PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST

Irony is back in style 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/irony-is-back-in-style-2018-08-24

This hard-to-spot online scam makes you think you’re getting free airline tickets 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-hard-to-spot-online-booking-scam-makes-you-think-youre-getting-free-airline-tickets-2018-08-31

The News in Zingers 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0918/hamilton.php3

HEALTH
Why you should never wash chicken before cooking it
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/09/03/why-should-never-wash-chicken-before-cooking-it.html

HEALTH CARE
3 ideas that beat single-payer to reform health care
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/404464-3-ideas-that-beat-single-payer-to-reform-health-care

CPS UNHINGED
How a couple's innocent bath time photos of their kids set off a 10-year legal saga
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0918/bath_photos_hell.php3

WHITE PRIVILEGE
Unpacking Peggy McIntosh’s Knapsack
https://quillette.com/2018/08/29/unpacking-peggy-mcintoshs-knapsack/

White Privilege
http://igeek.com/w/White_Privilege

ECONOMICS
The Tremendous Growth of the World’s Middle Class May Be the Greatest Story of Our Age
https://fee.org/articles/the-growth-of-the-world-s-middle-class-may-be-the-greatest-story-of-our-age/

BUSINESS
Tourism still suffering in town where diner denied Sarah Huckabee Sanders
https://nypost.com/2018/09/03/tourism-still-suffering-in-town-where-diner-denied-sarah-huckabee-sanders/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/business/trump-legal-immigration-h1b-visas.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Thanks, TM ...
in re the campaign for gender equity ... apparently not all jobs are worthy of gender equity


ENVIRONMENT
3 Ways Making a Smartphone Can Harm the Environment 
https://www.ecowatch.com/smartphone-harming-environment-2600128270.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=a727b92203-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-a727b92203-85328381

Judge Blocks First Yellowstone-Area Grizzly Hunt in 40 Years 
https://www.ecowatch.com/grizzly-bears-hunt-yellowstone-2600718615.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=a727b92203-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-a727b92203-85328381

Richard Sidey | Expedition Photography
https://vimeo.com/41225777

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Sheriff Judd provides update on Uber driver who shot, killed man | News Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=xXAv9BO2VQQ

MIDDLE EAST
Abbas: Trump team offered plan for Palestinian-Jordanian confederation
http://thehill.com/policy/international/404778-abbas-trump-team-offered-plan-to-form-palestinian-jordanian

Iran's secret weapons-smuggling air routes to Lebanon revealed by intel sources
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/09/03/irans-secret-weapons-smuggling-air-routes-to-lebanon-revealed-by-intel-sources.html

SCOTUS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the problem of celebrity justices
http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/404784-ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-the-problem-of-celebrity-justices

Democrats Aim to Derail Kavanaugh With Eye on Abortion, Mueller
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-03/democrats-aim-to-derail-kavanaugh-with-eye-on-abortion-mueller?srnd=premium

Feinstein under the microscope for Kavanaugh hearing
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/404652-feinstein-under-the-microscope-for-kavanaugh-hearing?userid=288549

TRUMPGATE
Was Nellie Ohr Grazing The Intelligence Database In 2015?
https://conservativedailypost.com/was-nellie-ohr-grazing-the-intelligence-database-in-2015/

POLITICS
Trump turns up heat against Sessions, his strongest ally in the Cabinet
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/2/jeff-sessions-allies-say-donald-trump-unfair/

Trump Looms Over Fight for Control of the Senate 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-looms-over-fight-for-control-of-the-senate-1535889600?mod=hp_lead_pos1

'Good Job Jeff': Trump accuses Sessions of dampening Republican hopes in midterm elections (Sasse has it right.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/3/jeff-sessions-threatens-republican-midterm-hopes-i/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=jQvp6I4/QkYH9H5pMpE4Mf0uTg7lBgi4VKCfQuTl1mVC2RKldCM48oJV5GUOfRdZ&bt_ts=1536009500680

Warren mounts PR blitz insisting Cherokee claims never helped her career
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/3/elizabeth-warren-mounts-pr-blitz-insisting-cheroke/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=YOBvyaNmFAj6pjqlViAh0AusKWYozM9NSqBy3adbvYZd06XTGsDTzyj/NA0tHElp&bt_ts=1536023942023

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           - C. S. Lewis