{"id":34432,"date":"2018-11-22T21:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T05:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34432"},"modified":"2018-11-26T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T03:37:55","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-22-november-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/22\/squatchs-open-thread-22-november-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch&#8217;s Open Thread 22 November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It has taken me a while to get this done as my computer is acting up &#8212; switching pages, freezing etc &#8212; and I know it was not my Annie trying to help.\u00a0 It has been pouring rain all day, and I mean pouring!\u00a0 So without further adieu, let&#8217;s get this show on the road!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today\u2019s took me 4:24 (average 4:38).\u00a0 To do it, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/59055D5AF4C2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 (This link will automatically open to a new page.) How did you do?\u00a0 In defence of my time, this blinkity blank computer was playing games.\u00a0 Arrggghhhh!!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Short Takes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong> &#8212; Trump&#8217;s Weir Lie About Raking in Finland: A Closer Look<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yYnXBRo9TVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">You have to hand it to Trump, he sure does know how to lie and make himself look like the global village idiot!\u00a0 There is only one problem, there are also approximately 61 million American voters who voted for him and they are all in the category of village idiots on the world stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/world\/child-bride-auction-in-south-sudan-goes-viral-sparks-anger\/ar-BBPX3IJ?ocid=spartanntp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Canadian Press<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212;\u00a0<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 28.88px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Five hundred cows, two luxury cars, $10,000, two bikes, a boat and a few cellphones made up the final price in a heated bidding war for a child bride in South Sudan that went viral after the auction was pointed out on Facebook. It is the largest dowry ever paid in the civil war-torn country, the government said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">The highest bidder was a man three times the 17-year-old&#8217;s age. At least four other men in Eastern Lakes state competed, said Philips Anyang Ngong, a human rights lawyer who tried to stop the bidding last month. Among the bidders was the state&#8217;s deputy governor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">&#8220;She has been reduced to a mere commodity,&#8221; Ngong told The Associated Press, calling it &#8220;the biggest test of child abuse, trafficking and auctioning of a human being.&#8221; Everyone involved should be held accountable, he said.<\/span> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t call it bidding as if it was an auction. It&#8217;s not bidding. If you see it with European eyes you&#8217;ll call it an auction,&#8221; government spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told the AP. &#8220;You have to see it with an African eye, as it&#8217;s a tradition that goes back thousands of years. There&#8217;s no word for it in English.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I disagree with Ateny &#8212; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">this is an auction.\u00a0 This is slavery, no different than the slave markets in the US South from previous centuries.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 And with girls as young as 10, this is child abuse!\u00a0 Tradition be damned in this case and others like it!<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 Child marriage with dowries occurs in a number of countries including\u00a0 Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.\u00a0 <strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/news\/releases\/2013\/child_marriage_20130307\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO<\/a><\/strong> says there are 39,000 child marriages every day . . . EVERY DAY!!!\u00a0 Check out some more statistics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/09\/these-are-the-countries-where-child-marriage-is-legal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">World Economic Forum<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 But of perhaps greater concern to me is that this all occurred on Facebook which was very slow to react.\u00a0 We know that Trump values money over people, and now we know Facebook does too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/world\/this-town-in-alaska-wont-see-the-sun-again-until-january-23\/ar-BBPYtal?ocid=spartanntp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Insider<\/span><\/strong><\/a> &#8212;\u00a0<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Utqia\u0121vik, the northernmost city in the US, had its last sunrise on Sunday, November 18.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Utqia\u0121vik, the northernmost city in the US, had its last sunrise on Sunday, November 18.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Previously known as Barrow, this Alaskan city won&#8217;t see the sun again for 65 days. The next sunrise will appear on January 23. <\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Located 330 miles above the Arctic Circle, Utqia\u0121vik won&#8217;t be plunged into complete darkness for the next two months. Instead, it will experience &#8220;civil twilight,&#8221; which happens when the sun is six degrees below the horizon and creates a little illumination to see things outside. Civil twilight lasts for six hours per night, but it will decrease to three hours per night by the end of December. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click through for a picture of what daytime looks like at 1130 hours in Utqiagvik.\u00a0 This is referred to as &#8220;civil twilight&#8221; which lasts for about 6 hours per day, decreasing to 3 hours at the end of December.\u00a0 I lived in northern British Columbia and can attest to the phrase &#8220;long winter nights&#8221;, although ours were not quite as severe as we had actual sunrises and sunsets.\u00a0 Our shortest days were about 5 hours long and then plunged into complete darkness.\u00a0 In the summer however, this civil twilight would approximate the nighttime which lasted from\u00a0 about 2300 hours until 230 hours . . . then the sun rose again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong><\/span> &#8212;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">How many people remember where they were, what they were wearing and their reaction to the news that JFK was assassinated?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 210px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/jfk-e1542944521727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jo<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>hn <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Fitzgerald Kennedy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-align: left; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; cursor: text; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 May 29, 1917 &#8211; Nov 22, 1963 (age 46)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/resist_2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Posted to Care2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.care2.com\/news\/member\/775377582\/4127793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken me a while to get this done as my computer is acting up &#8212; switching pages, freezing etc &#8212; and I know it was not my Annie trying to help.\u00a0 It has been pouring rain all day, and I mean pouring!\u00a0 So without further adieu, let&#8217;s get this show on the road! 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