PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Teen attempting ‘Bird Box’ challenge crashes into car, could face charges
https://nypost.com/2019/01/12/teen-attempting-bird-box-challenge-crashes-into-car-could-face-charges/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/crosby011119.php3

WELLNESS
Why your 'gra$$-fed' beef may have not have come from a cow grazing in a pasture 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0119/grass_fed_fraud.php3

MENTAL HEALTH
Schizophrenia is Associated With an Aberrant Immune Response to Epstein–Barr Virus
https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/schbul/sby164/5193713?redirectedFrom=fulltext

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Kamala Harris’s Outrageous Assault on the Knights of Columbus
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/kamala-harris-knights-of-columbus-religious-test/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-01-12&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

BUSINESS
General Motors is becoming China Motors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo

Man denies turning home into restaurant despite sign above door 
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/11/man-denies-turning-home-into-restaurant-despite-sign-above-door?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMTI%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

ASTRONOMY
NASA Photo Shows The Wreck of a 'Flying Saucer', But The Real Story Is Even Better 
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-photo-shows-the-wreck-of-a-flying-saucer-but-the-real-story-is-even-better

ORNITHOLOGY
Budgie study find brains beat brawn in the bird mating game
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6582413/Brains-beat-brawn-mating-game-youre-budgie.html

TECHNOLOGY
NASA reveals steam powered spacecraft that mines its own fuel and could explore faraway worlds 'forever'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6582995/NASAs-steam-powered-spacecraft-mines-fuel-explore-faraway-worlds-forever.html

Packs of robot DOGS could soon ride around in driverless vans and be deployed to drop packages at your doorstep
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6583425/Packs-robot-DOGS-soon-deliver-packages-doorstep.html

CYBER SECURITY
AT&T to stop selling all location data to brokers following report that companies are passing the information to shadowy firms without customer knowledge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6580041/AT-T-end-location-data-sales-data-brokers.html

LAW AND THE COURTS
Mongols must give up logo, jury says 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/los_angeles_times-mongols_must_give_up_logo_jury_says-tca/category/news

FAKE NEWS
The Rock says Daily Star fabricated 'snowflake' criticism 
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/12/the-rock-says-daily-star-interview-criticising-millennials-100-fabricated-dwayne-johnson?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMTI%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

THE WALL
Thanks, DW ...




SHUTDOWN
Republican senators roll out bill that would end all future shutdowns
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/republican-senators-roll-out-bill-that-would-end-all-future-shutdowns-2019-01-11

IMMIGRATION
Politicians Never Lied Before Trump
See the 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 below for full text)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/politicians-never-lied-before-trump-11547249639?emailToken=7c5c5c8acdaa1b406f4405459e5b8071tPGB5V3s2Fc8nKN1MEXqZiQluZxdDF3HAvYNT6rcsibokM0Dc2E/6iXRJCRc2htT8HuC/7b2OT2HQaNbl5BTwA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Politicians Never Lied Before Trump

Look past the circus of democracy: The U.S. is finally facing up to its border failures.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Jan. 11, 2019 6:34 p.m. ET

George Murphy holds a rifle in a scene from the film 'Border Incident,' 1949. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images

An aide to President Obama boasted to the New York Times about lying and manipulating the media to sell the administration’s Iran policy. Mr. Obama himself proselytized for his health-care plan by saying that, despite mandatory requirements that outlawed millions of individual health plans, you’d be able to keep your existing plan. Nor is there the slightest ambiguity now: His admini