“Pirates have generally treated hostages well, sometimes roasting goat meat for them and even passing phones round so they can call loved ones. The worst violence reported has been the occasional beating and no hostages are known to have been killed by pirates.”

Weird… The captain looks like he’s taken a couple punches at least in the last few days. (snort)

They make over 250000 a year.

There independent bisnesmen.

They own automatic weapons.

They wanted cash to avoid Taxes.

They did not secure movie rights with Sean Penn

The Defense Department twice asked Obama for permission to use military force to rescue Capt. Richard Phillips from a lifeboat off the Somali coast.

The DoD shouldn’t have to ask for permission to rescue an American hostage, they should be ordered by their CiC to do so at the first available opportunity. That’s the difference between a real President and a “community organizer” President.

IMHO, this claim by Obambi’s handlers is simply CYA and, of course, feeding the MSM some talking points to make the hand-wringer in chief look like the hero here. Disgusting really….

Or, O-dumbass, will you figure out a way to make this whole episode say something so out of the realm of reality that even the MSM will say, “huh?”

I suspect the latter.

I was equally disgusted with Clinton’s answer. Laughing at a hostage crisis? Witch.

I was most disgusted with the media. Focusing on a puppy and Michelle’s extreme makeover?

Hence, CGI-boobies

To the little terriorist pirates…

Great! So….does that mean the next time you take hostages we can rush your boat without fear of your killing someone?

Of couse it does…NOT!

Oh, excuse me…I suppose that would be ok then for YOU to kill.

‘The French and the Americans will regret starting this killing. We do not kill, but take only ransom. We shall do something to anyone we see as French or American from now,’ Hussein, a pirate, told Reuters by satellite phone…

The worst violence reported has been the occasional beating and no hostages are known to have been killed by pirates.

Uhhh, so much for fact checking by our illustrious MSM.

Somali pirates, who have been holding a Taiwanese fishing vessel since the middle of last month, have reportedly killed one member of the crew.
A maritime official from neighbouring Kenya says the pirates killed the crewman because the ship’s owners had failed to pay a ransom demand.

http://tinyurl.com/ypx4co

Five million plus hits on a Google search and within the first 5 or 6 pages, I counted about 15 to 20 people killed by Somali pirates, the above is the first hit.

Another MSM credo, why let those pesky “facts” get in the way of a good spin on a story, …sigh.

Yeah, the MSM will probably never ever swing back to anything that resembles fair and unbiased reporting. The cat’s out of the bag, etc. Now that they have demonstrated that they have actually caused change in the world (or, at least think they have), then they will attempt it at every turn.

So, thankfully, where nature detests a vacuum, we have the conservative blogs, conservative commentary and best selling authors all over the place. The one thing that any very sick person has to do to get better is recognize they have a problem and liberals are not aware of any dementia they possess. Therefore, they will never get the help they need and will never think rationally, logically, unemotionally.

But you hit the nail on the head with that.

Well it is obvious that the AP sees what the pirates are doing is not that bad, I have to help the AP with some past stories that they have written.

The US have generally treated enemy combatants (terrorists) well, sometimes giving them korans with latex gloves on so that the korans won’t be touched by and infidel and pray rugs so the enemy combatants can pray toward mecca, and fed them 3 times a day with nutritious food so that they could have the energy to call the interrogators infidels and spit in the face of the US interrogators. The worst violence reported is some loud music, sleep depravation, and water boarding and no enemy combatants have been killed in US custody.

Now that is quality journalism!

Heck with this scary day-to-day employment stuff, I’m going to pirate school. I have the Pacific Ocean a stone’s throw away, Oakland/Alameda a short 40-minute drive north, as is San Francisco, and the Port of Stockton 90 minutes to the east. Plenty of pirating opportunities! Avast, ye salty dogs! And I swim well! Seasickness is a problem though …

What’s that you say? “No female pirates allowed. Muslim women stay home supporting their pirate husbands by packing lunch and having sex on demand.”

Ick. Maybe not the job for me after all.