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   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 14/01/2026 7:43 am, john larkin wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
      
   But firewalls around early outbreaks can prevent epidemics.   
      
   > There's no way to keep those isolated.   
      
   Ostriches are quite noticeable, and easy to shoot. Diverting ICE agents   
   from shooting protestors to shooting ostriches would be pretty   
   effective, and popular.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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