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Demolition Derby
Topic Started: Jul 4 2015, 06:07 PM (1,286 Views)
Rainman


Uh oh, look what's in the Demolition Derby!

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Coche Blanco
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Confederate flag? el oh el
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Rainman
Jul 4 2015, 06:07 PM
Uh oh, look what's in the Demolition Derby!

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Let's just hope there's no Yankee cars present. Getting your ass kicked twice within 150 years would be pretty embarrassing.
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Oh come on, I hate when people use an event that should be good fun between good folks, and turn it into a damn political statement. Just like today, I went on a Veteran's ride that benefited Wounded Warriors. It was a good, fun ride with about 60 other bikers. Even though I was the only one on a sport bike, heh. But once we got back to the local Legion at the end, I saw the club house outside was decorated with Confederate flags. With members ranting about the issue. I say to myself, "That's it, I'm out. Going home." Well, after I ate the BBQ that was provided. I wasn't gonna pass up a free meal. Regardless of whether I support certain statement or not, once they're injected where they don't belong, I lose interest in sticking around.
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Johnny Mullet
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Nothing political about that. I fly the same flag in my shop.
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I kinda agree, seen many a demo derby with the confederate flag flying on a vehicle that the occupants fulfill all your expectations. I would be surprised not to see that flag in that environment.
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Johnny Mullet
Jul 4 2015, 07:00 PM
Nothing political about that. I fly the same flag in my shop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_in_the_American_Civil_War

During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio played a key role in providing troops, military officers, and supplies to the Union army. Due to its central location in the Northern United States and burgeoning population, Ohio was both politically and logistically important to the war effort. Despite the state's boasting a number of very powerful Republican politicians, it was divided politically. Portions of Southern Ohio followed the Peace Democrats and openly opposed President Abraham Lincoln's policies. Ohio played an important part in the Underground Railroad prior to the war, and remained a haven for escaped and runaway slaves during the war years.[1]

The third most populous state in the Union at the time, Ohio raised nearly 320,000 soldiers for the Union army, third behind only New York and Pennsylvania in total manpower contributed to the military.[2] Several leading generals hailed from Ohio, including Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Philip H. Sheridan. Five Ohio-born Civil War officers would later serve as the President of the United States.[3] The Fighting McCooks gained fame as the largest immediate family group ever to become officers in the U.S. Army.[4]

The state was spared many of the horrors of war as only two minor battles were fought within its borders. Morgan's Raid in the summer of 1863 spread terror among the populace.[5] Ohio troops fought in nearly every major campaign during the war. Nearly 7,000 Buckeye soldiers were killed in action. Its most significant Civil War site is Johnson's Island, located in Sandusky Bay of Lake Erie. Barracks and outbuildings were constructed for a prisoner of war depot, intended chiefly for officers. Over three years more than 15,000 Confederate men were held there. The island includes a Confederate cemetery where about 300 men were buried.[6]

Ohio politics during the War[edit]
Much of southern Ohio's economy depended upon trade with the South across the Ohio River, which had served for years as passage and a link with the slave states of Virginia and Kentucky. The culture of southern Ohio was closer to those states than it was to northern parts of the state, owing to many settlers coming from the South and being formerly territory of the state of Virginia as part of the Virginia Military District. Most of the state's population was solidly against secession and in favor of a strong central government. During the 1860 Presidential Election, Ohio voted in favor of Abraham Lincoln (231,709 votes or 52.3% of the ballots cast) over Stephen Douglas (187,421; 42.3%), John C. Breckinridge (11,406; 2.6%), and John Bell (12,194; 2.8%).[7]


Being from Ohio and flying the "rebel" flag, is a lot like someone from the US flying the Union Jack for the 4th of the July; sure you're free to do it, but why would you? Certainly not to memorialize the 7,000 Ohioans who gave their lives fighting in the Civil War. Just sayin'...
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Oh I know Johnny. There's probably a picture of me standing by it in your garage. It's just crazy how it's become such a hot issue lately, just because of some douche going on a murder spree.
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Rainman


Where I was today, the controversy over the Confederate flag isn't given much of a second thought. I was pretty much the only "city boy" there! The Metro did fare pretty well to only be running on two cylinders, as per the owner. He came in second!
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Rainman


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Metros always do well in those...I'm not real sure why.
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Jul 5 2015, 12:09 AM
Metros always do well in those...I'm not real sure why.
Light, fast, fairly agile and they take a long time to die...
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ZXTjato
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all it takes is a bump on the front and the radiator fan motor pushes onto the clutch cable end where that adjustment nut is and then your out of the derby for a slippy clutch :lol . ive told myself if i ever enter a metro derby im driving backwards as often as i can :rofl
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Rainman


Very true, he ran backwards as much as possible, but the second good lick in the front and he was immobilized.
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I was thinking he probably stayed out of the fight as long as possible waiting for everyone else to duke it out, then sneak in some sucker punches with the back end. But someone eventually got him.
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