US Congress debating $225 million aid package to support Israel's Iron Dome

Guess we didn't spend enough fighting our own wars.  Now we want to pay for other people's wars!

Amazing.  We can't feed our own people.  But yeah, we will buy another country ammo for its missile systems. 

What's the rationale? Republicans want this type of frivolous spending?  Democrats support choosing sides in a religious war?

Of course, the money will go to Israel, who will buy the rockets, which are made by the American companies that own our dear leaders.  Tell me again why this isn't conflict of interest?  Oh yeah . . . Congress claims that it is above the laws it sets for the rest of us.  

You have to admit - It's a perfect system.

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http://cir.ca/s/veL

cd c:\humanity, ctrl-a, shift-del, enter

First google was going to provide AI to pretend it was you. Now you can have a robot pretend to be you at your favorite sporting event.

With robots to drive your car, do your work and take your vacations for you, what is the point of existing at all?

Oh right - there isn't one.

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I saw this story on the BBC News iPhone App and thought you should see it:

Absent fans get robot to do cheering

A struggling Korean baseball team have invented a novel way to improve atmosphere at their matches - by bringing in a crowd of robot fans.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28484536

There goes another one . . .

Warmup

Had to do at least one practice run prior to the half marathon. Well,
Other than the 10 miles on a treadmill a month ago. So, decided to go for a run around Boston to freshen up the legs for next Sunday.

Ran the route shown (9 miles). Figured I had to run up the hill to Harvard and let that stand-in for John Harvard know just what I think about him, his school, and Harvard graduates. They are as fake as the sculpture of their supposed founder.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvard_(statue)

Then crawled down Cambridge to the science museum and went back up the Charles river esplanade and back to the hotel. Stopped along the way for a pic of a bridge our Duck driver had driven under the previous evening.

Little sore. Even in the heat, Boston is a nice place to run. Harvard and Cambridge street reek of trash, so next time I will stay along the river. My class hatred needs no further stoking.

Team building with magic shrooms

Pretty funny what people will go through to try and improve morale . . . . 

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Paintballing The Boss: Office Team-Building Exercises Gone Bad
by Yuki Noguchi

NPR - July 8, 2014

Who can forget that game of Twister played in a skirt? Or the failed "trust fall" where the boss ends up on the ground?...

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/08/329527787/paintballing-the-boss-office-team-building-exercises-gone-bad?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

His only mistake was . . .

Assuming doctors are smart.

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Do doctors understand test results?

Doctors have a poor grasp of statistics, an expert says, making it hard for patients to make the right treatment choices.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28166019