PLATT - CURATED News

Ever Faithful
https://townhall.com/columnists/gilgutknecht/2019/05/26/ever-faithful-n2546892?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/26/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Here are at least 244,000 reasons why we celebrate Memorial Day
https://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/usa_today-here_are_at_least_244000_reasons_why_we_celebrate-rgannett

GENERAL INTEREST
Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right? 
https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/driving-on-the-left/

Here???s a video of a guy putting a camera on a sushi conveyor belt. It???s wonderful. Every table has a little story!
https://twitter.com/DrewCoffman/status/1129209278114422784

Buck Bed
https://www.facebook.com/100000088246606/posts/2479739308705653?s=1583665152&sfns=mo

Do Not Trust That Stranger???s 5-Star Review
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/sunday/five-star-customer-reviews.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&login=email&auth=login-email

EDUCATION
Tim Cook gives terrible advice to graduates
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/michael-knowles-tim-cook-gives-terrible-advice-to-graduates

TRAVEL
'If you can't afford it then don't order it'! Defiant manager at 'rip-off' Mykonos restaurant fires back at US tourists hit with $935 check for six plates of calamari, six beers, three salads, water and a tomato juice
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7066637/Outraged-tourists-hit-935-bill-calamari-beers-Mykonos.html

WEATHER
Flooding near Oklahoma City swallowed an entire house. 
https://www.facebook.com/65323249091/posts/wow-flooding-near-oklahoma-city-swallowed-an-entire-house-heavy-rains-have-cause/10156677192164092/

World???s Largest Ice Carousel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9lsZ96ET5k

TECHNOLOGY
SpaceX puts up 60 internet satellites
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48289204

FOREIGN POLICY
Who Is to Blame for America???s Disturbing Iran Policy?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/american-policy-iran-trump-obama-congress/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-05-26&utm_term=WIR-Smart

SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook defends not pulling controversial video of Pelosi
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/facebook-defends-decision-not-to-remove-controversial-video-of-pelosi

BIG BROTHER
CrossFit Warns Those Who Engage In 'Activities Contrary to Prevailing Opinion' to Avoid Facebook
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/05/25/crossfit-warns-those-who-engage-in-activities-contrary-to-prevailing-opinion-to-n2546886?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/26/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

IMMIGRATION
A Migrant Family Takes a Greyhound Across America 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/26/us/greyhound-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

TRUMPGATE
Ocasio-Cortez slams New York Times for framing of Hope Hicks's 'existential question'
https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-slams-new-york-times-for-framing-of-hope-hicks-existential-question-192427352.html

Trump is more extreme on executive privilege than Nixon or Bush
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/445398-trump-is-more-extreme-on-executive-privilege-than-nixon-or-bush

Why Mueller may be fighting a public hearing on Capitol Hill
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/445534-why-mueller-may-be-fighting-a-public-hearing-on-capitol-hill

POLITICS
Welcome to Washington???s Silly Season
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/washington-politics-pelosi-trump/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-05-26&utm_term=WIR-Smart

Teflon Joe? Biden brushes off attacks
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/445424-teflon-joe-biden-brushes-off-attacks

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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)