OT- Captain jumps overboard, SEALs shoot pirates (Apr 12) (US 3, Pirates 0)

[Jack Stein]

You mean if you defend yourself from attack, you become an attacker?

[mac davis]

Just MHO, but if I was the hostage, I'd be praying for those snipers to get it done SOON.. I've been shot at and it ain't a lot of fun.. A 10 year old with an AK on full auto has got a pretty good chance of hitting a swimmer from a few yards away.. Assuming a banana clip, he'd have 30 tries..

mac

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[Jack Stein]

Not difficult to accept! Well, Bush is a liberal, the media is more socialist or, Obama-like.

I think there were a list of reasons, 9 perhaps, that we decided to go into Iraq. The left wing UN, and left wing US congress approved. The potential for WMD's was just one of the reasons. The media made certain to beat the WMD thing to death and insure it made Bush look bad, even though about everyone on earth thought IRAQ had WMD's, and had little problem with the other bunch of reasons for going into Iraq.

[Jack Stein]

I'm far more worried about torturing terrorists with naked pictures of themselves and other swine than blowing the heads off a couple of "pirates".

[Jack Stein]

Hey, I'm willing to send them a naked picture of ME if they are willing to show it to the bastard!

[Jack Stein]

Yeah, no more "capitalist pigs" just us socialist pigs...

[Jack Stein]

Whats a few trillion here and there?

[Jack Stein]

Obama is a "community organizer" so I reckon he will be paying the bills...

[Jack Stein]

But... Obama is a "Community Organizer" so he WILL feel your pain...

[Jack Stein]

Me too.

The guy had already jumped in the water to swim away, and they didn't shoot him. My thought would be if the boat sank, they wouldn't shoot him either. Once they were in the water, 30 miles from shore, they probably would be looking more for rescue than looking to shoot someone. Didn't we already "rescue" one of the sick pirates?

but nowhere to go... Still, I agree, kill'em now would be my thoughts as a hostage... I wonder what he was thinking...

[David G. Nagel]

Good idea except for one thing. The damn things are unsinkable.....

[Keith Nuttle]

I believe that was the second time that he jumped overboard but the snipers were not in position and the pirates forced him back into their boat. What happened to the armed pirates was no different than what would have happened to them if they were holding hostages in the US.

[Jack Stein]

Just like the Titanic:-)

[HeyBub]

There were deficits under Bush, true. In his last year it was about $400 billion. A lot, but a robust economy could overcome that. Obama's 1st year deficit is projected at $1.85 trillion (CBO).

In fact the 1st year Obama deficit alone is larger than the deficits for all the Bush years combined. Obama's second year's deficit is projected at $1.4 trillion. The deficit drops a bit faster after that, the third year's deficit a more modest $1 trillion.

The president has taken note of this, however. According to the Washington post just today:

president has ordered his departments to come up with $100 million in cuts. Considering the entire budget is $3.5 trillion, the cuts the president proposes are equivalent to a family with a $75,000 income giving up two cups of coffee. Or a family making $250,000 giving up one paperback book. Per year.

[Lew Hodgett]

IMHO, it is parents who abdicate their parental responsibilities to whatever will fill the time in the lives of these young people, rather than doing the hard work of being a parent.

Lew

[Doug Winterburn]

$3.5 trillion is almost $10,000 for every person in the US or $40,000 for a family of four. Since the median household income is about $50,000 a year...

[Keith Nuttle]

There is a report circulating in the newspages that at the end of the first half obama's deficit is over 900 billion dollars, principally caused by the democrat passed stimulus bill.

[Mark & Juanita]

Studies that take out inner-city gang violence indicate that violence is no worse than it has ever been. So the question to be asking is why inner-city violence has increased in the past decades. One question to aid that inquiry is to ask what locations have been most subjected to removing individual responsibility and substituting dependency upon government handouts. When one is being taken care of by others, it reduces motivation and self-respect. When you look at what the war on poverty has done to inner city families, it is both tragic and criminal.

[David G. Nagel]

No, the RMS Titanic sideswiped an iceberg and ripped the hull open. There is absolutely no flotation material in the ship. A modern life boat hull is composed of flotation material. Even if holed as bad as Captain Smith's command the life boat won't sink. If broken into small pieces you can use the chunks as flotation devices.

[Martin H. Eastburn]

Keel haul him. That is the old way. Effective.

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