PLATT - CURATED NEWS

GENERAL INTEREST
This is how werewolf transformations should be done. Take notes, Hollywood
https://twitter.com/Foywonder/status/1112447954420490241

Hilarious Home Renovation Fails
https://www.daily-choices.com/home-renovation-goes-wrong/?utm_medium=yahoo&utm_source=239&utm_campaign=374785543&utm_term=NEWS_US-c

HEALTH
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html?emc=edit_nn_20190407&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820190407&te=1

Arkansas men arrested for shooting each other while wearing bulletproof vest
https://wreg.com/2019/04/03/arkansas-men-arrested-for-shooting-each-other-while-wearing-bulletproof-vest/

SPORTS
What Happened in Green Bay
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2828649-what-happened-in-green-bay

Nick Saban rants about the ills of players leaving early for the NFL draft
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nick-saban-rants-about-the-ills-of-players-leaving-early-for-the-nfl-draft-051359284.html

BUSINESS
An Aircraft Bubble Epilogue
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

FOREIGN POLICY
Secrecy behind Saudi nuclear talks infuriates Congress
https://thehill.com/policy/international/437649-secrecy-behind-saudi-nuclear-talks-infuriates-congress

NATIONAL SECURITY
FBI agent reveals how he 'risked his life' to expose 25-year veteran boss as a Russian spy ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6895881/FBI-agent-risked-life-expose-boss-Russian-spy-likened-retarded-child.html

DEFENSE
Does North Korea Have Any Chance of Killing an F-35?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/does-north-korea-have-any-chance-killing-f-35-51142

IMMIGRATION
Incoming acting secretary of Homeland Security 'not an ideologue or fire breather'
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/cnn-acting_secretary_of_homeland_security_not_an_ideol-cnn2

Will it take more deaths or disaster for Washington to fix immigration and border security?
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/437712-will-it-take-more-deaths-disaster-for-washington-to-fix-immigration-border-security

As Trump struggles to curb unauthorized immigration, his rhetoric gets tougher, but quick solutions are elusive
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-struggles-to-curb-unauthorized-immigration-his-rhetoric-gets-tougher-but-quick-solutions-are-elusive/2019/04/06/8780ac92-57b7-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.d7c54eaff89c

GOVERNMENT 
Congress should look into its own taxes and travel, not just Trump's
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/437684-congress-should-look-into-its-own-taxes-and-travel-not-just-trumps

Scott Walker???s Gift to His Democratic Successor
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

TRUMPGATE
Mulvaney: Democrats will 'never' see Trump's tax returns
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437729-mulvaney-democrats-will-never-see-trumps-tax-returns

Romney dismisses Democrats' 'moronic' effort to get Trump's tax returns
https://www.yahoo.com/news/romney-dismisses-democrats-moronic-effort-to-get-trumps-tax-returns-205220445.html

POLITICS
Obama: Democrats are having a ???circular firing squad??? over ???purity??? 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/06/obama-democrats-are-having-a-circular-firing-squad-over-purity/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

One truthful Democrat emerges to call out party???s ???delusions??? 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/06/one-truthful-democrat-emerges-to-call-out-partys-delusions/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Political action committee behind Ocasio-Cortez???s victory facing backlash
https://nypost.com/2019/04/06/political-action-committee-behind-ocasio-cortezs-victory-facing-backlash/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

-- 
"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)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-aircraft-bubble-epilogue-11554503385

An Aircraft Bubble Epilogue

How cheap money and strategic gamesmanship helped give birth to Boeing???s 737 MAX.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

April 5, 2019 6:29 p.m. ET

The cockpit of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in Indonesia, March 15. Photo: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg News

To make sense of Thursday???s press conference in Addis Ababa defending the actions of the crew aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, it may be wise to consider the views of a group of pilots and consultants interviewed by the Seattle Times.
They argue that a pilot could have disabled an errant software system in Boeing ???s 737 MAX and still not have been able to recover if the aircraft???s speed and configuration were imposing more force on the tail surfaces than could be overcome by hand-cranking the trim wheel.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Investigators will spend months now combing through the factors that contributed to the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines tragedies. All too pat is an argument already heard in some quarters, holding that capitalist greed is responsible when a plane crashes but not when a million planes land safely. An explanatory principle that can???t distinguish cases explains nothing.
One place investigators will surely land a finger is the complexity of Boeing???s design and integration process. Whether an FAA with a bigger budget and more manpower might have caught the flaws that Boeing missed is suppositional. It???s bracing to consider a more realistic possibility and one that probably applies to many complex systems: Any inferior choices Boeing made in putting together the 737 MAX likely never would have been noticed if the usually highly reliable angle-of-attack vanes had performed up to par.

Appeared in the April 6, 2019, print edition.

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Scott Walker???s Gift to His Democratic Successor

Unions called his labor reforms the end of the world. Now Wisconsin can???t live without them.

By

C.J. Szafir and

Collin Roth

April 5, 2019 6:27 p.m. ET

Labor unions rally to protest Act 10 in the rotunda of the Wisconsin state Capitol, Aug. 25, 2011. Photo: John Hart/Associated Press

In Arthur Conan Doyle???s Sherlock Holmes mystery ???The Adventure of Silver Blaze,??? the dog that didn???t bark reveals the greater truth. The same might be said of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers???s first state budget proposal. Derided by critics as a ???liberal wish list,??? Mr. Evers???s budget proposes to expand Medicaid, freeze school choice, overturn right to work, fund Planned Parenthood, add more than 700 government jobs, increase spending by $7 billion, and raise taxes by more than $1 billion.