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Re: [ST] Redneck Politics
- Subject: Re: [ST] Redneck Politics
- From: Michael Roukas <mroukas@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 05:38:56 -0800 (PST)
Oh good. Religion AND politics. Can't we just be happy
discussing how oil swirling around makes your rear
tire turn or what modification a rider has made to his
bike to improve it's handling characteristics?
--- Steve Lawler <slawler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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: N�rburgring, 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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