Saturday, January 12, 2019

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
The new rules of eating al desko 
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/jan/10/the-new-rules-of-eating-al-desko?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMTA%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

Family returns from trip to find stranger living in home, locks changed: cops
https://nypost.com/2019/01/09/family-returns-from-trip-to-find-stranger-living-in-home-locks-changed-cops/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Now that's a big load! Giant convoy of trailers pulls gigantic 900 ton tube heavier than the Statue of Liberty and longer than a football field
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6573773/Giant-convoy-trailers-pulls-gigantic-900-ton-tube-Edmonton.html

HEALTH
Marijuana Is More Dangerous Than You Think
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

A true gift from my family: Christmas in the ICU 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/kass011019.php3

Your brain may be shrinking if you have a beer belly or muffin top
https://nypost.com/2019/01/10/your-brain-may-be-shrinking-if-you-have-a-beer-belly-or-muffin-top/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Chocolate, caramel candy may be contaminated with Hepatitis A: FDA
https://nypost.com/2019/01/10/chocolate-caramel-candy-may-be-contaminated-with-hepatitis-a-fda/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Gruesome footage shows a wriggling two-inch LEECH being removed from inside a woman's throat 'after it spent THREE MONTHS inside her without her noticing'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6576669/Wriggling-two-inch-LEECH-removed-inside-womans-throat.html

CULTURE
Grown Men Are the Solution, Not the Problem
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/psychologists-criticize-traditional-masculinity/

TRAVEL
Lebanon as you've never seen it before: Stunning aerial images show the beauty of a Middle Eastern country normally linked with war and havoc
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6568703/Lebanon-youve-never-seen-Stunning-images-beauty-Middle-Eastern-country.html

FOREIGN POLICY
Pompeo Speech Lays Out Vision for Mideast
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/world/middleeast/mike-pompeo-speech-middle-east-obama.html?emc=edit_ne_20190110&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190110&te=1

DEFENSE
Army struggles to reach Generation Z, tries recruiting at e-Sports events
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/10/army-struggles-to-reach-generation-z-tries-recruit/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=Vdh%2FLtg%2BdBP%2FqzUv1h84f4LFeBunDK9scCMHu8D5V2Kwb8YlvMZ0OALbji7nGiEl&bt_ts=1547151481588

China mobilizes its supersonic nuclear missile that 'could reach US territory' after admiral urged Beijing to sink two American aircraft carriers to safeguard South China Sea
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6576633/China-mobilises-supersonic-nuke-missile-admiral-urged-Beijing-sink-U-S-aircraft-carriers.html

LAW AND ORDER
Escape from Portland
https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/01/escape-from-portland.html

SOCIAL MEDIA
Warning to Facebook users to IGNORE hoax message claiming photos and private information will be made public TOMORROW
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6576841/Facebook-deadline-hoax-going-viral.html

BORDER WALL
Texans Fight to Stop Government from Seizing Land for Border Wall 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/texans-fight-to-stop-government-from-seizing-land-for-border-wall/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-01-10&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Jim Acosta May Have Just Proved Trump's Point With This Video He Just Shared From the Border
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2019/01/10/jim-acosta-shares-video-from-the-border-notes-how-tranquil-it-is-n2538835?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Did a 1950s TV Episode Feature a Character Named Trump Who Offered to Build a Protective Wall?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trackdown-trump-character-wall/

Common Saws Can Slice Through Trump's Border Wall Prototypes
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-common_saws_can_slice_through_trumps_border_wall_p-rtime/category/news

IMMIGRATION
Trump Finds The Perfect Obama Clip To Troll Democrats And The Liberal Media Over Border Crisis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/01/10/boom-trump-finds-the-perfect-obama-clip-to-troll-democrats-and-the-liberal-media-over-border-crisis-n2538832?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Record number of families arrested at southern border in December
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/record-number-of-families-arrested-at-southern-border-in-december

The Ironies of Illegal Immigration 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/illegal-immigration-mexicans-leaving-mexico-for-usa/

Dreamer who won Rhodes scholarship fears he won't be allowed back in the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/10/dreamer-who-won-rhodes-scholarship-fears-he-wont-be-allowed-back-in-the-us

SCOTUS
Leaving soon? Ailing Ginsburg has repeatedly promised to work only at 'full steam'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/leaving-soon-ailing-ginsburg-has-repeatedly-promised-to-work-only-at-full-steam

TRUMPGATE
Democrats, intelligence experts think Manafort filing reveals 'collusion'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-intelligence-experts-think-manafort-filing-reveals-collusion

Characters behind legal twists of Trump-Russia probe a tangled maze of Washington establishment
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/10/washington-establishment-maze-behind-trump-russia-/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=tnUL8VBoMiq%2FaExxwSD982ruLnEoxTOkzg9ckagFo%2FD%2FzhXx%2FIY8%2FafwBsEx62hC&bt_ts=1547170217013

POLITICS
Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Omar Are Driving Democrats’ Agenda 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rashida-tlaib-ilhan-omar-radicals-drive-democrat-agenda/

Return of the Nominations Blockade
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

-- 
"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)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission) See link for full story

https://www.wsj.com/articles/marijuana-is-more-dangerous-than-you-think-11546527075?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1

Marijuana Is More Dangerous Than You Think

As legalization spreads, more Americans are becoming heavy users of cannabis, despite its links to violence and mental illness

Marijuana Is More Dangerous Than You Think
Illustration: 
Brian Stauffer
Updated Jan. 4, 2019 2:19 p.m. ET
Over the past 30 years, a shrewd and expensive lobbying campaign has made Americans more tolerant of marijuana. In November 2018, Michigan became the 10th state to legalize recreational cannabis use; New Jersey and others may soon follow. Already, more than 200 million Americans live in states that have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use. Yet even as marijuana use has become more socially acceptable, psychiatrists and epidemiologists have reached a consensus that it presents more serious risks than most people realize.

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