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Can someone please explain to me why our Congress is so fucking useless, they are listening to testimonies about steroid use in the MLB? They honestly don't have anything better to do?!

Why is this even being fought out in Washington DC in the first place? The MLB could settle this in any civil court, couldn't they? Or even among themselves. Baseball isn't that fucking important, I don't get it.

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Can someone please explain to me why our Congress is so fucking useless, they are listening to testimonies about steroid use in the MLB? They honestly don't have anything better to do?!

Why is this even being fought out in Washington DC in the first place? The MLB could settle this in any civil court, couldn't they? Or even among themselves. Baseball isn't that fucking important, I don't get it.

But, but, it's our national pastime!
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you see, pro and con are opposites, like black and white, off and on.

so if Progress is to move forwards, what would that make Congress...

Can someone please explain to me why our Congress is so fucking useless
Because your country is strongly divided between two parties, one of which is far more united than the other, with the Democrats being essentially a rainbow opposition to the Republicans, and in circumstances like we have now, where numbers of Democrats and Republicans are very similar, with a bias towards Democrats, it takes ages to get everything done.

As to the baseball element - aye, it's a pisstake, but there we go.

Yeah, I agree with you guys that Congress is sucking right now. But can someone take one second of seriousness to tell me the legal basis for this shit?

you see, pro and con are opposites, like black and white, off and on.

so if Progress is to move forwards, what would that make Congress...

Uber Thread WIN!!

Yeah, I agree with you guys that Congress is sucking right now. But can someone take one second of seriousness to tell me the legal basis for this shit?

what do you mean 'right now'? :D

serious answer. Because the MLB and other sports franchises cultivate role models for people. thus the idea that they are taking drugs to become successful would send the wrong messages to those who are more impressionable (read gullible) and someone has to put a stop to it.

Since the majority of parents can't be relied on to teach their children basic safety rules around the neighborhood, much less the dangers of relying on drugs, it falls on to congress to regulate and pass laws that will keep those Impressionable people safe.

add to that the MLB and other national sports conglomerates are not restricted to any one State, but a Nation wide group, it's regulations fall on a Federal level and not State.

Can someone please explain to me why our Congress is so fucking useless, they are listening to testimonies about steroid use in the MLB? They honestly don't have anything better to do?!

Why is this even being fought out in Washington DC in the first place? The MLB could settle this in any civil court, couldn't they? Or even among themselves. Baseball isn't that fucking important, I don't get it.
MLB has a state sanctioned monopoly, thanks to Congress. It is in Congress's interest to make sure it doesn't screw up, and remains deserving of its charter.

You're right, it's really not that important. But then again, there are plenty of unimportant things Congress does that we just don't see constantly in the news. The baseball testimonies are in the news only because many people like baseball: if many people liked the salary of federal employees in the Department of Energy, I'm sure we'd hear about that, too.

The Constitution is now worthless, and Congress can do whatever the **** they want. Now pay your taxes and stop asking questions! Who are YOU to question the almighty Federal Government?

/sarcasm off

But, but, it's our national pastime!
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Baseball < Football

Damn straight. It's so stupid that they're wasting tens of thousands of taxpayers' dollars on a game.

I should run for congress. I wouldn't try to pull this shit. I would work to increase freedom and end stupid stuff. Like this.

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Sorry, but I felt that this reasonably expresses my distaste of congress.

Congress dosen't like to adress REAL problems, they like to listen to utter crap. Listening to REAL problems would force them to actually THINK, and we all know how hard that is for congress.

How about Senator Arlen Spector bitching about Bill Belichick and the Patriots taping defensive signals.

Even if the allegations are true, it's simply an infraction of NFL rules, NOT a violation of any US law. And yet this moron wants to hold hearings on it!

Steroid abuse in sports is a complete joke with so much hypocrisy, hot air and blatant lying that, to some degree, it's right at home in Congress.

There's the reality of having to win against the laws of how you can win and the enormous disparity between the two is about equal between sports and Congress.

If Steroid Nation restricted itself to bodybuilding it would be little more than a freak peep show. It doesn't. It chronicles how steroids and human growth hormone leaked into mainstream sports. It flatly states that cycling, athletics, baseball and American football are awash with performance-enhancing drugs at all levels and have been for decades.

And journalists are complicit in selling the myth that it's just a matter of kicking a few unnaturally swollen snakes out of the sporting garden of Eden. (Is there, for instance, anyone who seriously thinks that all the bodies on display at the Rugby World Cup were achieved "naturally"? Or that rugby league has had problems with drugs but union hasn't? Really? So why the silence?)

Link (http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/02/13/no_drugs_in_sport_the_hypocris.html)

The media are just as guilty of selling complete bullshit when it comes to truth in both these arenas - to some extent, the ease with which you can place an injunction on the media is really to blame though I can't see an easy solution.

The problem is, is that congress is made up of politicians: You know, people who are only good at making us believe that they are our leaders.

Come to think of it, it says a lot about the general population that we believe them.

All they care about is money and power.