OK, I wasn't really dragged, it was my idea, lemme explain.... Sometime in March, my brother Jariah called and said we should all move to Columbus(2 hours away) so the guys could get better jobs. I said that's a great idea, but lets go to Tucson(36 hours away) instead!! (Zion's been wanting to for years.) Everything worked out really fast, so two months later, we were on our way!
Stop fighting like a bunch of babies and don't be so easily offended. I didn't read anything dreadful into that post.
I have heard every single one of the daughter-in-laws complain about mom at some point as well as all most of the sons, so don't make such a big deal out of it.
I complain about my mother-in-law all the time and if Jeshanah is going to be married to Zion and has to put up with him then she has the right to complain about her mother-in-law all she wants. Complaining about in-laws is an inalienable right as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not jealous of Josh. I have creases even though none of them are all that powerful...
I do know one thing, Josh is jealous of Zion.
He's been beating up on him his whole life, because Zion displaced him as the baby of the house.
Take a look at the videos and you'll see how mean Josh was to Zion. I must have had to whip Josh's butt half a million times to get him to stop smacking little Zion.
As far as I'm concerned Zion's been smacked around enough.
Hello. This is Christine. Very interesting stuff here. I moved to Tucson when I was 24 years old--that was 14 years ago. Israel and I are old geezers. Yes, I didn't like Tucson much the first year but it really does grow on you and I really do like it now. When I first came to Tuscon, I thought it was a small town without much diversity (the diversity that I was used to--lots of Asians and Blacks). I was born and raised in Berkeley which is within miles of San Francisco and Oakland and I had just moved to Arizona from Boston after living there for 2 years. I was used to seeing water all the time. During monsoon season I would get all excited when I actually saw brown water in Rillito River along River Rd. After a year in Arizona, I really began to love the place. I actually think I have more of a connection to the desert than Israel does. Before I met Israel, I loved going to "quiet" places like San Xavier del Bac or Sabino Canyon often by myself. I think the desert is beautiful. Anyways, now that I live in Stockton, I REALLY think Tucson has a lot to offer. I LOVE 4th Avenue because it reminds me of a small version of Berkeley. Large college towns are great. They do foster creativity. The public art in Tucson is excellent. You have great malls there. Tucson is the most progressive city in Arizona. If I were offered a good job with the City of Tucson, I would move back! Of course, meeting Israel in Tucson was a major plus. I found a strange bird that was a perfect match for me.
Zion, Christine said you should have taken Jeshanah to Tucson during the winter so it wouldn't be such a shock to her system. Bad planning on your part...
I think you and Jeshanah (if she is so inclined) should immediately enroll at Pima College or at the U of A. (not some retarded unacredited internet school either.) The Castro Street residence location is a perfect student location and if you are going to be living with roommates and struggling you might as well be studying.
So then in two years instead of having to go back to Ohio and starting over again, you'll either be halfway to your degree or you'll be graduating with an Associates degree from Pima. You have no kids and no excuses and this is probably the last chance you will have to make a life-changing decision that will benefit you for the rest of your lives.
You'll be surprised how fast the time goes. If you don't, then another four years will pass and you'll probably be complaining about how it sucks to be working for Walmart (or its equivalent.)
What do you have to lose by getting an education, besides ignorance and possibly your status in the Republican party, that is...
Sam did it, John is doing it. John has a kid so it's much harder. But he'll be a big shot attorney in just three years, where you will be will be up to you.
P.S. Since you went to school in Arizona you should be able to get in state tuition. You'll have to take out student loans but the interest rates are really great right now. Best investment you could ever make.
What Israel said... except for the whole ex-Republican thing. Funny thing is, the more I learned about how liberal "intellectuals" think, the more convinced I became of my conservative principles. It's kind of ironic that a bunch of liberal professors managed to teach me how to be a more analytical and articulate conservative.
Don't let student loan scare you. Like Israel said, they are readily available and are a great investment. For me, I will have roughly a gazillion dollars in student loans when all is said and done. But you guys can get what you need for a whole lot less.
Hey John, how's my favorite analytical and articulate Republican doing?
Welcome back to my new Republican bashing blog (at least until fantasy football season starts again.)
I like John, despite his most obvious and glaring defect, because I know that he is a good person.
If I had grown up white, in small town Ohio and went to a church that preached that Republicanism is next to Godliness, I would probably be Republican too.
Then to top it all off, John entered a a largely white (heavy drinking frat-boys mostly) conservative profession like sportswriting. (Most sportswriters are very Republican, probably due to the fact that they spend their whole lives earning pennies and kissing up to pampered black athletes.) These sportswriters grow increasingly bitter as they age and it stands to reason that they join the party that promises not to do black people any favors.
So I bet John didn't get any real exposure to liberal or progressive thought there either. And I could be wrong, but I doubt he's ever really seen or interacted with any real liberals or any real intellectuals either for that matter.
Luckily for me, when I was growing up God didn't endorse any particular political party and we were free to make up our own minds. The preacher didn't stand up and say, "And the Lord preferred the (Re)publican to the Pharisee!"
Like John, I also worked at a newspaper, but I spent a lot of time covering politics, where I learned how corrupt and hypocritical many of your "Holy" Republicans really are.
For example:
Did you know my Republican Congressman Richard Pombo pays his wife $200,000 to stuff envelopes for his campaign? It's a tough job, especially when he's running unopposed as he often is. Pombo is basically lining his own pockets with money that comes directly from oil companies and developers who pay him so that he can introduce legislation eviserating the Endangered species act. It's all perfectly legal because Republicans refuse to pass real campaign finance reform laws.
This disgustingly corrupt individual has been denounced by every independant watchdog group, yet he will probably be re-elected in November because he is Republican and his voter base is heavily Republican and evenly split between the ignorant and the apathetic.
Plus God must be on his side because Cheney likes him. (Cheney's cursing and shooting problems are probably Tourette's Syndrome related, because we all know he's a typical Republican man of God).
Besides Pombo will stand up and pray and salute the flag like nobody else and that's all that really matters, because Republicanism is next to Godliness, Right?
Stay tuned, next time I will address why most intellectuals (people who think) end up not being Republican.
Why do I bash Republicans so much? Believe it or not it's because I care about nice people from Ohio, like John who have probably never had the chance to hear an oipposing viewpoint.
Dear Becca:
I love the fact that you included following diametrically opposed sentiments in the same post.
"To me and to everyone else, CENSORSHIP is a cowardly way to hide from the truth!"
and...
"We all have read her blog and we all had the same reaction to her words, so maybe you should rethink giving her permission to write it."
In other words you are telling Zion to censor Jeshanah because censorship is bad. Please read George Orwell's 1984 to find out why that suggestion is double-ungood.
Another thing John, I agree with the real true Republican "principles," that you are probably talking about.
In fact lay those principles out for me and I will explain why this is true.
I will also show you why I am actually more of a true "Republican" than George W. Bush and 95% of the numbskulls that voted for him.
But if you have been paying attention, you will know that the Republican Party has nothing to do with real Republican principles like limited government, "non-activist" judiciary and fiscal restraint and one of the things I can't stand most about Republicans is this intellectual hypocrisy.
Republican Politicians are for the most part bought-and-paid-for, cynical, modern-day Pharisees who wrap themselves in the Flag, carry a Bible and foment racism by bashing immigrants in order to get elected.
Republicans exist only to do the bidding of corporate influence peddlers and they distract the largely ignorant and apathetic voting public by screaming and yelling about gay Mexicans who want to get married, burn flags and have abortions.
How very prejudiced of you! Heavy-drinking fratboys? Most sportswriters are very Republican? They grow increasingly bitter as they age? If I didn't know any better I would think you were perpetuating negative stereotypes.
Interestingly enough, most of the sports writers I work with are raging liberals. In fact, I am the only registered Republican on the sports staff. One of my co-workers has a picture of Teddy Kennedy as the wallpaper on his computer. Another once told me that he had "no use for hunters" and that they should all be shot. (He hasn't said any more since I showed him the picture of me standing next to a field-dressed buck with a 12-gauge shotgun in my hands.) I could go on. Suffice to say, I am in a very small minority in the newsroom.
One thing I like about my church is that it does not preach that Christianity and Republicanism are synonymous. Bro. Branham always preached quite the opposite. It has only been since the Democratic party was hijacked by extremists who support killing babies etc. that the Republican party jumped on the opportunity to market itself as possessing the moral high ground. Unfortunately, while doing so, the party missed the part about casting the first stone.
Can you honestly say that your church wasn't Georgie Bush's best friend in the last two elections and that they didn't lobby heavily for the Republican Party?
Extremists who support killing babies? Are we talking about people who use condoms or other forms of contraception? I don't believe a baby becomes a baby until there is a quickening in the womb and the spirit enters their bodies. I doubt that blobs of protoplasm less than a day old are babies.
Who exactly supported killing babies? John Kerry? The only dead babies I've seen in the news lately are in Iraq.
I certainly don't support killing babies and I also don't support Big Brother or Big Government in the bedroom making personal decisions that are better left to women their spouses and their doctors.
I also don't support the federal government insisting that they should be allowed to decide how long one of my brain-dead relatives should remain on life support (Schiavo) -- even if that person happens to be Republican.
I do support 12-gauge shot guns and shooting our friendly forest friends.
The guns will probably be needed when your beloved Big Brother / Big Government decides that certain unapproved religions are cults and that they should not be allowed to exist.
That'll probably be right after they give us all a test for latent homosexual tendancies. Then they'll get rid of all those pesky freedoms that help terrorists and illegal aliens stay out of the clutches of our benevolent and all-knowing government officials.
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It's funny that you immediately come to the defense of sportswriters, but you have very little to say about your party's other indiscretions.
Ohio must be like Bizarro-land because almost all of the sports writers I've met --and I've met quite a few -- fit my description pretty well.
Next thing you're gonna tell me is that when you were covering all those Racin' meets all the Racin' fans were liberal Democrats and there wasn't a redneck anywhere to be found.
Finally I bet that guy who had Teddy Kennedy as his screen saver, probably had him up there as joke or as his personal heavy-drinking frat boy role model. Unless you're gonna tell me that all the sportswriters in Ohio are vegan teetotalers.
To answer your question, yes, I can honestly say that my church did not lobby for Bush, or any member of the Republican party, in the past two elections. In fact, I can think of at least three occasions when his actions have been criticized or at least called into question. We understand that God puts into power who he wants in power. While I did not like Bill Clinton, God put that man in that position at that time for a reason. It is all prophesy being fulfilled.
As far as killing babies, I was referring to abortion supporters, such as Kerry, not the condom wearers of the world. Contraception is not murder. Sucking the brains out of an eight-month old fetus is. Life begins at conception.
I agree with you on the Big Government issue. That is one problem I have with Bush's faith-based initiative program thingy. it sets the stage for government to decide what is and is not a legitimate religion. If church goers would pay their tithes, as the Bible dictates, the church would be able to afford to fund social programs in their communities. Instead, we have huge, bloated bureaucracies sucking off tax dollars for ineffective programs. The church blew its order to "feed my sheep" and left the door open for government to step in. Now the government gets to dictate the direction of the church. Brother Branham touched on many of these issues.
If people had listened to the prophet, this country would not be headed for hell in a handbasket the way it is. During the height of the Cold War, he said not to fear communism. Now communism is a shell of its former self and is all but extinct. He said in 1956 that America had turned its back on God and would never win another war. Fifty years later, Korea remains unresolved and, in fact, North Korea is more powerful than ever. Vietnam, well, enough said. The first Gulf War was called a victory at the time, yet here we are 15 years after the fact still trying to clean up that mess. Looking at current world event through the filter of scripture brings an amazing clarity.
New topic: I wasn’t defending sports writers, merely pointing out that it is dangerous to make assumptions about people based on generalizations and stereotypes. But you already knew that, I think.
As far as racing, the sport has an intriguingly broad fan base. You have NASCAR and dirt track racing, which have your stereotypical redneck fanbase. (Although I know a lot of fans of both who do not fall into that category.) Then you have Indy/Champ Cars, where the fanbase is predominantly middle class with a roughly equal mix of liberal and conservative, and Formula One, which is largely upper class and international.
I'll give you a for-instance. I have been to the NASCAR, Indy Car and F1 races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. At the NASCAR race (Brickyard 400) I saw a lot of pickup trucks with Confederate flags, young white males passed out drunk and fat toothless chick flashing their, well, they were flashing. At the Indy Car race I saw a lot of Honda Accords, Ford Taurus’s, etc., with Mom, Dad and the kids.
At the F1 race (the U.S. Grand Prix) I saw Volvos, Porsches, a couple Ferraris, and a BMW or 40. We sat next to two guys from Indy who had never been to an F1 race, a couple guys from Brazil and a family from Quebec. A few rows up behind us was a large group of Colombians who waved their flags and sang “Ole Ole Ole” until Juan Pablo Montoya’s car broke. In the section to our right was a guy from Finland who stood the entire race and blew an airhorn every time Kimi Raikkonen drove by. Of the three, I felt the most out of place, by far, at the NASCAR race. I love the Indy 500 and the atmosphere at the USGP was electric, like a World Cup soccer match.
I can assure you the Teddy Kennedy picture is not a joke. And I’m not saying sports writers aren’t predominantly conservative. It just so happens that the ones I work with are either liberal or politically apathetic.
I just have one question, then I will go back to my ultra boring, unfun posts... How and why did my funny little blog to keep my Friends in Ohio up to date on my move turn into the "Ramirez Bashing Blog"?? That's all.
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Stop fighting like a bunch of babies and don't be so easily offended. I didn't read anything dreadful into that post.
I have heard every single one of the daughter-in-laws complain about mom at some point as well as all most of the sons, so don't make such a big deal out of it.
I complain about my mother-in-law all the time and if Jeshanah is going to be married to Zion and has to put up with him then she has the right to complain about her mother-in-law all she wants. Complaining about in-laws is an inalienable right as far as I'm concerned.
So try to get over it...
I'm not jealous of Josh. I have creases even though none of them are all that powerful...
I do know one thing, Josh is jealous of Zion.
He's been beating up on him his whole life, because Zion displaced him as the baby of the house.
Take a look at the videos and you'll see how mean Josh was to Zion. I must have had to whip Josh's butt half a million times to get him to stop smacking little Zion.
As far as I'm concerned Zion's been smacked around enough.
Hello. This is Christine. Very interesting stuff here. I moved to Tucson when I was 24 years old--that was 14 years ago. Israel and I are old geezers. Yes, I didn't like Tucson much the first year but it really does grow on you and I really do like it now. When I first came to Tuscon, I thought it was a small town without much diversity (the diversity that I was used to--lots of Asians and Blacks). I was born and raised in Berkeley which is within miles of San Francisco and Oakland and I had just moved to Arizona from Boston after living there for 2 years. I was used to seeing water all the time. During monsoon season I would get all excited when I actually saw brown water in Rillito River along River Rd. After a year in Arizona, I really began to love the place. I actually think I have more of a connection to the desert than Israel does. Before I met Israel, I loved going to "quiet" places like San Xavier del Bac or Sabino Canyon often by myself. I think the desert is beautiful. Anyways, now that I live in Stockton, I REALLY think Tucson has a lot to offer. I LOVE 4th Avenue because it reminds me of a small version of Berkeley. Large college towns are great. They do foster creativity. The public art in Tucson is excellent. You have great malls there. Tucson is the most progressive city in Arizona. If I were offered a good job with the City of Tucson, I would move back! Of course, meeting Israel in Tucson was a major plus. I found a strange bird that was a perfect match for me.
Zion, Christine said you should have taken Jeshanah to Tucson during the winter so it wouldn't be such a shock to her system. Bad planning on your part...
I think you and Jeshanah (if she is so inclined) should immediately enroll at Pima College or at the U of A. (not some retarded unacredited internet school either.) The Castro Street residence location is a perfect student location and if you are going to be living with roommates and struggling you might as well be studying.
So then in two years instead of having to go back to Ohio and starting over again, you'll either be halfway to your degree or you'll be graduating with an Associates degree from Pima. You have no kids and no excuses and this is probably the last chance you will have to make a life-changing decision that will benefit you for the rest of your lives.
You'll be surprised how fast the time goes. If you don't, then another four years will pass and you'll probably be complaining about how it sucks to be working for Walmart (or its equivalent.)
What do you have to lose by getting an education, besides ignorance and possibly your status in the Republican party, that is...
Sam did it, John is doing it. John has a kid so it's much harder. But he'll be a big shot attorney in just three years, where you will be will be up to you.
P.S. Since you went to school in Arizona you should be able to get in state tuition. You'll have to take out student loans but the interest rates are really great right now. Best investment you could ever make.
What Israel said... except for the whole ex-Republican thing. Funny thing is, the more I learned about how liberal "intellectuals" think, the more convinced I became of my conservative principles. It's kind of ironic that a bunch of liberal professors managed to teach me how to be a more analytical and articulate conservative.
Don't let student loan scare you. Like Israel said, they are readily available and are a great investment. For me, I will have roughly a gazillion dollars in student loans when all is said and done. But you guys can get what you need for a whole lot less.
I say go for it.
Hey John, how's my favorite analytical and articulate Republican doing?
Welcome back to my new Republican bashing blog (at least until fantasy football season starts again.)
I like John, despite his most obvious and glaring defect, because I know that he is a good person.
If I had grown up white, in small town Ohio and went to a church that preached that Republicanism is next to Godliness, I would probably be Republican too.
Then to top it all off, John entered a a largely white (heavy drinking frat-boys mostly) conservative profession like sportswriting. (Most sportswriters are very Republican, probably due to the fact that they spend their whole lives earning pennies and kissing up to pampered black athletes.) These sportswriters grow increasingly bitter as they age and it stands to reason that they join the party that promises not to do black people any favors.
So I bet John didn't get any real exposure to liberal or progressive thought there either. And I could be wrong, but I doubt he's ever really seen or interacted with any real liberals or any real intellectuals either for that matter.
Luckily for me, when I was growing up God didn't endorse any particular political party and we were free to make up our own minds. The preacher didn't stand up and say, "And the Lord preferred the (Re)publican to the Pharisee!"
Like John, I also worked at a newspaper, but I spent a lot of time covering politics, where I learned how corrupt and hypocritical many of your "Holy" Republicans really are.
For example:
Did you know my Republican Congressman Richard Pombo pays his wife $200,000 to stuff envelopes for his campaign? It's a tough job, especially when he's running unopposed as he often is. Pombo is basically lining his own pockets with money that comes directly from oil companies and developers who pay him so that he can introduce legislation eviserating the Endangered species act. It's all perfectly legal because Republicans refuse to pass real campaign finance reform laws.
This disgustingly corrupt individual has been denounced by every independant watchdog group, yet he will probably be re-elected in November because he is Republican and his voter base is heavily Republican and evenly split between the ignorant and the apathetic.
Plus God must be on his side because Cheney likes him. (Cheney's cursing and shooting problems are probably Tourette's Syndrome related, because we all know he's a typical Republican man of God).
Besides Pombo will stand up and pray and salute the flag like nobody else and that's all that really matters, because Republicanism is next to Godliness, Right?
Stay tuned, next time I will address why most intellectuals (people who think) end up not being Republican.
Why do I bash Republicans so much? Believe it or not it's because I care about nice people from Ohio, like John who have probably never had the chance to hear an oipposing viewpoint.
Dear Becca:
I love the fact that you included following diametrically opposed sentiments in the same post.
"To me and to everyone else, CENSORSHIP is a cowardly way to hide from the truth!"
and...
"We all have read her blog and we all had the same reaction to her words, so maybe you should rethink giving her permission to write it."
In other words you are telling Zion to censor Jeshanah because censorship is bad. Please read George Orwell's 1984 to find out why that suggestion is double-ungood.
Another thing John, I agree with the real true Republican "principles," that you are probably talking about.
In fact lay those principles out for me and I will explain why this is true.
I will also show you why I am actually more of a true "Republican" than George W. Bush and 95% of the numbskulls that voted for him.
But if you have been paying attention, you will know that the Republican Party has nothing to do with real Republican principles like limited government, "non-activist" judiciary and fiscal restraint and one of the things I can't stand most about Republicans is this intellectual hypocrisy.
Republican Politicians are for the most part bought-and-paid-for, cynical, modern-day Pharisees who wrap themselves in the Flag, carry a Bible and foment racism by bashing immigrants in order to get elected.
Republicans exist only to do the bidding of corporate influence peddlers and they distract the largely ignorant and apathetic voting public by screaming and yelling about gay Mexicans who want to get married, burn flags and have abortions.
Makes you proud to be a Republican doesn't it?
How very prejudiced of you! Heavy-drinking fratboys? Most sportswriters are very Republican? They grow increasingly bitter as they age? If I didn't know any better I would think you were perpetuating negative stereotypes.
Interestingly enough, most of the sports writers I work with are raging liberals. In fact, I am the only registered Republican on the sports staff. One of my co-workers has a picture of Teddy Kennedy as the wallpaper on his computer. Another once told me that he had "no use for hunters" and that they should all be shot. (He hasn't said any more since I showed him the picture of me standing next to a field-dressed buck with a 12-gauge shotgun in my hands.) I could go on. Suffice to say, I am in a very small minority in the newsroom.
One thing I like about my church is that it does not preach that Christianity and Republicanism are synonymous. Bro. Branham always preached quite the opposite. It has only been since the Democratic party was hijacked by extremists who support killing babies etc. that the Republican party jumped on the opportunity to market itself as possessing the moral high ground. Unfortunately, while doing so, the party missed the part about casting the first stone.
Can you honestly say that your church wasn't Georgie Bush's best friend in the last two elections and that they didn't lobby heavily for the Republican Party?
Extremists who support killing babies? Are we talking about people who use condoms or other forms of contraception? I don't believe a baby becomes a baby until there is a quickening in the womb and the spirit enters their bodies. I doubt that blobs of protoplasm less than a day old are babies.
Who exactly supported killing babies? John Kerry? The only dead babies I've seen in the news lately are in Iraq.
I certainly don't support killing babies and I also don't support Big Brother or Big Government in the bedroom making personal decisions that are better left to women their spouses and their doctors.
I also don't support the federal government insisting that they should be allowed to decide how long one of my brain-dead relatives should remain on life support (Schiavo) -- even if that person happens to be Republican.
I do support 12-gauge shot guns and shooting our friendly forest friends.
The guns will probably be needed when your beloved Big Brother / Big Government decides that certain unapproved religions are cults and that they should not be allowed to exist.
That'll probably be right after they give us all a test for latent homosexual tendancies. Then they'll get rid of all those pesky freedoms that help terrorists and illegal aliens stay out of the clutches of our benevolent and all-knowing government officials.
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It's funny that you immediately come to the defense of sportswriters, but you have very little to say about your party's other indiscretions.
Ohio must be like Bizarro-land because almost all of the sports writers I've met --and I've met quite a few -- fit my description pretty well.
Next thing you're gonna tell me is that when you were covering all those Racin' meets all the Racin' fans were liberal Democrats and there wasn't a redneck anywhere to be found.
Finally I bet that guy who had Teddy Kennedy as his screen saver, probably had him up there as joke or as his personal heavy-drinking frat boy role model. Unless you're gonna tell me that all the sportswriters in Ohio are vegan teetotalers.
Hmmmm...
To answer your question, yes, I can honestly say that my church did not lobby for Bush, or any member of the Republican party, in the past two elections. In fact, I can think of at least three occasions when his actions have been criticized or at least called into question. We understand that God puts into power who he wants in power. While I did not like Bill Clinton, God put that man in that position at that time for a reason. It is all prophesy being fulfilled.
As far as killing babies, I was referring to abortion supporters, such as Kerry, not the condom wearers of the world. Contraception is not murder. Sucking the brains out of an eight-month old fetus is. Life begins at conception.
I agree with you on the Big Government issue. That is one problem I have with Bush's faith-based initiative program thingy. it sets the stage for government to decide what is and is not a legitimate religion. If church goers would pay their tithes, as the Bible dictates, the church would be able to afford to fund social programs in their communities. Instead, we have huge, bloated bureaucracies sucking off tax dollars for ineffective programs. The church blew its order to "feed my sheep" and left the door open for government to step in. Now the government gets to dictate the direction of the church. Brother Branham touched on many of these issues.
If people had listened to the prophet, this country would not be headed for hell in a handbasket the way it is. During the height of the Cold War, he said not to fear communism. Now communism is a shell of its former self and is all but extinct. He said in 1956 that America had turned its back on God and would never win another war. Fifty years later, Korea remains unresolved and, in fact, North Korea is more powerful than ever. Vietnam, well, enough said. The first Gulf War was called a victory at the time, yet here we are 15 years after the fact still trying to clean up that mess. Looking at current world event through the filter of scripture brings an amazing clarity.
New topic:
I wasn’t defending sports writers, merely pointing out that it is dangerous to make assumptions about people based on generalizations and stereotypes. But you already knew that, I think.
As far as racing, the sport has an intriguingly broad fan base. You have NASCAR and dirt track racing, which have your stereotypical redneck fanbase. (Although I know a lot of fans of both who do not fall into that category.) Then you have Indy/Champ Cars, where the fanbase is predominantly middle class with a roughly equal mix of liberal and conservative, and Formula One, which is largely upper class and international.
I'll give you a for-instance. I have been to the NASCAR, Indy Car and F1 races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. At the NASCAR race (Brickyard 400) I saw a lot of pickup trucks with Confederate flags, young white males passed out drunk and fat toothless chick flashing their, well, they were flashing. At the Indy Car race I saw a lot of Honda Accords, Ford Taurus’s, etc., with Mom, Dad and the kids.
At the F1 race (the U.S. Grand Prix) I saw Volvos, Porsches, a couple Ferraris, and a BMW or 40. We sat next to two guys from Indy who had never been to an F1 race, a couple guys from Brazil and a family from Quebec. A few rows up behind us was a large group of Colombians who waved their flags and sang “Ole Ole Ole” until Juan Pablo Montoya’s car broke. In the section to our right was a guy from Finland who stood the entire race and blew an airhorn every time Kimi Raikkonen drove by. Of the three, I felt the most out of place, by far, at the NASCAR race. I love the Indy 500 and the atmosphere at the USGP was electric, like a World Cup soccer match.
I can assure you the Teddy Kennedy picture is not a joke. And I’m not saying sports writers aren’t predominantly conservative. It just so happens that the ones I work with are either liberal or politically apathetic.
I just have one question, then I will go back to my ultra boring, unfun posts... How and why did my funny little blog to keep my Friends in Ohio up to date on my move turn into the "Ramirez Bashing Blog"?? That's all.
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