It's not going to be a complete cut, but I'll let you know what gave me the idea for the title and theme:
"When ‘Goodfellas’ collided with BC basketball; More than 3 decades on, a point-shaving scheme still affects the accused and players now on the court" by Bob Hohler | Globe Staff, March 16, 2014
In one of collegiate sport’s darkest hours, a plot to manipulate the outcome of BC basketball games for corrupt gamblers, Rick Kuhn ensnared BC’s respected basketball captains Ernie Cobb and Jim Sweeney in the scandal, forever altering their lives, staining the Jesuit institution they represented, and producing a cautionary tale about the seductive power of the multibillion-dollar sports gambling industry.
The notorious “Goodfellas” gangster Henry Hill later confessed the BC conspiracy to agents investigating the signature crime of his mob crew — the robbery of $5 million in cash and $1 million in jewelry from Lufthansa Airlines at Kennedy International Airport in 1978, then the largest cash robbery in US history. The crime was immortalized in the movie “Goodfellas.’’
Federal prosecutors in January renewed interest in both cases — the point-shaving and the robbery — when they charged reputed mobster Vincent Asaro with participating in the Lufthansa job. The stolen loot was never recovered, most of the gangsters involved in the heist were murdered, and agents recently digging for evidence in the case allegedly discovered remains from a decades-old mob hit....
Suddenly, retrospectives on the BC saga are in vogue. A film documentary is in production for ESPN’s “30 for 30’’ series. Cobb, in his first interview about the case in 30 years, said he is working on a movie and a book about his life. Sweeney said he is close to a national television deal for an animated sports media program inspired in part by the scandal. And Daniel Simone’s forthcoming book, “The Lufthansa Heist,’’ takes a new look at the BC crime, which the Goodfellas gangsters committed the same winter as the Lufthansa caper....
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For those who care, I'm just going to say I didn't shave any points this morning and I did not play particularly well, either. Scored a few baskets, but missed many more and my opponent scored often while out rebounding me. Never quit, but was out of gas by the end as he wore me down with his strength and length (unlike last week).
On a separate vein, I notice a lot of the arenas nearly empty during the college tournaments this week, and thought how can they be covering costs and making money when it occurred to me: it's TV money.
And where does TV money come from? Advertisers, like banks and other corporate concerns. Impoverishing us and using the loot to divert and distract us all. I'll be watching the games and love playing myself, but I do recognize what is behind so many things in our society.
This guy is going to look like his head was shaved, and that is sad no matter who it is. Makes you realize our world is full of toxins.
Maybe this will help him out:
"Doctors open offices in Mass. to prescribe marijuana; But niche marketing approach raises concerns" by Liz Kowalczyk | Globe Staff March 16, 2014
A new niche — psychiatrists, anesthesiologists, obstetrician-gynecologists, internists, and pain specialists turned medical marijuana specialists.
Even though medical marijuana dispensaries are not expected to open for months, these doctors have already “certified’’ hundreds of patients to grow or buy the drug....
Yup, more months sick people will have to suffer (blog editor exhales).
The state’s largest doctors organization is critical of many of the new practices....
“The commercial part of this is way ahead of the curve,’’ said Dr. Ronald Dunlap, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society....
Doe$n't $eem to be such a big deal when it involves pre$cription pharmaceuticals. Hell, I have a whole $ection that extols their virtues.
These practices are flourishing in part because mainstream physicians are often reluctant to certify chronically ill patients who want to use marijuana. Many doctors do not believe medical marijuana is supported by science — or are waiting for their employers to develop policies. Until they approve guidelines, most hospitals and large doctors’ groups are leaving the decision up to individual doctors, but a few, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, have told physicians not to certify patients for now.
Physicians who do decide to approve patients will have to take courses on the risks and benefits of medical marijuana.
Doctors opening the marijuana practices also sense a business opportunity....
Yeah, they are out to make money of the ha$$le of getting into the marijuana business.
Patients, many suffering from pain that they say has not responded to conventional treatment, pay doctors $200 to $250 for an initial evaluation and a certification that will protect them legally if they are caught with the drug.
I don't even trust that anymore. They benefit by keeping you $ick.
And the physicians do not have to deal with insurance companies, which do not cover the visits.
I $uppo$e there is a $ilver lining to every cloud of smoke.
Some doctors also sell hand-held vaporizers, cultivation books, and other products....
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Extra toke: Will Mass. legalize marijuana before happy hour?
Maybe I should smoke before I play ball.
Not am I only no longer married to a certain parade, I'm divorcing myself from the coverage.
Here is a reminder to be careful with the razor:
"There is an image that Byron Dorgan, cochairman of the task force and a former senator from North Dakota, can’t get out of his head.... A toxic collection of pathologies — poverty, unemployment, domestic violence, sexual assault, alcoholism, and drug addiction — has seeped into the lives of young people."
I'm sure it's the same as any other group, right (blog editor shaking his head; what this government won't do to avoid fulfilling its responsibilities to veterans after using them up)?
Maybe we should just offer a prayer and forget about it. I might dig through one story, but you don't have to be a genius to know you are being fed (looks yummy, doesn't it?) agenda-pushing shit. The reason you are going to have to crunch down is because the great globalists (who will still have sumptuous buffets) have ruined the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean as a food source. That and the GMOs are causing cancers and deaths. Playing with the building blocks of life they are.
Hey, more power to 'em, right?
Looking down I noticed I left a hell of a lot of Globe hair on the floor!
