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Monday, April 02, 2007

NASCAR slinks back to Florida without our money

NASCAR goes creeping back to Florida, where they can eat opossum and put washing machines on their porch while whistling at their young daughters in cut-off jeans, free from the burden of Washington state taxpayer money.* From the AP, via The Olympian:
Sponsors of a proposed $368 million NASCAR racetrack near Bremerton, abandoned their efforts Monday after encountering stiff opposition from local officials and resistance at the state Legislature.

Great Western Sports, a subsidiary of International Speedway Corp., announced the decision to drop the plan for the motorsports venue in Kitsap County, across Puget Sound from the Seattle metropolitan area.
It was a dumb plan in the first place, and parading guys in leather around Olympia might look good for a moment, but it didn't overcome the dumbness.

*This is a sarcastic reference to the attempts to portray anti-NASCAR sentiment as class-based. It's not class-based, it's culture based. So I guess the asterisk doesn't serve much purpose, huh?

NASCAR is a Southern sport. The South blows, with its extreme Christianist religion, racism and anti-intellectualism. It was not progressives who decided NASCAR needed to be a political and cultural symbol, it was Republicans and NASCAR, which are pretty much the same thing.

The GOP is now a Southern party, the home of NASCAR, and they are now a permanent minority. Yes, there are good folks in the South. They should move here, or if they can't move here they should tell the crackers to stick it. I know there is a Southern newspaper columnist out there who would like to quote this as evidence of something or other, so please (in advance) pull your head out and write a column about the wounded veterans or something useful.

NASCAR is boring, and so is the South. I make better barbeque anyhow, you don't use so much vinegar, morons.**

**Well, you can if you want. Sometimes the vinegar with hot pepper flakes is okay.+

+Or, you can use lots of tomato sauce, vinegar and molasses and brown sugar. Your call. But we'll be watching Ichiro, not Gordon Bobby Lee Robert Stonewall Beauregard Davis in the number 13 car.

It's called Appomattox Courthouse, look into it. You wanna wave the Stars 'N Bars, I got a Bloody Shirt for you.

UPDATE: Mesquite is the wood of Satan. This is a proven fact, because it burns so hot.

UPDATE TWO: Gasohol seems like a waste on two fronts, right? Less ethanol and less feed for steers, that just ain't right.

UPDATE THREE: You could put Tiger Woods in a race car and he would win because he's Tiger Woods. Just sayin'.

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