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Re: [ST] Redneck Politics



In a previous email, simonb@xxxxxxxxxxx stated:
> Quoting "Masiak, Richard" <Richard_Masiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>Charlotte Motor Speedway was only built in 1959.  They were racing bikes and
>>cars at Daytona (on the beach) at least 10-15 years before that!  Daytona's
>>the Meca of Motorsports!
> 
> 
> A slight but important correction for those that don't realise there is a world
> outside the US borders. Unless the US now thinks it's borders cover the whole
> globe :)
> It isn't the Meca of Motorsports it's the American Meca of Motorsports.

Simon,
You are usually right but this time around Richard tripped you up. To 
the typical egocentric American cracker redneck, the "Meca" of motor 
sports is in the USA whether it's Daytona, Charlotte, Indianapolis or 
Englishtown, New Jersey*. Leave it to God-fearing Christian living in 
the American southeast to adopt and misspell an Islamic word. To anyone 
living in the free world there is no single "Mecca" of motor sports. It 
is in a multitude of places: Nürburgring, Brands Hatch, Le Mans, etc.

Daytona Speedway is nothing but a soulless oval in the sand surrounding 
an equally soulless rectangular, man-made pond. If someone feels that 
Daytona is the "Meca" I say let them keep their religion but please keep 
it to themselves.

* http://www.etownraceway.com/


-- 
Steve Lawler
Verona, NJ, USA

2001 Sprint ST "Blue Devil"

"NASCRAP: Go straight, turn left, repeat."
             --Seen on a T-shirt
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