PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Rendezvous on Route 66
https://www.texascooppower.com/texas-stories/history/rendezvous-on-route-66

Hill Country Ramble
https://www.texascooppower.com/texas-stories/history/hill-country-ramble

The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/hamilton.php3

SPORTS
The man who pointed the way for me, is gone
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/albom100918.php3

INSIGHT
The United States of lots of different Americas
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/summerss100918.php3

When even a 9-year-old boy understands the courage of a 'traitor'
http://jewishworldreview.com/1018/flowers100918.php3

BUSINESS
The New iPhones Look Fine. But My Old One Is Better Than Ever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/apple-old-iphone-operating-system.html?emc=edit_nn_20181009&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820181009&te=1

'The PayPal Monopoly' Is Crushing U.S. Small Businesses
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/bryancrabtree/2017/04/05/the-paypal-monopoly-is-crushing-us-small-businesses-n2308754?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

FINANCIAL
Why retirees should feel very worried right now
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/retirements-big-threepensions-savings-social-securityare-under-stress-2018-10-08

Ending the Credit Rating Agency Racket
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2018/10/09/ending-the-credit-rating-agency-racket-n2526641?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

SCIENCE
Science
https://www.nytimes.com/section/science?emc=edit_nn_20181009&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820181009&te=1

ENERGY
Solar Plant Opens at Uninhabitable Chernobyl Nuclear Site
https://www.ecowatch.com/chernobyl-solar-plant-2610924156.html

One of the Most Important Agencies You've Never Heard of Is Being Taken Over by Trump
https://www.ecowatch.com/bernard-mcnamee-ferc-2610959747.html

Trump to unveil plan allowing more ethanol in gas
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-to-unveil-plan-allowing-more-ethanol-in-gas-2018-10-08

We're already paying a carbon price. Let's make it more efficient
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/were-already-paying-a-carbon-price-lets-make-it-more-efficient?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_10/09/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

ORNITHOLOGY
Who's Who
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/january-february-2015/whos-who?ms=digital-eng-email-ea-x-20181009_owloween&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20181009_owloween

TECHNOLOGY
Cocaine, Reefer and the F-Word: Sometimes Alexa and Google Home Go a Little Crazy (If the link does not work, try copy, paste and go the article title in your browser.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-not-an-intruder-its-alexa-asserting-her-independence-1539012249?emailToken=0456029c2f9dc86820070da85922dacbuPnRrlQehj+nZdU5jdy/mZe5eiNGvsxgLcQ9y7F0tpM3+sy95+pv7ls51L27ZaHMzEvp6Cvloi5mhh2h9EkZl2Dz8dkbd/66qJ/j8169DMzFz6BIPl2HsbC2Vo8JCYng&reflink=article_email_share

Facebook’s creepy new speakers are freaking people out
https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/facebooks-creepy-new-speakers-are-freaking-people-out/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Is Google going to crash Tel Aviv's websites after security change?
https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/Is-Google-going-to-crash-Tel-Avivs-websites-after-security-change-568965

FOREIGN RELATIONS
Nikki Haley to resign as U.N. ambassador
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nikki-haley-resign-u-n-ambassador-152258353.html

Rumor Mill Buzzes About These Possible Haley Replacements (Haley has been a true class act.  It will be difficult to find a replacement that can approach her performance.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/10/09/possible-replacements-for-un-ambassador-n2526853?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Nikki Haley's resignation comes one day after an ethics watchdog requested an investigation into her acceptance of free flights on private jets
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/business_insider-nikki_haleys_resignation_comes_one_day_after_an_et-newscred2/category/news

JUDICIARY
Trump faces new decision on second most powerful court
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/410481-trump-faces-new-decision-on-second-most-powerful-court?userid=288549

BIG BROTHER
What happened to the FBI's quest for web browsing data?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/what-happened-to-the-fbis-quest-for-web-browsing-data?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_10/09/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

TERRORISM
Terror in Paradise: Trinidad and Tobago Is Now a Jihad Hotspot
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/terror-in-paradise-trinidad-and-tobago-is-now-a-jihad-hotspot/

TRUMPGATE
Trump team's contact with Mueller targets could taint findings
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/08/trump-attorneys-talk-mueller-877373?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_10/09/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

SCOTUS
Heitkamp Opposed Kavanaugh Due to His ‘Body Language’ at Hearing
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/heidi-heitkamp-opposed-brett-kavanaugh-due-to-his-body-language-at-hearing/

More Bribery: Kamala Harris hands $400,000 to Heidi Heitkamp
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/more_bribery_kamala_harris_hands_400000_to_heidi_heitkamp.html

POLITICS
In a Mississippi Restaurant, Two Americas Coexist Side by Side
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh-mississippi-.html?action=click&emc=edit_nn_20181009&module=Top+Stories&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408emc%3Dedit_nn_20181009&pgtype=Homepage&te=1

The Left’s Foolhardy Attack on the Senate
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/left-attacks-senate-constitutional-system/

Susan Collins becomes top 2020 target for Dems
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/410485-susan-collins-becomes-top-2020-target-for-dems?userid=288549

Ted Cruz declines, so challenger Beto O’Rourke gets an hour on national TV by himself
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article219732670.html

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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