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   From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:05:39 GMT, marika  wrote:   
      
   >john larkin  wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 14:33:30 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 4/01/2026 7:55 am, john larkin wrote:   
   >>>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 06:56:45 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On 4/01/2026 3:00 am, E.Laureti wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Bill Sloman  posted:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> On 3/01/2026 7:56 pm, E.Laureti wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Bill Sloman  posted:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> On 1/01/2026 9:16 pm, E.Laureti wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> This is a promise rather than an achievement. Donald Trump promised to   
   >>>>>>> Make American Great Again. He's just had president Maduro of Venezula   
   >>>>>>> kidnapped with his wife, which isn't the sort of act usually described   
   >>>>>>> as great. It looks a lot more like criminal racketeering.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Putin protesta   
   >>>>>> non è più il primo   
   >>>>>> a pulirsi il culo con la carta Onu  :-)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Putin protests   
   >>>>> he's no longer the first   
   >>>>> to wipe his ass with the UN Charter.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> He wouldn't be so undiplomatic. Trump probably has more to fear from the   
   >>>>> US Supreme Court. Kidnapping a country's president looks very like an   
   >>>>> act of war, and you ought to get congressional approval to do that.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yes, we should have had hearings and votes in both houses of Congress   
   >>>> before we sent in the marines to snatch Maduro.   
   >>>   
   >>> Actually Trump should have asked a few congressmen how the house would   
   >>> react to such an act of childish bullying. Any sensible adult would have   
   >>> given the same answer, but sensible adults don't flatter Donald Trump   
   >>> with the enthusiasm he needs and expects, so he avoids them.   
   >>   
   >> If DT is successful in cutting off the cocaine and fentanyl imports in   
   >> to the US, the sellers will shift more to exporting to europe. That's   
   >> happening already.   
   >>   
   >> Given that about 100K americans die from drug overdoses a year, Maduro   
   >> is a mass murderer and we have a moral obligation to stop the drugs,   
   >> any way that works.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> John Larkin   
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   >   
   >Trump administration is busy instead importing ostriches with bird flu   
   >   
   >Canada wants to euthanize them (bird flu positive) but Frick Kennedy and   
   >Frack Oz “make America healthy” want to import them here.   
   >   
   >I’m not even gonna comment on LET’S IMPORT BIRD FLU!   
   >All I’m gonna say about this is, once government officials start keeping   
   >ostriches on their property, it’s all just a fascistic downhill slide from   
   >there.   
   >   
   >   
      
   It only takes one spark to start a forest fire, and one virus to start   
   an epidemic.   
      
   There's no way to keep those isolated.   
      
      
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