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SPECIAL
The Lib Enablers of Perv Photog Terry Richardson 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin102517.php3 

GENERAL INTEREST
Lone fisherman at Echo Lake
http://earthsky.org/todays-image/fall-colors-new-hampshire-echo-lake-photo?mc_cid=947470c1ab&mc_eid=11b1b20d94

What the German language reveals about attitudes to work
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171022-what-the-german-language-reveals-about-attitudes-to-work?ocid=global_capital_rss&ocid=global_bbccom_email_25102017_capital

Photographer's death in fall from Chicago Loop hotel highlights risks of urban exploration
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/chicago_tribune-photographers_death_in_fall_from_chicago_loop_hote-tca

It was acceptable in the 80s: why Magnum PI should be spared reboot hell 
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/oct/25/magnum-pi-reboot-hell?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=249461&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

Keillor: A man walks into a bar in Oregon 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-man-walks-into-a-bar-in-oregon/2017/10/24/88d56524-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.62cc71a1bd36&wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
University of Wisconsin-Madison Students Protest Abraham Lincoln Statue Because ‘He Owned Slaves’
http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/24/university-of-wisconsin-students-protest-abraham-lincoln-statue-because-he-owned-slaves/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTjJNMVl6ZGhNbVpsT1RVdyIsInQiOiJHXC9KT0ZiSWhvWG9INTRPMmhVK2lHWnQ1REp2WnE4V0tsbHB6SVRqOG92WXV6Q1BSdEdNU21qREJWXC9tZTM3OFpmOVZIVkFIREZGalJrXC96cU1XNTZiNkVScHdWWU5GcHFcLzdnSTVLSlwvRnlNMGZpK1hZc1ZCcXNUakhwSkNDOFJsIn0%3D

Media turn John Kelly into a racist
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/media-turn-john-kelly-into-a-racist/article/2638482

WEATHER
Former Pacific typhoon and Caribbean tropical system may spur wild East Coast storm Sunday
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/24/potent-east-coast-storm-could-form-sunday-followed-by-heavy-duty-blast-of-cold-air/?nid&utm_term=.cdb4c6496fdd

ENVIRONMENT
Rising Seas Could Increase Flooding in NYC
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/rising-seas-could-increase-flooding-in-nyc?pl=pl-the-lift

BUSINESS
Empathy – the latest gadget Silicon Valley wants to sell you 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/25/empathy-virtual-reality-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-puerto-rico?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=249461&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

NATIONAL SECURITY
Russia is pushing to control cyberspace. We should all be worried.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/russia-is-pushing-to-control-cyberspace-we-should-all-be-worried/2017/10/24/7014bcc6-b8f1-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.65d3e469e138&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

DEFENSE
Can The Pentagon Protect Young Innovators? 
https://breakingdefense.com/2017/10/can-the-pentagon-protect-young-innovators/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=57721250&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8PGanwCI0htN4RXHNZ_PqK8EwFedcqdvQ5M54Ch-PCO2Og70nXESshHSHYJM22Pz9ax_lR0p7cK8O-B-D21hlzlb6itQ&_hsmi=57721250

This Vietnam veteran's untold war stories may be keeping him from getting VA benefits
https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/this-vietnam-veteran-s-untold-war-stories-may-be-keeping-him-from-getting-va-benefits-1.493896

LAS VEGAS SHOOTER
Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive
http://abcnews.go.com/US/las-vegas-shooters-laptop-missing-hard-drive/story?id=50709285

IMMIGRATION
Who will stop Stephen Miller, the man behind America's anti-refugee policy? (Or, maybe, he shouldn't be stopped ???)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/25/stephen-miller-refugee-policy-trump?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=249461&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

-- 
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
                ~ Jack London

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SPECIAL
It’s Up to Us to Preserve the Sacred
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453005/myeshia-johnson-donald-trump-gold-star-families-la-david-johnson?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202017-10-23&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

Up Against The Wall 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1017/weintrob102317.php3

GENERAL INTEREST
Is this heaven? No, it's a Waffle House
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/21067022/college-football-saturday-sec-country-waffle-house

The News in Zingers 
http://jewishworldreview.com/1017/hamilton.php3

The WIRE: Your week in review
https://personalliberty.com/wire-week-review-20-65/

HEALTH
The ‘superantibiotics’ that could save us from bacteria apocalypse
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/23/the-superantibiotics-that-could-save-us-from-bacteria-apocalypse?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=249180&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

Ankle replacement was once disparaged as borderline quackery, but no longer
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1017/ankle_replacement.php3

HEALTH CARE
NHS waiting times: hospital bosses fear 'a return to 1999'
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/19/nhs-waiting-times-hospital-bosses-fear-a-return-to-1999?

NHS provokes fury with indefinite surgery ban for smokers and obese
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/17/nhs-provokes-fury-indefinite-surgery-ban-smokers-obese/

Ordering a Pizza in the Future under the new Healthcare Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=K9PSeFu8anY

MONEY
How to Raise Kids Who Are Smart About Money
https://www.prageru.com/courses/economics/how-raise-kids-who-are-smart-about-money

Planning for the future is impossible. It's also this man's job 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will102317.php3

SPORTS
Thanks, DW ...


ECOLOGY
Snow Leopards Still Threatened by Consumer Demand for Skins and Body Parts 
https://www.ecowatch.com/snow-leopards-threatened-consumers-2500147578.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=9b4ef442c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-9b4ef442c6-85328381

DISASTERS
Still Waiting for FEMA in Texas and Florida After Hurricanes
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/us/fema-texas-florida-delays-.html?emc=edit_nn_20171023&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

Post-hurricane cleanup could kill more workers than storms themselves 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/23/post-hurricane-cleanup-work-health-safety?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=249180&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

How California’s Most Destructive Wildfire Spread, Hour by Hour
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/21/us/california-fire-damage-map.html?emc=edit_nn_20171023&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

California fires took thousands of homes. Now rent in hardest-hit areas is soaring 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/23/california-wildfires-santa-rosa-sonoma-rent-spike-homelessness?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=249180&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

L AND D
Birth, the Great Equalizer
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452983/wonder-mystery-birth-we-all-were-babies-once?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=171023_Jolt&utm_term=Jolt

A dying chimp embraces her old friend and refuses to let go
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/dying-chimp-mama-netherlands-van-hooff

SCIENCE
Purdue innovation could provide inexpensive, clean way for US to enter $4 billion market to recover rare earth elements
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2017/Q4/purdue-innovation-could-provide-inexpensive,-clean-way-for-us-to-enter-4-billion-market-to-recover-rare-earth-elements.html

ENERGY
Thanks, TM ...


NATIONAL SECURITY
Air Force preparing B-52 bombers for 24-hour alert status, official says 
http://start.att.net/news/read/article/fox_news-air_force_preparing_b52_bombers_for_24hour_alert_s-rfoxnews

DEFENSE
5 Reasons No Nation Wants to Go to War with the U.S. Air Force
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/5-reasons-no-nation-wants-go-war-the-us-air-force-22863

Three veterans who suffered life-changing injuries while searching for Bowe Bergdahl will be included in case against him as sentencing begins Monday
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5006087/Lives-altered-forever-wounds-Bergdahl-searches.html

Trump Unleashes CIA Kill Teams In Afghanistan
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/22/trump-unleashes-cia-kill-teams-in-afghanistan/

BIG BROTHER
Ordering a Pizza in the Future under the new Healthcare Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=K9PSeFu8anY

MEDIA
Jimmy Carter: Media tougher on Trump than any other president in memory 
http://www.blabber.buzz/politics/conservative-news/249137-jimmy-carter-media-tougher-on-trump-than-any-other-president-in-memory

The real point of 'fake news'
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-real-point-of-fake-news/article/2638063

IMMIGRATION
Trump to announce new refugee admissions cap, stronger vetting rules as ban expires 
http://www.blabber.buzz/politics/conservative-news/249879-trump-to-announce-new-refugee-admissions-cap-stronger-vetting-rules-as-ban-expires

NORK
N. Korea seen suffering post-test trouble in Punggye-ri site: source 
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/10/23/0401000000AEN20171023009000315.html

NIGER
Pentagon: Troops never left battle space in Niger during nearly 2-day search for missing soldier
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/pentagon-troops-never-left-battle-space-in-niger-during-nearly-2-day-search-for-missing-soldier-1.493412

Benghazi survivor Mark Geist: Niger attack is not Trump's Benghazi (A fitting sobriquet for Rep Frederica Wilson ... "all hat and no cattle".  Someone who twitters should make a meme out of it.)
http://start.att.net/news/read/category/News/article/fox_news-benghazi_survivor_mark_geist_niger_attack_is_not_t-rfoxnews

RUSSIAGATE
Is tone of Trump-Russia probe changing? 
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-is-tone-of-trump-russia-probe-changing/article/2638309

POLITICS
National Democrats are jittery about Va. governor’s race
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/national-democrats-are-jittery-about-va-governors-race/2017/10/22/22bec7ee-b5c9-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.f3b478427573

-- 
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
                ~ Jack London

PLATT - MISC News

SPECIAL
Gold Star Families Are Sacrosanct
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453028/honoring-gold-star-families-protecting-innocents-some-things-must-remain-sacred

GENERAL INTEREST
Feminists gave up the high ground in the Bill Clinton era; they can't get it back
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feminists-gave-up-the-high-ground-in-the-bill-clinton-era-they-cant-get-it-back/article/2638413

George Clooney's 'Perfect Example Of Unconscious Sexism In Action'
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22660/george-clooneys-perfect-example-unconscious-sexism-joseph-curl

What would you save if your life depended on it? 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1017/albom102417.php3

The News in Zingers 
http://jewishworldreview.com/1017/hamilton.php3

HEALTH
World leaders rehearse for a pandemic that will come ‘sooner than we expect’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/24/world-leaders-rehearse-for-a-pandemic-that-will-come-sooner-than-we-expect/?undefined=&utm_term=.b1d6440d3d81&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

PROGRESSIVES RUN AMOK
9 Tips To Avoid Being A Racist Bigot This Halloween
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22665/9-tips-avoid-being-racist-bigot-halloween-matt-walsh

No, Sam Smith Isn't 'Just As Much Woman As I Am A Man.' Because That's Ridiculous.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22620/no-sam-smith-isnt-just-much-woman-i-am-man-because-ben-shapiro?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=102417-news-title&utm_campaign=three

David Schwimmer Did Something Awesome To Make A Female Critic Feel Comfortable. The Media Cheer Him. So Why Did They Target Mike Pence?
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22663/david-schwimmer-did-something-awesome-make-female-ben-shapiro?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=102417-news-title&utm_campaign=lead

TAXES
Tax Cuts Are Coming. So Are the Fights About Paying for Them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/us/politics/tax-cuts-costs-offsetting-tax-increases.html?emc=edit_nn_20171024&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

Thanks, DW ... 


PUERTO RICO
Small Montana firm lands Puerto Rico’s biggest contract to get the power back on
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/small-montana-firm-lands-puerto-ricos-biggest-contract-to-get-the-power-back-on/2017/10/23/31cccc3e-b4d6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.d35ef14442f6&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-economy%252Bnation&wpmk=1

Why FEMA sent ‘junk food’ to Puerto Rican hurricane survivors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/24/why-fema-sent-junk-food-to-puerto-rican-hurricane-survivors/?utm_term=.010c622675a8&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

CYBER SECURITY
New ransomware is causing major issues across Europe and Russia (I strongly suggest that you immediately go into your computer control panel and remove "Adobe Flash" )
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/24/ransomware-major-issues-across-europe-russia/

NATIONAL SECURITY
No Nuke Bombers On Call 24/7, But Alert Centers Being Upgraded  (This miscommunications is more than a little bit scary considering that we are  talking about nuclear weapons here ... )
https://breakingdefense.com/2017/10/no-nuke-bombers-on-call-247-but-alert-centers-being-upgraded/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=57668732&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9noEHfTxnmn3LE2onPx5I3t5Myw7k-2GTBDtVSyOrSPua2VnH2PZ918YvWiafFkF3NtFDIaQqXuSFNuWWoUSjnbMSDJg&_hsmi=57668732

DEFENSE
Pentagon advocates requiring women to sign up for military draft
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/24/pentagon-advocates-requiring-women-to-sign-up-for-/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpBMVptTTVOelJrTlRRNCIsInQiOiJJY1RuZk93TzZjZ1BlOVRjaUFnZmxIcmhvK1k2djE5R0NSRVRFalloQWUwWGpNbTg2cEhQMDJTSEQ2RDFDUFdJcFMxZjJhQTF2bkJaTHptRzJyUUVQcVJtNHVka2pIRGVVYU5GU1ZOam9BTFBiOURmV1ozd0xcL2xpVlArOVJIZk0ifQ%3D%3D

LAW ENFORCEMENT
FBI couldn’t access nearly 7K devices because of encryption
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/fbi-couldnt-access-nearly-7k-devices-because-of-encryption/2017/10/22/75c712e6-b765-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html?utm_term=.12a53425ee18&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

BIG BROTHER
Google wants to run cities without being elected. Don't let it 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/24/google-alphabet-sidewalk-labs-toronto?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=249332&subid=24222148&CMP=GT_US_collection

MIDDLE EAST
As Islamic State falls, has US missed bigger picture?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-islamic-state-falls-has-us-missed-bigger-picture/

TERRORISM
Congress AWOL in the War on Terror
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/congress-awol-in-the-war-on-terror/article/2638405

RUSSIAGATE
The Facebook Farce
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453023/russian-facebook-ad-buys-did-they-really-affect-election?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=171024_Jolt&utm_term=Jolt

Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.1aaa7483067a&wpisrc=al_exclusive__alert-exclusive--alert-national&wpmk=1

POLITICS
Increasingly Partisan Americans Don’t Want ‘Unity’
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453057/polarization-america-unity-both-sides&arubalp=065e75cc-4b77-4e71-831b-7f51ac65b6?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202017-10-24&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

-- 
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
                ~ Jack London

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SPECIAL
The Wisest Man I Ever Met
https://biggeekdad.com/2017/10/wisest-man-ever-met/

GENERAL INTEREST
VIDEO: Students love Trump's tax plan...when told it's Bernie's
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9997

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow and So It Goes..
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QoDXTAajEzY?rel=0

It's a Dog's Life (And I'm Envious)
http://jewishworldreview.com/1017/skenazy102017.php3

At The End of the Day Stop Using Trite Expressions 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/crosby102017.php3

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Second Lady Karen Pence protested during her visit to FSU for… art therapy
http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/10/19/second-lady-karen-pence-protested-during-her-visit-to-fsu-for-art-therapy/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter%20-%2010/20/17&utm_medium=email

WATCH: Congresswoman Wilson LAUGHS Over The Gold Star Widow Controversy: 'I'm A Rock Star Now!' (There was a huge amount of disrespect for the dead soldier ... firstly by the publicity seeking "Maxine Waters wannabe" Rep Wilson and, even more so by Pvt Johnson's mother who allowed this to happen.  Why was Rep Wilson even there?  This was obviously a setup.)
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22514/watch-congresswoman-wilson-laughs-over-gold-star-james-barrett?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=102017-news-title&utm_campaign=five

ECOLOGY
World's Deepest Lake Is in Deep Trouble
http://www.newser.com/story/250316/worlds-deepest-lake-is-in-deep-trouble.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_science_syn

PUERTO RICO
Puerto Ricans Ask: When Will the Lights Come Back On?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/puerto-rico-electricity-power.html?emc=edit_nn_20171020&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

BUSINESS
Why Are Restaurants' Profit Margins So Low?
https://www.prageru.com/courses/economics/why-are-restaurants-profit-margins-so-low

ENERGY
Jeff Bezos christens Amazon's big Texas wind farm
http://m.chron.com/business/energy/article/Jeff-Bezos-christens-Amazon-s-big-Texas-wind-farm-12290593.php?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=57567953&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--q2RHNz8TyCpLKLViTobJUXfTR0423RmUyWH20lkS-5dG-b0hEfWo_kDWFs6hJSikyzukIHZHkX-geArpcO4_T-yRfhg&_hsmi=57567953

AI
‘Landmark Event’ In Artificial Intelligence: DeepMind Trains Itself 
https://breakingdefense.com/2017/10/landmark-event-in-artificial-intelligence-deepmind-trains-itself/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=57571550&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_SPYTD_oMVCiwFcgC32pfJT5NO5V3JDwVefJsJCrm_HPRM8XxDQ8L9RoOozxljE0jYienjirSOqxWKvlbB1-ofhNrdAQ&_hsmi=57571550

NORK
After six tests, the mountain hosting North Korea’s nuclear blasts may be exhausted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/after-six-tests-the-mountain-hosting-north-koreas-nuclear-blasts-may-be-exhausted/2017/10/20/ccdfa016-b50d-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html?utm_term=.2ddea8d08e0e&wpisrc=al_alert-national&wpmk=1

POTUS
Gold Star Widow Releases Trump’s Call After Husband Was Killed In Afghanistan
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/20/gold-star-widow-releases-trumps-call-after-husband-was-killed-in-afghanistan/

-- 
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
                ~ Jack London