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Hanukkah is perhaps the longest continuously celebrated festival among humans. Celebrations go back to 164 BCE (before common era). The celebration goes back to the the revolt against the Greek Army by small group of devout Jews lead by Judah Macabee. The feast gets its name “Festival of Lights” because olive oil that should have burned for only a day lasted for eight days allowing the revolters to last out the siege.
As so many of the feasts around this time of year, the theme of the celebration is light. Lighting the Menorah is one of the main activities for the celebration. his year the festival starts tonight and goes through next Monday. As with many things, I may not be of the group but am more than happy to celebrate.
What to my wondering eyes should appear, but what seems to be a loosening of the iron grip that the Felon In The White House has on his cult. Maybe a Hanukkah miracle? Here is hoping!
A) Let’s go right to Hanukkah. How many candles does a Menorah hold?
B) Another gawd awful week in Trump world. What very red state spurned Trump’s push to re-gerrymander their state when the state senate voted the bill down?
C) Couldn’t be climate change, could it? What state is suffering through massive floods as an ‘atmospheric river’ rains down water on them?
D) The FIWH is getting involved in a corporate battle over what media property?
E) Why is the FIWH getting involved in this battle?
F) What time of day is the Menorah lit?
G) What grade did the FIWH give his economy in an interview last week before he went to make a campaign speech about the economy?
H) The senate failed to pass a bill concerning the impending gigantic raise in premiums for what?
I) In an action that would usually be declared an act of war, the US did what to a Venezuelan oil tanker?
J) What midwestern bred movie star turned 100 yesterday and shows little signs of slowing down?
K) What are the favorite foods during Hanukkah?
L) A federal judge ordered that US immigration officials could no longer detain what person who has been a focal point of Trump’s racist immigration policy?
M) The FIWH approached what newer issue by calling it a “hoax”?
N) Australia has begun its quest to keep children under 16 away from what modern problem?
O) Discoveries in eastern Britain indicate that man may have been making what 350,000 years earlier than previously thought?
P) What toy is often associated with Hanukkah?
Q) In yet another case of a Trump district turning blue, a Dem was elected to the state house in what state Tuesday?
R) Also Tuesday what major US city elected their first Democratic mayor in 30 years?
S) The Iowa-Iowa State played both men’s and women’s basketball this week. Who won?
T) Hanukkah has little impact in the popular culure with the exception of “The Hanukkah Song” performed by who on Saturday Night Live?
Republican billionaires now control every major social media platform, Fox News, CNN, WaPo, WSJ, CBS, and 200 local news stations in 100 markets.
They are creating a propaganda state that treats their misinformation as fact, and actual facts as conspiracies.
This is by design. – Melanie D’Arrigo
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