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UNEXPECTED NEWS AT BAJA 1000
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Posted on 11/16/2007 8:42:31 AM PST by Restore
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Hmm...
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posted on
11/16/2007 8:42:32 AM PST
by
Restore
To: Restore
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posted on
11/16/2007 8:45:54 AM PST
by
papasmurf
(sudo apt - get install FRed Thompson)
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: JackRyanCIA
“Mexico’s northernmost state of Baja, California”
Is this correct? Or is this a reconquesta reference?
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posted on
11/16/2007 8:59:24 AM PST
by
MPJackal
("From my cold dead hands.")
To: Restore
Wow, what a bizarre twist to the story. Perhaps the drug lord was only using the race as a cover for a drug deal?
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:02:26 AM PST
by
notpoliticallycorewrecked
(Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the U.S.)
To: MPJackal
It is correct.
Baja is that penisula that parallels the coast on the Pacific side.
There’s actually a reverse reconquista going on in the area, as American retirees move down for affordable housing and care.
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:03:16 AM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: JackRyanCIA
Mexico is a scary place.
And I used to love going there. No más dinero del Melman.
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:03:19 AM PST
by
itsamelman
(Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh. - - Al Swearengen)
To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
Maybe, but the race has been around for a long time — it’s pretty cool.
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:03:51 AM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: MeanWestTexan
I’ve always wanted to run the Baha since I was little kid. I need to get to work on that!
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:08:27 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(HILLARY IS: She who must NOT be Dismayed)
Comment #11 Removed by Moderator
To: Restore
“UNEXPECTED NEWS AT BAJA 1000”
What kind of title is that? Is a helicopter crash ever “expected”?
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:11:06 AM PST
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: MeanWestTexan
Oh you don’t have to splain to me about the history of the Baja 1000. I was there in 77. My husband used to race the Baja 1000, Mexicali 250 and the Parker 400.
To: subterfuge
I did one of the short-legs (not the full 1000 — think it was 200miles) that is on the street in an old Porsche 356. Had a lot of fun.
Time: 1hour, 42 minutes. Lots of turns, lots of bad road.
Beat much newer cars that lacked 50’s ground clearence.
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:12:24 AM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: JackRyanCIA
Funny thing is that Mexico offered to sell us Baja around the time of the Gadsden Purchase and the congress refused.
Idiots! It would have given the country a certain symmetry, balancing Florida nicely...
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:15:02 AM PST
by
null and void
(No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
To: caver
What kind of title is that? Is a helicopter crash ever “expected”? I think that the article title was referring to the drug lord twist (read the second part).
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:17:13 AM PST
by
Restore
(see the Cool Aviation Blog at http://coolaviation.blogspot.com/)
To: JackRyanCIA
Mexico is a scary place. In 1965, two friends and I spent three weeks camping out all over Mexico. Would we do it again today? Nada!
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:25:00 AM PST
by
JoeGar
To: Restore
In associated news:
NASCAR driver Robby Gordon, who sometimes drives stock cars like he is high on drugs, finished 3rd in class and 5th overall in this race.
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:32:05 AM PST
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
To: MeanWestTexan
Fantastic! I think the ultimate would be on a motorcycle at Baha. You’d have to be something of a bada$$ to make it the whold 1000 miles on a bike.
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posted on
11/16/2007 9:38:29 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(HILLARY IS: She who must NOT be Dismayed)
To: Restore
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posted on
11/16/2007 10:30:32 AM PST
by
Defiant
("Expectorate" has Specter in it.)
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