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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: OT: Kamala Makes an Astute Observation!
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:26:36 +0200
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On 10/15/24 21:28, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:41:31 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
> 
>> On 10/15/24 17:52, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:40:04 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
>>> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:10:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On a sunny day (Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:22:30 -0700) it happened john
>>>>>> larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote in
>>>>>> <kvjrgj581aeh14c337e1taigc8fvcdaqdh@4ax.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:29:28 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This woman has a simply astounding intellect.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kamala-election-packed-some-
> stuff
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is weird:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/14/
> harris-proposes-legalizing-marijuana-industry-black-men/7567088
>>>>>>> 8007/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is it constitutional to have "fully forgivable" loans for just
>>>>>>> black men?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How would she decode who is black?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> She is also assuming that black men are pot addicts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's scary to think about what sorts of idiots do indeed occupy the
>>>>>>> highest places in government. Politics is one of many professions
>>>>>>> where more expertise and experience make people dumber.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is just US Military Industrial Complex puppets they do not care
>>>>>> about Americans at all.
>>>>>> Making war everywhere, supporting genocide by youws
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Massive flooding causes millions without power, many dead
>>>>>> polliticsians flying sightseeing missions above it...
>>>>>> When we in the Netherlands had massive flooding many years ago we
>>>>>> build the 'Delta works':
>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A better way to spend your tax money than making guns and killing
>>>>>> people.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's more difficult to build a wall that will keep a hurricane out.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Well, all they’ve got inside the dikes is slightly drier mud. ;)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Phil Hobbs
>>>
>>> They don't have to worry about rainfall filling all the valleys and
>>> canyons either. They did have a tornado in 1674.
>>>
>>> The Netherlands reminds me of Louisuiana, where another foot or two of
>>> rainwater doesn't make much difference.
>>>
>>>
>> Most of it is river delta, with lots of --now dry-- surface below sea
>> level. It's necessary to keep pumping to keep dry feet. It works, for as
>> long as a reasonable level of civilisation persists.
>>
>> Jeroen Belleman
> 
> So.... it it winds up like New Orleans after Katrina there'll be no human
> life remaining? I guess you'd be right!

A hurricane is not likely to breach the dikes. The Dutch have learned
their lesson in 1953. They are now prepared. New Orleans wasn't when
Katrina hit.

Jeroen Belleman