BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sport Betting Problems in the USA 02/07/2025 DTSTAMP:20250208T013359Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:188-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:Sport Betting Problems in the USA 02/07/2025https://aalbc.co m/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2839&\;type=status GAMBLINGAma zing how marijuana is hyper criminalized but gambling is allowed to fly fr ee...  Uniform Resource Locatorhttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/study-r eveals-financial-impact-of-the-sports-betting-boomTranscript Transcript T his Sunday in New Orleans\, the Philadelphia Eagles will try to block the Kansas City Chiefs from taking home a historic third consecutive Super Bow l title. But there will also be a historic $1.4 billion riding on the game . Paul Solman reports on the snowballing and potentially perilous sports b etting craze. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Amna Nawaz: This Sunday in New Orleans\, the Philadelphia Eagles will try to block the Kansas City Chiefs from taking home an historic third consec utive Super Bowl title. There will also be an historic amount of money rid ing on the game. The American Gaming Association estimates that nearly $1. 4 billion will be legally wagered\, as Paul Solman reports\, proof of a sn owballing and potentially perilous sports betting craze. Eli Manning\, For mer NFL Player: I'm doing the FanDuel Kick of Destiny 3 live Super Bowl Su nday. Paul Solman: Super Bowl Sunday\, our eyes and ears blitzed by calls to get in on the action. Kevin Hart\, Actor: Now\, I know it's the Super B owl and all\, but everyone gets a free bet? Paul Solman: Nearly seven year s after the Supreme Court struck down the ban on commercial sports betting \, 39 states and the District of Colombia have legalized it. Last year\, m ore than one in three Americans said they'd put money on a game at some po int in their life\, up from the year before\, while the American Gaming As sociation estimates that commercial sports betting revenue reached more th an $14 billion\, up 28 percent from 2023. Rob Minnick\, Former Gambler: An d it's gotten to a point where\, if you're not betting on sports\, people are starting to question why you're watching the game. Paul Solman: For 25 -year-old Philadelphia resident Rob Minnick\, the gambling gateway was fan tasy sports played as a teenager. The switch to sports betting\, which he began on illegal and offshore sites before turning the legal age of 21\, w as all too easy. Rob Minnick: If I was going to hang out with my friends o r a family event was going to be happening\, the center focal point was a professional sport of some kind. And so this idea that we could do what we were already doing\, but now make money doing it\, it was like way too go od to be true. And it was. Paul Solman: Too good because fun with friends became six to eight hours a day of compulsive gambling. Rob Minnick: Gambl ing was my way of expressing myself to prove I was smart\, to prove I coul d win\, to prove that I was worthy. And the money kind of reflected the sc oreboard. Paul Solman: After six years of betting\, he joined Gamblers Ano nymous\, eventually kicking his habit two years ago\, and now hosting a po dcast \"One Day At a Time: Gambling Awareness\,\" talking to people like h imself about their struggles. Man: I started sports gambling\, which was r eally what was my biggest vice\, when I was 19. Rob Minnick: I'm going to call this an epidemic of addiction that's heading towards the United State s\, if not already hitting the United States. It's not because the doors o pened up and you got access. It's because the doors opened up and people s tarted pulling you through those doors. Man: All right\, boys\, who are we betting on? Paul Solman: With the ads and come-ons that now buffet us all . Of course\, gambling addiction is nothing new\, but understanding how bi g the problem is difficult\, as there's no comprehensive national data. Th e National Council on Problem Gambling estimates about 2.5 million America ns meet the criteria for severe gambling problem\, while another 2 percent to 3 percent have a mild or moderate problem. And recent studies found th at legal sports betting decreased household savings and investments\, led to more bankruptcies and loan delinquencies\, even contributed to a rise i n domestic violence. Harry Levant\, Northeastern University: I made my las t bet on April 27\, 2014\, and on that same night\, nearly took my own lif e. Paul Solman: Former lawyer Harry Levant\, disbarred for stealing some $ 2 million from client funds to fuel his gambling addiction. Now a licensed counselor and advocate for reform\, Levant testified before the Senate Ju diciary Committee in December. Harry Levant: We have known for more than 1 2 years that gambling is an addictive product and gambling disorder is an addiction similar to heroin\, opioids\, tobacco\, alcohol and cocaine. Pau l Solman: Levant's own struggles began well before the advent of widesprea d legal sports betting\, and he acknowledges that states now receive a cut of gambling revenues to build roads\, schools and even fund treatment\, l ike the 1-800 gambler help lines tagging those ads you see everywhere. And so: Harry Levant: I'm sympathetic to the need of our elected officials to balance budgets\, but what has happened here is\, they have no recognitio n or very little recognition of the product the gambling industry and its sports and media partners have rolled out. Narrator: This is you\, and thi s is your powerful hunch. Paul Solman: He's pointing to the boom in offeri ngs since the ban was lifted. Narrator: With FanDuel\, it's easier than ev er to… Paul Solman: Proposition bets\, wagers on the first player to sco re a touchdown at the Super Bowl\,the length of the national anthem there\ , whether Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get engaged. Jamie Foxx\, Actor: B etMGM has got all the sports betting in one place and it's live\, baby. Pa ul Solman: There's live betting\, which turns every moment of every game i nto a betting opportunity\, and with A.I. constantly adjusting the odds. N arrator: You have got the power to create your perfect parlay any way you want. Paul Solman: And there are parlays\, which string together multiple bets\, giving winners potentially sky-high payouts\, but stacking the deck hugely in favor of the house\, a fact that is not advertised. Man: And we will take an 18 again. Man: Yes\, yes. Man: We will get our money back. P aul Solman: Finally\, livestreaming on both legal and offshore sites\, and featuring influencers like mega-rapper Drake… Man: You want $20\,000. C ongratulations\, man. Paul Solman: … who is paid to play and lure in new players. All the while\, the sports books harvest data from users\, gaini ng insight into how to keep customers coming back. Harry Levant: I'd like to say it this way. When the first cave person invented the first wheel\, there was some schmuck three caves down laying 3-1 the wheel wouldn't work . Gambling has been around a very long time. It's not going anywhere. But this is a fundamentally new\, different\, defective and dangerous online p roduct. Paul Solman: Last year\, Senator Richard Blumenthal and Representa tive Andrea Salinas\, both Democrats\, introduced the Gambling Recovery In vestment and Treatment Act to fund treatment and also research. Five state s with some form of legal gambling currently offer no funding at all for t he treatment\, and in September Blumenthal joined Democratic representativ e Paul Tonko of New York to propose the SAFE Bet Act to limit TV ads\, res trict the number and the type of bets\, ban A.I. use to track players habi ts and create micro-bets\, among other things. Harry Levant: Every other a ddictive product\, government regulates the advertising\, promotion\, dist ribution\, and consumption. Paul Solman: Sitting just behind Harry Levant at that Senate hearing in December was the American Gaming Association's J oe Maloney. The AGA says federal regulation not only isn't necessary\; it will actually make things. Joe Maloney\, American Gaming Association: The advancements in technology are just going to continue to take place. They' re just not going to take place in the legal regulated market. Paul Solman : This is the key to the legal industry's argument\, that it's taking the action away from illegal gambling\, with its loan sharks\, kneecappers\, a nd unregulated offshore markets that teenagers like Rob Minnick use. So\, for example\, in 2022\, in Texas and California\, which haven't legalized sports betting\, the AGA says players spent more than $600 million in the illegal markets. Joe Maloney: Where they're prey to deceptive consumer pra ctices\, where there's no promotion of responsibility whatsoever\, and the re's zero taxes being remitted back into the state for the purposes of pro viding accessible clinical support for those demonstrating problematic act ivity or any other priority that they might deem those monies to go to. Pa ul Solman: The SAFE Bet act is expected to be reintroduced in this Congres s\, although both Rob Minnick and Harry Levant agree\, the legal gambling genie is out of the bottle. Harry Levant: I encourage people to become mor e aware of what is happening and understand there are serious risks involv ed and become part of the conversation to bring public health reform\, not to prevent people from enjoying gambling\, but to prevent an industry and its partners from preying on the public. And\, with that\, I wish people who are gambling on a Super Bowl for recreational reasons\, I wish them we ll with their bets. Enjoy the game. I'm in Philadelphia right now. I need to say\, go\, birds. Paul Solman: For the uninitiated\, those birds would be the Eagles. And for you all and the \"PBS News Hour\,\" Paul Solman in Boston. IN AMENDMENT WHERE IS THE SNAKE MAN FOR LEGAL GAMBLING + ALCOHOL DRINKING + SMOKING CIGARETTES ? I have never seen him\, why? 02082026 C ITATIONhttps://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12447-sport-betting-problems-in-the-usa/ #findComment-80044  @ProfD \n On 2/7/2026 at 8:20 PM\, ProfD said:\n  Gambling has been huge for almost 100 years now.😎Gambling has been hu ge since humanity existed. Gambling was huge at the time of the pharoahs. But gambling\, like all potentially addictive actions [cocaine/chocolate/f ornication] can become a self induced crime. But during the time of the ph aroahs no potentially addictive actions\, that can lead to self induced cr ime\,  were illegalized.So to get to modernity\, where are the black elec ted officials legislations to legalize addictive actions that will aid bla ck profiteering? I can't find any bills even put to the legislatures? why?  \n On 2/8/2026 at 10:21 AM\, ProfD said:\n So far\, about $1.7 billion dollars has been bet on Super Bowl LX.😎 and how much of that is throug h gambling addiction? Comprehend I am not knocking profiteering\, but in my eyes\, gambling addiction is being deemed an acceptable\, not merely le gal\, but acceptable\, why can't the others be acceptable? no one can give any valid reason.  @Pioneer1 \n On 2/8/2026 at 7:15 AM\, Pioneer1 sai d:\n This is supposedly a \"free\" country so if people want to waste thei r money away gambling or MAKE a fortune gambling...it should be their deci sion.Are you in support of legalizing all drugs/prostitution/ and other il legal acts\, since you share this libertarian position?\n On 2/8/2026 at 7:15 AM\, Pioneer1 said:\n It's really a \"problem\" only because so much money is being circulated around without taxes being taken out.Really? gam bling is global\, taxing across borders is a complex mess. Can you provide a source to your assertion?I argue gambling addiction has a greater finan cial negative but because it is dominated by whites\, who have the money t o gamble\, it isn't criminalized in media or the legal system\, what say y ou? \n On 2/8/2026 at 7:15 AM\, Pioneer1 said:\n The numbers game was a \"problem\" too....until the states started running and regulating it and get THEIR cut of the money.....now it's promoted.Wait a minute the first l otto was in NYC and to be even \, white owned nyc media never said the num bers game in harlem was a problem. You know who actually said the numbers was a problem\, black media\, the black church. The NYPD and the mob\, whi ch at that time in nyc was very powerful\,  made good money off of the nu mbers. White media never called the numbers a problem\, it was black peopl e\, specifically the black churches and its self righteous acolytes  and black individuals who... I will rest my thoughts. One thing\, the lotto i s not a continuation of the numbers\, from a statistical perspective\, the numbers have better odds than the lotto. The lotto did supplant the numbe rs in the black populace\, and again\, led by black churches and their mem bers who.. anyway\, the lotto did supplant but it is a lie to say it is a continuation of the numbers. Like legal sports gambling\, if you look at t he statistical details\, it is far worse odds than illegal gambling\, whet her the numbers or other.  02082026 CITATIONhttps://aalbc.com/tc/topic/ 12447-sport-betting-problems-in-the-usa/#findComment-80054  @Pioneer1\n On 2/8/2026 at 11:39 AM\, Pioneer1 said:\n Absolutely.\nLegalized and reg ulated.I didn't comprehend how much a supporter you are of regulation till the following\n On 2/8/2026 at 11:39 AM\, Pioneer1 said:\n Go to any bar \, factory\, and many street corners and you'll find people gambling freel y and not paying taxes on their winnings. i see so a private card game ha s to be taxed\, not easy to implement that\, unless invasion of privacy be comes legally acceptable. The federal government has tools to do it\, but those tools don't allow the kind of flagrant use needed to tax card games and craps. \n On 2/8/2026 at 11:39 AM\, Pioneer1 said:\n As far as the r acial component.....people of all races tend to gamble so I'm not sure wha t to say about that. you miss the financial reality of scale. Black peopl e have always gambled as whites but the scales are far different and that matters\, numerically\, financially\, it is not the same scale and thus ca n't have the same penalty of scale if numerically proportional. Cause if n ot\, then support every single business being to big to fail. the rational behind too big too fail is that the major banks in the banking industry c an't fail because of their scale\, so scale is accepted by whites in the u sa\, so blacks\, even statian blacks like yourself\, should be able to com prehend scale in penalization.and thus white gambling is a higher scale th an black gambling in the usa. \n On 2/8/2026 at 11:39 AM\, Pioneer1 said :\n The same Black church who was GIVING OUT numbers for people to play?  the black church was not the main numbers agents ever in nyc\, maybe outsi de nyc\, even enough\, but in nyc the black churches/black church was neve r the main agent. Many black people who went to church played numbers caus e many black people did\, it was a chance to make a dollar. But black chur ches were not the main agents in nyc. \n On 2/8/2026 at 11:39 AM\, Pione er1 said:\n How do you know this?In nyc you can see the odds for each game on a lotto ticket. They are worse odds than the numbers. A little arithm etic three digits each have ten possibilities\, zero to nine three times\,   so the odds is ten to the third power\, ten times ten time ten\,  that is one out of a thousand\, that is far better than any legal lotto system . Come on.. if you want to hate the village just say so. But here\, don't take my word for it. https://www.lotteryusa.com/news/history-of-new-york- illegal-lottery\n On 2/8/2026 at 11:39 AM\, Pioneer1 said:\n Never heard of the state breaking anybody's leg or arm for a gambling debt.\nNever hea rd of the state shooting and killing anybody for trying to pass off a phon y winning ticket.\n\n\nHow do you know so much about illegal gambling vs l egal gambling?awwwwwThe numbers are different... you just love knocking th e village\, or maybe you love upsetting me. The gambling debt your talkin g about isn't numbers\, or playing cards or dice because you can't play an y of them without money upfront. you can't have a gambling debt with cards /dice/numbers... the slot machine\, playing the horses\, cause you need mo ney to play upfront. The only way you can have a gambling debt playing nu mbers is if you went to a loan shark to get money to play numbers\, but yo u talk about libertarianism\, who told you to go to a loan shark? You just championed libertarianism but then when it extends to actions you don't t hink people should be free to do \, you cite crime ahhhh Know so much? In my own mind I don't know anything. But field hand\, you haven't figured o ut anything.  Pioneer porgy\,  how was church this morning field hand ?  @ProfD\n On 2/8/2026 at 12:09 PM\, ProfD said:\n Black folks do not how that much power here in the USA.\n On 2/8/2026 at 11:09 AM\, richar dmurray said:\n yes\, but I amended my point by saying the following \n On 2/8/2026 at 11:09 AM\, richardmurray said:\n So to get to modernity\, where are the black elected officials legislations to legalize addictive actions that will aid black profiteering? I can't find any bills even put to the legislatures? why? \n On 2/8/2026 at 10:21 AM\, ProfD said:\n I don't mind bills not getting passed\, but bills aren't even sent to the floor? why? why not? black elected officials are not busy. They do not wo rk for a living based on the legislature they get passed or put forward so ... regardless of not having enough black elected representatives to be a voting black in legislatures\, in modernity\, each can propose laws. By la w\, of the country you hold so dear\, every single elected officials can p ut bills to the floor. The reparations bill has not been passed\, or turne d into a law. but a black elected official\, a black woman\, [pardon me fo r forgetting her name] person put it forward. No excuse existed in the pas t. I didn't suggest laws had to be made. And each black member of congress ... any member of congress has the power to put a bill to the floor. No on e is stopping any of them. From women members of congress putting equal pa y bills to the floor. from paraplegic members of congress putting equal wo rker protections bills to the floor. If they don't want to work\, ok\, bu t power has nothing to do with it. Many bills die on the floor. why not mo re?  02/09/2026 CItationhttps://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12447-sport-betting- problems-in-the-usa/#findComment-80063 osted just now@Pioneer1   21 h ours ago\, Pioneer1 said:Wonderful!\nThe preacher reminded me a lot of Y OU...lol.hahaha:) i am laughing while insulted:) please dont tell me his hair was soul glo-ed?  21 hours ago\, Pioneer1 said:For 4 or 5 hours h e demanded everybody remain silent while he read the WHOLE Bible.\nHe th en asked the people did they have any questions.\nWhen a few dared to rais e their hands....he SCOLDED them for not paying attention...lol.you made t his up:) no way this is true @ProfD  5 hours ago\, ProfD said:these o rganizations exist to protect American freedoms and interests.is that snid e?  5 hours ago\, ProfD said:As with everything else in the USA\, ther e is an organization\, American Gaming Association (AGA)\, that advocates for gambling.yes\, lobbying is legal in the usa and all monied parties in or out of the usa have lobbies in the usa. But\, the presence of lobbies i s open\, anti gambling and anti guns have lobbies too. Why is it many can talk about the power of lobbies for anti abortion/pro guns/pro gambling bu t then act like lobbies don't exist for pro abortion/anti gambling/anti gu ns . Everyside on any issue has a lobby today. So\, lobbies aren't an excu se for anything. Elected officials choose the lobbies whose financial supp ort they accept. But again\, it is a choice. In terms of black affairs the tobacco lobbies would support a law that will lower their taxation or ind ustrial limits while doing things for black smoking industries like mariju ana. Lobbies for womens rights will support laws to legalize prostitution\ , if said laws offer more impowerment to women No profd\, every side on a ll positions has lobbies today. Now\, if black elected officials have sec rets or can be extorted/twisted by lobbies for things they have done or pe ople they have associations with \, well that isn't the power of lobbies t hat is the weakness of elected officials. I will never forget when a blac k elected official was taking money in the new york state assembly and he had his pay money in tupperware. I wasn't angry he got caught\, the price of illegal behavior is always the threat of being caught. But\, he had dir ty money in tupperware in his fridgerator? what kind of \"american gangste r\" put your money behind a bunch of dogs\, feces is this. And he has no e xcuse historically \, black people have made accounts in swiss banks. Blac k people have taken dirty money and not been caught. So if elected officia ls are fools well ok\, but that isn't about the lobbies.   5 hours ago \, ProfD said:Politicians dare not bite the hands that are feeding them. Modern District of Columbia is full of titties from all over the world and in all industries and sectors\, full of titties. Change the titty you suc kling from. Whatever you want to do\, if you have imagination\, if you hav e will\, the titty is out there\, waiting for your mouth. If you don't wan t to change the titty you suckling from\, your free cause other money is o ut there\, shame on you. If the titty you suckling from has some shackle o n you\, shame on you.  02112026 Citationhttps://aalbc.com/tc/topic/1244 7-sport-betting-problems-in-the-usa/#findComment-80087osted just now@Prof D  On 2/9/2026 at 9:26 PM\, ProfD said:Years ago\, we had a politician who told his wife to stuff money in her underwear when federal agents rai ded their home. you made that up:) a woman with fat titties and a fat kit ty.    On 2/9/2026 at 9:26 PM\, ProfD said:Therein lies the problem. Too many politicians are sucking on one titty or several.it isn't a probl em\, you and pioneer always talk about intelligence\, well\, black elected officials are smart enough to get all they need to suckle and still do th e for black populace? aren't they? That is the point of a law maker\, make laws to satisfy the titties you suckle from WHILE do for the populace in your voting area. the key is imagination. If they don't have it\, shame on them. If they are extorted shame on them. 0822026 https://aalbc.com/tc/t opic/12447-sport-betting-problems-in-the-usa/#findComment-83096 petersmths well... interesting you say complicated. From the first presidency to jame s garfield. most people in the usa felt winning elections was to the winne r goes the spoils. But eventually as the usa had to accept its non white p opulace\, this idea of public interest actions by elected officials is arg uably a fallicy\, brought on by a minority of people in the usa. What is m y point? Lobbies have always been the primary engine of government influen ce from 1776 to now\, but in terms of public acceptance\, from 1776 to 18 90 it was considered the standard from most citizens\, remember blacks and first peoples couldn't vote \, then from 1890 to 1980 the reality is lobb ies dominated\, but the common populace embraced a lie of public interest \, then from 1980 to today\, lobbies are still in control but people have returned to viewing elections as to the victor goes the spoils and lobbies are the power. The question is why do people not focus on lobbies as a to ol to commit change. Fiscal poor people need to get away from parties of g overnance and focus on making lobbies. yes\, lobbies are all about the raw power of money\, but the interest of the people has never been the prime motivator in the usa. the simple numbers prove it. the black populace or f emale populace or first people/indigenous populace or many others has neve r been given emphasis if you look at the bureaucracy at all levels. YEs\, the federal government has some laws\, but if you look at state government s/county governments/city governments \, the public\, the people have neve r been the focus of government. where is the government officials\, when t he carpet industry has made people sick from south carolina to alabama thr ough georgia\, the passiac river in new jersey is still an extreme hazard river... many cases prove the government en total\, all levels has not bee n the publics internal bodily concerns. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250207 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR