The Pirates of Penzance

At this hour, an American remains held hostage by Islamic terrorists off the coast of Africa. When asked what, if anything, his administration was doing to resolve the crisis and secure the safe release of an American countryman, the President of the United States refused to comment, saying, "We're talking about housing here."

So: the guy who is overreaching on every DOMESTIC issue----spending trillions of dollars of our money, expanding government in unprecedented ways, nationalizing the financial sector, the auto industry, the health care industry, the energy industry, and federalizing education---can't bring himself to make a statement about an American held hostage by terrorists.

Neither could his Vice President, who referred all questions about the crisis to the National Security Adviser.

And neither could his Secretary of State, who laughed her way through an answer about confronting those pirates.

Up next: the Department of Homeland Security will be calling this a "Floating Manmade Disaster."

We all know that The Bama has zero experience and interest in national security. That's why he chose The Biden and The Rodham as his chief foreign policy advisers. Now we know that they are just as naive, misguided, weak, and foolish as he is.

In a dangerous world, we've got Larry, Moe, and Curly running the show. And our enemies are laughing not with us, but at us. Never in their wildest dreams did they think it would be this easy.

Comments

[Ree]

I keep reading the Tea Partys are racist…really how? That is the left blogosphere, this is the new era of race relations in America? Yes Our Elected Officials are Dishonest isn’t this a big duh moment? No this isn’t a race thing no matter who the President is this is an AMERICAN THING. I think Logistic Monster put it very well in Come To Jesus Moment Post on City Tavern Blog.

http://citytavern.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/this-is-your-come-to-jesus-moment/

Tax Day for me, I get to Bail Out GM. Apparently I get to pay for an auto, I never get to take possession of or ever drive. What is the protest about- The Bail Outs, the out of control Government Spending. Newsflash it is Tax Payer Money NOT politician’s money being spent. The people we elected to public office our public servants are raiding the Public’s Cookie Jar, and leaving I.O.U. Tea & Cookies

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/04/tgif-circus-life-tea-cookies.html

[gringoman]

I keep reading the Tea Partys are racist…really how? That is the left blogosphere, this is the new era of race relations in America? Yes Our Elected Officials are Dishonest isn’t this a big duh moment? No this isn’t a race thing no matter who the President is this is an AMERICAN THING. I think Logistic Monster put it very well in Come To Jesus Moment Post on City Tavern Blog.

http://citytavern.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/this-is-your-come-to-jesus-moment/

Posted by: Ree | April 10, 2009 at 10:16 AM

Sounds like the "clever" libs have got you on the run, confident that in their sheltered PC World you can't or won't take it to them as in

Why, why, why
Do you lie, lie, lie?
Know you,
You Liberal Racist, you.
Yes, know you,
And how you use skin
To slur and spin
To slander or grin,
And if it helps you to win,
It ain't no sin
To hiss it. Is it?
My, my, my
Is this the why, why, why
Of your lie, lie, lie?

----fron GRINGOBRO The Cracker Rapper's coming YOU LIBERAL RACIST, YOU.

[gringoman]

Fresh from his success with captive American bankers, President Hussein BamBam reminds captive American seamen off the coast of Somalia: "I am the only thing standing between you and the scimitar."

[Sable007]

Bari appears to be trying to earm rememberance as 'the terminally inept'. Might he be already having someone writing his apology to the maritime terrorists for interrupting their capitalistic venture. Might we hear it as soon as it is ready for reading from a teleprompter. Are we ready to say parrot in chief yet?

We need to rename the overseas contingency operation to Jihad against Terrorists. Get this subject on a philosophical and discussion level that our enemies just might understand. Maritime terrorists being called "pirates" is like calling a swamp a wet land - a way to make something ugly and dangerous sound all warm and fuzzy.

If this breaks bad, will the TOTUS POTUS have auxiliary equipment big enough to take a stand. Or, will he apologize first and then ask the UN to issue a toothless sanction telling the maritime terrorists that they have been naughty boys and that if they persist they will get another sanction.

Why don't we arm our flag carriers with guided munitions that can reach beyond the reach of the maritime terrorist intercept boat weapons and simply sink any vessle that comes within a mile without proper identification. Anybody who wants to come talk can bloody well strip down and swim naked to the visitors swim platform.

There is a disgusting whine that we haven't the ships available to patrol to protect ships sailing under our flag. Maybe change tactics - have the cargo ships sailing under our flag, and those of our allies, convoy up and have a destroyer escort with a submarine or two. Then just sink any Samoli maritime terrorist mother ship or speed boat that gets within two hundred miles of the protected convoy. Then apologize for each contingency operation required in response to the floating man made disasters that didn't happen. Maybe even better - team up with a couple of other naval forces and share the targets. Sure wouldn't hurt to get some live fire practice to replace boring training exercises.

The real up side to decisive action is that once sunk, the maritime terrorsits will not likely be repeat offenders. Terrorists understand getting smacked down just as well as they understand that any offer to talk or negotiate is nothing less than waving a white flag and begging to discuss terms of surrender.

[mjfell]

Barack Obama: President Pantywaist - new surrender monkey on the block

Gerald Warner

President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as you'd notice.

Barack is not the first New World ingenue to discover that European leaders will load him with praise, struggle sycophantically to be photographed with him and outdo him in Utopian rhetoric. But when it comes to the critical moment of opening their wallets - suddenly it is flag-day in Aberdeen. Okay, put the G20 down to inexperience, beginner's nerves, what you will.

On to Nato and the next big objective: to persuade the same European evasion experts that America, Britain and Canada should no longer bear the brunt of the Afghan struggle virtually unassisted. The Old World sucked through its teeth, said that was asking a lot - but, seeing it was Barack, to whom they could refuse nothing, they would graciously accede to his wishes.

So The One retired triumphant, having secured a massive contribution of 5,000 extra troops - all of them non-combatant, of course - which must really have put the wind up the Taliban, at the prospect of 5,000 more infidel cooks and bottle-washers swarming into the less hazardous regions of Afghanistan.

Then came the dramatic bit, the authentic West Wing script, with the President wakened in the middle of the night in Prague to be told that Kim Jong-il had just launched a Taepodong-2 missile. America had Aegis destroyers tracking the missile and could have shot it down. But Uncle Sam had a sterner reprisal in store for l'il ole Kim (as Dame Edna might call him): a multi-megaton strike of Obama hot air.

"Rules must be binding," declared Obama, referring to the fact that Kim had just breached UN Resolutions 1695 and 1718. "Violations must be punished." (Sounds ominous.) "Words must mean something." (Why, Barack? They never did before, for you - as a cursory glance at your many speeches will show.)

President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.

Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever. If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until President Pantywaist gets into his stride.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/04/10/barack_obama_president_pantywaist__new_surrender_monkey_on_the_block

[Truther]

TO display nonhostility, to disarm and to expect your bowing friend to be honorable and not attack you, is what Roosevelt did in Hawaii, with disastrous results. People like Obama believe that America is the Black Bart of the International set, and although all has not been exemplary here, Obama pulling his pants down may have a difference consequence that he expected. Being from Hawaii, and having access to the historical records, should teach him something.

[mjfell]

Barry and the Pirates

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=65542976298&h=ScTg6&u=IsWrk&ref=nf

"There have been more than 50 attacks in the area this year alone and the problem isn't going away, I plan to hold hearings to further examine the growing threat of piracy and all the policy options that need to be on the table before the next fire drill becomes an international incident with big implications." - Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

It is the stuff of movies, a high seas drama, where for the first time in 200 years, pirates attack an American vessel, the Maersk Alabama. In the best traditions of America's merchant seamen, its brave crew fights back and regains control of the ship. To ensure the safety of his crew from the pirates, and at great personal risk, the noble Captain offers himself as hostage. The freighter is filled with humanitarian relief for Kenya, not weapons, cars, electronics, or luxuries. Luckily, an American warship, the USS Bainbridge was nearby. It is a moment for leadership and resolve, where America asserts her might and dignity, where she takes the lead against lawless marauders, and our President stands up full of pride and righteous anger and says.... Well, what he said was, exactly, nothing.

Oh, his administration mumbled, made half-hearted condemnations, and pandered a bit. John Kerry called for hearings, Hillary Clinton voiced her "concern" and cackled uproariously about the situation during a press conference with the Moroccan Ambassador, whose country ironically was once a pirate power that seized American ships and enslaved our crews in the late 1700's. Hillary botched the details, but did decisively state: "We think the world must come together to end the scourge of piracy."

There was a measured and nuanced press conference by a State Department spokesperson, Robert Wood, as Secretary of State Clinton was otherwise engaged. "Our militaries - the U.S. military and the militaries of other countries are cooperating, trying to see what we can do to prevent these types of piracy acts from happening. But, this is going to take time. We are all working very closely to try to do what we can." He further stated: "We've been trying to provide support for the transitional government there (in Somalia); we've encouraged others to do so...but this is a question for the entire international community to deal with..."

This is what we have come to. Unilateral action, even if it is as clear cut as defending US interests against pirates, must be avoided. Murderous Jihadist terrorists get civil rights and government lawyers while US taxpayers pick up the bill. Pirates, who board US shipping and threaten American seamen, get treated like simple criminals that do not warrant so much as a mention by the President. One would have thought it was a no-brainer for the Manchurian President, a populist win-win to paint Obama as a decisive leader, a chance to inspire confidence that he was up to the challenge. It was a chance to warn aggressors, pirates or otherwise, away from international shipping. It was also a chance, now squandered, to reassure friend and foe alike that America had not lost her nerve or reneged on her exceptional role as a world leader.

But no, it's all just a distraction from the greater work of wealth redistribution, "social justice," and remaking America into the utopian vision of a narcissistic socialist academic with a nice speaking voice. No pompous speeches and meandering lectures this time, the implications of piracy on trade and sovereignty are beyond Obama.

When asked by a reporter about the Maersk Alabama during a White House event, President Obama responded to the question with: "Guys, we're talking about housing right now," translated as "don't bother me with trivialities." Obama has no clue what is required of a world leader and his advisors less so. A mere three months into its first term, the Obama administration is turning out to be just the embarrassment and bumbling disaster, we feared it would be.

I've already noticed people taking Obama stickers off their cars. They can only pad the polls so long. Pirates are easy, what's going to happen if we are attacked again, or Iran, Pakistan, or North Korea use a nuke?

[SteveOk]

Freedom of the Seas is a very important concept that all freedom loving peoples have honored over the centuries. America entered WWI because of German submarine attacks on American merchant vessels. The attack on US merchant ships and the taking of hostages is Obama's first international crisis. He must ensure freedom of the seas and the safety of our merchant ships and sailors. If he fails here it will be a humiliating defeat for America. I have no confidence in his leadership, but as a former Navy guy I do have a lot of confidence in the ability of the Navy to defeat these thugs and restore the freedom on the seas. Hopefully Obama will let them do their job and not micro-manage them to failure.

[mjfell]

Rachel Maddow talks to Sen. Chuck Schumer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JQpKeyN39c&feature=player_embedded

Schumer proves himself to be a brain dead moronic liberal...

[Ummahgummah]

"I am the only thing standing between you and the scimitar."

POSTED BY: GRINGOMAN | APRIL 10, 2009 AT 11:33 AM

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I'm not so sure he is standing.

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[Truther]

The pirate situation is a global problem - not a US problem. Let the global community of financiers solve this. Bush started us in the right direction - mercenaries. Hire them. Let them clean up Somalia.
Certainly the UN would never solve this problem. It should be interesting to see if this could be done.

[SteveOk]

Truther, the problem with your anaylsis is that the global community is missing some body parts, like cojones. Obama should go back and study history and learn from President Thomas Jefferson what he did in the First Barbary War when he took office. Jefferson sent some of our best ships to blockade the shores of Tripoli. He refused to pay the tribute they requested and showed them who was boss on the high seas and blocked all commerce to that Muslin country. Freedom of the seas is a principle that we went to war in WWI for and Jefferson didn't hesitate to uphold that idea in the early 1800s. The UN has no cojones and will do nothing. We have to protect our own merchant ships, nobody else gives a flip.

[M/M]

BREAKING NEWS……

Here is B. Hussein Obama’s FIRST public statement about the Somali pirates. Here are highlights:

“Since the pirates are still holding the captain, I have sent FBI negotiators to facilitate his safe and speedy release. I assure his friends and family that I will not stop until this man-made disaster is resolved in a peaceful, tolerant and ecologically-sound manner.

Obviously, this incident has raised many concerns among Americans. There have been calls for justice and even violence against the misguided perpetrators. But such an emotional reaction has led to the disparagement of entire groups with which we are unfamiliar. We have seen this throughout history.

For too long, America has been too dismissive of the proud culture and invaluable contributions of the Pirate Community. Whether it is their pioneering work with prosthetics, husbandry of tropical birds or fanciful fashion sense, America owes a deep debt to Pirates.

The past eight years have shown a failure to appreciate the historic role of these noble seafarers. Instead of celebrating their entreprenuerial spirit and seeking to partner with them to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”

http://exurbanleague.com/2009/04/09/obama-issues-statement-on-the-pirate-attack.aspx

[M/M]

http://www.thoseshirts.com/wbc.html

[Ummahgummah]

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Well, you see, there is no military solution to illiterate jihadis in small speed boats. We need a full and open dialogue to build a robust framework examining the root causes of the legitimate grievances, in a post-colonial cultural context, while stressing the universality of basic human rights, particulary with a view towards the victims of imperialism and hegemony.

http://aviary.com/creation?fguid=4a39c6b6-0217-102c-b565-0030488e168c

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[Ummahgummah]

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the “respect” Mr. Obama promised to give Islam is going only in one direction. And he knows that.

http://sheikyermami.com/2009/04/10/the-respect-mr-obama-promised-to-give-islam-is-going-only-in-one-direction-and-he-knows-that/

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[Ummahgummah]

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Holderism at work:

Pirates can claim UK asylum

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3736239.ece

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[Ummahgummah]

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Here's another DIRECT RESULT of the O's kowtowing to pigslam:

Envoy Suggests Pakistan Deserves U.S. 'Bailout' More Than American Companies

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513918,00.html

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[Truther]

Ummah is very funny. So the real pirates are the noblemen having gone wrong, eh?

I agree. Obama is probably related to some of those pirates. He hit the big score.

[Ummahgummah]

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Yup. He hit the biggest prize of them all... aided by our own Western Teleprompter technology.

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[mjfell]

Virginia Fusion Center Releases Homegrown Terrorism Document part 1 of 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZUzXQygPKM

[mjfell]

Dick Morris Unplugged - 4.10.09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVJ36gsfUU

[mjfell]

more obamaville

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNN0o329nmM&feature=PlayList&p=A49A0EE28B627E7B&index=2

[mjfell]

change you don't want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPX0MOomKs

[Kingofthenet]

First Video of one of the Special Forces Snipers relaxing:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=2006265