Thursday, March 21, 2019

PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST   
Sand Marble Rally 2018 - Race 8 (FINAL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6IFvJ8rsNM

Military Secrets - declassified
http://www.doyletics.com/tidbits/militaryadvice.pdf

A Texas homeowner saw a 'few' rattlesnakes and called for help. The removal company found 45 of them
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/19/texas-homeowners-45-rattlesnakes-under-house/3220089002/

HEALTH
Drinking very hot tea almost doubles risk of cancer, new study says
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cnn-drinking_very_hot_tea_almost_doubles_risk_of_cance-cnn2/category/lifestyle

PARENTING
When the news intrudes: Helping kids make sense of the media
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/news_intrudes_kids.php3

FINANCIAL
Just Stop Spending
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/donald-trump-spending-out-of-control/

Catastrophe struck when my husband was killed. Here’s what I learned about creating a ‘what if’ plan
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/catastrophe-struck-when-my-husband-was-killed-heres-what-i-learned-about-creating-a-what-if-plan-2019-03-19

BUSINESS
SpaceX will blast people across the Atlantic in a rocket in under 30 minutes by 2030, investors claim
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6830075/SpaceX-blast-people-Atlantic-rocket-30-minutes-2030.html

HISTORY
Women With Axes: Looking Back at World War II ‘Lumberjills’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/world/europe/britain-lumberjills-world-war-ii-.html?emc=edit_ne_20190320&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190320&te=1
AUTOMOTIVE
Everybody Wants EV Charging Stations. Almost Nobody Wants to Build Them.
https://www.ecowatch.com/ev-charging-stations-2632121686.html

AVIATION
Capt. Sullenberger on the FAA and Boeing: ‘Our credibility as leaders in aviation is being damaged’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/capt-sully-sullenberger-where-boeing-and-the-faa-went-wrong-in-this-ugly-saga-2019-03-19

WEATHER
Mozambique’s Cyclone:  Mapping the Destruction of Idai
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/19/world/africa/mozambique-cyclone-idai-maps.html?emc=edit_ne_20190320&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190320&te=1

CLIMATE CHANGE
AP analysis shows ‘clear sign’ of human-caused climate change
https://nypost.com/2019/03/19/ap-analysis-shows-clear-sign-of-human-caused-climate-change/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

ENERGY
Study: Americans Are Happy to Let Wind Turbines Be Their Neighbors
https://www.ecowatch.com/wind-turbines-americans-2632137785.html

ICHTHYOLOGY
Look at This Absolutely Enormous Fish Discovered on a Beach in Australia
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-giant-sunfish-has-washed-up-ashore-in-south-australia

AUTOMOTIVE
Everybody Wants EV Charging Stations. Almost Nobody Wants to Build Them.
https://www.ecowatch.com/ev-charging-stations-2632121686.html

SPACE
We Were Promised Space Colonies. What Went Wrong?
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

MEDIA
Massacres in New Zealand and Nigeria
https://spectator.org/massacres-in-new-zealand-and-nigeria/

IMMIGRATION
Supreme Court hands Trump administration a victory in immigration battle
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-notches-victory-in-immigration-battle-with-supreme-court-ruling

Senegalese-Born Bus Driver Charged With Kidnapping 51 Italian Students; Threatened To "Carry Out A Massacre"
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-20/ill-carry-out-massacre-bus-full-italian-children-set-fire-senegalese-born-driver

SCOTUS
Will the Threat of Court-Packing Intimidate John Roberts?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/supreme-court-packing-threat-john-roberts/

POLITICS
Democrats tee up another constitutional norm for a rewrite.
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

The cult of Beto
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah032019.php3

The Dem losers expecting to win
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0319/thiessen032019.php3



-- 
"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 links for full storyhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/targeting-the-electoral-college-11553036512?emailToken=b0b7a93d9709c914c1eaf4ac8554c680rf7Ngbrv0Nd6mIRyX93BCCSpO2ndDLDl8sbm2NbGePxxpNzxIQc8rR6cedBj5bkCV3VlJ30oLFObDKhiuIL3ZA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_shareTargeting the Electoral College

Democrats tee up another constitutional norm for a rewrite.

March 19, 2019 7:01 p.m. ET

Voters cast their ballots at the Denver Elections Division in Denver. Colorado has passed a bill to have the state join other in casting its electoral votes for the winner of the national popular vote.
 Photo: David Zalubowski/Associated Press
Last week we wrote about Democratic ambitions to pack the Supreme Court. This week the Electoral College is on the chopping block as Senator Elizabeth Warren comes out in favor of its abolition, Beto O’Rourke makes sympathetic noises and Colorado’s Democratic Governor signs a bill adding his state to the “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.” Scrapping the system the U.S. has used to select Presidents since its founding will likely soon be the Democrats’ default position.
Appeared in the March 20, 2019, print edition.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-were-promised-space-colonies-what-went-wrong-11552577256?emailToken=b87c2e3a1d89c6cb6493f49785d1db8aC19n6cYvwyG5m3WAkd3U76JRL5axmAbTxfAJ/pRuDqTgVN06fb9rBls/rOAxYA26tnmJdD1nH0JlqSGoqEKb5+IxOPAci30M3YfgkRTp8GM%3D&reflink=article_email_share

We Were Promised Space Colonies. What Went Wrong?

Rocket scientists of the 1950s had a vision of humanity’s imminent first chapter in space. After more than half a century of ups and downs, we might finally be on course

A March 1952 issue of Collier's magazine described humankind's imminent move into space. Things turned out differently. COLLIER’S MAGAZINE/JTE MULTIMEDIA
March 14, 2019 11:27 a.m. ET
I was an 11-year-old at Space Camp when I realized I was never going to space. This was July 1986, just six months after the space shuttle Challenger exploded on live TV, taking the lives of seven astronauts. The mood at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., was understandably somber. NASA, still investigating the O-ring failure that caused the tragedy, hadn’t slated any new missions. We were astronauts-to-be with no plans for liftoff. We ate freeze-dried Neapolitan ice cream, posed for pictures next to massive rockets, rode in a giant centrifuge and went home
Scientists drew up plans for space exploration, but politicians had to fund them. After the Soviet Union put the first human in space, President Kennedy was determined to plant the first flag in lunar soil. “We choose to go to the moon,” he told the world in 1962.

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