The Observation Deck

Mark

This week Roldo Bartimole nails Cleveland's and Lakewood biggest problems.

The Ruling Class, people not elected pulling the strings to suit their needs and dreams, fuck the residents.

Lakewood Hospital, but one small example.

What has happened here was recently written about as what is wrong with Cleveland.

A good read for all - https://www.crainscleveland.com/opinion ... ling-class?

I have complained about the same thing here since the end of the Tom George administration.

We have a ruling class here that works the system 130% of the time. Residents, don;t have a chance.

And when one realizes it is wrong, as you have witnessed and felt, you are attacked for being "any one of a number of things that all means you are a thinker and dangerous.

Lakewood and Cleveland have no future until it sheds itself of the ruling class here.

You can bet on that.

Interesting history. Good article.

Seems like the so-called "conspiracy theorists" are being vindicated theses days

It is a good thing professional soccer has not become very popular in the U.S. If that happened Cuyahoga leaders would end up building another tax payer funded stadium or arena. And they would be obsessed with placing it as close to Lake Erie as possible. That is why it is important to not support professional soccer in America. With modern technology you can watch games from other countries on television.

ryan costa wrote:It is a good thing professional soccer has not become very popular in the U.S. If that happened Cuyahoga leaders would end up building another tax payer funded stadium or arena. And they would be obsessed with placing it as close to Lake Erie as possible. That is why it is important to not support professional soccer in America. With modern technology you can watch games from other countries on television.

Now that's a unique and interesting argument against soccer. Don't support it and maybe it will go away.

Professional soccer has the most violent fans in the world. But this is only in places where professional soccer is popular. Like Europe. They are called “soccer Hooligans”. Amateur soccer is fine.

An American philosopher attributes this violence to the Europeans having much better healthcare.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=in3Ppk9NG9U

I believe this pathology is directly related to professional soccer. If professional soccer ever became popular in the United States this pathology would mutate. We would have thousands of additional gunshot victims across the nation after every soccer game. A 2,000 percent increase in young lawyers and MBAs getting sloshed on Guinness and crashing sports cars and SUVs while trying to use highway entrance ramps and exit ramps.

Jared Denman wrote:Seems like the so-called "conspiracy theorists" are being vindicated theses days

You know what I have always said.

Even a blind nut gets found by a squirrel now and then.

How are you doing?

peace

The Fans of Professional Soccer disease began in Britain in the 1960s. By the 1980s it began to infect mainland Europe.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4r0xXlGdaE0

The United States was only spared because professional soccer was not popular here. There were struggling leagues; these were hardly viable enough to support teams. One of my high school history teachers said most of the players had to work in flower shops during the off season.

But America is prone to fads. In addition to the enormous subsidies and abatements for stadiums and arenas and shopping malls. For the last thirty years it was for Convention Centers and Casinos. When the public became jaded on convention centers, it became popular to market convention centers as “medical marts”.

So be wary of anyone promoting professional soccer. It will end up with enormous subsidies to build waterfront arenas for billionaire team owners. I have already figured out how to make professional soccer more popular in America: just make the goals twice as wide. If the teams chased the scores up faster it would not be so goddam boring to watch.