[TN_Gal]

Originally Posted by Quality88

We need to sponsor a race. Call it " To Hell with corporate sponsorship 500 ". Dang corporate america.. "Grumble, Growl, Snarl"

Where can I buy tix for that race......I'm a going!!!

Good One 88....

And that was mouthful Wamp....keep it coming

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by Wampinrock

Thanks for the up-date, Bob, but sometimes I don't like being confused witht he facts...I still don't like Brian's tactics...

I completely agree. Brian has an MBA and my theory on the mindset of many who hold these degrees is: In the '20's the gangsters walked around with tommy guns in violin cases; today they walk among us with MBA's in Gucci briefcases. (No class envy here, folks, just a jab at the "bottom line at any expense" mentality of too many of today's businessmen)

For an excellent read on Young Mr. France, here's a link to a 2005 Money Magizine article. The title is appropriate and, deep in the article his idea cxoncerning pre-race prayer is choice

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/busin...04/01/8256022/

Originally Posted by Wampinrock

I. Never have trusted the big corportational "roll over the customer" attitudes...(big oil, big banks etc.)

This gets a little to close to the above-mentioned class envy thing. I'll pass comment but inject one thought: I understand where you're coming from but In my entire 65 years I have never been hired by someone who was poor.

Originally Posted by Wampinrock

Any of you old enough to remember a movie called Roller Ball? It told the story of how corporations world-wide pitted roller skater teams agains each other, often to the death. The theme was that corporations, not nations, were indeed ruling the world. Little did I realize, those many years ago, how really true that would become!

LOL Old enough to remember Rollerball??!! (A clasic with James Caan, but for the life of me I can't remember his co-stars except the tall, mustached charactor acter who is his buddy who gets maimed or killed (can't remember which).

I'm going on memory here but weren't the teams sponsored by corporations which had been nationalized by the countries they were in? I seem to remember that the team from Spain was expecially fearsome. Weren't these owners merely feeding the wants of the spectators?

It's been years (a couple decades, anyway) since I saw the film but I recall I felt it was a comparision between contempory life and its manic following of sports, to the the Roman games.

Originally Posted by Wampinrock

on the road today really do not comprehend the serious damage they are contributing to while owning and driving the off-shore manufactured vehicle (regardless if it was assembled in the USA or not!)
OK, stepped off the soap box...; next...

We are on the same page to such a degree on this topic that you'd get chills! Now I'll step down from the box before I begin to rant, rave and generally irritate everyone of these wonderful folks on this forum. Suffice it to say you've touched a nerve.

[indyNASCARgirl]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

Do they still run at Art Zip's Speedrome there in Indy?

I don't know. I actually live outside of Indy.