[Vision2020] Say What?

[Paul Rumelhart]

I like Rush.  He's funnier than Colbert.  To think that some people 
think he's serious...
Oh, wait.

Anyway, this piracy problem is a direct result of the international 
shipping companies caving in and paying the ransoms.  The pirates had it 
easy - hijack a ship, wait three days, get paid off, let everyone go.  A 
nice, civil arrangement.  To the corporations, it's just "the cost of 
doing business".  But now that the stakes have been raised, they are 
starting to see the error of their ways.

If these ships can fight them off with evasive action, water canons, and 
barbed wire, as apparently some have, then the Navy will make mincemeat 
of them.

Paul

Tom Hansen wrote:
> "You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant 
> marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you 
> know what we learned about them? They were teenagers. The Somali pirates, 
> the merchant marine organizers who took a US merchant captain hostage for 
> five days were inexperienced youths, the defense secretary, Roberts Gates, 
> said yesterday, adding that the hijackers were between 17 and 19 years 
> old. Now, just imagine the hue and cry had a Republican president ordered 
> the shooting of black teenagers on the high seas."
>
> - Rush Limbaugh (April 14, 2009)
> http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041409/content/01125110.guest.h
> tml
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