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It was the only time I ever saw Jim Ross say the word "angle" on live WWE TV. Normally they keep kayfabe very well but in order to make sure everyone KNEW this was NOT a part of an angle but a serious situation he had to.

Yeah, Nattie still wrestles(Jim's daughter I believe) in the women's division as well. Owen was another tragic casualty.
Terry Bollea sucks.

While what Benoit did was horrid, he loved his family and expressed and showed that many times, which made it all the more shocking. The things severe brain damage from all the bumps he took and dementia can do to you....and then you have those who say it's all fake. Yeah, it's predetermined, but those guys take some serious bumps day in and day out. I always saw it as a form of art - especially the more high flying technical style. I hate the "look at me I'm a big monster" style.

Mick Foley is amazing. But he too, did so much damage to his body it was time for him to take a break unfortunately. He comes in as a guest though from time to time and was even in wrestlemania several weeks back along with shawn michaels and stone cold...those were the good ole days...I can't tolerate watching most of it now, I only watch the big ppvs.

I don't think Trump would do anything against Wall St. We all know Clinton wouldn't. Cruz is a capitalist but he does NOT believe in cronyism, I think him and Sanders will be the toughest.

I don't think he said most muslims are terrorists, but that most terrorists are muslims.

Hmmm. Sounds like some people on VJ to me:
A woman who blocked attempts to condemn Isil, attacked “Zionist-led media outlets” and suggested that violent “resistance” is the way forward in Palestine has been elected the next leader of Britain’s seven million students.
Malia Bouattia won 50.9 per cent of the vote to become president of the National Union of Students, defeating the moderate incumbent, Megan Dunn. She won despite an open letter from almost 50 Jewish student leaders saying they were “extremely concerned” by her views amid rising extremism and anti-Semitism on campus.
In her previous role as a member of the NUS’s executive committee, Ms Bouattia blocked the union from passing a motion condemning Isil, calling it “Islamophobic.” In a recent talk, she dismissed the threat of “so-called terrorism” in the UK and blamed Government anti-terrorism policy on a “Zionist and neo-con lobby.”
Ms Bouattia has criticised her alma mater, Birmingham University, as a “Zionist outpost in higher education,” saying it has “the largest Jsoc [Jewish student society] in the country.”
In new video footage obtained by The Telegraph, Ms Bouattia condemned the Israel-Palestine peace process as “strengthening the colonial project” and added: “To consider that Palestine will be free only by means of fundraising, non-violent protest and the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is problematic…[These] can be misunderstood as the alternative to resistance by the Palestinian people.”
She said that “Zionist-led media outlets” had caused Muslims to have an “obsession of convincing non-Muslims of our non-violent and peaceful nature, so that we’re… dangerously condemning the resistance, branding groups and individuals as terrorists to dissociate from them.”
Ms Bouattia was congratulated on her victory by the extremist group Cage, which also denies terrorism and last year defended Mohammed Emwazi, the Isil executioner known as “Jihadi John.” Ms Bouattia works closely with Cage and has shared platforms in British universities with its head of outreach, the former Guantanamo inmate Moazzam Begg, at least six times in recent months.
At the meetings she has claimed that the Government’s anti-terror policy, Prevent, is “criminalising everyone” and is a symptom of Britain’s “steady descent into a police state.” She has said that students must organise to make Prevent “toxic and unworkable.”
Cage’s role in the NUS was a key issue in the presidential race. Ms Dunn, the defeated incumbent, said that the NUS would “not work with Cage,” which the union describes as a “deeply problematic organisation” whose leaders “have sympathised with violent extremism and violence against women.”
However, Ms Bouattia attacked Ms Dunn for the move, saying it was a “betrayal,” calling her comments about Cage “baseless Islamophobic smears” and claiming that “cutting ties with Cage denies NUS a wealth of experience and information in tackling Prevent.”
In 2014 Ms Bouattia, the NUS’s salaried black students’ officer, successfully opposed a move by the union’s executive to condemn Isil and express solidarity with Iraqi Kurds, saying: “We recognise that condemnation of Islamic State appears to have become a justification for war and blatant Islamophobia.”
Ms Bouattia’s remarks appearing to support Palestinian terrorism were made on 28 September 2014 at a conference entitled “Gaza and the Palestinian Revolution.” The event organiser, the Tri-Continental Anti-Imperialist Platform, has removed the video of her talk, but a copy has been obtained by The Telegraph.
On January 30 this year Ms Bouattia spoke at a meeting organised by Memo, a website closely linked to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. According to a transcript of her remarks posted on the NUS black students’ campaign’s official blog, she said: “The very issue of so-called terrorism and the language surrounding it recall back to the way in which indigenous resistance to Western colonialism was dismissed as ‘terrorism’…
Ms Bouattia was endorsed for the NUS presidency by Raza Nadim, spokesman for the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), an extremist Muslim group which is banned from student unions by the NUS itself for its racism and anti-Semitism. She thanked Mr Nadim for his support on her campaign Facebook page.
She has claimed that “Muslims in the UK find them in a situation where their democratic freedoms have been comprehensively stripped” and that Prevent “has made being Muslim in Britain a conditional freedom,” with a “matrix of surveillance” formed to “identify ‘radicals’ in society who, for the most part, don't exist.”
Rupert Sutton, of Student Rights, a group which fights extremism on campus, said: “Bouattia has been an integral part of a campaign working alongside extremists to undermine counter-radicalisation policy on campuses. The access to student audiences this campaign has given extremist groups will now only increase.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/20/malia-bouattia-elected-nus-president-after-causing-controversy/

I know right? Shall I hand you that mirror again?
Amen and Amen.

Must admit I creased up when I saw that post, Had to be self irony.

And if you can't get something that simple and why that is a problem , you might have Braun damage .
Arguing a law won't stop them is insanity. A law won't stop murder, so should we legalize it.
The ignorance in this country burns .

man oh man your butthurt over something I don't even remember doing to you is too much. Please, let go of it! Not everything needs to be a fight.

Intermediate These workshops are appropriate for individuals who have a working knowledge of privilege, antiracism, oppression, and intercultural issues.
Who needs workshops when we have VJ?

SJW have turned into the kid that cried wolf. Running out of things that actually matter, the "oppressed" among us continue to look for injustices that don't exist because they don't have anything better to do like have real jobs or families.

Charlie Daniels sends message to spineless musicians canceling shows because of transgender bathrooms

Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/04/16/charlie-daniels-sends-message-to-spineless-musicians-canceling-shows-because-of-transgender-bathrooms-329591#ixzz46BL0l8jp
Boycotting states like North Carolina and Mississippi is all the rage for many celebrities these days but for one singer it’s just the opposite.
While Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams and even filmmaker Michael Moore have declined to do business in North Carolina and Mississippi, because the states passed laws preventing men from using women’s bathrooms, Charlie Daniels has stepped up.
Charlie Daniels
✔ ‎@CharlieDaniels
Let's put some rumors to rest.
Any shows we have booked in NC,Mississippi or anywhere else in these Sovereign US of A will be played
11:31 AM - 15 Apr 2016 What an interesting concept. Doing business where you are contractually obligated to do so.
Then again Springsteen, Adams, Starr, Moore and any other who join the boycotts have a right to not do business with those who don’t share their beliefs and values.
As they boycott people for not doing business with people who don’t share their beliefs and values.
Social media praised Daniels for taking a stand.

Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/04/16/charlie-daniels-sends-message-to-spineless-musicians-canceling-shows-because-of-transgender-bathrooms-329591#ixzz46BLDLZDz

The Daily Caller News Foundation is attending the 17th annual White Privilege Conference in Philadelphia, held April 15-17. The following is part of a series of articles concerning events at the conference.

A professional education consultant and teacher trainer argued at the White Privilege Conference (WPC) in Philadelphia that great teachers must also be liberal activists, and described in detail her goal for destroying the “white supremacist” nature of modern education.

Heather Hackman operates Hackman Consulting Group and was formerly a professor of multicultural education at Minnesota’s St. Cloud State University, where she taught future teachers. On Friday, Hackman was given a platform at WPC to deliver a workshop with the lengthy title “No Freedom Unless We Call Out the Wizard Behind The Curtain: Critically Addressing the Corrosive Effects of Whiteness in Teacher Education and Professional Development.” The long title masked a simple thesis on Hackman’s part: Modern education is hopelessly tainted by white supremacy and the “white imperial gaze,” and the solution is to train prospective teachers in college to be activists as well as pedagogues.

In fact, Hackman argued teachers shouldn’t even bother teaching if they aren’t committed to promoting social justice in school.

“Education is not about the mere reproduction of knowledge,” Hackman said. “Education is the practice of freedom. And as a result, we have to have [teaching] students becomes activists as well as teachers.”

Creating educators who are proper activists, Hackman continued, means training them to not only to encourage diversity but also to engage with the systemic oppression she says is pervasive in the entire educational system. In Hackman’s telling, virtually everything associated with being a good student in modern education is actually just a tool of racist white supremacy.

“The racial narrative of White tends to be like this: Rugged individual, honest, hard-working, disciplined, rigorous, successful,” she said. “And so then, the narrative of U.S. public education: Individual assessments, competition, outcome over process (I care more about your grades than how you’re doing), ‘discipline’ where we care more about your attendance and making sure you’re not tardy than we care about your relationships … proper English must be spoken (which is just assimilation into standard U.S. dialect), hierarchical power structure, and heavy goal orientation.”

While the traits listed may simply be regarded as positive traits for success in the modern world, Hackman described them as specific cultural traits chosen and emphasized to favor whites to the detriment of non-white groups, who are forced to assimilate white traits such as good discipline and goal orientation or else be left behind.

Hackman’s natural solution, then, is to train teachers to move away from all these aspects of white privilege in education. She routinely touted the benefits of collective assessments (measuring student learning at the class level instead of determining whether each student knows the material), as well as eliminating all school grades entirely.

Hackman said when she was a professor, she freely employed these methods with her own students. She once let a student complete an essay assignment as a graphic novel, and allowed students to write in non-standard English or even foreign languages she herself couldn’t read.

“If I don’t know [your language,] frankly, that’s my issue,” she said. “All I need to know is that you’re thinking about it, I don’t really care how you do it.”

But Hackman acknowledged in the current white supremacist system, there is some expectation that teachers will know conventional English and possess other basic knowledge. As a result, she admitted modern activist teachers should try to learn those things sufficiently to get a job, but only for the purpose of infiltrating schools to change them from within.

“My long game was, get you in, get you tenured, get you in that system and change that system,” she said.

he need for change is pressing, Hackman said, because the current white supremacist school system is literally killing off non-white Americans.

“Inside, I am screaming,” she said.

She predicted her approach will triumph, and the sinister force she dubbed “Super-Whitey” (and compared to the Eye of Sauron) will eventually be swept aside.

“Your time has come,” Hackman said. “If I was a white faculty member and unwilling to get with the program, I do not have any business in teacher education … We do see you, Super-Whitey. We’re coming for you.”

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/16/professional-educator-grades-showing-up-on-time-are-a-form-of-white-supremacy/#ixzz465VYMAZe

Rugged individual, honest, hard-working, disciplined, rigorous, successful,
Every thing the liberals hate

Definitely wrong, no excuses. Beyond the fact that even if he is Muslim it would be wrong, but regardless, so many other Arabs(including Christians) speak Arabic, Druze Speak Arabic etc...just because you hear someone speaking Arabic doesn't even mean they are Muslim, let alone terrorists. In Israel in every street corner, bus, mall, whatever, you'll hear someone speaking Arabic. Personally it's nothing unusual to me.

Nope didn't do a thing to it.(see I'm considerate - no quote).

http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/fun-times/donald-trumps-secret-hair-growing-island-revealed-393321.html

OH! Thanks for being civil.
Before the FED, yes banks were issuing their own currencies. I am not saying this was flawless. Nor am I saying there should not be a central body to issue notes. That is part of why the FED was created -
After the panic of 1907 president Wilson signed away the last veneer of control over the money supply to a cartel. A well organized gang of crooks so successful, so well cunning, so hidden that even now, a century later, few know of its existence, let alone the details of its operations. But those details have been openly admitted for decades.
https://www.corbettreport.com/federalreserve/
The problems of pre-1914 banking in the US involved too many government restrictions, not too few. Politicians may have believed that private banking was unstable, but had they looked to the Canadian model(at the time) as a guide, they could have concluded that market forces can give us a successful banking and monetary system just as it provides us with food, clothing and other necessities. The FED took the power of money creation from the government and gave it to the bankers. Now the only way the government can inject more money into the economy is by going into more debt. So every single year, hundreds of billions of dollars in profit are made lending money to the US government. The US national debt problem simply cannot be fixed under the current system. It has been mathematically designed to expand forever; A trap from which there is no escape. Many libs won't listen because they don't really care about ever paying off the debt, and most conservatives won't listen because they are convinced we can solve the national debt problem if we just get a bunch of good conservatives into positions of power, but the truth is we have such a horrific debt problem because it was designed to be this way from the beginning.
So the US government could have issued debt free money all this time, and have a national debt of 0. If the government could issue debt free money, it is conceivable that we would not even need the IRS. The US did just fine for well over 100 years without a national income tax. It is no coincidence that about the same time that the FED came about, a national income tax was instituted as well. The whole idea was that the wealth of the American people would be transferred to the US government and then to the hands of the ultra wealthy in the form of interest payments. Over the last several years, the fed has been giving gigantic piles of nearly interest free money to wall st banks which they turned right around and not only bought risky assets with, thus creating the third bubble in 16 years, but also started lending to the federal government at a much higher rate of return.
If the FED didn't exist, we would have an economy with little to no inflation. The Federal reserve system is designed to be inflationary. That is why they have a target of 2%, which lower than that and you have a risk of deflation obviously, but they hold interest rates near 0% because that's where they want to see inflation is at 2% or above. The problem is, they tend to overshoot alot. Take a look at this chart and where inflation was before 1913 and after.

There is a reason why so many of the most prominent politicians from the early years of the united states were opposed to having a central bank. Here's a quote from Feb 1834 by President Andrew Jackson about the evils of central banking:
I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the Bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the Bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out.
But we didn't listen to men like Jackson. We allowed the fed to be created in 1913 and we have allowed it to develop into an absolute monstrosity over the past century. And now we have to keep feeding the monster. In Greek Mythology there was a monster called Cerberus, the hound of Hades. Today central banks have taken on the role of feeding our own modern day cerberus to keep all the troubles away. Ever since the financial crisis cerberus has been chained to a wall, but he's pulling and he's growling and he's demanding ever more attention. But in the process of feeding Cerberus with ever lower rates and stimulus central banks keep making him stronger and fiercer and ever more aggressive. But worse, central banks are running out of food to feed the monster.
Regardless, even if you don't exactly end the fed, you can at the very least change its mandate; for example It can still issue notes or insure banks, but take the FOMC out of the picture, etc. The FOMC is disastrous. It should not be a central bank's job to create "maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates" as its dual mandate currently states. The Fed's role grew from providing emergency reserve of money for the economy, to include setting certain interest rates(although they don't actually do that but the market does), controlling inflation, regulating banks, and then lastly and the most recent addition, "reaching full employment".
So what do I think should be done? The first step would be to repeal the 1913 law, and the subsequent amendments, that set up the current federal reserve. What comes in place depends on who you ask. Some people think we should go back to the gold standard. The amount of money in the economy would then be entrusted to the supply of gold in the world and cut down on anyone's ability to increase dollars pumped into the economy. This is certainly better than 'fiat money'.
However while the gold standard brings price stability, it also acts as a limit on economic growth, the money supply is based on the production of gold. Another option is the treasury department. Another option is an independent body, but not the fed, and not with the fed's current mandates.

Another issue Bernie knows nothing about. So uninformed...yet running for President...

knowing what a central bank is would help you understand what he is saying.

Wow. I guess you don't know that the fed aka the federal reserve IS a Central bank?
Central banks. Not big banks. Central banks. Big Difference.

I watched some of it. They were basically arguing which one had the best plan to drive the US into a third world country asap.

It's very childish and historically incompetent, this notion that racism is only injurious or meaningful when practiced by a group substantially in power of the economy and population. Tons of race-based violence and murder in history perpetrated by combative groups regardless of who was in power.
This inaccurate understanding of what racism is (notice no silly talk about systems or government or other such tripe: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism)continues to be used by racists such as stay sore and ethug to excuse their own abhorrent views on white people as immaterial because they are not part of the majority class. Everyone knows it, too.