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Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 will see the Brickyard debut of Venezuelan racer (and Hugo Chavez supporter) Milka Duno:
Duno makes no attempt to distance herself from Chavez. Most notably, she spoke at one of his massive campaign rallies last October, talking about the importance of education and praising presidential programs that have largely wiped out illiteracy in the South American nation. At the end of her speech, the two embraced on the stage.
They embraced? The SMH will be jealous.
“In my country, you see the government trying to help people that have low income, that have no resources,” Duno said this week during an interview in her garage. “They help people to get an education. We have free education. Everyone in Venezuela has access to go to school, to go to the university, for free. They don’t have to pay anything. This is good.”
And don’t the people love it. In fact, those attempting to leave Venezuela are moving almost as quickly as Duno herself:
Duno crashed in practice and slipped into the field with the second-slowest speed (219.228 mph). She will start from the next-to-last row Sunday.
- testPosted by Tim B. on 2007 05 26 at 02:31 AM • permalink
- Comments still seem to be painfully slow to post, though.Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 26 at 02:43 AM • permalink
- Did we pass the test?Posted by surfmaster on 2007 05 26 at 04:29 AM • permalink
- I know I’m supposed to be thinking about Venezuelan wierdos, but I keep thinking back to the post about what chick bombs get. Anyone notice the entire world of the musselmen gives off a 70’s vibe?
So, let me get this straight. Musselmen try to personally groom their young men like wookies and send their female faithful to Fantasy Island to be served by De Plane! De Plane! guy. Seventy two horrid little midgets getting you virgin mai-tais, ‘cause I’m sure they ain’t got spirits in their afterlife either. Why couldn’t they have given the girls 72 pool boys? You know, the sad Guatemalan one you have to lovingly teach the lingo to so he can call his sick mom, one Swedish one who –ooops- keeps droppink his svimmink trunks in virlpool zingie when he’s cleaning, etc. Talk about armies of faithful women bombers.
Posted by mencken_cynic on 2007 05 26 at 05:50 AM • permalink
- Was the last-place finisher Ima Ho of North Korea?Posted by andycanuck on 2007 05 26 at 07:24 AM • permalink
- Loathe as I am to go O/T, but that douchebag Hicks and family are playing the victim card a mite too early.
Here’s Terry Hicks after visiting him in prison.
“David has certainly indicated that he’s not interested in appeals and everything else like that – he just wants to go through the (jail) system and get on with his life, that is what he wants to do. I think the political issues have been used up now. David was pretty much used as a political football for five years, and even now this issue I think was still dealt with the wrong way round. We wear that, David wears it and we just get on with life. It has been a long fight … we just wanted to have him back here, he’s back in South Australia and he’s back in his home town and that is what we wanted.”No dickhead, he wanted to part of an eternal Caliphate that killed all those who failed to convert to the death-cult. He got caught short, and should never have been sold by the Northern Alliance to the US. He deserved to die ignominously in the foothills of northern Afghanistan, fighting with his beloved Tellytubbies.
- My name is Milka, and these are my personalities.
- OT: Gee, I wonder if there was any pressure from Kevin?Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 05 26 at 08:03 AM • permalink
Duno crashed in practice and slipped into the field with the second-slowest speed
Did Chavez nationalise her team or something?
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 05 26 at 08:07 AM • permalink
- Completely O/T, but just got back from my initial recruitment session and passed all the tests etc there- they’re pushing me into the RAAF, in logistics or ops. Still have to pass the medical etc but it’s less stringent than the army, and I’m more likely to be able to bugger off to Baghdad with the flyboys, even though I won’t get to drop explodey things on naughty people at this stage. I’m going to try for flight crew still.
Andrea, I await your chastisement.
- I don’t even watch the crapwagons, and yet even I know Duno is the biggest joke in the IRL, (which is a joke itself). She’s astonishingly slow, but she doesn’t let that stop her from constantly crashing and posing a danger to her others.
Her sheet stupidity, incompetence and the deranged outright menace she presents make her racing career the ideal vehicular representation of Chavez’ Glorious New Venezuela.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 05 26 at 08:39 AM • permalink
- Or ‘sheer’ stupidity.Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 05 26 at 08:41 AM • permalink
- Test?Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 26 at 08:50 AM • permalink
- First:
Congrats Habib!
O/T
Rumors of possible coup shaping up in the Ukraine.
Ukraine: Thousands of soldiers moving…
- Okay, everything seems fine with the comments now. I went to bed early last night, so I apparently missed a site slow-down.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 26 at 08:50 AM • permalink
- Habib, far from chastising you, I congratulate you. I would say more, but it’s morning here and I have yet to have my first cup of coffee. Oh there goes the last brain cePosted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 26 at 08:52 AM • permalink
- Maybe Duno would do better if she drove one of those nice green Hondas.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 26 at 09:10 AM • permalink
- Habib—Flight crew? Besta luck to ya… just remember, you’ll be the GIB to an Aussie pilot. “No worries—there’s way more clearance under those high tension wires than people think! She’ll be right…”Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 26 at 09:12 AM • permalink
- Habib
You dont know if theyve dropped medical for perfect hearing do you? Shat me up the wall not to get into the reserves because “Ive only got ears to keep my glasses on”.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 05 26 at 09:17 AM • permalink
- Grimmy—picking up your comments from the previous thread: open-wheel sissies can’t put anyone into the wall unless they want to kamikaze.
Now in NASCAR, she’d wind up like the punchline to that old Benny Hill newscast: “Police are looking for a tall, thin Cortina…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 26 at 09:18 AM • permalink
- Every year at this time, it is reported that some woman named Patrick is driving in the Indy 500. That’s all it is every year; Indy 500=woman named Patrick. I know nothing else about the Indy 500.Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 26 at 09:45 AM • permalink
- Habib – Congrats and thank you!
#17 Anthony – Good one. Dumbo would work too. 😀
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 05 26 at 09:48 AM • permalink
- Well hell, I’m a retard.
I dont know why I was thinking the Indie 500 was a stock car race.
and that Patrick is Danica Patrick. No clue what kind of driver she is but she can be a cutie.
- So Sam Hornish won last year? I’m glad somebody told me. The media may have reported it as a footnote after the yearly orgasm over the woman named Patrick.Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 26 at 10:02 AM • permalink
- Habib,
Congratulations, and good luck, I reckon we probably won’t bump into each other (I’ve just been lit up to go away again), but just remember, those of us in the PBI don’t really hate the RAAF.
And I have never personally said “RAAF, Rarely Around After Four”.
Well, maybe once or twice. 🙂
I’m sure you’ll serve with pride, just like the rest of us mate.
- Congratulations, Habib! Go go go!
Back O/T:
I Googled up some images of Milka Duno….yes, she is a hottie, but it sounds like she’s a poor driver as well. The only way she’d place well in the Indie 500 is if it took place somewhere in Venezuela. Then socialist rules, as written by Chavez, would apply.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 26 at 11:13 AM • permalink
- Grimmy—Patrick had a good rookie season and an iffy second year. This year should be interesting…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 26 at 12:24 PM • permalink
- #60, richard:
Cool. I’ve always wondered why women aren’t more populous amongst the pro driver set. Afterall, driving isn’t demanding of great physical strengh.
A body’d only have to have good driving skills, good coordination and an inherent need to dominate those around them. Except for the driving skills, women seem a natural.
- Rumor is that Patrick’s second year car wasn’t really competitive. That’s why she changed teams.Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 05 26 at 05:25 PM • permalink
- kae
Theres a few uses for the grommets, infections are the usual reason most kids get them. Mines nerve damage so not much can be done.
From memory grommets have a bad habit of falling out.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 05 26 at 07:50 PM • permalink
- Frollicking, thanks
I think in the kids the grommits are supposed to fall out eventually – when the eustachian tubes are clear. My doc thinks it’s just eustachian trouble.
My brother has bony growths (I always knew he was a bone-head), anyway it’s called otosclerosis, but my GP thinks mine’s just eustachian tubes). I’m sick of not hearing stuff very well, and it annoys my friends, they get sick of telling me stuff two and three times. I have to be able to see the mouth of the person talking and that fills in a lot of the missing bits.
Working for Telecom for years probably didn’t help, on the phones.
- Oh Look! Ears, grommits, middle ear infections, eustachian tubes. Interesting. I’ve already had a myringioplasty, and it was not nice, the feeling of beeing absolutley drunk off your face, unbalanced, etc, and the ex laughing at me, it was awful.
But at least I could hear again!
- Habib- sorry I’m late to this party, but there is nothing better than a great air crew.
I personally made the frame for that flag that now hangs over the major’s fireplace.
Good Luck Mate!
- May 27 2:15 PM EST – Predictably, and in an automotive preview of what Chavez is doing to Venezuela, God’s Gift to Racing crashes out of the race.Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 05 27 at 02:16 PM • permalink
- (EDT, I mean)Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 05 27 at 02:27 PM • permalink
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