PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST

Inside the High-Tech Solution for Smelly, Smelly Weed
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/inside-high-tech-solution-smelly-weed-w519883

Perfectly Timed Jump Gets Pilot onto Ship Before it Leaves
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/perfectly-timed-jump-gets-pilot-onto-ship-before-it-leaves?pl=pl-the-latest

Stork Escapes From Hungry Leopard in the Serengeti
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/stork-escapes-from-hungry-leopard-in-the-serengeti?pl=pl-the-latest

TECHNOLOGY
What'd Happen If An Astronaut Got Detached During Spacewalk? 
http://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/geobeats-whatd_happen_if_an_astronaut_got_detached_during_s-velephant

CYBER SECURITY
FBI details top internet scams 
http://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/fox_news-fbi_details_top_internet_scams-rfoxnews

CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT
Another Conservative Revolt in California: The State of Jefferson
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2018/05/13/another-conservative-revolt-in-california-the-state-of-jefferson-n2480198?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

First You Win the Debate
https://townhall.com/columnists/gilgutknecht/2018/05/13/first-you-win-the-debate-n2480178?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

SCHOOL SAFETY
School board members ignite public ire with pro-gun stances
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sd-se-gun-schoolboard-20180508-story.html

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Trump administration struggles to deal with US enemy combatant
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/387359-trump-administration-struggles-to-deal-with-us-enemy-combatant

BIG BROTHER
Creepy: City Deploys System That Scrolls Through Publicly Available Social Media Posts
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/05/12/creepy-city-deploys-system-that-scrolls-through-publicly-available-social-media-posts-n2480112?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

I9MMIGRATION
Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ border policy stumbles
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/13/trumps-illegal-immigrant-zero-tolerance-border-pol/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

NORK
Pompeo signals Trump seeking long-term agreement with North Korea's Kim, in summit
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/13/pompeo-signals-trump-seeking-long-term-agreement-with-north-koreas-kim-in-summit.html

POLITICS
Dems increasingly see 'electoral dynamite' in net neutrality fight
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/387357-dems-increasingly-see-electoral-wins-from-net-neutrality-fight?userid=288549

Dems worry Trump will win over economy
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/387356-dems-worry-trump-will-win-over-economy

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yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will
be tomorrow"
          -  From "The Horizontal Man" by Helen Eustis