Soccer by itself is merely a game and as such is not objectionable. What is objectionable is its politicization. It is hoped by the leftists that “International Soccer” will replace the purely American sports of Baseball, Football and Basketball thus showing all that we Americans are tolerant, loving, peaceful and are now officially cosmopolitan. We will belong to the world. When soccer replaces the purely American sports of Football, Basketball and Baseball it will be but one more nail in the coffin of American exceptional-ism.
I saw a lot of Gladsden flags proudly flying at the recent US match against Mexico.
I love watching soccer, the beautiful game. Although I like American football, I have a very hard time watching 7 minutes of actual football play, played out in three long hours.
ObamaCare already is, many things.
One that it will become, is *NOT* “single payer.”
Rather, ObamaCare will establish GROUP HEALTH ‘INSURANCE COVERAGE’, setting aside for now, that ObamaCare will never provide EITHER group nor single, health care.
The GROUPS will be, those associations who arrange for special treatment - yes, that will be un-Constitutional, but one of the GROUPS will be the Congress, and another group will be the Judiciary, and another group will be the Executive, and ... so on for other government departments and administrations at both the federal and state levels, plus labor GROUPS, plus politically-correct GROUPS approved by the Race Hustlers, plus some select corporate GROUPS.
That leaves THE OTHER GROUP, in which the rest of us “fall” and will be immersed in a system of amazingly laborious paperwork ... and poverty of BOTH insurance ‘coverage’ AND actual, good health care service.
The other thing that ObamaCare is, that too many people keep missing, is that ObamaCare IS A MEANS TEST.
It is designed - that means testing - to “help” you with acquiring supplemental payments *to* your premium payments.
*BUT* YOU WILL FALL INTO THE TRAP, of having to comply with THE MEANS TEST, *REGARDLESS* of whether or not you seek supplements.
THE PURPOSE OF THE MEANS TEST, is for the government to acquire information about you, in order to pigeon hole ALL of your financial activities *REGARDLESS* of whether or not an actual financial transaction occurs.
The government - ObamaCare - seeks to know every penny you have and where it is.
That is the overall purpose of ObamaCare - to get at all of your assets and the value of them, to be estimated by the government ... agents.
I don't care for soccer, playing or watching. But it doesn't mean I hate, I simply just don't care for it.
What soccer, or football, because it is played with foots and not with armpits and crotches like that other corporate sport, what soccer lacks for the Republicans is what they call ‘compassionate conservatism’, that is white guilt and Affirmative Action without Affirmative Action which they hate, but instead just rewards for muscles, weight and toughness, and less for sophisticated footwork that the real football requires.
Thought the game was fun and never played in HS.
I thought I was too small to make the big team, My fault.
It’s a terribly boring sport to watch but I don’t think it has anything to do with R vs D (I even have a couple Republican friends who watch it, for reasons unknown to me). As much as the media wants to push soccer on Americans, most of us just don’t like it and so nobody probably even thought to ask MLS teams not to market Obamacare.
Third world kickball