cyberattack on Thinking Right, I'm drafting every fierce liberal who camps out on my blog and assigning them to Kim Jong II's blog, Thinking Nutty.
Vice President Joe Biden announced that hospitals have agreed to forgo $155 billion in future government payments so the nonexistent money can be diverted to partially "finance" a new health care entitlement that Democrats want to ram through Congress this year. First of all, the money is an illusion. Secondly, Biden is not authorized to speak for the administration.
The pot smokers have the same solution to California's budget woes that the Underground Atlanta gambling interests have for Georgia's: Legalize something objectionable. Surely somebody's convinced that prostitution is some state's budget savior.
July 10th, 2009
6:21 pm
Booger doesn't have a brother-in-law with a small business. Booger reads Nealz Nuze and listens to my show every day.
July 10th, 2009
6:46 pm
So if Sarah Stream of Consciousness (ah lies 'cause that's what narcissitic personality disorders always do) whose face is developing wrinkles faster than prunes in a dryer looked like Susan Boyle or Kaye Baily Hutcheson, Olympia Snowe, or Susan Collins then Mr. Impulsive loose cannon might not have chosen the ditz brain is that it?
Why not go out and get one of them neked dancers in one of them Hotlanta saloons who are more articulate and better able to grasp the issues and govern?
Ah does likes the way Palin who is Alaska money conscious
1) filed the most expensive ethics complaint against herself for the vendetta she ran against her brother-in-law–family fueds must be a Palin specialty.
2) Is refusing $28.6 million in stimulus money forcing a special legislative session that will cost Alaska additional millions.
If Ensign's mommy and daddy gave money to his nookie out of generosity and that money was near 100 grand, how does that square with the federal code section requiring taxes to be paid on gifts above 12 grand. Jist wondrin' all you federal code afficianados.
Also clown of the week Dr. Tom Coburn, an obgyn citing a privilege with his roomie Ensign because Dr. Coburn claims to have functioned as a self-ordained "deacon." That'll fly well in federal court.
We have a lot of gong. shows going on at once from the Republican party. At least Coburn hasn't tried to induce labor in the 51 year old child Ensign yet.
Gimme that Stream of Consciousness to Nowhere and the party who wants to run a severely mentally ill woman who pushed the bridge to nowhere, who touts the pipeline of non-existence.
And some of you sophisticated Twitter tweeters twitterdeck afficianados, is that dangling ampersand on mah girl Sarah's twitters her symbol for "also" one of her favorite dangling conjunctions? She's from the Professor Irwin Corey school of grammar right, and that dangling ampersand & is her counterpart to Corey's "furthermore" you betcha goshdarnit right? And also &!
July 10th, 2009
6:48 pm
Yep Neal, I do have a brother-in-law with a small business. I saw him this past weekend, and he said he is staying in a holding pattern until he knows how all the changes being bantered around are going to affect him. He will maintain, he hopes, enough business to keep his core group of employees, but he will not attempt to grow.
When you are in an 8% profit margin environment, it is hard to bid on business which will still be active after all the changes are made.
July 10th, 2009
7:46 pm
Joe Gillis: You're Sarah Palin. You were almost Vice-President. You used to be big.
Sarah Palin: I am big. It's Alaska that got small.
Portriat of a textbook sick, untreated Borderline Personality from Billiant at Breakfast:
Here's the tragedy of Sarah Palin: If she weren't a mean-spirited right-wing Christofascist narcissistic nutball, she COULD have been the kind of feminist around which women could rally. But alas, she is only an aging beauty queen, a Mean Grrrl who in politics has found a way to extend her reign as Prettiest Girl in High School to use people (or states) and then throw them away when they stop feeding her massive ego — or the gaping hole in her soul which no amount of attention will fill.
July 10th, 2009
8:05 pm
Why is it always the people who make amusing spelling errors like "Tobaccaso" and who can't form complete sentences that adore Sarah Palin so loudly?
July 10th, 2009
8:11 pm
Booger, if your brother in law is doing well in a bad business environment then he can't be so stupid as to turn down new business right now. I know businessmen that are closing small deals that they never would have spent their time and effort on a couple of years ago. Sell that political propaganda someplace else. I ain't buying it.
July 10th, 2009
8:13 pm
These results show that Obama was able to use his campaign to reassure voters about his qualifications for office, but they also show how deep a perceived hole Palin is now in. When Obama began his campaign in early 2007, only a third of voters (32%) considered him "not very" or "not at all qualified" to be president. Compare that to the 55% who say Palin is not "fit" for the presidency now or to the 52% to 59% who said she was not "prepared" or not "qualified" last October.
July 10th, 2009
8:46 pm
Sorry about your friends, but everything i said is true. If you ain't buyin, I really don't care.
July 10th, 2009
9:55 pm
Republican Governor Candidate New Jersey to Queen Esther Twitter: Don't Get Near My Campaign
Rick Perry Texas–"Ah wants you as mah Vice Presoodunt after we succeeds from the country."
Kay Baily Hutcheson "Keep your arrogant, ignorant butt away from my campaign for Texas Governor."
Presidential Activity of Queen Esther Twitter Ampersand and also…Mud Wrestlin' with Levi Johnston the father of her grandchild
July 10th, 2009
10:07 pm
Another conservative imbecile in a pick-up … who would have guessed?
July 11th, 2009
7:34 am
Palin in 2012 Make Our Day!
July 10th, 2009
4:57 pm
Diversions are failing you. Obumer's government spending by far exceeds that of Bush and the Republicans. Osamer continues the Bush legacy in Iraq – we are still there by the way and will be for many years to come and in that other place Osamer supported Bush, then and presently: Walk his way, talk his way the tune is so familiar. Now talk about the $8 trillion or so Obumer and your Dunkeys are pissing down the socialists rat-hole, foreign and domestic. Another round of AIG bonuses are on tap for we taxpayers, want to talk about Robert Rubin and protege Larry Summers during the closing Clinton years? How about John Conyers who blocks an investigation of ACORN which has legal problems in about 13 states and what of Conyers wife convicted of taking a bribe? Then turn the page to John Martha, should make for interesting conversation?
Republicans are asking "were's" the jobs promised by the porkulus bill, the one Obumer says has no earmarks (taxpayers for common sense found about 8,500 pieces of pork) . With something like 10% or so of the money having been spent Obumer and porkers can't point to the promised jobs created in the private sector? The nation kinda thinks we'd have at least a handful of those jobs by now after all that money spent, instead of increasing unemployment.
Osamer's transparency seems to have vanished in a Dick Cheney haze, hard to find it beneath all that Osamer secrecy, maybe one of Obumer's 32 Czars that only answer to him knows of were to find that magical disappearing promised Obumer government transparency?
Move along lil' dunkey.
July 11th, 2009
7:54 am
In the picture this section of today's blog…
Rich nations pledge billions for food plan
Is Obumer thinking about doing lunch so soon after his breakfast meeting?
Nicolas Sarkozy, you sly dog what is that smirk on your face?
July 11th, 2009
8:12 am
In the bulletin section of today's blog….
Obumer: Job performance, slip sliding away.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 30% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –7
Trust on Issues
Voters Trust GOP More than Democrats on Eight of 10 Key Issues
Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 key electoral issues, including, for the second straight month, the top issue of the economy. They've also narrowed the gap on the remaining two issues, the traditionally Democratic strong suits of health care and education.
Maestro, a little traveling music from Paul Simon, set in the key of dunkey please!
God only knows, God makes his plan
The information's unavailable to the mortal man
We work our jobs, collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway
When in fact we're slip sliding away
Slip sliding away, slip sliding away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip sliding away
July 11th, 2009
8:15 am
Rich nations pledge billions for food plan.
Does this mean that some folks in the U.S. are finally going to get a decent meal?
July 11th, 2009
8:39 am
July 11th, 2009
8:15 am
Can't say what some folks in the U.S. will finally get. Meanwhile, Obumer seemed distracted by feeding a different "worldly hunger" of his own.
July 11th, 2009
8:48 am
A couple of interesting items this morning:
Cobb County Board of Educaton has been doing it's voting in secret.Seems that old idea of doing the public's business in public would cramp their style.There's a lot more of this voting in secret going on than we realize,probably.In small towns,a few phone calls and the public's business is decided in secret.
Mayor Ray Nagin,New Orleans,is urging all former New Orleans residents that were displaced by Hurricane Katrina to list New Orleans as their residence on the 2010 census form.This will allow New Orleans to collect more federal dollars that it wouldn't otherwise be entitled to.Never mind that so listing a false address is illegal.
July 11th, 2009
9:11 am
Michael H. Smith
July 11th, 2009
7:34 am
Palin in 2012 Make Our Day!
Obumer's government spending by far exceeds that of Bush and the Republicans. Osamer continues the Bush legacy in Iraq – we are still there by the way and will be for many years to come and in that other place Osamer supported Bush, then and presently
Let me know what you're smokin'. The overt costs of Iraq are 4 trillion and counting; the covert costs may be double that. The public report (let alone the private one) released yesterday revealed the Bush administration lied repeatedly as to wiretapping and didn't even attempt the dog and pony show for legal opinions from the criminal Yoo until well after the illegal fourth amendment violations from your moron Bush took place.
I suggest you get help with your poll interpretation from Nate Silver at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com because in every poll Obama's overall polling in the high 60's and your republican scum are hovering in the high 20's. When the time comes for elections, there will be evidence the economy is improving, despite the pile of crap eight years of your administration's absurd spending and chaotic governing left of the economy for us to pick up on Jan. 20, 2008, and we will crush you to dust in 2010 and 2012.
Tell me what candidates we get the pleasure of crushing in 2012. You going to run the severly mentally ill Palin? I doubt your party will allow that. Fortunately for your party, Wooten has no influence as to the candidates and the rest of his ignorant JawJaws who worship a potent amalgum of mental illness coupled with pure stupidity and love of stupidity.
July 11th, 2009
9:45 am
Anyone else notice how the resident libtards are starting to froth at the mouth and wet themselves? (psssst: hey P2012 tardboy, there's a yellow puddle expanding where you are reading this) Why? What are they afraid of? Perhaps do they subconsciously perceive a storm brewing on the horizon? Interesting. Meh, who cares what those libtards think.
Let's get on with the business of getting on, since those jackals can't address the hell their Dear Leaders are sending this nation, starting with Cap & Trade (amazing how not one of them has brought that up, no? No.).
First order of business: Race. Ohio is a Blue state. Ohio elected Obama. You always hear the libtards trash the South about racists/conservatives/rednecks/pickups and whatnot. But have you ever noticed that the vast majority of racist news over the last, uhm, dunno, 30 years or so has come out of areas OTHER than the South? Anyone remember that NYC subway vigilante shooting? Anyway, the latest case in point:
Akron police investigate teen mob attack on family
By Phil Trexler
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 07:44 p.m. EDT, Jul 07, 2009
Akron police say they aren't ready to call it a hate crime or a gang initiation. But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty clear.
It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend's home in South Akron.
Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted "This is our world" and "This is a black world" as they confronted Marshall and his family. The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all black. "This was almost like being a terrorist act," Marshall said. "And we allow this to go on in our neighborhoods?" They said it started when one teen, without any words or warning, blindsided and assaulted Marshall's friend as he stood outside with the others. When Marshall, 39, jumped in, he found himself being attacked by the growing group of teens.
His daughter, Rachel, 15, who weighs about 90 pounds, tried to come to his rescue. The teens pushed her to the ground. His wife, Yvonne, pushed their son, Donald, 14, into bushes to keep him protected. "My thing is," Marshall said, "I didn't want this, but I was in fear for my wife, my kids and my friends. I felt I had to stay out there to protect them, because those guys were just jumping, swinging fists and everything.
"I'm lucky. They didn't break my ribs or bruise my ribs. I thank God, they concentrated on my thick head because I do have one. They were trying to take my head off my spine, basically."
After several minutes of punches and kicks, the attack ended and the group ran off. The Marshalls' two adult male friends were not seriously hurt. "I don't think I thought at that moment when I tried to jump in," Rachel Marshall said. "But when I was laying on the ground, I was just scared."
Marshall was the most seriously injured. He suffered a concussion and multiple bruises to his head and eye. He said he spent five nights in the critical care unit at Akron General Medical Center.
The construction worker said he now fears for his family's safety, and the thousands of dollars in medical bills he faces without insurance. "I knew I was going to get beat, but not as bad as I did," Marshall said. "But I did it to protect my family. I didn't have a choice. There was no need for this. We should be all getting along. But to me, it seems to be racist." Akron police are investigating. Right now, the case is not being classified as a racial hate crime. There were no other reports of victims assaulted by the group that night. The department's gang unit is involved in the investigation, police said. "We don't know if it's a known gang, or just a group of kids," police Lt. Rick Edwards said. The Marshalls say they fear retaliation at home or when they go outside. They are considering arming themselves, but they're concerned about the possible problems that come with guns. For now, they are hoping police can bring them suspects. They believe they can identify several of the attackers. "This makes you think about your freedom," Marshall said. "In all reality, where is your freedom when you have this going on?"
Martin Marshall (right) recounts the attack by a group of teens on himself and his family while they were watching a Fourth of July fireworks display in Firestone Park. His daughter, Rachel Hopson, 15, (left) and wife, Yvonne Marshall, listen. (Michael Chritton/Akron Beacon
Akron police say they aren't ready to call it a hate crime or a gang initiation. But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty clear.
Interesting. So no hate crime here. I wonder, if a gang of white thugs had done that to a Black family, do you think the initial reaction would have been "not ready to call it a hate crime" here?
Lemmie know when you see Jesse & Al on this……………..
July 11th, 2009
10:07 am
Please run Palin in 2012!
July 11th, 2009
9:11 am
Yeah, yeah. More leftists yada, yada, yada. Who knows who will run but Obumer and the socialist Democrats will be running for cover in 2010. Obumer's spending already dwarf's Bush spending and on privacy issues Obumer is making Bush and Cheney look like a couple of naive choir boys!
How many Czars did Bush have, how more many will Obumer have in addition to the 32 presently, more than double the amount Bush had already. Eyes and ears dear public $250 million in AIG bonuses will be determined by Obumer's Pay Czar in the coming months.
Don't need Nate and EVERY POLL doesn't show Obumer's ratings favorable as revealed by The Rasmussen Reports. Soon the mainstream news media will no longer be in the tank for Obumer as the public dissatisfaction grows and grows and grows undeniably against the crap they've pumped out to cover-up Obumer failures when they don't to report what is really going on. If this msn ever dogged out Biden as they have Pailn, Shara would be considered a genius against a blathering buffoon I-can't-get-my-two-left-feet-out-of-my-mouth, Joe Biden.
Why are the dunkeys and Obumer trying to crush an audit of the Federal Reserve by the Government Accounting Office (GAO).
More of that open Obumer hidden transparency at work?
July 11th, 2009
10:17 am
You pubtards yammer and yammer that Dems are LOL afraid of you. But you're afraid to say who you think has an icecube in July's chance of going anywhere in 2012. You have a bunch of dead white clowns who have exactly 8% of the vote. You have a bigotted arrogant severely mentally ill woman, who can't yammer a sentence with a subject, predicate, noun or verb in it who is a pathological liar.e b
The candidates you have are under investigation for converting campaign and Pac money to pay off their mistress for nookie and take money from their mommy and daddy to pay off their nookie and try to sell it as a "pattern of generosity."
The only thing the Republican party is good for is providing a hilarious reality show based on their continuing and never ending stupidity.
July 11th, 2009
10:19 am
A new survey from Public Policy Polling of Minnesotans–those lucky souls now boasting a full contingent of two US senators–shows Obama beating Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty in a potential head-to-head presidential matchup, 51 percent to 40 percent. Obama beat John McCain in Minnesota last year by 10 points, carrying 45 counties.
In the same poll Obama bests soon-to-be-former Gov. Sarah Palin in a hypothetical 2012 presidential matchup by an even wider margin, 56 percent to 35 percent. The fuller poll results show that Palin receives lower net approval from Minnesota women (34 percent approving, 56 percent disapproving) than men (44 percent, 49 percent).
July 11th, 2009
10:30 am
Obumer's still has a -7 job performance rating so says The Rasmussen Reports.
Next posting: The harvest mouse.
July 11th, 2009
10:41 am
Maybe stupidity in the executive branch flew our country into the crapper.
Pubtards who can't even quote polls correctly are once again distorting the same polls before they got their asses handed to them.
I don't see anyone here telling me what ticket they think can beat Obama in 2012. And I'd look closely at Nate Silver's always accurate predictions about the 2010 races where your asses are being handed to you once again.
On Monday the Pubimbeciles will trot out their dog and pony show and Sotomayor will be confirmed by a resounding vote in the Senate. Goofass Sessions will yammer and sputter and he will be crushed.
July 11th, 2009
10:42 am
Please run Palin…
According to the Pentagon by the end of this fiscal year the total cost of the war in Iraq will have been 694 billion dollars. Obama's stimulus package alone has a tab of 787 billion. Lord knows where you got the $4 trillion number.
Check your facts buddy. Someone may take you seriously though I doubt it.
July 11th, 2009
10:48 am
"hate crime" laws were not designed to protect whites. They were designed to punish whites.
July 11th, 2009
10:50 am
Awe, the resident libtard blog wh0re is still yellow puddling. Poor thing. Hilarious, ain't it? Hey get a load of the Teleprompter In Chief's approval ratings! Just think, this is only after SIX MONTHS! But a kudos also has to go to that incompetent Nanny Pelosi as well………..
July 11th, 2009
10:56 am
Oh and one other thing libtards: have you bedwetters ever stopped to think that Palin may not actually have plans to run for POTUS in 2012 and be another Veep? Nah, of course you deranged mouth breathers haven't.
Anyway, moving forward………..
You can bet your last dollar (literally) with these libtards running the show that there will be more of this to follow under their junkass Scientology of man-made Global Warming brought to you by the Cap & Trade bill. Please, watch your step from libtard self wetting…..
US slips, China soars in Fortune company rankings
Jul 9 04:21 AM US/Eastern
The number of US companies featured in a emminent business magazine's annual list of the world's top 500 global companies fell to its lowest level ever, Fortune magazine has said, while more Chinese firms appeared than ever before.
Signaling the effects of the devastating financial crisis on the US economy, a non-US firm topped the list for the first time in over a decade, with Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell coming in first.
July 11th, 2009
11:05 am
"You have a bigotted [sic] arrogant severely mentally ill woman, who can't yammer a sentence with a subject, predicate, noun or verb in it who is a pathological liar.e b"
Anyone else see the absolute hilarious irony in that statement by the resident bedwetting libtroll?
July 11th, 2009
11:35 am
Got GM? Heh. Maybe I should go on ahead and buy that Camaro SS I always wanted, no? Yes. Under these jackalcrats running things, a "fast car" will be labeled as an earth killer. Oh, and I might want to go ahead and buy a new Snapper rider mower before we are all forced to use electrical push mowers powered by our own government-mandated solar panels – IF we get a sunny Saturday mind you…………..
General Motors completed an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy protection on Friday with ambitions of making money and building cars people are eager to buy. Once the world's largest and most powerful automaker, new GM is now leaner, cleansed of massive debt and burdensome contracts that would have sunk it without federal loans.
….. At a news conference, CEO Fritz Henderson said the revamped automaker will be faster and more responsive to customers than the old one. It will generate cash and repay billions in government loans ahead of a 2015 deadline.
….. GM, in a viability plan presented to the government, said it would break even before interest and taxes next year, and be slightly above break-even for 2011 on a pretax basis.
"Sitting here today, I don't have any reason to disbelieve those numbers," Henderson said, giving no details of when the company would make a net profit.
….. He said the U.S. government, which owns a majority stake in GM, has vowed that it would not get involved in day-to-day decisions.
….. GM received $19 billion to $20 billion more in federal aid on Friday, the remainder of the $50 billion it will receive, Henderson said. A large part of the money will be held in escrow.
Turning a profit will not be easy. GM has piled up losses and survives only because of government loans.
Besides the U.S. government's 61 percent controlling interest, the United Auto Workers union gets a 17.5 percent stake of the company through its retiree health care trust, and the Canadian government will control 11.7 percent. The remaining shares went to bondholders of the old company.
….. The parts of GM not moving to the new company will become part of "old GM," a collection of assets and liabilities that will be sold to pay creditors.
That last sentence should end with "to partially pay creditors, if there's any money available after administrative costs."
"Break even before interest and taxes" probably means "will lose billions."
But let's get to the government-provided money. Straight from the relevant page at FinancialStability.Gov, here is the list of GM-related disbursements:
* Dec. 29, 2008; Purchase of Debt Obligation — $884,024,131
* Dec. 31, 2008; Debt Obligation with Warrants and Additional Note — $13,400,000,000
* April 22, 2009; Debt Obligation with Warrants and Additional Note — $2,000,000,000
* May 20, 2009; Debt Obligation with Warrants and Additional Note — $4,000,000,000
* June 3, 2009; Debt Obligation with Warrants and Additional Note — $30,100,000,000
The list totals to $49,984,024,131.39.
Good luck with that libtards. Maybe those highly educated Union folks who own GM now well help pull GM out of the mess.
July 11th, 2009
11:38 am
"Good luck with that libtards. Maybe those highly educated Union folks who own **PART** of GM now well help pull GM out of the mess."
July 11th, 2009
12:53 pm
Please run Palin in 2012!
July 11th, 2009
10:41 am
Dem-beciles can't stand smart facts Rasmussen Reports.
Now, as previously promised:
The Mouse is back, DemocRATS protecting their own!
From the wicked old witch of the west, Comrade Pelosi's mouse has snuck back into feast upon the harvest of a little over $16 million of the stimulus funds, which will go to restoring two Bay Area salt ponds where Nancy's mice live.
Comrade Nancy is making sure American harvest mice have nice comfortable homes in the midst of this recession, while people 100 miles away have farms that are drying up because they wouldn't use any stimulus money to turn on the pumps so California's Central Valley would have the water it would need to grow crops this summer and fall.
Oh the EMPATHY of Obumer and his bummer Comrades in this Dem-becile controlled Congress. Killing the nation's farmers to save Comrade Nancy's kindred mice. With Cally-fornia's (sic) budget woes you would think the Dem-becile Comrades would have something better do with $16 million than saving a rat's butt.
No kidding folks, you can't make this stuff up!
July 11th, 2009
1:21 pm
More from the tale of two Nancy's: John Houston RIP, Chinatown could never equal these characters.
Just in case Obumer's Public Healthcare Plan A fails to pass in the dem-becile Congress, Obumer-Care – wouldn't you just know it – has his Healthcare Czar ready and waiting to implement Obumer-Care the Public Plan B.
Give this Nancy a broom as well; the air Pelosi corruption got nothing on this medical industry wench.
Obama Obumer Health Czar Made Millions from Heavily Investigated Corporations
To think, after reading about Obumer's healthcare Czar Nancy-Ann DeParle, Obumer has the unmitigated audacity to lecture African nations on their corruption?
No kidding folks, you can't make this stuff up!
July 11th, 2009
1:21 pm
Mr. Wooten, Sara is running … away.
July 11th, 2009
2:03 pm
Michael H. Smith,
Isn't it a shame that we could learn the info on your link in the mainstream media.
July 11th, 2009
3:19 pm
"Mr. Wooten, Sara is running … away."
And there we have the mindless libtard "debate." Laughable. Pathetic actually…
July 11th, 2009
3:24 pm
I'm sorry, again. Are we being just a teensie weensie wittle wruff on the libtards? They seem to have disappeared all of the sudden……
July 11th, 2009
3:28 pm
Good news and the Atlanta Urinal Constipation is happy to report it! The Obamas are "wrapping up their trip" overseas. No word yet on selling out US nukes in the name of "peace."
July 11th, 2009
3:41 pm
Oh wait… said libtards have tables to tend to. My bad!
Hey tards: where's Shrillary???!!!
July 11th, 2009
3:56 pm
…not that there's anything wrong with waiting tables…. been there and done that at $2.25/hr (of course that's where Tard land kicks in with liberalism). FORCE A COMPANY TO PAY UPand then soil yourselves about no jobs.
Buy Swiss: they are telling the O-Team Administration where to stick it on overseas accounts – and rightfully so. Fascists. I'd highly recommend getting your money out of this nation under these socialist neo-Marxists faster than a fat kid at a pizza convention.
July 11th, 2009
4:56 pm
July 11th, 2009
2:03 pm
Yeah, if you looked real hard maybe. Let's see how much time the MSN devotes to going after the connections between Obumer, ACORN and SEIU?
Obama's Organized Crime Syndicate: ACORN, CCI, SEIU, TARP, GE, Cap and Trade?
July 11th, 2009
5:00 pm
Obama's Organized Crime Syndicate: ACORN, CCI, SEIU, TARP, GE, Cap and Trade?
Where is the MSN on this?
July 11th, 2009
5:04 pm
The Pentagon has been lying and only a moron does not know that the cost of the Iraq war is pushing 4 trillion and my facts have been checked.
July 11th, 2009
5:09 pm
Where is the MSN?
In the TANK!
Here's the MSN ditty and it goes like this
Walk his way, talk his way,
Walk his way, talk his way,
now give Obumer a little kiss.
July 11th, 2009
5:11 pm
I know the Palin jerkoffs don't read books like there metally ill heroine, but the costs of the Iraq war now pushing 4 billion have been documented:
The Three Trillion Dollar War (Now Pushing 4 Trillion
LOL what does it say about a party when 70% of 'em that equals about 10% of the electorate want to run a mentally ill stupid woman who can't even craft a sentence? It says they are through.
July 11th, 2009
5:12 pm
that should have read like their mentally ill ignorant heroine Queen Esther Palin LOL
July 11th, 2009
5:25 pm
Odumber admits to misreading the economy, time to drop back and punt. To improve stupid and make more perfect dumb Odumber and his minion Dem-beciles want to give TARP to small businesses. Want to guess which small businesses get TARP funds?
Now is the time Conservatives to put Odumber and his minion Dem-beciles in the wedge issue they've given us by demanding all remaining TARP funds and PORKULUS monies be redirected and used to provide a totally tax free holiday for small businesses and individuals in this country until real economic recovery and private sector job creation takes place in full.
Speaking real truth to power by returning POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
July 11th, 2009
5:46 pm
MSNBC isn't anywhere on the delusional crap you post. You'll have to stay glued to Faux, the delusional Hannity, O'Reilly, Mark Levin, and the 450 pound bouncing lardass Limpbaughs the drug addict for the kind of pollution you're garbaging up.
July 11th, 2009
6:14 pm
"MSNBC isn't anywhere on the delusional crap you post. You'll have to stay glued to Faux, the delusional Hannity, O'Reilly, ***Mark Levin***, and the 450 pound bouncing lardass Limpbaughs the drug addict"
Yeah, PoFo, but your little libtard jackalass doesn't have a best seller that the New York Slimes ignores now, do ya?
Thought so. Drooler.
July 11th, 2009
6:19 pm
Ah, the New York Slimes. Never a dull moment in libtardland – still bedwetting over Cheney. Never mind what the hell this nation is going to under libtard rule……….
July 11th, 2009
6:33 pm
Queen Esther Ditzbrain your "candidate" is not only a very sick Borderline personality, she's a blatant untreated manic.


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The 8-Ball 07.12.12: Top 8 Things To Hate About Current WWE
Posted by
Ryan Byers
on 07.12.2012
From being unable to effectively build feuds like Randy Orton vs. Christian and failing to differentiate Cody Rhodes from the Miz to the lack of roster depth, no appreciation for history, the Women's Division, Money in the Bank and more, 411's Ryan Byers counts down the top 8 things he hates about WWE!
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the 8-Ball. I am your party host, Ryan Byers, and, this week, we're changing up our topic a little bit. Over the past several weeks, I've dipped into wrestling's history with
mind blowing old school photos
, taken a trip south of the border with
absurd lucha libre gimmicks
, and gone completely off the wall with
pro wrestling restaurants
This week, though, we're going to head straight back into the heart of contemporary, mainstream professional wrestling. I don't talk much about modern WWE when I write for this website, but, here it comes . . .
Top 8 Things I Hate About Current WWE
For over eleven years now, WWE has been the only mainstream, big league professional wrestling show in the United States. TNA has tried to fill some of the void that was left by WCW, but they've only ever been able to capture about a third of the audience that put WCW into a close second place for the majority of its existence. So, if you want major league wrestling, you essentially have to watch WWE, as I have continued to do ever since the 1990s wrestling boom went bust.
And, frankly, WWE has been a mixed bag if you've been watching it that entire time. There have been great moments and there have been terrible moments, and, especially over the course of the past three years, there have been very few periods where everything has been clicking on all cylinders and the show has been consistently awesome from top to bottom.
So, I thought that it might be an interesting experiment to take a look at the good and bad of the company as it sits right now, beginning this week with the Top 8 Things that I hate About Current WWE.
Before I begin, I want to issue a few disclaimers:
1) I am talking only about WWE's on-screen product for purposes of this column. I am NOT talking about any of their business practices that I take issue with, though that might be the subject of a future 8-Ball.
2) These should be taken as nothing more than my personal opinions as a fan. I'm not trying to say these are objective problems with WWE or that they're hurting the company's business. These are simply things that bother me when I watch the shows as somebody who has been following pro wrestling since the early 1990s.
3) So that I don't get accused of being overly negative, there will be a "flip side" version of this column coming along shortly in which I highlight the positives of the current WWE product from my perspective.
4) Also, so that I don't get accused of being overly negative, for every entry on this list I will be including a few lines regarding developments in WWE that make me hope they will shortly be addressing the problem.
With that said, let's hit the list . . .
8. Money in the Bank
Last year, Money in the Bank was one of the best WWE pay per views of the year, and several people would probably go as far as saying that it was
best WWE pay per view of the year, thanks to two well-worked ladder matches and an excellent main event from CM Punk and John Cena. This year's version of the show is coming up shortly, and, on paper, it has the potential to be every bit as good as last year's, with two more ladder matches full of talent and a championship encounter between Punk and Daniel Bryan.
I've got no problem with the MITB pay per view from a match quality or entertainment value perspective. My problem is with the concept of the Money in the Bank title shot, i.e. two wrestlers on the roster running around with magical briefcases that allow them to receive a championship match at any place and at any time, regardless of the state that the champion is in.
What's my beef with this concept? There are three issues, really. The first is that the concept has gotten incredibly repetitive and predictable. There have been ten MITB briefcases handed out since the concept debuted in 2005 and all but one of them have ended in the exact same way, with the man holding the briefcase waiting until the champion was in a compromised position and pinning him in a "match" that lasts two minutes tops. (Basically the equivalent of a Crash Holly WWF Hardcore Title change from 2000.) It's lazy storytelling, and seeing the same thing time and time again has worn thin with me. It's time for something different.
The second issue is that, for some reason, WWE has developed the opinion that, if they're giving a wrestler the briefcase, they can treat him like an absolute joke for the entire buildup for the ladder match and the entire period between the briefcase victory and his cash-in. It's happened with both Daniel Bryan and the Miz in recent years. A guy who is on his way to a title win, particularly a first title win, should look like someone who is ascending the card and becoming a star BEFORE he gets the belt. Otherwise, you're stuck having to salvage a title reign by a non-star after the fact, in which case you face the strong possibility that fans will never get behind the guy. See Swagger, Jack.
The third issue that I have with Money in the Bank - and it is probably the biggest of the three - is that it completely cheapens the concept that I grew up with of what a championship in pro wrestling should be. The title holder was supposed to be the absolute best in the world, an elite competitor who can beat anyone in the promotion in a fair match. Money in the Bank doesn't allow for that. A guy who wins a title off of an MITB shot isn't the best. He's just a guy who snuck a quick pinfall one night when the champion was hurt, and, even worse, the company usually doesn't do much after that cheap victory to establish the champion as a legitimate wrestler. (Again, look to Bryan and Swagger.) It cheapens the entire concept of a title that I grew up with.
Why It Might Be Getting Better:
John Cena seems likely to win this year's Raw Money in the Bank match, and he will most likely not "steal" a title win as other wrestlers have in the past. Plus, rumored Smackdown MITB winner Cody Rhodes is going into the match with a rare clean win over Christian, so perhaps they'll treat him with some respect going into his eventual title shot.
7. The Women's Division
Unlike many folks out there, I don't dislike women's wrestling in general. Over the years on this website, I have written a fair amount about my enjoyment of the all-ladies indy group SHIMMER, and several of my favorite wrestlers of all time are actually from joshi promotions in Japan. In my mind, gender doesn't really matter to professional wrestling. As long as there's a match and the action is hot, the psychology is solid, the live crowd is into it, and there's a well-told storyline, I'm going to enjoy it whether the participants are men, women, hermaphrodites, or eunuchs. Good wrestling is good wrestling, regardless of the competitors' X-Y chromosome makeup.
Of course, the opposite is also true, meaning that bad wrestling is bad wresting, regardless of the competitors' X-Y chromosome makeup. The WWE women's division, in its current state, is at worst bad wrestling and at best pointless wrestling. If there were an entire division made up of male professional wrestlers, some of whom were good but the majority of which were never trained properly who got thrown on to television week in and week out in a series of one or two minute matches against each other, every wrestling fan on the planet would turn on it. They would turn on it even harder if there were no real storylines to speak of, outside of a lame "I beat you, you beat me" sequence of win-trading with the division really only focusing on two people - the champion and the challenger - at any given time.
However, aside from switching the genders, that's EXACTLY what the WWE women's division is. In most instances, the matches are so brief that you can't really classify them as being good matches or bad matches, and, in the rare instances in which they have enough substance to be fairly evaluated in qualitative terms, they're bad more often than not, and they're never as good as the best men's matches, as is the case with SHIMMER or joshi.
Yet, because there is a small group of fans who have convinced themselves that all women's wrestling has value just because the competitors are women or that somebody is a sexist if they knock the WWE divas, I still have to hear from wrestling fans who have deluded themselves into thinking that this division is somehow relevant or worth following. (In fact, there are
entire websites
devoted to pretending that the WWE and TNA women matter.) At this point, though, I would much rather that WWE scrapped the Divas altogether and devoted the five or so minutes that they get per episode of Raw and Smackdown to wrestlers that the company is actually behind and attempting to elevate. In some ways, I am reluctant to say that, because there is talent in the division that I like (i.e. Beth Phoenix and Natalya Neidhart) but, even with those individuals, the division is still by and large a waste of time.
Why It Might Be Getting Better:
: Hey, they signed Sara Del Rey!
6. They Don't Know How to Extend a Feud
If you pay close attention to the matches that WWE books from pay per view to pay per view, it appears that they have a rule of thumb that, in order for a feud to be worth their time, they have to get a minimum of three PPV matches out of it. There are some exceptions to the rule, particularly on the undercard, but if you look at the vast majority of feuds featuring main eventers, they're going to be wrestling each other on at least three consecutive shows. Sometimes, in fact, it goes much further than that, including the nearly six month rivalry between Randy Orton and Christian last year over the WWE version of the World Heavyweight Title . . . but we'll talk about that specific feud in more detail in just a bit.
I've got no problem with long feuds between wrestlers. In fact, in the past, I've been critical of WWE for burning through some storylines too quickly. However, the problem now is that, when the promotion has a feud that they want to take through three shows, they often are not particularly good at stretching it out for that long. The biggest issue here seems to be that, for most of its programs, the company is not engaging in long-term booking and is instead deciding where the story is going on a show-by-show basis. If you take a three month rivalry, start booking it with the end in mind, and go backwards from there, you can come out of the process with a coherent plot in which the wrestlers begin not having any issue with one another and the stakes get raised in a logic manner until you're ready to blow things off in a barnburner of a grudge match. However, the problem with WWE booking a three month feud without having an idea of where they want it to finish up is that, instead of the stakes consistently raising from start to finish, the story seems to jump backwards and forwards in terms of how much the wrestlers despise each other and whether they're going to seriously go at one another or trade stupid comedic barbs.
WWE's solution to this problem is usually to make sure that each pay per view match between the wrestlers after the initial encounter has a different stipulation or gimmick, but the fact of the matter is that, historically, gimmicks don't draw just because they're gimmicks . . . gimmicks draw because they're part of the natural progression of an ongoing storyline. And, oftentimes, when WWE tries to rely on gimmicks to move a feud forward as opposed to good storytelling, one of the wrestlers who is involved in the program winds up having his credibility hurt and hurt badly. This is because the rivalry is almost always put together in a one-sided manner, with one competitor (usually the babyface) winning far more than he loses.
That brings us back around to the Christian/Orton feud, which is probably the most egregious example of this problem. I remember that, when we were voting on the 411mania Year End Awards for pro wrestling, a lot of my fellow staffers voted for Christian/Orton as the feud of the year, because the matches were always EXCELLENT. Always. However, I actually had to differ with the group and vote for Christian/Orton as the
feud of the year because, no matter how good the matches were, Orton was established as being much better than Christian in the first match of the program, and there was never anything to tell us differently for six months, as the Viper pinned the CLB time and time and time again. That is NOT a solid basis for a six month feud, and, in fact, it made the whole thing painfully boring for me regardless of the match quality, because there was never any question about who was winning or where the story was going. Christian/Orton is the extreme example, but there are feuds of this nature ongoing every month in the E.
Why It Might Be Getting Better:
I actually thought the company did a solid job of extending the CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan rivalry by interjecting Kane for a couple of months and then going back to the one-on-one feud.
5. Everything's a Joke
There have been a lot of comparisons between the push of current WWE performer Ryback and the initial push of Goldberg. However, there's one key difference between the Goldberg push and the Ryback push that a lot of people are missing out on, and I think that it's one of the main reasons that Goldberg, by this point in his push, was one of the hottest up-and-coming acts in all of professional wrestling, whereas Ryback, though his crowd reactions are improving, is still met with either indifference or "Goldberg" chants in many of the cities in which WWE tours.
The difference is that, when Goldberg was climbing the ranks, he was treated like a straightforward, straight ahead no holds barred ass kicker. He came out to the ring, plowed through a regular member of WCW's undercard roster, didn't say anything, didn't interact with the rest of the company, and came back next week to restart the cycle of destruction. It was a deadly serious part of the card. Yes, the crowd was having fun, but the announcers and other performers treated it like this man was really running through a game competitor. That's not exactly what happens with Ryback, though. Apparently WWE thinks that the Goldberg formula, even though it created one of the biggest stars in the biggest era pro wrestling has ever had, is just too bland. They've decided that there has to be a different spin on it. They've decided that segments involving a badass, world destroying monster have to be
Thus, instead of Ryback rolling through an Uso twin or a Miz in a straightforward fashion and leaving fans with the lasting memory of a bad, dangerous man, we get Ryback facing off against job guys who have names, looks, and promos that are obviously put on television with the intention of being humorous. (Not to be confused with Hugh Morrus, the guy Goldberg beat in his debut.) The impression that fans leave with, more often than not, isn't that Ryback is a bad man who they would like to see tangle with some of their favorite established WWE superstars. The impression that fans leave with, more often than not, is that "Stony Hooker" sure was a funny name for a jobber. Even with Ryback moving up in competition recently and facing off with dweebs from Superstars, there has still had to be an element of comedy, with the dweebs arguing with one another before and after the matches.
And this is the perfect example of a problem that exists throughout WWE, at virtually all levels of the card. With the rare exception - such as the Undertaker vs. HHH at Wrestlemania - they seem wholly incapable of booking a storyline that is entirely rooted in a serious rivalry between two men or teams. There always has to be SOME degree of humor interjected, whether it's John Cena yammering about
Star Wars
or Sheamus name-dropping his Uncle Fargus' green testicle. Everything has to be a joke and, though I have no problem with comedy in wrestling in measured doses, integrating it into virtually every segment and every rivalry is complete overkill.
Why It Might Be Getting Better:
Triple H has booked himself into numerous serious angles in the past, and he's likely coming into control of the company within the next decade or so.
4. No Respect for History
As I briefly mentioned earlier in this column, I started watching wrestling in the early 1990s. Not long after I started watching, I was making trips to the local video store, where I was also watching quite a bit from the 1980s, to the extent that it was available on VHS. To that end, I've got a lot of fond memories of performers like Roddy Piper, Dusty Rhodes, Ted DiBiase, and more. They were the guys who made me watch in the first place and also the guys who turned me from a person who watched once or twice into a long-time, diehard fan. They are to me what Michael Jordan is to somebody who started watching basketball in the 1990s or what Wayne Gretzky was to somebody who started watching hockey in the 1990s.
Gretzky and Jordan don't show up that much on NBA or NHL broadcasts these days, but, if they did, what sort of role do you think that they would be used in? Most likely, they would either be used to provide pointed analysis for an important game, or you would see them being honored with some sort of award for their legendary careers. You would
see them brought back on to those leagues' television broadcasts to be made a fool of or to participate in a thirty second "dance party." It would be a waste of the goodwill that those athletes have with their fans, and, moreover, it would be completely disrespectful to their legacies.
Yet, for whatever reason, this is exactly what WWE has its legends do 90% of the time that they make appearances on Monday Night Raw or Smackdown. Dusty Rhodes is dancing, Roddy Piper is getting wedged into godawful segments with Heath Slater, Tony Atlas is transformed into the black Ed McMahon, and Jim Duggan is made to act like a barely functional developmentally disabled person. Granted, I don't think that these guys should be going toe-to-toe with current stars and winning outright, but there are ways to feature them on shows without booking them in matches and skits where they are comedic foils for the more serious members of the roster.
Why It Might Be Getting Better:
Vader, Sid, and DDP have all been treated well in their appearances building up to the 1,000th episode of Monday Night Raw, though at this point they are still the exception to the rule.
3. Nobody Goes Away
From time to time, you will see me pop up in the chat room for Larry Conska, Steve Cook and Andy Critchell's 411 on Wreslting podcasts. One of the hot topics of conversation in those chat rooms - as well as elsewhere on the internet - is Dolph Ziggler. Dolph is quickly amassing a large fan base online due to his exemplary ring work, which includes some of the most insane, athletic bumps this side of Curt Hennig. I personally like the guy, but the problem that Ziggler and his fans are facing is that seemingly the more he improves as a performer, the less WWE wants to actually push him. Though he's been put into a program with World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus, he has essentially been the Christian to Sheamus' Randy Orton, dropping at least a half a dozen falls to the Irishman on television in the last couple of months and being laid out by his Brogue Kick several additional times.
My perspective on this has been that now, almost no matter how hard you try and no matter how good a performer he is, it is going to be virtually impossible to keep Ziggler on television and make him into a marketable main event level star, because he has been portrayed as nothing more than a JTTS for closing in on a year. It would do Ziggler a world of good if he could just drop off of WWE television for three to six months and come back with a new look and/or a slightly revamped wrestling style, which would allow people to forget that he's a jobber and give the company an opportunity to push him anew. There are plenty more members of WWE's roster who could use a vacation, including guys like Santino Marella, who, though I respect him as a performer, has been doing the same schtick for literally years now and is dangerously close to getting stale.
However, WWE has failed to structure its company in such a way that there is somewhere for a wrestler to go when it would benefit him to be taken off television for several months. In fact, virtually the only way that a wrestler can get a needed vacation is to injure himself, and that is obviously not something that you want to wish on anybody. The promotion would be well-served by developing a working relationship with a foreign promotion so that they could ship their talent off for several months, keeping them working and developing their skills while allowing fans to miss him for a while, guaranteeing an insta-pop and a big program for a big return. (If you don't believe me, just take a look at the montage of returns above.)
There are other wrestling promotions in the world that are doing this right now, and it almost always works out very well. The best example is New Japan Pro Wrestling, who continues a long tradition of major league wrestling companies in Japan by sending its young wrestlers on year-long "learning excursions" after they gain a few years of experience in their homeland. Two recent beneficiaries of this treatment are Tetsuya Naito and Kazuchika Okada, both of whom spent a full year in the United States (and, in Naito's case, some additional time in Mexico) and used it as an opportunity to develop significantly as wrestlers to the point that, now that they have returned to NJPW with new looks and new moves, both are well-established as main event stars. New Japan will also take a veteran member of the roster an send him overseas in order to freshen up, as Shinsuke Nakamura and Prince Devitt have both done tours in CMLL of late, giving them something to do while they're cycled out of the main mix in their home company. This is definitely a system that WWE needs to steal.
Why It Might Be Getting Better:
WWE will reportedly be developing several new television shows as part of its network launch and part of its new strategy to make TV rights fees one of its primary income streams. So, even if WWE isn't sending wrestlers to other companies, they at least will have the opportunity to send them to different shows that might be outside of the mainstream Raw/Smackdown continuity.
2. Attack of the Clones
The first thing that drew me into wrestling was not the ring work. Quite the contrary. Like many fans, I was drawn in by the fact that there was a multitude of colorful, over the top personalities on the WWF's roster. From the bottom of the card to the top, there was a diverse mix of individuals, each of whom had a unique personality that could be summed up in a quick sentence or two. Even the midcard was diverse, with guys like the Mountie being quite a bit different than Greg Valentine, who in turn had very little in common with Earthquake, who in turn was nothing like the Nasty Boys.
Fast forward to 2012, and, though there are still some distinct personalities at the top of the card, anything beneath main event level is really, painfully homogenous. Take a look at the five pictures that I threw up at the top of this entry: Jack Swagger, Drew McIntyre, Mike the Miz, Dolph Ziggler, and Cody Rhodes. Here's a pop quiz question for you . . . when it comes to their characters, what makes Cody Rhodes different than the Miz? What personality traits does Jack Swagger have that Dolph Ziggler does not also have? Aside from being Scottish (which isn't really a character trait), how is Drew McIntyre not an exact duplicate of all five of them? In addition to the company not pushing them worth a damn, I see that as one of the biggest reasons why these individuals have not broken out from the pack. They just haven't been given (or developed on their own) a persona that the fans can sink their teeth into and become rabid fans of. They're all doing the same brash, young pseudo-frat boy gimmick that has been trotted out on TV a million times before. Breaking out of the generic heel mold what turned Eddie Guerrero from a perpetual Intercontinental Champion to a Hall of Famer, and it's what allowed Edge to have a career renaissance when it was starting to look like he would be best remembered by history as a tag team guy. However, for whatever reason, as we sit here in 2012, WWE's midcard heels are either unable to or unwilling to do the same thing . . . or they're encouraged to not do it, which would be even worse.
Frankly, it makes the television shows hard to get through some weeks, and, when I was at a house show about a year ago that featured the majority of these guys in prominent roles. I damn near fell asleep, not because they were necessarily at what they were doing but rather because they were all doing the exact . . . same . . . thing. Any one of these men keeping their current schtick would be fine, but several of them need to develop an original character, and WWE certainly doesn't need to let anybody else on the roster who is just going be a carbon copy of the carbon copies that are already on the roster.
Why It Might Be Getting Better:
Characters that have more recently debuted on WWE television, such as Damien Sandow, Ryback, and Brodus Clay are showing a little bit more diversity.
1. Lack of Roster Depth
When the Monday Night Wars were on, I was one of the folks who regularly flipped back and forth between the WWF and WCW, though, when both shows were on their game, I always preferred Monday Nitro the slightest bit over Monday Night Raw. A lot of that had to do with the fact that WCW had an INSANELY large roster. There were literally 100 wrestlers who were, at least somewhat regularly, getting exposure on the promotion's primary television vehicles, and that made it exciting to be a fan, because the wrestlers' different styles and personalities meant that you were getting something different in virtually every segment. On top of that, the fact that there were 100-plus wrestlers meant that there were was a large and varied group of top guys, and you were never lacking a star who could be popped up into a main event program. Though many of the wrestlers, in retrospect, were probably overpaid, having such a large roster of guys was a fairly sound business strategy in terms of offering an exciting product and making sure that there were always folks at the top of your cards who could draw.
Nowadays, it is almost as though WWE is going out of its way to see if it can run four hours of first run, a-level professional wrestling programming per week with as few performers as possible. I took a quick tally, and, by my count, there are currently TWENTY-NINE full-time male wrestlers who are regularly on Raw or Smackdown and not currently injured or suspended. That's just too few wrestlers. Matchups get repetitive, wrestlers who shouldn't be jobbing because they're in the middle of a push inevitably have to lose bouts, and there are fewer unique personalities to entertain fans. Plus, because there are fewer wrestlers overall, even fewer of them are legitimate main eventers, meaning that either guys who have not been properly built for the main event have to be shoehorned in (see, once again, Sheamus vs. Zigger); feuds have to be dragged out to the point that they're dreadfully tired (Miz vs. John Cena); or non-wrestlers have to be given positions that are far too prominent on a wrestling show (A.J. Lee, Johnny Ace).
WWE does have a large number of wrestlers in developmental, but, by most reports, only so many of them area ready for prime time . . . and, even once they get put on television, it can take a long time to elevate them to the point that they're actually a productive member of the roster. Furthermore, with there having been no direct competition to WWE in professional wrestling over the course of the past ten years, it's not as though there is a crop of stars from another company that the promotion can immediately snap up and put on television in key roles. So, unfortunately, of all the items on this list, it appears as though this is the one that it will take the longest to fix, meaning we're stuck with a pretty meager roster for several years. Oh well, at least some of the guys who are actually there can e pretty entertaining.
Why It Might Be Getting Better:
Really, I don't have much to report here.
That's it for this week's 8-Ball. If you can't get enough of Ryan, follow him on Twitter
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Drew Peterson won't fight a recent appellate court ruling allowing additional hearsay statements to be used against him when he stands trial for the 2004 drowning death of his third wife — a decision that could speed up his trial date.
His attorneys on Tuesday formally asked the 3rd District Appellate court to quickly return the case to Will County, so the former Bolingbrook cop can go to trial on the murder charges against him, Sun-Times Media is reporting.
"We want to get the case rolling," defense attorney Joel Brodsky said. "We want to get it back and get a trial date."
The request indicates Peterson's attorneys won't launch an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court seeking to overturn the lower court's ruling earlier this month allowing eight previously barred hearsay statements from being used as evidence in his trail for the murder of Kathleen Savio.
With the motion filed Tuesday, Peterson's attorneys hope to have the case returned to Will County within two weeks and assigned to a judge.
Peterson could stand trial as early as July, Brodsky predicted, though he acknowledged defense attorneys still will seek to have the disputed hearsay statements excluded as evidence.
Peterson, 58, has been jailed since May 2009 when he was arrested for allegedly drowning Savio in her bathtub during their acrimonious divorce.
Peterson also remains a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy, though he has never been charged in that case.
A spokesman for the Will County State's Attorney's office declined to comment, except to say prosecutors are prepared for Peterson's trial.
"We're ready to go to trial," Charles Pelkie said.
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33 U.S. Code § 417 - Expenses of investigations by Department of the Army
Expenses incurred by the Engineer Department of the Department of the Army in all investigations, inspections, hearings, reports, service of notice, or other action incidental to examination of plans or sites of bridges or other structures built or proposed to be built in or over navigable waters, or to examinations into alleged violations of laws for the protection and preservation of navigable waters, or to the establishment or marking of harbor lines, shall be payable from any funds which may be available for the improvement, maintenance, operation, or care of the waterways or harbors affected, or if such funds are not available in sums judged by the Chief of Engineers to be adequate, then from any funds available for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors.
Source(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1482, § 6,33 Stat. 1148; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a),61 Stat. 501.)
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted "Title 10, Armed Forces" which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Transfer of Functions
Functions, powers, and duties of Secretary of the Army and other offices and officers of Department of the Army under section 401 of this title to extent that they relate generally to location and clearances of bridges and causeways in navigable waters of United States transferred to and vested in Secretary of Transportation by Pub. L. 89–670, § 6(g)(6)(A),Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 941, which created Department of Transportation. Pub. L. 97–449amended section 401 of this title to reflect transfer made by section 6(g)(6)(A) ofPub. L. 89–670, and repealed section 6 (g)(6)(A).
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by Miles Cheatham
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Steel mill exports totaled 902,704 tonnes (995,060 net tons), up 0.7 percent from September and 1.2 percent higher than in October 2009, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Commerce Department's International Trade Administration. Exports reached a 2010 peak of 1,044,060 tonnes (1,150,879 tons) in March before declining to 813,261 tonnes (896,467 tons) in July.
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