{"id":18021,"date":"2015-12-08T23:11:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T07:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18021"},"modified":"2015-12-08T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T07:11:56","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-08122015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/squatchs-open-thread-08122015\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch\u2019s Open Thread 08\/12\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another late post.  I'll try harder tomorrow but I do have physio in the morning and my back is saying hooray!<\/span><\/p>\n

Puzzle<\/strong> — Today’s took me 2:53 (average 5:07). To do it, <\/span>click here<\/span><\/a><\/strong>. How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

Fantasy Football<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 <\/th>\n <\/th>\n <\/th>\n <\/th>\n <\/th>\n <\/th>\nPoints<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Rank<\/a><\/th>\nTeam<\/th>\nW-L-T<\/th>\nPct<\/th>\nStk<\/th>\nWaiver<\/a><\/th>\nFor<\/a><\/th>\nAgainst<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\n\n

\"Monster<\/a>Monster Mashers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

10-3-0<\/td>\n.769<\/td>\nW3<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n1,331.62<\/td>\n908.14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n\n

\"BALCO<\/a>BALCO Bombers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

9-4-0<\/td>\n.692<\/td>\nW2<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n1,277.98<\/td>\n1,010.86<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3+1<\/td>\n\n

\"Progressive<\/a>Progressive Underdogs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

8-5-0<\/td>\n.615<\/td>\nW1<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n1,302.94<\/td>\n1,163.54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4+1<\/td>\n\n

\"Lefty<\/a>Lefty Hillbillies<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

8-5-0<\/td>\n.615<\/td>\nW1<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n1,250.88<\/td>\n1,119.02<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5-2<\/td>\n\n

\"MittsMagicJock\"<\/a>MittsMagicJock<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

8-5-0<\/td>\n.615<\/td>\nL1<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n1,267.68<\/td>\n1,066.88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n\n

\"Size<\/a>Size 9 Stompers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

6-7-0<\/td>\n.462<\/td>\nL1<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n1,108.04<\/td>\n1,187.58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n\n

\"Purple<\/a>Purple Demon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

5-8-0<\/td>\n.385<\/td>\nL3<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1,186.50<\/td>\n1,298.38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n\n

\"TomCat<\/a>TomCat Teabag Trashers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

5-8-0<\/td>\n.385<\/td>\nW1<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n1,150.72<\/td>\n1,320.78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n\n

\"Playing<\/a>Playing without a helmet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

4-9-0<\/td>\n.308<\/td>\nL6<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1,009.92<\/td>\n1,294.98<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n\n

\"endthegop\"<\/a>endthegop<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

2-11-0<\/td>\n.154<\/td>\nL1<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n877.96<\/td>\n1,394.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

* Rank change shown is from week 12 – 13<\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mother Jones<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — In early 1945, the federal government started to open the internment camps where it had held 120,000 Japanese Americans for much of World War II. Seven decades later, photographer Paul Kitagaki Jr.<\/a> has been tracking down the internees pictured in wartime images by photographers like Dorothea Lange (who photographed Kitagaki's own family—see below).<\/p>\n

So far, he's identified more than 50 survivors, often reshooting them in the locations where they were originally photographed.<\/p>\n

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Seven-year-olds Helene Nakamoto Mihara (left, in top photo) and Mary Ann Yahiro (center) were photographed by Lange as they recited the Pledge of Allegiance outside their elementary school in San Francisco in 1942. Both were sent to the Topaz Internment Camp in Utah. Yahiro (right, in bottom photo) was separated from her mother, who died in another camp. "I don't have bitterness like a lot of people might," she told Kitagaki.<\/p>\n

Click through to read some of the personal stories of Japanese Americans interned in camps after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 07 December 1941.  Some never recovered from this forced internment.  In Canada, it was much the same as noted in <\/span>Wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/strong> :<\/span><\/p>\n

Japanese Canadian Internment<\/b> refers to the detainment of Japanese Canadians<\/a> following the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong<\/a> and Malaya<\/a> and attack on Pearl Harbor<\/a>, and the subsequent Canadian declaration of war<\/a> on Japan during World War II<\/a>. This forced relocation subjected Japanese Canadians to government-enforced curfews and interrogations, in addition to job and property losses.[1]<\/a><\/sup> The internment of Japanese Canadians was deemed necessary by the federal Cabinet<\/a>headed by Prime Minister<\/a> William Lyon Mackenzie King<\/a>, largely due to existing racism. This was done so, despite evidence supplied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police<\/a> and the Department of National Defence<\/a> that this decision was unwarranted.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Beginning after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and lasting until 1949 (four years after World War II had ended) all persons of Japanese heritage were systematically removed from their homes and businesses and sent to internment camps<\/a>. The Canadian government shut down all Japanese-language newspapers, took possession of businesses and fishing boats, and effectively sold them. In order to fund the internment itself, vehicles, houses and personal belongings were also sold.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In August 1944, Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced that Japanese Canadians were to move east into prisoner of war [POW] camps and internment camps as had been previously encouraged. The official policy stated that Japanese Canadians must move east of the Rocky Mountains or be repatriated to Japan following the end of the war.[3]<\/a><\/sup> However, by 1947 many Japanese Canadians had been granted exemption to this enforced no-entry zone, and by 1949 legislation was enacted that allowed Japanese Canadians the right to vote provincially as well as federally, officially marking the end of internment.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

One noted difference between the US and Canadian internments was the end date . . . in the US, internment ended in 1946, while in Canada the end was legislated in 1949.  The reason for the internment in both countries was blatant racism and not the declared "danger to society" <\/strong><\/em>used at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

If we listen to Republicans and the right wing nut jobs, the US will head down this path again.  As posted by TomCat today in his <\/span>On the Edge–12\/8\/2015<\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/strong>Senator Jeff Merkley (D – Oregon) spoke elequently.<\/span><\/p>\n