Footy
Another great, great cut-n-paste
"Gosh!" How Trump is belittled! IMPLIED CONCLUSION:- We should have had a women/minority/progressive idiot.
We see what you did there!
Oh How so deviant the mind of the virtuous/depraved yet ruthless MSM!
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Yeah, the recently completed Lock Three development which doubled the Panama's capacity - is some achievement!
Right, Panama will claim this as THEIR construction. Truth be told:- I don't think all of Panama would know how to service an 'automobile' properly, without a decent US manual! Even bicycles rust away before mules do...
The original is a pretty stunning achievement & concept!
Not only did the Americans build the Canal, they also built & designed most of the modern City of Panama, the vast Bridge of the America's that crosses the canal too, and the extensive military & naval garrisons.
Whereas both the British & the French failed!
The French canal, is now a convenient harbour for yotties, and a great PUB, and the abounds are vast graveyard for the 10,000 of (mainly) Jamaican & Guadeloupe indentured labourers who the Brits & French lead to their deaths of yellow fever & malaria.
In the rainy season - Panama rains! Almost a perpetual torrential rain 24/7 downpour - for six months, till the winds about the Andes abate... and then it is hot. Sauna hot.
Thankfully the French failed, as their plan was to build a unlocked canal, that would have washed terra littres of Warm Gulf of Mexico current into the cold waters of the Gulf of Panama, and destroyed the bio-diversity on the Pacific side & the relatively rich fish stocks and the amount of water that would have gushed through would have created a chasm that could / potentially never have been closed; net alone make it impossible for most ships to traverse Pacific to Caribbean?
Norway would have been delighted with the loss of the Gulf stream, as Nord Norge would have an received an induced freeze, and salmon stocks destroyed? Perhaps created a perpetual
El Nino in the Pacific too?
The pre - Nagasaki super giants mindset of mankind tutt tutt! Man's first devastatingly successful climate re-engineering project.
May be?
Maybe CO² will warm the planet, and stop making plants grow anyway? Or is that the other way around? Does it matter? Who cares?
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I sailed/motored through there some years ago in a yacht. Takes a full day, and it is reather an exotic transit. Howler monkeys screech from the jungle high tops, and large slimy looking big fat alligators bask in in the banks warming sun. We saw a harpy eagle! The gigantic PANAMAX ships are frightening from the decks of tiny yachts, when both are snuggled together in the tiny space of a shared lock!
