Saturday 6 September 2009

I HAVE to speak out. I read the following from here .... "Think a woman possessed by a young man’s preoccupation with sex, afraid of any person of color, convinced the Divine is at work in her life with Funk, who himself, embraces the melancholy that he is incapable of challenging his wife on any matter even if it means humiliation." I've met the mayor and his wife several times. I got the opportunity to add the mayor to my list of people who have allowed me to tour the crossroads with them. The reason I picked out that quote is that it is so full of lies and misrepresentations, that it is laughable at best, poor shoddy journalism or outright propaganda at worst. Anybody who has met and talked to the Mayor, and his wife, Gloria, who has any sense at all, would realize why that line in particular is an outright lie. Perhaps the author should do some actual journalism rather than just merely reading TKC, and getting his story from there. Everyone knows that Tony is biased against the Mayor, and most people know why. People who work in the nooze biz also know, or the most part, not to use the one blog as their sole source for a piece. However, if you make an article overly wordy, maybe people will think it's great, and won't noitice it's obvious mistakes.


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Ride of a Lifetime with Dave at the Kansas Speedway
A man with terminal cancer who passed away at the carshow at the Kansas Speedway Friday night finally gets his ride around the track....

Today we had a sad story to tell, but in the telling we got in touch with the real spirituality of life. A man with terminal cancer passes away doing the thing that he loves. I cannot speak to the experience that he must've felt. Everyone loves life and holds it dearly. However, I wish every moment we could learn to not take for granted and treat it as if it were our last. I think I was misunderstood today. I hope nobody took offense. When the car was being escorted around the track, one of the track managers said that they were going to keep it below 40. I asked if the car was able to drive below 40. That is a real and valid question considering that a bucket t is essentially a car frame hooked to a huge souped up engine. However, I think someone, according to Dave, misheard me and thought I was was asking if the "thing could go past 40 mph." If you misheard me, I'm sorry. I meant the opposite of what you may have heard. I got a chance to get a ride along in the car. That is a first for me. I embarrassed myself by the unmanly way I couldn't get into the car. Boy, I'm fat. Part of the experience is that a bucket T is not really easy to get into (there are no doors). I was also worried that I would scratch the car, so that made it harder. My fat ass eventually got in this car, and we went off towards the trailer where the car was temporarily garaged. Man, what a rush. A big motor on such a light body is a huuuge power to weight ratio that almost made the thing feel alive. I can understand the dedication that fans of these types of cars have to their passime.