I normally try to keep from personal rants on this blog but this one just has to come out. I read on tuesday that congress is going to have a talk with David Stern about the current situation with the NBA and gambling. I find this to be both amazing and unacceptable. When President Bush wanted to unilaterally go to war with Iraq congress apparently didnt have the time to discuss the decision, a discussion that potentially could have brought out the fact that the evidence of WMDs was fabricated and saved us from the current sticky situation we find ourselves in with Iraq. I understand that the Patriot Act was passed during a time of heightened fear and anger in this country and can see why nobody took the time to review it when it was first passed, however when the time came to reauthorize it with many of the drawbacks and questionable sections of the act widely known in this country congress again lacked time to properly discuss the reauthorization and instead decided to go ahead and reauthorize the act that has done more damage to the freedoms of people in this country than any terrorist attack ever could. While President Bush has been steadily usurping powers that once belonged to the congress thereby offsetting the system of checks and balances that was so wisely set up by our forefathers, congress was too busy investigating steroids in baseball to take note, or defend themselves. In the original blueprint for this country the government was to be responsible to the people ideally making a situation like this impossible, the problem is the people in this country are more interested in Sports and Hollywood than our countries global actions. I can’t help but feel that we are moments away from started a World War under the disguise of a congressional inquiry into teen pop stars that grow up to become drug addicted psychos. If that happens I am moving to Canada where the total absence of professional sports and celebrities provides them immunity from making such egregious errors. Today we drink because it kills brain cells, cheers.
