PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
How to get your kitchen AND laundry sink sparkling: The two-ingredient trick that gets rid of dirt, grease and paint - leaving homeowners amazed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6525499/The-two-ingredient-cleaning-trick-bring-household-sinks-life.html

UPS delivery driver cuts across homeowner's lawn
https://nypost.com/video/ups-delivery-driver-cuts-across-homeowners-lawn/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

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

At Christmastime, George W. Bush was Santa, Obama was Scrooge
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/24/at-christmastime-george-w-bush-was-santa-obama-was/

HEALTH
One 20th of a mince pie, half a parsnip and a quarter glass of Champagne: What Christmas dinner looks like if you stick to the recommended daily calories
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6526521/One-20th-mince-pie-half-parsnip-Christmas-stick-recommended-calories.html

A fitness fanatic runs into an alarming ailment that was caught in the nick of time 
http://jewishworldreview.com/1218/fitness_fanatic.php3

HEALTH CARE
Fight a Denied Medicare Advantage Claim 
http://jewishworldreview.com/1218/medicare_claim_fight.php3

Elizabeth Warren's generic drugs plan: More placebo than cure 
http://jewishworldreview.com/1218/McArdle122418.php3

PARENTING
My students have become increasingly fixated on their letter grades. I don't plan to put pressure on my kids to get straight A's
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1218/kids_straights_As.php3

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Women's March leader Tamika Mallory: White Jews 'uphold white supremacy'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/24/tamika-mallory-white-jews-uphold-white-supremacy/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=tACe4Zml1%2BMSIP0wmOypHkbRLFgXmEQOPwHFFjHfCTJqxV6MgxMKjX618X%2B%2F%2FMQi&bt_ts=1545685264983

HISTORY
How the Reformation Shaped Your World
https://www.prageru.com/videos/how-reformation-shaped-your-world

FINANCIAL
The US is on the edge of the economic precipice – Trump may push it over 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/23/us-economic-precipice-donald-trump-government-shutdown?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjQ%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

Trump Finds Villain in Powell for Markets Hit by Myriad Problems
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-23/trump-s-two-year-stock-honeymoon-ends-with-hunt-for-a-betrayer?utm_campaign=pol&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews

Is Facebook developing its own digital currency? Report claims scandal-plagued tech giant is now creating a 'stablecoin' backed by the US dollar for WhatsApp
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6521037/Report-claims-Facebook-creating-stablecoin-backed-dollar.html

ENVIRONMENT
Rivers straightened by Victorians to 'improve the land' are now being given their natural curves back under a 10-year project aimed at enhancing wildlife habitat
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6523087/Rivers-straightened-Victorians-improve-land-bent-back.html

SPACE
NASA puts return to moon in crosshairs with ambitious timetable
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/24/nasa-return-moon-gateway-space-station-2024/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=H%2BOL1xqMqaY1FSJV8XKERun7sYOwcHY%2FLgqU4ULQHLKbH61XbUxgmR916xMLFBYF&bt_ts=1545691189081

NATIONAL SECURITY
Mick Mulvaney Says DHS Can’t ‘Spend Money From Mexico’ For Border Wall
http://tokyodailynews.com/mick-mulvaney-says-dhs-cant-spend-money-from-mexico-for-border-wall/

TSA Will No Longer Use Pointy-Eared Dogs At Airport Because They ‘Scare Children’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39640/tsa-will-no-longer-use-pointy-eared-dogs-airport-ashe-schow

DEFENSE
Trump, Angry Over Mattis’ Rebuke, Removes Him 2 Months Early (The back story ... )
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/23/us/politics/trump-mattis.html



LAW AND ORDER
The Sacha Baron Cohen ‘Who Is America?’ bit that was too disturbing to air
https://nypost.com/2018/12/23/the-sacha-baron-cohen-who-is-america-bit-that-was-too-disturbing-to-air/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

CARAVANS
Caravan organizer Pueblo Sin Fronteras blasted by migrants for 'downplaying risks and misleading them about chance to enter US'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6525105/Activist-group-fire-migrant-caravan-border.html

IMMIGRATION
Jesus doesn't fit your political narrative
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/jesus-doesnt-fit-your-political-narrative

'The strain is too much': Venezuelan exodus has Brazil at breaking point 
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/24/venezuelan-exodus-brazil-at-breaking-point?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xODEyMjQ%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

Hidden details block bipartisan accord on Trump border wall
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=684d40f8030355480b96b5a367ed509d_5c20f30a_5cd1fdb&selDate=20181224&goTo=A01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

SYRIA
Turkey masses troops in northern Syria (Bye bye, Kurds ...)
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=684d40f8030355480b96b5a367ed509d_5c20f30a_5cd1fdb&selDate=20181224&goTo=A08&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

JUDICIARY
Dems push for increased scrutiny of Trump’s court picks
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/422270-dems-push-for-increased-scrutiny-of-trumps-court-picks

TRUMPGATE
Supreme Court halts fines against mystery company possibly linked to Mueller investigation
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court-stays-sanctions-against-mystery-company-possibly-linked-to-mueller-investigation

POLITICS
Poll: Trump beats O'Rourke, nearly ties Sanders and loses to Biden in hypothetical 2020 matchups
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/422735-trump-beats-beto-nearly-ties-bernie-but-loses-to-biden-in?userid=288549

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Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)