Comments by REK1138
Page 1 of 40 | Next
Posted on November 8 at 9:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Exactly - and why is it no one ever, EVER mentions the fact that Daytona, the crown jewel of NASCAR, and Talladega are identical tracks? No one seems to care that NASCAR descends on Dega with a list of rules and restrictions as long as your arm and smaller, more restrictive plates but the same rule makers will let them race at Daytona. NASCAR is not about racing, it's about manipulation. Johnson and Knauss manipulate the system to win championships, the NASCAR officials manipulate the system to ensure the kind of the racing they want to see (to hell with anybody else) and in the end, nobody cares, they're watching football, baseball...anything but NASCAR.
Posted on November 7 at 8:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Couldn't agree more. It seems obvious now that the chase format is doing little more than allowing a late season bloomer like Jimmy Johnson to take advantage of the system. It makes no sense to penalize the dominant driver with this format. In an instant Tony Stewart's hard earned points lead vanished. How is it fair to rob a driver who dominated the first three quarters of the season for not dominating the last quarter and give the cup to a guy who only seems to step his game up to championship level in the last ten races? You can't blame Johnson for doing what he's doing. Clearly he and Knauss are taking advantage of the system, saving their stuff, so they say, for when it really counts. How long until other drivers figure out their formula, play it safe, race for points from Daytona to Richmond and the chase it out for the cup? How long until we have eight months of dull, restrictive, cautious racing so a mere 12 drivers can race for a championship? You gotta wonder if this is what NASCAR really wants.
NASCAR refuses to listen to anything but own inert voices. They clearly don't listen to drivers, clearly don't listen to the fans. The nonsense that was this fall's Talladega race is proof of that. I suppose when they're bankrupt, going the way of the USFL and arena football they might listen.
Posted on September 14 at 8:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
As a former teacher and assistant coach I have much more respect for the 1A-5A head coach who is not only the head coach but the groundskeeper, stadium maintenance, booster, organizer, and often required to teach classes all day. I don't imagine that the head coaches at schools like Hoover or Spain Park have to cut grass or install stadium seats. When you add to this the fact that their jobs are dependent on not only managing all these tasks but winning football games I really do take my hat off to many of them.
Posted on September 11 at 7:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I get a kick out of these guys. You have to wonder why a ghost would go to all the trouble to remain invisible yet show up on photographs or remain quiet most of the time but start chattering away on a tape recorder.
I think these are the same guys that did a Bigfoot hunt out near Mullins cemetery.
I want to believe.
Posted on September 1 at 10:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"REK...you are a real piece of work. You judge and condemn those who make generalizations when you do the very same thing but to a greater extent.
In your previous post you say in one place - "Ridiculous generalizations, wholesale dismissals, taking one or two idle opinions and making grandiose, all encompassing statements about an entire generation is the very reason that teenagers rebel and close themselves off because they can smell a hypocrite a mile away."
In another place you say "Teenagers are not going to be drawn to traditional church services, they're not, bottom line, end of story."
You contradict yourself. And you do not know ALL teens. Ours went to traditional services because they found them more honest and enlightening. MANY teens attend traditional services every week. You do not know whereof you speak in this instance.
Some of your points have differing measures of validity but this one has none."
Fine then, please add the worst "MOST" to the front of my post. Argument still stands. I've been working with teenagers for close to 20 years. This is based on my experience not my assumption from afar. I too have seen many teenagers sit in traditional services and I've seen MOST of these same teenagers (around 90%) bolt from the church like a scalded dog the day they get out from under their parents authority. Some eventually come back...some.
Said I was done...now I'm done.
Posted on September 1 at 10:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"WERE THERE 318 SOULS SAVED? OR 126 FIRST TIME DECISIONS????"
He said 318 went to the counseling tent. 126 were first time decisions, 166 were re commitments and the rest were either to enter Christian service or simply had prayer needs."
It doesn't matter Str8 - ain't you been listening? Best them kids go to hell and read Hustler magazine than taint that old time religion cause Jesus Himself sang from a hymnal and talked in King James English.
I'm done arguing this point. I only pray that the Lord will set you straight one day and that all those you turn your nose up at who are going hell might find someone else willing to get off their high horse and tell them about Jesus.
Posted on September 1 at 10:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Posted by KW..."So, if Larry Flynt has a whole issue of Hustler dedicated to God with nude women holding a bible on every page and quoting scripture, this would be a "contemporary" way of worship? Under this "new age" train of thought, this would be acceptable.
It's still a pig in a dress."
Hands down the most ridiculous thing I think you've ever posted. So you're comparing pornography to contemporary Christian music? You're a smart feller KW - look up the word fallacy and get back to me. We can make asinine, meaningless fallacy ridden arguments all day long if you want to.
Posted on September 1 at 10:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Teenagers are not going to be drawn to traditional church services, they're not, bottom line, end of story. You can lament all you want about how ungodly contemporary services and music are but in the end you're completely wasting your time. Another way to put it, you are producing zero fruit. Furthermore, you're putting up walls between not only yourself and fellow believers but yourself and the unsaved. Ridiculous generalizations, wholesale dismissals, taking one or two idle opinions and making grandiose, all encompassing statements about an entire generation is the very reason that teenagers rebel and close themselves off because they can smell a hypocrite a mile away. When I hear Christians condemning fellow Christians because they are different or because they are unwilling to fit into our little molds of what we think religious people should be I cringe. You can't get any farther from what Jesus stands for, from the way He acted on this earth.
We're at war here - and the enemy is not Christian Rock or Christian Rap, it's not concerts or worship services or praise choruses, it's the world itself and every time we bicker and turn our noses up at an entire generation of young people the world is perfectly willing to swoop in and take them from us. And frankly, from all I see, the world is winning the war right now.
Posted on August 31 at 2:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Dasani is tap water. So is Aquafina. I think most people buy bottled water because it's cold and portable (and not filled with sugar or artificial sweeteners - there's a poll for you, which is worse), not because they are afraid of tap water. There are some brands that I can tell a difference in, particularly the more expensive brands like Fiji and Icelandic - which are so pure they barely have any taste.
You want to really taste your water, drink it a room temperature. You will find that at room temperature most bottled waters have a variety of flavors, mostly plastic or petroleum derived from sitting in plastic bottles.
Page 1 of 40 | Next
Posted on November 9 at 9:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Okay, Dega and Daytona are not 100% identical, so what - both tracks were designed with the same thing in mind - speed, speed, speed. Both tracks were built to allow cars to lap without ever letting off the accelerator (or very little) and both were large enough so that speed when mixed with the 2+ miles of track resulted in some of most competitive non-short track racing ever known. And then something happened. At some point NASCAR made the decision that auto racing wasn't about speed at all or the ability to manipulate a stock cars at extremely high speeds. The bottom line is that both Talladega and Daytona were designed for extremely fast, high speed racing and both have been restricted to something all together different and yet when it comes to criticism why is it Talladega always gets bashed by drivers and commentators but they're always willing to give Daytona a pass? Talladega hasn't had an on track fatality in 30 years - the last on track fatality in NASCAR occurred at Daytona. Dega produces spectacular wrecks, so does Daytona and yet every year the subject of mothballing Talladega comes up but no one would even begin to consider the same fate for Daytona.
So, you conspiracy theorists out there - you think NASCAR paid someone to dump the 48 early? It certainly got me interested again.
On ’09 Chase not what NASCAR wanted