US Navy saves Iranian sailors from pirates

[dellinger63]

We risked American troops and spent American money to save Iranian fishermen?

[jms62]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

We risked American troops and spent American money to save Iranian fishermen?

Del I would hope that Iranian Navy would also save any countries innocent civilians from Pirates including ours.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

We risked American troops and spent American money to save Iranian fishermen?

Yes, Dell. We participate the 25-nation anti-piracy patrol, patrolling international waters with those other member nations. That benefits American ships, too. You should thank those other nations for looking out for your azz.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

Del I would hope that Iranian Navy would also save any countries innocent civilians from Pirates including ours.

all ships must answer distress calls if they are in the vicinity. of course that might not include piracy. i'd imagine the iranian captives didn't care whose flag was flying from the mast, they're just happy to be home. well, i guess they're happy to be home. at least i'm sure they were happy to be rescued.

i think merchant shipping might consider hiring some armed guards for their vessels in that region. a couple of .50 cals in the right spot, and in the right hands, would nip piracy in the bud.

[dagolfer33]

I heard a rumor that most pirates, as well as rap and hip-hop stars, are democrats. Again, just a rumor I heard.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yes, Dell. We participate the 25-nation anti-piracy patrol, patrolling international waters with those other member nations. That benefits American ships, too. You should thank those other nations for looking out for your azz.

It's funny, the US ships seem to have vastly better pirate finding equipment than those other 24.


So very odd.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yes, Dell. We participate the 25-nation anti-piracy patrol, patrolling international waters with those other member nations. That benefits American ships, too. You should thank those other nations for looking out for your azz.

You're so clueless you're dangerous.

Bahrain, Jordan, Greece, Kuwait, Pakistan, UAE and Turkey? They are somehow looking out for my azz?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

You're so clueless you're dangerous.

Bahrain, Jordan, Greece, Kuwait, Pakistan, UAE and Turkey? They are somehow looking out for my azz?

Why don't you fake-author an article on it? Here, use some facts:

http://www.icc-ccs.org/index.php?opt...map&Itemid=219

Don't forget Sweden and India. England. Of course, you're so clueless, you're dangerous. Seriously? Does your ignorance and childish insult have a point? Yeah, other countries help protect your azz. Get over it. You're so astounded? Get over it. Welcome to reality. You don't like or trust Muslims or any foreigners? You don't like spending any money? You hate the government taking your tax dollars? Yes, we get that. You have spent years here whining about the results gained by your tax dollars, all the while refusing to give up any of the benefits you get from that. Let alone realize that your tax dollars enables your freedom to whine. Your whining now about American tax dollars saving lives shows how isolationist, selfish and silly you are.

[dagolfer33]

Originally Posted by dagolfer33

I heard a rumor that most pirates, as well as rap and hip-hop stars, are democrats. Again, just a rumor I heard.

.... Some are from Mississippi as well, such as the legendary country band, Pirates of the Mississippi.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Why don't you fake-author an article on it? Here, use some facts:

http://www.icc-ccs.org/index.php?opt...map&Itemid=219

Don't forget Sweden and India. England. Of course, you're so clueless, you're dangerous. Seriously? Does your ignorance and childish insult have a point? Yeah, other countries help protect your azz. Get over it. You're so astounded? Get over it. Welcome to reality. You don't like or trust Muslims or any foreigners? You don't like spending any money? You hate the government taking your tax dollars? Yes, we get that. You have spent years here whining about the results gained by your tax dollars, all the while refusing to give up any of the benefits you get from that. Let alone realize that your tax dollars enables your freedom to whine. Your whining now about American tax dollars saving lives shows how isolationist, selfish and silly you are.

Your extreme inability or desire to survive without coveting others possessions is disgusting. Realizing the top half of taxpayers pay 97% of the total personal income tax and wanting even more is beyond selfish it’s financial anal rape. The underlying proviso you seem unable to waver from is financial success in this country is not created by hard work or even for that matter a well put-together, business-plan. But rather is achieved through cheating and or luck usually at the expense of others.

Personally I’m sick of the hypocritical babble you have so ignorantly championed over the last few years. There was not one single program or expense made under Obama you were not 100% behind that is until the Occupy crowd showed up. At that point, the loan to soon to be bankrupt Solyndra, became fraudulent with this administration somehow duped. Yet no complaints as to the lack of any prosecution and tonight instead of which Solyndra officer(s) may go to jail for fraud we’re deciding whether they will get bonuses first, under the bankruptcy agreement. How about reimbursing the American taxpayer its $500 million, first, even if it’s only $3.35 per taxpayer? Better us than the fraudulent officers? Right? Mr. President? Mr. Holder?

Pre Occupy you cheered for every stimulus and bailout ever put forth by this spend now/pay later White House on the misconception and fantasy every dollar spent came back with a sixty percent return. Even if it went to failed banks and failing automotive companies for example.

Post Occupy you are now vehemently opposed to corporate influence on our politicians but somehow you are able to stick your head in the sand with the hypocritical elusion the corporations, banks and mortgage companies who received bailout money courtesy of Obama & Co. are not the corporations, banks and mortgage companies targeted by OWS.

Pre-Occupy your enthusiasm for spend now/pay later came through loud and clear when you gave a standing ovation for the hundreds of billions that was borrowed and signed for, by the American taxpayer and then forwarded to States to pay for teachers, firemen and policemen.

Post Occupy the police were thugs and needed to be locked up.

You believed the President when he said we couldn’t afford not to let the Bush tax cuts expire yet did the happy dance when he cut the payroll tax, taxes that are ‘intended’ to finance SS and Medicare but are really deposited and spent out of the General Fund with IOU’s deposited in a trust fund. (Similar to a parent raiding their child’s piggy bank of its college savings and replacing the money with IOU notes, then blowing it on a night on the town, buying strangers drinks.)

You post endlessly of any minor allegation made against a State Governor yet hypocritically ignore a Federal agency that furnishes weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels. Not to mention said weapons were used to kill another government employee, whose job coincidently in part consists of fighting those same cartels, and we have an attorney general who pleas clueless and a President who thinks it was unfortunate.

The political ploy and con-job of spending to prevent going bankrupt deployed and carried out during the past three years had one major flaw. Spending for just the sake of spending, especially on things like giving away billions to less than stellar allies, (Pakistan and Egypt) does nothing but add debt. Spending as in carrying Fannie and Freddie is a loss. Government does not need any more money to throw away. It needs to deal with the fact the private sector can do far more, far better, for far less, whether it be education, healthcare, transportation, construction, administration or even getting a letter delivered via-email! They also need to allow corporations and banks to sink or swim without interference based on some delusional theory something is too big to fail. The only thing further from the truth would be the belief something is too small to succeed.

The only mitigating factor going for the President is because he has virtually zero business/financial experience professionally, sans perhaps a childhood Indonesian lemonade stand, his lack of financial sense can be partially dismissed. .

The reduction of government needs to be executed as a diet/exercise plan would. Starting is the hardest part but once we get moving it gets easier. Bad habits, like being involved with failing companies or giving away money to countries including one that housed bin-Laden need to be avoided. Hell with 140 million taxpayers and families cheering it on, ‘we can do it’ and instead of making momma proud. We can make our grandchildren proud.

And to think if the $3 billion given to Pakistan and Egypt had been distributed evenly between each taxpayer, each would have received just over $20 bucks. In media speech ‘by tossing the money to the mid east this President denied pizza night for over 149 million families.’

Go look at the National Debt and how it’s going up year by year during both W. Bush and Obama and realize where we are headed if we continue to live with a government who does business under a quid pro quo structure and system.

BTW For some reason an odd sense of compassion, likely imbedded by Jesuits many years ago, exists for people like Riot as it must be terribly ugly to live life suffocating with overwhelming feelings of envy and disenfranchisement from the American Dream. A life void of self-reliance and consumed with government reliance. This is obviously the same train of thought behind it taking a village to raise a child rather than two parents. But I suppose at least in Riot’s case it gives her the false impression of a brotherhood with other groups/cultures that similarly perceive themselves as disenfranchised. It’s likely a contributing factor in her love of all things Muslim and of course for the Occupy Wall Street folks.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Your extreme inability or desire to survive without coveting others possessions is disgusting.

Wow. Gigantic fail. It's a shame that your angry, victim-laden mind has to create fantasies in order to try and justify your silly, selfish, ignorant, bigoted and hate-filled views. But creating imaginings about people you know nothing about is precisely what bigots do.

I think you should take your little rant to your psychologist at your next visit. It seems rather ripe with self-loathing revelation.

You know, if you go out into your backyard, and spray vinegar at the sky, you can make the "chemtrails" disappear. It works every time!