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Posted on 10/10/2007 2:02:06 PM PDT by glock rocks
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Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.
# # Concord backs off drag strip ban:
Concord may allow a drag strip after all, after a vote by the city council Tuesday that could put an end to the standoff between the city and Lowe’s Motor Speedway owner Bruton Smith. Smith had threatened to move LMS out of Concord after the city put a stop to a proposed drag strip adjacent to the speedway by amending the area’s zoning laws.
In a work session meeting Tuesday, the City Council voted to ask the Planning and Zoning Commission to consider amending the speedway’s zoning district to allow drag strips. Two weeks ago the council said no to Smith’s drag strip because of environmental and noise issues. Smith in turn threatened to move Lowe’s Motor Speedway, if he couldn’t build the drag strip on his property.(wcnc.com)(10-10-2007)
Some of the old boys from the area remember when the Speedway went in. The was nothing around it. Now it’s all built up and people complain about the noise.
The old boys say don’t push Burton Smith too hard, he will do what he says.
That said, it was great to see Jeff lead as many laps as he did and win.
That didn’t take long. LOL
Same thing happens around airports. They build them out in boondocks and then housing starts going in and soon they want regulations on the flyway etc...
I hope this gets some staffers fired in DC...
I'd better stop now.
Prayers for the family and gratitude for his service and sacrifice.
Thanks for the ping gr.
Of course I forgot it’s a Sat. race, so the Mountain Williams in the FL are gonna have to go with last weeks team. Ah well, that’s racin’.
};^)
“This is something that could take some time,” said Steve Hmiel, DEI’s technical director. “He actually was lucky because about [one-third] of the people that have an aneurysm don’t make it.
“He’s going to get better. He just needs a lot of rest.”
Gilmore was released from a Birmingham, Ala., hospital on Saturday and returned to Charlotte by plane. He was hospitalized again on Monday for tests, but his blood was too thick to do a proper dye test.
He underwent the dye test on Wednesday and was scheduled for two MRI’s on Thursday.
Hmiel said Robbie Benson has taken over Gilmore’s duties heading up DEI’s side of the engine program with Richard Childress Racing.
Hmiel said the problem in the new R07 engines that led to blown engines in four of the seven entered at Talladega shouldn’t be a problem this weekend at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
“The plate engines are a completely different thing,” he said. “Whatever happened last week won’t affect this week. Richard has run his R07 since Atlanta in the spring and we have run ours since June. Our R07s are OK.”
Um...really??
Hmiel said all four engines had a hole in the oil pan that appeared to come from a blown piston.
“They still weren’t saying we know what it is, that’ll never happen again,” he added. “They’re making steps to fix it, but I’m not sure they know how just yet.”
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=2&id=3058825
have you seen this
NASCAR cooties? Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2007 1:46 PM by Mark Murray
Categories: Congress
From NBC’s Mike Viqueira
What gives with House staffers getting immunizations for hepatitis, diphtheria, and influenza before going to NASCAR races? The issue comes to us courtesy Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC), who wrote to the House Committee on Homeland Security yesterday asking why four of their staffers were immunized before attending a race in his hometown of Concord and in Talledega, Alabama. “I have never heard of immunizations for domestic travel, and as the Representative for Concord, NC, I feel compelled to ask why the heck the committee feels that immunizations are needed to travel to my hometown?” Hayes wrote to committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS).
Thompson responds in a letter that committee staff are often visiting “hospitals, holding areas, and similar locations,” and were in fact doing so “at or near these venues... I believe that the recommendation (not requirement) that our congressional staff receive these same immunizations was sound.” They were immunized against Hepatitis A and B, tetanus, diphtheria, and seasonal influenza, according to Thompson.
Your humble congressional reporter’s e-mail has been inundated this morning with messages from GOP staffers eager to advance the notion that Democrats, who run the committee, are unduly worried about catching something nasty from red-blooded Americans at NASCAR races.
Not so, says a committee spokeswoman. She says that immunizations are standard operating procedure for staffers on these kinds of trips — and as a matter of fact, such forays are planned at the World Series, the Super Bowl, and even Lollapalooza to look into preparedness at mass gatherings. It’s not simply terrorism that they are concerned with at the committee, she explained, but outbreaks of disease and infection.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/11/407555.aspx
hi bro!
gotta go!
a tidbit of the weird week I heard, gonna suck to truck in Indiana for a bit...
BBL
dual I da ho runs again?
If you’re awake Saturday evening, there’s a race we’re having some nicely burnt animal flesh complete with sides of cold malt liquids.
Don’t hold dinner for me. I may be a little late...
I’ve heard of that happening only once before, a rig was coming off the hill from Florence, KY down to Cincinatti, OH. They were same side as this one, passenger, front axle on the trailer. Apparently they hit the guard rail, flew up and crashed into some two or three story row houses that were further downhill.
Two tires with wheels and a brake drum, what’s that weigh, probably 300, 325 pounds? Going 50 or 60 miles an hour. Crash, boom, bang and a damn big ouch if you’re in the way.
Well, you can get cooties from snuggling with them bunny wabbits and holding puppies on yer lap all day long, don’tch know? and lettin them hounds sleep on the bed with ya is a sure-fire way to get tick and bedbugs too.
Oh my Toto, I think we missed qualifying...
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