I haven't felt like I could put together a complete blog post in almost 3 months, but how about I let go of trying to make it perfect and just chat?
Normally, I try not to stir up any stuff by talking politics. It's not my thing. I will never run for office, and I don't have the answers, so my stance is silence. But a couple of months ago, a political person, I guess that's what you would call her, took a shot at soccer. Whaaaaat? Was it a slow news day or something? I'm going to put the link to the whole article here.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-06-25.html
You can read it yourself and draw your own conclusions. Clearly, she isn't soccer-savvy. I consider it just wrong to tell people a bunch of random things that are your observations and based on nothing.
Here's the part that set me off:--- If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time. ---
Wow. She promises you.
I watch soccer. I watch almost all the major sports. I watch golf. I was born before 1965. I had eight great-grandparents that were born here, and I WATCH and LOVE soccer. Doubt I'm the only one. I have Native American blood and am a card carrying tribal member, which probably means my soccer-loving heritage and relatives were here before hers were. Puh-leez! Learning English? I would challenge her to any form of English language competition or flipping spelling bee. Oh. My. Gosh.
And lastly, "these new Americans"????
The only reason I read the article was because it had the words 'hating soccer' in the title, and it was on a major news feed. It was around the time of the World Cup. I feel like some people just can't talk about anything unless it is negative. Well, I'm not riding that train.
I thought it was hilarious (jealousy, perhaps -- sarcasm) that she wasn't impressed with that handsome David Beckham. You know the one who is trying to establish a MLS team in Miami? He wants to build a ginormous stadium, (just like soccer stadiums all over the world) maybe on the waterfront, but he is flexible. He just wants to make it happen.
We live in a nation of immigrants. Could we possibly get along? Could we possibly be happy for others? Could we possibly act to improve things instead of complaining?
So here's to being positive. Here's to being nice.
Here's to not wallowing in whatever you want to pout about.
(Improper use of a preposition -- I know, CLB)
