Walking from Central America

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Last edited Wed Jul 30, 2014, 08:26 PM - Edit history (1)

The right is pushing hard on the fantasy - that Obama swooped these immigrant kids up and dropped them at the border to build sympathy.

Turned on right radio on a drive - where they were saying Obama and the dems are manufacturing this.

Then, I get an email from my wingnut mother-in-law

Puzzle One for you all:
Imagine you are a 3 year old to 8 year old
child. You are on your own without adults. You are asked to walk from Houston, Texas to Minneapolis, Minnesota on your own with no food or belongings to sustain you. Then you are asked to walk an additional 100 miles past Minnesota.

Could you do it?

How long would it take you as a 6 year old?

That is the minimum distance these poor, helpless little ones have supposedly walked from Central America to the border of Texas - again, on their own. They didn't get lost.

And they survived the journey without help (unless you buy in to the notion that a destitute out-of-work family run out of their homes by gangs and living in squalor somehow came up with $8,000 to $10,000 for EACH child to pay a coyote to take them to the border).

Now, on the map above, Puzzle Two, you must start somewhere in the green area:
Let's make it easy and start where green meets orange, so that you had the least mileage by not having to cover the whole green area. Just start where the green meets the orange. Blue, of course, is water.

Your task is to figure a route from the green area to the purple area without going into the blue area and while avoiding towns and cities in the orange area. The black line is the distance from the nearest town to Mexico's southern border that touches the green area to Laredo, Texas, one of the CLOSEST purple towns. 1220 miles across desert and mountains with no equipment or food or help.

If orange had stopped these innocents where orange touches green, the problem would not have occurred. However, what six year old do you know who could walk 1220 miles (minimum), probably more like 1500 miles on their own without dying?

How many days would it take for a 6 year old to walk 1220 miles without help, directions, food, sun protection, etc.?

I don't think the truth is being given to us, folks.

Someone created and assisted this, and the media should be figuring out who it is.

[Cleita]

1. For one thing they are not coming from South America but Central America, which

is part of the North American continent that also has Canada and the USA.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Thanks for the kind heads up