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Glenn Beck hates the World Cup a lot, likely because the rest of the world hates it. Beck also draws some giant analogy with almost no thought put into it about how the World Cup represents Barack Obama’s policies. (If he means Barack Obama’s policies unite the world, I guess he sees that as a bad thing?) Beck also thinks America will reject the World Cup no matter how much it is forced down our throats. This facts, once again, have no impact on Beck’s ravings. World Cup coverage is breaking records with numbers of viewers. He also must really hate Rupert Murdoch for shoving soccer down our throats, what with Fox Soccer Channel and all. And those damned corporations advertising soccer apparently have been socialists all along.

Dan Gainor believes it must be a socialist plot because soccer is for the poor. He also claims our sporting events don’t devolve into riots. (Hmm, within the last week L.A. rioters burned a cab, Artest and team fighting the crowd, Michigan St. riots, the ten here, and on and on. Is he kidding?) He also claims soccer is being sold in America due to the “browning” of America. Seriously.

Some say soccer is being promoted by the left because they are uncomfortable with American exceptionalism (or something?). Gary Schmitt says soccer must be unAmerican because of some drivel about excellence prevailing in American sports and not in soccer (which is absolute garbage).

Others wonder why it’s being forced on us when we aren’t getting any better, though we’ve clearly improved a great deal and continue to do so. Look at the amount of youths that play soccer. It is growing.

I’m not the biggest soccer fan in the world, and for a good deal of time I would always say I hated soccer. Weird, right, since I’m a left-wing nutjob. But I hated it because I thought it was boring, not because of some strange conspiracy, or because it was scary and different. I’m really giving watching it a shot and I find that even the games not involving America are interesting. The score might be 1-0 but there are no shortage of near goals, great shots, great saves, or great crosses. And I realize it was hypocritical of me because I love a 1-0 baseball game and a 3-0 football game for many of the same reasons. The more America learns about the game the more it can appreciate and enjoy it, which is what is happening.

But back to the left-wing conspiracy garbage. These people are simply afraid of what is different. If something they don’t understand comes along, it must be dangerous. If the rest of the world (including allies and enemies) loves it, it must be horrible. Poor countries play it, it must be for poor people. Brown countries play it, it must be for brown people. The crap spewing from these peoples’ mouths is truly insane, and it makes me even happier to be enjoying the World Cup. I hope it’s a huge success and soccer continues to grow, just to make these crotchety old dudes uncomfortable. I can just picture the, “I hate change!” and “New things scare me!” cries emanating from various conservative news sources.

Enjoy the World Cup.

Adam Feser

I hate soccer so anytime someone uses Lego’s to make fun of it, I have to show the world

Its about damn time. Super Bowl XLVIII will be played in an outdoor stadium in a cold weather city. Not only a cold weather city but probably one of the greatest cities on earth.
The Meadowlands will be the site for Super Bowl XLVIII and I couldn’t be
Football is meant to be played in the outdoors when the weather is below zero and there is three feet of snow on the ground. I applaud the NFL owners for reaching this decision and maybe we can move forward with Pittsburgh, Denver, Cincinnati, and Cleveland just to name a few…

Enjoy the game how God meant it for…

Recently, I was on a cruise to the Caribbean and two years ago I was on a different cruise to the other side of the Caribbean. I visited countries like St. Marteen, Honduras, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Belize, and Grand Cayman. At all times, we were told by the cruise lines (Carnival and Royal Caribbean) that we should always carry identification with us, whether that would be copies of our passport, the original passport, and our drivers license. Recently 3 colleagues went to the Ukraine on a business trip and they were told by IRX(the company sending them overseas) to have their passports in hand at all times. Why? Because at any time we could be asked for it and if we didn’t have it we would be sent packing.

Why should this be different in this country. If you are here illegally, you are breaking the law. Send you packing sir. If you want to be part of this country, learn our language and take the test (I know its not that simple). How much does it cost the American Taxpayer each year to have an illegal in this country b/c of things we pay for(unpaid medical care, ect).

It has caused huge unrest across the country from a warning from the state department on travels to Mexico to Major League Baseball threatening to pull the 2012 All-Star game from Phoenix if this law stays in affect.

This is what I tell the law-makers of Arizona: “Way to go and do not back down”

As for what the rest of the country things, take a look here and see what Business Week has in an article. You might be surprised what the poll they cited had to say….

Apparently Miami Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland thought this was a good question to ask of Dallas Cowboys rookie Dez Bryant during a pre-draft interview.
Ireland has since apologized.

My question is what was Ireland thinking.  He couldn’t have thought this would have been an acceptable question while conducting the interview.  What do these types of questions have to do with what the player is going to do on the field.  If I would have been Bryant, I may have gotten up and sent Ireland into next week.  Despite what is in his mothers past, this totally crossed the line. 

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell needs to act.  A fine, suspension, anything.

You have to see this video. ESPN has a show about sports science, and this one features Nebraska defensive tackle, Heisman finalist, and soon-to-be NFL draftee Ndamukong Suh.

I’ll let you watch the video to see how amazing he is. Just listen to how quickly he accelerates and how many pounds of force he hits with. It’s nuts.

Enjoy the Red Sox ruining Minnesota’s home opener.

Adam Feser

Sports Rant of the Day: Tiger Woods. While what he did to his wife is terrible and I tend to lose any respect for a man that does that to his wife, it is none of our business. He doesn’t owe you an apology. The only people he needs to apologize to are his wife and kids and maybe his sponsors/endorsements. Remember, athletes are not to be role models…Tiger Woods owes you nothing

Since Adam does song of the day, I will do a sports rant of the day.  This will ensure that I am posting almost daily.

Storming the court is one of the dumbest thing is sports.  There is a time and a place for fans to storm the court.  Wednesday night was not one of those instances.

#4 Duke Blue Devils traveled to College Park, MA to take on #23 Maryland Terrapins.  It was a hard fought 40 minutes of basketball that saw Duke go down by double-digits and the come storming back.  In the end, Maryland ended up winning the game and immediately the fans stormed the court to celebrate this victory in a regular season game.

Rick Reilly on Storming the Cout

I have a hard time with Maryland storming the court because they are a top 25 team going against another top 25 team going for a tie for the conference lead.  That’s right, I said a tie for the conference lead.

If this would have been for the National Championship, by all means storm the court.

So Planned Parenthood has gotten themselves all excited again over someone using their right of free speech to speak out against abortion.

Tebow-abortion ad flap adds to Super Bowl hype

As an abortion opponent I am fine with this ad.  I applaud him for being able to speak out on this controversial issue when he is trying to prepare himself for the next level in football.  He is very passionate about this issue as the doctors told his mother to have an abortion when she was carrying him b/c of a possible disease.  Looks like he is fine to me.

It is my opinion that no doctor should advise on an abortion unless they are asked(unless the mother’s life is in danger).

As much dislike I have for the Florida Gators, I still say, great job Mr. Tebow for standing up for your convictions and beliefs.

Enjoy New Orleans decimation of the Colts….

We’re thinking of changing the name to the blog, and some reader input would be nice. I’ve made a list of names and possible slogans. Let us know if you have a perfect name for the blog or if you really like one of my ridiculous pieces of absurdity.

PolPop – Politics and Pop Culture
Politipop –
Demlican – Ideas from Democrat to Republican to Federalists to Whigs to Democratic Republicans
Republicrat –
Politics, Sports, and Entertainment blog
Aberdeen Political Blog
The Purple Pedestal – What’s Red and Blue and debates all over?
The Purple Politician –
The Purple Party – What’s Red and Blue and lasts until “?”? What’s Red and Blue and lasts until question mark? What’s Red and Blue and knows how to get down? America’s third major party. Way cooler than the Green Party.
The product of Republican-Democrat babymaking. Join the fun. Making the democratic process cool again.
The Purple Soapbox – Red and Blue being heard.
The Purple War – Dropping Red and Blue knowledge bombs everywhere.
LibCon Con(vention) – A forum for all ideas
ConLib Con(vention –
LibCon Liaison – Bringing enemies together
ConLib Liaison –
Democratic RePUBlicans – Politics and booze. Politics and booze = spirited debate.
Moderate by Mixture – Left + Right = Center. Naughty by nature, moderate by mixture.
Danny Boy and the Funky Bunch – We got your good vibrations.

Enjoy Marky Mark gettin’ it done.

Adam Feser