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  1. If unions offered any value, people would be flocking to join. They aren't. Having moved back to Indiana from South Carolina, I have to laugh at the sophomoric attempt to scare people into supporting their cause. Jobs are leaving the union north...have been for 30 years. The unions simply cannot be this stupid, yet it appears they are. Oh well, some lessons have to be learned the hard way.

  2. Frazier definately!@!@

  3. IndyCar Racing is nowhere near as relevant in today's sports environment as it was a generation ago. Back then, especially in the early 80's when I first came to Indy, there was a real sense the Indianapolis 500, in particular, and Indy-style races in general, were not just "niche" events as Burl has called them, but rather a strong, second-tier sport with growing interest and near-mainstream popularity at times.

    I recall being in a Sears store in April 1989. I walked into the TV section to see at least a dozen shopper's stopping in the aile to watch the closing laps of the Long Beach Grand Prix. The local newspaper sent a sportswriter all the way across the country to Indy every May for front-page coverage of the race and columns about the personalities and atmosphere. Almost, mini-Super Bowl coverage.

    A non-racing friend of mine once asked at a dinner party in Reno I was attending if Bobby Rahal was going to be the next Rick Mears. And that man hated sports.

    Today I cannot think of one person in my circle anywhere who is even aware of the series. I never hear it mentioned. Not even Wheldon's death, save one man at my office who kept calling him Dave Wheldon when discussing the morbid curiosity of this incident.

    And there is the uncomfortable fact the youngest generation of fans view the Indy 500, if the even know about it, as ancient and the driver's "gay." I have heard that at a few Indoor Kart tracks, where NASCAR and Formula Drifitng reign king.

    My guess is the sport will muddle along ok a few years more. Maybe. But it's heyday is long gone and I see no reason to think it will return. The fact is, it may vanish. It certainly is a much, much diminished item with, as Burl himself has correctly pointed out, an almost village-sized, miniscule, hardcore following.

    He may be right.

    Disciple, on the other hand, seems out of touch with reality and desperately flailing his arms about in a usless defense of something even he truly knows is a shadow of its former self in a setting sun of existence.

  4. Have any of you run afoul of theCareless Rep. he one with an IQ somewhat less than the speed limit---in a school zone.
    I have been refused the answer to a very simple question and as a result I am now low on Pradaxa-- out of Atenolol and diazapam +
    a few others.
    My time is getting short so beware and don't become anothe "sheep"

  5. easy there johnny, I have to disagree with you on most points, mainly the car comments.The union workers DON'T design the vehicles, DON'T specify the materials to be used in the production, DON'T design the manufacturing processes, and they DON'T determine the technology used in the vehicles or the manufacturing process, they DO manufacture and assemble vehicles in a process determined by engineers and accountants. My father spent 35 years in a union automotive facility, and he drove what he built, with pride. And I continue to drive what that same company builds, and have been very happy with the quality of the vehicles I have owned. So you really need to rethink before you bash entire groups of people, because a vast of the workers do take pride in their jobs and strive to make the best products with the tools that are given them.

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