Google Buys Major Military Robot Maker
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]YouTubeGoogle is on a robot shopping spree, and its recent purchase of a military robot maker has some wondering what exactly the company intends to...
View ArticleHarold Camping Dead: Infamous Doomsday Minister Dies at 92.
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Harold Camping, the radio preacher and serial doomsday predictor, died over the weekend at the age of 92, via the Associated Press:Family Radio...
View ArticleTwo Sentenced in Racially Charged 'Good Friday Shootings' in Tulsa
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]With the families of his victims sitting and sobbing in the front row of a Tulsa, Okla., courtroom yesterday, the young killer apologized to them and...
View ArticleCrazed Protester Disrupts Wagner Symposium in Jerusalem
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]More: Crazed Israeli Protester Disrupts Wagner Symposium in Jerusalem(Reuters) - A crazed Israeli protester, angered that a symposium on Tuesday...
View ArticleMental Illness and Criminal Justice: Muskegon's Mental Health Court Changes...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]The same was true of Mablen Jones, a bundle of enthusiasm that autumn afternoon. Both women recently "graduated" from Muskegon County's mental health...
View ArticleHow Media Can Help Stop Rape --One Man's Awakening
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Not very long ago, I actually engaged in the group lamentation. I have to shamefully admit that I did some victim-blaming of my own in my teens. I'd...
View ArticleTexas Police Can Get Search Warrants Based on the 'Prediction of a Future...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]An appeals court in Texas ruled last week that police may obtain a search warrant based on the prediction of a future crime.Officers in Parker County...
View ArticleTown Hall asks, "Is Putin One of Us?"
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]In the clearest demonstration of the modern 'conservative' movement's love of authoritarianism and power, along with just as clear a demonstration of...
View ArticleIndia Snubs U.S. Delegation, Withdraws Security Over Diplomat's Arrest
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]This one should be harder to ignore than your average traveler... If drugs or contrband was found I can see the strip search. But a paperwork issue?...
View ArticleWash Post: Americans for Koch's Prosperity "Besieged", Not Prospering
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]The "freedom fighters" gather to eat chicken and talk about "freedom":Then Phillips stood to address the mostly white, mostly graying crowd in red...
View ArticleAlready Down 50 Percent, Will Bitcoin Bite the Dust?
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Talk about a fall:"Prices of virtual currency bitcoin fell 20% Wednesday and are now down more than 50% from their record high hit two weeks ago amid...
View ArticleRWW News: Klayman Will Seek National Security Clearance for His Lawsuit...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]YouTubehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klayman-will-seek-national-security-clearance-his-lawsuit-against-nsaRight Wing Watch reports on the...
View ArticleScientists Cut Million-Year Natural Process to Convert Algae Into Crude Oil...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]YouTubeEngineers have sped up a naturally occurring process to make crude oil from algae from about a million years to just minutes.Researchers at...
View ArticleIn A Town In Syria, People Speak Aramaic, The language of Jesus & Christians...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy38UQ9EQ6oFrom the youtube video descriptionIn a remote village nestled in Syrias picturesque Oalamoun mountains,...
View ArticleThe GOP Repeal Trap
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne, Indiana, reports on a fascinating exchange between GOP Rep. Marlin Stutzman and a local meat market owner, Lee...
View ArticleNYT: White House Speeds Release of Report on Changes to NSA
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]WASHINGTON -- The White House said on Wednesday that it would release later in the day a report of a presidential advisory committee that issued more...
View ArticleThe Academic Boycott of Israel Is a Travesty
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]For all the politicization of the ASA, it is indifferent to the politics of what it piously deplores. The occupation of the Palestinian territories...
View ArticleThe Growth of Catholic Hospitals, by the Numbers - ProPublica
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Source: MergerWatch, Publication design by Brucie RoschThe past few years have been a period of unprecedented turmoil for the hospital industry. Now,...
View ArticleCharts: Catholic Hospitals Don't Do Much for the Poor
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Despite this heavy mixing of theology and health care, Catholic hospitals in 2011 received $27 billion--nearly half of their revenues--from public...
View ArticleWhy Obamacare Won't Spiral Into Fiery, Actuarial Doom
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Sarah Kliff, The Washington Post: Why Obamacare Won't Spiral Into Fiery, Actuarial DoomIf young adults (those under 35) were 25 percent less likely...
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