PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
The jaw-dropping journey from London to Siberia three intrepid friends made in a Volkswagen Polo
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6268577/The-jaw-dropping-journey-London-Siberia-three-intrepid-friends-Volkswagen-Polo.html

Is there any truth to the idea of “Midwestern nice”?
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/12/27/is-there-any-truth-to-the-idea-of-midwestern-nice

INSIGHT
A Visit From Father Time 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/crosby122818.php3

Border wall a symbol of our symbolic politics 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah122818.php3

Debunking The Myth That Blacks Need To Be Surrounded By Whites To Succeed
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/rogermckinney/2018/12/28/debunking-the-myth-that-blacks-need-to-be-surrounded-by-whites-to-succeed-n2538200?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/29/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

PARENTING
Why two-year-olds really ARE a handful: Kids get increasingly aggressive until they reach 4 - then they mellow out, study finds
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6535823/Why-two-year-olds-really-handful-Kids-increasingly-aggressive-reach-4.html

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
VIRAL VIDEO: Transgender Customer Threatens To Fight GameStop Employee After Being Called 'Sir'
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39757/viral-video-transgender-customer-threatens-fight-amanda-prestigiacomo?utm_medium=email&utm_content=122918-news&utm_campaign=position1

SCIENCE
For The First Time, Scientists Have Seen Bacteria "Fishing" For DNA From Dead Friends 
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-seen-bacteria-fishing-for-dna-from-dead-friends

CYBER SECURITY
Top 10 overlooked cybersecurity risks in 2018
https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/423004-top-10-overlooked-cybersecurity-risks-in-2018

The law doesn't protect ethical hackers. This new project could help close that gap 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/ethical_hackers.php3

Newspapers report suspected malware attack 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/cnn-newspapers_report_suspected_malware_attack-cnn2

FOREIGN POLICY
Funding the United Nations Is Making Less Sense Than Ever 
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/31038-funding-the-united-nations-is-making-less-sense-than-ever

MEDIA
I'm a Conservative Podcaster. Am I obligated to Leave Patreon?
https://townhall.com/columnists/kiradavis/2018/12/28/im-a-conservative-podcaster-am-i-obligated-to-leave-patreon-n2538214?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/29/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

IMMIGRATION
El Paso Rep. Veronica Escoba: Sun Bowl poses immigrant housing crisis
https://nypost.com/2018/12/28/el-paso-rep-veronica-escoba-sun-bowl-poses-immigrant-housing-crisis/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
Could Trump lose the 2020 nomination contest?
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/423028-could-trump-lose-the-2020-nomination-contest

Poll finds 33 percent would definitely or likely back Trump for reelection
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/423100-poll-finds-33-percent-would-definitely-or-likely-back-Trump-for-reelection?userid=288549

-- 
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

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GENERAL INTEREST
The plot thickens
http://www.commanderzero.com/?p=5923

Get ready for the 'Super Blood Wolf Moon': First full moon of the New Year will come with a lunar eclipse and appear amazingly close to Earth
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6533629/Super-Blood-Wolf-Moon-appear-sky-month.html

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (6 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/28/briefing/28newsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20181228&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

HEALTH
Researchers fear mysterious polio-like illness may spread in US
https://nypost.com/2018/12/27/researchers-fear-mysterious-polio-like-illness-may-spread/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Soil from Northern Ireland contains bacteria which 'can kill four of the world's top superbugs' and could be key to fighting antibiotic resistance
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6535579/Soil-rural-Ireland-contains-bacteria-kill-four-worlds-superbugs.html

PARENTING
Fatherhood and Football
https://www.city-journal.org/name-suffix-trend-among-black-athletes

FINANCIAL
Social Security tells family to pay $100,000 debt left by man who faked death in 1960s
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/social-security-tells-family-to-pay-100-000-debt-left-by-man-who-faked-death-in-1960s

ENVIRONMENT
The Trees That Sail to Sea
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-trees-that-sail-to-sea/

FOREIGN POLICY
The Frustrating Necessity of Staying in Syria and Afghanistan, Explained 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/the-frustrating-necessity-of-staying-in-syria-and-afghanistan-explained/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-28&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

BIG BROTHER
Lame-Duck Congress Plays Grinch to Citizens by Passing Anti-Privacy Database Bill
https://townhall.com/columnists/kareneffrem/2018/12/28/lameduck-congress-plays-grinch-to-citizens-by-passing-antiprivacy-database-bill-n2538151?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/28/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

MEDIA
Get Wrecked: The Top 10 Rake-Stepping Fake News Stories The Liberal Media Trafficked In 2018
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/12/28/the-top-10-most-awesomely-fake-news-of-2018-n2538087?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

IMMIGRATION
What Am I Missing When It Comes to Immigration?
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2018/12/27/what-am-i-missing-when-it-comes-to-immigration-n2538118?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/28/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Michael Cohen denies new claim his phone was in Prague at time of meeting with Russians described in anti-Trump 'dirty dossier' as he insists he's never been ANYWHERE in the Czech Republic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6533445/New-claim-Michael-Cohens-phone-Prague-time-meeting-described-Trump-dossier.html

POLITICS
Fox News guest: Democrats want a 'Muslim transgender candidate' but will get Joe Biden
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fox-news-guest-democrats-want-a-muslim-transgender-candidate-but-will-get-joe-biden

A New Democrat Party: 95 Progressive Caucus Members in 116th Congress? 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/zacharypetrizzo/2018/12/27/a-new-democrat-party-95-progressive-caucus-members-in-116th-congress-n2538119?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/28/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

-- 
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

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GENERAL INTEREST
Character Is Destiny 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/trump-character-will-be-his-downfall/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-27&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

HEALTH
Cancer breakthrough that allows doctors to transplant disease-fighting immune cells from strangers into patients could 'save millions of lives in the future'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6532227/Future-cancer-incredibly-bright-scientists-transplant-immune-cells-patients.html

HUMOR
2018's dumbest criminals are guilty of hilarious failure
https://nypost.com/video/2018s-dumbest-criminals-are-guilty-of-hilarious-failure/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

ENVIRONMENT
Could a Seaweed-Eating Microbe Help Solve the Ocean Plastic Crisis? 
https://www.ecowatch.com/seaweed-eating-microbe-plastic-pollution-2624454540.html

ASTRONOMY
Are We Headed for A Major Meteor Event?
https://weather.com/science/space/video/are-we-headed-for-a-major-meteor-event?pl=pl-the-latest

HERPETOLOGY
Ssssssurprise!! Horrifying moment Texas man discovers THREE DOZEN rattlesnakes under his shed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6531411/Texas-man-freaked-finding-three-dozen-rattlesnakes-living-shed-property.html

OCEANOGRAPHY
Big Wave in Florida Sends People Running
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/big-wave-in-florida-sends-people-running?pl=pl-the-latest

NATIONAL SECURITY
VLAD’S NUKE ISLAND Russia ‘sends supersonic nuke bombers to military base it’s setting up on Caribbean island’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8064941/russia-military-base-caribbean-island-nuclear-bombers/

DEFENSE
Putin to deploy new hypersonic missile system 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=c857291116e5676754e6970e52a09982_5c24e70f_5cd1fdb&selDate=20181227&goTo=A01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

BIG BROTHER
Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/world/facebook-moderators.html?emc=edit_ne_20181227&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820181227&te=1

SYRIA
Now Russia warns Turkey to stay OUT of Syria and let Assad take back areas vacated by Trump's withdrawal of US troops as Erdogan's forces prepare attack
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6532459/Russia-warns-Turkey-stay-Syria-let-Assad-areas-vacated-troops.html

TRUMPGATE
The Mueller Investigation Is Stirring Up More Trouble Than It’s Finding 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/mueller-trump-collusion-probe-making-more-trouble-than-its-finding/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-27&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Giuliani backtracks: Trump will not give Mueller any more written answers 
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/422970-giuliani-backtracks-trump-will-not-give-mueller-any-more-written-answers?userid=288549

'Nude Selfie' Obtained In Mueller Inquiry, Says Court Filing By Indicted Russian Firm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-nude-selfie-apos-obtained-023544800.html

-- 
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

Tolerance

2yonder.com   "War  on  Tolerance". Please share this to two people. An old grouchy veteran does not believe this can reach a hundred people in a mysterious ”cloud". Floyd is tolerant. Be like Floyd.

When Men were MEN and Jeeps were JEEPS

The Versatile AMERICAN Jeep
It is very interesting and a part of history that most of us never saw.  When Men were Men and Jeeps were Jeeps.

The Transmission



























Early Willys MB with mud flotation adaptors






Just for fun



Great piece of equipment to tow behind your Willys MB












Jeep warehouse, location unknown



Did you order a jeep?



Now that’s a kit I would like to have.












I think the Roy Rogers show bought this version as Nelly Bell.



Bullet holes in the windshield of this Jeep are a testament to the faithful service of the Medics of the 84th Division as they evacuate wounded soldiers in their makeshift Jeep ambulance.













Donna Reed



Even then they needed armed guards to protect their Jeeps.



Jeep in Glider






Experimental rocket firing jeep, US Navy Naval Air Facility, Inyokern, CA, 26 January 1945.



Jeep Towing on an aircraft carrier – WWII



That’s a lot of Jeeps



A Special Air Service jeep patrol is greeted by its commander, Colonel David Stirling, on its return from the desert. 18 January 1943.



Long Range Desert Group which carried out raids & recons deep behind enemy lines in North Africa between 1940 - 1943.

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GENERAL INTEREST
Disparities Galore
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/12/26/disparities-galore-n2537938?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/26/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Ford introduces 2019 Bullitt Mustang alongside long-hidden 1968 original
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/01/17/ford-introduces-2019-bullitt-mustang-alongside-long-hidden-1968-original/

Inside Vlad Force One! Seriously-ill Russian schoolboy films his private tour of Putin's £390million Ilyushin jet that's fitted out with a gold-plated toilet, a king-sized bed fit for a Tsar and a presidential bar
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6530105/Seriously-ill-Russian-teen-given-private-tour-Putins-state-jet.html

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Trek Into Congo Forest Reveals an Ebola Crisis Fueled by Violence
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/world/africa/ebola-congo.html?emc=edit_ne_20181226&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820181226&te=1

What You Need to Know About Pink Himalayan Salt 
https://www.ecowatch.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-pink-himalayan-salt-2624280381.html

What were they thinking? Grossest food moments of 2018
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/what-were-they-thinking-grossest-food-incidents-of-2018

MENTAL HEALTH
‘Learning to relax can be life-changing’: how to find your comfort zone 
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/26/relax-life-changing-how-to-find-comfort-zone?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

PARENTING
The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/upshot/the-relentlessness-of-modern-parenting.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20181226&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DlongRead&section=longRead&te=1

Should children sit on Santa's lap? (NOT satire)
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/santa_me_too.php3

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/hamilton.php3

EDUCATION
Beware Silicon Valley Santas in the Schools
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2018/12/26/beware-silicon-valley-santas-in-the-schools-n2538037?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/26/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

HISTORY
Sacrifice at Saint-Nazaire
https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2017-04/sacrifice-saint-nazaire

BUSINESS
Top Amazon boss privately advised US government on web portal worth billions to tech firm 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/26/amazon-anne-rung-government-services-authority?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

ENVIRONMENT
The answer to plastic pollution is to not create waste in the first place 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/26/pollution-plastic-waste-environment-china?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

SCIENCE
what zero gravity is like
https://delanceyplace.com/

FOREIGN POLICY
The Coming Scramble for Africa
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/africa-china-united-states-foreign-policy-economic-development/

NATIONAL SECURITY
To Shore Up the Defense-Industrial Base, Look to Norway 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/us-norway-relationship-important-defense-partnerships/

Former ICE chief Tom Homan rips Nancy Pelosi for doubting border wall works
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/26/tom-homan-former-ice-chief-rips-nancy-pelosi-doubt/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=bp7JevhpJhsxnvScmbYm6uCW21Wi3m%2BxWz4bzV68ArimQGEiTPzE6vujyyWwcZxV&bt_ts=1545839436886

IMMIGRATION
America only wants the 'best' immigrants, but would its own people pass the test? 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/26/team-america-merit-based-immigration-self-defeating?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

POLITICS
Dems worry: Top three candidates in polls are all white men
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/422545-dems-worry-top-three-candidates-in-polls-are-all-white-men?userid=288549

-- 
"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to
Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)