Goonies

What do these five men have in common?

CONSPIRACY

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The allegation:  that members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supported the sales of cocaine to fund a secret Central American army as part of the Iran-Contra scandal.

The Players:
1. "Freeway" Ricky Ross: the multimillionaire crack king fall guy.  First, sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, he's due to be released later this year.
2. Danilo Blandon: the insider.  Supplied cocaine to Ricky Ross, sentenced to three years in jail, then landed a job with the Drug Enforcement Agency.
3. John Kerry: the senator.  After a senate investigation he's still adamant the CIA owes an explanation to the citizens of South Central Los Angeles.
4. John M.Deutch: Director of the CIA.  After publicly denying any drug trafficking by the CIA, he was pardoned by President Clinton on Clinton's final day in the oval office.
5. Gary Webb: the Journalist. He committed "suicide" in 2004 after winning a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering this story.

THE DATELINE STORY

For more information check out:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html

"American Gangster: Freeway Ricky Ross" on itunes.

The Most Ridiculous Fight Scenes of All Time

THE MEAT GRINDER

30lbs of Rice

The Bird's Eye

Smallest Muscleman in the Universe

Optical Illusion of Billy Mitchell

My secret ambition was always

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come. - Ravi Shankar

He who binds to himself

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. - William Blake

Animal Warfare: The best nature video of all time.

Synopsis: Lions catch baby buffalo.  Crocodiles attack lions.  Buffaloes attack lions and save the baby buffalo.

"If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit,"

but, "If the boots fit, you must convict."

(this picture was taken before O.J. had his third leg amputated)

The Year In Review

JANUARY
Washington: Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the House.
News: China successfully destroys an orbiting satellite with a missile.
News: Russia Claims the North Pole.
Sports: Michael Vick is arrested at the Miami Airport for almost using a water bottle to smuggle an unknown substance.
News: battery-powered LED placards with an image Mooninite cause a bomb scare in Massachusetts.

Obit: Art Buchwald, 81, Jan. 17      

FEBRUARY
Washington: George Bush gives a State of the Union Address focused on Social Security and the Middle East.
News: The first anniversary of Dick Cheney shooting someone in the face with a gun.
Obit: Anna Nicole Smith Dies
Science: a high-powered circular particle accelerator helps scientists discover two new chemical elements ununtrium and ununpentium.
   

MARCH
News:  25th anniversary of John Belushi’s death and the 4th anniversary of the War in Iraq.

Obit: Richard Jeni, 49, March 10

APRIL
Obit: Kurt Vonnegut dies April 11
Science: Mary Schweitzer isolates a 68 million year old gene in the Tyrannosaurus rex that is shared by present day chickens.

Science: Astronomers find a second earth only 20 light years away.
Media: Don Imus is fired for saying something hurtful.
News: Captain America is arrested for groping women with a burrito in his pants.
News: The Virgina Tech Massacre.

MAY
Science: Astronomers Discover that Dark Matter makes up 90% of the universe.

Obit:Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, May 25

JUNE

Chris Farley is Reincarnated

JULY
Science: Researchers at MIT adapt the Wi-Fi concept to electricity allowing anything that uses electricity to be powered wirelessly.
Sports: The Iraqi National Soccer Team wins the Asia Cup. 
News: Rupert Murdoch reaches an agreement to purchase the Wall Street Journal.
    

AUGUST
News: On Aug 1st a bridge collapses in Minnesota.
Sports:  On, Aug 7th Barry Bonds breaks the Home run Record.

Science: Astronomers discover a giant hole in space over one billion light years away.
Washington: Carl Rove leaves the Whitehouse.    

SEPTEMBER
Science: Craig Ventner becomes the first person to sequence his own entire genetic code.
Washington: Alberto Gonzalez steps down.
Obits: Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Sept. 6 and Alex the Parrot Dies Sept 10

OCTOBER
Sports: The Boston Red Sox win the World Series defeating the Colorado Rockies in four games.

Media: Mark Zuckerberg sells 1.6% of facebook.com to Microsoft for $240 million.
News: Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
News: Genarlow Wilson is finally set free.

NOVEMBER
News: Hollywood writers strike.
Obit Norman Mailer, 84, Nov. 10
Obit: Evel Knievel, 69, Nov. 30

DECEMBER
News: Thieves Cut Off an Indian Man’s Holy Leg
Science: HD 189733b, the first exoplanet is discovered.
News: Jesus Appears in the Butt of a Dog.

Ees Uoy Nac Yas Ho

If we had a meter to measure how Goonies-ish each post was, this post would be a 6.4.  Data, we want to make you proud.

I vote that we vote on what to do with goonies.com.  Here are two ideas:

One- we use goonies.com to help us make a new island country inspired by the movie the goonies.  We get to make all the rules.  Rule One:  Anyone can be a police officer for one day.  You a get a squirt gun and you can squirt anyone that you think is is breaking one of your laws.  Yes you make the laws as you go.  Are they eating to much?  Talking too loudly?  Are you suspicious that the guy in the corner that farted?  Soak him!  Watch out though, tomorrow you have turn in your gun and someone else will be in charge, so be fair. 

Two- we turn goonies into a mock polytheistic religion.  Each cast member of The Goonies (the Movie) becomes one of our gods.  We sacrifice our posts in their honor.  Great scenes from movies would be sacrificed to Sloth.  Chunk would get news about food and recipes.  Data- science and engineering.  You get the idea.

Either way, or some way else, this video rocks.  Try to figure out what song is playing before 1/2 way through the clip.

Cheers,

Acirema