#mark martin

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2007 Mark Martin #01 U.S. Army, Signed by Mark. Motorsport Authorities Owners Club Select. Should've won the 500 😔

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Carros que estão no jogo Nascar 2000 e também Nascar Rumble (Playstation 1) (Parte 2)

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Went to an antique mall today.

Yes, I do think it is quite funny that every single thing here predates my own birth and yet it all still excites me.

While I was kind of hoping for a little more variety in what I would find (perhaps something that I would actually remember from my own childhood like classic Angry Birds or Cars stuff), 90’s/00’s NASCAR merchandise is super fucking awesome, super fucking plentiful in antique malls, and super fucking cheap, so I’m not going to complain.

I particularly like the Terry Labonte (#5 Kellogg’s car) battery pack-in thing. It just screams that it’s something that would have casually been at a store in that specific period in time, and maybe would have even been convenient for someone.

I’m reminded of the story in this S1apSh0es video (https://youtu.be/PVDoWEGA-VM) where he recounts asking his mom to pick up a specific thing of Spam so he could get the pack-in Lake Speed car as a kid in the 90’s.

Similarly, there were an absolute metric assload of #43 Petty cars being sold for extra cheap, and most of them seemed to be cereal box/snack pack-ins. We didn’t get any of those, though. Both of these (and the Tony Stewart one) are actually cars you would have bought on their own like the in-box Mark Martin one. One is Richard Petty and one is John Andretti. The only one I can firmly place a definitive manufacturer on is the Pop Secret Andretti car, it’s a Hot Wheel.

I feel the need to add that the only reason Bill Elliot Barbie was purchased was because my mom thought it was funny and interesting. I don’t mind owning it. She’s right. It is very funny and interesting.

If you too have an interest in stuff like this, I can only recommend you find an antique store somewhere; there’s going to be a lot of it and it’s all going to be a lot cheaper than if you got it on eBay or whatever. The small 1:64 cars were only, like, 1-5 dollars apiece, and the bigger Earnhardt and Gordon ones were both about 15. It feels almost unreal to me how reasonably priced everything was.

And if you aren’t interested in classic NASCAR, get into it. It’s cooler than it looks.

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bill elliott edition v mark martin edition

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THE official parody

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2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series: Mark Martin, #6 Valvoline Ford, Roush Racing. Download full resolution & extras on Patreon.

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2011 Mark Martin #25 Farmers Insurance 1986 #25 Retro Signed. Ran at the Sprint All-Star Challenge, finished 19th. Commemorating the HMS debut of the 25 Team in 1986, at that time, 25 years ago in 2011.

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Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski, and Brett Murphy at ProPublica:

Dallas real estate billionaire Harlan Crow paid tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ grandnephew for two years at two private boarding schools, according to a statement released Thursday by a longtime friend of Thomas’.

The statement came in response to a ProPublica story that disclosed Crow had paid the fees at two schools for Mark Martin, a relative who Thomas had legal guardianship of and said he was raising “as a son.” Thomas did not include the payments in the financial disclosures he is required to file each year.

Mark Paoletta, the friend, acknowledged that Crow paid Martin’s tuition at both Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia and Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia, saying Crow paid for one year at each school. Paoletta did not give a total amount but, based on the tuition rates at the time, the two years would amount to roughly $100,000. Martin attended Randolph-Macon for multiple years, and the statement did not say who had paid for the remainder of his high school education.

Paoletta, Crow and Thomas did not respond to further requests for comment.

The revelation of the tuition payments deepens the financial ties between Crow, a Republican megadonor, and Thomas, who earns $285,000 a year as a Supreme Court justice. Last month, ProPublica reported that Crow had paid for decades of luxury vacations and travel for Thomas and his wife and had bought the home of Thomas’ mother, making tens of thousands of dollars of improvements to it.

“This story is another attempt to manufacture a scandal about Justice Thomas,” Paoletta wrote. “But let’s be clear about what is supposedly scandalous now: Justice Thomas and his wife devoted twelve years of their lives to taking in and caring for a beloved child — who was not their own — just as Justice Thomas’s grandparents had done for him.”

“They made many personal and financial sacrifices to do this. And along the way, their friends joined them in doing everything possible to give this child a future.”

Paoletta asserted that Thomas was not required to report the tuition payments “made directly to these schools” because Martin was not his “dependent child” as defined by federal disclosure law. Thomas has said he was advised he didn’t need to disclose the luxury travel because it was hospitality from a friend.

Legal ethics experts said the justice should have disclosed the payments as a gift because they defray tuition costs that he would otherwise be responsible for paying. Several years earlier, Thomas did disclose a $5,000 gift to help with Martin’s education from another friend. Minor children are seldom responsible for their own tuition. Martin told ProPublica in an interview he had not been aware Crow had paid his fees.

In Washington, prominent Democratic lawmakers renewed calls for ethics reform. One called for a Justice Department investigation.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that ProPublica’s latest report “continues a steady stream of revelations calling Justices’ ethics standards and practices into question.”

“I think that all Justices should be held to the same ethical standards as every other federal judge,” he said. “The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards.”

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chair of the Senate Finance Committee who previously sent a letter to Crow requesting a full accounting of the gifts he’s given Thomas, said: “Harlan Crow has been subsidizing an extravagant lifestyle that Justice Thomas and his family could not otherwise afford. This is a foul breach of ethics standards.”

If Crow doesn’t comply, Wyden added, the lawmaker intends to “explore using other tools at the committee’s disposal to obtain this critical information.”

In an interview with CNN, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., reiterated a call for a Justice Department probe and subpoenas to force Thomas to testify before Congress. Chief Justice John Roberts has previously rebuffed invitations to testify before Congress. He cited the “separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence.”

Blumenthal told CNN that “the drip, drip, drip of these destructive disclosures is going to destroy the United States Supreme Court unless there is an effective proper investigation.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who has sought Supreme Court ethics reform for years and has co-authored bills to shore up the ethics rules for justices on the high court, wrote on Twitter: “When does the stench get bad enough that SCOTUS stops the cover-up and ends the mischief? This is on the Chief Justice to solve, plain and simple. Mom’s rent, family tuition, vacations and gifts — and secret? Any other government employee would be fired.”

ProPublica reported Clarence Thomas’s friend, Mark Paoletta, stated that Harlan Crow paid tuition for Mark Martin, the grandnephew of the ethically compromised judge, at two boarding schools: Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia and Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia.

Read the full story at ProPublica.

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Maison Martin Margiela autumn/winter 1998-1999 Photography: Mark Borthwick

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More cats! This obsession will never stop-

I only realized halfway through that @ultramarinaa already made an official cat!sasha deign but I was so attached to the tabby and I really wanted Tim to be grey so I cheated. I guess this is just my own headcannon of it-

I mostly did this for my own reference though so it’s not too serious I guess

Anyway Elias is miserable with all his cat employees and Jon is a silly little guy who doesn’t know how to cat

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Top 10 Best Nascar Drivers of All Time

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