Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Cuckoo Award

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Cuckoo Award

Today’s Cuckoo Award goes to Trump and his wacky desire to seize Panama!

Yup, you read right, Trump want Panama to turn the canal back over to us!

Trump threatens to try to take back the Panama Canal. Panama’s president balks at the suggestion
AP News
By BILL BARROW and WILL WEISSERT
December 23, 2024

Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal that the United States “foolishly” ceded to its Central American ally, contending that shippers are charged “ridiculous” fees to pass through the vital transportation channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Panama’s conservative president José Raúl Mulino, who was elected in May on a pro-business platform, roundly rejected that notion as an affront to his country’s sovereignty.

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The United States built the canal in the early 1900s as it looked for ways to facilitate the transit of commercial and military vessels between its coasts. Washington relinquished control of the waterway to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter.

Oil Price writes...

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to take over control of the Panama Canal unless the Panamanian authorities stop charging excessive rate for the use of the chokepoint.

“Has anyone ever heard of the Panama Canal?” Trump said at a conservative event in Arizona, as quoted by Reuters. “Because we're being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we're being ripped off everywhere else.”

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“Every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent areas belongs to Panama and will continue belonging to Panama,” Mulino said, adding that “The canal has no direct or indirect control from China, nor the European Union, nor the United States or any other power. As a Panamanian, I reject any manifestation that misrepresents this reality.”

Do we really want to go to war over a run down canal? Why would he want an antiquated canal that is too small for today’s mega ships? Needs tons of repairs for the crumbling infrastructure. Besides the canal is running short of water for the locks!

So with great fanfare the coveted Cuckoo Award is given to Trump for his crazy idea of taking back the canal!

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Nelson Mandela

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Mahatma Gandhi

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― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

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Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

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Cuckoo Award

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