Posted on September 29 at 11:35 p.m.

Quinno, that a man such as yourself has the ability to weep is indeed the measure of the man.

I look forward to your return.

Thanks.

Marion.

On Bailey (The World is All That is the Case)

Posted on August 11 at 7:51 a.m.

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On Henry T's Bar & Grill

Posted on July 17 at 7:44 p.m.

Not on the subject Patrick so please forgive me just this once

Mickey Spillane gone.

Who will hunt the girls, who will have quick gun, who will kiss me in that deadly way, who will close the ring of fear,will they make me wait for the jury?; perhaps, with my experinece in the ring of fear with Fallen Angels, I should just wait for Mike Hammer to arrive.

Damn.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/book.......

On p15: The Gospel according to Mark (The World is All That is the Case)

Posted on June 18 at 9:43 p.m.

Patrick, as much as I detest fome of the things that Bush, Rove, et. al. have done, I cannot vote for and will never for for a member of the Democrat Party.

Raised a Democrat; even campaigning for John Kennedy, pedalling around on my bicycle, putting flyers on doors, I was a confirmed liberal Democrat long after reaching adulthood.

I feel betrayed by the Democrat Party and non longer believe that it has any respect for this nation or my rights.

Not top say that the Republicans have all that much more but anything is an improvement over the party of Fat Teddy, Lord of Chappaquiddick!

Thanks.

Marion.

On Bet on the Republicans in November (The World is All That is the Case)

Posted on June 10 at 10:24 a.m.

Oh my, Patrick you have done it again!

Hadn't thought of old Herbert W. or his kid, Garner "Ted" for years!

I remember travelling by auto extensively in the Midwest in the early and mid-seventies and that at night when KAAY, KSTP, WLS or KOA faded out, there always seemed to be a station that would come through and there would be HWA!

I considered him to be full of crap but his preaching would certainly help roll away the milies and keep one awake!

He was fun to argue with while going down the road!

Of course, one day KAAY, The MIghty Ten Ninety; Clark Clifford and Bleeker Street were all sold out to a Christian group and for a few years KAAY was known as the biggest hate radio station in the country!

Nighttime AM radio is of course now replaced by the talk show, ESPN Radio, satellite radio and the trunk mounted CD player!

Thanks.

Marion.

On p15: Galatians (The World is All That is the Case)

Posted on February 27 at 1:19 p.m.

Oh, I neglected to mention that all those little models, the online purchase of tickets for use by Eurpean tourists when visiting the States, the European betting pools, the pay-per-views of the races, the participation in baseball by the Japanese and Cubans, the possible use of even the Nurbugring for NASCAR races and the manufacture by the Brits of their own NASCARS are merely expressions of their disinterest in this exclusively American phenomena.

Thanks.

Marion.

On The rise of the NASCAR state (In search of my lost blend)

Posted on February 27 at 12:21 p.m.

Ah, yes, Moragnalefey, my dear, you are once again correct in your assertions.

A quick check of the internet has indeed and in fact proven you, Oh!, so right!

Baseball is truly an American sport with interest confined to the US and the US alone so I therefore find the existence of these sites somewhat disconcerting but they do most certainly confirm your beliefs:

Beseboro in Japan:

http://www.geocities.com/s_borisov/jb200...

No interest here, either:

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2081.html

No interest in the filthy capitalist sport in the land of Fidel:

http://www.cubanball.com/

http://www.netssa.com/baseball.html

The Krauts couldn't care less about NASCAR:

NASCAR going to Germany?

http://www.jayski.com/pages/tracks/europ...

The Germans only report on NASCAR because of a conspiracy on the part of the promoters to pay them to do so:

http://www.nascar.com/2005/news/headline...

http://www.nascar.com/drivers/dps/bsaid0...

The BBC has no interest in NASCAR either:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorspo...

British Track Angles For NASCAR Race:

http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/nas...

NASCAR IS SO UNKNOWN IN ENGLAND THAT THEY BUILD ENGINES FOR IT!:
http://www.insideracingtechnology.com/co...

Back in the days in which I was an Amateur Radio operator I helped a fellow in Atlanta teach a German ham English.

The German learned fine American English which he still speaks today...replete with his fairly heavy US Southern accent!

Just because you choose to not understand the Southern accent which has its origins in the 17th century Scots brogue does not mean that the rest of the world has any trouble with it.

The only place on the planet in which Elizabethan English has survived as a spoken language is in a small enclave in Appalachia.

Solido of Italy, Matchbox of England, Exoto, Alpimodel, Maisto Diecast Model Cars, Jada Toys, Ixo Diecast, GMP and Corgi; all foreign companies express their lack of interest in the exclusively American sport of NASCAR by producing diecast models of many of the cars which they market world wide.

Morganalefay, next time you try to write an aritcle in which you so clearly define your self-loathing for all things American at least make some kind of effort to get your facts straight.

Like it or not, there is a new and growing thunder which is captivating race fans world wide and that thunder is NASCAR!

Thanks.

Marion.

On The rise of the NASCAR state (In search of my lost blend)

Posted on February 26 at 10:34 p.m.

Ten years ago when you were barely aware of NASCAR automobile racing was the number one spectator sport in the United States.

Don't get me wrong but you fit into the class of people about whom it might be said "If you have to tell them, they don't need to know anyway and would not understand if you tried." but here we go.

NASCAR dates from the time in which a guy would go to the local auto store, buy a brand new car, take off the air cleaner, the muffler and the hubcaps, put on whatever passed as "racing tires", paint his number and the name of his sponsor on the doors and head for the track.

Cloth helmets, no seatbelts and airbags were not thought of except as carnival balloons.

Often the drivers "run what they brung'; if they broke the car they had to hitch a ride home!

Yes, NASCAR has its roots deep in the South; the moonshiners were the guys who hot rodded V-8 Fords, who went crazy over the 331 Cadillac OHV engines and went totally nuts in '51 when Chysler brought out the Hemi.

Well, there were the guys who stuck with the twin carbed 308 Hudson Hornets and they weren't wrong!

A modern Asianmobile with pretty lights and a popcorn exhaust will have a lot of trouble keeping up with a '41 Ford coupe equipped with a 331 Cad fixed up with two four barrells, two shocks per wheel, dual exhaust and a LaSalle three-speed and in the hands of the right guy.

And maybe Blue Dots just for the Hell of it.

Roundy-round racing is one of the few true sports to have come out of this country; it has been discounted by the "gentelmen racers" of Europe for years and yet now sets the highest speeds, commands the largest crowds and has the highest purses of any kind of racing on the planet.

I have seen on the clock in a car 196.5 MPH; in a straight line on a closed course, belted and helmeted in, no other cars to worry about, no incentive to win and winning is everything, only the white lines flashing like a strobe in a disco, no presssure and I cannot hold a candle to the men and women of NASCAR.

NASCAR is the true American Sport and the drivers of NASCAR will hold a place in history akin to that of the Bentley Boys, Nuvolari, Carraciola, Birkin and the rest.

Junior Johnson?

An American icon; and it's all right if you don't understand this slow talkin' Southern boy.

You don't have to.

Millions of others world wide do.

Gotta go tweak a couple of Stromberg 97s sitting on top of the flathead in the '51 Ford now I'll sign off.

On the shelf is a jar of and I do mean a jar, of clear and pure Mooonshine which we will taste when we hear the dual carbs ring and know that they are right.

Thanks.

Marion.

On The rise of the NASCAR state (In search of my lost blend)

Posted on February 17 at 3:35 p.m.

Ah, this is my week!

Seems that the now shot-up Mr. Whittington has said that he had moved out of the hunting line and into the field of fire.

SOMEONE on this forum only a few posts back suggested that very possibility and Lo!

That was EXACTLY what happened.

An ACCIDENT!

Thank you.

Marion.

On Vice Presidential gunplay (The World is All That is the Case)

Posted on February 17 at 12:21 a.m.

By the way, as long as we are discussing a hunitng accident allow me to call on my not inconsiderable expertise in ballistics and firearms.

The shot fired from a 28 gauge shotgun used for hunting birds is most likely to be 7 1/2 to 9 shot; very tiny stuff.

The shot, had it been fired from a 12 bore would have been the same stuff; 7 1/2 to 9 shot; very tiny stuff.

The size of the shot is why the single shot ball was able to migrate to the guy's heart.

The muzzle velocity of the 28 and 12 gauge are essentially the same, it is only the density of the shot pattern which would be different, in that the 12 bore would throw more shot but in the exact same pattern and at the same velocity; at 30 yards a circle roughly four feet in diameter, depending on the dgree of "choke" in the barrell which fired the round.

A full load of 7 1/2 to 9 shot at 30 yards would not normally be considered to be a fatal wound but rather an "I'm really upset with you for having shot me!" wound.

What we had in this incident was a group of guys in ther seventies who have most likley been hunting together for years and things went wrong that day.

No bird stamp?

They had hunting licenses so that one would have been easy to miss.

I got a ticket one day HELPING my FIVE YEAR old son fish; I didn't even have a pole but helped him land a seven pound catfish and the Fish And Game guy lurking in the bushes nearby thought that I had helped the kid too much so he wrote me up.

Beat that case in front of a reasonable judge but that is not the point.

If you want to go for Cheyney, that is fine with me but go for him with something of significance, not an accident involving a friend; especially one for which Cheney has recognised and admitted his culpability and expressed very real and heartbreaking remorse.

Thanks.

Marion.

On Vice Presidential gunplay (The World is All That is the Case)