PLATT - CURATED News

The Gods of the Copybook Headings 
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm

GENERAL INTEREST
Why You Can't Argue with a Leftist
https://www.prageru.com/videos/why-you-cant-argue-leftist

HEALTH
A high-carb diet may explain why Okinawans live so long
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190116-a-high-carb-diet-may-explain-why-okinawans-live-so-long

PARENTING
The economic case against free-range parenting — and in favor of being a helicopter parent 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-economic-case-against-free-range-parenting-and-in-favor-of-being-a-helicopter-parent-2019-02-05

HUMOR
I know some weird things
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/barreca020519.php3

The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/hamilton.php3



PERSONAL SECURITY
Your Tactical Training Scenario- Shot Through the Door
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/your-tactical-training-scenario-shot-through-the-door

HISTORY
Thanks, BF ...
The 17th-century adjective mettlesome (popularly used of spirited horses) sometimes appeared as the variant metalsome. That's not surprising. In the 16th century and for some time after, mettle was a variant spelling of metal—that is, the word for substances such as gold, copper, and iron. (Metal itself dates from the 14th century and descends from a Greek term meaning "mine" or "metal.") The 16th century was also when metal—or mettle—acquired the figurative sense of "spirit," "courage," or "stamina." However, by the early 18th century, dictionaries were noting the distinction between metal, used for the substance, and mettle, used for "spirit," so that nowadays the words mettle and mettlesome are rarely associated with metal.

FINANCIAL
Cuomo Announces $2.3 Billion Revenue Shortfall: ‘God Forbid If the Rich Leave’ 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/andrew-cuomo-new-york-tax-revenue-shortfall/

After founder's sudden death, cryptocurrency exchange can't access $190 million in holdings 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/cryptocurrency_earnings_blocked.php3

NATURE
Tennessee man died of meth overdose before being eaten by bear at national park: autopsy
https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-man-died-of-meth-overdose-before-being-eaten-by-bear-at-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-autopsy-says

A New Breed of Hunters Focuses on the Food 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/dining/game-hunting-food.html?emc=edit_ne_20190205&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190205&te=1

Idaho woman breaks up fight between mountain lion and dog
https://nypost.com/2019/02/05/idaho-woman-breaks-up-fight-between-mountain-lion-and-dog/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

ENVIRONMENT
Early spring rain boosts methane from thawing permafrost by 30 percent
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190204142310.htm

ASTRONOMY
Harvard's top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us --- and he doesn't care what his colleagues think 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/harvard_UFOs.php3

MYRMECOLOGY
How Ants Sniff Out the Right Path
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/science/ants-navigate-scent.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190205&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ion%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

ORNITHOLOGY
Smith Oaks Rookery
https://houstonaudubon.org/sanctuaries/high-island/rookery/rookery.html

CYBER SECURITY
Google can automatically tell if your passwords were hacked
https://nypost.com/2019/02/05/google-can-automatically-tell-if-your-passwords-were-hacked/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

FOREIGN POLICY
The weaponization of energy 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=0b09210ab5c0fc0fb97dbbde890e7d83_5c59d3b5_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190205&goTo=B01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

NATIONAL SECURITY
France carries out rare simulation of a 'nuclear deterrent strike' as US quits missile pact with Russia
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6669983/France-carries-rare-simulation-nuclear-deterrent-strike.html

Russia orders its rocket scientists to create land-based hypersonic missiles by 2020 after US backs out of Cold War treaty
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6669059/Russia-orders-rocket-scientists-create-land-based-hypersonic-missiles.html

JUDICIARY
Trump nominee for Brett Kavanaugh's old judicial seat tells senators she 'cringes' at college-age writing that women make 'choice' to get too drunk to consent to sex
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6668315/Remarks-Trump-judicial-pick-date-rape-race-draw-fire.html

NORTHAM
Med student who edited Virginia governor Ralph Northam's 1984 yearbook claims racist image which could end his career may have been placed beside his profile by MISTAKE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6671115/Med-student-edited-Northam-yearbook-doesnt-remember-racist.html

Yearbook designer doubts racist photo on Northam's page came from another student
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/yearbook-designer-doubts-racist-photo-on-northams-page-came-from-another-student

SCOTUS
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes first public appearance since cancer surgery
https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-pol-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-20190205-story.html

POLITICS
Cornyn braces for brutal Texas reelection battle
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/cornyn-texas-reelection-battle-1142878

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard gets 2020 endorsement from David Duke
https://nypost.com/2019/02/05/rep-tulsi-gabbard-gets-2020-endorsement-from-david-duke/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

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"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)