"Busch was prepared to make the same charge after the final caution, which set up a three-lap sprint to the finish. But leader Jeff Burton ran low to block him, and Busch dipped below NASCAR’s off-limits yellow line.

He returned to the racing surface but seemed to slide back in the pack in an apparent effort to self-penalize himself before NASCAR black-flagged him. The maneuver allowed Busch to continue to race toward the checkered flag, which at that point appeared to be Stewart’s for the taking."

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gJP4RDeh6Oki-vLQbMjeNS6-70XA

Kyle showed his maturity last night. He will be a well-loved champion when he wins the Chase this November!
Spell check? Kyle’s name is Busch not Bush. You’re confusing him with our Fearless Leader in DC.

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This is the first time I’ve been able to sit down and relax since 8:00 this morning.
Who wants to hear about my day?
Okay, so a few days ago, I posted an ad on Craigslist selling my portable DVD player and 3 Disney DVD’s. A woman named "Judith" replied. She said that she was interested, and that she would pay me 0.00 + the cost of express mail international shipping. Everything looked legit. Then I got an email from Paypal stating that I’d just recieved an instant payment from her. It stated that I had to ship the items, and then email proof of shipping, and that then my paypal acount would be credited. So, this morning, I went down to the post office, packaged up the item, paid the in shipping, and emailed the tracking number.
THEN I started reading things on the internet, and realized that I was being scammed. I was freaking out, because my boyfriend warned me of this, but I shurgged it off, and said it was okay because I got an email from paypal. I went and looked at the email from "paypal" again, and saw that the email address that it was sent from (small, in bracketts) was not paypal. It was something like shipping.proof@consultant.com or something like that. So, I sent the emai to Paypal, and they emailed me back and said that it was a phishing email. Right away, I called my Mom. She said to call the post office, and then go pick up the package. That’s exactly what I did. I got the package back, and my money back, and I sent this so called "judith Pope" a nasty email. It shoud have been a red flag when she said she wanted it shipped to NIGERIA. For some reason it wasn’t. My parents also lended me each so that I can buy healthy foods still.
I love my parents. I love Andree too, but I hate that he always has to be right, and most of the time is, so I think I’m going to keep my story for the day to myself. From now on, I only sell through ebay.
should i be worried about my identity being stolen? the only info they have is my first and last name, my address, and my email.

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Not the Union Jack btw, it’s that if flown from a ship’s Jack flag pole.

Anyway, why is St. Patrick’s Cross (which now represents the Ulster Banner I suppose) off axis?

Most probably don’t know this, but it is entirely possible to fly the Flag the wrong way up. Find one now and look at it. Notice how the red strips of St. Patrick’s Cross are not perfectly in the middle of the white strips? The top right one should always be closer to the top.

Why is this? Why isn’t the Cross normal? If you removed St. Andrews and George’s Crosses and replaced the blue background with a white one it would look like a very crooked St. Patrick’s Cross.

So why? Why isn’t it St. Patrick’s Cross in the Union Flag as it is on it’s own?

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Some friends and I are planning a trip to Six Flags Over Texas this coming Saturday and we were wondering if anyone knows of a DART route that will take us from the University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson) to Six Flags Over Texas (Arlington). Thanks in advance.

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Pretend for a moment you are regan smith on the final lap of today’s race. coming off of turn 4, you are right behind tony stewart. you had held back to make your move. you make it, and it’s a great one. you had juked him from up high to down low. you get position on tony underneath him with the momentum to pass him. but now, tony being as competitive as any other driver out on that race track, is coming down to not only block you, but cut you off and crash into you if you are still in that position. so here’s where you have to make your choice:

a) you hold your line and momentum, stay in the throttle, let tony crash into you, spinning him toward the inside wall near the exit of the pits. you will probably crash as well, more than likely taking out a number of cars, angering these drivers, their owners, and fans, not including tony and his legion of fans.

b) you do whatever you can to avoid making contact with tony, including going below the line and backing out of the throttle, forfeiting any chance of victory, and possibly falling out of 2nd place as well. i’m sure nascar would appreciate this move the most, as it takes all of the burden off of them, and handing it all to you. tony probably thinks he made the greatest move, and he greatly deserves the victory.

c) or finally, you do just what regan did today…what every racer on the nascar circuit would do. you just drove 499.9 freaking miles, and you tell me you are going to just throw the chance of your very first victory in the spring cup series away? and just because tony makes a competitive, but very reckless move. a racer is not a racer if he doesn’t make that move.

nascar got this all wrong this afternoon. i fully understand the reason for having the yellow line rule. but, has nascar ever penalized someone for pushing somebody below the yellow line? i don’t believe so. i recall nascar saying in one of their drivers’ meetings that they will do this when jeff gordon asked them about it. i heard andy petree saying in the broadcast that the yellow line rule is not in effect on the last lap. i do not believe this is entirely true, but i do recall a competition director or someone of that same level saying that if you can see the checkered flag, anything goes.

i have just gotten angry over the past several years over nascar’s inconsistency with some of their rules. that is the main reason for me writing this pretty darn long post. another one of these inconsistencies i am speaking of is in the 2007 daytona 500 when they didn’t throw the yellow flag when the wreck was well underway. they instead waited for harvick and martin to cross the start/finish line. yet, in the previous year at the fall race at talladega, nascar threw the caution for a wreck that was taking place in turn 3, well behind the leaders on the last lap, rather than letting them race back to the caution. this would have given them ample time to slow down (turn 1, turn 2, the entire freakin’ backstretch) before they got to where the wreck started after the race had concluded. i believe jeff gordon won that race and that brian vickers was the one who wrecked to bring out the caution.

nascar just needs to be far more consistent with their rulings, and i would love it if they would come out and explain more of the decisions that are made in their tower during some of these races. i know, sometimes i’ve seen mike helton come on tv and give some explanations, but that is something that i would love to see more. i feel really cheated on today’s race. and let me say, i am not a tony stewart-hater, i love what nascar has been, in general, since i was in the 2nd grade. it just seems sometimes nascar plays puppet-master a little too strongly.

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For those who don’t know.Uefa acussed Apoel for raising Greek flag in the match.
As far as I am concerned, national flags are NOT prohibited in football matches.Why there should be a problem about that?
It’s not about posting a banner with political messages.Neither shouting political/inflamatory words.It just a national flag.

(Note that, when Turkey raised flags of the pseudocountry (illegaly by any Un-resolutions, and non-recognised by any countries) state of TRNC (Turkish republic of Nothern Cyprus), UEFA did absolutely nothing.)

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Me and my mates are going to wave flags as a sign of condolence, and remembrence for the soldiers and citizens who have lost their lives, and in memory of the 9/11 victims. We will also be holding signs with slogans such as "NEVER FORGET" and "GOD BLESS AMERICA" Opinions?

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The War At Home
March 27th, 2009

The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen on board. We can live with that—Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Island. That’s no big problem—we Hong Kong Chinese love Japanese cartoons, Hello Kitty, and shopping in Shinjuku, let alone our round-the-clock obsession with karaoke.

But hold on—even the Filipinos? Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: there are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as ,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter.

As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell every one of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.

Grimly, I told her that if war breaks out between the Philippines and China, I would have to end her employment and send her straight home, because I would not risk the crime of treason for sponsoring an enemy of the state by paying her to wash my toilet and clean my windows 16 hours a day. With that money, she would pay taxes to her government, and they would fund a navy to invade our motherland and deeply hurt my feelings.

Oh yes. The government of the Philippines would certainly be wrong if they think we Chinese are prepared to swallow their insult and sit back and lose a Falkland Islands War in the Far East. They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but we have a hostage in each of our homes in the Mid-Levels or higher. Some of my friends told me they have already declared a state of emergency at home. Their maids have been made to shout “China, Madam/Sir” loudly whenever they hear the word “Spratly.” They say the indoctrination is working as wonderfully as when we used to shout, “Long live Chairman Mao!” at the sight of a portrait of our Great Leader during the Cultural Revolution. I’m not sure if that’s going a bit too far, at least for the time being.

Guys read this…this is way back of 2005. Another Chip Tsao issue of racism
…..Prominent columnist Chip Tsao has hit back at allegations of racism, saying readers angered by his observations on western men losing cachet with local women did not understand his sarcasm.

The article “Have Hong Kong girls stopped looking for Mr White?” in last week’s Sunday Morning Post, which cited Tsao’s column, has inspired a flood of passionate responses from readers.

Tsao had commented that western men who stayed in Hong Kong after the handover lived in dorms on Lamma Island or stone houses in Sai Kung that people used to “keep pigs in”.

He also said expatriate men “clad in T-shirts, thongs and flip-flops” bought beer from the 7-Eleven to get free gifts and were “muscular but did not last long” in bed.

A Sunday Morning Post reader from Vietnam, Karl John, said after reading Tsao’s comments: “I cannot find one statement of truth, just racist dogma and general sweeping statements.

“It is nothing more than a racially motivated observation that has probably been brought about by Chip Tsao’s inability to attract interest from Hong Kong ladies,” he said, reflecting a typical response of letter writers.

For other readers, Tsao’s comments reflected the frustrations they have had with local girls……………

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Ok so 15 months has finally passed and I want to make this extra special. We dont have kids, just us. I wanna do something like banners, cake, um..dinner everything I want him to feel welcome home, we did just move so he hasnt even seen the new house yet, only pics!! I thought about making a American Flag cake that says "Welcome Home" and a banner that says "Welcome Home, I Missed You" w/the 1st Cav symbol on it and a yellow ribbon. Then also I just bought him a new wedding ring, I want to know ideas on how I can give him the ring!! Romantic, funny, any ideas…PLEASE HELP!!! I know all he cares about is getting home and all but I just want to make it extra special. This needs to be a day he wont forget!!

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When I left Catalina Island the other afternoon, there were two red flags flying at the dock.

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