Saturday, September 8, 2018

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Thanks, DW ... 


Fisherman refuses to let huge catch slip away
https://nypost.com/video/fisherman-refuses-to-let-huge-catch-slip-away/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

The Week in Good News: Environmentally Friendly Lego, Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers, Digital Braille
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/briefing/week-in-good-news-legos-ruby-slippers.html

HEALTH
Listening to White Noise Might Affect Your Brain in a Weird Way, Study Suggests 
https://www.sciencealert.com/white-noise-doing-something-bad-to-brain-study-suggests-tinnitus-hearing-loss-plasticity-neural

Probiotics labelled 'quite useless'
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45434753

How to preserve your fridge --- and the food inside 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0918/refrigerator.php3

Woman Severely Injured After Mistaking Dynamite for Candle During Power Outage 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/time-woman_severely_injured_after_mistaking_dynamite_fo-rtime/category/lifestyle

EDUCATION
Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part 1 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/jonathan-haidt-coddling-of-the-american-mind-igen-students/

State Board of Education to consider dropping ‘heroic’ part of Alamo teaching
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/article/State-Board-of-Education-to-consider-dropping-13212628.php

NIKE
The Nike Commercial MAGA Deserves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjmtfRwLqmY&app=desktop

'Just Do It': Top 10 Anti-Nike Memes Trolling The Kaepernick Campaign
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35548/just-do-it-top-10-anti-nike-memes-trolling-paul-bois?utm_medium=email&utm_content=090718-news&utm_campaign=position3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Cory Booker's dishonest stunt
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cory-bookers-dishonest-stunt

How Cory Booker’s ‘Spartacus’ moment fizzled out
https://nypost.com/2018/09/06/how-cory-bookers-spartacus-moment-fizzled-out/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

WATCH: CNN, MSNBC Go After Cory Booker For Lying. Booker Gives Insane Response.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35571/watch-cnn-msnbc-go-after-cory-booker-lying-booker-ryan-saavedra?utm_medium=email&utm_content=090718-news&utm_campaign=position1

BUSINESS
Buzz From Nike’s Kaepernick Campaign Now Worth More Than $163 Million [... market capitalization is down $3.4 billion ...]
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/buzz-nike-kaepernick-campaign-now-143317451.html

Tesla’s accounting boss exits after one month
https://nypost.com/2018/09/07/teslas-accounting-boss-exits-after-one-month/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Elon Musk smokes weed on Joe Rogan podcast
https://nypost.com/2018/09/07/elon-musk-smokes-weed-on-joe-rogan-podcast/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

SCIENCE
Scientists Have Finally Figured Out The Origin of Mysterious Patterns on The Moon's Surface 
https://www.sciencealert.com/lunar-swirls-moon-magnetic-anomalies-subsurface-lava-tubes?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Daily+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=828b6edc41-MAILCHIMP_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe5632fb09-828b6edc41-365889541

FOREIGN POLICY
Preserve US interests in Syria by backing the Kurds
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/preserve-us-interests-in-syria-by-backing-the-kurds?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_09/07/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

NATIONAL SECURITY
Brennan Praises 'Courageous' 'Active Insubordination' of Anonymous NYT Op-Ed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3685484/posts

An Open Letter to the NYT’s Anonymous Senior Trump Administration Official 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/new-york-times-anonymous-senior-trump-administration-official-open-letter/

BRAZIL
Brazil’s front-running presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro stabbed, badly wounded 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/brazils-front-running-presidential-candidate-jair-bolsonaro-stabbed-2018-09-06

SCOTUS
Game Over? Senate Moderates Starting to Line Up Behind Kavanaugh
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/09/07/game-over-senate-moderates-starting-to-line-up-behind-kavanaugh-n2516522?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4

Trump in good shape to secure second Supreme Court confirmation victory
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/405658-trump-in-good-shape-to-secure-second-supreme-court-confirmation-victory

POLITICS
'Dissent is as American as apple pie': Trump's UN ambassador Nikki Haley insists that she challenges the president 'directly' in opinion column rebuking anonymous op-ed
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/business_insider-dissent_is_as_american_as_apple_pie_trumps_un_amba-newscred2

Democrat pulls ahead in Tennessee Senate race: Poll
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrat-pulls-ahead-in-tennessee-senate-race-poll?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_09/07/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

Theater of the Absurd Has Taken Over the Senate 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings-cory-booker-document-release/

Is Menendez Too Crooked Even for New Jersey? 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/robert-menendez-senate-reelection-campaign-shaky/

Five biggest surprises in midterm fight
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/405449-five-surprises-in-midterm-fight

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
           - C. S. Lewis

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