Shooters: The Toughest Men in Professional Wrestling

Shooters: The Toughest Men in Professional Wrestling
by Jonathan Snowden
Expected publication: June 1st 2012 by ECW Press

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From William Muldoon to Brock Lesnar, this history covers those who have divided themselves as tough guys on the professional wrestling circuit and legitimate confrontations. From catch wrestling master Billy Robinson to the Japanese professional wrestler who gave birth to the global phenomenon that is modern mixed martial arts (MMA), this investigation travels from the shadowy carnival tent and the dingy training hall to the bright lights of the squared circle and the Las Vegas glitz of the octagon. Billy Riley's legendary Wigan Snake Pit and the rigorous UWF Dojo in Tokyo are explored, revealing the secret history of both professional wrestling and the rising sport of MMA. Squared circle icons Strangler Lewis and Lou Thesz and Olympic heroes Danny Hodge and Kurt Angle are also featured.

I grew up watching wrestling. I even watched it as a newborn :) My grandfather would watch it and I always sat and watched it with him. Growing up in the 1980's I would spend most of the day on Saturday sitting with Grandpa watching wrestling.

This book is really interesting and really good. I learned things that I didn't know. It is interesting to read about wrestling in the 1800's.

I enjoyed reading about Ken Shamrock. I had not known a lot about his journey to wrestling. It was interesting to read about him.

It was fun reading about Kurt Angle. I was never a big Kurt Angle fan but enjoyed reading about him. Reading about his back and neck damage and all the harm he did to his body. He was also fired from WWE because he was a mess physically, mentally, and emotionally. He also had a pain pill problem.

This book was a good read. If you watch wrestling or maybe watched it as a child, then go out and buy this book. Expected date to hit the stores: June 1st 2012

Dark Descendant

Dark Descendant (Nikki Glass #1)
by Jenna Black

Nikki Glass can track down any man. But when her latest client turns out to be a true descendant of Hades, Nikki now discovers she can’t die. . . .

Crazy as it sounds, Nikki’s manhunting skills are literally god-given. She’s a living, breathing descendant of Artemis who has stepped right into a trap set by the children of the gods. Nikki’s new “friends” include a descendant of Eros, who uses sex as a weapon; a descendant of Loki, whose tricks are no laughing matter; and a half-mad descendant of Kali who thinks she’s a spy.

But most powerful of all are the Olympians, a rival clan of immortals seeking to destroy all Descendants who refuse to bow down to them. In the eternal battle of good god/bad god, Nikki would make a divine weapon. But if they think she’ll surrender without a fight, the gods must be crazy.

This is a really good Urban Fantasy novel about Greek gods. I started reading this book and I was hooked. It is just so good.

I have read other books by Jenna Black before and that is what caused me to pick up this book. Her other books were so good that I hoped that this one would be to and she did not disappoint. I love this book.

I suggest that you pick up this book and read it and while you are at it grab book two Deadly Descendant because as soon as you are done with Dark Descendant you will want to read Deadly Descendant.

It's against my religion

That is what Amish are saying about Smoke detectors. They claim it would be against their religious beliefs to have smoke detectors in their homes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18108197

A reporter talked to Mose Miller at his doorstep with his nine children looking on. It was cold: -15C (5F). Most of the kids were in bare feet. Their clothes were roughly sewed together - like Victorian patchwork puppets.
Mose Miller said "I use this,” he said pointing at his nose, “or him,” and his finger pointed upwards. “I don’t need a devil on the wall to tell me if my house is burning.”
When he was ask what would happen if a fire happened during the night and he didn't wake up and he and his children burned to death he replied "If God does not wake us, well, that must be part of his plan."

In other words, if something happens to my kids because of my own negligence, it must be part of God’s will. JW say the same thing with not allowing blood transfusions. Christian Scientists have the same thoughts and don't take their children to hospitals because god will fix what he wants fixed and it is all god's will.
Smoke alarms aren't the devil entering your home. Smoke alarms aren't horrible...Letting your family die in a fire that you could have escaped if you had a smoke alarm is.
Do smoke alarms violate Amish religious freedom? How far can people take shit like this? I mean really people don't want to do something they yell it is against their religion. Try yelling that taxes are against your religion. How far do you think you would get with that one? How many innocent children have to die in fires that they could have escaped if they had a smoke alarm?

Forged: Writing in the Name of God

Forged: Writing in the Name of God
by Bart D. Ehrman

I really enjoyed reading this book and I think that it would be a good book for all people to read.

Here are a few things I read about in the book. If any of this interests you then you should pick up the book and read it. Or if you are a christian, then you really should read this book.

Many early christian writings are pseudonymous, going under a false name. A more common word for this is forgery.

Second Thessalonians which claims to be written by Paul warns against falling for forgeries but it itself is a forgery.

Some believe that Revelation was written by a heretic named Cerinthus.

Many of the books in the bible are not written by who they claim to be written by.

Orthonymous writing is one really written by the person claiming to be writing it. Seven out of 13 of the things in the bible by Paul are actually written by him.

Something else to think about for all you bible followers....
The bible is against deception right? God appears to use deception are times. Example... God told Jonah to tell Nineveh that in 40 days it would be destroyed. God, who is supposedly all knowing would have known though that the people would repent and that he (god) would not destroy the city. So he was never actually planning to destroy the city was he?

The New Testament has a letter allegedly by Paul to Titus which is a forgery.

1 Peter and 2 Peter both say they are written by Peter but he probably didn't write them. Peter was an illiterate peasant. Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.  Both Peter and John were agrammatoi aka unlettered aka illiterate.

Also it is written in Greek and Peter didn't speak Greek but Aramaic.

Do you know how many books in the bible are not written by the people that claim to have written it, but people still use all of them to base a religion on. A religion based on a book that has forgers as many of the authors.

Go out and read this book :)

The Wolf Gift

The Wolf Gift
by Anne Rice

The time is the present.

The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest.

A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer. . . an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . an idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence. . .The young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing who—what—he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.

As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as “the Man Wolf,” by authorities, the media and scientists (evidence of DNA threaten to reveal his dual existence). . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there are others like him who may be watching—guardian creatures who have existed throughout time and may possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge and throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.

I've been a fan of Anne Rice's writing since I read Interview with the Vampire. I read so many of her books. I didn't read the ones where she was going through her christian phase (about this life of Jesus) but I have read most of the others.

I hope that this is just the first book of a series. I think that this would make a really good series. I would love to see it go on. See what happens to the characters.

I love her new take on Werewolves.

It has been debated if Anne Rice is now an atheist. I am friends with her on facebook and something she posted on there seems to point to that she might be. The story told by Margon (of the beginning of the Morphenkind) in this book tends to give voice to atheism also.

I finished this book in 2 days. I am hoping there will be a book two.

Go out and read it and tell me what you think.