PLATT - MISC news

GENERAL INTEREST  
Rare penny found in school cafeteria expected to fetch $1.7M at auction
https://nypost.com/2019/01/08/rare-penny-found-in-school-cafeteria-expected-to-fetch-1-7m-at-auction/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Game warden busts illegal hunter on dating app
https://nypost.com/2019/01/08/game-warden-busts-illegal-hunter-on-dating-app/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Harley-Davidson unveils $30,000 'twist-and-go' electric motorcycle that hits 120 miles per hour, can go from 0 to 60mph in 3.5 seconds and comes with 'new signature Harley-Davidson sound'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6571189/Harley-Davidson-unveils-30-000-twist-electric-motorcycle-hits-120-miles-hour.html

HEALTH
When Your Daughter Defies Biology
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

HEALTH CARE
GOP seeks health care reboot after 2018 losses
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/424464-gop-seeks-health-care-reboot-after-2018-losses?userid=288549

SHUTDOWN
Trump tells feds not to fret: Furloughed employees will get back pay
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/9/trump-says-furloughed-workers-will-get-back-pay/?bt_ee=BceLadhVpbsNakdkW4sjuCxc0S4mDJvzHN05MPl0Qv0yXKDqvRocmzgkGtRe1xbk&bt_ts=1547062675125

Joshua Tree Closes Temporarily to Repair Damage Caused During Shutdown 
https://www.ecowatch.com/joshua-tree-closes-2625520617.html

Government Shuts Down, Nation Descends into Riots, Looting and Cannibalism
https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/01/government-shuts-down-nation-descends.html

GOP senators challenge Trump on shutdown strategy
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/424577-gop-senators-challenge-trump-on-shutdown-strategy?userid=288549

FINANCIAL
For a Real-World Example of Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Proposal, Look to Sweden
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-09/hysteria-around-a-70-tax-rate-gets-a-reality-check-in-sweden

WEATHER
Europe's snow chaos continues, with up to TEN FEET expected in Austria, 1,000 miles of ski slopes closed, more avalanche warnings issued - and temperatures of just -9F in GREECE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6572879/Europes-snow-chaos-continues-TEN-FEET-expected-Austria.html

CLIMATE CHANGE
Not all environmentalists eat tofu: the hunters fighting climate change 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/09/republicans-climate-change-conservatives-environmentalists-arkansas?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMDk%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

ENERGY
The Antithesis of Green 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/green-new-deal-renewable-energy-cannot-meet-needs/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-01-09&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

'Green New Deal' a product of ideological recycling
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah010919.php3

SCIENCE
Scientists Just Identified a Universal 'Genetic Formula' For Monogamy 
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-identified-a-universal-genetic-formula-for-monogamy

NATIONAL SECURITY
Sisterhood of spies: Women now hold the top positions at the CIA
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/all-three-cia-directorates-will-now-be-headed-women-n954956?fbclid=IwAR21ITgOcBJPu-LEz7v2PHxMyflaUU8NNQD4nIfwr1goy53fqr48Abt1V6g

Our out-of-date laws can't stop foreign spies and saboteurs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/our-out-of-date-laws-cant-stop-foreign-spies-and-saboteurs

SOCIAL MEDIA


BORDER WALL
Trump says border wall will be steel at request of Democrats
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/trump-says-border-wall-will-be-steel-at-request-of-democrats

Why a border wall matters 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=c6036bac721b7c7bae1fdca0c8f639f2_5c360a32_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190109&goTo=B01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Border Wall: Monument for the People, Not Pols
http://michellemalkin.com/2019/01/09/border-wall-monument-for-the-people-not-pols/

IRAN
'Like LA with minarets': how concrete and cars came to rule Tehran 
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/09/like-la-with-minarets-how-concrete-and-cars-came-to-rule-tehran

SYRIA
Turkish President Snubs Bolton Over Comments That Turkey Must Protect Kurds (Ah, the truth will out.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/world/middleeast/erdogan-bolton-turkey-syria-kurds.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190109&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

SCOTUS
Ginsburg can stay on the Supreme Court and vote, no matter how sick or disabled she becomes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/ruth-bader-ginsburg-can-stay-on-the-supreme-court-and-vote-no-matter-how-sick-or-disabled-she-becomes

POLITICS
Crying for Argentina
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/01/09/crying-for-argentina/

Tucker Carlson Is Right About America’s Elites And Working Class
https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/08/tucker-carlson-right-americas-elites-working-class/

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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)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)   (FULL STORY AT WSJ)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-your-daughter-defies-biology-11546804848?mod=hp_opin_pos2

When Your Daughter Defies Biology

The burden of mothers whose children suffer from ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria.’

By

Abigail Shrier

Jan. 6, 2019 3:00 p.m. ET

Nametags on the bedroom wall of a transgender teen in Crownsville, Md., Feb. 7, 2016. Photo: Joshua McKerrow/Associated Press

A reader contacted me under a pseudonym a few months ago. She turned out to be a prominent Southern lawyer with a problem she hoped I’d write about. Her college-age daughter had always been a “girly girl” and intellectually precocious, but had struggled with anxiety and depression. She liked boys and had boyfriends in high school, but also faced social challenges and often found herself on the outs with cliques.