Fundies upset that Jeff Gordon is marrying a supermodel

[LSK]

"I've been a stock car fan since I was in a dirt track pit crew in college. I like the feel of the sport that many call redneckish. NASCAR has changed quite a lot. Jeff Gordon marrying a supermodel bugs me.

I didn't like Jeff Gordon when he started winning. Then I heard a replay of a talk he gave at a Promise Keepers event, and I started to like him a bit. Then he cheated on Brooke and I figured his faith probably wasn't all that real. Who knows."

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=269219

Are YOU upset too?

:popcorn:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I wish every one of these rightwing Christian asshole fucks

would shut the hell up, and stop acting to fucking surprised whenever one of their ilk cheats on a wife or husband, has a gay relationship, gets indicted for embezzling or child porn or prostitution or other illegal activity, has children with drug/attitude problems, gets divorced (again and again), and so on and so on and so on.

Sonofabitch, they invent a world of fantasy and unrealism (that rightwing Christians are perfect, wholesome, and the best Christians ever who never do anything wrong), and spend way too much energy trying to keep the fucking thing intact because with every breath, another of those fucks is proved to be a sinner.

[mconvente]

41. "Those without sin may cast the first stone"

I guess that's an old Biblical line most Christians seem to just selectively forget...

[LynneSin]

2. Sweetie - I think you're obsessed with the Rapture Ready Boards

have you created an account yet?

[LSK]

3. its your fault

Im just trying to catch up to your post count over there!

:P

[LynneSin]

4. I can't get the site at work

Firewall. Perhaps that's a good thing

[LSK]

5. thats gotta suck

How will you know when the next Rapture is coming now???

[LynneSin]

7. You'll PM me here at DU first won't you

Please!!

[LSK]

9. yes, I will forecast the rapture like underpants forecasts the weather

:D

[KamaAina]

24. Proxify!

Firewall. Perhaps that's a good thing

Our firewall acts really silly sometimes. I head over to

http://www.proxify.com

and enter the forbidden URL there.

[OzarkDem]

6. OMG that's a weird site

These people have some serious problems:

Demonic Attacks

"Over the last few months I have been demonically attacked in my dreams. It would be hard to put it into words without verbally telling you what it was like but I will do my best.

In these dreams it feels like reality and yet in my dream I question whether I am dreaming or not (got me so far?) Something will just be kinda off and then BAM a person will change into a demon or demons and leap on top of me attacking me. In fact in the first dream i had i woke up in my dream (does that makes sense?) and woke my husband up to tell him about it. He got up and came to me and then changed into a demon too and jumoed on me and I realized i was still dreaming!
I will rebuke them in my dream and cry out to Jesus but they will just mock me and continue to attack me.

I will be screaming at myself to wake up and hitting and punching my face desperately trying to get myself to wake up. When I come out of the dreams it feels like I am being sucked out of a vortex and I will awake in complete terror, hyperventilating and crying and scared out of my mind.

I have had 5 of these dreams. the first 2 were in the same night and the last 2 which was a few nights ago were in the same night. I pray every night for the blood of jesus to protect me and my mind from the enemy but every once in awhile i am still being attacked.

I guess I am wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and what you all think of this."

[zanne]

11. Those demon attacks sound alot like panic attacks.

Wouldn't life be easy if everything bad could be explained away by a belief in demons? (What an intellectually lazy way to live).

[LSK]

12. thats how the did it in the 1500s

[TommyO]

20. That sounds like Fuseli's "The Nightmare"

[xchrom]

29. that person needs serious psychiatric help she will never receive.

[jobycom]

8. I'm more upset he gets such large tax cuts while the fans who cheer for hi

him can't even get a decent minimum wage increase.

[bumblebee1]

10. They're upset that Jeff Gordon is marrying a supermodel?

Brooke wasn't exactly chopped liver although she wasn't a supermodel. Should they be surprised if Jeff cheats on this woman too? Let's wait and see.

I was under the impression Jeff Gordon was the most hated man in NASCAR. He's not a good ole boy and he enunciates whenever he speaks.

Do they folks know who founded Promise Keepers? Former Colorado U head football coach Bill McCarthy. He didn't keep his promises to his wife and family. His daughter has two children from two of his former football players.

Yes, NASCAR has changed over the years. It's not just a sport, it's a multi billion dollar a year business.

[SeattleGirl]

18. Jeff Gordon is not a 'good old boy'.

He's from California, so I guess that's makes him either a Valley Boy or a Surfer Boy, huh? :rofl:

A lot of the drivers are from other areas of the country besides the South, though many of them have moved to the south, simply because that's were the hub of NASCAR racing is. It's no different than a person who wants to be a Broadway actor moving to New York or a person wanting to be a TV or movie actor moving to Hollywood. You go where the action is; you go where you have the best chance of doing what you want to do.

And yep, NASCAR is a multi-billion dollar sport. So is baseball. So is football. So is basketball. So what? And as far as a lot of drivers being fundies or whatever? I don't know if they are fundies, but it's true a lot of them are conservatives. So are a lot of baseball, football, and basketball players. So what? If I'm watching something I enjoy, I really don't care what the personal politics are of the people participating.

Jeff is hated, because a lot of people think he didn't "pay his dues". Which, if you think about it, is pretty damned stupid. If you are good at something, you're good at it. Did Ken Griffey Jr. "pay his dues"? Jeff has been racing since he was a little boy, just as lots of people in other sports played little league baseball, or Pop Warner football. When you hit the bigs, you show your stuff. If your stuff is exceptional, it's exceptional. To put someone down because they are exceptionally good at something is ridiculous. That would be like telling Griffey or any other good player to not hit so damned many home runs until they've been in the majors for a few years.

I think a lot of the crap I read about NASCAR and NASCAR drivers is nothing but stereotyping: NASCAR did originate with the moonshiners trying to outrun "Johnny Law", but as you said, it's changed a lot. Everyone who is participate in NASCAR is not a stupid local yokel; every person who likes it is not a stsupid local yokel. Lots of fans are college-educated, do not live in the south, and certainly have never married their cousins.

If you don't like NASCAR, that's cool. But pigeon-holeing people who participate or who like it is not really necessary, is it?

[KamaAina]

27. Like NASCAR, hate Gordon

bcause he does things like give talks at Promise Keepers events. Wasn't crazy about Kurt Busch's nonstop flagwaving, either, but karma caught up with him :-)

Now Tony, there's a guy I can get behind, though I sure wouldn't want him behind me (crunch)!

[SeattleGirl]

44. Tony Stewart is so NOT my favorite driver

Can't stand mean people. (Though yes, he's a good driver, no doubt about it.)

[mitchum]

31. Yes, now the drivers are nothing but pitchmen with nerves of steel...

I've never been a NASCAR fan, but I've always been amused by the pains that NASCAR goes to in order to obscure its moonshine running origins. Gotta keep that image very WHITEbread for the fans.
I'm also amazed by the cult of personality surrounding the drivers. I mean, you can't even see those guys when they are competing, but fans go completely apeshit for their particular favorites.

[SeattleGirl]

45. I disagree that NASCAR tries to hide it's moonshine roots

Ever seen a program on the origins of NASCAR? They make no bones about how it started. I think that the reason it's not mentioned so much is that it's come a long way since its origins, and part of that includes appealing to a wider base than it originally did. NASCAR isn't just for good ol' boys any more.

[regnaD kciN]

40. Well, then, here's some more stereotyping crap about NASCAR...

And as far as a lot of drivers being fundies or whatever? I don't know if they are fundies, but it's true a lot of them are conservatives. So are a lot of baseball, football, and basketball players.

True, but in none of those (with the possible exception of football, except it's too racially diverse for the rednecks) does rabid Southern wingnutism so permeate every aspect of the sport so as to make it the explicitly dominant culture of the whole environment. They don't refer to Bush's target audience as "NASCAR dads" for nothing.

As far as I'm concerned, it would be as unsafe for most of us here to let our views be known at a NASCAR event as it would at a Toby Keith concert or a Klan rally.

[SeattleGirl]

46. I don't think it's the sport itself that bangs the drum for Southern

wingnutism -- "NASCAR dads" is a political term, same as "Soccer Moms" and other such terms. NASCAR didn't come up with the NASCAR dads term; politicians and talking heads did. NASCAR is a commercial venture in many ways, same as other sports. And it is the networks that bang that drum, as it were, more so than the sport.

And as far as it being "unsafe" for me or anyone else to let our views be known at a NASCAR event, may I ask if you've ever been to a race? I have been to three of them, and essentially, politics is about the last thing people are going to talk about. That's also true of my experience in going to football games and baseball games. Sports venues are not political meet ups -- they're sporting events. People go to enjoy something they like. But just for the record, I'm not scared to air my political views at a NASCAR or any other event. I don't usually do it because, as I said, that's not why I'm there.

May I suggest that you look at your attitude about this. In fact, seems a lot of people here should do that. The stereotyping of any- and all things even vaguely related to the South just boggles my mind. If I were going to feel unsafe about expressing my views (of NASCAR, in this instance), it would be on this board, because of the viciousness of some posters that I have read over time. There are so many people who would jump all over the likes of O'Rielly, Hannity, Limbaugh, and all those who listen to/watch them (and with good reason), but cannot see that they do the very same thing about NASCAR fans, people who like country music, or any other topic they don't think is "acceptable" for people on "our side."

If stereotyping is wrong for their side, it's equally as wrong for ours.

[RedStateShame]

13. Quick solution, NASCAR fans: WATCH A SPORT INSTEAD!!

[ElboRuum]

16. Oh, come on now...

It IS a sport... just like Competitive Eating is a sport.

[RedStateShame]

17. OH NO YOU DI'UNT!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[JackBeck]

14. Is it just me...

Or did anyone else see Jeff GANNON when they first read the title?

[ElboRuum]

15. No...

I'm upset that people talk about this kind of shit. I mean really... No fundie ever cheated? These people live in a dream world that is destined to become a nightmare as each and every one of their heroes exposes themselves as a frail little human.

[Pierre.Suave]

19. Hell, I am not upset

I want to marry a supermodel too...

[LynneSin]

21. Hey LSK I found this for you on Rapture Ready - RAPTURE SMILEY

[jobycom]

33. OMG!! That has made the whole weekend better for me!

I'm wiping tears from eyes and telling my cats not to be afraid, I'm only laughing!

[jobycom]

36. How do you get a smilie?

Is that a download or do you link to their page?

[KitchenWitch]

22. Meh!

[billyskank]

47. Hem!

:hi:

[citizen snips]

23. why talk about nascar?

When the rapture is going to be tomorrow. :shrug:

[jobycom]

32. Wow

What would happen if it occured during a race? Would people refuse to go, so they could finish watching? And what if a couple of drivers are right with the Lord? That would make for some cool viewing!

[KamaAina]

25. Think how upset the supermodel's parents must be!

"You're a supermodel, dear. You could have had anybody. A movie star, a rock star, a tech billionaire, maybe even that guy KamaAina from DU. And instead you bring home to us.... a right-wing fundie?!

Get out. I never want to hear from you again. I have no more supermodel daughter. She's dead to me. Dead!"

edit: italics

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. Who the fuck cares? nt

[jobycom]

34. Well, I'm sure Jeff Gordon cares. ANd with 34 responses, apparently

DU cares.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

28. Look at the responses...

Particularly boxer77:

"I never herd that Jeffy actualy cheated on his woman. But that wouldnt send him to hell, and it didnt ruin his driving either.
I jsut wish he could leave the ladys alone for a bit, cause most of them just want his money, and I dotn like the Idea of a prenup either, those basicly say money is on my mind more than a true commitment. Jeffster is here in Indy tonight doing a bowling for Riley childrens hospital, along with other race drivers.
BTW IM going to the Allstate 400 at the brickyard Race Sun! Go # 20 SMOKE !!!!"



More spelling errors than flees on a hound dog's tail. (Or whatever :eyes:)

[jobycom]

35. "his woman" eh? Love it. Glad it wouldn't send him to hell. Guess it

is okay then. His woman will just have to deal with it.

[XemaSab]

30. Good times

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=268553

:popcorn:

Don't you think it's a little freaky that the layout is just like two unmentionable sites? :scared:

[ContraBass Black]

39. It's the default layout.

[begin_within]

37. There used to be a group called FAG (Fans Against Gordon) who claimed

that he was too good-looking to be straight, so they pegged him as gay. Now that he's married, I guess that shut them up, but why are they complaining that he's marrying a supermodel? Do they want him to pick his wife from the Jerry Springer show?

[dr.zoidberg]

38. How can anyone deny a man from getting quality booty?

I mean really, Gordon is living the dream of marrying a supermodel. Of course, it will probably last 6 months before they are divorced.

[IndyBob]

42. Should I be Ashamed

to admit I am going to the Brickyard 400 tomorrow? My brother is coming down from Madison, the deal is he and his son get a free place to stay, I get a free ticket. Plus we can visit for a day.

This will be my first NASCAR event. I have no idea who to cheer for - any suggestions? As a gay man, I was thinking perhaps the cutest one may get my vote.

[ContraBass Black]

43. Only one of them appears to be upset

And there is several times more discussion of it here than there.