What a FARCE! NFL Suspends Brady Four Games for Under Inflating Footballs by Christian A
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VOL. 119 - NO. 20 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 15, 2015 $.35 A COPY What a FARCE! NFL Suspends Brady Four Games for Under Inflating Footballs by Christian A. Guarino In a move that sent ther knew of or ordered the National Football ourselves; Brady has never shockwaves throughout the the deflation of footballs. League. been treated as such. New England region and Including the Brady Where do I start? First In a league chock full of promises to change the land- suspension, the Patri- of all, Goodell and the murderers, sexual and do- scape of the upcoming NFL ots organization has league come out of this mestic abusers and just season, Tom Brady, arguably been fined $1 million sorry episode looking plain dumb athletes, the NFL the greatest quarterback in and were stripped of like absolute jokes. had in Brady — a player it the history of professional 2016 first round and They wasted no time in could promote. Hey fans, football has been suspended 2017 fourth round draft disparaging the Patriots we’re not all that bad! for the Patriots first four picks. The $1 million in the weeks leading up The underinflated balls games of 2015. fine is the largest im- to the Super Bowl, a offense was minor, if true, a The ruling, released on posed in NFL history. game whose outcome foolish move by all parties Monday stems from the In no way does the must have eaten away involved. When the story underinflated footballs scan- following serve to de- at Goodell (Thank you first broke, many quarter- dal that formulated following fend the Patriots; far Malcolm Butler!) backs past and present the Patriots 45-7 demolition from it. They have They dragged the came to Brady’s defense. of the Indianapolis Colts in pushed the envelope name of the preemi- Green Bay Packers Quarter- last January’s AFC Champi- extensively during the nent franchise of the back Aaron Rodgers honor- onship game. Over the Bill Belichick era. They organization were not as past 15 years through the ably admitted that he prefers course of the past three were caught illegally taping willing to hand over evi- mud and reduced Tom Brady his game footballs over- months, the NFL entrusted opponent’s signals in 2007, dence as investigators would to nothing, leaking stories inflated by league standards. Criminal Attorney Ted Wells this after the league sent have liked. Belichick and that labeled him to be dis- Former Tampa Bay Bucca- to oversee the investigation out memos to all 32 teams the Patriots are no angels, honest, a liar. Brady, the neers Quarterback Brad into the matter. The report to cease and desist from the but this ruling wasn’t needed player and the man, should Johnson admitted to having found that it was “more prob- practice. During the Wells to amplify the Patriots trans- have been elevated across paid to have the footballs he able than not” that Brady ei- investigation, Brady and the gressions. However, what it the league as the mirror used prior to Super Bowl does do is magnify the image of how one should con- XXXVII doctored to his lik- hypocrisy of NFL Commis- duct himself on and off the sioner Roger Goodell and football field. Let’s not kid (Continued on Page 15) News Briefs by Sal Giarratani Romeo & Juliet Ben Carson Enters 2016 GOP Run Return to Public Garden Lagoon Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon turned con- servative rising star has launched his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Carson is a first-time political candidate hoping to parlay his success as an author and speaker into a competitive campaign against the Repub- lican establishment. Carson said, “I’m willing to be part of the equation and therefore, I’m an- nouncing my candidacy for president of the United States of America. The 63-year-old Detroit native is relatively unknown outside of Tea Party circles, which sup- port him for his critique of the modern welfare state. What Ever Happened to Free Speech A Muhammad cartoon contest held on May 3rd in Garland, (a suburb of Dallas), Texas was the site of a terror attack. One security guard was shot and the two gunmen were killed by police. The New York-based American Freedom De- fense Initiative planned to award a cash prize for the best cartoon depiction of Muhammad. The ISIS group has claimed responsibility for this attack on free speech. As usual the moon- bats are criticizing the anti-Muslim group behind this conference for the violence. Moon-bats are (Photo by Jeremiah Robinson) so liberal, aren’t they? Moon-bats are fine with events and art exhibits Mayor Martin J. Walsh re- on May 7th. The swans spend swan cookies and refresh- that mock Christianity, but are blaming organiz- leases Romeo and Juliet into the winter at the Franklin ments from the Four Sea- ers of this art exhibit for the resultant mayhem. the Public Garden lagoon dur- Park Zoo and are returned to sons Hotel Boston, Hoodsie Free speech is free speech. ing the 27th Annual Return the Public Garden with a ice cream cups from HP Hood (Continued on Page 10) of the Swans hosted by Mayor parade in the spring led by LLC, and entertainment co- Walsh and the Boston Parks Mayor Walsh with carts deco- sponsored by the Friends of and Recreation Department rated by Winston Flowers, the Public Garden. 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They enriched the of his books, The Prince, that we get the adjective Machia- built all of those beautiful collections with more than vellian, which dictionary.com describes as “characterized temples. Since that time we 200 works of art and then by subtle or unscrupulous cunning, deception, expediency, have been examining the built new buildings to contain or dishonesty.” For example — legends surrounding the those collections. Even today In Chapter 5 he advises the conquering prince that a various Greek deities and while wandering through the conquered republic must be utterly reduced, because his- their Roman counterparts. galleries, it is difficult to de- tory shows that more clement treatment fails to hold the Last week we covered the cide whether to admire the territory. Muses, those nine goddesses magnificence of the collec- In Chapter 7, rather than condemning, he cites the that became the representa- tions or the beauty of the notorious Cesare Borgia as one to be imitated. tives of epic poetry, history, The Ancient Library of buildings in which they are In Chapter 8 he says that a prince who rises through lyric song, dancing, erotic Alexandria. housed. wickedness may, nevertheless, hold his principality poetry, sacred songs and as- Magnificent collections are securely if injuries are inflicted all together and not spread tronomy. We now examine ics, and astronomy. As many also contained in other Ital- out over time. the origin of the word mu- as 14,000 students were also ian museums, such as the In Chapter 15 Machiavelli advices the prince to follow seum and identify it as origi- in attendance. The institute Palazzo dei Conservatori, vice if so doing brings security and virtue would bring ruin. nally a temple of the Muses, continued to be the center of which houses the famous In Chapter 17 he says it is better to be clement than then as a place dedicated to learning under many of the Wolf with Romulus and cruel, however, some cruelty is necessary and justified to the work of the Muses. emperors during the Roman Remus; the Capitoline Mu- maintain order and to withstand the violence that will break The most celebrated mu- domination, but finally, about seum, which houses busts of forth when there is not firm leadership. seum of antiquity was estab- 200 A.D., the Roman Emperor the Roman emperors and In Chapter 20 he says that sometimes it’s a good idea to lished in the ancient city of Caracalla confiscated the other celebrated men of pick a fight with another prince, just so you can look good Alexandria (Egypt), early in pension fund that was re- antiquity; the Museo Nazion- when you defeat him. the third century B.C. It was served for the professors, and ale at Naples which is famous If the only thing from Machiavelli you read is The Prince, a spacious and magnificent the structure was completely for its Pompeii collections; then you might well conclude that his political philosophy edifice that contained a li- destroyed about 75 years and the Galleria degli Uffzi at is diabolical. That would be unfortunate, for Machiavelli’s brary, observatory, public lec- later during the civil wars Florence which houses the writings in support of republics and of freedom are much ture rooms, dining rooms for which occurred while Aure- Venus de’ Medici.