Agent Risktaker

It's pretty old, but David Banner's "Mississippi: The Album."

Choose me and Cadillac on 22's are awesome.

Hopefully my candle light viduals will pay off and we'll have no rock shit. :thumbsup:

I'm hoping for alot of West Coast rap. Possibly some Tupac, Snoop, Dr. Dre, etc.

He's going to be starring in Meet the Fockers, too.

I loved De Niro in The Fan, by the way. Awesome movie.

GTA ripoff and a bad one at that.

I can't decide. De Niro was amazing in Taxi Driver, but Pacino was just as good in Scarface. De Niro, I guess.

Well the report is from the NY Post, IMDB just posted it.

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Even worse. Let's wait for an official word.

I Love the 90's was a huge letdown for me and I'm not sure if it's because the 90's sucked or if VH1 just can't do shit right nowadays.

One of the biggest reasons that some families don't support the war in Iraq has nothing to do with whether or not it's justified. It has to do with their precious child going off to war, which they weren't expecting. People use the navy and army to pay for college, without fully grasping the concept that they will be shipped off if a war starts.

Smackdown Singles Divison

Akio

Big Show

Bill DeMott

Billy Gunn

Billy Kidman

Booker T

Bubba Ray Dudley

Charlie Haas

Chavo Guerrero

Danny Basham

Dawn Marie

Doug Basham

D-Von Dudley

Eddie Guerrero

Funaki

Hardcore Holly

Hiroko

Jamie Noble

John Bradshaw Layfield*

John Cena

John Heidenreich

Johnny Stamboli

Kenzo Suzuki

Kurt Angle

Luther Reigns

Mark Jindrak

Miss Jackie

Nidia

Nunzio

Orlando Jordan

Paul Heyman

Paul London

Rene Dupree

Rey Mysterio*

Rico

Rob Van Dam

Sable

Sakoda

Scotty 2 Hotty

Shannon Moore

Spike Dudley

The Undertaker

Tommy Dreamer

Torrie Wilson

Ultimo Dragon

Smackdown Tag Division

Akio & Sakoda

Billy Gunn & Hardcore Holly

Billy Kidman & Paul London*

Rico & Charlie Haas

Basham Brothers

The Dudleyz

*Denotes Champion

not that I don't believe you here.....but a source with that quote would be nice.

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Not sure if you can count this as a source, but this is where Fahrenheit Fact got the quote from:

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/14/Floridia...ut_up_or_.shtml

a year ago? I thought this was a couple of months before the release? Btw AR, all this was disected by both sides in the Fahrenheit 9/11 Thread a month or so ago.

Care to tell us where he told kids to sneak in? I saw an interview on TV in which he said kids should get their parents to take them. Give me a source here if I'm wrong.

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"Disney mouthpieces also said Miramax was informed nearly a year ago that the company wouldn't distribute Fahrenheit 9/11. Miramax apparently hoped Disney would change its corporate mind. Moore apparently was convinced that would happen, or else Miramax would use another distribution outlet for Fahrenheit 9/11 to reach theaters, which is what it did with the controversial Dogma in 1999. That film, with its satire of Roman Catholicism, also was disavowed by Disney."

Unless your going to name your sources, you're no better then the person you're attacking.

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There shouldn't of been any controversy in the first place, since Disney told Miramax and Michael Moore about a year before the movie was finished that they wouldn't let it be released under their name/company. They both simply ignored Disney, thinking they'd change their minds once the film was finished.

Taken from http://fahrenheit_fact.blogspot.com/. Here are several glaring ones:

There is no link between Iraq/al-Qaeda

From the film:

PRESIDENT BUSH: Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists. Including members of al Qaeda.

VP CHENEY: There was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Saddam / al Qaeda / Saddam / al Qaeda / Saddam / al Qaeda / Saddam / Saddam / Saddam / al Qaeda

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: It is only a matter of time before terrorists

states armed with weapons of mass destruction develop the capability to

deliver those weapons to US cities.

SECRETARY POWELL: What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.

PRESIDENT BUSH: This is a man who hates America. / This is a man who

cannot stand what we stand for. / His willingness to terrorize himself.

/ He hates the fact, like al Qaeda does, that we love freedom. / After

all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

REP. JIM MCDERMOTT: They simply got people to believe that there was a real threat out there, when in fact there wasn't one.

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: You get told things every day that don't happen. It doesn't seem to bother people.

NARRATOR: Of course, the Democrats were there to put a stop to all these falsehoods.

Moore groups the Iraq/Al Qaeda connection under the word "falsehoods". But there is a well-documented Iraq/Al Qaeda connection.

Dave Kopel writes:

...consider the facts presented in Stephen F. Hayes's book,

The Connection : How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has

Endangered America (N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2004). The first paragraph of

the last chapter (pp. 177-78) sums up some of the evidence:

Iraqi intelligence documents from 1992 list Osama bin Laden as an

Iraqi intelligence asset. Numerous sources have reported a 1993

nonaggression pact between Iraq and al Qaeda. The former deputy

director of Iraqi intelligence now in U.S. custody says that bin Laden

asked the Iraqi regime for arms and training in a face-to-face meeting

in 1994. Senior al Qaeda leader Abu Hajer al Iraqi met with Iraqi

intelligence officials in 1995. The National Security Agency

intercepted telephone conversations between al Qaeda-supported Sudanese

military officials and the head of Iraq's chemical weapons program in

1996. Al Qaeda sent Abu Abdallah al Iraqi to Iraq for help with weapons

of mass destruction in 1997. An indictment from the Clinton-era Justice

Department cited Iraqi assistance on al Qaeda "weapons development" in

1998. A senior Clinton administration counterterrorism official told

the Washington Post that the U.S. government was "sure" Iraq had

supported al Qaeda chemical weapons programs in 1999. An Iraqi working

closely with the Iraqi embassy in Kuala Lumpur was photographed with

September 11 hijacker Khalid al Mihdhar en route to a planning meeting

for the bombing of the USS Cole and the September 11 attacks in 2000.

Satellite photographs showed al Qaeda members in 2001 traveling en

masse to a compound in northern Iraq financed, in part, by the Iraqi

regime. Abu Musab al Zarqawi, senior al Qaeda associate, operated

openly in Baghdad and received medical attention at a regime-supported

hospital in 2002. Documents discovered in postwar Iraq in 2003 reveal

that Saddam's regime harbored and supported Abdul Rahman Yasin, an

Iraqi who mixed the chemicals for the 1993 World Trade Center attack...

The Iraq Al-Qaeda connection is well-documented, and hardly a "falsehood" as Moore claims.

Watch this drive, Yassir!

Here's another one of Moore's myriad misrepresentations, this time involving one of the most quoted scenes in F-9/11. The Media Research Center had this to say:

The TV ads for Michael Moore’s “documentary” Fahrenheit 9/11 feature a mocking clip of President Bush on a golf course. Bush declares, “I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorists killers,” and then Moore jumps to Bush adding, as he prepares to swing at a golf ball, “now watch this drive.” Tuesday night on FNC’s Special Report with Brit Hume, Brian Wilson noted how “the viewer is left with the misleading impression Mr. Bush is talking about al-Qaeda terrorists.” But Wilson disclosed that “a check of the raw tape reveals the President is talking about an attack against Israel, carried out by a Palestinian suicide bomber.”

Saddam has murdered Americans

Many thanks to Dave Kopel, who's forthcoming article on Fahrenheit 9/11 provides many, many factual problems with the film, as well as providing us with a lot of facts. Here he addresses the assertion that Saddam never "murdered" an American:

Fahrenheit asserts that Saddam’s Iraq was a nation that “had never attacked the United States. A nation that had never threatened to attack the United States. A nation that had never murdered a single American citizen.”

Jake Tapper (ABC News): You declare in the film that Hussein’s regime had never killed an American …

Moore: That isn’t what I said. Quote the movie directly.

Tapper: What is the quote exactly?

Moore: “Murdered.” The government of Iraq did not commit a premeditated murder on an American citizen. I’d like you to point out one.

Tapper: If the government of Iraq permitted a terrorist named Abu Nidal who is certainly responsible for killing Americans to have Iraq as a safe haven; if Saddam Hussein funded suicide bombers in Israel who did kill Americans; if the Iraqi police—now this is not a murder but it’s a plan to murder—to assassinate President Bush which at the time merited air strikes from President Clinton once that plot was discovered; does that not belie your claim that the Iraqi government never murdered an American or never had a hand in murdering an American?

Moore: No, because nothing you just said is proof that the Iraqi government ever murdered an American citizen. And I am still waiting for you to present that proof.

You’re talking about, they provide safe haven for Abu Nidal after the committed these murders, uh, Iraq helps or supports suicide bombers in Israel. I mean the support, you remember the telethon that the Saudis were having? It’s our allies, the Saudis, that have been providing help and aid to the suicide bombers in Israel. That’s the story you should be covering. Why don’t you cover that story? Why don’t you cover it?

Note Moore’s extremely careful phrasing of the lines which appear to exonerate Saddam, and Moore’s hyper-legal response to Tapper. In fact, Saddam provided refuge to notorious terrorists who had murdered Americans. Saddam provided a safe haven for Abu Abbas (leader of the hijacking of the ship Achille Lauro and the murder of the elderly American passenger Leon Klinghoffer), for Abu Nidal, and for the 1993 World Trade Center bomb maker, Abdul Rahman Yasin. By law, Saddam therefore was an accessory to the murders. Saddam order his police to murder former American President George Bush when he visited Kuwait City in 1993; they attempted to do so, but failed. In 1991, he ordered his agents to murder the American Ambassador to the Philippines and, separately, to murder the employees of the U.S. Information Service in Manila; they tried, but failed. Yet none of these aggressions against the United States “count” for Moore, because he has carefully framed his verbs and verb tenses to exclude them.

According to Laurie Mylroie, a former Harvard professor who served as Bill Clinton's Iraq advisor during the 1992 campaign (during which Vice-Presidential candidate Gore repeatedly castigated incumbent President George H.W. Bush for inaction against Saddam), the ringleader of the World Trade Center bombings, Ramzi Yousef, was working for the Iraqi intelligence service. Laurie Mylroie, The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study of Revenge (N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2d rev. ed. 2001.)

But even with Moore’s clever phrasing designed to elide Saddam’s culpability in the murders and attempted murders of Americans, Tapper still catches him with an irrefutable point: Saddam did perpetrate the premeditated murder of Americans. Every victim of every Palestinian terrorist bomber who was funded by Saddam Hussein was the victim of premeditated murder—including the American victims.

Fox called Florida for Gore first; CBS was the first network to retract the Gore result

In Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore makes the assertion that the Fox News Channel was the reason that other networks began to call Florida for Bush instead of Gore:

NARRATOR: Did the last four years not really happen? Look, there's Ben Affleck. He's often in my dreams. And the taxi driver guy. He was there too. And little Stevie Wonder, he seemed so happy, like a miracle had taken place. Was it a dream? Or was it real? It was election night 2000 and everything seemed to be going as planned.

Series of news clips: In New York, Al Gore is our projected winner. / The Garden State is green for Gore. / We project that Mr. Gore is the winner in Delaware. This state has voted with the winner in... / (Tom Brokaw interrupts) Mike, you know I wouldn't do this if it weren't big: Florida goes for Al Gore. / CNN announces that we call Florida in the Al Gore column.

NARRATOR: Then something called the Fox News Channel called the election in favor of the other guy.

BRIT HUME: Sorry to interrupt you; Fox News now projects George W. Bush the winner in Florida and thus it appears the winner of the Presidency of the United States.

NARRATOR: All of a sudden the other networks said, "Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true."

Here's a timeline of the network projections, from an article soon to be published in National Review by David Kopel:

In fact, the networks which called Florida for Gore did so early in the evening—before polls had even closed in the Florida panhandle, which is part of the Central Time Zone. NBC called Florida for Gore at 7:49:40 p.m., Eastern Time. This was 10 minutes before polls closed in the Florida panhandle. Thirty seconds later, CBS called Florida for Gore. And at 7:52 p.m., Fox called Florida for Gore. Moore never lets the audience know that Fox was among the networks which made the error of calling Florida for Gore prematurely. Then at 8:02 p.m., ABC called Florida for Gore. Only ABC had waited until the Florida polls were closed.

The premature calls probably cost Bush thousands of votes from the conservative panhandle, as discouraged last-minute voters heard that their state had already been decided, and many voters who were waiting in line left the polling place. In Florida, as elsewhere, voters who have arrived at the polling place before closing time often end up voting after closing time, because of long lines. The conventional wisdom of politics is that supporters of the losing candidate are most likely to give up on voting when they hear that their side has already lost. (Thus, on election night 1980, when incumbent President Jimmy Carter gave a concession speech while polls were still open on the West coast, the early concession was widely blamed for costing the Democrats several Congressional seats in the West. The fact that all the networks had declared Reagan a landslide winner while West coast voting was still in progress was also blamed for Democratic losses in the West.) Even if the premature television calls affected all potential voters equally, the effect was to reduce Republican votes significantly, because the Florida panhandle is a Republican stronghold; depress overall turnout in the panhandle, and you will necessarily depress more Republican than Democratic votes.

At 10:00 p.m., which network took the lead in retracting the premature Florida result? The first retracting network was CBS, not Fox.

Over four hours later, at 2:16 a.m., Fox projected Bush as the Florida winner, as did all the other networks by 2:20 a.m.

Gore didn't win "every recount scenario"

In Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore asserts that Gore won the election, even after vote recounts. From the film:

NARRATOR: And hope that the other side will just sit by and wait for the phone to ring. And even if numerous independent investigations prove that Gore got the most votes...

JEFFREY TOBIN: If there was a statewide recount, under every scenario, Gore won the election.

Now, it is true that many post-election investigations claimed Gore had won. But under every scenario? Turns out, no. From the LA Times:

WASHINGTON — If the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed Florida's courts to finish their abortive recount of last year's deadlocked presidential election, President Bush probably still would have won by several hundred votes, a comprehensive study of the uncounted ballots has found.

But if the recount had been held under new vote-counting rules that Florida and other states now are adopting--rules aimed at recording the intentions of as many voters as possible--Democratic candidate Al Gore probably would have won, although by an even thinner margin, the study found.

The study provides evidence that more Florida voters attempted to vote for Gore than for Bush--but so many Gore voters marked their ballots improperly that Bush received more valid votes. As a result, under rules devised by the Florida Supreme Court and accepted by the Gore campaign at the time, Bush probably would have won a recount, the study found.

Since the study was launched, the nation's debate over the Florida recount has cooled and Bush, whose legitimacy as president already was accepted by a large majority in January, has won massive public approval for his leadership of the war against terrorism.

The study, a painstaking inspection of 175,010 Florida ballots that were not included in the state's certified tally, found as many as 23,799 additional, potentially valid votes for Gore or Bush.

The significance of these ballots depends on what standards are used to weigh their validity. Under some recount rules, Bush wins. Under others, Gore wins.

So yes, Gore did win some recount scenarios. But so did Bush- clearly at odds with the "every scenario" Bush loss claim that "Fahrenheit 9/11" makes.

There's plenty more on the website. It's defiantly an eye-opener and just goes to show that Michael Moore is a god at spinning the facts to his favor.

I would like to hit you in the face with a sledgehammer for saying you hate her so much yet watching SEVERAL episodes of her show.

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So you'd rather me base my opinion off nothing? I have to watch something before I know if I like it or not. Nice try, though. :thumbsup:

I'd like to bust in on her halfway through a song.

On a Monday, I am waiting.. On Tuesday, I am....

No Ashlee, your voice is shit. Make it sound better.

JUST SURRENDER TO ME JUST SURR--

*Jerry Rice busts in and kills her*

How much are they giving, though.

Is it just me or would we all like to take a sledgehammer to her face? Seriously. After watching several episodes of her retarded show, I want to fucking punch her in her cooch for being a dousche. She's a total brat and can't sing for shit.

My original intention was to do another WWE Raw diary but when the time came to actually set up the game and begin work on a show, I did everything I could to put it off. It's obvious Raw doesn't work for me anymore because it would be way too easy. I'd rather work with Smackdown's horrible roster than with Raw's solid one. Something about the game being too easy turns me off to writing shows and just doing the diary in general. But when I'm forced to make new stars and put people over as I'll have to do with Smackdown, I want to get to work on it as fast as possible.

So that's as much of a backstory as you're gonna get. Paul Heyman didn't take over the booking team and neither did Jim Cornette. Vince didn't suddenly realize that the writers are idiots and hired Bill Watts to make things better. And we sure as hell don't have fallen angels battling Satan. We do have Jamie Noble, though. That's about as good as it gets, right? This diary starts on Friday, July 23rd so that I can get caught up with everything that's going on with Smackdown.

The first show should be up either a day or two after I read the Smackdown spoilers or right after Smackdown airs. I'm still torn between doing a show based on spoilers or if I should just wait until I can actually watch the show. The first event in this diary will be the July 29th edition of Smackdown so keep a lookout. Until then, I'll probably do a full rundown of the roster, staff, and whatever else I feel like doing.

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SmackDown! Champions as of 07/19/04

WWE Title: John Bradshaw Layfield

United States: Vacant

Tag Team: Billy Kidman & Paul London

Cruiserweight: Rey Mysterio

Here's to hoping this piece of shit show is over. I nearly punched by grandma for trying to stick up for this crap.

Well I went, saw all of Shrek 2 and it was okay. Some parts were funny. We snuck into Breakin' All the Rules, watched some of it, and I went to Mean Girls and ahem, pleasured myself before doing the same in Van Helsing. It was like 10 so no one was around.

The orignal suspect turned out to have two sets of DNA. One for hair and mouth swabs. Another for blood and semen. Pretty sweet actually.

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And CSI gets dumber and dumber.

Did anyone see tonight's episode? Almost as sad as the episode with Fry's dog.

In response to the thread I posted in The Lounge, if I do decide to go to the movies, should I see this? Is it any good? Or should I see one of the following? Keep in mind, I'm not interested in a deep-thought, boring movie. I want action and comedy/drama, if possible. NOT SHREK 2.

13 Going on 30

Laws of Attraction

Man on Fire

Mean Girls

New York Minute

Troy

Van Helsing

Left Behind, I suppose. It's somewhat like 28 Days Later, abit different though.

Notorious B.I.G. - Goin back to Cali