Thursday, March 8, 2018

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
10 small towns with big personalities
https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/eco-tourism/photos/small-towns-big-personalities/quirky-and-irresistible

Kayaker on Otter Attack: 'It Didn't Want to Come Off'
http://www.newser.com/story/256275/rowdy-otter-ruins-kayakers-pristine-morning.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_us_syn

The Fox and the Golden Retriever
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2018/03/07/the-fox-and-the-golden-retriever-n2458323?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

How 6 Torpedoes (And A Fatal Design Flaw) Sunk an Aircraft Carrier 
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-6-torpedoes-fatal-design-flaw-sunk-aircraft-carrier-24781

HEALTH
Expert warns of potentially catastrophic ‘flu pandemic’
https://nypost.com/2018/03/06/expert-warns-of-potentially-catastrophic-flu-pandemic/

• Popeye's preferred diet of spinach to pump up his biceps had to be healthier than what a Russian man has been injecting. Kirill Tereshin, 21, from Pyatigorsk in southwestern Russia, concocts a dangerous muscle-enhancing solution of olive oil, lidocaine and benzyl alcohol and injects it into his arm muscles, resulting in "bazooka" arms that doctors say may become paralyzed or even have to be amputated. Tereshin has so far used 6 liters of the fluid, and his biceps measure 23 inches, but he plans to continue injecting until they reach 27 inches. "I would like to get more than 1 million subscribers on Instagram and to stop working," Tereshin told the Daily Mail. He's considering an offer to become a porn star. "I love to be recognizable." [Daily Mail, 12/8/2017] 

EDUCATION
Florida lawmakers ban ‘free speech zones’ on college campuses
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/6/florida-lawmakers-ban-free-speech-zones-college-ca/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=2018&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=newsalert

College admission essay questions as a Rorschach test and career predictor 
https://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/2018/03/college-admission-essay-questions-as.html

TECHNOLOGY
Here’s how much it costs to mine a single bitcoin in your country
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-much-it-costs-to-mine-a-single-bitcoin-in-your-country-2018-03-06

FOREIGN POLICY
Nikki Haley steals the show at AIPAC 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0318/rubin030718.php3

NATIONAL SECURITY
Opinion: Broadcom should save face and end its hostile bid for Qualcomm 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/broadcom-should-save-face-and-end-its-hostile-bid-for-qualcomm-2018-03-07

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Democrat Sheriff Refuses To Give Deputies Rifle-Resistance Vests Due To Immigration Policies
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27910/democrat-sheriff-refuses-give-deputies-rifle-ryan-saavedra?utm_medium=email&utm_content=030718-news&utm_campaign=position7

REVEALED: Broward County Deputy Who Gave 'Stage' Order That Kept Cops Outside Parkland Shooting
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27893/revealed-broward-county-deputy-who-gave-stage-emily-zanotti?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=030718-news&utm_campaign=position2

BIG BROTHER
Group Implores Court to Defend Consumers’ Right to Buy Eggs, Meat
https://www.ammoland.com/2018/03/group-implores-court-defend-consumers-right-buy-eggs-meat/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&utm_campaign=ca3c2760fd-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-ca3c2760fd-21138041#axzz595SifqFi

IMMIGRATION
200 Years of Immigration
http://metrocosm.com/us-immigration-history-map.html

Spooked by Trump Proposals, Immigrants Abandon Public Nutrition Services
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/politics/trump-immigrants-public-nutrition-services.html

DHS: DACA applicants safe from deportation despite deadline
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/7/dhs-daca-applicants-safe-deportation-despite-deadl/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=2018&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=newsalert

Jeff Flake’s DACA bill gives ‘Dreamers’ Obamacare, CBO says
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/7/jeff-flake-daca-bill-gives-dreamers-obamacare-cbo-/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=2018&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=newsalert

RUSSIAGATE
Mueller reportedly aware of Trump contacts with key witnesses
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/7/robert-mueller-aware-donald-trump-contacts-key-wit/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=2018&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=newsalert

POLITICS
It’s almost nasty: Democrats unload on Republicans who sleep in their offices
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=40955?omhide=true

Massachusetts Newspaper To Warren: It's Time To Take That DNA Test, Pocahontas
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/03/07/massachusetts-newspaper-to-warren-its-time-to-take-that-dna-test-pocahontas-n2458403?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

-- 
" ... cause very hand's a winner and, every hand's a loser and,
the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."
          - Kenny Rogers, The Gambler, 1978

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Utah Accidentally Sends Picture Of Topless Woman To Every Lawyer In The State
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-utah_accidentally_sends_picture_of_topless_woman_t-rtime/category/news

45 Southern Phrases Explained for the Yankees Among Us
http://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/1019595/40-southern-phrases-explained?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_2131033

Incredible photographs take you to a world that time forgot where Mongolian nomads thrive with wild animals - as they've done for thousands of years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5452089/Incredible-photographs-nomadic-people-central-Asia.html

The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0318/hamilton.php3

Judge rules Seattle homeless man’s truck is a home
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=40731?omhide=true

Dear Celebrities: No One Cares What You Think
https://www.prageru.com/videos/dear-celebrities-no-one-cares-what-you-think

EDUCATION
Obama policies to end ‘schoolhouse-to-jailhouse pipeline’ helped keep Nikolas Cruz off police radar
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/5/nikolas-cruz-avoided-police-scrutiny-help-obama-po/

Thanks, DW ...
Our education system at its finest.  Our country is in trouble!


BUSINESS
The internet is transforming bike shops into community spaces
https://www.yahoo.com/news/internet-transforming-bike-shops-community-spaces-155651665.html

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow Internet sales tax collection
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-internet-sales-tax-collection/article/2650766

Would heavier trucks tear up the nation's roads?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/would-heavier-trucks-tear-up-the-nations-roads/article/2650412

ORNITHOLOGY
Huge Colony of Penguins Discovered on Antarctica Island Chain
https://weather.com/series/great-outdoors/video/huge-colony-of-penguins-discovered-on-antarctica-island-chain?pl=pl-the-lift

LEPIDOPTEROLOGY
Monarch Butterfly Migration Could Collapse, Scientists Warn
https://www.ecowatch.com/monarch-butterfly-population-migration-2543505935.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=eb74c50e55-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-eb74c50e55-85328381

CLIMATE CHANGE
This evangelical Christian is also a world-renowned climate scientist
https://nypost.com/2018/03/06/this-evangelical-christian-is-also-a-world-renowned-climate-scientist/

TECHNOLOGY
Couple Seeks $600K from Apple After ‘Faulty’ iPhone Burned Down Their Business
https://www.idropnews.com/news/couple-seeks-600000-apple-investigators-determine-faulty-iphone-6-may-burned-home-business/64517/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=03052018&utm_term=Newsletter

Washington is first state to set up own net-neutrality requirement in rebuff of FCC
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/washington-is-first-state-to-set-up-own-net-neutrality-requirement-in-rebuff-of-fcc-2018-03-06

CYBER SECURITY
An alien cyberattack? As if we didn't have enough to worry about
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0318/alien_cyberattack.php3

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Mass shootings: why do authorities keep missing the warning signs?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/06/mass-shootings-fbi-law-enforcement-prevention?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=266432&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

IMMIGRATION
Federal judge in Maryland rules Trump had the right to end DACA in win for administration
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/federal-judge-in-maryland-rules-trump-had-the-right-to-end-daca-in-win-for-administration/article/2650773

‘DREAMers’ turn ire on Democrats as DACA deadline passes
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=40820?omhide=true

NORK
North Korea Says It Is Open to Talks With U.S. About Abandoning Nuclear Weapons (Ah-ha, that FLF has been talking to the Ayatollah ... he figures he can get a deal like Iran did.)
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/north-korea-willing-to-talk-denuclearization-with-u-s-1520336095-lMyQjAxMTE4NzA5NjYwNDY2Wj/

The Latest: Trump Says 'Possible Progress' In N. Korea Talks
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-the_latest_skorean_envoys_return_home_after_nkorea-ap/category/news

SWEDEN
Sweden finds Trump was right on immigration, gang violence
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/6/trump-right-immigration-gang-violence-sweden-finds/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=2018&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=newsalert

RUSSIAGATE
Australian diplomat who gave FBI tip on Trump aide helped arrange large donation to Clinton foundation: Report
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/australian-diplomat-who-gave-fbi-tip-on-trump-aide-helped-arrange-large-donation-to-clinton-foundation-report/article/2650772

POLITICS
Trump breaks with GOP, sparking new tensions
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/376869-trump-breaks-with-gop-sparking-new-tensions?userid=288549&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13960

Dems ponder a second McGovern fling
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/pruden030618.php3

-- 
" ... cause very hand's a winner and, every hand's a loser and,
the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."
          - Kenny Rogers, The Gambler, 1978

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

PLATT - MISC News

SPECIAL
The Benedict Predicament
https://amgreatness.com/2018/02/28/the-benedict-predicament/

GENERAL INTEREST
Eastern China Airport Roof Collapses During Strong Winds
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/eastern-china-airport-roof-collapses-during-strong-winds?pl=pl-the-lift

The News in Zingers 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0318/hamilton.php3

The WIRE: Your week in review
https://personalliberty.com/wire-week-review-20-83/

PHYSICAL HEALTH
One day, a serious athlete couldn't walk straight. Doctors were stumped 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0318/couldnt_walk_straight.php3

MENTAL HEALTH
I Have OCD. Don’t I Have Gun Rights?
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/i-have-ocd-dont-i-have-gun-rights-1520189197-lMyQjAxMTE4ODAwNTUwNzU5Wj/

Why women are meaner to each other than men are to women
https://moneyish.com/ish/why-women-are-meaner-to-each-other-than-men-are-to-women/

BUSINESS
Trump won’t back down on tariffs despite widespread fears of trade war
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/4/donald-trumps-steel-aluminum-tariffs-proceed-despi/

Trump: Tariffs Will 'Come Off' If a 'Fair' NAFTA Agreement Signed
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2018/03/05/trump-tweets-n2457594?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

United’s plan to replace bonuses with lottery enrages employees (HR strikes again ... whoever dreamed up this fiasco oughta be fired.)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uniteds-reported-plan-to-replace-bonuses-with-lottery-enrages-employees-2018-03-05

Why Some Pension Funds Aren’t Giving Up Their Guns
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/why-some-pension-funds-arent-giving-up-their-guns-1520172001-lMyQjAxMTE4MjA3NTEwNzU3Wj/

ENVIRONMENT
Pebble Mine Threatens One of the Last Great Salmon Rivers 
https://www.ecowatch.com/last-great-salmon-rivers-2541794289.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=0961946ee1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-0961946ee1-85328381

CYBER SECURITY
Forget sanctions and red lines. Fight cyber attacks with cyber retaliation
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0318/malcolm030518.php3

NATIONAL SECURITY
Trump team security clearance process ‘weaponized’ by bureaucrats
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=40763?omhide=true

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Lock Her Up! Lock Him Up! They Could Lock You Up
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/lock-her-up-lock-him-up-they-could-lock-you-up-1520189274-lMyQjAxMTI4NzAxNTEwODU3Wj/

FAKE NEWS
A New Business Takes On Fake News
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/a-new-business-takes-on-fake-news-1520189066-lMyQjAxMTI4NzAxNTEwODU3Wj/

IMMIGRATION
In Sweden, Christians Fleeing Persecution Face Violence All Over Again 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/in-sweden-christian-fleeing-persecution-face-violence-all-over-again/

IRAN
The World Must Unite to Stop Iran
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/the-world-must-unite-to-stop-iran-1520189311-lMyQjAxMTI4NzAxNTEwODU3Wj/

RUSSIA
Theatrics or threat? Putin leans on nuclear hysteria to mask insecurity
http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/376680-theatrics-or-threat-putin-leans-on-nuclear-hysteria-to-mask?userid=288549&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13942http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/376680-theatrics-or-threat-putin-leans-on-nuclear-hysteria-to-mask?userid=288549&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13942

UNIONS
Public-Employee Unions: Only a Lousy Right-Winger Would Call Us Political
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/janus-afscme-supreme-court-case-public-employee-unions-undercut-own-case/

RUSSIAGATE
Mueller probe subpoenas documents from Trump, top campaign aides: report
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mueller-probe-subpoenas-documents-from-trump-top-campaign-aides-report-2018-03-05

State Department has spent $0 on effort to combat Russian meddling: Report
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-department-has-spent-0-on-effort-to-combat-russian-meddling-report/article/2650666

Unseen Christopher Steele Memo Claimed Russia Stopped Trump From Appointing Romney As Secretary of State: Report
http://www.newsweek.com/christopher-steele-memo-romney-trump-830494?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news

Reddit users unknowingly shared Russian propaganda during US election
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/05/reddit-users--shared-russian-propaganda-election/

POTUS
'This Is Not Going To End Well': Trump's Friends And Allies Are Worried He's Spiraling Out Of Control — And They Say This Time Is Different
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/business_insider-this_is_not_going_to_end_well_trumps_friends_and_a-newscred2/category/news

Trump Lawyer’s Payment to Stormy Daniels Was Reported as Suspicious by Bank
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/trump-lawyers-payment-to-porn-star-was-reported-as-suspicious-by-bank-1520273701-lMyQjAxMTE4NzA5NTYwNDU2Wj/

POLITICS
2020 Dems unify around assault weapons ban, putting pressure on colleagues
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/376504-2020-dems-unify-around-assault-weapons-ban-putting-pressure-on-colleagues?userid=288549&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13942

Elizabeth Warren seeks to put 'Pocahontas' barbs behind her Elizabeth Warren seeks to put 'Pocahontas' barbs behind her
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elizabeth-warren-seeks-neutralize-pocahontas-barbs-033645546--election.html
-- 
" ... cause very hand's a winner and, every hand's a loser and,
the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."
          - Kenny Rogers, The Gambler, 1978

Monday, March 5, 2018

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
What I Like About Texas (new)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGukLuXzH1E

'Green Can Dreaming': The REAL story behind the confronting photo of Aboriginal drinkers surrounded by empty VB cans that shocked the world
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5452713/True-story-shocking-picture-outback-Aborigines-drinking.html

HEALTH
Yes, bacon really is killing us 
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=The+Long+Read+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=266118&subid=20430811&CMP=longread_collection

Rocker bottom shoes help reduce chronic low back pain
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180303095449.htm

Medics may slow biological time to save soldiers' lives
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/04/darpa-hopes-to-slow-biological-time/

MENTAL HEALTH
Trump is wrong about video games and violence (Ah ... another consensus scientific fact among industry experts and, Prog U professors ... who would dare have the temerity to doubt that ???)
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-wrong-video-games-violence-120022512.html

JOBS
Police Keep Antifa Away From Columbus Statues By Taping Job Applications Onto Them
http://babylonbee.com/news/police-keep-antifa-away-columbus-statues-taping-job-applications-onto/

RELIGION
Calvinist Dog Corrects Owner: ‘No One Is A Good Boy’
http://babylonbee.com/news/calvinist-dog-corrects-owner-no-one-good-boy/

Presbyterian Church In America Launches New Line Of Frozen Dinners
http://babylonbee.com/news/presbyterian-church-america-launches-new-line-frozen-dinners/

MATHEMATICS
What’s the Point of a 23-Million Digit Prime Number?
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/whats-the-point-of-a-23-million-digit-prime-number-1519999200-lMyQjAxMTA4ODA5MzkwNTMyWj/

TECHNOLOGY
A Purpose-Driven Space Program?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/nasa-lunar-space-station-unnecessary-space-flight-plans-lack-purpose/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=180302_G-File&utm_term=GFile

A 'political hit job'? Why the alt-right is accusing big tech of censorship 
https://www.theguardian.com/the-chain/2018/mar/04/alt-right-big-tech-censorship-lawsuits?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=266227&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

GUN RIGHTS
Condi Rice STUNS The Women Of 'The View' By Explaining That Gun Rights Protected Black Americans From Racists
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27784/condi-rice-stuns-women-view-explaining-gun-rights-ben-shapiro?utm_medium=email&utm_content=030318-news&utm_campaign=position1

JUDICIARY
Justice With Judge Jeanine - Saturday, March 3
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5744589675001/?#sp=show-clips

Former CIA director John Brennan delivers brutal assessment of Trump: 'Unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical'
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/03/03/former-cia-director-john-brennan-delivers-brutal-assessment-of-trump-unstable-inept-inexperienced-and-also-unethical/23375959/

POTUS
Trump pokes fun at staff turnover, media, Democrats at Gridiron dinner
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/4/donald-trump-gridiron-dinner-mocks-democrats-media/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=2018&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=newsalert

RUSSIAGATE
Mueller’s Focus on Adviser to Emirates Suggests Broader Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/us/politics/george-nader-mueller-investigation-united-arab-emirates.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13931

POLITICS
A Hillary Staffer Goes to CPAC
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/a-hillary-staffer-goes-to-cpac-1519949987-lMyQjAxMTI4MDA1MzMwNDMzWj/

Left faces off with Dem establishment in primary fights
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/376528-left-faces-off-with-dem-establishment-in-primary-fights?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13931

-- 
"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues,
the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great
intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which
yields most painfully to change."
          - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929