"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
-Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address - inscribed on the walls at his memorial downtown...
What happened to the party of Lincoln?
What happened to the party of Reagan?
What happened to the party that fought to free slaves... fought for lower taxes... fought for individual rights... for a strong defense... that brought an end to the cold war... that brought us a freer world?
Tonight, I sit here writing you literally in shock of what I'm seeing. Republicans turning against John McCain. People who literally HATE Obama... who call him a "Arab"... who say they're scared of an America made possible because of the Republican's so-called first president... Lincoln... and I can't believe what I'm seeing.
The Republicans have lost their soul.
My grandfather told me once that no political party has the embargo on good ideas. He told me that the honor and integrity of a person is what compelled him to support anyone who makes the 'people's work' their life's task. He supported independents. Republicans. Democrats. I've tried to do the same.
But I can not support a party who - at it's soul - has people who are so scared... so afraid... so single minded and - well - lost - when it comes to the world today. I watch these people... yelling "kill him" at Palin's rallys... calling him a "terrorist"... saying that they are "scared" because he's different or - amazingly - that an American man who is the embodiment of what our country is all about - is somehow an Arab - and my jaw drops.
The Republican party is not the party of Reagan anymore. It's not the party of the first President Bush. Not the party of Nixon. Not the party of Lincoln.
It's the party of fear.
It's the party of hate.
it's a party with some good ideas - and good people - who are now having to defend themselves from the monster they created by using fear... and disdain... as means of control.
This election is the beginning of a long, cold winter for the former Party of Reagan and Lincoln. They've lost sight of the "shining city on a hill" they once claimed to believe in. The fire of the eternal dream and promise of America has dimmed for them... and while they enter into this wilderness of their own creation... I hope they can find what it is that Lincoln once gave them... and that their recent leaders have somehow squandered:
So there are rumors going around that the station may be creating a special night for rock-a-holics that's basically just like those awesome, summer-long movie screenings that take place in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. No idea if it's true, or if it is true, where or when it will be.
All'z I know is I've heard rumblings of it around the office. And you know what? I hope they're true! Because if you've never been to a beautiful outdoor movie screening in one of LA's star-studded cemeteries, well, you haven't truly experienced how cool this city's offerings are.
I'm guessing stay tuned, keep checking in with me, and we'll find out if there's some substance to this rumor in a week or two.
Friday, October 10, 2008, 08:29 PM EST [Under The Mat]
Hello friends and Fan Nation members. Welcome to the Under The Mat Trivia Game (week of 09/13/08-09/19/08). Congratulations, once again, to your current Under The Mat Champion :
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1) Hulk Hogan won his first WWF(WWE) World Title from who?
2) The Fabulous Moolah's historic 32 year championship reign as WWF(WWE) Womens Champion came to an end when she lost the title to who?
3) Ric Flair lost his 2nd NWA World Title and subsequently won it back for his 3rd championship reign from who?
4) The Rock & Roll Express were 4-time NWA World Tag Team Champions. In their Mid-Atlantic debut, who did they win their 1st NWA World Tag Team Championship from?
5) The late "Mr. Perfect" Curt Henning gave up his "spot" as a member of the 4 Horsemen, when he turned on them to join what group?
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Another hell of a season to come . . . we will once again surprise many
This will be my first year that I really do not know the players personally...I am kind of happy about that because now I can just be a fan instead of a friend or knowing things that I really just dont wanna know
WWE IS STUPID! Moving Smackdown to My Network TV is stupid Half of wwe nation dosent have My Network tv in there homes! People should protest to move smackdown to CW, FOX, USA, SciFi or Spike
Mi nombre es Anyely.Soy puertorriquena,vivo en MA,Estados Unidos.Me encantan leer.Amo todo lo que sea profecias,religion,ovnis,y cosas misteriosas. Todo esto me llama mucho la atencion desde pequena.Ademas porque las he vivido.Tengo 2 hermosos hijos y un esposo muy bueno..
Amo la honestidad odio la mentira.Amo la naturaleza odio la destrucion,amo la amistad odio la hipocresia.Amo la libertad,
Whats up fan nation!! Well i have been getting my youtube dose of edge every day( i miss the man that was smackdown) Well anyway i came across this! Its great but its not mine ENJOY!!!
Cena first started training to become a wrestler in 2000 at the California-based "Ultimate University" operated by Ultimate Pro Wrestling (UPW). Once he was placed into an in-ring role, Cena began using a semi-roboticcharacter known as The Prototype. Some of this period of his career was documented in the Discovery Channel program Inside Pro Wrestling School.While in UPW, Cena held the Heavyweight Championship for just shy of a month in April 2000. In 2001, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) signed him away from UPW, placing him under a developmental contract and assigning him to their "farm territory" Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he continued his training. During his time there, Cena wrestled as both The Prototype and Mr. P, and he held the Heavyweight Championship for three months and the Tag Team Championship (with Rico Constantino) for two.
World Wrestling Entertainment (2002-present)
2002-2003
Cena's first televised WWE match was in answer to a (kayfabe) open challenge by Kurt Angle on June 27, 2002.Inspired by a speech given by WWE Chairman Vince McMahon to the rising stars of the company, exhorting them to show "ruthless
aggression" to earn a place among the legends, Cena took advantage of
the opportunity and almost beat Angle by kicking out of his Angle Slam and enduring the ankle lock submission hold. He ultimately lost, however, to a hard, amateur-stylepin. Following the near-win, Cena became a face and was put into a program with Chris Jericho. In October, Cena and Billy Kidman joined forces to take part in a tag team tournament to crown the first WWE Tag Team Champions of the SmackDown!brand, but lost in the first round. The next week, Cena turned on and attacked Kidman, blaming him for their loss.
Shortly after the Kidman attack, on a Halloween themed episode of SmackDown!, Cena dressed as Vanilla Ice and performed a freestyle rap. The next week, Cena received a new gimmick: a rapper who cut promos in rhyme.
As the gimmick grew, he adopted a variant of the 80s WWF logo —
dropping the "F" — as his "signature symbol", along with the slogan "Word Life". Moreover, he was joined by an enforcer, Bull Buchanan, who was rechristened B-2 (also written B² and pronounced "B-Squared"). Buchanan was later replaced by Rodney Mack under the moniker "Red Dogg", until he was sent to the Raw brand in February.
For the first half of 2003, Cena sought the WWE Championship and chased the reigning champion, Brock Lesnar, performing weekly "freestyles" challenging him to matches. During the program, Cena unveiled a new finishing maneuver: the FU, a Fireman's carry powerslam, so named to mock Lesnar's F-5. He got a match against Lesnar at April's Backlash by winning a #1 contenders tournament, but did not get the title. At the end of the year he became a face again when he joined Kurt Angle as a member of his Survivor Series team at the 2003 pay-per-view.
2004-2005
In early 2004, Cena participated in the Royal Rumble match at the annual January pay-per-view event,making it to the final six participants before being eliminated by Big Show.The Royal Rumble elimination led to a feud between Big Show and Cena, during which Cena won the United States Championship from the Big Show at WrestleMania XX in March. During his reign, he came into contention with SmackDown! General ManagerKurt Angle over issues arising with René Duprée and Torrie Wilson.The reign ended just shy of four months when, on July 8, he was "stripped" of the belt by Angle after he (kayfabe, accidentally) knocked him over, thus "attacking an official". He won the title back by defeating Booker T in a "best of five" series that culminated at October's No Mercy, only to lose it to the debuting Carlito Caribbean Cool the next week.After the loss to Carlito, the duo began a feud, during which Cena was (kayfabe) stabbed in the kidney while at a Boston-area nightclub by Carlito's bodyguard, Jesús.[53][54] This worked injury was used to keep Cena out of action for a month, during which Cena was actually filming his feature film debut The Marine. Immediately on his return in November, he won the US title back from Carlito and debuted a "custom made" spinner-style title belt.
Cena took part in the Royal Rumble in January 2005, this time making it to the final two. He and Rawbrand wrestler Batista went over the top rope at the same time, ostensibly ending the match. Vince McMahon, however, appeared on stage and re-started the match in "sudden death", with Batista eventually winning. The next month, Cena defeated Kurt Angle to earn a spot in the SmackDown! brand's WrestleMania 21 main event, beginning a feud with WWE ChampionJohn "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) and his Cabinet in the process. In the opening stages of the feud, Cena lost his US belt to Cabinet member Orlando Jordan, who proceeded to "blow up" the spinner version with JBL and return a more traditional style belt. When Cena and JBL met at WrestleMania, the title switched hands, giving Cena his first world title in the company. As part of the storyline, he then had a spinner WWE Championship belt made, while JBL took the original belt and claimed to still be WWE Champion, until Cena reclaimed the original belt in an "I Quit" match at Judgment Day.
Cena's SmackDown! tenure came to a close on the June 6, 2005 episode of WWE Raw, when he became the first wrestler selected by Raw brand General ManagerEric Bischoff in the annual draft lottery. Cena immediately entered a program against Bischoff when he refused to participate in his "war" against the upcoming Extreme Championship Wrestlingreunion show. With Bischoff vowing to make Cena's stint on Raw difficult, he "hand picked" Jericho to take Cena's title from him. During their feud, even though Cena was portrayed as the face and Jericho as the heel, a vocal section of live crowds nonetheless chose to boo Cena during their matches. More crowds followed suit during Cena's next feud with Kurt Angle,who took over as Bischoff's hand picked #1 contender after Cena beat Jericho in a "You're Fired" match on the August 22 Raw, sending him off the show. As the feud continued and the dissenters grew more vocal, sometimes seeming to outnumber fans by wide margins,the announce team was forced to acknowledge the boos on television and began calling Cena
a "controversial champion", claiming some people disliked him on
account of his "in-ring style" and his chosen fashion. Despite the mixed and negative reactions, Cena held on to his Championship through his feud with Angle, losing to him by disqualification— for which titles do not change hands in WWE — at Unforgiven in September and pinning him at Survivor Series in November. The feud with Angle also saw Cena add a secondary, submission based, finishing maneuver to his repertoire – the STFU (a Stepover Toehold Sleeper, though named for a Stepover Toehold Facelock) – when he was put into a Triple ThreatSubmissions Only match on the November 28 Raw.
2006-2007
Cena lost the WWE Championship at the first WWE pay-per-view of 2006, New Year's Revolution, but not in the Elimination Chamber match that he had been advertised to participate in beforehand.
Instead, immediately after winning the Elimination Chamber, he was
thrust into a match against Edge, who cashed in his Money in the Bank contract — a "guaranteed title match at the WWE Champion of the owners choosing" — and after two quick spears pinned Cena for the title. Cena's championship reign ended at 280 days, matching the length of previous champion JBL. Just three weeks later, Cena won the title back at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view. After winning the Championship back, Cena was put in to a program with Triple H, during which the crowd again seemed to boo the intended face (Cena) and cheer the intended heel (Triple H).The negative reaction only intensified when he faced Rob Van Dam (also cashing in a Money in the Bank contract, which he won at WrestleMania 22) at One Night Stand in June. Taking place in front of a crowd of mostly "old school" Extreme Championship Wrestling fans at the Hammerstein Ballroom,
Cena was met with raucous jeering and chants of "**** you, Cena", "You
can't wrestle", and "Same old ****". When he began peppering different
moves into the match the fans responded with a chant of "You still
suck". Cena lost the WWE Championship for the second time in 2006 at
One Night Stand, being pinned by Van Dam after interference from Edge.
n July, after Edge won the title from Van Dam in a Triple Threat match that also involved Cena,it re-ignited the feud between him and Cena from earlier in the year.
After Edge went about retaining the title by dubious means — getting
himself disqualified (for which Championships do not change hands) and using brass knuckles — he introduced his own version of Cena's "custom" belt, this one with his logo placed on the spinner.Cena eventually won the Championship back in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match at September's Unforgiven pay-per-view, in a match that had an added stipulation that had Cena lost he would leave the Raw brand and go to SmackDown!. He returned his version of the spinner belt on the next night's Raw.
On the heels of the Edge program, Cena was placed in an inter-brandangle to determine the so-called "Champion of Champions" — or which was the most dominant champion in WWE's three brands. Cena, King Booker (SmackDown!'s then World Heavyweight Champion), and Big Show (ECW's then World Champion) engaged in a mini-feud leading to a Triple Threat match at Cyber Sunday in November, with the viewers voting on which of the three championships would be placed on the line. At the same time, Cena became involved in a storyline with non-wrestler Kevin Federline when he began appearing on Raw with Johnny Nitro and Melina. After getting into a (worked) physical altercation with Federline on Raw, Federline appeared at Cyber Sunday to hit Cena with the World Heavyweight Title belt during the main event Triple Threat match, helping King Booker retain his title. 2006 ended with Cena beginning a feud with the undefeated Umaga over the WWE Championship, while 2007 began with the end of his storyline with Kevin Federline. On the first Raw of the new year, Cena was pinned by Federline (with an assist from
Umaga), although later in the night he was able to get his hands on
Federline to FU him.
During their feud, Cena ended Umaga's "undefeated" streak at New Year's Revolution before Umaga caused a (worked) injury to Cena's spleen, putting a scheduled Last Man Standing rematch at Royal Rumble in (kayfabe) jeopardy. The match did, however, take place and Cena retained his title.
One night after the Royal Rumble, an impromptu team of Cena and Shawn Michaels defeated Rated-RKO (Edge and Randy Orton) for the World Tag Team Championship, making Cena a double champion. On the April 2 episode of Raw, after losing a WWE Championship match to Cena at WrestleMania 23, Michaels "turned" on Cena, costing them the team the Championship in the second of two 10 team battles royals by throwing Cena over the top rope and eliminating the team. The Hardys (Matt and Jeff) eventually won the match and the title.For the rest of the month, Cena feuded with Michaels, Orton, and Edge until The Great Khali declared his intentions to challenge for Cena's title by attacking and "laying out" all three of the top contenders before assaulting Cena himself and stealing the physical belt.
For the next two months, Cena feuded with Khali over the Championship,
eventually becoming the first person in WWE to defeat him by submission
at May's Judgment Day and then by pinfall at June's One Night Stand. Later that summer, prior to SummerSlam, Randy
