This is what happens when you are raised in Nascar Valley. You are born knowing that Houston Motor Speedway is in fact in Houston, TX. Titties, titties, titties. Football, basketball and baseball to come later.
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I Know a Thing or two About Racing Cars
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009America Really is Full of Crybabies
Thursday, May 28th, 2009So first the homosexual crowd in America is all up in arms about the Great State of California not wanting them to tie the knot and now the NAACP is upset with NASCAR for something they have nothing to do with. The Miami-Dade chapter of the NAACP wants the Confederate flag banned from the Homestead, FL track that is set to host the final race of the NASCAR season in November. This issue needs to go ahead and die. Two points…
VS. 
Firstly, the arguments people like to give in favor of restricting when and where the Rebel Battle Flag (it’s not the Confederate national flag that most people think of as the “Confederate flag”) can be flown is outrageous. People associate the flag with slavery for all the wrong reasons. The Federal flag flew over slavery for just about as long on the Confederate flag did. Maybe we need to totally rethink the design of the Stars and Stripes as well? Furthermore, you don’t even see faggy Europeans asking Britain to adopt a flag other than the Union Jack; I’m pretty sure Britain had a couple-three slaves in its hayday. Why then is the Confederate flag any more associated with slavery? Because of its ties to the KKK or racist rednecks? Since when do we allow an infinitely small portion of the population to dictate what connotation national symbols have? Either way it is not quite the same thing as a swastika, though some people would have you believe it is.
Second, since when is the NAACP in favor of restricting Constitutional freedoms. I’m pretty sure wearing a tee-shirt with a Rebel flag on it is a protected right given to me by the national government. Sure that doesn’t mean that a private racetrack can’t ask me to take it off, but that’s hardly the point. You can wear Rebel flag shirts, or Black Panther shirts or even Swastika shirts for that matter, to any sporting event, concert, public gathering that you like. Saying that the Rebel flag at a NASCAR race offends you as a black person is a lot like saying a rainbow flag at a gay rally in the Castro offends you as a Southern Baptist. Both groups associate the symbols with something that is antithetical to their personal beliefs. Why the FUCK can’t America just realize that not everyone is going to have the same viewpoints. That is part of what makes this country amazing, we are allowed to think and believe and say whatever the hell we want.
It never ceases to amaze me what a bunch of pathetic politically correct pussies we (well, not me, but everyone else) have all become.
That’s What you get for Blocking
Monday, April 27th, 2009Lots of interesting sports stories today. After baseball and hockey I’ll take us to the Deep South, to Talledega Superspeedway. Yesterday at the conclusion of the Aaron’s 499 Carl Edwards was taught a lesson about blocking. As DW said, “You get one shot at it but you don’t get two”. Carl tried to come down to the apron to block another car. Unfortunately for him, a couple other drivers and 7 fans, he got there a little late. He ended up flying his car into the fencing feet away from a grandstand full of people. I like how the rookie (don’t know his name and am too lazy to look it up) doesn’t give an inch. Carl Edwards is a back flipping fairy and it is about time someone wrecked him good. Although this accident was Carl’s fault I hope NASCAR doesn’t try and punish him for causing a wreck that injured 7 spectators. It would be a mistake much like the NHL trying to keep fighting out of hockey. Like the NHL, no one goes to NASCAR races to see an orderly sporting event. The crashes are half the fun; the other half of the fun is that you can carry cases of beer into the race. I’ve been to four or five races and I’ve never once made it past lap 100 without blacking out.
PS I always like to say that I’d like to kill a home invader for the adrenaline rush I would get. I think the only thing that would beat that rush is being in the first row trackside to see a couple of tons of metal rushing towards your face at over 100 mph.
PPS Also, it is kind of funny that Carl Edwards ends up running across the finish line at Talledega. It is just like in the movie “Talledega Nights”.