How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row?
Drudge: NASCAR fans fire back at 'inoculated' congressional staffers...
Stock-car racing fans filled Lowe's Motor Speedway in North Carolina yesterday, erasing concerns that a political dispute in Washington had erupted into a full-scale health scare at NASCAR events.
Democratic House staffers, who were attending the Bank of America 500 race as part of a fact-finding mission of health and homeland security issues, took the unusual step of getting inoculated against several rare diseases and a sexually transmitted illness.
Republican staffers refused the shots, saying they are not necessary. The recommendation also angered some lawmakers, who thought it was insulting to suggest that race fans might be infectious.
However, the dispute raised questions among NASCAR fans about whether they needed to be immunized as well.
"No one has suggested that fans get any — or need any — shots at all," NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said. "This simply appears to be a dispute between staffers that has been blown out of proportion."
NASCAR commentators did not mention the dispute as the 500-mile race proceeded under the lights last night.
The House Office of the Attending Physician said domestic travel by congressional staffers does not require shots for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria and influenza.
NASCAR driver Jimmy Spencer told The Washington Times that fans are upset that stock-car races were singled out and that other such events as football games or musical concerts were not originally included in the study by the House Homeland Security Committee about health risks at heavily attended gatherings.
No, generic Democrass staffer! Tin foil hats will not protect you from right wing race (get it?) nazis.
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