PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST

Dangerous? I've got it licked! Daredevil performs a somersault and other brave stunts on Norway's famous Troll's Tongue rockface
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6589581/Daredevil-performs-somersault-brave-stunts-Norways-famous-Trolls-Tongue-rockface.html

Walmart bans woman for riding electric cart, guzzling wine from Pringles can
https://nypost.com/2019/01/13/walmart-bans-woman-for-riding-electric-cart-guzzling-wine-from-pringles-can/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Not a very good boy! Hilarious moment Dalmatian accidentally puts his owner's $180,000 RV in reverse and sends it careening straight into a lake
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6587795/Dog-accidentally-puts-owners-RV-reverse-sends-lake.html

The Writer Automaton, Switzerland
https://www.chonday.com/15454/the-writer-automaton/

Keillor:  To be less enamored of self-destruction 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/keillor011419.php3

The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/hamilton.php3

Thanks, TM ...


PHYSICAL HEALTH
What happens when the doctor blames you for your own lung cancer? 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0119/cancer_blame.php3

DYING TO HEAR: What's the last song you would want to listen to before transitioning? A palliative care doctor found out 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/dying_to_hear.php3

MENTAL HEALTH
Mutiny on the Sex Raft: how a 70s science project descended into violent chaos 
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/14/mutiny-on-the-sex-raft-70s-experiment-santiago-genoves?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMTQ%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

PROGRESSIVES COMPLETELY OFF THE RAILS
‘Live Your Truth’ 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/transgender-birth-certificate-law-gender-identity-legal-concept-weak/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-01-14&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

HISTORY
Remembering the Holocaust: Survival stories of survivors preserved on film to be projected as holograms at museums to ensure future generations learn from the world’s mistakes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6584725/Technology-brings-images-Holocaust-survivors-life.html

CALIFORNIA FIRE
THE CAMP FIRE DOCUMENTARY Golden Eagle Films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=5Vr6DpAIc6g

ENVIRONMENT
This Robot Is Delivering Coral Babies to the Great Barrier Reef 
https://www.ecowatch.com/great-barrier-reef-larvalbot-2625750101.html

CYBER SECURITY
Attention (Grand) Parents of High Schoolers: There's a national shortage of workers in a critical field 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0119/cybersecurity_career.php3

NATIONAL SECURITY
Thanks, TM ...


DEFENSE
Women Don’t Belong in Combat Units
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

LAW AND ORDER
 Wesley Glenn Bost, 27, of Birmingham, Alabama, made quite the impression when he fell through the ceiling of a Waffle House in Tuscumbia, not least because he wasn't wearing pants.  Bost apparently went into the restaurant's bathroom and used his pants to tie the door shut, then, said Tuscumbia police Detective Sgt. Wes Holland, climbed into the ceiling with the intent of robbing the office.  WHNT News reported that video of the incident shows Bost shoving other restaurant patrons on his way to the door, which was being held shut by people outside, before hitting the door with his shoulder and falling to the floor.  Finally he managed to flee . . . without his trousers . . . which held his driver's license. [WHNT, 11/6/2018] 

LAW AND THE COURTS
Robbing Beyonce Blind: The ADA litigation monster still continues to run amok 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0119/beyonce_ADA.php3

TERRORISM
ISIS fanatics allegedly planned to poison Kate Middleton’s groceries
https://nypost.com/2019/01/13/isis-allegedly-planned-to-poison-kate-middletons-groceries/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MIDDLE EAST
Trump Asks Turkish President Not to ‘Mistreat’ Kurdish Forces (Fat chance of this request being honored ... Kurds are DOA.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-asks-turkish-president-not-to-mistreat-kurdish-forces/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-01-14&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Syria looks to ramp up talks with embattled Kurds
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=f8f3cdaf87b8db2defaf408dfaee40a6_5c3ca1dc_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190114&goTo=A09&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Iran exploring new uranium enrichment that could void 2015 nuclear deal 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/iran-exploring-new-uranium-enrichment-that-could-void-2015-nuclear-deal-2019-01-13

SCOTUS
Apocalypse Ruth
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/01/14/apocalypse-ruth-n2538971?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/14/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TRUMPGATE
Watergate by Any Other Name
https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/watergate-by-any-other-name/

Dems zero in on Trump and Russia
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/425289-dems-zero-in-on-trump-and-russia

POLITICS
The Rise Of Socialism: Standing On The Shoulders Of Morons
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-09/rise-socialism-standing-shoulders-morons

-- 
"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 ARTICLE
https://www.wsj.com/articles/women-dont-belong-in-combat-units-11547411638?emailToken=a890adb78cccb17e14ffc8ee6a0e0d4d04h99PS9x1KWXjcUsQKUFa3tBzydDZGcAxitR2UUPmHRw6uBP9NOnT7qIOMWziXb9+7GYqTKlQP2cczq4CWBXA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Women Don’t Belong in Combat Units

The military is watering down fitness standards because most female recruits can’t meet them.

By

Heather Mac Donald

Jan. 13, 2019 3:33 p.m. ET

Female Marine recruits in boot camp in Parris Island, S.C., Feb. 27, 2013. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images

The Obama-era policy of integrating women into ground combat units is a misguided social experiment that threatens military readiness and wastes resources in the service of a political agenda. The next defense secretary should end it.