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Re: [ST] Redneck Politics



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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