PLATT - MISC News

SPECIAL
The biggest threat to democracy is in your pocket
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-biggest-threat-to-democracy-is-in-your-pocket-2018-01-31

GENERAL INTEREST
Really Amazing: A must watch for all aviation maintenance personnel -Boeing Assembly Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE71NJl-naY

Gun-smuggling case puts spotlight on library straddling US-Canada border
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/31/canada-border-library-gun-smuggling-case?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=262447&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

HEALTH
Vitamin D3 could help heal or prevent cardiovascular damage (There is a cardio MD on the DL.  Perhaps, she has a response to this?)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180130140242.htm

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Democrats Are Stuck in an Immigration-Maximalist Mode
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455924/democrats-immigration-maximalism-chuck-schumer-options?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=180131_Jolt&utm_term=Jolt

ACLU Whines That Trump Saying 'America' Too Many Times During State of the Union Was 'Exclusionary'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chrisreeves/2018/01/31/aclu-digs-in-supporting-illegal-immigrants-violent-anarchists-hating-america-n2442357?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

FINANCIAL
Clueless about bitcoin? Here’s your cryptocurrency crash course 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/clueless-about-bitcoin-heres-your-cryptocurrency-crash-course-2018-01-31

BUSINESS
Woman Suing Walmart For 'Racism' Because They Lock Up Hair Extensions. Gloria Allred Is Representing Her. 
https://www.dailywire.com/news/26479/watch-woman-suing-walmart-racism-because-they-lock-amanda-prestigiacomo

What to do if you are the subject of office gossip like Nikki Haley
https://moneyish.com/ish/what-to-do-if-youre-the-subject-of-office-gossip-like-nikki-haley/

ENVIRONMENT
Lake Michigan Clarity a Good Thing?
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/lake-michigan-clarity-a-good-thing?pl=pl-the-lift

Dangerously Low on Water, Cape Town Now Faces ‘Day Zero’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/world/africa/cape-town-day-zero.html?emc=edit_nn_20180131&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

CLIMATE CHANGE
1200-year mini Ice Age was caused by global warming
https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/1200-year-mini-ice-age-was-caused-by-global-warming

DEFENSE
Congress Must Protect Tech From DoD Bureaucracy, And Itself: Experts 
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/01/congress-must-protect-tech-from-dod-bureaucracy-and-itself-experts/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=60335584&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-90_QRm374mmBGRpAdv5uhNmN4j4ZKUs6gIK0zrU_jJpZBxaaDseTcHtYsEBXVxMyQ4O6QZAFYCzF8qz4Mznib-hF6yXA&_hsmi=60335584

LAW ENFORCEMENT
FBI Officials Knew of New Clinton Emails Weeks Before Alerting Congress
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/fbi-officials-delayed-telling-congress-of-clinton-emails-discovered-before-2016-election-1517450265-lMyQjAxMTI4MTM5MTgzMjEzWj/

IMMIGRATION
Democrats Are Stuck in an Immigration-Maximalist Mode
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455924/democrats-immigration-maximalism-chuck-schumer-options?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=180131_Jolt&utm_term=Jolt

Immigration Lies and Hypocrisy
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/01/31/immigration-lies-and-hypocrisy-n2441145?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

NORK
VCJCS Selva: North Korea Hasn’t Demonstrated Key Tech To Nuke US Yet 
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/01/vcjcs-selva-north-korea-hasnt-demonstrated-key-tech-nuke-us-yet/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=60335584&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-90_QRm374mmBGRpAdv5uhNmN4j4ZKUs6gIK0zrU_jJpZBxaaDseTcHtYsEBXVxMyQ4O6QZAFYCzF8qz4Mznib-hF6yXA&_hsmi=60335584

RUSSIAGATE
Seeing Through the Fog of Outrage Surrounding the Mueller Probe
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455916/donald-trump-robert-mueller-news-not-all-blockbuster-news?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-01-31&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

So, What's In The Democratic Response Memo To The House Intelligence Memo?     
https://www.dailywire.com/news/26545/so-whats-democratic-response-memo-house-ben-shapiro

SOTU
Trump Tries Taking On a New Role: Optimist (Neither the media nor the Dems will let him get away with that.)
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/trump-tries-taking-on-a-new-role-optimist-1517371199-lMyQjAxMTA4MDM2MTQzOTE5Wj/

Church, Family, Military… And All Other Terrible Things
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=38307?omhide=true

Frank Luntz, former Trump hater: 'I owe Donald Trump an apology'
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0118/chumley013118.php3

Trump Divides Americans and Un-Americans
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269181/trump-divides-americans-and-un-americans-daniel-greenfield

Quite a few folks made remarks about Nancy Pelosi’s facial expressions during Trump’s address last night. I think that look of consternation is best described as, “that feeling when you’ve assembled the IKEA cabinet but for some reason you have a whole bag of screws left over.” 
-   Jim Geraghty, The Morning Jolt

Thanks, DW ...

-- "Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929