power

first, they give you a seat in a powerful position.
then, they give you the key to the city of detroit.

and then, you cut the strings attached to you and gas some of your own citizens.

and at the time, no one cares, except the people choking to death on the gas.

but later...it comes back to haunt you.
you have sanctions placed against your country.
your country is bombed daily.
you are attacked for no other reason than you're who you happen to be.
and you get caught ducking down into a hole beneath a house.
and you end up at the end of a rope.

and a man who lied to get a country into an unjust war goes unpunished.

funny how that works, isn't it?

TNA Turning Point

I wasn't able to watch the whole show, but I'll say this much...if you were disappointed by the recent ECW pay per view, this must have been great for you. And it was a good show.

The five man Paparazzi Championship Series match was a decent affair. I knew from the beginning that Senshi was going to win the match. Nobody else in there could have really done it. Jay Lethal, Austin Starr, Sonjay Dutt, and Alex Shelley all put in a lot of effort and some good high spots, but Senshi showed some real brutality in the ring. Huge 450 splashes from the top from Starr were really good.

The intergender bikini contest...well, I'll say this much. Traci Brooks has the looks, but Eric Young brought a sense of humour which has really been missing in wrestling for a while. This guy really has the crowd on his side and I hope TNA doesn't screw it up. I have a feeling that Roode, Brooks, and Young will be a repeat of the old WCW Sullivan/Benoit/Woman affair that turned into a real feud. Could be interesting to watch.

I didn't see the Sabin/Daniels match, the Styles/Rhino match, or the AMW/LAX match, but I did see Sting vs. Cage vs. Abyss. I don't like 3 way dances, so this wasn't anything special. Just enough interference by Mitchell and Tomko to keep it interesting, and TNA did the smart thing by letting Abyss keep the belt.

Angle vs. Samoa Joe. Wow. Benoit vs. Regal was probably the match of the year until last night. This was a great back and forth affair with a ton of false finishes. Amazing to see two submission wrestlers putting on a wrestling clinic. Their first match wasn't long enough, but this one went on for a half hour, more than making up for any bad feelings fans might have had from their first encounter. Near the end, I was worried Angle would win with a WWE like finish, but that was not the case. Joe locked in the rear naked choke and Angle tapped out. Great match, with fans cheering on both men and going to the "This is Awesome" chant early on.

A great event which should help TNA get some good publicity and hopefully some ratings.

december to dismembererererererer

ECW is dead.

It's been dead for years now, but I thought all of you should know that it is dead.

Vince McMahon attempted to revive ECW recently, but as I learned in my CPR course, you can't revive a skeleton. But you have to give him credit...he managed to revive a mummy and a vampire.

December to Dismember was, quite possibly, the worst wrestling pay per view I've had the displeasure of watching. When the only match that came close to being good featured two tag teams that are not even part of the ECW roster, that's a bad sign. When they remove Sabu from the main event (hmmm....I remember during the Monday Night Wars that Jim Ross started a Raw saying "bait and switch, bait and switch" about WCW...) and replace him with, of all people, the untalented Hardcore Holly (good ol' Sparky Plugg), that's a sign things are not going to go well at all.

Extreme...I've seen laundry detergent that promised to be more extreme than this PPV.

Batista's black reflection, Lashley, won the title using a move stolen from Bill Goldberg...why, I'm not entirely sure. CM Punk and RVD were gone so early, and I can't understand how Test is in a main event.

Balls Mahoney vs. Matt Stryker...sounds like gay porn to me...and the match was probably about as unwatchable... The FBI vs. Elijah Burke and Sylvester Terkay...okay, someone in creative give these guys some new names. Burke looks like Ron "the Truth" Killings with mini-marshmallows in his hair, and Terkay...hmmm....

Looks like Mike Knox...who was in a travesty of a mix tag match. How many mix tag matches were in the original ECW? I remember Rhino putting Lori Fullerton through a table, but that's about it. Kevin Thorn looks like he could be a decent wrestler. Love the tie.

But to have Sandman show up for two minutes...two minutes...and he did barely anything. Waste of time. Give the man a match that lasts longer than his entrance.

And the main event was just stupid. They go into details on how well the Chamber is built, but a flimsy wooden table can break through welded chains...I don't see how this happens. Kind of like Hell in a Cell where there's no escape, yet every match someone gets on the roof of the cage.

Paul Heyman was sent home following this event, and the Big Show followed soon after. Looks like TNA is going to have some new people coming over.

Speaking of TNA, there were some good TNA chants going on during the show. Even RVD's wife was involved in them.


UFC...Tank Abbott's entrance lasted longer than his first match in five years. 46 seconds and he taps out to Frank Mir. I wonder if Billy Kidman would have lasted longer, Tank... :)

time

If I were to find a magic lamp on a beach and I rubbed it and a genie came out and instead of the usual offer of "I grant you three wishes.", he offered me more money or more time...

I'd choose more time. Not much thought needed there.

But which would you choose.

There was an episode of The Twilight Zone where a man used his money to buy time from other people, and then used his time to get back some of the money. Great show, by the way.

I've never had much money in my life. And I seem to spend a lot of my time trying to make money. Having more time would mean more time to do the things I'd like to do. Having more money would mean being able to buy the things I want. But do those "things" really matter in the long run? Do they truly make a person as happy as the memories of an event?

Just a thought...happens a lot in a house full of drywall still to be put up. Think about it...

In memory of Dave Lisabeth, CN Rail employee and model railroader,
who lost his life on the job on November 22, 2006. I never got the
chance to meet the man in person, but he was always helpful to everyone
who asked his opinion over the years on several train forums.